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This is awesome. Personally, I occasionally daydream of "escaping it all" and coding by the ocean. This piece reminded me of someone else who "escaped it all":
by Arjuna 13y ago
This is awesome. Personally, I occasionally daydream of "escaping it all" and coding by the ocean.
This piece reminded me of someone else who "escaped it all": Paul Lutus [1].
In the spring of 1976, he built a 12 x 16 foot (3.65 x 4.87 meter) cabin in Oregon and developed Apple Writer [2] on his Apple II. He documented his story in a piece entitled, Cottage Computer Programming [3].
[1] http://www.arachnoid.com/administration/index.html http://www.arachnoid.com/administration/index.html
[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apple_Writer https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apple_Writer
[3] http://www.atariarchives.org/deli/cottage_computer_programming.php http://www.atariarchives.org/deli/cottage_computer_programmi...
- mehmehshoe 13y agoGlad you brought him up. I learned about him reading his book about solo sailing around the world in a 31 foot boat. Good read even if you aren't interested in sailing. Free ebook here: http://www.arachnoid.com/sailbook/ http://www.arachnoid.com/sailbook/
- xradionut 13y agoHe's also a ham, I'm looking forward to using JRX once my buddy sends me back my Icom PCR.
- Luc 13y agoHe used to post here on HN: https://news.ycombinator.com/threads?id=lutusp https://news.ycombinator.com/threads?id=lutusp It's been a while, but perhaps he's on his boat.
- pasbesoin 13y agoI've found Lutus to be a valuable participant/contributor to HN. And, both inside and outside of HN, a kind if forthright person advocating for understanding of and quality in the topic at hand. His work is well worth exploring. I'm left wondering why I wrote this... "meta" comment. I guess because some of this insight and excellence seems to benefit from if not require a certain independence of spirit and perhaps a corresponding sense of perspective.
- sailfast 13y agoThank you for this link. As a sailor and coder this seems to be a great fit for me, and I'll be reading it right away. Much obliged.
- thentic 13y agoBoats provide some of the cheapest rent and best views in the Bay Area. Paid less than one year's worth of rent to buy a 42' motor boat and parked it over by Oakland where my monthly liveaboard slip fee is just over $500/month. If you need to be in or around SF and are trying to save on rent, I can't encourage people enough to try it out.
- thomasbacklund 13y agoGood tip, you never know when it's time for SF.
- 205guy 13y agoWhen marinas become full of thrify tech workers, slip fees increase, people bid up any available slip (used boat), and real boaters are forced out, then you will have encouraged people enough.
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- Tyrant505 13y agoI always dreamed of living on a sailboat, docked wherever I choose.. Mobile apt! Why not!? People think I'm crazy when I talk about it.