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vSanjo commented on Reddit Doubles Down platformer.news/p/reddit-... · Posted by u/stanislavb

hsjqllzlfkf · 2 years ago

> Reddit is extremely reliant on a small percentage of users who moderate and post content. Those are the ones being impacted and complaining the loudest.

Sooooo why would I care that a small number of Reddit users are complaining?

vSanjo · 2 years ago

You missed the point here entirely.

The work those few do help people like you in ways you might not completely fathom. Reddit doesn't auto-regulate itself as much as we think. It's hard work but a small percentage of people who are paid nothing, and use 3rd-party tools to work best.

vSanjo commented on AMA: I make $100K+ ARR from my microstartups · Posted by u/1hakr

vSanjo · 4 years ago

How do you deal with things like negative thoughts? I find I am an 'ideas' guy, but will instantly shoot myself in the foot by researching similar services that do better than a one-man-team could do. I also have severe trouble dedicating myself to a complete-project - even if I push past the first issue mentioned above - and will really battle my inner demons who think supplying an MVP is 'good enough'.

I suppose my question is how you fight your mental battles.

vSanjo · 4 years ago

Further to that, do you have a write-up on your transition from (I assume) full-time work to this system? Did you survive on savings? What's your lifestyle like now compared to then?

vSanjo commented on AMA: I make $100K+ ARR from my microstartups · Posted by u/1hakr

vSanjo · 4 years ago

How do you deal with things like negative thoughts? I find I am an 'ideas' guy, but will instantly shoot myself in the foot by researching similar services that do better than a one-man-team could do. I also have severe trouble dedicating myself to a complete-project - even if I push past the first issue mentioned above - and will really battle my inner demons who think supplying an MVP is 'good enough'.

I suppose my question is how you fight your mental battles.

vSanjo commented on Steam required additional 57.51 GB download for a review mcraiha.github.io/steam/r... · Posted by u/mcraiha

vSanjo · 4 years ago

Is this more a problem with the publisher and not Steam? I don't imagine Steam dictates what is and isn't a 'linked' game. I would think the publisher has the final say on what gets a new store-page. I'm curious what page the author reached to purchase the game itself.

vSanjo commented on Steam required additional 57.51 GB download for a review mcraiha.github.io/steam/r... · Posted by u/mcraiha

devwastaken · 4 years ago

Recently an expansion for Elite Dangerous came out, names "Odyssey". It's been a very buggy and unfinished experience, and there's very little actual content added in it for the $60 price tag.

Steam has a policy of 2 hours of playtime = no return. By playing the tutorial I already had an hour down. Then another hour trying to fix performance issues (to no avail). I tried to issue a return and nope. So now I have a product that falsely advertised itself and I can't return.

Gamers need the FTC to rise up.

Steam response: "We are unable to refund this purchase to your X ending with X at this time. Your playtime of an included product exceeds 2 hours (our refund policy maximum)."

vSanjo · 4 years ago

I think you might want to do a bit more research on Steam's return policy. It's incredibly liberal.

I've played games for 10 hours and returned them with no problem. I don't think you're _wrong_ but I don't think you're right either. I worded my responses well, I told them what was good and bad, and my very reason why.

I've enjoyed their support system for returns and have very little to complain about with it.

vSanjo commented on Useful and useless code comments blog.jim-nielsen.com/2021... · Posted by u/jerodsanto

tylorr · 4 years ago

This sounds like a great idea for an editor plugin.

vSanjo · 4 years ago

1. Iterate through all blocks of comments. 2. Determine if there have been updates within the block of comments first (one line of three updating, for example). 2. For each block of comments, find the proceeding block of code. 3. Compare the last update of comments to the last updates of the code. 4. Warn the user when it's over a threshold.

Something like that?

vSanjo commented on Ask HN: I built it, nobody came, now what? · Posted by u/d--b

encoderer · 4 years ago

If your goal is to build a free tool that will be used and beloved by millions, you probably need to continue building on a deeply technical foundation and blog about it the whole way. It's ancient history now but a master class of this is when Damien Katz built and live-blogged Couchbase, like 2004.

If your goal is to build an indie software business with hundreds or thousands of customers where you're making like 10-100k a month, i can give you more specific advice.

Based on your website, it's not clear what you're after.

vSanjo · 4 years ago

Seconding that request for more information - or direction - on the self-sustained indie-hacker advice.

vSanjo commented on Malware on My Android Phone beust.com/weblog/malware-... · Posted by u/rossjudson

HenryBemis · 5 years ago

I've switched to Android (Huawei) 2-3 years ago (after the Apple battery fiasco). I keep installed (and updated) the NoRoot Firewall app, which by default blocks all access.

I also added to my mix the Nova Launcher. It makes it easier to tap&hold an app icon, gives you a quick shortcut straight to the specific app's Settings --> Apps --> specific app's properties, in which I (usually) block access to data/wifi/roaming/background (e.g. for a QR Code reader app).

90% of my apps do not need to reach out to the interweb, and I block them both on Settings as well as Block Data/Wifi on NoRoot Firewall.

Although Huawei is beeing Huawei-ing (some sneaky apps are running).. I do like the interface into "Manually" managing backround running (battery), internet access.

vSanjo · 5 years ago

I'm not trying to be facetious or rude, but that seems like a massive decision against something that was largely fixed? I can understand if you had software-problems with iOS but I didn't see that in your comment.

Managing those kinds of blocker apps, and security and such are all great when you're 'in the zone' and have it fresh at the forefront of your thoughts. For me, it only takes a week or so of not thinking about it before my standards slip and I have Just Another Application™ running.

vSanjo commented on Show HN: Over 2M cooking recipes ready for text generation github.com/Glorf/recipenl... · Posted by u/mbien

mbien · 5 years ago

Perfectly understood! We just cannot afford to run it on GPU in the backend so the generation takes up to 3 minutes which is terrible thing to do interactively :( You're invited to check it with 10minutemail or so, or you can try our model on your own if you have some python experience: https://huggingface.co/mbien/recipenlg

vSanjo · 5 years ago

If you don't mind me asking, how much does it cost per recipe(s) on CPU vs GPU?

I also wouldn't mind waiting 3 minutes if there was a direction telling me so, with a timer.

vSanjo commented on Ask HN: How to Block Apple's Spyware on BigSur? · Posted by u/exabrial

m-p-3 · 5 years ago

Hopefully we'll see a maintained list to block those with the PiHole.

vSanjo · 5 years ago

I'd love to explore this, but I feel I lack the knowledge of finding new, improved or up-to-date PiHole lists.. do you have any advice?