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A bit of bizarre time to release this at, isn't it?

This needs reasonably predictable markets and the economy to work ... both of which are currently lacking. The market yield and the inflation rate are now just two big blurs and the average answer will be "your FIRE is achievable within 7 to 177 years depending on random things that may or may not happen next".

The less time people have for the 25+% suggested tip amounts to sink in the better I guess.

As much as I appreciate the attitude of building something from scratch instead of exploring existing solutions, the uptime/server monitoring is a super-saturated market and it's been like that since the 00s if not earlier.

That is, it will be really hard for you to find customers.

> Also, I asked because I wanted to get the above user's opinion on the matter

And you could've done just that without being passive-aggressively dismissive.

"Hackers" in the Hollywood sense of the term, which applies here, are a red flag in many real-world scenarios.

You must be joking.

With Gluten-Free Plywood Waffles it must be real.

In the same vein, but without needing to create separate de- and serialize functions:

https://github.com/eliasdaler/MetaStuff

Another take on the same idea with even simpler interface:

https://github.com/apankrat/cpp-serializer

What's Michael Arrington up to these days?

TC was so completely op 20 years ago, it was ridiculous. Had a tiny startup back then, not even in the US and all of a sudden started getting calls from VCs, including Bessemer and alike. Turns out there was a 3-line mention on the TC. He just asked if anyone heard of us ... lol. Good times.

I would've expected a much larger dip.

Hacky and not really fit for production for more reasons than one, but clever and nice nonetheless. Good stuff.

Yeah. This thing outright crashes in SystemParametersInfo() when trying to query if the system supports "full-window dragging".

Makes you really wonder what's going on with their QA.

Same. I just don't set the default gateway when configuring it.

This is not a very good site though. It's basically "Apple Rankings of Some Random Dude" and not much else.

In good part it serves as a deterrent for others, given that the US legal system is precedent-based.

Sounds like it's an issue with the speed limit.

It would certainly help being able hide tags easily, as a guest. They add way too much visual noise without adding much in terms of the ux.

The choice of colors is also rather unconventional and not exactly appealing.

Nope, not native code.

> Monkey C compiles into byte code that is interpreted by a virtual machine, similar to Java.

https://developer.garmin.com/connect-iq/reference-guides/mon..., 2nd paragraph.

The idea is nice. The implementation is a bit gaudy design-wise (subjective, granted) and flakey on the hardware side, with the HR sensor accuracy being the main issue.

Any data in the app. It just doesn't work offline, at all. Like they looked at a book chapter on basics of data caching and went "nah, not doing that, that's too f#cking advanced".

Don’t know about Apple Watch development, but the scope of what you can do with Garmin's SDK is limited, apps run in a VM, ie no native code with respective performance issues and, as important, their developer support is a complete and utter garbage.

It's a lucky day when someone from Garmin graces Forums with their presence and bestows few sentences they think could pass for an answer.

In other words, yeah, the SDK is free, you can side-load and it’s not hard to write for, but you just can't write much.

At any official distributor.

You can see a form of this effect on HN itself, in particular in Show HN topics.

First few comments basically set the tone of the discussion and its dynamic. If they are shallow, negative or dismissive, the discussion gets stuck and takes a while to recover even if the submission has a lot of actual merit.

Please put your company details on the website.

Your location matters when deciding whom to entrust with daily business minutiae and the fact there's not a single bit of info there currently implies you have something to hide.

> We combine cutting-edge technology with a user-first mindset to create tools that empower businesses to streamline operations and scale smarter.

Woah. Sounds incredible.

Since it's 8bit by 8bit, a precomputed lookup table (64K in size) will be another option.

There was a scene in an X-files episode of a secret meeting in some US city ... under the Skytrain monorail with a train whizzing by.

Thanks. Both joined after my time it seems.

Ha, can I ask who the involved prof/s was/were?

I spent some time at your Uni in the early 90s. From what I remember there wasn't a whiff of Lisp on the curriculum.