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by brudgers 2mo ago
This video of her changed my life: https://youtu.be/21NrNdse7nI I realized that art was a way to let my crazy run downhill. It was just a random Youtube recommendation. I’ve been subscribed to the Louisiana Channel ever sin
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by brudgers 2mo ago
Probably not (in the way I imagine you mean). High prices are a moat. That moat can be defended as part of “market-inevitability.” The important customers are institutions with lots of money and institutional scale ambitions…nation states,
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by brudgers 2mo ago
Google broke YouTube for Windows Phone. Not just the app, but also the browser. Also, in my experience the Windows Phone hardware was dodgy. The first one I bought was a Dell and failed under warranty…and the replacement failed out of warra
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by brudgers 2mo ago
People used Wordpad and thus other people had trouble opening RTF files.
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by brudgers 2mo ago
I don’t doubt it. I switched to servicing musical instruments. It’s a much bigger market, much less collector focused, and often $1000 is not a lot for a musical instrument but a lot for a camera.
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by brudgers 2mo ago
I agree. For me, the details of the Fix Old Cameras videos were less important than the approach and attitude applied to the problems. But like I mentioned, I am not down the camera repair rabbit hole anymore. In part because of the intract
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by brudgers 2mo ago
For me, avoiding the upgrade treadmill is a reliable way of maintaining stable interfaces (and workflows). Of course that lunch isn’t free. Good luck.
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by brudgers 2mo ago
Serious questions: Why do you try to track it? Do you want to track it? I don't know anything more about your condition than a few sentences from Google. So I don't know if tracking would or would not provide useful information fo
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by brudgers 2mo ago
When I was fixing old cameras, the "Fix Old Cameras" Youtube Channel was a solid resource: https://www.youtube.com/@FixOldCameras
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by brudgers 2mo ago
I've looked at advice online from successful hard-tech entrepreneurs, but the answers are conflicting. Some say to work backwards from a problem, but others argue that problem-first approaches often don't work since deep tech is
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by brudgers 2mo ago
My advice is to hire lawyers familiar with handling similar transactions and to follow their advice. Because what you imagine is not based on substantial experience and the matter is complex in ways you can't imagine. Good luck.
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by brudgers 2mo ago
I have come to believe that any belief that "one is keeping up" regarding the activities of other people is delusional. I have also come to believe that knowing is the weakest form of doing. So I don't try to keep up. But of
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by brudgers 2mo ago
If it gets you paid, it's good data. If it makes your clients happy, it's good data. Business data is for business purposes, not for science purposes.
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by brudgers 2mo ago
It depends on the expected application context. It is easy to do "dangerous things" in C because the expected contexts benefit from easy access to low level operations without the cognitive and computational overhead that high fa
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by brudgers 2mo ago
some recent comments, https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49253831
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by brudgers 2mo ago
When I decided to back up my old gear, I dropped some dough on MidiQuest because commercial software with a long track record and active support is something for which I will exchange a moderate amount of money. https://squest.co
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by brudgers 2mo ago
https://archive.ph/yDoLc
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by brudgers 2mo ago
As a ShowHN, https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49185767
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by brudgers 2mo ago
One possible value in learning new things is developing a habit of learning. In particular it might be valuable to be in the habit of learning things that one is bad at doing. Or not.
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by brudgers 2mo ago
If the information is useful, leave it up because it is useful and the web needs useful information. If it is useful and you sell it, it will become less useful. If it is useful and the cost of keeping it online is onerous, perhaps ask for
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by brudgers 2mo ago
It’s been tidal for awhile. I miss the full page visually. Intellectually, I don’t miss what typically sits in slots 11-30. Like the removed |More| link, I only looked that far down the page from extreme boredom.
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by brudgers 2mo ago
earlier, https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49175067
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by brudgers 2mo ago
related, https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49070766
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by brudgers 2mo ago
Some past comments, https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43053419
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by brudgers 2mo ago
“A fractional team” sounds like newspeak for “consultants.” Thus my advice would be to look at established consultancies. Expect to be nickel and dimed because that is how consultancies stay in business and you want your consultants to stay
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by brudgers 2mo ago
It is not open yet, and before we go further we want to know what would actually make someone list on it. Building based on what people say they might means is bout the same s building blind. And shipping is often the best feature you can
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by brudgers 2mo ago
One important part of getting paying customers is asking for money. The most important part, however, is not making excuses for not doing so. Good luck.
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by brudgers 2mo ago
What are the economics of it for each stakeholder in the existing infrastructure? How would changes to it comply with regulatory requirements? Is it as reliable as the existing system? Those answers are perhaps where the reasons lie.
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by brudgers 2mo ago
Notably of the law and not the article.
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by brudgers 2mo ago
https://archive.ph/bjteC

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