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fukuroon Ask HN: Successful one-person online businesses?

How did you find the product? And how long did it take you to generate your first revenue? (From the initial idea to the first user/euros)

Basically how do you get started with such a venture as yours?

fukuroon Ask HN: What are some of the best life hacks you use?

Here in Belgium, every city is moslty bike friendly.

fukuroon Just Read the Book Already

Hard disagree there.

Free time is for enjoying life, doing things you love, spending time with loved ones,... Not everything has to be about ones productivity.

Our time is way too short to spend everything producing things that will likely be forgotten or not used anymore in 75 years.

We must not forget to live life.

fukuroon An entomologist rates ant emojis

Intentional dark pattern or honest bug?

I have had this 'bug' on multiple different websites. Forbes in particular is a nice example, they take 5mins to save your preferences and then it says they "are working on it. You can change your preferences." (Not direct quote).

fukuroon Apple Engineers Its Own Downfall with the Macbook Pro Keyboard

I'm running linux (manjaro - kde) on my thinkpad T470. It works marvelous, scaling works without issue, adding screens, updating, hibernate/sleep. It all just works.

Currently haven't rebooted my laptop for 45 days, updated in the middle (while still being able to work) and still works wihout issue.

Meanwhile my windows desktop keeps forcing updates/reboots every week interrupting my work. Also interesting to mention: windows always has the fans on of my laptop, on linux only under heavy load.

Bought the laptop especially for the linux support on the thinkpad series, very happy with it.

fukuroon Bootstrapping an Online Fabric Shop and Growing to $20k per month

Every month I buy a Ferrari for 250,000 en sell it for 200,000. I can now make a blogpost and say I have a revenue of 200,000/month.

Revenue alone is not a valid metric.

fukuroon The Lifespan of a Lie – Why can’t we escape the Stanford Prison Experiment?

The SPE is kind of like the milgram experiment in the way that people tend to do things they would otherwise not have done when given the green light from an authority.

It reminds me of a short story illustrating this beautifuly.

(From The Way of Kings) http://www.kurt-anderson.com/main/2036/media/reading/derethi...