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Toast_25 commented on My Second Year as a Solo Developer mtlynch.io/solo-developer... · Posted by u/mtlynch

tempsy · 6 years ago

Make $300K a year for 10 years while keeping expenses low and investing most of that in a bull market makes it pretty easy to do.

Toast_25 · 6 years ago

> Make $300K A year

You make it sound easy! How do I do that outside of not just SF, but the US?

Toast_25 commented on My Second Year as a Solo Developer mtlynch.io/solo-developer... · Posted by u/mtlynch

mediaman · 6 years ago

Agreed. If you have to be working on some exciting, disruptive project, doing solo development work that generates good income by working with run of the mill businesses with run of the mill problems is not going to be a good fit.

Personally, I find boring to be quite exciting - but perhaps not if the only thing you're looking at is the technical solution. Building a small business involves figuring out how to solve the mundane but important thing, but then you get to figure out how to sell it, how much to charge, how to do customer outreach, do support, turn the business into a repeatable process, etc. Building a business out of it is quite challenging and fun and the technical solution is frankly a small part of it.

Many solo-preneur types with technical backgrounds are way over-indexed on the technical aspect and want to treat it like their last technical job, but without a boss, which leads to a lot of disappointment and frustration.

Toast_25 · 6 years ago

That's me in my dad's company rn. I know the tech but not the business and it's something I'm trying to get out of, but don't really know how.

Toast_25 commented on Confessions of a lotus-eater tjcx.me/posts/confessions... · Posted by u/tomjcleveland

Toast_25 · 6 years ago

r/notlikeothergirls

And while I'm at it r/IUseReddit

Toast_25 commented on Preventing Tracking Prevention Tracking webkit.org/blog/9661/prev... · Posted by u/om2

choeger · 6 years ago

So what's next? Tracking the Prevention of Tracking Prevention?

Honestly, this shit gets confusing, can someone please ML us out of it? Or maybe we just design a sane and understandable First-Party only policy?

Toast_25 · 6 years ago

It's impossible to build a perfect system, even ML could have a bias towards a certain solution or the badguys could ML a way to track us again.

Toast_25 commented on Ask HN: What are the things that you have automated in your personal life? · Posted by u/spacesarebetter

Someone1234 · 7 years ago

For #1, do you have any way of detecting dupes? For example if you inserted the same SD Card twice would you get two copies of the photos?

Toast_25 · 7 years ago

If you really wanted to avoid dupes you could just hash the pics, save a list of hashes in a txt and then lookup against new ones, but it's less efficient than what OP proposes.

Toast_25 commented on Ask HN: What’s your “Everyone has a price” experience? · Posted by u/stealthmodeclan

Bahamut · 7 years ago

I remember a 2 1/2 years into my career as a software engineer, I was on an initial phone interview with a VC firm. The position was a lead frontend developer role, total comp was $350k-400k roughly - I had an unusual level of expertise in the primary tech wanted.

During the phone interview, I asked some questions about work involved, work-life balance, PTO/holidays - the work sounded a lot and the engineer claimed good work-life balance. It didn’t add up. The kicker though was only 6 days of PTO.

Needless to say, I passed on the role.

Toast_25 · 7 years ago

The pay seems worth it to me, but I only get 10 days of PTO as it is, so there's that.

Toast_25 commented on A Life-Saving Checklist (2007) newyorker.com/magazine/20... · Posted by u/deegles

beaconstudios · 7 years ago

Does anyone know of a good cross-platform checklist app? There's a million and one todo list apps but I can't seem to find a good checklist one. I use my phone's memo app for checklists but it doesn't help me with staying consistent over time, and doesn't scale as I use the same app for note taking, ideas, a scratch space and so on.

Oh, and if you're thinking "I don't need no stinkin' checklists, what would you even use them for?" here's what I have currently:

- Code review key checks

- Code review smells and anti-patterns

- Out-the-door checks (got my keys, entry pass, grabbed lunch from fridge etc)

- Gym gear list

- Traits to work on a la Benjamin Franklin

- Self-care list for when I'm stressed/anxious (relief suggestions e.g. drink a glass of water, go for a walk, mindfulness, organise workload on paper, etc)

- Carry lists for a couple hobbies

I would likely have more but the poor form factor limits how practical it is to keep many lists.

Toast_25 · 7 years ago

I like using google keep. It's more for notes, but has a checklist mode, an android app and a browser mode.

Toast_25 commented on Anthony Bourdain has died bbc.com/news/world-us-can... · Posted by u/chewymouse

georgewsinger · 7 years ago

> Suicide is a growing problem in the United States. The US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention published a survey Thursday showing suicide rates increased by 25% across the United States over nearly two decades ending in 2016.

> I remember a while back that the general public's tone on suicide was a lot less sober. More of a "man up" sort of attitude.

Not trolling: wouldn't this provide (weak, but nevertheless some) evidence that a "man up" sort of attitude was more effective at combating suicide than our attitude towards it now?

Toast_25 · 7 years ago

It may be that the effects we're having now were caused by that "man up" attitude that was going on back then.

Toast_25 commented on Why I'm leaving Linux jeancarlomachado.net/blog... · Posted by u/JeanCarloM

MrLeftHand · 7 years ago

I can understand his reasoning in some way.

I liked to play around with compiling kernel and install stuff from source to get a very personalised experience.

Now I just want to be an end user and have an OS which I install and majority of things work right out of the box, or at least they are easy to configure. So I can concentrate on other things.

A lot of times there is something that is missing from the UI and you have to dive deep just to have it fixed. Editing config files etc... Even just simple things as a touchpad sensitivity.

Not to mention some special stuff like handling a discrete GPU in a gaming laptop.

I want a distro that works well and has most of the configuration accessible in the UI so I don't have to hunt the internet for information about how to fix something on a particular distro with a particular version.

Ubuntu comes close to this dream, but not close enough.

Toast_25 · 7 years ago

IMHO debian comes closer. I like to install the server version and then install gnome-core on top of that, sort out the dependencies of what I need and I'm golden.

apt is way better than apt-get anyways.

Toast_25 commented on The Mysterious Heir of Extreme Travel rollingstone.com/culture/... · Posted by u/akakievich

siberianbear · 7 years ago

A couple of years there was a discussion about the death of Pieter Hintjens [1][2], a semi-famous computer scientist who had just passed away. I had heard of him before his death, but didn't know very much about him. I decided to take a look at his web site, and noticed that he had written a book about psychopaths called "The Psychopath Code" [3]. (The PDF download is free.)

At that exact moment, I had my life wrapped up with a psychopath whose behavior, strange stories and webs of lies were difficult to understand. I read Pieter's book and instantly everything made sense.

Some of the things you mentioned were covered in Pieter's book and I also noticed with the psychopath in my own life:

(A) overly dramatic behavior that is just a hair off

(B) lots of manufactured drama

(C) very charismatic

(D) you can't figure it out by yourself: you can only figure it out when all the various corroborators get together. This is because every target is delivered a separate set of lies.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12634590

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pieter_Hintjens

[3] http://hintjens.com/blog:_psychopaths

Toast_25 · 7 years ago

This type of person was my first girlfriend, it was a very tough experience, but I learned a lot from it.