liamuk

Another cofounder of Gather here -- I'm totally okay with you posting your app here (Calla right?) or the whole list. I think the hackernews comment readers would benefit from seeing the wider space of takes on this idea.

The other path here might be working somewhere with a culture of fixed goals rather than a time expectation.

For example, many remote companies that operate asynchronously won't expect you to be in the office 40hrs a week, but will expect a certain level of work to be done each week. If you can get that done in 24 rather than 40, then it works out fine for you.

I just asked my manager for a 24 hr work week (3 days on, 4 days off), and they said sure, and the company prorated my salary down.

The company I was working for came out of a university research lab, and so had a culture of PhD students working part time for it, so this was not outside the norm there.

The downside was not getting equity, nor benefits, but I was on my parent's insurance and wasn't too keen on their equity anyway, so this was fine for me.

Hi HN!

One of the creators here.

It's a cross between Zoom x Pokemon. You only get audio and video from people you're standing next to, and as you walk away from them, the video fades away and the audio drops off.

With current video chat apps, you lose many of the dynamics of real life meetups. In particular, you lose the ability to have multiple people in the same shared space having multiple conversations.

In real life events, you can talk to a few people at a time while still being able to quickly go from one conversation to the next. With video chat, you have to talk to everyone at the same time.

Online Town is meant to fix this.

The way it works is, when you're near someone you get their audio and video, when you walk away from them their video drops off, and their audio fades out.

So you can have multiple conversations within a single virtual space.

Join me in the public room! Would love to get your all thoughts on it :)

Fair-- I've resigned to viewing Plaid as our necessary evil banking infrastructure provider.

It's my understanding that, at the least, Plaid doesn't sell data to third parties you don't authorize. If I'm wrong about this I'd love to know.

Of the 4 ``famous CS schools'', MIT, CMU, and Berkeley all start with Python, and Stanford alone runs Java.

This is probably true. Still, a nice idea.

> I think that pretty much anything is fair game with this dude.

Nobody is fully good or evil. This guy is certainly in the wrong here, but that doesn't make everything he's ever done worthy of ridicule.

It might be more interesting if voting occurred at the level of space separated words rather than characters.

As it is right now, twitch is tripping over itself trying to even type "ls" given the delay. As anyone who's ever tried to use ssh over a poor connection can relate to, there's a whole lot of "llllss" type command lines getting run.