Hacker News: dcoupl

New comment by dcoupl in "Ask HN: Has meetup.org been replaced by anything?"

dcoupl — Tue, 03 Oct 2023 22:03:22 +0000

Couchsurfing.org may be worth a try. They have a website that I used to find other people to hangout with via their "connect with other travelers" feature. I have used it in San Francisco and Bay Area as well as traveling the world such as in Thailand and it worked great for me at that time. It really did work to find and connect with real people and events in person for a given locale. I see now that they are requesting a donation to even use their website now so YMMV.

New comment by dcoupl in "Show HN: Non.io, a Reddit-like platform Ive been working on for the last 4 years"

dcoupl — Tue, 13 Jun 2023 06:49:36 +0000

I love this. And I would like to say that I think many of the highest-voted comments have it wrong: I WANT TO PAY for using the app in exchange for good privacy/ethical practices of the app/company making it. I don't even comment here on HN much but I was moved to speak out about your post. (And its the right day to post this, given the protest of so many subreddtits due to their API pricing and terms)

That said, yes you may still get a "network effect" from not enough people registering/using the app. But hey, I applaud the attempt and hopefully it will get some users/traction.

Last question I would have is: how does it compare/contrast/integrate with other, possibly federated, social services such as Mastodon?

New comment by dcoupl in "New iPhone SE"

dcoupl — Wed, 15 Apr 2020 16:39:44 +0000

Looks like it does support ARKit, source: https://www.apple.com/ios/augmented-reality/ (bottom of the page)

New comment by dcoupl in "GuiLite: Small, cute GUI effects you can reuse"

dcoupl — Sat, 07 Mar 2020 18:35:05 +0000

Did anyone notice the demo for "Animation" on the demo wall of the Git repo README? Lol and WTF

New comment by dcoupl in "[dead]"

dcoupl — Sun, 14 Oct 2018 21:58:33 +0000

Why does the page take sooooooo long to load its content..

$1B Bangladesh heist: Officials say SWIFT technicians left bank vulnerable

dcoupl — Tue, 10 May 2016 21:29:13 +0000

Article URL: http://arstechnica.com/security/2016/05/1b-bangladesh-heist-officials-say-swift-technicians-left-bank-vulnerable/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11670817

Points: 9

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New comment by dcoupl in "Show HN: CuriosityStream – Netflix for non-fiction"

dcoupl — Fri, 26 Feb 2016 04:31:09 +0000

I pay for Curiosity Stream (for about 3 months so far) and am an avid YouTube viewer and I personally have not seen any of the Curiosity Stream content on YouTube so far.

Data Science: An Action Plan for Expanding Statistics (2001) [pdf]

dcoupl — Thu, 03 Dec 2015 05:46:15 +0000

Article URL: http://www.stat.purdue.edu/~wsc/papers/datascience.pdf

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10667979

Points: 5

# Comments: 0

First Experiment to Succeed at Capturing Light as Both Particle and Wave

dcoupl — Mon, 02 Mar 2015 20:41:20 +0000

Article URL: http://news.discovery.com/tech/photo-first-lights-captured-as-both-particle-and-wave-150302.htm

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9134180

Points: 1

# Comments: 0

New comment by dcoupl in "Ask HN: Who is hiring? (April 2014)"

dcoupl — Tue, 01 Apr 2014 19:10:22 +0000

Beats Music. San Francisco's Dogpatch District.

Beats Music is creating a streaming/downloading music solution for people who have a passion for music and who know the only thing as important as the song you’re hearing now is the song that comes next. Our product combines music selection algorithms with human curation to give the best music experience and discoverability possible. We just launched in January 2014 very successfully and have over a million users and growing. We are an offshoot of "Beats By Dre" audio equipment and as such we are very well funded by private non-VC parties, which gives us the freedom to go big in pursuit of the product vision.

We are hiring for engineering and other positions as well. We run at scale and have a complex distributed system with high performance requirements. Some of the tools we use daily include: Node.js, Python, Couchbase, Git, Objective-C (iOS), Java (Android), C# (Windows Phone), MySQL, Backbone.js, Puppet, Linux, Apache Kafka, Hadoop, Azkaban, Jenkins. There are several teams hiring:

  - core API team (Node.js)
  - web team (Backbone.js, Node.js)
  - iOS team (Obj-C)
  - Android team
  - big data team
  - analytics team
  - operations and platform engineering team
  - Windows Phone
  - project management

We value creativity as well as engineering prowess. Many of us are musicians in our spare time. Trent Reznor (of Nine Inch Nails) is our Chief Creative Officer. We like to have fun while we solve complex problems with cutting edge tools and techniques. When you write code, it sees high throughput with many concurrent users. We have some other perks too:

  - competitive salary (we pay well)
  - great health care (Cigna!)
  - reimbursed gym membership at UCSF Mission Bay
  - new laptop!
  - delicious healthful catered lunches 5 days a week
  - a modern building of our own in the up-and-coming Dogpatch neighborhood
  - a bright airy work space with exposed brick walls and skylights
  - free parking in our 2 private parking lots
  - free and discounted Beats By Dre gear
  - stocked kitchen: beverages, non-candy snacks, fresh fruit, beer
  - fun stuff to do: pinball, ping pong, a bar, cool interesting people
  - onsite massages
  - transportation reimbursement
  - open-ended vacation policy (unlimited)
  - flexible hours, work from home 1-2 days/week
  - company equity
  - annual bonuses
  - growth and advancement opportunities

Check out the listings here: http://www.beatsmusic.com/careers/listings If you're interested feel free to contact me directly by emailing gtomei at beatsmusic dot com.

New comment by dcoupl in "Hey developers, stop forcing me to login to unsubscribe"

dcoupl — Sun, 10 Nov 2013 00:40:31 +0000

Nitpick, but the person(s) who wrote the code are probably not the one(s) who make these sorts of decisions about how the product or service will handle un/subscription. More likely its the product manager(s) or other business person types.

Whedon On Romney

dcoupl — Mon, 29 Oct 2012 06:38:05 +0000

Article URL: http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=6TiXUF9xbTo

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4711327

Points: 4

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New comment by dcoupl in "Ask HN - Your favorite programming font?"

dcoupl — Wed, 12 Sep 2012 21:08:46 +0000

I've been using Inconsolata for the past few months and really liking it. RubyMine does not support it at the moment, but it works great in Terminal, Sublime Text 2, Textmate, etc. Inconsolata is freely available here: http://levien.com/type/myfonts/inconsolata.html

New comment by dcoupl in "Backbone vs Knockout"

dcoupl — Tue, 22 Nov 2011 18:49:44 +0000

Its important to recognize that Backbone is a framework and Knockout is a library. These are very different things! Because of this, comparing Backbone and Knockout side-by-side is inappropriate; kinda like comparing a building with a vehicle.

For the record, Knockout handles way more than just forms. The statement that Knockout doesn't offer much beyond forms is simply false.

After writing code using both, on my next app I will use all of them: - Backbone for application structure and the client-side model layer functionality. Backbone is good at this. - Knockout to make handling user-triggered events a breeze, keep data in sync across views and layouts automatically, and to keep my markup and JS code tidy and separate with client-side templating. Knockout is good at this. - jQuery to interface with "low-level" constructs such as DOM elements. jQuery is good at this. In this set up, Backbone is the framework, Knockout is just another library being used, and jQuery is just another library being used. :-)