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New comment by rrggrr in "Apple's director of machine learning resigns due to return to office work"

rrggrr — Sat, 07 May 2022 23:13:19 +0000

WFH is screwing young workers by eliminating the mentorship, learning by osmosis and relationship-building that has propelled many knowledge-based careers. If Goodfellow were truly a good fellow, he would recognize the higher purpose.

New comment by rrggrr in "US Federal Reserve issues biggest rate hike in 22 years (0.5%)"

rrggrr — Wed, 04 May 2022 20:48:55 +0000

Companies and individuals with adjustable rate debt are going to feel this increase. For companies it not only impacts their interest rate, but also their ability to stay ‘in convenient’ with their loan agreements, and to obtain renewals. It means less discretionary cash for their customers as well. Those of us old folks who vaguely recall the early 1980’s remember the follow-on impact of successive rate increases - and make no mistake the Fed is just getting started; and is being joined by other countries engaging in similar efforts to control inflation.

New comment by rrggrr in "Show HN: MeetingBar – A menu bar macOS app for calendar meetings"

rrggrr — Thu, 30 Jul 2020 01:35:23 +0000

Bitbar is amazing. Its become a dashboard for my life.

New comment by rrggrr in "Pentagon's UFO Unit to Disclose Some of Its Findings to the Public"

rrggrr — Fri, 24 Jul 2020 21:15:02 +0000

Another possibility: There will be events/actions (or have been) the US doesn't want attributed to it's military that could start a war. The audience could be domestic, foreign, or both. The message could well be true.

Russia has suffered a string of military mishaps that defy coincidence. China tensions are at an historic high.

This is no time for misattribution.

New comment by rrggrr in "Dexplot: Python library for data visualization"

rrggrr — Fri, 12 Jun 2020 12:49:31 +0000

Without PDF output it's a chore to share visualizations over email, chat, etc. The uncharted aspect of data visualization is reporting and sharing IMHO.

New comment by rrggrr in "Marvin – Customizable Task Manager and Daily Planner"

rrggrr — Thu, 21 May 2020 21:40:23 +0000

The perfect to do app is the one that forces me to use it after I forget about it and lose interest.

New comment by rrggrr in "The 'Undertaker of Silicon Valley' Stays Busy as Startups Lay Off Thousands"

rrggrr — Tue, 21 Apr 2020 02:39:56 +0000

We do this as well. Many companies do.

New comment by rrggrr in "U.S. Senators demand small business loan data from SBA and Treasury [pdf]"

rrggrr — Sun, 19 Apr 2020 01:02:23 +0000

Application #300-something at PNC bank. Informed today they ran out of money and cannot make loan. We will survive this - hopefully - and I will close my PNC accounts. There's. That's more consequence than I can deliver to China whose output I cannot do business without, and who is far more responsible for this mess.

New comment by rrggrr in "Ask HN: Programs that saved you 100 hours?"

rrggrr — Mon, 13 Apr 2020 02:30:39 +0000

Hazel... File organization. Bitbar... Menubar status of everything. Amethyst... Window manager. Cloud9 IDE... Cloud based Dev and deployment. Integromat... Blows the doors off zapier. Mixmax... Gmail enhancements incant live without. Hellosign.

New comment by rrggrr in "Ask HN: What is the best Covid-19 dashboard?"

rrggrr — Fri, 20 Mar 2020 23:41:29 +0000

www.covidauthority.com

Unconventional, but very useful.

New comment by rrggrr in "Chloroquine phosphate has shown apparent efficacy in treating Covid-19"

rrggrr — Fri, 13 Mar 2020 09:03:16 +0000

Zinc. Chloroquine provides zinc and ionosphere for absorbtion that likely stops replicase.

New comment by rrggrr in "Show HN: BeforeShutdown – a macOS menubar todo app with reminders on system off"

rrggrr — Tue, 10 Mar 2020 17:01:27 +0000

Nobody I know shuts down...

New comment by rrggrr in "Why smart hardworking people don't become successful (2018)"

rrggrr — Mon, 24 Feb 2020 16:18:00 +0000

Another missed reason: Derailed by a lengthy divorce. Or, corollary to that reason, family difficulties that drain you of energy and attention. Many heroes out there whose struggles will never be know but who deal with a lot.

New comment by rrggrr in "Google Announces Pixel 4"

rrggrr — Tue, 15 Oct 2019 15:57:03 +0000

Not impressed at all this iteration. I may have to wait for Pixel 5, or I'm tempted to return to the iPhone solely so I can take advantage of the Apple Watch. I had hoped for better specs, better phone design, and most importantly - I'd have liked the fingerprint reader to have remained. I really don't want to be a voluntary part of facial recognition.

New comment by rrggrr in "N8n.io – Workflow automation alternative to Zapier"

rrggrr — Wed, 09 Oct 2019 22:46:43 +0000

Feel free to email me for it. My contact info in my profile (soon)

New comment by rrggrr in "N8n.io – Workflow automation alternative to Zapier"

rrggrr — Tue, 08 Oct 2019 18:43:30 +0000

Not really. The integrations are node-up, meaning the SAAS creates its own integration as value-add to its customers; and there's some user growth that emerges from being in their catalog. But, you point is somewhat valid in that many of the integrations tend to be shallow - so apart from a few key functions it can be tough to use them for complex workflows.

New comment by rrggrr in "N8n.io – Workflow automation alternative to Zapier"

rrggrr — Tue, 08 Oct 2019 18:41:02 +0000

StandardLib also has a community, though not sure how big it may be.

Pricing is a key differentiator. My market research included a pricing analysis and Boomi was priced well above Zapier and other similar solutions.

I think there is a LOT of money ceded to less expensive offerings by 10 or 15 providers (including Boomi) all chasing the same enterprise market. I would've expected tiered pricing to emerge to a greater extent, but haven't seen it.

I watch this space very closely.

New comment by rrggrr in "All paid targeting options available on social media platforms"

rrggrr — Tue, 08 Oct 2019 18:23:20 +0000

Good job, but what about retargeting?

New comment by rrggrr in "N8n.io – Workflow automation alternative to Zapier"

rrggrr — Tue, 08 Oct 2019 16:43:30 +0000

Crowded space, but darn few (if any) shared source or community based solutions. Here's a several examples from a market study I did in 2018: Workato, Apiant, Inegromat, Snaplogic, CloudHQ, Boomi, Tibco, Jitterbit, AWS Lambda, Mulesoft, Tray.io, ApacheNiFi, Stringify, Adeptia, Kotive, Cazoomi, Scribesoft and several more.

I really think the community angle is unique.

New comment by rrggrr in "N8n.io – Workflow automation alternative to Zapier"

rrggrr — Tue, 08 Oct 2019 14:13:58 +0000

Zapier has about 1,000 integrations, more than any of their closest competitors and at a price that is far less than others in their space. What you've done here is great! The UX seems better than Zapier and the extensibility & community approach terrific. The key, though, is going to be adding integrations rapidly. I might also stress:

- Bulk actions. - Sync actions.

And support for other programming languages (eg. python)

Hope that helps.