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alanfriedman

302 karma · joined September 22, 2015

Software developer in New York City
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alanfriedman··on Show HN: Booleans as a Service (BaaS)
We think this API is world-class, built on military grade encryption and a robust distributed cloud infrastructure.
alanfriedman··on Show HN: Booleans as a Service (BaaS)
Sure, once there's authentication.
alanfriedman··on Show HN: Booleans as a Service (BaaS)
To be real for a second...yeah there might be something there.
alanfriedman··on Show HN: Booleans as a Service (BaaS)
We agree this would be handy. A "label" field.
alanfriedman··on Show HN: Booleans as a Service (BaaS)
It's ok, we could use more competition in the BaaS space.
alanfriedman··on Show HN: Booleans as a Service (BaaS)
Haha never considered using it for that.
alanfriedman··on Show HN: Booleans as a Service (BaaS)
Sure. The possibilities are endless when it comes to CRUDing booleans.
alanfriedman··on Show HN: Booleans as a Service (BaaS)
We're making a big bet on it. I've personally emptied my savings and 401k into this business.
alanfriedman··on Show HN: Booleans as a Service (BaaS)
Nice.
alanfriedman··on Show HN: Booleans as a Service (BaaS)
All booleans are salted and hashed.
alanfriedman··on Show HN: Booleans as a Service (BaaS)
Yes HIPAA-compliance is at the top of our backlog.
alanfriedman··on Show HN: Booleans as a Service (BaaS)
I'm listening...
alanfriedman··on Show HN: Booleans as a Service (BaaS)
Good call. We're already struggling to keep up with this rapidly evolving data type.
alanfriedman··on Show HN: Booleans as a Service (BaaS)
For mission critical booleans we may add authentication in the future.
alanfriedman··on Show HN: Booleans as a Service (BaaS)
I'm just glad this was ranked higher than the SpaceX landing for a minute. Priorities are in order.
alanfriedman··on Show HN: Booleans as a Service (BaaS)
We'll definitely look into that.
alanfriedman··on Show HN: Booleans as a Service (BaaS)
EC2 c4 8xl boxes, load balanced across multiple regions. Jk it's a micro instance.
alanfriedman··on Show HN: Booleans as a Service (BaaS)
We've heard from various famous people that if you build great products, the money will follow.
alanfriedman··on Show HN: Booleans as a Service (BaaS)
We're about to find out
alanfriedman··on Show HN: Booleans as a Service (BaaS)
Strict equal yo ===
alanfriedman··on Show HN: Booleans as a Service (BaaS)
We're focused on changing the world for now, and will think about making money later.
alanfriedman··on Show HN: Pocketsquare – portfolios for developers
Yeah I had that same thought actually. Data scientists are becoming more common lately.
alanfriedman··on Show HN: Pocketsquare – portfolios for developers
I plan on adding it today and will send it to any users who signed up before it was posted. I know how important it is so it's my top priority to finish by end of day.
alanfriedman··on Show HN: Pocketsquare – portfolios for developers
Fair points. As for the design, it can always be tweaked, but I have gotten positive feedback around the simplicity and minimalist look so would have to think it through.

As for the icons, my theory is that devs are free to add whatever skills they want to their own portfolio or resumé anyway, but they're going to ultimately be responsible for demonstrating that knowledge to employers, clients, etc, so it probably wouldn't be beneficial to them to exaggerate their skills. I do see your point though.

alanfriedman··on Show HN: Pocketsquare – portfolios for developers
Absolutely - it's on the roadmap.
alanfriedman··on Show HN: Pocketsquare – portfolios for developers
Because "request" returns a promise? I created the deferred object because I'm waiting on multiple async operations (get gravatar url, download gravatar locally and upload to s3). Or am I missing something?
alanfriedman··on Show HN: Pocketsquare – portfolios for developers
Thanks for the tip on gaming languages. And I agree on Flash - I actually started as an AS3 dev so should've known. More languages/skills are coming soon.
alanfriedman··on Show HN: Pocketsquare – portfolios for developers
Yeah, this is on my list for sure. Projects, experience and education will all be sorted by date until there's an option to manually sort. I'm working on it!
alanfriedman··on Show HN: Pocketsquare – portfolios for developers
Thanks - I'll think about how to incorporate future dates. And wow those scrollbars look terrible. Sorry about that! I think I can fix it pretty easily with CSS overflow.
alanfriedman··on Show HN: Pocketsquare – portfolios for developers
Good point - I should probably spend more time working out the text on the landing page, as I could see how that could come off wrong. To be honest right now I'm just focused on making users happy with a product that's useful for them so I haven't given too much thought as to what's next. Thanks for pointing that out though - I'll definitely think about it.
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