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nickporter

342 karma · joined November 2, 2012

CTO & Cofounder @ 42 (YC W14)

[ my public key: https://keybase.io/nickporter; my proof: https://keybase.io/nickporter/sigs/GFAe8SEqBAepbwkbBuEwYjjHty1bxbGxYv33LWJtJac ]

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nickporter··on GCP Outage
having issues with cloudflare as well
nickporter··on Firebase Auth Services Down
yes, see other thread: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44260669
nickporter··on The type system is a programmer's best friend
I bought a domain that forwards *@example.com to my personal email address. Easy to set up on google domains.

This ensures everything before the @ is opaque, i.e. foo+bar@gmail.com is now bar@foo.com

Services that block my domain are usually the ones that also block foo+bar@gmail.com

nickporter··on Tape Deck
Awesome, I'd love this for VHS covers too
nickporter··on Take Advantage of Git Rebase
Love rebasing, love merging, squash or no squash, it all depends on what I'm trying to communicate with my pushes.

Just discovered the --rebase-merges option, worth exploring if you want to edit a commit under a merge commit, but don't want to mess up the merge commits.

nickporter··on Ask HN: Where are all the cool architecture diagrams?
I am on the hunt as well. This seems useful, not the prettiest but not the worst:

https://diagrams.mingrammer.com

nickporter··on Exa: An alternative to Ls
it's all about the flags, e.g. readlink -f
nickporter··on [dead]
Google Meet was a big problem for me until I cleaned out the dust.
nickporter··on [dead]
These things usually fix performance issues for me:

- Open your macbook and clean out the dust. I do it yearly. It always helps.

- Keep macOS and apps (e.g. browser) up-to-date. coreaudiod high cpu was fixed for me in 11.6.

- Review login items, delete what you don't need.

- Reboot, with the occasional nvram, pram reset

- Review activity monitor, find apps that have background processes and delete the ones you don't need.

- Review installed applications, especially ones w/ kernel extensions (e.g. hamachi, vbox). Delete if you don't need them. Easy to re-install.

- Kill docker desktop when not using docker.

- Fine tune spotlight settings.

nickporter··on Ask HN: What are your favorite command-line applications?

  fzf
  nmap
  socat
  stow
nickporter··on Ask HN: What are you using as an issue tracker in 2019?
airtable
nickporter··on Launch HN: Dex (YC S19) – personal CRM that reminds you to keep in touch
I need this in my life. Great idea!
nickporter··on WebGL Fluid Simulation
If you guys like this, you'll like Verve (fluid dynamics painting tool):

https://www.taron.de/verve/verve_download.html

nickporter··on PipelineDB (YC W14) is Joining Confluent
Congrats guys!
nickporter··on Show HN: Guitar Dashboard – Open source music theory explorer for guitarists
Very cool project, thanks for making this!
nickporter··on Facebook buys Vidpresso's (YC W14) team and tech to make video interactive
Congrats dude!
nickporter··on Ask HN: What talks or videos do you suggest to watch on a long flight?
Same here. I think it's because most of the time, I have to get up early to catch a flight and I don't get enough sleep.
nickporter··on Ending Bitcoin Support
If you want to use it on your website:

https://github.com/ElementsProject/lightning-charge

nickporter··on Bitcoin Fall Extends to 25% as Fears of Crackdown Linger
They'd be mining an altcoin because those blocks would be rejected by the network.
nickporter··on Building for the Blockchain
Bitcoin whitepaper url is broken.
nickporter··on Bitcoin: A Peer-to-Peer Electronic Cash System (2008) [pdf]
Fees are in sat/wu not $.
nickporter··on Bitcoin is none of the things it was supposed to be
Recent updates with video demos (looks great):

https://medium.com/@lightning_network/lightning-protocol-1-0...

nickporter··on Square announces pilot program to accept Bitcoin
From the info I've seen, it looks like the app doesn't allow you to transfer btc right now. You can use it to buy, sell or hodl btc only.
nickporter··on Ask HN: Who is hiring? (November 2017)
42technologies.com | Onsite | San Francisco | Engineer - Full Stack / Data | $80k - $120k + equity

We're a YC company building the data layer for retail. We're currently solving the problem of reporting, where retailers are crippled by old systems and bad data models. We give them a reporting dashboard that gives them any metric, over any timerange and dimension, instantly. So, instead of spending a bunch of time making reports, they can just focus on the analysis. Store managers to CEOs at large international retail brands are using our software every day to make real-time decisions based on facts and data. Adoption of our software is growing rapidly, so we're looking to expand our engineering team.

Our team is small, tight-knit and efficient. We're passionate about helping our customers, and building most loved tool in retail. As an engineer at 42, you can expect to work on many areas of the stack, and you'll have a high degree of autonomy. You'll also own your projects and talk directly to customers, blowing their minds with the stuff you'll release. You don't need to have retail experience but you should have 3+ years of professional engineering experience, and be very familiar with Python and/or Javascript, and SQL.

If you're interested, send your resume/portfolio/github/etc to nick@42technologies.com

nickporter··on Ask HN: Why do checkout pages still explain CVV numbers?
I wonder why they called it CVV and not something more obvious like SECRET (i.e. something self-explanatory).
nickporter··on Ubuntu too slow? Try Lubuntu
If you're shopping around for a different distro, you should try out Gentoo or Funtoo. It's fast, customizable, and you'll learn a lot when installing it.
nickporter··on How We Bootstrapped Our SaaS Startup to Ramen Profitability
Congrats guys :)

Also good call on the name change!

nickporter··on 11-year-old girl inspired by Flint water crisis creates cheap kit to test lead
Looking at the videos, it seems to be some kind of carbon nanotube sensor that checks the resistance of the water its dipped in. This is hooked up to an arduino and the data is pushed to a smartphone via bluetooth.

Not sure how she made the carbon nanotube detector, but I think people figured out a way to do it with a microwave oven? Seems dangerous, but very cool.

nickporter··on Why does punching Sonic 3D trigger a Secret Level Select?
You can get to the level select screen in Sonic 3 using a similar process.

1. Open Sonic 2 and enter the level select cheat

2. Freeze the game by wiggling the cartridge

3. Replace the cartridge with Sonic 3, and hit the reset button

This blew my mind as a kid.

nickporter··on Show HN: The Million Dollar Homepage as an Ethereum Smart Contract and DApp
Ahhh you beat me to it :)

Nice work!

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