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1 inch PVC tubing. Shaped like an H, with the top & bottom as cross-beams as well. about 2.5 feet by 1.5 feet. With one on each side of my back bike rack, Makes it easy to hang a 60 liter backpack on one side, and 30 liter backpack on the other.
If it ends in "?", I publicly question its validity and denigrate its author & editor by default.
- unoriginal & low value
- written by a low quality author
- edited by a low quality editor
- defaults to an answer of NO
stop the question mark BS
Survivorship bias makes me say "I want to see the stories of all the solopreneurs who failed."
HN-- Please share more failure stories. I want to balance the optimistic fun hype with pragmatic realism.
I say this as a nascent "solopreneur" (I don't like that word) who is getting his agency & first product off the ground at the moment.
We also did not have a lot of modern technology in the time frame of the Mexican Revolution (Nov 20, 1910 – Feb 5, 1917)
...which goes along with the assumption that "The future will not look 100% like the past."
- "The Ford Model T is an automobile that was produced by the Ford Motor Company from October 1, 1908, to May 26, 1927"
- "Electronic television was first successfully demonstrated in San Francisco on Sept. 7, 1927."
I am not spending time on an article that is trying to hook me into reading. Articles exist to share knowledge, not obfuscate it.
Why "This" in the headline?" Why not "<ProductName> could be the..."?
(Disclaimer: two of my three engineering managers were actually very good skilled engineers and managers (the one bad one was the "people manager", who "always knew he wanted to be a manager" and was put in charge of an engineering team... he had followed an engineering director from app dynamics). It's the business management steering the ship that I think is the problem)
I used to work at Unity. I left quickly after what I saw.
The biggest problem at Unity: Internal Distractions. Slack channels are filled with political discussions (As you might venture to guess: It's a race to the bottom of the Oppression Olympics-- lots of "no my group is more marginalized!" "no mine is!" type of people).
Me, as a Software Engineer-- I was working while other employees were arguing about political issues (as if they could change each others minds-- unlikely, and a waste of time.)
I thought "How is HR allowing people to NOT work yet instead spend that time arguing politics in so many slack channels? Who is doing the real work here?"
Then there was the main problem (For me) of being hired into a bait-and-switch role (after the 7 or 8 interviews... Lord have mercy...)
I was told:
- You'll be fully remote, you can work from anywhere. (My manager soon told me: No, we hired head count in <Your City> and we expect you to stay there. Because I like to visit for 1-2 days every quarter, and I want to see the whole team.)
- You'll be a NodeJS developer. (Turns out... you'll be a low-code Mulesoft developer, and maybe if you're lucky you'll work with NodeJS)
- We hire you on Salary. (Turns out... you'll be treated like an hourly employee. I took a 2 hour lunch break one day because I expected to be judged on my impact & contributions, not the time my rear-end is in a chair. "Yeah... I'm going to need you to keep your lunches to one hour only". It was then that I decided to resign.)
- They offered $110k base salary. I countered with $140k. I accepted $120k base, plus some stock. Had they paid me more, perhaps the BS I experienced would have been tolerable. But they didn't pay me the "Oh, and accept all of our BS" rate I asked for (looking back, I should have asked for much more, given what I saw internally).
After leaving Unity, I arrived at a company and it was such a breathe of fresh air to find that nowhere in Slack did anyone mention anything about their political opinions-- all the people actually worked. Unlike at Unity, where many people spend time arguing about irrelevant non-work topics.
I'm telling you-- I have never seen the amount of meaningless distracting politically argumentative conversations at a company as I did at Unity
AI Police drones
Boston Robotics
Sam Altman
...because I am going to keep using uuid
From my vantage, I would ask: What are 1-3 main advantage(s) and/or disadvantage(s) has this choice had (or do you expect it to have) on your project?
"Any impact" ... taken literally, it is a set of potentially infinite items, due to the term "any". (as far as I can understand it).
any. "used to refer to one or some of a thing or number of things, no matter how much or how many.
- NodeJS, ReactJS, Postgres, on Linux (via DigitalOcean)
- Booted with Terraform. Opened & traffic-secured with Nginx + Certbot
- Everything running in Docker
Why did you choose it?
