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   by csallen 7y ago

   The world is full of defense attorneys. They play a necessary role in our legal system, and I would generally hope that they defend their clients with zeal. This doesn't make them noble and good by any means. But to claim that a defens
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   by csallen 7y ago

   I'd err closer to $300/month. How do you find ideas in this category? Simple: Just look at what people are already paying lots of money for. Off the top of my head, consumers spend lots of money on education (courses, seminars, bo
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   by csallen 7y ago

   I've spent a ton of time as a developer trying to make money from various side projects and businesses. So most of my top "wish I'd discovered this earlier" list revolves around tech+business stuff: * Strategy #1: Charge
4. 784.▲
   by csallen 7y ago

   > Are you aware that Pinker has flown on the "Lolita Express" (1) This happened in 2002, (2) Pinker didn't know Epstein personally at the time and the ticket was booked by his literary agent, (3) the flight was to a scie
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   by csallen 7y ago

   https://gist.github.com/courthead/3d41cc03edda1e596051129b44...
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   by csallen 7y ago

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   by csallen 7y ago

   I wrote a solver that's just brute-forcing solutions. Specifically, it's doing a depth-first search through a tree where every node is a move with four child moves (left, up, right, and down). From what I can tell, the strategy is
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   by csallen 7y ago

   240: left 26, up 27, right 30, up 32, right 33, up 35, left 38, down 41, left 42, down 45, right 50, up 53, right 54, up 58, right 59, up 60, right 61, up 66, right 67, up 69, right 71, up 73, right 78, down 81, right 82, down 83, right 84,
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   by csallen 7y ago

   What does the ctl stand for in your name?
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    by csallen 7y ago

    I'm attempting to turn Indie Hackers[0] into a social network that motivates you and makes you more productive, or at least more effective. It's centered around developers helping each other monetize their side projects and start
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    by csallen 7y ago

    I recently experienced this with a specific work-related task, where I was shocked to find myself enjoying doing something that I usually hate. When I asked myself what the difference was, the only thing I could come up with was that during
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    by csallen 7y ago

    > you're just consuming the junk food version of that culture and are better served reading a wikipedia page or watching a video. That's extreme. There's plenty of value in traveling to even touristy places in other cult
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    by csallen 7y ago

    1. It was slower and I was frustrated, yes. I don't know about the newer Talon software, but with VoiceCode I spent a lot of overhead just configuring my setup and tweaking it, to say nothing of the slower coding speeds while using i
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    by csallen 7y ago

    Thanks for sharing, this is great.
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    by csallen 7y ago

    This story resonates. A few years back I was dealing with mild pain while coding. I stupidly ignored it for months as it got significantly worse, to the point where it became impossible to type for extended periods. I tried lots of things.
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    by csallen 7y ago

    Yep. This applies to so many things. Watching your diet? Lifting weights? Learning to code? People will emphasize so many tips, micro-optimizations, recommendations, etc. that can be intimidating and add a ton of work to your plate. But sim
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    by csallen 7y ago

    It seems to me that, using this line of reasoning, one could justify classifying any action as interstate commerce.
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    by csallen 7y ago

    Of course entrepreneurship requires risk-taking and sacrifices. I don't think anyone is surprised or upset by that. In fact, it'd be bizarre if there were any alternative to working full-time that we couldn't say the same abo
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    by csallen 7y ago

    Agreed, I've recently stopped using Caviar altogether after numerous wrong or undelivered orders in a row, all of which they failed to take any real responsibility for and blamed on the drivers. Adding insult to injury, Caviar seems to
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    by csallen 7y ago

    If only more people understood this. Not only does nobody own an idea, but we really don't want to live in a world where the opposite is true.
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    by csallen 7y ago

    > At this point in my tech career, I could start a company, but how am I going to support myself while that company is getting off the ground? You're a developer working at Bay Area tech companies? Move somewhere cheaper (or don&#
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    by csallen 7y ago

    Being a developer really helps. I've interviewed many dozens of self-funded founders who've explained that the reason they felt comfortable "taking the leap" of entrepreneurship was because they knew they could always fa
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    by csallen 7y ago

    > Why would anyone listen to advise from someone who cannot communicate ideas without using curse words? You do realize that choosing to be offended by the use of profanity is an entirely optional cultural quirk, right? Asking why anyo
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    by csallen 7y ago

    To my eye, "I would if I could" implies "I don't because I can't."
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    by csallen 7y ago

    > I guess it's expected in HN that someone would focus on the software engineer pay… This branch of the comments is literally about software engineer pay. See four levels up: "If Facebook could get away with paying engineers
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    by csallen 7y ago

    Sure, but this seems arbitrary. Why is $150K great but $30K isn't? At what level of income for software engineers would you consider employers to be "debasing" the values of social stability? What's so unstable about a w
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    by csallen 7y ago

    What's stopping you from giving high percentages of your income/wealth away to those less fortunate than you right now?
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    by csallen 7y ago

    I may or may not agree… I'm not sure exactly what situation you're referring to. In the original article linked above, the situation was that users expected their social information to remain private to the ~100 friends they share
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    by csallen 7y ago

    We will just have to agree to disagree here, I suppose. The way I see it, it's Facebook's platform, and it's up to them to build features as they see fit. The news feed works how the news feed works. There's nothing to &
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    by csallen 7y ago

    Totally, but a door is not a social network. A door is a fixed location. A social network is more like a magical bulletin board that tries to make itself as visible to as many people as possible. Perhaps you don't like that the bulle