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by katzgrau 1y ago
I also (usually) go looking right away to see if the syntax makes me feel warm and fuzzy. I’m so shallow.
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by katzgrau 1y ago
As a Y! employee for a couple of years - although my time was brief, I can say with confidence that had Yahoo successfully acquired Google or Facebook, both would have been destroyed in short order.
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by katzgrau 1y ago
+1 from someone who also bootstrapped a side project into a 7 figure business, and just happens to be absorbing some lessons from Poor Charlie’s Almanac on Audible recently.
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by katzgrau 1y ago
Re border radius… The coveted rounded corner, the mark of a really slick design before that property made it easy :D I think media queries/responsive is what did in the last bastion of CSS resistors.
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by katzgrau 2y ago
Eh, I’ll go ahead and trust that life is about as long as it needs to be. Any “things of note” apart from genuinely helping someone else out on their journey when you had a shot is totally irrelevant from the broader perspective.
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by katzgrau 2y ago
There are easily installable databases of IP block info, super easy to do it synchronously, especially if it’s stored in memory. I run a small group of servers that each have to do it thousands of times per second.
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by katzgrau 3y ago
At some point, can’t we just admit to ourselves that we operate from a human-centric worldview and that clouds pretty much all of our thinking on what makes humans special (if anything)? As a species we definitely have some narcissistic ten
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by katzgrau 3y ago
I’m pretty convinced that if you just show up to class, be nice to the prof, and do all of the assignments you’ll get a mercy C or D regardless of how you performed. I’ve never tried this (finished with a 3.9) but observed my friends. Some
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by katzgrau 3y ago
IDK, I went to a state tech school and the huge majority (including myself) were from union/working class parents with no degrees. For at least my parents, getting a degree was seen as a ticket to a better life. At the time, that schoo
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by katzgrau 3y ago
Pitched some well known VCs, YC reject, 3x TechStars reject (2x finalist), lost to Uber-for-Lawnmowers in one of those XD But if you want it, there are a lot of people out there who have bootstrapped. And TBH, if I'd successfully raise
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Ten Stages of Becoming a "Successful" Bootstrapped Founder(medium.com)
1 points by katzgrau 3y ago|1 comments
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Ask HN: Inverse of Imposter Syndrome?
1 points by katzgrau 3y ago|3 comments
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by katzgrau 3y ago
Even worse, probably rented the Lambo for a day for a photo shoot because he knows that’s what suckers will go. Cars, penthouses and watches - like flies to poop, as they say.
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Innovation in Local News as a Driver of Diversity, Equity and Inclusion(livinonaprayer.io)
1 points by katzgrau 3y ago|0 comments
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by katzgrau 3y ago
For anyone reading this, please don’t subscribe to this level of cynicism. For SWEs at Google and almost anywhere else, the wind has blown very favorably for you and that’s something to be celebrated. The direction of the wind has shifted,
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by katzgrau 3y ago
> Reporters and editors aren't software engineers, so the potential of browser competition can remain understandably opaque. There you go. As a virtual unknown who has fought the good fight against Google and has tried to help make
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by katzgrau 3y ago
True. And disruption to a routine can be fatal to the habit. Switch places to live, new SO, new school, kids, life events, etc. Thankfully I don’t have any known disruption events on the horizon. But for little things, like when I have to f
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by katzgrau 3y ago
Close friends and family would more/less say “you’re in good shape, I want to do that,” and I’d basically tell them my story and how I made it happen. Tell them how good I feel most days, have confidence, etc. Most people don’t start,
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by katzgrau 3y ago
Each year I tried different things, not in any particularly strategic fashion. I think the biggest was moving it to be the first thing I did in the morning. And also using a predefined workout so I didn’t have to think about. Then following
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by katzgrau 3y ago
All that matters is that they keep trying. I tried to establish a workout routine for years and it didn’t ever stick … until it did. I’ve worked out 3-5x per week since 2016 and have benefitted immensely, and have successfully helped others
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by katzgrau 3y ago
`pee` - no doubt the dev was delighted and amused
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by katzgrau 3y ago
And don’t forget that the developer fought like hell to use that new process, architecture, pattern, framework, etc
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by katzgrau 3y ago
This is the way I wish it could be (for me, personally), but some standardization among my friends is required. Which app do we tie our interdependence to? A very real question.
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by katzgrau 3y ago
Long time HN, mostly lurker but an occasional commenter. I'm a dev and SaaS founder who bought a hyperlocal news outlet earlier this year. Lots of opportunities for tech to breathe some life into this industry if you care about local n
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We Made a Physical Button to Prove an Ad Works(medium.com)
1 points by katzgrau 3y ago|1 comments
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by katzgrau 3y ago
I’ve always been a fan of anthropomorphic depictions of animals, and I have no idea why. The Far Side was always a favorite. Minor aside: 4/20 - ahead of its time
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by katzgrau 3y ago
> there are also cases where it produces bs, and it's not always obvious Particularly annoying because I wind up risking not actually saving time because it’s producing subtle bugs that I wouldn’t have written myself. So, you save y
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Underdogs Know: The Teacher Never Catches the Bully in the Act(medium.com)
3 points by katzgrau 3y ago|0 comments
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by katzgrau 3y ago
I recently bought a local news org. One of the things I hate about the media industry is the constant "we're dying" or "this is going to die." Go to a local news conference that's supposedly about the future an
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by katzgrau 3y ago
Integrated by a belief? Whether it's true or not is irrelevant and subjective.

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