mchaynes

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by mchaynes 3y ago
Does watching people program help you become a better programmer? Same thing with travel
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by mchaynes 3y ago
Gen Z here. I grew up on YouTube. I’m 25 now, so technically a cusper but had an iPod touch and YouTube since third grade. Videos of travel have a lot of value. I was stuck behind a desk for 4 years at my programming job. The last 7 months
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by mchaynes 4y ago
would it be possible to install an extension like postgis into this? if so, you might have saved me countless hours attempting to port gdal to wasm…
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by mchaynes 4y ago
seems like an inherent limitation of an emergent conscious self coming about through evolution
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by mchaynes 4y ago
tmux is my main reason. i love having sessions and being able to have the same setup regardless of whether i’m in an ec2 instance or my macbook
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by mchaynes 4y ago
basically yes. kinesis -> firehose -> s3
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by mchaynes 4y ago
watch johnny nerd out on youtube. he does tons of conversions.
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by mchaynes 4y ago
tmux?
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by mchaynes 4y ago
“especially if the business isn’t doing well financially” seems like a thought terminating cliché tbh
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by mchaynes 4y ago
I’ve had this exact idea before. How do you imagine the QR code would be shared?
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Ask HN: How would you like to interact with the cloud?
1 points by mchaynes 5y ago|0 comments
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by mchaynes 5y ago
Toxic just means not sustainable essentially. You can’t last for very long when it’s toxic, unless you become toxic yourself
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by mchaynes 5y ago
Jump ship. Happiness > Money any day. You always have the opportunity to make more later on in life. When you see your money start to drain it’ll be a lot easier to start cutting the fat out of your lifestyle.
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by mchaynes 5y ago
Geodatadownloader[1][2] solves the problem of "how do I download data from this ArcGIS rest endpoint?" It operates completely in the browser, besides the CDN for the javascript, as well as the ArcGIS online map used to visualize t
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Show HN: Geodatadownloader, a browser based geospatial data downloader(github.com)
5 points by mchaynes 5y ago|1 comments
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by mchaynes 5y ago
If you have the oculus quest, put on the silicon/rubber piece over the foam. I’m pretty sure that’s how they intended people to use it. I just had the foam for a while as well and it was disgusting.
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by mchaynes 5y ago
I don’t disagree, but fundamentally we need to remove the concept of complete “private ownership” in order to truly transfer power from the ultra powerful to the common people. If Mark Zuckerberg can still influence billions of people on a
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by mchaynes 5y ago
> Your idea is that without getting paid, people will just provide public health work for free, because they .... ? Because it’s the right thing to do, and people like helping each other and doing the right thing. There are other motivat
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by mchaynes 5y ago
We can build amazing products and not be terrible to other people/companies. Companies rely on public funding and public technologies and therefore are accountable to do right by the public. We always make this false dichotomy of “good
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by mchaynes 5y ago
The profit motive corrupts all. We need to kill capitalism in its current form for these companies to stop being terrible and evil. There are constant articles on HN about why <insert big company> is doing <terrible monopolistic
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by mchaynes 5y ago
Could not agree more. The movement is about changing our expectations to let us live the lives we want to, not that we need to sit down, shut up and say “thank you” for not starving us
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by mchaynes 5y ago
I left amazon after just under 2 years and I agree with everything you wrote here. You’re asked to move fast but constantly delayed by every team or system you have to interact with. Duct tape abounds and that duct tape is usually “go file
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by mchaynes 5y ago
Fundamentally the profit motive ruins true innovation
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by mchaynes 5y ago
Considering they’re the supplier for amazons electric delivery vehicle fleet, I doubt they’ll run out of money
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by mchaynes 6y ago
Your experience allows you to become a force multiplier by teaching/coaching others. Which requires learning that as a skill. Might not be a skill you want, but it’s a skill
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Show HN: Funnel, convert query language to SQL WHERE statements in Go(github.com)
2 points by mchaynes 6y ago|0 comments
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by mchaynes 6y ago
And measure. Always measure. Without data it’s all posturing
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by mchaynes 7y ago
For very simple programs, sure. Type checkers do not verify behavior. Unit tests verify behavior
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by mchaynes 7y ago
I think it’s probably just a matter of looking at people’s/organization’s incentive structures. If incentives are aligned, things are _probably_ ok. “The media” is incentivized to either have the largest amount of traffic (ad revenue)
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Show HN: RSV, a simple CSV unmarshaller in Go(github.com)
2 points by mchaynes 7y ago|0 comments

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