Hacker News: phildeschaine

Let's talk about take-home projects

phildeschaine — Wed, 22 May 2024 16:10:59 +0000

Article URL: https://www.inthebestpossibleway.com/p/lets-talk-about-take-home-projects

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40442674

Points: 2

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Just overheard a funny conversation between two engineers

phildeschaine — Wed, 20 May 2015 20:52:05 +0000

Was just walking back from lunch and overheard this:

Engineer #1: "Someone asked me for a restaurant recommendation in Boston. I've never been to Boston, so I did what I always do... I just looked it up on Yelp and told her the top result. Then she checked Yelp and said 'OMG! Yelp agrees with you!'"

Engineer #2: "You're an API, man. A natural language processing API."

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9579213

Points: 29

# Comments: 9

Ask HN: Are there any startups in SF that don't have an open plan office?

phildeschaine — Sat, 10 Jan 2015 17:32:39 +0000

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8867250

Points: 7

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The U.S. Military’s Campaign Against Media Freedom

phildeschaine — Sun, 15 Jun 2014 09:04:04 +0000

Article URL: http://www.nytimes.com/2014/06/15/opinion/sunday/chelsea-manning-the-us-militarys-campaign-against-media-freedom.html?_r=0

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7894825

Points: 144

# Comments: 40

New comment by phildeschaine in "Reddit’s empire is founded on a flawed algorithm"

phildeschaine — Tue, 10 Dec 2013 03:24:53 +0000

Lots of people visit /new. They're called "knights of new". The total number of these people is probably far lower than the front page (where _hot is used), but it's how every submission gets its start.

New comment by phildeschaine in "[dead]"

phildeschaine — Thu, 15 Aug 2013 22:59:21 +0000

I like the idea. Is this targeted at sysadmins... to just have running as background noise? Does this use the Web Audio API?

New comment by phildeschaine in "The unbundling of Craigslist and Reddit"

phildeschaine — Thu, 15 Aug 2013 22:29:02 +0000

The content in /r/funny tends to remind me of mid-Aughts chain emails.

New comment by phildeschaine in "The unbundling of Craigslist and Reddit"

phildeschaine — Thu, 15 Aug 2013 22:15:29 +0000

The difference with reddit (and the real genius of the initial vision) is that any user can create a subreddit. Compare this to craigslist where the admins defined the 50 or so static categories at the outset. Reddit, on the other hand, has interesting (and not so interesting) subreddits pop up every day.

Some of my favorites of the last year or two are http://reddit.com/r/ExplainLikeIAmA, http://reddit.com/r/mildlyinteresting, http://reddit.com/r/dataisbeautiful, http://reddit.com/r/futurology, http://reddit.com/r/outside, and http://reddit.com/r/hwstartups. To name just a few. There is basically no way the reddit founders could have envisioned any of those categories, but thankfully, they had the foresight to create a generic, make-your-own-category platform.

The community of reddit certainly has shifted quite a bit, but this ability to evolve organically will keep it from unraveling in the same way as Craigslist has. I think it's a bad comparison anyway.

New comment by phildeschaine in "Ryan Davis, 1979 - 2013"

phildeschaine — Mon, 08 Jul 2013 20:04:56 +0000

I used to watch his video reviews on GameSpot around 10 years ago. Extremely sad news.

New comment by phildeschaine in "Video shows plane's moment of impact at SFO"

phildeschaine — Mon, 08 Jul 2013 01:50:34 +0000

Agreed. That might put an end to the endless complaints on reddit and other sites about vertical videos.

The problem is, when you hold your phone horizontally it's painfully obvious to other people you're taking a video. Holding it vertically allows for being more discreet. You might just be texting or something.

Smartphone manufacturers could also solve this problem by somehow auto-rotating the camera internally.

"Doug Engelbart had this idea about amplifying the human mind."

phildeschaine — Thu, 04 Jul 2013 02:39:25 +0000

Article URL: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rCMwZNR9DPE

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5988879

Points: 1

# Comments: 0

New comment by phildeschaine in "Text of letter to Edward Snowden from his father and father’s attorney"

phildeschaine — Tue, 02 Jul 2013 21:26:56 +0000

Interesting that it was written by his father's lawyer on behalf of his father. Makes me wonder if this is the first contact his father has had with him since this whole thing began.

New comment by phildeschaine in "Poll: Full-time software engineers in the Bay Area, what's your annual salary?"

phildeschaine — Sat, 01 Jun 2013 18:38:21 +0000

> Of course, if you love nature, the bay area has its perks :) but be ready to spend a lot of time in a car

I going to have to contest this point. I live and work in San Francisco, and I do not even own a car. I bike to and from the startup I work for every day. Many people in SF do this.

Not counting buses, taxis, or lyft, I haven't even been in a car for about 5 months.

New comment by phildeschaine in "Show HN: Tweetspiration – let Twitter brainstorm ideas for you"

phildeschaine — Sun, 21 Apr 2013 03:23:01 +0000

Hey, just wanted to let you know you're breaking the twitter display requirements (https://dev.twitter.com/terms/display-requirements) by not swapping out the t.co links with their real addresses. You gotta use those tweet_entities the API gives you.

>"Links in Tweet text must be displayed using the display_url field in the URL entities API response, and link to the original t.co url field"

New comment by phildeschaine in "Emblem.js: concise, indented alternative templating language for Handlebars.js "

phildeschaine — Tue, 19 Feb 2013 20:48:04 +0000

Still no template inheritance! I feel like I'm taking crazy pills when that's the one feature I need / care about and none of the newer template languages implement it. I'm spoiled from Django/Jinja2/twig.

New comment by phildeschaine in "A new kind of checking account. No overdraft fees. No worries."

phildeschaine — Tue, 15 Jan 2013 21:19:05 +0000

>No overdraft fees.

I already have this and have had it for 5 years, through my credit union.

In fact, just yesterday I overdrafted (first time in years) and was delighted to see it automatically transferred the amount to my credit card. So, it's basically the same as if I had made a purchase of that amount on my credit card.

Design in iOS versus Ubuntu, Android and WP.

phildeschaine — Thu, 03 Jan 2013 08:53:19 +0000

Article URL: http://www.reddit.com/r/apple/comments/15v2x5/ios_7_better_be_amazing/c7q3p1d

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5001487

Points: 1

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New comment by phildeschaine in "Show HN: 2u.fm is a social music discovery site, my side project for over a year"

phildeschaine — Tue, 04 Dec 2012 01:16:03 +0000

I'm a little confused on your use of both genres and tags. For the former, how are they determined? Just in a database, pre-decided by you?

New comment by phildeschaine in "2013 Automobile of the Year: Tesla Model S"

phildeschaine — Thu, 01 Nov 2012 20:18:13 +0000

That's a pretty sexy car, I'd take one in a second if I had $60k+ to drop, and I'm not even in the market for ANY car (bike commuting ftw). That said, I'm holding out for a Model X. The falcon wing doors are just SO badass.

Stephen Colbert destroys the US patent system. [video]

phildeschaine — Thu, 20 Sep 2012 19:15:36 +0000

Article URL: http://www.colbertnation.com/the-colbert-report-videos/419187/september-18-2012/tip-wag---apple-samsung-lawsuit---tabloid-clash

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4550192

Points: 21

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