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by jmathai 3y ago
The budget is how I know I’m being diligent with my money - but it’s just a means to a goal. Every financial app I’ve tried fall short in several areas I’m interested in. That’s why I built what I was looking for. I use it in conjunction wi
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by jmathai 3y ago
The forecast is what makes the budget worth following.
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by jmathai 3y ago
Congrats. Building something others use and deciding that isn’t sustainable are both great milestones. I created a more modest finance app (forecasting [1] and budgeting [2]). The Plaid integration alone was one I quickly realized I didn’t
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by jmathai 3y ago
We had to purchase/lease HP storage servers with 10x the storage we needed for our photo startup in 2006. The lead time to get a server was weeks so there was very little elasticity to respond to non linear growth. Would have been a lo
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by jmathai 3y ago
Seems like an area where most people with a vested interest have access to ample data…and it doesn’t seem like a degree in psychology or statistics is necessary to draw conclusions - it is so obvious. Rarely will you find a parent who says
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by jmathai 3y ago
I have 4 kids. My wife and I joke that if anything happens to one that we have spares. It’s a joke but there’s truth in it. It got me to think about parents with a single kid. Parents carry the burden to keep their kids alive to survive the
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by jmathai 3y ago
https://archive.is/2023.08.23-174505/https://www.sfchronicle...
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by jmathai 3y ago
Precisely :)
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by jmathai 3y ago
FTA: > what are you willing to sacrifice to achieve simplicity? I'm willing to sacrifice a website that tries to keep state up to date without requiring a page refresh so that I can avoid all the complexity and bugs which come from
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by jmathai 3y ago
Thanks - needs an overflow:hidden in the CSS. Will fix :)
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by jmathai 3y ago
It came with age and time for me. I don’t care for bells and whistles nearly as much as I used to. And I would rather pay more for something that does its thing really well and reliably. I’ve learned that I don’t get as much real world valu
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by jmathai 3y ago
Most companies are trying to figure out exactly what generative AI is and how to use it in their business. Given how new this is - I doubt any large company has done much besides ban the public ChatGPT. So this is probably very relevant for
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by jmathai 3y ago
Paying off the debt is the tip of the iceberg. What lies beneath are the tools to wield your income in a focused way to accomplish really big things. Congrats @EconoBen :)
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by jmathai 3y ago
I landed on a "flexible OR" life. I've found that focusing on fewer things (OR) without being dogmatic (eating healthy can mean cake sometimes) brings me a lot more satisfaction than focusing on many things and not enjoying a
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by jmathai 3y ago
Yeah - I'm not sure what point you're trying to make here. A .7% chance of being at a school with a mass shooting is unfathomable. It's so high.
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by jmathai 3y ago
At some size, a project grows beyond the scope of what one person can do. Until then it’s possible that taking contributions is more work that the author doing it themselves. In any case, extensive test coverage is a the only way I think yo
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by jmathai 3y ago
Isn’t most Javascript rendered useless by the time it is ready to be upgraded because all of its dependencies have moved on to not so greener pastures? On a serious note. Keeping up with changes in the Javascript community seems like a full
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by jmathai 3y ago
Can duct tape programmers survive at companies? Seems like everything would be a force against them. On the other hand, it’s not uncommon if you browse some of the more stellar GitHub repos.
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by jmathai 3y ago
I founded 2 photo startups (2004 and 2012). My second startup was focused on data portability and was open source. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trovebox After failing to integrate the software into Western Digital&#x2
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by jmathai 4y ago
4 years of some of your most productive years of life (both physical and mental) is very very costly. But in life, you compete with your peers. So you try and make as best a decision as possible to pick a career or trade for your life and i
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by jmathai 4y ago
That’s a good question. Unlike Covid, no one really took flu tests I guess. Maybe you only know if it’s the flu when it gets real bad.
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by jmathai 4y ago
I worked at WD for about 2 years (via acquisition). I never really used their cloud services for any personal reason - because I either couldn’t get them to work or didn’t trust them. I wouldn’t use their MyCloud NAS devices as a reliable p
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by jmathai 4y ago
A 3.7% death rate for the flu seems...very high. That's saying about 1 in 25 people who catch the flu will die? That is not my lived experience. The CDC site says .2 deaths per 100k people. I didn't see how many people per 100k ca
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by jmathai 4y ago
Agree all kids are different. Our daughter is less affected than our son. But in both cases, they are happier and more creative (as kids should be) when we remove devices altogether. I’m not sure what curation you’re talking about. YouTube
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by jmathai 4y ago
The experience for kids today is nothing like what you experienced. The early internet was pretty magical. I’m not sure we will ever get that back.
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I think the problem lies in social media itself. Unless you mean, social media for kids should be sms.
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by jmathai 4y ago
I’m not sure if you have children. Soccer and basketball exist today. I don’t think you’ll find many parents who struggle with their kids’ habits with them relative to current video games like roblox. (Super Mario Kart doesn’t have the same
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by jmathai 4y ago
I wrote a letter to each of my parents outlining why I loved them and how appreciative I am for what they did for me. It was as much for myself than for them.
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by jmathai 4y ago
For posterity, use a platform where you own your work. For broadcasting, use platforms you don’t own but where people are. Use one or both depending on your goals.
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by jmathai 4y ago
Oddly, I am most productive when I have time to be slow. I make 10x better decisions about what to do, how to do it, and in many cases why NOT to do it. This isn’t very conducive to corporate work though. It’s about timelines and features p

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