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tylermac1··on Elevator.js
Quintessential elevator music.
tylermac1··on NASA data API
At first glance I thought this read "NSA data API".

Knew it was too good to be true. Still very cool nonetheless. The Landsat 8 data is very neat specifically.

tylermac1··on Apple Watch Review – A Day in the Life
Gruber's review has it anywhere from 30-50% with moderate use at the end of the day. Only time it got below 10% was when he was doing "heavy testing". http://daringfireball.net/2015/04/the_apple_watch
tylermac1··on Is the app-only economy going to kill the Internet ?
Yes they are. Your complaints in your article hardly signal the "end of the Internet".
tylermac1··on Is the app-only economy going to kill the Internet ?
Apps are essentially a new form of the website as we know it now.
tylermac1··on Amazon Dash Button
True, I guess I imagined it more as building a shopping list throughout the day/week and ordering once at the end of the day, not separate orders for every button click.
tylermac1··on Amazon Dash Button
Interesting idea. Seems like having one button per item would be overkill.

Maybe have one generic button that opens an app on your phone to choose an item from your 'frequently purchased' items.

tylermac1··on How Product Hunt Helped Me Grow a List of 12,989,483,288+ Valuable Subscribers
This should be required reading for all who buy Zero To One.
tylermac1··on Amtrak police use of passenger data
My public state school had their own police force. The actual University-paid officers weren't actually allowed to arrest anyone though. The 'real' cops were the city cops on the University beat.
tylermac1··on 3D printing titanium and the bin of broken dreams
The company I work for does Titanium DMLS. Can get a free automated quote too. http://www.protolabs.com/fineline
tylermac1··on “Your monthly rent .. shall increase from $2145 to $8900”
Not necessarily. I've had security deposits where only a certain percentage is refunded after any necessary deductions. Depends on what they signed in the lease. But still, it was never designed to actually be collected, just a number to scare someone away. Not much more to look into it.
tylermac1··on “Your monthly rent .. shall increase from $2145 to $8900”
The numbers are just there to make it impossible to pay. They want the tenant out so they can sell the house.
tylermac1··on [dead]
How is it completely irrelevant?
tylermac1··on "Yosemite": the first open source modular chassis for high-powered microservers
That actually sounds like it could be the name of a game.
tylermac1··on New Jurassic World Trailer Hides Improved CGI in Plain Sight
More refined sense of scope/scale.
tylermac1··on Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (February 2015)
Location: Minneapolis, MN

Remote: Yes

Willing to relocate: Not currently

Technologies: C++ (Microsoft VC++/MFC), Web (HTML/CSS/PHP/JS), C# (Unity3D and .Net), OpenMP/MPI (C++)

Cursory Knowledge: iOS (Swift)

LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/profile/view?id=91467456

Email: tylermac1 (at) gmail.com

About Me: I'm a junior developer looking for a little more cutting edge work in the software world. I currently write C++ for proprietary CAD software to interface with CNC mills. While at my current company I have written a few custom web apps to help save thousands of developer hours per year. I also have experience with distributed computing with MPI and parallel programming with OpenMP. I'd like to transition to more of a back-end developer role and am an incredibly motivated individual.

I have remote experience working/managing developers/artists with a company I co-founded in college (Mantis Digital Arts).

tylermac1··on Ask HN: What will be “uber-ified” next?
Already are. http://www.amazon.com/b?node=8729023011
tylermac1··on Ask HN: Why do you code?
I love the thrill of solving a particular problem with code. I also like being able to create useful things from simply hitting a keyboard for a while.

I think its a great technical field that also rewards creativity. I'm also and hobbyist musician and I feel that the two skills really work well with each other.

tylermac1··on Travis CI: From Open to Minimum Vacation Policy
With these kinds of policies being more common in young companies, I highly doubt that paying back unused vacation can have any significant effect on normal operations. In the other case there's also generally limits on how much vacation time you can build up, generally taking a couple years of not taking vacation to max out.
tylermac1··on In Wayzata, Minnesota, a school spies on its students
I graduated from high school in 2010 and had a few of these same meetings with administrators and the like. Luckily for me, one of the computer teachers was kind enough to encourage me behind the scenes and give me more constructive things to do with my time (making websites for small businesses, writing programs for science class simulations, etc.). More kids like the author need that positive encouragement.
tylermac1··on Ask HN: In Apple OS X why won't the delete key delete files selected in Finder?
It's just CMD + Del.

Probably to avoid accidentally hitting the Delete key and deleting files when browsing. Apple generally avoids making destructive acts easy.

tylermac1··on Ask HN: Do you have some advice on pricing a product?
You can't make clickable links in post content.
tylermac1··on Ask HN: Which Android/iOS apps do you use every day?
iOS: Twitter, Facebook, GMail, HipChat, Casts, Flipboard, Authy
tylermac1··on “2015 will be the year that Perl 6 officially launches for production use”
2015. 5 - (1 * 0) - 2 = 3. Confirmed.
tylermac1··on Thank You HN, Voxel Quest Is Funded
Congrats! Keep up the great work.
tylermac1··on Ask HN: What (side) projects are you working on?
Exactly my reasoning. I love hockey so it's much more fun to me than building the canonical todo-app, etc.
tylermac1··on Ask HN: What (side) projects are you working on?
Building an advanced hockey statistics web tool in Meteor.

More of an excuse to learn Meteor than to really make something too useful.

tylermac1··on Show HN: Balls – Game I’ve made while I was learning Swift
This is totally unrelated but we have such similar handwriting that I could convince myself I wrote your sketches at the beginning.

Love the game! Great job.

tylermac1··on Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (November 2014)
Location: Minneapolis, MN

Remote: Yes

Willing to relocate: Not within next year.

Technologies: C++, Web (HTML/CSS/PHP/JS), C# (Unity3D and .Net), OpenMP/MPI (C++)

Cursory Knowledge: iOS (Swift)

LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/profile/view?id=91467456

Email: tylermac1 (at) gmail.com

About Me: I'm a junior developer looking for a little more cutting edge work in the software world. I currently write C++ for proprietary CAD software to power CNC mills. While at my current company I have written a few custom web apps to help save thousands of developer hours per year. I also have experience with distributed computing with MPI and parallel programming with OpenMP. I'd like to transition to more of a back-end developer role and am an incredibly motivated individual.

I have remote experience managing intern developers/artists with a company I helped start while in college.

tylermac1··on HBO is finally going to let you watch its shows without cable
I'd gladly pay a premium for the freedom to choose where/when I watch the movies/shows on each service. Owning a cable subscription now allows me a few free on-demand shows but they have selected availability windows (usually a week or two after air).
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