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New comment by cknoxrun in "Having Kids (2019)"

cknoxrun — Sat, 21 Mar 2026 21:31:15 +0000

Thanks for the clarification, I see where you are coming from and definitely agree it's a real problem.

I'm proud to say for myself that devices never leave the home now (and mine stays in my pocket except for explicit communication needs), and we are able to fully connect on road trips, dinners, and other outings. It's freeing, and I always tell the kids, that being device free means we will actually remember these moments.

New comment by cknoxrun in "Having Kids (2019)"

cknoxrun — Fri, 20 Mar 2026 19:07:22 +0000

The only thing I'll add is that you never know what people are going through. Both of my children have pretty intense ADHD, and when I went through my divorce I definitely leaned into too much screen time for a while. It wasn't permanent though, and I managed to get back closer to the ideal you speak of (but as a single parent, it took a lot of processing of guilt to find a balance that worked).

I've decided it's safer to just never judge, that parent you see pushing the toddler around in the cart might indeed be a terrible parent, or they might be going through grief and at their breaking point.

New comment by cknoxrun in "Meditation as Wakeful Relaxation: Unclenching Smooth Muscle"

cknoxrun — Wed, 07 Jan 2026 19:29:31 +0000

Coming from another stressed out startup CTO, I'm curious what your daily meditation routine look like now?

New comment by cknoxrun in "Pivotal Tracker will shut down"

cknoxrun — Thu, 19 Sep 2024 16:52:20 +0000

I do like the approach Basecamp took to Kanban ("Card Table") - very very simple and clean (https://basecamp.com/features/card-table). We moved off of Basecamp but we found it super effective when we were a smaller team.

New comment by cknoxrun in "An Apple Watch for Your 5-Year-Old? More Parents Say Yes"

cknoxrun — Sun, 04 Sep 2022 21:24:02 +0000

Only things he has asked for, this is not driven by a need for academic improvement or anything, but a chance to learn tools to improve a known deficit with ADHD that can negatively impact his ability to maintain social connections.

New comment by cknoxrun in "An Apple Watch for Your 5-Year-Old? More Parents Say Yes"

cknoxrun — Fri, 02 Sep 2022 13:25:45 +0000

Interesting. I've often considered an Apple Watch for my 9 year old, who struggles with (and benefits from) ADHD and thus would benefit from specific features such as the reminders (especially location-specific), alarms, and overall organization capabilities. But I'm hesitant to open that box just yet...

He isn't pining for a smart phone yet, nor do his friends seem to generally own them, so that wouldn't be the motivation but I can understand how it would be a good intermediate step. Gradually increasing access to these technologies and educating them along the way makes sense to me, rather than passing the child the firehose when they turn a certain magical age.

New comment by cknoxrun in "(mac)ostalgia – how Spotify, Slack, Chrome, Figma could look on Mac OS 9"

cknoxrun — Wed, 22 Dec 2021 06:34:19 +0000

Not the greatest UI, but you can show 2 conversations at the same time by command-clicking on a person/channel (or right clicking on a second person/channel and choose "Open in split view").

New comment by cknoxrun in "Omicron variant more resistant to vaccine but causes less severe Covid: study"

cknoxrun — Tue, 14 Dec 2021 22:34:18 +0000

Your question caused a likely ludicrous and unoriginal idea to pop into my head - I wonder if it would be possible to purposefully engineer and release a mutated form of a virus like SARS-CoV-2 that demonstrates the ability to replace more dangerous strains, but causes only mild symptoms? Essentially to accelerate a process that we hope to see happen naturally.

New comment by cknoxrun in "Imgur Acquired by Medialab"

cknoxrun — Tue, 28 Sep 2021 04:15:06 +0000

A couple of friends of mine are the co-founders of one of the big gif sharing sites. I've heard some pretty interesting, and very funny, stories about the sticker shock on S3 as they grew. But it sounds like Amazon has been fairly flexible and provided some decent leeway with respect to giving grace periods as investment rounds closed.

New comment by cknoxrun in "Gitpod shipped GitHub a launch cake for Codespaces"

cknoxrun — Fri, 03 Sep 2021 17:43:47 +0000

Personally, this post made me aware there are existing alternatives to Codespaces. Codespaces is very cool, but it also adds to an ever-growing single point of failure, which is dependence on Github for almost all of our tools and tooling. Using robust alternatives can help to spread that risk around.

