Great to see such initiative by Basecamp. This is good for devs around the world. GitLab sits on the other extreme with their "open salaries": https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10924957
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12s12m commented on Ask HN: What useful Linux (Ubuntu) software should more people be aware of? · Posted by u/deepsy
For a person who is initially starting with Linux. I'd suggest you to get familiar with the terminal. I'd also ask what your primary use case is. If you are a software developer vs code is a great editor to download.
12s12m commented on Ask HN: What 5 software tools do you use most for work? · Posted by u/cagrimmett
1. Gnome Terminal
2. Neovim
3. Google Chrome
4. Pymodoro (https://github.com/dattanchu/pymodoro)
5. Git12s12m commented on What Are the Advantages of a Cloud Server Over a Dedicated Server? · Posted by u/hemen
A few I can think of:
1. Want to resize your server? you can do it. 2. Want to create a new server and move some kind of elastic IP to point to this new server? you can do it with most cloud providers 3. Want to backup the whole disk, very easy to do it. 4. Want to spin up a 1000 instances for an hour? cloud servers can do it. 5. Want hourly pricing? cloud servers can do this.
12s12m commented on Ask HN: What API do you wish you had while building your product? · Posted by u/afinemonkey
Let me programmatically schedule a task to run at a specific time, just once. E.g. if my user tells me to remind them about something in a day, I want to schedule a task to do that exactly 24 hours from now.
I'm sure this exists already but it's hard to find because searching usually points me to a cronjob service. But what I'm looking for is distinct from a that. I don't want to run something every minute or hour or checking if there's any work to do. I just want a given task to run as a pre-determined time, scaled to any arbitrary number of tasks.
What exactly do you mean by a "task". Just remind you by sending you an email? or actually running a command on your computer?
12s12m commented on Ask HN: How can I get over my lethargy, lack of focus, and other problems? · Posted by u/mmsaint
One things that has helped me in the past is going anonymous and creating a project and just shipping features without thinking a lot about architecture and code quality. Making sure that I made progress every day.
12s12m commented on Ask HN: What percentage of HN users are entrepreneurs? · Posted by u/dangisafascist
I would say most of us are entreprenuerially-minded, because it rubs off eventually.
I have given up my free time which I used to spend enjoying movies, television etc,. I don't get that much time to do that. Most of my time is consumed in the startup that I am building, my kids and a bit of contracting work. But, I am happy :)
Funny, I'm hoping to be able to retire earlier by not having kids. The money savings is huge!
Everyone has different definitions about "success" and "being happy". I can tell you as a father of 2 kids, that having kids has been one of the greatest things that has happened to me. I am really happy when they are around me. I am 32 which is relatively young but even I can't match their energy levels, this is only going to get worse. So, I am happy that I've had kids earlier than most fathers.
My definition of being successful is being happy and content. I make decent money and have a happy life, that is successful enough for me. What are you going to do after you retire with all that money? You should do that thing now!