PopeDotNinja

For what it’s worth, I’m an American & American politics strains my American relationship with my American friends & family. Fuck this red/blue shit.

I don't mind paying for a new Apple, but I do mind paying for repairs on a system that fails just after the warranty runs out. Paying $1500 for a new computer every 5 years or so is good. Paying $1500 for a computer every 16 months, not so much.

The monitor on my MacBook Pro just died, and I bought it July of last year. The repair was about $850 USD. Luckily my credit card covered the hardware warranty, but I'm kind of wishing I'd bought AppleCare.

I'd give them a raise for being low maintenance & self managing.

I used to do that, but it was a lot of work & I didn't notice an improvement to the search results.

I wish I could explicitly tell YouTube “don’t ever recommend videos I’ve seen.”

A week ago I learned how hard it is to sell a used iPhone. A factory reset isn’t enough. I got $500 cash from some kid, he contacted me saying he couldn’t log in, and I then spent hours googling “how to sell used iPhone” and communicating via google translate what he was seeing. That was fun. It turned out I needed to wipe the data using iCloud and then remove the device from my account. I wonder how involved selling a used Tesla will become.

Thanks!

I'm 46. I just started taking Salsa dancing lessons.

https://www.instagram.com/tv/CHtpVk2BL6_/

Sure. I can't remember exactly what led me to this point, but I remember going to workout with my personal trainer & feel really angry towards her for no particular reason. I realized in that moment that I was not OK, and I booked a session with a cognitive behavioral therapist. I basically started with "I'm super angry & don't know why", and went from there.

+1 for therapy. Best $10K I ever spent. Over 18 months I ever spent.

Basically it makes sense to set up your own infrastructure when your business IS your infrastructure.

I’m not sure about the economics of it, but I’d rather drive a car powered by synthetic gasoline made from pulling carbon dioxide out of the air. No new CO2 combined with no restrictions on range & quick refueling times sounds like a win. I still don’t know where people will plug in all of these electric cars.

I’m going to justify eating a donut by telling myself I’m keeping you warm.

It’s pretty nice here in Playa Del Carmen, Mexico!

I wonder if there’s even remotely enough phosphorus for that many people.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peak_phosphorus

You’ll need a viral marketing campaign.

If they spend less on marketing and their business shrinks as a result, they could have potentially never be profitable.

Guy Kawasaki says sales fixes everything.

Just put a Buddha statue on the corner!

https://www.pri.org/stories/2014-11-19/how-buddhist-shrine-t...

Even if they did, I was massively depressed with two broken arms and a head injury. I wasn’t thinking clearly about my options. Trying to navigate the healthcare system when you can't wipe your own ass is not a fun situation to be in.

December, 10. It's DD-MM-YYYY formatting.

I had a six figure income in San Francisco & insurance, and still ended up medically bankrupt. Bike accident, head trauma, unable to work, work tied to job... employer sponsored healthcare sucks if your ability to work is compromised.

More like “Advanced Master Individual Contributor LOL”

I'm imagining a lab where how effectively mosquitos are humping in measured after blasting their naughty bits with radiation. That is amazing.

"What do you do for a living?"

"Have you ever heard of PornHub? Well, I'm a contributor to MosquitoHub. It sucks less and less everyday!"

How much land does one need to become self sufficient? Let's assume that means producing enough biomass to generate the resources necessary to have a surplus of food or money.

On a related note, if all of the frozen ice goes melty melty, Paris will be underwater. It’s at 35m, and sea levels could rise by 70m if Earth goes full thaw.

It’d be funny (and awful) to see a television show where the contents of a private repo are auctioned off when the subscriber stops paying.

One thing to point out is that there are varying degrees of customs. Every client project is custom in the sense that they all have different pics, layouts, colors, et., but the underlying technology may be the same (e.g. Wordpress). The more you can use off the self components and just tweak them, the more predictable a project will be. This type of work tends to be very competitive & you’ll often hear that it’s a race to the bottom. While the quality of Wordpress implementations can vary drastically, it can be difficult for a client to understand those differences, which makes it challenging to sell premium services.

When work is truly custom, and you’re building much of it from scratch (e.g. using Ruby on Rails with extensive amounts of custom design and business logic), this can be much more expensive. It’s quite difficult to find good developers who can help you figure out what you need, come up with a plan that you’re comfortable with, and actually deliver something you’ll be happy with.

Any company that wants to be as ubiquitous in connecting people as Facebook is should not have the power to delete one's social life like this. It's inhumane.

Grad school was described to me as a self induced neurosis.