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synesso··on Testing Bitchat at the music festival
It's tangentially related through the theme of decentralization

- It's trying to be a very decentralized chat application

- The linked post is on nostr, which decentralized broadcast messaging protocol

- Bitcoin is a decentralized money protocol

- Nostr has the capability to send bitcoin between users via the lightning network via https://github.com/nostr-protocol/nips/blob/master/57.md

It takes more effort to use nostr than it does anything relatively more centralized like bluesky or mastodon. So people there are the kind who are dedicated to decentralized technologies & support bitcoin.

synesso··on Testing Bitchat at the music festival
Jack is very strongly bitcoin only & anti "crypto". He sees Bitcoin alone as the Internet's missing money protocol. There is zero chance of what you suggest might happen.
synesso··on Detekt – A static code analyzer for Kotlin
Thank you. I wondered if there was something new. Enjoy your Kotlin journey!
synesso··on Detekt – A static code analyzer for Kotlin
I've been using detekt for years. Why is this suddenly the top article on HN?
synesso··on Organic Maps: An open-source maps app that doesn't suck
As someone who built advanced turn by turn routing based on openstreetmap, problems like the u-turn in the article are hard. Giving good turn instructions for the last 2% is also hard, because so often it requires an appreciation of what the turn looks like from the driver's perspective, not just the curves and angles of the vertices.
synesso··on Proof-of-Work Defense for Onion Services
This is an example of the common fallacy of conflating energy consumption with carbon-intensive energy generation.
synesso··on Important Coding Habits
As someone in his position 20+ years ago who did a lot of stretching and yoga for recovery, I can attest that this will only take you so far. Real gains come when you lift weights, which I started at the age of 49. The deadlift is a particularly good remedy for lumbar pain. Start on low weights with good form. Programmers develop weak lumbar support and stretching weak muscles can bring short term relief, but will not resolve the underlying issue. In time, stretching no longer becomes effective without over-stretching, which brings its own problems. Building that muscular support is key.
synesso··on It's time for us in the tech world to speak out about cryptocurrency
The early narrative around paying for coffee didn't pan out. But right now it is it's an extremely valuable global settlement system.
synesso··on It's time for us in the tech world to speak out about cryptocurrency
The Bitcoin whitepaper brought together a few existing technologies into something that had never before existed in the world - decentralised digital scarcity. This lead to a Cambrian explosion of new developments, most of which are pyramid schemes. But at its core, the invention is world-changing.
synesso··on The Animal Is Tired
I was convinced this article was about the experience of being in your 40s, until I got to the end.
synesso··on Introducing a new HTML element – welcome <clippy>
I guess Microsoft's attempt to use their superior marketshare to kill web standards back in the 90s is too long ago for the irony of this to resonate.
synesso··on Ask HN: Is it just me or did Google search recently get a lot worse?
Now you mention it, yes. I've been seeing this for a few weeks. It seems often the most salient word in my search phrase is ignored.
synesso··on Office Space turns 20: How the film changed the way we work
Not Jennifer Anniston's character. The original girlfriend whom he went to the hypnotist with. She was cheating on him.
synesso··on Office Space turns 20: How the film changed the way we work
There's a great between-the-lines take in this movie. Bill Lumbergh is dating Peter's girlfriend on the Saturday. That's why he forces him into work ... and why the girlfriend also leaves a message.
synesso··on Ask HN: How do you organise your hard drive?
That whole GOPATH thing is the reason I could never stick with Go. I'm curious to learn how it's less invasive now. Thanks for the heads up.
synesso··on How Bad Is It to Forget Someone's Name?
I remember names until that person is in front of me. Once they've gone away, I remember it again. It happens all the time. I guess there's a name for this?
synesso··on Farewell, Google Maps
I'm an employee. It's not my product. I didn't include a link because I thought it would be too spammy. It's tallygo.com.

At this time, we are a mix of mapbox + our own data.

I don't know why you need to sign up to see sample code. I'll give that feedback.

For mapping you'd use it over mapbox because it comes for free with your navigation package. For navigation you'd use it over mapbox because it has better turn-by-turn instructions, routes and traffic estimates.

The map is accurate throughout the world. The navigation product is specific to North America at this time, but it will expand.

synesso··on Farewell, Google Maps
TallyGo employee here. We have free map impressions for customers of our navigation SDK.
synesso··on Ask HN: If I Close My Data Centers, What About the People/Jobs Lost?
This happened to my friend in his 50s. He was a storage specialist working for a bank. Since they outsourced to IBM a few years ago he's been stacking shelves in a supermarket.
synesso··on Chess boxing
I'm not looking forward to the day a computer beats a human at this.
synesso··on Google Maps Platform
TallyGo is a startup offering a routing SDK for Android & iOS. The pricing is much more affordable and capability for app integration is strong. It has realtime traffic & advanced routing. (Disclaimer: I work as a developer at TallyGo)

https://tallygo.com/

synesso··on Google Maps Platform
You could take a look at TallyGo. They have a navigation SDK with reasonable pricing. (Disclaimer: I work there)
synesso··on It's time to head back to RSS?
I spend a lot of time in Slack during the day, so I decided it should become my RSS reader. I created a dedicated team and used an RSS bot to subscribe. It works really well.
synesso··on Fact Checks
Otherwise known as "common sense". If this in an engine to promote common sense then we're just digging ourselves a bigger hole.
synesso··on Gail, not Gmail
That is wonderful. If only my common gmail typo (gmamil) was as delightful, instead of being a vector for evil.
synesso··on Ask HN: How happy are you working as a programmer?
9/10 - Interesting problems; working remotely, to my own schedule; living in paradise; pants optional.

Prior to my current gig it was

8/10 - Interesting problems; well fitted-out office with great people to work with and coffee nearby; the opportunity to grow technical and people skills and mentor.

In the 90s I worked in public service doing accounting and marketing gigs. I'd rate those jobs about 3-4/10. So I'm pretty happy with the transition.

synesso··on What is 'common sense'?
This is a pet hate of mine too. When I hear this phrase I'm automatically inclined to disagree. I mentally hear it as "I'm not prepared to think enough".
synesso··on Species in Pieces
That's beautiful.
synesso··on Ask HN: Why do people have a hatred for Scala?
Interesting that they were working on a scalaz course and book in 2011. I guess that became Functional Programming in Scala. I'd still like a course on scalaz.
synesso··on Boolean parameters to API functions considered harmful (2011)
It goes for all primitive parameters. I can't tell you how many days I've burnt on this kind of bug. But I can tell you it stole 3 hours of my time yesterday. https://twitter.com/badgerhunt/status/587787102684758016
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