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whichdanon Four-day week means 'I don't waste holidays on chores'

I've never thought of contextualizing 4-day work weeks that way; that's a great point.

whichdanon Why can’t you buy a good webcam?

I never thought I'd want a 16:10 monitor until I had to deal with all of my apps getting resized every time I unplug my MBP

whichdanon What changes when you work outside an office?

"softness" is a word I've been using a lot, too. I absolutely miss the little bit of light-hearted conversation that happened when walking between meetings.

whichdanon How I Spend My Attention

It's a newsletter/blog platform that has an easily-dismissable splash screen prompting you to subscribe before you see any posts.

whichdanon Examples of 'Anti-Homeless' Hostile Architecture

Huh, never realized how insidious awning gaps could be.

whichdanon $100k ARR Milestone

I'd be interested to hear what the growth curve looked like.

whichdanon Why do so few people major in computer science? (2017)

Please don't assume everyone on HN is male.

whichdanon Ask HN: Elm, would you use it in production?

Having written production Elm code, and as someone who likes the language, I would not consider Elm to be production-ready.

- Componentized design is eschewed by the community, so it's very hard to break down apps into small easily-combined pieces.

- The learning curve for new engineers is relatively high, and drops off pretty significantly after a month or so. It might be easier if your team is already familiar with strongly typed languages, but there's quite a bit to learn to get up to speed.

- The lack of a roadmap is the only true non-starter. Our team ran into a compiler bug, and the options were either to patch it ourselves (which is unlikely since no one on our team knows Haskell or has that much free time), or to wait an indeterminate amount of time and pray it gets patched. If you look at the release history, you'll see that updates to the language are infrequent.

I would still highly recommend Elm for a side project, just not for something that a business or team relies on.

whichdanon Speech to Text on iPhone vs. Pixel

My iPhone transcribes voicemails so slowly that most times it's faster and easier to just listen to it.

whichdanon A list of companies using Elm in production

My team has had a similar experience - the gap between 0.19 and 0.19.1 was really frustrating.

I'm curious what your problem is with ports? In my experience it's a nice API for interacting with the outside world. Or are you referring to DOM features that haven't been mirrored in Elm yet?

whichdanon XSM: State management for Angular, React, and Vue

https://github.com/peterluhub/xsm/blob/master/xsm.js

The package only exposes 9 functions, and the naming is mostly consistent. There's no benefit to publicly nitpicking function names in something with such a small API.

whichdanon Why aren’t more companies remote-first?

There are tons of bootcamps that would happily connect you with junior engineers willing to work remotely.

whichdanon Why I use old hardware

For real. Compilers are lightning-fast compared to running even a subset of most test suites.

whichdanon MakeCode Arcade: Retro Gaming, Modern Programming

PICO-8 does this too!

whichdanon Facebook manager quit after being 'harassed' over views on diversity

Stop assuming that people from underrepresented groups are inherently unqualified.

whichdanon Apple Entrepreneur Camp

Where do you see a threat? I see it as being explicitly inclusive of trans women.

whichdanon Show HN: Unit Circle Visualization in Elm

Neat!

Since the "Star" button isn't clickable, here's a link for anyone else interested in the source: https://github.com/aesakamar/unit-circle/

whichdanon Meow Wolf’s Magic Kingdom

"It is, without a doubt, the most fun I've had at an art venue." Same! I so so wish I could have experienced it as a kid.

whichdanon Dark Motives and Elective Use of Brainteaser Interview Questions

If 12.5% of people in an office were jerks, I'd consider that a very toxic culture.

whichdanon What Airbnb really does to a neighbourhood

Yes, assuming AirBnb isn't more profitable than decreasing prices.

whichdanon What Airbnb really does to a neighbourhood

What if the vacancy rates are due to untenable rent prices? I could see vacancy being artificially created this way.

whichdanon Introducing Ghost 2.0

Ghost is fantastic if you just need some simple features and a good Markdown editor.

