jaxomlotus

Joined 18 years ago

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I'm the cofounder of BurnerPage, Worth1000 and Aviary.
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Comment · 2 years ago
Nice. Will this work with React as well?
Comment · 2 years ago
There isn't even a point to it if it requires you to keep your hands on the wheel and not look at your phone. I would want to use it so I could conduct business while the car took care of driving. If it still requires me to pay strict attention to the road and keep both hands on the wheel, then it's just a novelty to show off to passengers for a quick giggle, but not actually solving a problem.
Comment · 2 years ago
"Ask HN: Is anybody getting value from AI Agents? How so?"

If my comment is not on topic to answer OP's thread title question, then I'm not sure what is. The three clicks it will get buried in a HN thread are not going to do anything for us. But I also see little value in stating "Yes, I've gotten 45% of a lift using an AI agent" and not providing context.

Comment · 2 years ago
Comment · 3 years ago
Some things are just funny for the sake of being funny.
Comment · 3 years ago
I predict future social media will be required to come with Recommendation Algorithm warnings in a similar way that cigarettes now need cancer warnings.
Comment · 3 years ago
This is wonderful!

I co-founded a suite of flash design apps called Aviary back in 2007, so know how hard it is to pull of what you've done here.

I'm really blown away by what you created here. Super intuitive, very powerful, and solves a real product need (I literally was talking with my designer earlier about how hard using After Effects was).

Great work!

Comment · 3 years ago
I worked with Beej and Robot Stampede back when he helped port Aviary's image editor tools from Flash to HTML5. Beej, if you're reading this, I hope you're doing great!
Comment · 3 years ago
We bank with SVB and our funds are now frozen. This is going to be an incredibly painful weekend of waiting for news. For anyone else impacted, wishing you the best - stay strong.
Comment · 3 years ago
Here's the flip side: I was hiring (at a stealth vc-funded startup).

I reached out to every designer and coder laid off from Twitter and Amazon (one of my investors sent me a spreadsheet that those laid off folks added their contact info to).

I didn't receive a single interested response to my reach outs. Now granted, I'm sure they were bombarded with lots of startup offers and being picky what company/stage they were responding to, or were still in grief mode and not ready to start looking, or maybe (probably!) my reach-out finesse was lacking.

But I'm just pointing out that their are definitely companies like mine who are hiring and it's not all doom and gloom for laid off folks.

I ended up hiring via ads on LinkedIn and job posts on eng message boards.

Being real for a minute: There is definitely a perspective among hiring companies that regular lay offs are sometimes packaged alongside bottom performers, but I think that is something they would just do diligence on during an interview process.

Comment · 3 years ago
seizure warning. jeez
Comment · 3 years ago
Completely relatable. I watched my dog eating a bone in the sunlit grass of my backyard happy and content, and realized how much smarter it is than me.

I was working my ass off pulling 18 hour days climbing the corporate ladder, trying to get wealthy and I was absolutely miserable. Happiness doesn't come from money, it comes from having everything you need in front of you. It took watching my dog gnaw a bone to make me realize that.

I punched out, went back to the startup world for way less pay working on problems I actually enjoy solving, at a pace that isn't detrimental to my health, and I have been much happier.

I also gave up a lot to do so - in time and money - but I have zero regrets. At least I learned a really valuable lesson about myself.

Comment · 3 years ago
This is super interesting, but honestly it was clear from the video immediately that it was sour grapes. Part of being a pro poker player is having an intuitive sense when someone is bluffing. The guy bluffed and was called on it. That he then came up with an elaborate accusation and even cornered her for the money is pretty crappy behavior. Even if she just got lucky with a jack high, it's not unheard of for people to shove in poker with absolutely nothing.

Now that this report came out, I'd say she has a clear avenue for a libel suit against him.

Comment · 3 years ago
If I were a betting man I would assume he started this exercise with the final assumed location in mind, and worked backwards from there to show how it could have been done.

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