Fighting against the plight that is the unbridled gambling put in front of large swathes of people with no grasp on math is treated as innocence. It will cost us so much as a society, so, so much more that the small short term profits it brings. For shame.
Readit Newsdevteambravo commented on Luck Be a Landlord Might Be Banned from Google Play blog.trampolinetales.com/... · Posted by u/doppp
Serfs work, it is not work to read blogs or watch videos.
My bank account balance begs to differ..
devteambravo commented on One week of empathy training (2019) shkspr.mobi/blog/2019/07/... · Posted by u/willm
I spent some time discussing this with my buddy, who ate an RPG round in close proximity, while serving in Iraq. He gradually lost his vision, all of it. It's so depressing to even think back on the chats, as I cannot imagine living w/o the internet I grew up on. Does anyone want to pair up and work on software that treats disabled users with respect? And who know, maybe make something a deaf or blind or N player can experience? I lived a lot of live w/ 100% brain capacity, not really making use of it, and then it was taken from me in an IED blast (Afghanistan). What I lack in skills, I guarantee you I will make up with experience. A frustrated Infantryman turned UX/UI/Product afficionado (and $90k startup employee)
devteambravo commented on Apple Vision Pro Is Apple's New VR Headset theverge.com/2023/6/5/237... · Posted by u/xNeil
This looks like a device one would buy to be able to visit SF w/o seeing the homeless.
devteambravo commented on Do any startups still use WordPress after 20 years? autopitch.ai/posts/blog/d... · Posted by u/catsarebetter
Could I spare a minute of your time and ask you to check out the side project that I have been working on?
We're ironing out the wrinkles and building content, but I am planning an offical SHOW HN very soon to get the communities feedback.
I contacted dang and Hacker News last year because I noticed how fragmented the content space was, despite there being so much frontend innovation the last few years. WordPress is still the leading CMS platform, and I have validated this a few different ways this year myself with different data sources.
I did a deep dive quantitative analysis last year on what popular startups were using for content, and the results were surprising. They either were using a WordPress instance on a subdomain, seperated from their core code base; or they had rolled their own code, and had a funky setup.
From the top of my head: - stripe.com had a crazy good static powered website. 100% not WordPress lol - opensea.io had a core Next.js application, but had an older WordPress instance for blogging on a sub-domain. - paulgraham.com has a super dated custom setup.. Even though he writes the best essays, I can't read them easily on my phone :( - patrickcollison.com is something simple and basic as PG's, just not as dated. - ycombinator.com has some janky "React on Rails" setup.
From that point, the quick and rapid startups who were gaining traction either figured out how to create content alongside their app.. Or they used Webflow and didn't create any sort of seamless and simple docs, users guides, blogs, etc.
I ended up eventually emailing YC directly to ask them why things were so wonky in the content space like this. I asked them why they would spend the resources to use Ruby to talk to a webserver and database to get basic static text. I also asked why PG's website was in the state that it was in, and if he would consider an upgrade if it existed.
To my surprise, I actually got a speedy response back from Daniel himself. He gave me a ton of feedback and told me that Paul probably wouldn't be interested.
He then said that if I was able to put together something impressive, I should do a SHOW HN because this is a large problem space.
I'd love to connect with you and get your feedback, and share any ideas or data.
My email address is in my bio if you want to connect :)
https://github.com/elegantframework/elegant-cli
Live Demo: https://www.elegantframework.com/
Nice branding. Any relations to Elegant Themes/Divi?
Humans exploring space
I think we need to treat apprenticeships better. We need a stronger blue collar sector. At the same time, I'm worried about this trend towards anti-intellectualism I'm sensing these days.. It smells fascist, and that is bad.
devteambravo commented on How does human echolocation work? (2017) smithsonianmag.com/innova... · Posted by u/exolymph
I used to go kayaking with my buddy in Monterey. He lost his eyesight due to war wounds, mine stayed-we bonded over that. He taught me something similar so we could go kayak in the sea together, all I had to do was make a noise every so often (~20-30secs) and he would be able to navigate that way, free. Good times.
devteambravo commented on 2022 was the year of Linux on the Desktop? justingarrison.com/blog/y... · Posted by u/xrayarx
windows?
Can 2nd this one, I tried Mint and Slackware this year, just because of the Win11 app checker thing kept popping and reminding me that i don't want another few years worth of BS like that.
devteambravo commented on Some people who appear to be in a coma may be conscious scientificamerican.com/ar... · Posted by u/TeacherTortoise
Just my two cents. Please consider brain dumping while the memories are fresh, as there is strong evidence that our memories evolve over time[1]. It sounds like you have a valuable story to tell. Editing can come later.
I thought about that and created a giant moodboard/wall of thoughts/diagram/mess on a Figma file, loaded w/ keyword and anecdotes.
I really need to "process" it all into a written document