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New comment by amiheines in "Three Inverse Laws of AI"

amiheines — Wed, 06 May 2026 06:22:23 +0000

Another scary part is when people get convinced by the LLM arguments and convince other people. Being scared is human, we enjoy it, that's why 6 flags scary rides exist.

New comment by amiheines in "A Tale of Two Slings: Peak Design and Amazon Basics [video]"

amiheines — Thu, 04 Mar 2021 06:00:18 +0000

A youtube link? Why? I was surprised of the sound and volume. Didn't even look at the website before clicking. Quickly hit the back button, I like reading text, not being talked to by a voice post

New comment by amiheines in "How Fair Is My D20? (2015)"

amiheines — Tue, 26 Feb 2019 21:22:56 +0000

This reminds me of an old post with a dice rolling machine for a gaming site capable of producing 1.3 million dice rolls per day, http://gamesbyemail.com/News/DiceOMatic

New comment by amiheines in "The Effect of Cold Showering on Health and Work: A Randomized Controlled Trial"

amiheines — Fri, 17 Nov 2017 05:00:58 +0000

Or maybe it masks the misery of going to work? ;)

New comment by amiheines in "Ask HN: What's the one thing that let you grow the most as a developer?"

amiheines — Fri, 03 Mar 2017 18:11:54 +0000

3 books I read a couple of decades ago, they were talking about technology of a decade before that and felt outdated but were really helpful in raising my powers as a developer: 1. About face 2. Writing solid code 3. Code complete I still recommend them to young developers and bought a paper copy of them for myself. The ones I read were left at the company I worked at at the time. I had an expenses account and most of my expenses there were on books.

New comment by amiheines in "Relative Line Numbers in Vim"

amiheines — Mon, 03 Jun 2013 07:55:34 +0000

The OP says it's new in version 7.3 I also wish it was done earlier since I found myself trying to use commands like '5j' and giving up a long time ago.

New comment by amiheines in "Idempotent Web APIs: What benefit do I get?"

amiheines — Mon, 06 May 2013 14:12:08 +0000

Interesting, Seems like the Haskel benefits but implemented in mortal technologies.

New comment by amiheines in "Stop Designing Fragile Web APIs"

amiheines — Mon, 22 Apr 2013 14:28:11 +0000

Nice and fresh idea about API design, thank you fenniak. You almost answered my questions as they poped in my head, especially about DRY!

New comment by amiheines in "EBook - programmer to physical product business owner"

amiheines — Fri, 19 Oct 2012 08:58:02 +0000

I got your version up and ready for A/B testing today!

Can you please submit the site in a new post to HN? I'm too new here and don't want to post my own web site here.

I promise to write a blog post on the results, this will be fun! Perhaps we can finally debunk one rule about writing sales letters.

New comment by amiheines in "EBook - programmer to physical product business owner"

amiheines — Thu, 18 Oct 2012 13:00:42 +0000

lol, yes, they do. I feel sometimes like big brother since I set up the web site to send me an email whenever someone buys and activates a dog tag. I get to see some funny dog pages where people display pictures of their dog and add some funny message to the page instead of the default message I provide.

Most of them are boring - people just fill in the form and are satisfied with the basic template which says something like:

Hello, If you're reading this, I'm probably lost. My name is My owner's name is Please call them at or send them a message Thanks!

The owner of the dog gets an email telling him someone scanned the qr code on its collar and a GPS location on a map (works only if the good soul that found the dog allows sharing of location data)

New comment by amiheines in "EBook - programmer to physical product business owner"

amiheines — Thu, 18 Oct 2012 12:30:39 +0000

Virtual hug to you!

This is a great version of the ad, thank you thank you thank you!

Only rule violated in this version is that it refers too much to ME and too little to YOU the reader. I thought it's best to talk about 'what's in it for me' as the reader tends to be less interested in what I accomplished and more anout himself.

I will definitely use A/B testing using a version of the page based on your suggestion.

New comment by amiheines in "EBook - programmer to physical product business owner"

amiheines — Thu, 18 Oct 2012 10:51:55 +0000

Thanks beobab, this is very encouraging. I will try and improve the button and of course I will fix the typo.

Now I should go back and continue work on that book.

New comment by amiheines in "EBook - programmer to physical product business owner"

amiheines — Thu, 18 Oct 2012 09:41:28 +0000

Thanks for the kind words, I want to reduce the anxiety for programmers testing the waters of physical products. I believe this can be a very productive and creative twist on things. I am in the process of spinning off some new physical products based on my initial business. It is a lot of fun and I keep it low risk.

New comment by amiheines in "EBook - programmer to physical product business owner"

amiheines — Thu, 18 Oct 2012 08:28:18 +0000

Hi all, I'm writing an eBook and wanted your feedback regarding this web page which I put out to tell about the upcoming book. What do you think about it? Do you strongly dislike it? Let me know! Thanks, Ami

EBook - programmer to physical product business owner

amiheines — Thu, 18 Oct 2012 08:17:20 +0000

Article URL: http://realbizapp.com/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4667880

Points: 25

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