alexjray

It's 100% a competitive edge to be able to adopt new technology faster than others. "The future is here it's just not widely distributed yet". Kudos to you for recognize that early on.

It's funny that hiring for this skill it still uncommon.

I was one of the first few cohorts at the first "coding bootcamp" by Shereef Bishay called Dev Bootcamp.

This was the first skill they taught us and they told us the exact same thing.

"You are in the business of learning, learning fast is going to be your greatest skill."

Another insightful principal that I am reminded of often.

"Businesses rarely fail because of a specific technical hurdle, more commonly they fail because the team fails."

This was back in 2013, he was spot on with almost everything he taught us.

Good stuff.

I would love to see the open source community get together to create a web based open source version of Microsoft Word rather than hundreds of basic text editors.

Even adding something as basic as "Pages" would help move this in that directions as it would open up the ability to export to actual document types like PDF and DOCX.

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Modals kept getting stuck, couldn't click out of them and then the app would freeze.

Things I like.

- projects and feature section.

- Simple clean design, easy to edit

- printable

Things I don't like

- Super buggy

- no support for company lookup/reference (need to build company DB and connect the social graphs, this is why Linkedin is so valuable/has a moat i.e. your biggest challenge.)

- No ability to add a custom section to my profile.

- I would like to add things non-work related like music i'm listening to, books I'm reading etc...

- The above makes things more personal, but I would go even further the more intimate the better IMO. Work is personal.

This was very informative

That would be incredibly useful

Gold?

That's a best case scenario and feels overly optimistic. What are the chances it gets fully repaid?

The fed has pumped 2.3 trillion dollars into the economy in the past six weeks....

I don't see how the dollar won't crash eventually. Why would foreign countries still buy US bonds?

Most of that is Ian Storm Taylor. This is what happens when software is treated as a first class citizen and the co founder(s) are technical. It's a specific class of companies like Stripe and Square. The business itself is treated as a software product, internal influences external.

Spot on

My thoughts exactly.

I have a bit of a contrarian view on data on the web. I think, eventually any data on the web is going to be in the public domain at some capacity. Data will be everywhere and readily available, mostly for free.

Charged particles from space randomly flip computer bits and crash software. The biggest bug you've never heard of.

Utah houses traditionally do not have many bathrooms, in fact most made before 1980's only have one. It's quite odd actually

So I updated the suggestion list so that the locations are ordered by population size, the largest appearing at the top.

I figured the cities with higher populate would be the most relevant.

ocdtrekkie Great suggestion(pun intended), timely too; international features are next on my list. Great reminder of how important this use case is for people who need tools for timezones.

Hey hacker news, Alex here!

I created the timezone tool I have always wanted. Something simple, useful and shareable.

The application is URL based and saves to your browser's storage so you don't have to keep adding/removing timezones to compare.

Additionally, I wanted each URL to be shareable across many platforms. Windo parses each URL to generate dynamic open graph images and titles that unfurl when you post that link to different platforms.

There is a lot I still want to do, but I was curious if this is something you all would use and why?

Thanks a ton!

- Alex

Working full-time

Law

At the end of the day it's all just energy.

Thank you!

How do you normally consume Rhodiola?

FWIW, I highly recommend the book

"Adaptogens: Herbs for Strength, Stamina and Stress Relief" by David Winston, Steven Maimes.

Write notes down, think about them and then re-write them.

Read books.

Spot on

Another note app?

I get that this is a massive problem space but with dropbox, notion, google and loads of other companies working on the exact same thing.... I have a hard time understanding why Y Combinator accepts companies like these.

Either way, excited to try it out; sounds like you've put a lot of BS&T into this.

Wow; Director at Google, Intuit and CEO of google cloud. Impressive career.