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poirier··on My Notes on How to Start a Startup by YC
Nice job on the formatting. Looks great with an auto-outline.

Appreciate the share.

poirier··on Show HN: Simple Budgeting
What's your current toolset?
poirier··on GraphQL editor – Visual node editor for GraphQL
Seconded. Great README.
poirier··on What Time Looks Like to Philip Glass
Because he's an _artist_ interpreting his experience of the physics of time.
poirier··on Breaking Into an Information Security Career
Nice title.
poirier··on Facebook says it needs your explicit photos to combat revenge porn
Almost 14 years ago.

> Facebook is a social networking service launched on February 4, 2004.

poirier··on Joe Hruska, founder and CEO of RescueTime (YC W08), has died
RIP

Amazing application and great mission.

poirier··on Ask HN: Do you know of any project with the goal to log and map a human life?
I built something in this vein 6.5 years ago, and used version 1 daily* since, capturing data on myself to measure intent vs reality and what factors improved/screwed up my own life, all the while building in self awareness.

Here's why: http://meometer.com/why/.

Version 2 — which I worked on for the past 3 months — comes out in a few weeks and we're looking for beta testers.

[edit: clarity]

*almost

poirier··on Building an ethical bank in Britain
Credit Unions work for their members. My experiences are constantly positive, and the complete opposite of banks.
poirier··on Uber CEO Plays with Fire
Open source gmail script: https://www.labnol.org/internet/gmail-unsubscribe/28806/

Not by me. No affiliation. Found it after this news.

[edit: typo]

poirier··on Ask HN: Best business advice for software developers
Know with more clarity than anyone else on Earth: Why.

Apply Why? to everything.

- Why this tech?

- Why this market?

- Why this team?

- Why do I want this life, experience, challenge, team?

- Why do paying want this product?

- Why will I push through when everything is bleak?

Watch for vanity answers as mentioned by others.

[edit: formatting]

poirier··on Electron is flash for the desktop (2016)
Starred because your answers here are beautiful.
poirier··on How ski lifts are installed: Vail's new Chair 5 (2011) [video]
Here's a smaller clip: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FwPP4i7ENvQ
poirier··on Ask HN: If you could move anywhere for a tech job, where would you go?
> illusion of seclusion

Brilliant!

poirier··on Starting Entrepreneurs Anonymous
Best of luck.

Note: https://startupsanonymous.com/

poirier··on Introducing Murphy: Helping you imagine “what if”
Wagering against.
poirier··on Ask HN: What projects are you currently working on?
Nice!
poirier··on Show HN: Generate a mindmap from an org-mode file, with annotations
That's supremely cool.

Nice work!

poirier··on The Steps to a Universal Online Tutor
I've been designing a variation of this for almost a decade, waiting for the remaining technologies to fall in place for the interface.

These past few weeks contained an announcement which is probably the last one.

I use a tiny component of it every day, and my current project leverages different types of AI.

poirier··on Show HN: A Bot to Deploy to AWS, Digital Ocean Etc.
Thanks for sharing!
poirier··on Icelandic Prime Minister Resigns After Panama Data Leak
Voldemort.