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echan00

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echan00··on VR is as good as psychedelics at helping people reach transcendence
Interested in hearing what others think about this
echan00··on What We Gain from a Good Bookstore
Lmao
echan00··on A little trick to spam the spammers (2021)
GOD
echan00··on The first dating app made for developers
Rule one of dating apps is attract the females first
echan00··on Hot or Not?
Clickbait
echan00··on Arc Browser Company: Chrome and Safari face a new challenger
How is this unknown company a challenger? How is this even worthy of Bloomberg to report on
echan00··on No 1. The Art of Failure – Jon Batiste
Agreed also enjoyed it
echan00··on How Zillow's homebuying scheme lost $881M
How do you lose money in a market where homes only went up?
echan00··on Show HN: iPod Clickwheel.js
I hate to say this but it is not very intuitive, I was click on dragging for a while. Circular motions while dragging with a trackpad is not a natural motion.
echan00··on Ask HN: What is your “I don't care if this succeeds” project?
HellaDoge.com
echan00··on Yes, I can connect to a DB in CSS
Hilarious to the max
echan00··on Launch HN: Joon (YC W22) – A mobile game that teaches kids to build good habits
Lots of negative feedback here. While I don't have kids, I'd imagine if I introduced this app to my nephews they would just try it once or twice and forget about it because many other apps are more fun.

On another note, I would also suggest OP to take the feedback received with a grain of salt. At the end of the day, your job is to find people who love your app. You're not going to convince every parent/child and that's okay while you're building out your niche.

echan00··on Ask HN: What things has tech made worse in your life?
Buying records at the store
echan00··on Tired of dating apps, Vancouver man launches social experiment to find companion
You sound so pessimistic you should just keep your comments to yourself from now on out.
echan00··on The Decline of Heroku
I use heroku for the majority of my projects. I tried DO app platform a few months ago, it was garbage. I wasted an entire day migrating my heroku rails app to DO only to come to realization I am much better off paying for heroku
echan00··on Who is looking for a sales oriented co-founder?
While you are right, you sound like you are trolling
echan00··on Facebook Is Said to Be Building a Product to Compete with Clubhouse
I mean this shouldn't be news. Facebook is a social media company. Given their size they should be developing a competitor regardless of success or failure to hedge their business.
echan00··on Italy Will Rebuild Colosseum’s Floor
I love the history. But sometimes it really feels like that's what Italy is all about: let's spend money on the past for more tourist money.
echan00··on Alibaba says Uygur-tracking facial recognition violates company values
It doesn’t matter what Alibabas values are. Their values are filtered by the CCPs needs.
echan00··on Show HN: Over 2M cooking recipes ready for text generation
Duck is not an ingredient. Such travesty!
echan00··on Google ‘BigBird’ Achieves SOTA Performance on Long-Context NLP Tasks
Is there a GitHub repo?
echan00··on Stripe's remote engineering hub, one year in
super tough to take this post seriously, it sounds very much like a company marketing/recruiting post
echan00··on Show HN: I made a simple PDF text editor
What calls what?
echan00··on Ask HN: Can you be CEO and have major role in product at a huge company?
It looks like Evan Spiegel of Snapchat still spends a lot of time on product and design.
echan00··on Amazon scooped up data from its own sellers to launch competing products
The title of the article says it all. I mean what do you expect? This is just business.
echan00··on Ask HN: What are some grid-based document creation tools?
thanks, will check them out!
echan00··on Ask HN: What are some grid-based document creation tools?
Excel is grid-based. But it requires a lot of upfront planning because users can't split any cell into multiple cells to make sure the contents inside are aligned (only merge is allowed).

Is there anything else out there?

echan00··on Douyin, TikTok in China, bans livestreams speaking Cantonese instead of Mandarin
wow,talk about inclusion
echan00··on China's Deep learning AI framework to compete with TensorFlow and Pytorch
I wouldn't be surprised if the guts of this "China developed" framework is actually just tensorflow or pytorch.
echan00··on Trump says Google CEO Sundar Pichai called to apologize
I'm sorry Mr. Trump we'll make the website since your organization is "busy".
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