Hacker News: alexmr

New comment by alexmr in "Gemini 4 Argon"

alexmr — Tue, 13 Oct 2026 22:10:25 +0000

I am impressed by how fast it is. Haven't run all my evals but it's surprisngly quick for creating files

New comment by alexmr in "Tesla remotely converts battery pack, cutting 1/3 of range"

alexmr — Tue, 26 Jul 2022 19:39:58 +0000

Tesla buying experience is way better but the ETAs are famously off. Mine has been pushed back 4-5 times and always about 3-4 weeks before it's due to get delivered, so it's impossible to plan around.

New comment by alexmr in "Immediate skin-to-skin contact with unstable newborns improves survival chances"

alexmr — Thu, 27 May 2021 19:22:40 +0000

We had a preemie baby at 26 weeks in December and feel fortunate our hospital (UCSF) practiced this recommendation. I was surprised they could do kangaroo care that fast (was a few hours after birth), but we did it then and everyday our daughter was in the ICN for 4 months. I'm convinced it made a difference and am sad when I hear about parents who can't do this.

I hope this research helps this become more standard practice.

Sense-ible Redux Thunk

alexmr — Tue, 23 May 2017 21:23:38 +0000

Article URL: https://medium.com/sensehq/sense-ible-redux-thunk-30b866ca5914

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14405490

Points: 1

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New comment by alexmr in "Ask HN: Do you wear ear protection or noise cancelling headphones while working?"

alexmr — Mon, 16 Jan 2017 21:02:24 +0000

Check out extreme isolation headphones: http://www.extremeheadphones.com/

My co-worker has them and likes them. They're basically earmuffs + audio

New comment by alexmr in "Show HN: San Francisco MUNI Transit Delays, Visualized"

alexmr — Mon, 04 Aug 2014 17:46:36 +0000

Well done. This would be extremely useful in one of the mobile muni apps. I look at Transporter in the morning to know when to leave for the N, but if it had an indicator of delays, I'd know that it's time to walk/bike/uber instead.

New comment by alexmr in "Twitter Reports Second Quarter 2014 Results"

alexmr — Tue, 29 Jul 2014 22:52:58 +0000

It may be a little less, but the volume is high enough (35M+) to be fairly indicative of tomorrow's opening price.

New comment by alexmr in "YC Portfolio Stats"

alexmr — Wed, 16 Jul 2014 19:39:20 +0000

Looks like they'll get a 4th billion dollar company with machine zone if this round closes: http://blogs.wsj.com/digits/2014/07/16/newest-hit-game-maker...

Electric Objects: A Computer Made for Art

alexmr — Tue, 08 Jul 2014 17:06:13 +0000

Article URL: https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/electricobjects/electric-objects-a-computer-made-for-art

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8005510

Points: 10

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New comment by alexmr in "Zynga Buys NaturalMotion For $527M"

alexmr — Fri, 31 Jan 2014 00:15:05 +0000

They've been around for a while. Even before getting into mobile they did high end 3D platform stuff for console games like grand theft auto.

Remember the Frontier

alexmr — Fri, 03 Jan 2014 19:17:42 +0000

Article URL: https://medium.com/p/23dfc274c743

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7007433

Points: 3

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New comment by alexmr in "Ask HN: What position should a generalist apply for?"

alexmr — Fri, 13 Dec 2013 22:03:56 +0000

With a technical + business background like that, I agree that product management might be a great fit, assuming you're interesting in getting away from code and focusing more on project management, specs, design, etc.

I'd also say you sound pretty ideal as a co-founder for a general web or mobile product. That's a position where a wide range of skills are useful and I'm sure there's lots of people out here who would love to talk to you.

New comment by alexmr in "iPad from T-Mobile with free monthly 200MB data for life"

alexmr — Sun, 03 Nov 2013 23:36:43 +0000

New comment by alexmr in "Show HN: govuptime.com"

alexmr — Sat, 05 Oct 2013 00:32:13 +0000

Most enterprise apps have an SLA of at least 99.9%. If the government was an email server for example, for the month of October they'd like have to give a partial refund to their customers for the downtime.