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marclave

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ceo & co-founder of scalar.com

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marclave··on Stripe Capital
Wow, super cool and they also allow you to provide Stripe Capital through connect to your customers!? Insane.
marclave··on Ask HN: What did you do in your first year after school?
Those are both pretty neat fields.

Ahh I see, yeah makes sense and can vary between people for sure :)

marclave··on Ask HN: What did you do in your first year after school?
Cool :) What was competitive chess like? Also what was training like for chess, was it speed training alongside putting yourself in specific scenarios to get out of?

Any fav chess players?

marclave··on Ask HN: What did you do in your first year after school?
Cool :)

What are you going to be studying at Uni?

marclave··on Ask HN: What did you do in your first year after school?
What do you find to be particularly lame? On the flip side do you find yourself having more routine free time so that you can do more activities?
marclave··on Ask HN: What did you do in your first year after school?
Appreciate your retrospection and thoughts.

Do you have an idea on what area you would do your PhD in?

Do you think that if someone is apprehensive about travelling for awhile after grad, that you would recommend a transitional period to explore ideas and not jump into any commitments? Which kind of feels as though it is an implicit side effect of going travelling for awhile.

marclave··on Ask HN: Mobile developers – how do you market your apps you made for fun?
Neat idea, I would maybe look for communities online around learning new languages through non typical means.

What brought you to making this game?

Did you build each version natively or is react native?

I would also be curious on search term frequency on some of these phrases, there could be a good SEO opportunity there if you write good educational content :)

marclave··on Show HN: FunctionScript – Turn JavaScript (Node) Functions into Typed HTTP APIs
Congrats on the 1.0 release! This is an impressive library and am curious on what the future roadmap looks like for FunctionScript?

Also any plans on releasing more examples that are consumable via stdlib?

marclave··on Show HN: Ungrabbed – Available domains for startups and side projects
Cool idea, appreciate the note in the inspiration of the project from Paul Grahams "Change Your Name" [1]. Really looking forward to getting a surprise email with some .coms.

Curious on a bit more detail about the domain name selection.

[1] http://www.paulgraham.com/name.html

marclave··on Ritual of the Calling of an Engineer
I recently finished my Engineering degree in Canada, and while I always knew about the iron ring I had no idea the ceremony itself was authored by Rudyard Kipling (The Jungle Book).
marclave··on Arduino command line interface
This is great! Really like the idea of being able to move a lot of manual IDE setup/usage to a Makefile. After using the IDE for 3 years now, has anyone used a different IDE that boasts a lot of the same features but is a bit more... friendly?

edit: I guess we can use any IDE we want with this CLI, and make tooling around the CLI. I meant the question in past tense :)

marclave··on Quasi‐Solid‐State Single‐Atom Transistors
I have recently took a nanotechnology class (Just finished my BEng) and we learned about single atom transistors but they were no where near room temperature. This paper shows a room temperature gel based solution, which is all completely metallic too, no semiconductors so the power consumption is way lower. More so this type of solution could make an order of magnitude smaller transistor.
marclave··on Ask HN: 2018 Summer Reading List?
Not published yet but High Growth Handbook [1] looks like a great read.

[1] https://www.amazon.com/High-Growth-Handbook-Elad-Gil-ebook/d...

marclave··on Code and Write
Site seems down? Also looks like a repost from a few days ago [1]

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17373506

marclave··on Show HN: Code.xyz code editor to build Serverless APIs in 1 click for Stripe
This is great! After a brief glance, is there subscription functionality or is there a plan to add subscriptions?
marclave··on Show HN: Launchaco Free Online AI Logo Maker
You can :) Apologies that the UI is not more clear. There is a search bar at the top where the icons are first shown, then also in the logo editor when clicking the icon menu. Hope that helped!
marclave··on Show HN: Launchaco Free Online AI Logo Maker
I am glad you enjoyed the result :) May I ask what browser/version and OS you are using?
marclave··on Show HN: Launchaco Free Online AI Logo Maker
Awesome :) Are you making the logo for your startup?
marclave··on Show HN: Launchaco Free Online AI Logo Maker
Thanks :)
marclave··on Show HN: Launchaco Free Online AI Logo Maker
Hey everyone! Launchaco co-founder here. Excited to share Launchaco's free AI logo builder! A lot of our users didn't have any form of branding so we wanted to make a simple tool that served as a placeholder until they could afford a proper logo.

We classified > 400 fonts based on 7 features and used a k-d tree for organizing the multi-dimensional data structure, all open sourced here (https://github.com/launchaco/logo_builder). As you go through the logo builder we tweak your font vector based on fonts you like, with a little bit of randomness added, then search the k-d tree to find fonts similar to it.

Also here is a live demo of the repo in action, letting you change the feature vector and search manually. https://www.launchaco.com/logo/demo/

marclave··on Ask HN: Examples of great landing pages?
shameless plug, I think you'll like it!

https://www.launchaco.com/

Also I enjoy https://onroadmap.com/

marclave··on Launch HN: Pathrise (YC W18) – Career accelerator for students, free until hired
Apologies; just checked my account summary and I was way off. It is not 8k it is $2,592.

Apologies for the unclear sentence, the engineering degree is 5 years, during which there is 16 months of mandatory work experience. The $2,592 is paid in increments across the 5 year degree. Which is in $324 payments each semester of work until the total of $2,592 is paid.

marclave··on Launch HN: Pathrise (YC W18) – Career accelerator for students, free until hired
Cool idea, my university has a stellar co-op program for Engineering and Computer Science students, and other universities in Canada do as well (Waterloo, UBC, etc.) and I am curious as to what differs you from universities that have these co-op programs because co-op is mandatory at UVic and Waterloo and has helped fund my way alongside many other engineering students ways through their degree.

Also 7% of first year salary seems steep, considering co-op costs are around 8k at my university (don't know about others off the top of my head). Which are covered pretty easily with mandatory 16 months of work experience.

marclave··on Show HN: Cross-platform desktop applications with PyQT
QT is amazing, it has been around so long and there even is a photoshop to qml exporter [1] that helped us make this dashboard for my Universitys formula hybrid team in [2] [3]. It really did not take too long and the performance is amazing on the Pi. I highly recommend QT, and there are amazing bindings for languages. I am looking forward to trying this out!

[1] https://github.com/qt-labs/photoshop-qmlexporter [2] https://drive.google.com/open?id=1D733SdbUvGsGvct8jdGqJ3R9iJ... [3] https://github.com/UVicFH/infotainment

marclave··on Status – A Mobile Ethereum OS
Great idea, and the landing page is incredibly beautiful. Well done.
marclave··on Star Wars Hologram Vinyl
This is so cool!
marclave··on Humans X Design
Really interesting insights on user experience!
marclave··on Making a DAC from an Op Amp
Totally! Thanks for the links, checking these out! Haha yeah totally sim life !== implementation
marclave··on First Thoughts: Chrome to Opera Neon
Totally, with video it felt as though my laptop was about to take off for low-orbit. Again, this is a beta (at least I assume so). I am looking forward to legitimate benchmarks.
marclave··on TensorFlow machine learning now optimized for the Snapdragon 835 and Hexagon 682
This is absolutely crazy... The response time is unbelievable.
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