whichdanon Nvidia announces RTX 2000 GPU series with ‘6x more performance’ and ray-tracing

Ack, I can't edit my post again. Good catch. I'll message a mod and see if they can update it.

whichdanon Nvidia announces RTX 2000 GPU series with ‘6x more performance’ and ray-tracing

Fixed, thanks!

whichdanon Nvidia announces RTX 2000 GPU series with ‘6x more performance’ and ray-tracing

Thank you! Updated.

whichdanon Nvidia announces RTX 2000 GPU series with ‘6x more performance’ and ray-tracing

  			2080 Ti FE	RTX 2080 Ti	GTX 1080 Ti
  Price			$1,199		$999		$699
  GPU Architecture	Turing		Turing		Pascal
  Boost Clock		1635 MHz	1545 MHz	1582 MHz
  Frame Buffer		11 GB GDDR6	11 GB GDDR6	11 GB GDDR5X
  Memory Speed		14 Gbps		14 Gbps		11 Gbps
  Memory Interface	352-bit		352-bit		352-bit
  CUDA Cores		4352		4352		3584
  TDP			260W		250W		250W
  Giga Rays		10		10		?


  			2080 FE		RTX 2080	GTX 1080
  Price			$799		$699		$549
  GPU Architecture	Turing		Turing		Pascal
  Boost Clock		1800 MHz	1710 MHz	1733 MHz
  Frame Buffer		8 GB GDDR6	8 GB GDDR6	8 GB GDDR5X
  Memory Speed		14 Gbps		14 Gbps		10 Gbps
  Memory Interface	256-bit		256-bit		256-bit
  CUDA Cores		2944		2944		2560
  TDP			225W		215W		180W
  Giga Rays		8		8		?


			2070 FE		RTX 2070	GTX 1070 Ti	GTX 1070
  Price			$599		$499		$449		$399
  GPU Architecture	Turing		Turing		Pascal		Pascal
  Boost Clock		1710 MHz	1620 MHz	1607 MHz	1683 MHz
  Frame Buffer		8 GB GDDR6	8 GB GDDR6	8 GB GDDR5	8 GB GDDR5
  Memory Speed		14 Gbps		14 Gbps		8 Gbps		8 Gbps
  Memory Interface	256-bit		256-bit		256-bit		256-bit
  CUDA Cores		2304		2304		2432		1920
  TDP			175W		185W		180W		150W
  Giga Rays		6		6		?		?

whichdanon Amazon Is Ready to Take on Apple and Spotify in Streaming Music

"Taking on Apple and Spotify" is an overstatement; they're specifically targeting speakers, where the lock-in is a lot weaker.

At least they've found another area to expand into that won't be hamstrung by their delightfully mediocre UI.

whichdanon Amazon Dark Patterns

Speaking of bad reviews, trying to buy any kind of computer hardware off of Amazon is infuriating - all of the reviews for every version of an item are mixed together, so you'll have several motherboards treated as if they're the same, and monitors with different resolutions all lumped together.

whichdanon Blackmagic eGPU – Thunderbolt 3 external graphics processor

From the FAQ:

> Can I upgrade the GPU chip in the Blackmagic eGPU?

> No, the design has been optimized for quiet operation so it’s better suited for creative customers. This means the design is not a simple chassis with a PCIe card plugged in, but an integrated electronics, mechanical and cooling design that cannot have the GPU chip upgraded or changed.

$699 and no ability to upgrade makes it pretty clear that they're targeting business customers.

whichdanon What cracking open a Sonos One tells us about the Sonos IPO

Your approach definitely isn't a bad one; a few weeks ago I had trouble connecting to Sonos's network, so I couldn't stream anything from Spotify/Amazon/etc, even though they worked on my network for me. It's worrying how easily these (expensive) speakers could become bricked.

I still love them, mind you, I would just be hesitant to invest in them further.