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by nlh 5y ago
This is excellent! And also - I think that building HN utilities / clients is like the modern nerd FizzBuzz (in a good way). Is it strictly necessary? No, but it’s a great intellectual exercise, it’s something many of us have thought
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by nlh 5y ago
A thought exercise you should undertake if you're thinking about / talking about crypto/NFT/web3-related projects: If the financial instrument that underlies the project were to stop going up in value XX% per month, wou
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by nlh 5y ago
Exactly. Much like the fact that everyone complains about Basic Economy airfares ("they're nickel-and-dime'ing you for carry-on!!!") the reality is that in the face of competition, people still just choose the lowest ai
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by nlh 5y ago
I spent ~10 years in the rental car business (although the very very high end of it.) Let me say, it's a weird business with LOTS of quirks. Here's one: One of the biggest frustrations people have is that it seems impossible to
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by nlh 5y ago
Thanks for doing what you do! (What is it that you do?)
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by nlh 5y ago
This is awesome. Great idea, great execution, and great story. You scratched your own itch and turned it into a business. Thanks for sharing the project and background.
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by nlh 5y ago
For me at least, the answer is that my side projects are about more than money (though they are about money too!). Developing things myself is the primary goal - it’s deeply satisfying to build your own project from the bottom up without h
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by nlh 5y ago
Yup agreed 100%. I see this often as a suggestion for testing your project hypothesis and I think it’s a terrible idea. Starting your relationship with a customer by misrepresenting your state of development is bad advice.
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by nlh 5y ago
I'm going to disagree with the sibling responses here and agree with your premise - I actually think in some cases it's not fair to calculate APR for short term, low value loans. Here's why: There's a transaction cost w
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by nlh 5y ago
Read up on LinkedIn vs. HiQ. As long as that ruling holds (and it might not), the tl;dr is: If it's on the open web, you can scrape it. You might be violating some Terms of Service (that you never agreed to), but you're not vio
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by nlh 5y ago
1000% this. "Metaverse" is just fancy re-branding of "Facebook but with VR". They want you to buy an Oculus and go to their internet property when and if people start interacting with the internet via VR, just like you
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by nlh 5y ago
And in particular, there's a whole section that reads "With Truple, you can virtually "peek" over your child's shoulder & course-correct as needed." So right there it's admitting that the intended use
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by nlh 5y ago
As other have commented, this is absolutely mind-bogglingly hard core. Kudos to the NSO group engineers who designed and built this (regardless of your allegiances and whether you like or dislike that they do this and whether it's obj
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by nlh 5y ago
Among coin collectors, we call the process “toning” instead of tarnishing (a much more benign word, IMHO ;) It’s the exact same chemical process, most commonly seen in old silver dollars that were stored in sulpher-containing mint/bank
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by nlh 5y ago
The problem with waiting 1-2 seconds between requests is that if you’re trying to scrape on the scale of millions of pages, the difference between 30 parallel requests / sec and a single request every 1-2 seconds is the difference betw
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by nlh 5y ago
I presume you’ve read The Egg. I work with some folks who, like me, love it and we have adopted an “Eggist” mindset. Do unto others as you would (and will!) do unto your future self ;)
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by nlh 5y ago
I had a similarly weird thing happen to me with an even weirder outcome: I was in the Dominican Republic last year and I got a notification that someone had sent me $100 via CashApp. It wasn't a person I recognized, she looked clearly
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by nlh 5y ago
To build on this: Why does being remembered matter at all? It doesn't. It's a weird trait in the human brain to want to be remembered. The instant you die you will have no memory of yourself, your life, or anything really :) So
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by nlh 5y ago
So just to make sure I'm reading this correctly (this is not my area of speciality so bear with me): This is Apple-hosted MDM, yes? I took a brief spin through this world on a consulting project a few years ago and I found it SUPER wei
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by nlh 5y ago
Just want to chime in (on the flip side) and say I enjoyed reading this interaction. Both well-reasoned points, politely and maturely presented (one of the things I love about HN.) The opposite of what i wrote below: I happen to not agree
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by nlh 5y ago
Just want to chime in and say I enjoyed reading this interaction. Both well-reasoned points, politely and maturely presented (one of the things I love about HN.) I happen to agree entirely with your side, but that's irrelevant. Thank
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by nlh 5y ago
Speaking of “timing out”, I always found it remarkable how commercial drivers have to play by a different set of rules (and enforcement) than we civilians. You and I drive on the highway basically blind to this parallel system. I experienc
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by nlh 5y ago
ProxyMan on MacOS is quite awesome for this. It requires a bit of setup with certificates, etc., but once it's working you just fire up the target app on your phone and all the sweet sweet API requests appear on your big screen. I&#x
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by nlh 5y ago
Absolutely fantastic. Congrats and enjoy in good health. Are you writing about the adventure (or posting photos) anywhere?
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by nlh 5y ago
That joker almost certainly == the lowest bidder in what was like ya terrible government requisition process for a website.
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by nlh 5y ago
I've switched all my accounting over to hledger (a Haskell-based and slightly more feature-filled version of the original) and I'm SUPER happy with it so far. My primary consumption method is hledger-ui, a nice curses-based UI. I
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by nlh 5y ago
Sorry, that's just not true. Twitter loves perpetuating the story of what an insane dystopia SF is these days, but if you actually live here and actually spend time in the city instead of complaining about it, you'll see that is
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by nlh 5y ago
Before I've even checked it out: Congrats on shipping!!!! I know how hard it is to get something done with the constraints of a day job & family. I read SO many comments on here from folks lamenting their lack of energy + time to
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by nlh 5y ago
I was super into the ham world many many moons ago (DE K2KD), and my curiosity is definitely piqued with the arrival of SDRs. Dumb question(s): Is it possible to do "traditional" HF/VHF ham stuff with these mini SDRs? Is th
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by nlh 5y ago
I think from a statistical standpoint, beating average is great. But the big difference is that we have this odd and fundamental requirement for justice/punishment in our society that gets lost with self-driving cars. If a human drive

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