rovingEngine

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   by 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)

   8 points by rovingEngine 2y ago|0 comments
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   Show HN: Making a digital watch for D&D, start to finish(timestoptech.com)

   1 points by rovingEngine 2y ago|0 comments
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   by 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)

   122 points by rovingEngine 4y ago|2 comments
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   by 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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   by 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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   by 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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   by 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?

    4 points by rovingEngine 5y ago|1 comments
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    by 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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    by 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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    by 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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    by 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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    by 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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    by 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