evanmoran

Great point that food/goods costs are completely overshadowed by housing in most cities. I’m not a FIRE person, but I’ve always believed the trick to early retirement is to live very very cheaply (it makes all the charts look pretty). I believe this implies you can’t live where you want as soon as your living expense requirements are exceeded by the housing costs. This could be a year or twenty years out, but the risk is there. Curious if anyone has a different take!

Ah wonderful. I misunderstood "focus status" to mean the actual name of your focus was displayed, rather the generic "Evan has notifications silenced" message. Thank you for the clarification!

As to what notifications have been helpful: I ended up making Reading and Listening focuses to make personal stuff like reading and podcasting more enjoyable. Then for work I separated out Communicating (email, slack, asana, collaborative docs) from Coding (everything off) as it seemed those had quite different notification needs.

For the Focus feature, I find it a bit unexpected that someone messaging me can tell if I'm Driving, Sleeping, Coding, or Reading, etc. Does anyone else find this a bit strange/awkward? I know you can turn it off (and I did) within iMessage, but it seems a bit poorly considered. Curious if people like that aspect of the feature!

I believe it's web based for cross platform. So equivalent to Google Meet and with similar UX limitations.

Respectfully, I’d want the car you mention included if I search for “full size sedan” or “alternatives to ford”, and not to appear if I search for “ford”. This is a pipe dream of course with the way AdWords works, but that is what I prefer :)

Where have you had success with hosting outside the usual aws/gap/etc? It seems like digital ocean has a bit cheaper bandwidth, but curious if you have a better recommendation!

It’s the pandemic likely causing the timing, but not as a statement of remote vs not remote work: it’s just cheaper now with the pandemic to buy rather then rent in the medium-long term. So if they decided they need the space for 20+ years then they certainly have the cash to buy if they want to.

As a game engineer I can relate. Many of these deep technical areas are completely unknown to people outside of gaming / modeling / animation / graphics, and even then you are way outside my expertise with optical/pre-digital work. It is a great point that interviewers focused on typescript or redux (just to mention stuff worth knowing but that seem far from C++ graphics coding) won’t get the nuance of your technical contributions. It then becomes a storytelling challenge, which is a different interviewing skill entirely.

They aren’t showing propaganda videos, they are filtering out what makes them look bad and emphasizing what makes them look good.

Update: here’s a reference to leaked documents to this effect: https://www.google.com/amp/s/amp.theguardian.com/technology/...

This is actually my first week using go (from years of C++/Swift/js/etc) and I’ve been very impressed with the module system and simplicity so far. I’d definitely encourage others to try it if they haven’t.

As for generics, Go’s lack of function overloading and arg default values is really interesting. It ensures that a function is always easily found as it’s the only thing in the module with that name. I’ll be curious to see if generics are easier to follow without function overloading. It will still be only in one place, where as in C++ you could have hundreds of functions with the same name across many libraries and you just have to hope your ide knows which to step into.

You are right that in practice most people don’t get 1M in yearly revenue, but the 30% is a huge consideration for anyone making a new software business that has a chance to grow past 10 employees. What most successful companies do instead is dodge it by being free with ads (Facebook, Instagram, Amazon, Snap, YouTube, Zillow, etc), baked into an existing subscription business (Office, Google Docs, Basecamp, Netflix, Disney+, Photoshop, 1Password), or they ditch the phones entirely using web, desktop or console platforms instead (Figma, Sketch, most AAA games, most sass companies).

The only big companies left are micropayment game companies and that is mostly because casual games are a perfect fit for mobile and it’s worth the 30% to be where the users are.

I understand where you are coming from. You will be worried about ticks with or without the vaccine. I will too! But I think the vaccine isn’t for making you stop protecting yourself from ticks (it can’t do that, as you noted). The important part is it’s a small poke for a better chance at staying healthy. If you are worried in both cases, the question becomes is the time/cost to get the shot worth the result. So if you walk in the woods a lot the answer is very likely yes. If you never go near ticks then maybe not.

Another way to think about it is if there was a vaccine to stop car accidents that is only 75% effective, is it worth getting the shot even though I’ll still be afraid of car accidents? Absolutely! The shot is unbelievably easy to get and probably cheap. It doesn’t solve everything, but it is so easy to do it’s hard not to be worth it.

Using existing franchisees isn’t the problem. It’s doing it poorly!

I think my favorite framing is people have quite different preferences so it’s not clear what trends will happen long term. That’s said, even if the effects aren’t all encompassing, we could see 5x the numbers of people doing remote work and that will have big effect on the way people work.

