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by jasonkester 7mo ago
The reasoning makes more sense when you factor in that your startup’s VC is also Slack’s VC. You’re actually giving that same venture capitalist $4m of their own money back, in a way that makes their investment more valuable.
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Show HN: Come play the Retro Survival Crafting RPG that I'm building(stravaeger.com)
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by jasonkester 7mo ago
Two now. That’s still manageable.
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by jasonkester 7mo ago
I probably will first make enough money before having kids at least. I think you’ve hit the key difference. I waited until I was 40 before having kids, and it just feels like I’m doing it on easy mode. We had time and money sorted out, an
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by jasonkester 7mo ago
Before having kids, I expected it to be this huge life changing thing. That it would effectively end the part of my life where I was free to do whatever I wanted, and start the part where I was just Daddy, doing nothing except serving my ch
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by jasonkester 8mo ago
Exercising in the sun for 3 or 4 hours a day doesn’t sound healthy? Compared to the guy who planned to spend that time in the pub? If that means that bedtime falls within 3 hours of the sunset then so be it. I’ve survived this long at least
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by jasonkester 8mo ago
What kind of money are you referring to? When I placed that call, I was a junior engineer two years out of school earning $37,000 a year.
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by jasonkester 8mo ago
Do people generally go on hikes after work? Yes. Of course. That’s the whole point of shifting the daylight hours. You get off work and head to the crag to climb a few routes before it gets dark. It’s like a little mini weekend every even
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by jasonkester 8mo ago
Interestingly, your example is an actual thing we used to have. In 1996, I picked up the phone on my desk, dialed a 3 digit code, said “I need to fly to Los Angeles on Tuesday morning, returning Wednesday evening”. A couple hours later, an
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by jasonkester 8mo ago
The idea is to give people enough of a safety net that they don't starve to death. But really, it's kinda crap to live in a shared apartment with a bunch of broke college students, living off giant bags of potatoes. Most of us h
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by jasonkester 8mo ago
I'm pretty sure I'm on record here on HN complaining about receiving covid relief checks that I don't need, and that I would much rather that money went to people who were actually struggling. Personally, I want people on the
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by jasonkester 9mo ago
That's the thing that drives me nuts about buying stuff manufactured in China. They'll make this amazing Remote Control Car, with good suspension, a battery that lasts half an hour, plenty of power, and just all around amazing. B
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by jasonkester 9mo ago
I live near Paris, and it's a shame to see this sort of thing on every surface here. It's so easy and effortless to trash the look of a place, and so much effort and pain to get it back to a presentable state. It just seems hope
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by jasonkester 9mo ago
Yeah, it'd have to be something like that, and nomatter how well you did it, it'd be noticeable. Fortunately, (as I mentioned in another thread,) I got a powerful enough point-to-point wifi connection to blast through the stone wa
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by jasonkester 9mo ago
Probably should have mentioned that it's not a driveway in the US sense, where it's a strip of pavement with dirt on either side. More like a courtyard that butts up against the main house and guesthouse. There's no digging
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by jasonkester 9mo ago
3 feet X 2 walls
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by jasonkester 9mo ago
The direct line across would get run over by cars. Indirect routes would still have to cross pavement and look ugly. And then there are still those six feet of stone that needs drilling through to get the cable outside and back in.
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by jasonkester 9mo ago
Ah, mate. I sure wish you'd figured this out and told me about it 10 years ago. I fought with this exact same issue for years. I live in an old stone farmhouse with my office in a stone garage across a nice poured concrete driveway.
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by jasonkester 9mo ago
most of the people technical enough to set this up are also going to be technical enough to pull new cables. "Technical" isn't the issue. 200 year old stone houses are the issue. If you can't punch through it with wi
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by jasonkester 9mo ago
What about the "Sign in to iCloud" one? Phone: I know you probably opened your phone for a reason, but would you mind signing in to iCloud? [OK] [Maybe Later] Me: Maybe Later. Phone: Ok, but would you mind signing in to iCloud? [O
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by jasonkester 9mo ago
Replying to myself to tell me that I'm wrong. I'm running this on my icloud photos now, and it seems to be dropping them nicely into folders by year and month: D:\Pictures\icpd\2026\01\01 ... so my wife will need to step up her ga
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by jasonkester 9mo ago
Thanks! And thanks for the rgba value. It looks like a vestigal remnant of a dark mode theme that got pulled along over the years. A fix is working its way out to the server now.
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by jasonkester 9mo ago
I'm working on a oldskool video game: https://valtima4.com/ It's the Survival Crafting RPG you would have played on your Apple II back in the 80's. You can think of it as Valheim's gameplay crammed into
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by jasonkester 9mo ago
I was there until I saw this feature: Automatic de-duplication of photos with the same name I recently went through a year’s worth of photos from my wife’s phone, and found three distinct “img_0001.jpg”’s just in that single year. Apple’s
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by jasonkester 9mo ago
I think that’s what people are talking about when they say they don’t see the benefit. There’s already a style attribute on every html element that does exactly that, and works fine in components. “There must be something more…?” But it tu
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by jasonkester 9mo ago
That’s the heart of the matter. Front end development got taken over by the Enterprise Java camp at some point, so now there is no html and css. There’s 10,000 components, and thus nothing that can be styled in a cascading way. All these ar
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by jasonkester 10mo ago
It has the same effect though. A few bad actors using this “free” thing can end up driving the cost up enough that Microsoft will have to start charging for it. The jerks get their free things for a while, then it goes away for everyone.
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by jasonkester 10mo ago
Valheim does that so well. The feeling of walking through an unfamiliar forest and stumbling across a faint trail that you made weeks ago, knowing that it will eventually lead you back to your old base and thus back to where you were trying
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by jasonkester 10mo ago
Ugh. On mobile, the first plan on the pricing page is “ starter” for $6. The plan to the right is partly visible, indicating that you can scroll that way. There’s nothing to indicate that you can scroll left. A less hostile website design w
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by jasonkester 10mo ago
Sorry if I appeared rude. That was very much tongue in cheek. But notice how you just did a much better job of explaining what this thing does without using any jargon at all. The jargon helps if everyone already knows what you’re talking a

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