Hacker News: madebysquares

New comment by madebysquares in "Study Finds No Single Genetic Cause of Same-Sex Sexual Behavior"

madebysquares — Thu, 05 Sep 2019 21:59:52 +0000

Totally unrelated to this topic but what an interesting username choice.

New comment by madebysquares in "Walking Away from the Product I Spent a Year Building"

madebysquares — Fri, 17 May 2019 17:22:22 +0000

I've never heard of this product before, but it definitely does sound interesting. I know exactly how hard it is to get a small / medium sized company to switch to a new product, its definitely not easy.

That aside, I wish Slack was more customizable (or open to allowing some customization) that would enable it to function more like what Derrick was trying to accomplish with Level. That would be the best of both worlds.

New comment by madebysquares in "Aphantasia: 'My mind's eye is blind'"

madebysquares — Wed, 10 Apr 2019 00:24:31 +0000

I find this fascinating I wonder if I some altered form of this where I can visualize most things but they are never accurate depictions always deformed in some way.

New comment by madebysquares in "Show HN: A retro video game console I've been working on in my free time"

madebysquares — Thu, 14 Mar 2019 22:03:37 +0000

amazing indeed, what a great read, and inspiration to go build something...

New comment by madebysquares in "React Native 0.59.0-rc.0 released"

madebysquares — Thu, 14 Feb 2019 02:13:37 +0000

That sounds interesting, source?

New comment by madebysquares in "Show HN: App that lets you record a video and immediately share with a link"

madebysquares — Wed, 09 Jan 2019 21:48:06 +0000

what is the intended use case for this?

New comment by madebysquares in "Flutter will change everything, and is an excellent choice for iOS development"

madebysquares — Mon, 10 Dec 2018 23:23:27 +0000

Expo is excellent for developing in RN. The best thing is being able to send the app to other users without needing to install anything outside of the expo app. I just started digging into flutter last week so I don’t have a an opinion yet.

New comment by madebysquares in "New York inmate's golf drawings lead to exoneration in murder"

madebysquares — Thu, 20 Sep 2018 12:20:11 +0000

This type of statement is highly infuriating. This has no bearing on the fact that the original prosecution withheld evidence and he was not the shooter in this case.

New comment by madebysquares in "Meet the busser who’s worked at the same pancake house for 54 years"

madebysquares — Tue, 04 Sep 2018 15:00:15 +0000

You ask me not to assume, but yet you made a huge assumption in that he loved his job, presumptuous much?

New comment by madebysquares in "Meet the busser who’s worked at the same pancake house for 54 years"

madebysquares — Tue, 04 Sep 2018 14:44:24 +0000

You likely did not read the article... there is nothing in it that would imply he loved his job. He stayed at his job because of complacency and security. Not because he loved bussing tables.

New comment by madebysquares in "Microsoft acquires Github"

madebysquares — Mon, 04 Jun 2018 15:39:10 +0000

I was not aware of all the CEO troubles, makes sense then, on that front.

New comment by madebysquares in "Microsoft acquires Github"

madebysquares — Mon, 04 Jun 2018 13:35:38 +0000

Curious why they are changing CEOs if they want to continue the culture and community.

New comment by madebysquares in "Ask HN: What are the expectations of a CTO at a small startup?"

madebysquares — Wed, 14 Mar 2018 00:22:37 +0000

Agree with everything here. I’ve never been a CTO but have been the only other dev working alongside a CTO and you will wind up doing many non-technical as needed for the business. Laying a good groundwork for future employees and making a best effort in every task is the best thing to do.

New comment by madebysquares in "McDonald’s Fries Chemical May Cure Baldness, Study Says"

madebysquares — Mon, 05 Feb 2018 22:46:52 +0000

I was going to say the exact same thing... it probably hastened my ride to baldness.

New comment by madebysquares in "Why we transitioned from Medium back to our own blog"

madebysquares — Wed, 24 Jan 2018 17:18:59 +0000

Using GH issues for a blog doesn't seem like it could really work for most people. While you can get comments and discussions which is cool, GH isn't a great way to read long form content IMO. Plus if you want any time of analytics how can you find views/reads/etc. On side note you're current tutorial looks very neat, I've never used LUA so I'm going to try and follow along.

New comment by madebysquares in "Why Mickey Mouse’s 1998 copyright extension probably won’t happen again"

madebysquares — Tue, 09 Jan 2018 11:58:55 +0000

They discuss is briefly but my understanding is the copyright only protects the work itself. IE the movie steamboat willie could now be freely published by anyone with access to it? But Disney will still own the trademark and be the only entity that can produce new original Mickey Mouse content?

New comment by madebysquares in "Concussion doctor says he found CTE in living NFL player"

madebysquares — Fri, 29 Dec 2017 06:46:43 +0000

I have been wat hung football since i was kid but like you the past couple of years it has become harder to justify watching these big hits and traumatic injuries knowing the damage it is doing to players when they get older.

New comment by madebysquares in "Concussion doctor says he found CTE in living NFL player"

madebysquares — Fri, 29 Dec 2017 06:44:31 +0000

This would be a game changer and potentially life saving for hundreds of athletes in all contact sports but mostly American football. I they can find the funding they need to further their research.

New comment by madebysquares in "[dead]"

madebysquares — Mon, 18 Dec 2017 19:28:47 +0000

Sounds like a pump and dump scheme.

New comment by madebysquares in "Joplin – A note-taking and to-do app with builds for desktop, mobile, terminal"

madebysquares — Thu, 30 Nov 2017 15:36:02 +0000

This is something I have been wanting for a while a note taking app with a terminal app and syncing... unfortunately installing all these tools from an unknown source makes me a bit leery.