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I've always been interested in running my own mailserver, but whenever I've tried, it's been surprisingly difficult (getting my IP accidentally blacklisted and stuff like that). What was your experience setting up your own server like?

This is a subject I've been fascinated with recently. The web isn't nearly as good as it could be at gathering, networking, and assimilating information.

I feel that one key aspect of something like this would be the ability to annotate anything on any page you stumbled across, and to navigate between all your annotations in a cohesive manner.

I'm excited to see what you make!

This happened to me, too. After emailing customer support several times asking for clarification, and getting the same uninformative answer every time, I decided to take down the (free) extension (which had 20,000+ users) rather than risk having my developer account deactivated for uploading a rejected extension too many times.

I use Pushbullet every day, and would be gutted if it were killed for such a ridiculous reason as this.

Is it not possible to be intrinsically motivated to achieve your goals? I get what you're saying, but I feel like there's a middle ground.

As a consultant with no accountant -- in what areas did they save you that much? Entirely taxes?

I see a lot of people below saying to chose a functional language other than Haskell. As someone who's currently learning Haskell, I'm finding it _incredibly_ interesting...but I've heard that many of the free online resources don't lay the necessary foundation for learning the more advanced concepts.

I'm 6 chapters into Haskell Programming from First Principles [0], and I highly recommend it.

[0] https://haskellbook.com/

This is a terrible loss, and seeing the comments here makes me firmly agree with sentiment I've heard a number of times recently: it would be wonderful if culturally, it became more typical to tell our teachers/mentors/idols what they mean to us before they die, instead of saving that outpouring for after their death.

RIP.

https://jesseevers.com. If you're someone who finds many things interesting, I think you'll enjoy it...I have very broad interests, and that is reflected in my writing.

It's a young blog, but I've received pretty positive feedback on what I've written so far. For a recent post, try Instinctual Politics: https://jesseevers.com/instinctual-politics/

One thing I made last night as a result of a joke a friend made: https://getmesometp.com, a place to find where there's still toilet paper online :)

I have two issues with Notion -- first, it's not _quite_ fast enough. I find myself avoiding taking notes with Notion because I don't feel like waiting for the page to load, the search to find what I'm looking for, and so on. And second, as someone else mentioned, it feels kind of structurally disorganized.

Some good resources for finding organizations/jobs that have a positive impact on the environment:

* Climatescape: https://climatescape.org/

* Climate.Careers: https://climate.careers/

(Disclaimer: I know the people who created both of those, so I guess I'm biased as to their quality, but I really do think they're very valuable resources.)

There are also some great Slack groups for technologists who are worried about climate change:

* https://climateaction.tech/

* https://techimpactmakers.com/

I'm also part of the Sunrise Movement[0], which has significantly pushed US politics in the direction of actually doing something about about climate change. I'm working on various software projects for them, and would love to help anyone who's interested get involved in that. Feel free to email me -- my email's in my profile.

[0] https://www.sunrisemovement.org/

My understanding is that once you start cloud seeding, you can't really stop...if you stop, you'll have runaway warming at a significantly accelerated rate[0].

I'm pretty wary of geoengineering, just because we don't really know the second/third/nth-order effects geoengineering solutions might have. I'm not saying it should never be done, but I think much more research is in order before doing something that literally affects the entire planet.

[0] I believe I learned that from this book (which I thought was excellent), although I'm not 100% sure: https://www.amazon.com/This-Changes-Everything-Capitalism-Cl...

SEEKING WORK | Boston, NYC | Remote

I'm a full-stack software engineer. Primary experience is with Javascript (ES6)/Node.js/React/GraphQL, Python/Django, and Postgres (and HTML/Sass/CSS). I'm comfortable working with PHP/WordPress, and generally, I can be productive with most tech stacks. I also have some experience with C and embedded programming.

I’m a generalist. I’ll automate repetitive business processes, build data pipelines, repair/rebuild outdated programs, write small-footprint embedded programs, create websites, or anything in between.

I have a history of delivering high quality final products on time, even when I wasn’t initially familiar with the technologies involved. If your project needs a skill that I don’t have, I’m happy to spend some time getting up to speed first.

I've worked with small startups (<10 people) and large corporations (>1000 people). I've helped coordinate/direct small teams (2-4 people), both in companies and in the OSS community.

Website: https://jesseevers.com

Email: jesse [at] jesseevers [dot] com

Resume: https://jesseevers.com/jesse-evers-resume.pdf

Skills: Javascript, ES6+, Node.js, React, GraphQL, Express.js, Python, Django, HTML, CSS, PostgreSQL, MySQL, C, Perl, PHP, nginx, Gunicorn, Wordpress, Sass, Shell, Bash, Java.

While I generally agree with you that products can scale much higher than consulting income-wise, when you say it's impossible to scale what you're doing past 300k/year due to time constraints...why not charge more for your time? If you have more people asking you to do work for them than you have time for, I'd think that clients would be willing to pay more in order to make it onto your schedule.

> I find for example that my imagined conversations are a lot more hostile

Yes, this! I sometimes find myself getting slightly mad at someone for something that I imagined them doing (or thought they were going to do), because I then had a played-out clash with them over it in my head. As soon as I notice what I'm doing, though, I stop being mad, because it's ridiculous to stay mad at someone over something they literally didn't do.

I'll definitely start hitting reply, thank you!

That's a really interesting, but sensible, conclusion to come to. It seems to follow that generalists would make great business/personal coaches, as they're good at pointing people in the right direction. I'd be curious to look at great coaches and see if they had a ton of different interests.

I'm stoked for the next email :)

Patagonia's also done a great job with this. I have no idea if all their advertising around not buying things you don't need has increased the number of items they've sold, or just the price they can charge for them.

Wow, I just looked up light-fields. That's a super cool idea. It would be incredible if it were possible to make a 3d light-field camera, so that the person watching it in VR could look all around them.

I'm extremely interested, but I don't see your contact info in your profile. My email's in mine, if you want to get in touch.

Interesting, I'll look into LXDs. Thanks for the pointer!

I remember reading that post and the surrounding discussion, and thinking it was a really tough (and worthwhile) challenge. Good luck, and I'm excited to see the first version when you release it.

I dig it. Problems don't have to be world-changing to be interesting.

Don't discount how important those problems are! Kudos to you for being intentional with them, and good luck. I wish you the best.

That sounds super interesting. You should absolutely write a book...or, if not that, a blog. I'd read it.

I'd love to read some of what you've written, if you're willing to share.

I'd love to chat -- we have a lot of common interests. My email's in my bio if you're interested.

I particularly like your idea of keeping your entire net worth invested in the problems you're focused on, and I'm curious to hear more about it.

That's enlightening, thank you. I was unaware that the type of medical care (within a specialty) can change the financial incentives of the doctor. As someone who was just told to get my wisdom teeth removed, this makes me want to seek another opinion.

I'm guessing you already know about them, but you might be able to get some useful ideas from Eat This Much[0], who I think is the biggest competitor in this space. It's a very complex challenge -- good luck!

[0]https://www.eatthismuch.com/

This is a great idea. Rediscoverability is a big problem, especially with the growing popularity of personal knowledge systems (Notion, Roam, etc), which have been discussed a lot on HN.

I take a ton of notes on Notion, but I worry that I'll never see most of them again. Maybe part of the value is just in writing the notes in the first place...?

Kudos for solving out this problem for Reddit!

Would you be willing to explain what the applications of (2) are? I'll admit that I only undersetand a fraction of what you said in that section, but I'm curious what you're using it for.