ddubski

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by ddubski 2y ago
As a counter point, the hat is a great way to protect against AC water drips. My biggest fear about walking around any city (but NYC in particular) is an actual AC machine dropping onto my head. Maybe you could offer the choice to drop down
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Everything that's wrong with my house(shiny.ooo)
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by ddubski 3y ago
My little sister was so afraid of her Furby that at one point she threw it off our roof to try to kill it. That didn’t work so she ended up putting it in the freezer. This will not make her feel better.
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by ddubski 4y ago
Whenever I hear the words “American carnage”, I can only think of this scene.
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by ddubski 5y ago
I actually felt that sharing this provided a more credible starting point for the discussion than my own viewpoint. I did not think to confirm whether the paper had been published so I’ve learned my lesson on that. To be honest I’m a bit su
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by ddubski 5y ago
Hi, I’m the OP. I shared this because from a practical perspective it seems that filling a car’s fuel tank is one of the most volatile and essential line items in a typical household budget, and when expensive housing (owned or rented) stre
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Economists say that high gas prices triggered the housing crisis in 2007 (2012)(today.oregonstate.edu)
56 points by ddubski 5y ago|113 comments
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How much do construction costs matter to the price of housing?(constructionphysics.substack.com)
197 points by ddubski 5y ago|337 comments
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by ddubski 5y ago
One of my mom’s friends has a great method for keeping in touch with people. He keeps one of those daily tear-off calendars (filled with cat/dad jokes) on his desk. Each day he looks at the joke and decides who it reminds him, then jus
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by ddubski 5y ago
This seems awesome. Just this morning I discussed 2-3 projects at work where we’d want to do something like this to save engineering time, without even knowing this existed. :)
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by ddubski 5y ago
Hi HN, I shared an earlier version of this back in August. Conceptually it was based on the idea of creating a "GitHub for buildings", where you can create and analyze a version history of your home and all the changes you make to
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Show HN: Shiny Buildings – Collaborative Home Improvement(shinybuildings.com)
1 points by ddubski 5y ago|1 comments
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by ddubski 5y ago
Hi HN, I shared an earlier version of this back in August. Conceptually it was based on the idea of creating a "GitHub for buildings", where you can create and analyze a version history of your home and all the changes you make to
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Show HN: Shiny Buildings – Collaborative Home Improvement(shinybuildings.com)
1 points by ddubski 5y ago|1 comments
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How to design a house to last 1000 years(constructionphysics.substack.com)
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Taking Care of a 215-year old Church (2020)(blog.shinybuildings.com)
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Real estate prices in the metaverse are booming(economist.com)
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by ddubski 5y ago
Each property is completely private by default unless you want to make it public (and currently that feature isn't ready anyway). Thank you also for your clarification on version tracking vs. control - I will change that now! And I do
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by ddubski 5y ago
No offense at all - this is the part that makes me the most nervous too, and I'd be very glad to help you self-host it (if you wouldn't mind emailing me at dstein@shinybuildings.com to discuss further).
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by ddubski 5y ago
I completely agree - at the moment I'm focused on getting feedback from "tech savvy" early adopters, so I thought this description might help express what I'm going for most effectively here on HN. But once I nail down t
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by ddubski 5y ago
Thank you for the feedback! Obviously if I could get this to a place where enough people find it valuable, I would like to make it work for as long as possible... But in the meantime, I'm definitely planning to prioritize full data exp
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by ddubski 5y ago
Thanks, it would be awesome to hear if you use it! I'm actually a renter myself and use it for cleaning and managing some of my stuff. My email is dstein@shinybuildings.com if you have any feedback or suggestions.
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by ddubski 5y ago
I really appreciate that, and this is one of the main pieces of feedback I was looking for. I would like to make it a business, so I've been studying the issue and it seems there is a gap in the market for homeowners who want to plan a
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by ddubski 5y ago
Hi HN, thank you for the chance to share. Shiny Buildings is meant to be a tool to tell the story of your house: how it got to where it is today, and where you'd like it to take it. It's inspired by both GitHub - which I (like man
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Show HN: Shiny Buildings – GitHub for Buildings(shinybuildings.com)
43 points by ddubski 5y ago|24 comments