jmathai

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   Quality of life has been going down for most Americans over the past few decades. It's harder to buy a house, raise a family, etc. on a modest income. Increasing cost of goods has outpaced wage increases but there are probably other fa
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   Any features or capabilities in particular from ControlD that you find most useful?
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   I think curation is the key. I sort of trust Disney to curate content for my kids. I definitely do not trust Youtube to do it. I don't want my kids to be able to "discover" content. Why is that always the feature? Rhetorical
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   Kagi seems like a cool company - I'm not a customer yet. I'd like there to be technology companies I can trust - perhaps like Kagi. I have been really happy with NextDNS though. My kids, not so much. But hey ... that's parent
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   I found that most of the content on YouTube kids existed as a means to advertise products. I don't necessarily care to understand the economics of it because it just doesn't provide enough value to bother. What I do understand is
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   There's a lot of brain drain in Kerala with people getting educated and leaving. Those that leave do, however, send money back to their families and I know many who return to live in India after 5-10 years. This was the case a decade o
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   I was born in the US but my parents are from Kerala and I still have family there that I visit. One thing I found interesting was the pride in literacy and education. Kerala has a 96% literacy rate which is the highest in India [1]. It&#x27
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   I wasn’t super interested in the topic but enjoyed the style of writing and completed the article. I learned a few things I hadn’t planned on learning :)
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   Having just one other person in the trenches is so helpful. I hadn't thought about the social altruism angle but I think there's a lot of truth to it. I also agree about time. I think new products follow a model similar to compoun
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    The best part of Google domains being purchased by square space was finding porkbun. I’ve moved all my domains and have been very happy.
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    I have a different approach. I look for a theme on Theme Forrest which has most of the layouts and components I think I'll need and I lean on those VERY heavily. And for logos I use icons from Font Awesome or Bootstrap. Most of the tim
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    I agree that people have varied experience with LLMs helping them write code. I think the article is right that it's because it's lack intuitiveness leads people to inefficient ways of doing it. I think the most valuable suggestio
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    This helps explain where we're at and where we're headed (Gary's Economics) - https://youtu.be/TflnQb9E6lw?si=3zz9ty4RCew4VzVI
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    Different or not, we need fewer billionaires involved in government.
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    The motivation behind DOGE didn't make sense to me until I also realized the money saved on government employees could be used to justify reducing taxes on corporations or the very wealthy. And the rhetoric that the reason the working
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    Many of Gary's videos on the economy shed light on what's happening in the US right now. A lot of sleight of hand to convince the general population that the villains are immigrants, government employees, anyone on welfare, etc. I
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    by jmathai 2y ago

    There’s truth to this comment. I was 4 years away from the financial number I had in mind while working for a big company. 2023 was a pretty miserable year and I got laid off in 2024. The severance was nice (4 months of pay) but if you’re a
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    It's less of a robust meal planner. It's meant to get the ingredients from an online recipe into your Kroger/Safeway/etc cart for pickup. We use it to find 4-5 meals we want to cook for the week and it takes about 15 min
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    Not sure if I should laugh or cry.
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    That's a great idea. Recipe authors can be compensated by the number of times Preppy adds their recipe to a user's grocery store's online cart.
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    +1 - There's already integrated search in the app where users can search for recipes from the web and preview the recipe site where ads are displayed. They don't have to leave the app to do it if they don't have a URL to past
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    While true, that's not my ethics framework! :) But to your point, it's not a problem unless my product is successful.
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    Sure, that's one way of looking at it. My product may fall flat on it's face (most likely outcome) so I wasn't interested in solving the problem before I had it. But my mindset isn't YOLO. I genuinely would like to find
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    This is a dilemma I'm deferring making a decision about on my most recent product (named Preppy [1]). I created an app which simplifies meal planning by letting you add ingredients for any online recipe to your grocery store's sho
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    Thanks for sharing. I've been on a similar path and also on my third product. Every product has seemed to be closer to sticking and I think that's the case with the one I'm currently on. It takes time to grow this way and I&#
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    Sounds like Brave Attention Tokens [1]. It might have been a hard sell 3 decades ago when we didn't realize it would turn out like it has. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brave_(web_browser)#Business_m...
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    Not every was around when the web was obscure. It's hard to explain how magical that time was. The pinnacle of the web for me was Audio Galaxy. A website where you could find new music to download and even push music to your friend&#x2
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    HN hug of death - https://archive.is/ylzrL
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    It’s odd to think it reasonable to consider a solution to self inflicted addictions is drugs. When I say self inflicted, I mean our society. I do think it’s unfortunate (and very unfair) that we have to expend so much energy not to be addic
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    Google does not do this for PR on Hacker News. It also seems improbable, maybe heroic, for one L6/L7 SWE to push this through.