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New comment by digitalmaster in "Ask HN: What are you working on (August 2024)?"

digitalmaster — Fri, 30 Aug 2024 17:33:52 +0000

Just tried to order but looks like you don't ship to US yet?

New comment by digitalmaster in "How to build quickly"

digitalmaster — Fri, 09 Aug 2024 11:26:35 +0000

Sounds similar to breadth-first coding.

New comment by digitalmaster in "Ask HN: What was an interesting project you started and finished over a weekend?"

digitalmaster — Mon, 15 Apr 2024 16:33:00 +0000

Script is here bdw: https://github.com/digitalmaster/WhatsApp-Group-Playlist-Gen...

New comment by digitalmaster in "Ask HN: What was an interesting project you started and finished over a weekend?"

digitalmaster — Mon, 15 Apr 2024 16:32:04 +0000

We have a WhatsApp group where we share music recommendations with each other. It's grown quite a bit now and it's gotten hard to keep up. Also new members missed everything that came before. So I set out to solve this problem and have some fun last week.

I decided to write a shell script that does the following: - Parses chat export file and extracts all the Spotify URLs. - Removes duplicates - Authenticates w/ Spotify API - Fetches Ids of tracks already in playlist - Creates a difference list of missing tracks - Adds those to the playlist

And that's that.

New comment by digitalmaster in "Guidance to make federally funded research freely available without delay"

digitalmaster — Thu, 25 Aug 2022 20:45:06 +0000

Aaron Swartz

How I manage my browser tabs to maximize focus

digitalmaster — Tue, 16 Feb 2021 14:22:40 +0000

Article URL: https://josebrowne.com/how-i-manage-my-browser-tabs-to-maximize-focus/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26154091

Points: 1

# Comments: 0

New comment by digitalmaster in "Show HN: Polotno Studio – Canva-like design editor, without signups or ads"

digitalmaster — Tue, 15 Dec 2020 18:56:57 +0000

Nice.. but what makes Canva valuable isn't the tool itself.. It's the templates. Add some templates

New comment by digitalmaster in "Ask HN: Any well funded tech companies tackling big, meaningful problems?"

digitalmaster — Fri, 11 Sep 2020 14:01:42 +0000

This seems like a good one! Thanks for sharing.

New comment by digitalmaster in "Ask HN: Any well funded tech companies tackling big, meaningful problems?"

digitalmaster — Fri, 11 Sep 2020 13:52:10 +0000

> "Highly funded companies are expected to produce revenue growth."

Yup, this is exactly what I was hoping wasn't true: That it's impossible to be both well funded, high revenue growth AND do so while tackling a meaningful problem. ---

Don't want to make this thread about all the ways in which Tesla is a bad example (just first one that came to mind).

New comment by digitalmaster in "Ask HN: Any well funded tech companies tackling big, meaningful problems?"

digitalmaster — Wed, 09 Sep 2020 18:42:30 +0000

Ah! Got it! That makes a lot of sense. Thanks for sharing!

New comment by digitalmaster in "Ask HN: Any well funded tech companies tackling big, meaningful problems?"

digitalmaster — Wed, 09 Sep 2020 13:01:00 +0000

Yea, it's my fault for providing that example.. wish I could edit the main thread to change the examples. Really just care about surfacing the big investments.

New comment by digitalmaster in "Ask HN: Any well funded tech companies tackling big, meaningful problems?"

digitalmaster — Wed, 09 Sep 2020 01:55:22 +0000

Yea, neither could I. Hence the thread. It really does feel like the worlds greatest minds are all just busy trying to find creative ways to sell ads and it's kinda sad.

New comment by digitalmaster in "Ask HN: Any well funded tech companies tackling big, meaningful problems?"

digitalmaster — Wed, 09 Sep 2020 01:51:34 +0000

This is exactly what I was hoping this thread would disprove. But so far I think you're probably right. Private interest just doesn't seem to be seriously willing or able to tackle the big issues.

New comment by digitalmaster in "Ask HN: Any well funded tech companies tackling big, meaningful problems?"

digitalmaster — Wed, 09 Sep 2020 01:45:11 +0000

This is fantastic! Thanks for sharing!

New comment by digitalmaster in "Ask HN: Any well funded tech companies tackling big, meaningful problems?"

digitalmaster — Wed, 09 Sep 2020 01:43:28 +0000

Oh interesting, I guess I've always thought about problem solving and creativity as being one and the same. Mind expanding on this a bit?

New comment by digitalmaster in "Ask HN: Any well funded tech companies tackling big, meaningful problems?"

digitalmaster — Tue, 08 Sep 2020 20:01:10 +0000

Fair. But I do think "better = good". It fits my main query of 1. Well funded 2. Trying to solve meaningful problems

Ask HN: Any well funded tech companies tackling big, meaningful problems?

digitalmaster — Tue, 08 Sep 2020 13:51:43 +0000

Are there any well funded tech startups / companies tackling major societal problems? Any of these fair game: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_global_issues

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I don't see or hear of any and want to know if this is just my bias or if there really is a shortage of resources in tech being allocated to solving the worlds most important problems. I'm sure I'm not the only engineer that's looking out for companies like this.

Ran into this previous Ask HN (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24168902) that asked a similar question. However, here I wanna focus on the better funded efforts (not side projects, philanthropy etc).

One example I've heard so far is Tesla. Any others?

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24408324

Points: 97

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Ask HN: Any well funded tech companies tackling big / meaningful problems?

digitalmaster — Thu, 03 Sep 2020 21:22:29 +0000

Are there any well funded tech startups / companies tackling major societal problems?

Any of these fair game: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_global_issues

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I don't see or hear of any and want to know if this is just my bias or if there really is a shortage of resources in tech being allocated to solving the worlds most important problems.

Only example I've heard so far is Tesla. Any others?

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24369040

Points: 3

# Comments: 0

New comment by digitalmaster in "On Coding, Ego and Attention"

digitalmaster — Wed, 17 Jun 2020 00:55:37 +0000

100% Agree.

New comment by digitalmaster in "On Coding, Ego and Attention"

digitalmaster — Wed, 17 Jun 2020 00:48:08 +0000

Thanks for sharing this perspective! I know exactly what you're talking about. I wrote this piece and have to admit that even for me I have days when I struggle to bring this attitude to a problem or a day. I guess it's one of those hard habits to break.

What helps for me the most is intentionality. To literally set my intention for a day or for a problem right before I jump in. So if I know I'm about to jump into a tricky problem I literally take a few seconds to remind myself of the attitude I want to bring and even exactly what I want to focus on.

So this would be things like "Don't try to judge difficulty (easy/hard), just go wherever it takes me" or "Don't be afraid of the amount of work". One that super helpful for me is deliberately separating to "understanding" part of a problem from the "solving" - so i'd tell myself "I'm just trying to understand what's going on right now - solve later". Etc etc.

Hope this helps.