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Re: Ask HN: What you up to? (Who doesn't want to be hired?)

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Post by omarfarooq »

codazoda wrote: post #15

I’m wanting to build a documentation tool for tech teams. There are many but I have various problems with each of them. I just want some quick and easy markdown based docs. One thing stopping me, for some reason, is building a user system. I don’t want to support 3rd party login systems and I’m also having trouble getting motivation to roll my own.

> One thing stopping me, for some reason, is building a user system. I don’t want to support 3rd party login systems and I’m also having trouble getting motivation to roll my own.

Come on, don't let table stakes stop you from progressing. I'm personally researching https://clerk.dev/

By the way, Slash of Code looks great — just purchased a set and will be working on it this weekend. :)

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Post by andy800 »

I've worked at casino resorts for the past 15 years. With a vast number of functions and departments within a single resort, just about anybody can find work at one, if they choose. So I built a job search engine just for this industry:

https://www.casinojoblist.com

What I really wanted to focus on was extremely easy search, high info density, up-to-date data, and no hurdles (logins, profiles, etc). And a little bit of flair (multiple casino-related themes). Mostly happy with it, so far.

Re: Ask HN: What you up to? (Who doesn't want to be hired?)

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Post by GDC7 »

93po wrote: post #107
GDC7 wrote: post #92

Earlier quoted context omitted.

What about transdermal cream? I am interested in the domain too, but I never pulled the trigger on the exogenous T. I am at 600 but that means nothing because there's also the SHBG value and the T/Estradiol ratio and the T/DHT ratio , but most importantly the density of the AR receptors in the muscle fibers. So somebody can be golden with T at 300 , whereas somebody else might need 950. In any event I wanted to try a…

The skin cream is fine if you're doing TRT. To do an actual "cycle" of high levels of test you'd be basically swimming in it. It's also crazy expensive compared to injections, and I've never seen it available "underground" and you won't find a doctor willing to prescribe you enough for anything other than TRT >In any event I wanted to try and improve my T number via winning physical fights. Is this a joke? lol

> Is this a joke? lol

no, google: "winner effect"

Re: Ask HN: What you up to? (Who doesn't want to be hired?)

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Post by moralestapia »

I am going through the boot up camp at airminers.org and I would gladly recommend it to anyone who wants to learn about the state of the art of carbon capture and removal.

Also, if someone's interested in developing tools that go with this, reach out!

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Post by egypturnash »

I’m taking a break from drawing a comic book about a jackal lady teaching some basic magic techniques (http://egypt.urnash.com/Stella) to do some commissions and some standalone art.

This comic is in itself a project designed to do as a break from a massive graphic novel about two sides of a YA space opera. http://egypt.urnash.com/parallax/

If you enjoy any of this stuff and have a big pile of money from your FAANG job or whatever, perhaps you might want to send a little of it my way via Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/egypturnash - drawing comics barely pays my bills right now.

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Post by kaycebasques »

gordon_freeman wrote: post #11

Building a book recommendation system - This is a side project. I am an avid reader and I have found that the book recommendations on Goodreads are not good and mostly useless so trying to build the recommendation system myself. Turns out the hardest thing in this project is getting well labelled/tagged books data that can be fed into the model.

Open Library API isn't meeting your needs?

Re: Ask HN: What you up to? (Who doesn't want to be hired?)

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Post by stickyricky »

A couple of things. All unfinished (of course).

First idea, a website that combines Reddit (or HN) and Discord. The goal is to create ephemeral, real-time communities (like this thread). I find discord too exclusionary to bring strangers together. And reddit is not dynamic enough to encourage relationship formation. With this site, you post a thread, people start chatting, there's a simple interface for groups of people to break off the public chat and go into a private chat or into a webrtc call. Once the thread loses momentum the chat room sort of dies. And people move onto the next thread.

Backend is written in Go. Frontend will likely be Elm. Redis for pubsub. Postgres for crud.

Second idea, an Elm-like language for building linux applications (and crucially linux-phone applications). I'd really like to de-throne apple and google from the smartphone market. I think a dead simple language like Elm + a super simple, standardized dev environment + no weird configuration or new conventions to learn would be a killer feature for the linux platform. Something like Elm-UI would attract a wave of new developers to Linux.

Unfortunately, I've never made a programming language before. So I'm working through "Crafting Interpreters" to get started.

Third, possibly finding a SWE in Miami and starting a software consultancy partnership. Could be fun and lucrative but I've never been on the business side before. So likely this idea will stay half-baked for a lot longer.

Re: Ask HN: What you up to? (Who doesn't want to be hired?)

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Post by d3nj4l »

stickyricky wrote: post #118

A couple of things. All unfinished (of course). First idea, a website that combines Reddit (or HN) and Discord. The goal is to create ephemeral, real-time communities (like this thread). I find discord too exclusionary to bring strangers together. And reddit is not dynamic enough to encourage relationship formation. With this site, you post a thread, people start chatting, there's a simple interface for groups of peo…

Your first idea sounds great and very close o some ideas I've been thinking a lot about. If you ever get somewhere with it, please post a Show HN!

On your second, I immediately thought of Fabulous, a package that uses the Elm Architecture to build Xamarin cross platform apps in F#. [1] Have you seen it before?

1: https://github.com/fsprojects/Fabulous

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