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Something that stuck with me from Poor Charlie’s Almanack is that low expectations are a cornerstone of a happy life. I built this for myself first, so when people actually signed up and paid, it was incredibly motivating. I was thrilled to spend my free time treating those early customers like royalty and building more of what they wanted.
If I had instead come into this with the expectation of quick success, I doubt I would have made it through those early years.
And cheers from one bootstrapper to another. It's not easy, but I can't imagine a more rewarding way to build.
[1] https://90s.dev/
I think media queries/responsive is what did in the last bastion of CSS resistors.
Synchronously verifying it, would probably be too slow.
You can verify googlebot authenticity by doing a reverse dns lookup, then checking that reverse dns name resolves correctly to the expected IP address[0].
[0]: https://developers.google.com/search/docs/crawling-indexing/...
This sentence.
I’ve read and heard it so many times now, that according to Bayesian statistics, I should correct my assumptions and assume that, in the end, we will find out that there is not a single thing that’s unique to humans.
As a species we definitely have some narcissistic tendencies.
> How smart do you have to be to get a degree?
Not especially, what you have to be is hardworking and committed. You don't even need to show significant improvement; just an understanding of the subject material.
Of course this gets less true as you go up the degrees. (Batchelors requiring a broad rote understanding, Masters requiring a more detailed understanding and PhD requiring some sort of novelty that pushes the field forward).
However there's a saying: "Hard work beats talent when talent doesn't work hard".
I have lived this.
My sister is not smart. That may seem unkind but she would be one of the first to admit this. Things do not come to her easily, she has a hard time recognising patterns and lacks a certain level of "common sense". She is extremely motivated though. Thorough and hardworking.
I have had the fortune of being quite gifted, I test well and have a great propensity to solve novel puzzles. I, however, procrastinate and am easily distractible.
She has a degree, I do not.
Intelligence had nothing to do with it. Being hardworking did.
I’ve never tried this (finished with a 3.9) but observed my friends.
Some would do the above and miraculously pass courses they, according to exam scores, were certain to fail.
However, my friends who had poor exam score and spotty attendance never made it through. In fact, sometimes they were so convinced they’d fail that the dropped the course or no-showed the exam — so they did in fact fail.
Hard work, maybe — simply trying is easy. But more than that, persistence.
If your parents have never set foot in an university and worked manual labor all their live, you are less likely to even consider higher education. While doctors may want their children to pursue a good career, even if those children hold no interest in that education.
At the time, that school was also the cheapest (and consistently ranked at best value) so I think it just kind of self selected.
The competing private tech university however … I’m guessing those kids had parents with degrees.