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rovingEngine
2y ago
I’ve found rejecting the tendency to reduce people to narratives so incredibly important with our children. Whether their latest choice has been probably good or probably bad, keeping those choices as something they did rather than somethin
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Show HN: I made a digital watch from scratch
(timestoptech.com)
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Show HN: Making a digital watch for D&D, start to finish
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rovingEngine
4y ago
Technically, voting shares went to the trust, common shares went to an associated nonprofit. 100% between them.
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Yvon Chouinard transfers 100% Patagonia ownership to environmental trust
(outsideonline.com)
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4y ago
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rovingEngine
4y ago
This is close to three months, and many health plans renew at the beginning of each year, which accounts for the slight difference.
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rovingEngine
4y ago
Almost anything smaller than a breadbox. I’m not trying to be flippant, but those are better starting conditions than I had for the moderately profitable craft kit or outdoor product manufacturing businesses I’ve run. Inventory is more like
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rovingEngine
4y ago
Something I’ve found helpful: imagine you were starting from scratch today. Is this still THE problem you would want to work on? If not, move on. You’re right that 6 mo is not a lot in the grand scheme of things. Sunk costs suck, but there’
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rovingEngine
5y ago
This only appears to be the case for https://news.ycombinator.com/news . None of the other pages or the index without the /news path.
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Ask HN: Why is HN favicon sometimes Paris Review Eagle?
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rovingEngine
5y ago
Well done - I’m working on something broadly similar for similar reasons. How do eventually plan to monetize to keep it ad-free?
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rovingEngine
5y ago
Join a makerspace if you live near a substantial one. Mine (Protohaven in Pittsburgh) has both a CNC mill and a Morgan injection molder (a rare small injection molder good for 100s of parts), which is a nice way of exploring some tech befor
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rovingEngine
5y ago
For those looking for more support (or criticism) for this way of thinking, the reasoning behind the priority view is quite similar to John Rawls’ arguments that people would adopt a maximin (making the least good outcome as good as possibl
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rovingEngine
5y ago
I’ve found http://ui-patterns.com/patterns to be particularly useful. The patterns both show you how others solve common design problems, and give you the vocabulary to meaningfully talk and find additional information abou
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rovingEngine
5y ago
Let’s say ads will always make more money (I have no reason to believe they won’t), and that’s required to be the dominant search engine because the web is big and expensive to organize. I’d bet there’s some way to characterize what I and o
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rovingEngine
5y ago
I think Google was “better” from a users point of view in 2005 because it wasn’t that good at selling ads yet. I still remember the epiphany of the first time I used Google in 1999. It was amazing. I’ve thought the same about pre-ad Twitter