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Gregory Schlomoff
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Gregory Schlomoff's personal blog at gregschlom.com covers programming and productivity. Since 2010, 3 different Hacker News readers have linked it 13 times, most often “How to hack yourself a standing desk - an illustrated guide”. No feed was found, so read it on the site itself.
Too few sampled comments (1) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
No comment discusses the writing. The only linked post is about a standing-desk setup for working while standing, which is the topic HN readers were pointed to.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 1 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
Most-linked posts?
- How to hack yourself a standing desk - an illustrated guide2 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2011-04-12
What Hacker News says?
Hi! Thanks for the kind words. Yes, this was a first BM project - a first hardware project, really. I had never played with microcontrollers or CNC machines before. The fact that everything worked on first try, on schedule, came as a major surprise to everybody, myself included. I think the key is to choose your complexity. Some things may look complex, but they are actually just the juxtaposition of some simple, re…
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on “Polymagnets”Submitted How to hack yourself a standing desk - an illustrated guide as a story · 173 points
HN discussionHehehe, in this case, allow me to plug my own $0 standing desk blog post here - there's also a fair bit of SV culture in it. And pentalobular screws. http://gregschlom.com/post/4555981908/standing-desk
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on “A standing desk for $22”Submitted If your phone gets stolen, chances are they can log into your Paypal account as a story · 4 points
HN discussionAnother thing to keep in mind is that most phones will display the content of SMS messages on the lock screen, even if the phone is locked. That means that if your phone is stolen, hackers can easily take control of accounts such as PayPal that use SMS verification as the only way of establishing one's identity. This exact scenario happened last week to a friend of mine, I wrote a little article about it: http://gre…
Comment linking /misc/2017/01/29/hacking-paypal-accounts.html
on “Hackers Have Stolen Millions of Dollars in Bitcoin Using Only Phone Numbers”Submitted You’re running out of time, 2% a year as a story · 4 points
HN discussionA beautiful article from Mike Bostock that illustrates this (and other) principles: https://bost.ocks.org/mike/algorithms/ And my attempt at using Poisson-disc sampling to generate stippling patterns in real time in a GPU shader: http://gregschlom.com/devlog/2015/01/31/stippling-effect-scr... I wish my blog post had more details on the technique, but basically I am pre-computing Poisson-disc distributions at several…
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on “Hyperuniformity Found In Birds, Math And Physics”Submitted Geographic Arbitrage: Hedging Your Risk As a Startup Founder by Going Abroad as a story · 4 points
HN discussionAnother problem is that the chair tend to roll away as you type :) But my current setup works very well (pictured here: http://gregschlom.com/about ) I guess it's just a matter of finding the right height for your elbow.
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on “How to hack yourself a standing desk - an illustrated guide”Submitted How to hack yourself a standing desk in 3 steps – an illustrated guide [2011] as a story · 2 points
HN discussionhttp://gregschlom.com/post/4555981908/standing-desk
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on “My "Working While Standing" Hack”My own hack: I've started bootstrapping in a totally unknown country. This way, even if the project fails, I won't feel like I've lost my time or my money, because of the great time I had discovering a new country. Besides, choosing a cheap country to live in means you have more runway to bootstrap. Here in Vietnam, I spend less than $700 / month, so I have almost no money concerns. I've written about it here: http:…
Comment linking /post/2300487726/geographic-arbitrage-hedging-your-risk-as-a-startup
on “How do you get over the fear of quitting your job to start a startup?”One way to solve the problem is to proceed in two steps. First you hire a bootstrapping team that will help you build the prototype. At this stage, you're looking for people that will accept low salaries, because that's all you can afford (interships, outsourcing, etc...). Then, with a prototype in hand, you hire a team of A-people that will take it to the next level. Also, moving to a foreign country can be a good…
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on “Ask HN: product first or team first?”