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by _benj 6y ago
As a native Spanish speaker, this doesn’t make sense to me. Even if the argument of lowering the entry bar to non-English speakers was valid (I don’t think it is) the individual would be severely limited when it comes to collaborating/
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by _benj 6y ago
there are a couple of utilities meant for that. You can send notes to other user there. There's an internal chat tool, VoIP, anonradio, read/write phlogs and react to others... You can look at sdf as either a unix with a bunch of
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by _benj 6y ago
I’ve been enjoying sdf.org a lot! Reminds me of a simpler time when we were “hacker” and the internet wasn’t constantly trying to sell you something
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by _benj 6y ago
I don't think that that's a fair statement. I remember when I was learning Linux and in KDE there was this huge "Developer Tools" section... IDEs, UI designers, documentations tools, etc. I opened each one of those tools
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by _benj 6y ago
You know, that kind of thinking is usually what deters me from building something, but I've come to realize that I (or HN crowd for that matter) is my customer. A quick glance at the Plex site vs his shows a different appeal. One is a
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by _benj 6y ago
I’d start with the why, why do you want to read the Bible. The Bible itself is an incredible piece of literature that spans through millennia and has had drastically changed humans history. The issue with that is that it has been used to ju
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by _benj 6y ago
Yes! How can we help? Having been helped in the past I’d be more than happy to pass it on! Super happy for you!
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by _benj 6y ago
In my opinion it has to do with the access of the various items you mentioned. Your toaster JUST toast bread and beagles... The power drill just makes holes or screws stuff... But the moment, say, that your toaster happens to have a "v
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by _benj 6y ago
:-D
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by _benj 6y ago
I don't think is about not caring about the money... it seems to me that the salary is just the manifestation of the value the company places in the individual, and thus a company that pays 1/3 of the industry average shows very l
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by _benj 6y ago
> what small daily targets can you set that are strictly about removing friction and reinforcing the behavior you want to see? For me this has proven to be absolutely true. Goals take a lot of will power which, for me, is exhausting and
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by _benj 6y ago
would you mind expanding on this?
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by _benj 6y ago
I guess this could limit you on using a DB... but if the data you have is relatively static, or your site doesn't need to modify that data static generators are an awesome simple way to make complex sites
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by _benj 6y ago
I would also add Don't use wordpress! As a developer you'll find yourself constantly hitting a wall trying to get wordpress to do what you want instead of wordpress working for you. You could learn Flask, which is very simple but
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by _benj 6y ago
I've learned that the hard way!
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by _benj 6y ago
> Your mad technical skills no longer matter to them. If anything, humility and an openness to learning will show you in the best light. I've been interviewing for the last couple of weeks and I agree with this. Being a "good&q
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by _benj 6y ago
I disagree with this statement, and I'd argue that most people haven't actually experience "deep work" (which btw, the book with that title change the way I see and experience work deeply) Deep work has nothing to do wit
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by _benj 6y ago
I took a look but it was very brief given that I broke my RTL-SDR :-D but I was using it to decode FM radio RDS (probably bit more that what I could chew!)
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by _benj 6y ago
I just got mine and apart from being fast and cool it doesn't feel exciting... ARM is actually quite far from the user and even from the developer as to be exciting (at least for me)
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by _benj 6y ago
I like this! have been thinking about FPGAs and how much fun I had learning them! AU and flip-flops might be a little lower than what you meant tho :-)
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by _benj 6y ago
hehe!! Exactly
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by _benj 6y ago
I remember how excited I was when I wrote a few lines of assembly that made an LED blink on a pic14f84, I was super excited the first time I installed Gentoo and worked through the LFS book. At the top might be the first time I used KDE and
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Ask HN: Successful one-person non-SaaS online businesses?
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by _benj 6y ago
I think the title might me slightly misleading, but I completely agree. I appreciate the distinction between "product engineer" and "software engineer". Personally I prefer a lot more the role of product engineer, all th
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by _benj 6y ago
> Hire someone if this will be their career-defining role — they are on the cusp of their career... They will do everything it takes to succeed. I have mixed feelings about this. One one hand finding people that haven't been spoiled
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by _benj 6y ago
But it was, I just accessed it https://web.archive.org/web/20201207190930/https://antipodes...
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by _benj 6y ago
just here for the drama...
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by _benj 6y ago
getting a dumb phone... And I guess the principle in this to make good habits easier and bad habits harder, thus by getting a dumb phone wasting 3 hours a day looking memes became harder and picking up my guitar or ham radio easier.
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by _benj 6y ago
Hmmm... I think I totally agree with you on the premise that it could be very easy to overestimate the motivation of other engineers. It might take more than a "group of hackers" but "a group of hackers that know each other&q
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by _benj 6y ago
I can't help but ask myself, why can't we just switch sides? Why can't a group of us "hackers" get together, create value, and thrive? Yeah, we need somebody to keep tabs on margins, and do marketing, and whatever e

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