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Ask and Show HN: Ever coded for love? Willing to share?
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#193I dated someone whose father had a small business that made home goods products (e.g. specialty laundry detergent, waterproofer, etc). He was a smart but challenging guy. Definitely the sort of father who didn’t think any guy was good enough for his daughter. Remember the first time she took me home to meet her parents in South Carolina for Thanksgiving he was, literally, cleaning his gun on the front porch. He prima…
I was going to say how sad that something like starting a company ended your relationship then clicked through to see what company you started.
I started another company that didn’t do as well before I started Cloudflare. But think, company or not, our relationship had run its course. We could have made sticking together work. But a natural divergence in our paths made us diverging in our relationship very natural and harmonious. She’s happily married with a healthy, happy child today. And my only regret is I didn’t convince her to come to my wedding… even with lots of retargeted ads.
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#194During my junior year of high school, there was a girl in my calculus class that I wanted to ask out to our homecoming. Time was running short and I had no idea how I would ask her. Then, while sitting in class, inspiration struck. I started coding frantically on my TI-84. When the school day ended, I spent several hours in my room refining my program. The next day, at the end of calculus, I asked this girl if I coul…
Thanks for sharing this. It really warmed my heart.
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#195I wrote the IBM software to count the undesirables for the final solution. I loved that job.
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#196I took all my moms hand-written recipes and made dithechef.com after she died. Never added any features. [1] http://www.dithechef.com/
I’m going to make the Reuben Dip and will be back for more. You really should at least add some quick CSS, color and friendlier fonts, would’ve impressed her more. Get some use out of the domain!
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#198I like your version of Chelsea #2
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#199For the proposal to my now wife I built a small tablet web application that copied the Game Of Life board game that we frequently played. I put her Mii of Tomodashis Life from various screenshots in as her character, sneakily stolen from her 3DS screenshots. She had to roll (rigged) dices to advance the game and each stop was an actual big life event (like us moving together, getting her degree, finishing her state exam, ...). The last stop was the cliché "Will you marry me?".
It was fun and infuriating to build it. In the end it only worked on her tablet, nowhere else, because I had scaling and coordinate issues, but quickly ran out of time. It was neat though! Her character had different facial expressions (depending on the screenshots I could find) and it really felt like an actual board game on a tablet, although obviously scripted.
She said she really didn't expect what would happen at the last stop, which still confuses me - I thought it was so obvious that it was rigged and where it would go! Really happy how it turned out for her.
As an homage, we put even more images of Tomodashis Life on the wedding invitations (you can marry another Mii in the game, which incidentally was me in her game - and her in mine, not that we used those screenshots). A friend of mine, working for Nintendo and on the game, forwarded the PDF of the invitation to the makers of the game and they even sent a message back. Just all in all an awesome little thing born out of such a simple idea.
While I'd love to, I don't want to share it because of a lot of personal information and the mentioned issues it has on "unsupported hardware".
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#200During my junior year of high school, there was a girl in my calculus class that I wanted to ask out to our homecoming. Time was running short and I had no idea how I would ask her. Then, while sitting in class, inspiration struck. I started coding frantically on my TI-84. When the school day ended, I spent several hours in my room refining my program. The next day, at the end of calculus, I asked this girl if I coul…
This is a beautiful story. Am I the only one who kind of got disappointed after reading the end? :)