New comment by cknoxrun in "Use Pixar's story formula to win over investors"

cknoxrun — Sun, 15 Aug 2021 00:35:23 +0000

There's an interesting book that discusses this, "To Sell is Human" by Daniel Pink that I think is worth a read.

New comment by cknoxrun in "Migrating Facebook to MySQL 8.0"

cknoxrun — Fri, 23 Jul 2021 05:12:42 +0000

We migrated a high-traffic, complex site with a huge amount of data to MariaDB about 5 years ago as well, and it's been solid so far. We use Galera as well, which has performed and scaled really admirably.

New comment by cknoxrun in "Launch HN: Hera (YC S21) – macOS app to prepare, join and take notes in meetings"

cknoxrun — Thu, 08 Jul 2021 17:04:25 +0000

I used Fellow briefly, but it was so incredibly slow. Glad to hear you are putting a big focus on performance! Submitted myself to the beta.

New comment by cknoxrun in "Canadian inferno: northern heat exceeds worst-case climate models"

cknoxrun — Fri, 02 Jul 2021 19:33:34 +0000

To preface this, I would love to see oil sands production halted.

However, evidence seems to suggest it is far too idealistic to imagine a world where the oil manufacturers / countries leave all of that money on the table. In my opinion, this comes down to the demand side of the equation, and I get the sense that folks feel absolved of their own regional sins when they can still point to the supply side. We need to establish a new normal to handle the demand side, and that involves a few things even those calling for reducing oil production seem to abhor. As a minimum start, mass public transit, higher density living, much reduced meat consumption, reduced consumerism, smaller homes and lawns, local vacations, and higher upfront costs for energy efficient buildings and vehicles.

QUBE

cknoxrun — Sat, 26 Jun 2021 05:59:47 +0000

Article URL: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/QUBE

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27639522

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New comment by cknoxrun in "Biochemical Pathway Maps"

cknoxrun — Fri, 18 Jun 2021 04:37:15 +0000

PathWhiz is pretty general (https://smpdb.ca/pathwhiz) and covers most of that. Give it a go! You can sign in as a guest and start creating pathways. All of the gene information is included and pulled in from Uniprot as well as a bunch of other sources. Small molecule data is integrated with HMDB, DrugBank, and a bunch of other sources as well. (disclaimer: although I didn't work on this tool, I worked on the first version of SMDPB).

New comment by cknoxrun in "Second-guessing the modern web (2020)"

cknoxrun — Fri, 28 May 2021 03:06:20 +0000

Even outside of SPA apps and new magic, Rails is still faster to develop a prototype or website in than React or dare I say any modern SPA tools.

We tested this for fun with some very experienced React and Rails devs at our company, each starting from a freshly formatted laptop to include the time it takes to get an environment up. Requirement was to create a simple blogging site with comments, authors, and tags (with some upfront design). Rails hands-down took the cake, by a large margin, each time.

It was for fun obviously, not exactly scientific, but was pretty eye opening seeing how much further ahead the Rails devs were at each step.

New comment by cknoxrun in "Apple Support: How to hear image descriptions in the Camera app"

cknoxrun — Sun, 16 May 2021 04:10:15 +0000

Interesting, I pointed it at my son and it immediately accurately described "a child sitting at a white table doing a jigsaw puzzle". I pointed at one of his Lego creations, and immediately "a multi-colour lego construction sitting on a wooden shelf". I was blown away.

New comment by cknoxrun in "Google penalizes you for using Google Analytics"

cknoxrun — Mon, 03 May 2021 18:26:51 +0000

There is a common fear (and I have to admit I irrationally feel this fear) that your ranking will be impacted negatively by not using Google Analytics. Maybe not intentionally, but perhaps because Google knows less about your site.

New comment by cknoxrun in "Prisma – ORM for Node.js and TypeScript"

cknoxrun — Wed, 21 Apr 2021 15:52:44 +0000

Not sure when you used ActiveRecord, but slow query logging helps a lot to identify these issues. I also appreciate that in the docs for ActiveRecord they make it very clear that jumping to raw SQL is absolutely fine and normal, and they make the interface for doing that very nice.