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by wnolens 5y ago
Many reasons. But after 10 years on the west coast, I had many dozens of friends but almost none that I wanted to spend holidays with (i.e. felt like family, neither friends nor partners). I decided that it wasn't for a lack of trying
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by wnolens 5y ago
Step backwards in take home pay and square footage. Step forwards in social life, romantic life, culture (if you weren't getting it elsewhere). If you're married with kids, NYC doesn't make sense. If you're single with p
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by wnolens 5y ago
West coast of USA is easy-mode life. I don't fault anyone for living there and loving it. It just wasn't for me socially. NYC makes me feel more human and connected, even if that means higher taxes, smaller apartment, and generall
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by wnolens 5y ago
Oops, just moved to NYC last year! :)
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by wnolens 5y ago
I used it free for years without running into the limit that i needed to pay for.
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by wnolens 5y ago
cool, also signed up for access. This fits my mental model. I do it in a markdown document for work, and paper for personal.
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by wnolens 5y ago
This is what I do. That email in OP is gross. "Hi, thanks for the message. I would appreciate as much detail as you can via message. Interested in location, compensation, and what specific problems they need help solving. Thanks!"
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by wnolens 5y ago
You found a glitch in the matrix
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by wnolens 5y ago
I've found being vegan too difficult with IBS. Fruits and vegetable and grains are what cause symptoms, so I quite literally need to eat meat (and the other things in small quantities)
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by wnolens 5y ago
You're right. But OP didn't understand why it doesn't exist because "market is so big." I presumed they meant more than the extreme edge of RSI sufferers. So I ran the thought experiment. I've had a mild RSI. T
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by wnolens 5y ago
Bingo
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by wnolens 5y ago
That sounds exhausting. "Open this program" "Minimize" "Focus on this text input" ..dictate.. "switch to command mode" "save and close" i'd rather just: "click click tab type ctrl-
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by wnolens 5y ago
It's such beautifully "simple" system that makes so much sense. I love it. lol @ bajillion dollar R&D jetpack with ai controlled thrust vectoring
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by wnolens 5y ago
Not really sure, but it sounds like some of things you are testing might be syntax - which makes sense if it's critical to your hiring need - ex. hiring senior C++ folks to start a new project - otherwise every new job I've starte
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by wnolens 5y ago
Dig it. I built a dumber version of this to pipe this kind of data into air table. I wanted to track my reading queue and track extra metadata like who recommended it.
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by wnolens 5y ago
I don't think it matters what any of us (HN) want or think is best. The generation born after social media began their socialization and individuation journey in life on snapchat/tiktok/instagram. This generation doesn't
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by wnolens 5y ago
The UI changes still piss me off. Example: You can no longer flip WiFi on/off with a swipe (to expose tray) and tap. There's an extra tap and they removed the automatic re-enable, which I got used to.. so I find myself turning WiF
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by wnolens 5y ago
Hm.. i wonder if i can roll back to before Google completely changed all the UI a few months ago. That alone almost made me throw it out and buy an iPhone
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by wnolens 5y ago
Right. I had never heard about Gemini before this thread. So after skimming, I read the Gemini FAQ, then went back and re-read the article. The author completely missed the point and began a technical discussion. Kind of similar to that dev
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by wnolens 5y ago
It's certainly 'long-form' and certainly 'content'.
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by wnolens 5y ago
> The most mysterious part for me was why one would put JSON inside relational tables? Cheap and easy way to permit a flexible schema for some part of the data. Performance tests probably showed that for their specific query workload, an
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by wnolens 5y ago
Yes. Charm is hitting my brain like when I first heard about the idea of web apps as desktop apps (i.e. Electron). It feels like a beautiful paradigm.
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by wnolens 5y ago
Non-tech and non-news (and not even that long), but I have to plug https://www.themarginalian.org/ (previously called "brain pickings"). The author reads voraciously and follows common threads across many works, c
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by wnolens 5y ago
lol. Too true..
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by wnolens 5y ago
I know this is a throwaway, but I would like to hear more. Your writing reflects my own life, but I'm in the wrestling part. Care to expand on this process of cultivating values, the wrestling with the void, where the sense of goodness
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by wnolens 5y ago
Sounds like me at 26. I finally walked away from it at 28. Your window to return to bonkers tech money is wide so you can afford to go away from it a while. But after you do, you probably won't want to return. That's fine! Just s
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by wnolens 5y ago
Thanks! A project similar to this is on my backlog of cool ideas to implement (which I never will get around to..) I wanted to connect the following chain: whiteboard on my desk -> external webcam on monitor pointed down at it -> vide
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by wnolens 5y ago
> It's entirely bootstrapped, profitable and pays salaries to 10+ people (and we keep hiring). Congrats. That's the dream (to me). Bootstrap and create a handful of jobs.
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by wnolens 5y ago
> First, employers in the US and Europe have reported that they can easily pass on minimum wage increases to customers. To ‘blackboard’ economists this makes no sense – after all, if customers were prepared to accept higher prices, the c
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by wnolens 5y ago
I'm slowly feeding a budding interest in economics and started with Basic Economics by Thomas Sowell. With all the stories and references, I take the basic principles as mostly scientific. However when I told someone with more backgro

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