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chadd commented on Is “The Phoenician Scheme” Wes Anderson's Most Emotional Film? newyorker.com/magazine/20... · Posted by u/prismatic

rafaepta · 3 months ago

I miss Rushmore’s plain approach. Just enough quirk, sharp acting, and visuals that back the plot instead of hogging it. Newer Anderson films look like photo shoots: pretty, but the story drags. Same story dev teams hit when designers chase pixel-perfect screens and users still wait on real features.

chadd · 3 months ago

This is because the older films were co-written with Owen Wilson. Once they stopped collaborating, Anderson's later films are unbalanced - they have the whimsical aesthetic, but are too sweet without the bitter piercing wit and clarity of Wilson's writing to make them less cloying (IMHO).

chadd commented on Air pollution fell substantially as Paris restricted car traffic washingtonpost.com/climat... · Posted by u/perihelions

Saline9515 · 4 months ago

The problem is that, among casualties, you create an environment that is hostile for families and disabled people.

chadd · 4 months ago

i'm not sure this is true, for instance NYC ranks as the second most disabled-friendly city

https://www.amny.com/lifestyle/new-york-city-ranks-2nd-in-a-...

chadd commented on Ask HN: Who is hiring? (April 2025) · Posted by u/whoishiring

chadd · 5 months ago

Sitch App | Engineer | NYC-area HYBRID (2 days/week in Brooklyn) | Full-time | Python + Django + Flutter + Rust Sitch is a new type of concierge dating app. We're using AI + Humans to ask you questions, get to know you, then help you find love. We're a concierge matchmaker but we don't call ourselves that and we don't charge the obscene prices that matchmakers charge.

One of our metrics is how little time you spend in the app. We're explicitly opposed to the dopamine-fueled mini-game doomswiping of 'traditional' dating apps which cynically monetizes desperation. We're monetizing intent!

* We're top-tier VC funded, small team of 2 cofounders (Snapchat, Bumble), a CTO from Snap/Clubhouse, and 3 engineers, based in NYC.

* Stack is Django, OpenAI, Flutter, Rust

* Looking for a Mid-level Engineer who is an all-arounder. Backend more important than front-end code, but if can also work on client code (or want to learn) that would be ideal.

* 1-2 days/week in person, in Brooklyn, and the rest remote. We strongly prefer NYC area candidates.

See our "corporate" site at https://unusual.inc, and our app site at https://joinsitch.com, and feel free to send me a note at chad@unusual.inc

chadd commented on AI models miss disease in Black and female patients science.org/content/artic... · Posted by u/pseudolus

chadd · 5 months ago

A surprisingly high number of medical studies will not include women because the study doesn't want to account for "outliers" like pregnancy and menstrual cycles[0]. This is bound to have effects on LLM answers for women.

[0] https://www.northwell.edu/katz-institute-for-womens-health/a...

chadd commented on Show HN: Immersive Gaussian Splat experience of Sutro Tower, San Francisco vincentwoo.com/3d/sutro_t... · Posted by u/akanet

chadd · 6 months ago

I'm biased bc I worked with the team while there, but I believe Snap's acquisition of PlayCanvas was one of their most underrated. Incredible technology.

chadd commented on Ask HN: Who is hiring? (February 2025) · Posted by u/whoishiring

chadd · 7 months ago

Sitch App | Engineering Lead | NYC-area HYBRID (2 days/week in Brooklyn) | Full-time | Python + Django + Flutter + Rust

Sitch is a new type of concierge dating app. We're using AI + Humans to ask you questions, get to know you, then help you find love. We're a concierge matchmaker but we don't call ourselves that and we don't charge the obscene prices that matchmakers charge.

One of our metrics is how little time you spend in the app. We're explicitly opposed to the dopamine-fueled mini-game doomswiping of 'traditional' dating apps which cynically monetizes desperation.

* We're top-tier VC funded, small team of 2 cofounders (Snapchat, Bumble) and 3 engineers, based in NYC.

* Stack is Django, OpenAI, Flutter, Rust for Chat infrastructure.

* Looking for a Sr. Eng who is an all-arounder and wants to eventually manage. Backend more important than front-end code, but if can also work on client code (or want to learn) that would be ideal.

* 2 days/week in person, in Brooklyn, and the rest remote. We strongly prefer NYC area candidates.

See our "corporate" (hah!) site at https://unusual.inc, and our app site at https://joinsitch.com, and feel free to send me a note at chad@unusual.inc

chadd commented on Open Riak – open, modern Riak fork github.com/OpenRiak... · Posted by u/amarsahinovic

chadd · 9 months ago

I used Riak for a project back in 2012, the app that became the Whisper App, and as a huge Erlang fanboy, I was so excited about it.

But it was incredibly unreliable at scale, and my colleague and I spent a week of sleepless nights under incredible personal and business pressure - as the servers got busier and busier - ripping it out.

Still love vector clocks, though, and have fond memories of the Basho team presenting at Erlang Factory