My other thought is that this will affect people with significant commutes or housing costs the most, so this is essentially an acute urban/SV problem that we are going to hear a lot about :)

One thing I’d add is in games the workload is known in a way that other general applications don’t have. In this case you can think of the work as “preloading” where the allocations / disk reading can happen several seconds before they are needed for rendering or physics/collision. This is a pretty cool special case as it means you can hit your allocation targets before you need it giving the best of both worlds: the cache coherence in arrays, and perfect framerate because you have far fewer memory allocations focused on known game events (cinematic transitions, enemy changes, or map streaming boundries, etc)

I can confirm that Lyme Disease is on the rise and has very strange symptoms:

https://www.bayarealyme.org/about-lyme/lyme-disease-facts-st...

This is exactly it. The goal of the sale is to own the rights to semi-famous original content and an interesting back catalog on the cheap. Amazon just sees the sale as better then bidding against Netflix for the same content.

I think it’s mainly for Mac / iOS development CI systems like for CircleCI or Mac Stadium. The hardware just seems too expensive for it to replace more generic arm services that AWS is offering.

I believe you are 100% correct that when the M1X chips are released they will clearly differentiate the pro market. At the same time it would be impressive of Apple if the X chips capture MacBook Pro, iMac Pro and Mac Pro markets all with a single chip as well. So (as you point out) the article is only half the picture as it’s missing the pro lineup. And yet the article’s main point is true that Apple is satisfying an absurd number of products with (likely) only two processors.

I’m not the right person to estimate cost savings, but in my experience these choices go in a cycle:

1. Startups use aws /digital ocean because its so easy and $5-10/month isn’t much

2. Startup or consultancy with traction: either you have too many projects or they start getting real traffic so the instances sizes and bandwidth / storage costs grow

3. Small company: You realize self hosting is probably cheaper and the machines are way faster self hosted

4. Medium size company: You self host and seem be saving money, but eventually you scale to need a team to support the infrastructure itself

5. Large company / enterprise: You go back to aws because the costs are high, but that is still preferable to having a bad version of aws written adhoc internally :)

For you it probably doesn’t matter as you’re probably 1-3 above. So it mostly depends on if you like managing infrastructure yourself. The cost savings are likely there, but only if it’s easy and fun for you to support it

This is cool. Thank you for sharing!

I wanted to add to others suggestions to consider adding more genre-like categories. I realize they aren’t as specific as “world war 2”, etc, but I think you will miss out without the common popular genres there. For example, “best fantasy in 2021” or “best cooking book 2021”, etc, overlap with tons of interests and seem missing. Maybe write down every genre in Amazon search and see how your groupings compare? Just my 2 cents!

I have read that procrastination comes from your mind defending itself against fear. Instead of confronting something that is really important (a writer afraid their writing isn’t good enough) the brain distracts by overweighting unimportant things to the forefront.

Solo ventures are very challenging and there is a lot of emotion baked in. So think through what has changed recently. The biggest fears from my experience are: is this the right product? Do people actually want it? Are you going to finish fast enough? Do I have the right life balance? (keeping relationships, family, kids, friendships; eating right, exercise, sleep)?

Not an easy discussion with yourself, but I think when you believe you are on the right path and are making good decisions it will flow again!

The life insurance angle is real, but the solution isn’t to wait, it’s to get into the plan before you find out. You can always stop the plan if you think your risks aren’t as high later when you know more!

Does anyone have thoughts on how natural it feels to use ‘:’ instead ‘=‘ for variable creation? From a distance it has a nice elegance, but it is interesting how few programming languages make this choice.

The next progression is Something+

The better argument for first doses first is the expectation that vaccine supply and delivery will rise significantly in the near term. This would allow a country to start everyone’s vaccination timeframe sooner with a strong expectation that supply would bring second doses closer to the normal timeframe over time.

It sounds like Canada’s approach is aware of this as it is “extending the second dose of COVID-19 vaccine up to four months after the first.”

This maximum of four months is a solid approach because either (1) the science is solid and net more protection is offered to the country, or (2) the science is just ok, but the supply and delivery improvements will actually allow for on time doses at a faster pace then previously possible

To me it’s not really an aquihire without you making significant money over your normal salary — usually paid in cash or stock over time while you are in the new role. Revenue share seems strange and maybe implies they aren’t as successful as they seem?

You probably didn’t share, as I didn’t. I believe the contacts permission is only required if you want to share an invite, not to accept one.

iPhones also have a greyscale mode under accessibility:

Settings, then choose Accessibility > Display & Text Size > Color Filters. Turn the Color Filters toggle switch on, and Grayscale appears as the top option

I love how you wrote this list and didn’t even include LinkedIn. They are very well positioned indeed :)