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Aearnus commented on Show HN: bbox-visualizer – Make drawing and labeling bounding boxes easy as cake   github.com/shoumikchow/bb... · Posted by u/shoumikchow
nom · 5 years ago
Thanks for your thoughtful reply. I guess I have more of a problem with this hitting the front page of HN than with you publishing it. If you use it a lot and abstract it into a library, that's fine, we all do that. But it looks like people are interested in it and I don't understand why.

Don't get me wrong, I like that you published it and I encourage it as much as I can. But if someone is capable of running complex object detection algorithms, they surely can position a label correctly without the need for another library?! This is just a couple of lines of code you can write without even thinking much about it.

Maybe I'm just out of touch, but it's so weird to me that people out there might find this useful.

Aearnus · 5 years ago
Same reason I might use tippy.js for popup boxes. I know I could make it myself, and make it just as well as the tippy authors have designed it, but why waste my time doing that when I know they've already thought through all of the problems that I can't even expect until I'm already in the thick of it?
Aearnus commented on foo@bar.com   bar.com/... · Posted by u/diggan
dTal · 5 years ago
What's a "jeybconbe"? It's a googlewhack for this thread.
Aearnus · 5 years ago
My best guess is that it looks like a typo for "keycombo".
Aearnus commented on Repl.it Database   blog.repl.it/database... · Posted by u/amasad
darkhorse13 · 5 years ago
I love this comment because after reading it, I feel strongly that something like this is definitely going on with Repl.it. The potential of the product definitely seems huge, and it feels like we have not even seen the full picture yet.
Aearnus · 5 years ago
Seconded. There's definitely something deeper going on here, and I'm so excited to see it.
Aearnus commented on Launch HN: Fly.io (YC W20) – Deploy app servers close to your users    · Posted by u/mrkurt
jeromegn · 5 years ago
(Disclaimer: I am a Fly.io founder)

I don't recall us being at Hack Arizona, certainly not me. I googled it and all it yielded was this HN post.

Your comment couldn't be further from the truth. I can't speak for whoever used these words (if they did), but I think we have pretty great work/life balance.

We all have families of our own and recognize they are far more important than our business. These things happen, such is life. Your kid gets sick, you want to care for them. Time off is always paid and we encourage people to take some. People often find it hard to take time off, but we've been good at it.

Nobody, generally, works more than 40 hours a week. I say "generally" because these past few weeks have been more intense given the end of our YC adventure, demo day, virtually meeting with investors and this Launch HN post. In normal times, I might work a few hours on a weekend but only if that brings me joy.

... and of course we're very flexible on work schedules because we're a remote-only company. Some weeks this might mean working only a few hours here and there because of life activities or the need to take time off. Other weeks, it might be the opposite. We recognize and embrace that.

Aearnus · 5 years ago
Hey! I want to formally apologize -- the company I heard presenting had a name very, very similar to yours. Definitely was not the same company. Unfortunately it's past the 2 hour mark to delete comments on HN, but consider this my retraction of what I said above. Really sorry about the mix up, and what you have going here seems very impressive. Definitely seems like a fantastic attitude towards workers' health and happiness.
Aearnus commented on Launch HN: Fly.io (YC W20) – Deploy app servers close to your users    · Posted by u/mrkurt
paulintrognon · 5 years ago
I don't know if that makes a company to avoid, but that's certainly a good point of awareness to raise.
Aearnus · 5 years ago
As a developer by trade, it was definitely raising a LOT of red flags for me. I don't blame you for taking it with a grain of salt, though.

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Aearnus commented on Anxiety as an algorithm   adamjuliangoldstein.com/b... · Posted by u/goldfish
zaptheimpaler · 6 years ago
Totally agree. I think it comes from people who have a narrow technical background trying to extrapolate to humanities by analogy to what they know. They only have a hammer and see nails everywhere.. But HN is the wrong place to expect anything different :D
Aearnus · 6 years ago
The original blog post is a pretty fantastic piece in support of teaching humanities in CS, I'd say!

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