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Didn’t Stack Overflow piggyback on the existing and quiet sizeable audiences of Jeff Atwood and Joel Spolsky?

_Medium_ dose

It’s actually way, way worse than that. Nobody does Scrum and everybody seems to be getting into SAFe.

https://www.scaledagile.com/safe-5-preview/

I was so stoked when I read about that part of scrum back in 2006. Not once has it materialized since.

That's the most succinct and to-the-point way I've ever seen of expressing my annoyance with that crowd.

Thank you, stranger on the internet! <3

When working from home - sure. A previous employer had a resting room that you could book in Outlook and it was almost always free.

Since becoming a father, I’ve started taking naps when feeling low on energy and let me tell you, that stuff is incredibly powerful. I lie down in a dark room with a timer set 40 minutes into the future, drift off and reappear with my energy meter glowing.

Corporations view coding as grunt work, the real challenges/money are in selling strategy. 2020 will be the year where I act on this insight.

This. If I had started back in ‘11 or ‘12 instead of ‘18 I wouldn’t have a mortgage right now.

“My ordinary rate is X000 per week, HOWEVER I’d love to work with you/this project/this stack/this industry so how does a 20% discount sound?”

> I wouldn't recommend this to build a landing page. If the objective of a landing page is to reach the largest audience possible

I dunno. This means you're excluding people who disable JS from your audience. I'm going to stick out my neck a suggest that they're probably very few and very unlikely to spend money on your product (my bias)

> extra work and overheads are just not worth it.

I'd say the other way around, this tool will get you a fast, single page site in shorter time than it will take for you to decide which static site generator to use (I'm being facetious)

https://carrd.co/ is your friend here

No need to experiment, this is already done commercially on a massive scale.

"Stockholm Vatten's sewage treatment works produce 4.1 million m³ of biogas annually, but have the capacity to double this amount." [1]

[1] http://www.stockholmvattenochavfall.se/en/water-and-wastewat...

I'm currently slowly building up a print shop in my basement. For now, it's just something to keep my retired dad occupied, but should it be successful I'll have no qualms about jumping in to it full time.

This weirds me out so much about US. It is (was?) touted as a beacon of entrenourship and savvy business thinking, but a lot of things seem to be right downward hostile towards business.

The parent is an indication of this - he wouldn't have considered starting a business unless his health care was taken care of. Other things like taxes, beaurocracy and legal matters seem extremly convoluted and unfriendly to business when compared to Sweden, which is often painted a socialist.

My 2015 Thinkpad with an i5 got 12% utilitaztion?

I recently discovered this stack and I haven’t had this much fun in years!

I blame the Lean Startup/Indiehackers mentality of validating, validating, validating before building anything. I mean, I get where they're coming from but it really hard to distinguish it from phisihing attacks.

Or capture the methane, upgrade it and run generators/cars/busses of it. It's existing tech

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

I never thought of it this way. Thank you for providing some perspective, it made me reflect on my thoughts on the subject.

Just venting, but holy hell are cars the stupidest “hobby” I can imagine.

> Imagine The Sims, with a lot more internal smarts and real physics, as a base for work.

Sounds like the start of a truly horrifying Black Mirror episode

This is actually a really good time to refer your client to a trusted contact from your network (you do have one, don't you?) scoring points with both the client and your contact.

”below-par execution”

Heh.

Did you read the latest blog post? I has financials for 2019

I always hold up https://pinboard.in/ as a poster child for a successful one-man shop. It's so successful he takes several months off at a time, right now he's in HK reporting on the demonstrations.

He's very generous with sharing his financials on his blog: https://blog.pinboard.in/2019/07/i_cant_stop_winning/

Scania, the truck manufacturer, did this during 08-09. 10% paycut, 20% time reduction and they encouraged people to use the time to study and improve. None were laid off.

This was my main plan, is hosting .Net Core easy to do on a bare-bones image like DO or Linode? Or is it worth to pony up for a Azure App instance?

What’s the easiest/best way to host python+flask?

I love these kinds of tools and this looks very useful indeed, but something about your page triggers my spidey sense. A pricing page or at least a hint at a business model would make that go away. Right now it feels like you’re just trying to get me to run a binary on my computer.

Edit: not saying you’re shady, just that it has a vibe of being shady :)