- JS: To reduce context switching, and I have a high level of familiarity with it
- Terraform: To automate & speed up server experimentation
- Docker: To make the app easier to transport & access
Do you think your choices had any impact on your success?
(i think this question is not well formulated. "any impact"? anything & everything can have "any impact" because its "any" as in "anything". It's like asking "Does anything impact you?" "Uh, yes, I am alive. Everything I encounter and perceive impacts me.". Maybe formulate a more specific/less vague question)
This is trivial [1, first image in article]? It looks like an Open Pit Coal Mine. I'm sure you'd appreciate if your local forest or parkland was turned into this.
I suppose we have different definitions of trivial.
Sounds like you enjoy polluted water, diseased wildlife, etc.
Personally, I care about the health of the humans, wildlife, and ecosystems.
"Concern Trolling" ...Get outside. Touch some grass and trees. I think you spend too much time online...
[1] https://qz.com/2156463/why-elon-musk-wants-tesla-to-start-mi...
Uhhh... Maybe consider giving away your laptop, and go live innawoods in a loincloth.
If you use "capitalist" dispargingly, while benefitting from it, I'd describe you as a hypocrite, naive, and immature.
If you're not a capitalist, stop accepting benefits created by capitalism.
Go find a deer, harvest its skin to clothe yourself, and drink from the local creek. ...or, continue being a comfy capitalist.
From what I discern, you've chosen the latter.
Have they identified the root causes?
do you mean make housing available? (I ask because "accomodations" could mean other things)
If so-- Who would pay for that housing?
Are you opening your door and renting out rooms for free? Do you expect other people to do so?
Asking my tax dollars to go towards the housing of an illegal entrant... when there are legal entrants waiting years to enter the country... Nah, doesn't make sense. Sounds more like theft.
Crossing the border illegally is the same as barging through my locked door into my house. And it's especially egregious when there is a system created specifically for LEGAL immigration.
It's a slap in the face to those who follow the lawful process, in our orderly society...
...by a person coming from a disorderly society (where 90%+ of crimes go unpunished-- as is the case in Mexico)
...who thinks they have the right to break the law in a country they aren't even legally allowed to enter.
I use MacOS because things just work. In using Ubuntu desktop, my UX just works most of the time, but I occasionally experience some strange UX bugs, and missing features.
For free software though it's pretty darn alright :)
...Compete... With what? I don't understand what you're saying.
Farms can't compete with farms?
To me it seems such a statement's validity would vary wildly because the value of land relative to intentions for agriculture or conservation, is dependent on geography.
It's not as though all areas receive the same subsidies or even need them. Nor do we know what subsidies or amounts are even being discussed. The whole statement just seems vague and undefined to me.
Say we're discussing private real estate in the context of agriculture & ecology-- Focusing on biodiversity, for example, has a much different ROI and perspective on that ROI, on the boundaries of a national park vs in a suburban neighborhood.
- Learn meditation
- Go to meditation retreat
- Keep practicing meditation. Use it as an exercise in focus.
- Sit and study. When you feel bored, close your eyes, take a deep breathe in and out, meditate for a bit. After a couple (or a few) minutes (maybe even get up for a stroll or a little break), then, continue work.
Re-Program your mind:
- Listen to motivational speeches & music daily on youtube and spotify
- Example Channels: Eric Thomas, David Goggins, Motiversity, Fearless Motivation.
Lastly: Exercise
If you're don't 1. have a focus practice, and if you aren't 2. actively programming your mind to create positive, optimistic though cycles, and aren't 3. exercising, then these are three important things that I recommend to you, which really helped me develop my discipline skill.
Something like OAuth2 or OICD "Permission Scopes" -- the permissions that a user can grant your app, just prior to their accepting the log in via that particular social-media authentication provider.
https://developers.facebook.com/docs/permissions/reference/
Here are examples:
https://www.loginradius.com/blog/engineering/facebook-authen...
One can choose to limit complexity. Nothing is stopping a personal from building things with html, css, and vanilla js.
Think of XHR -> Ajax -> Fetch API or others (Axios).
No one is stopping you from writing out a 20 line XHR request. You can also write a 2 line Axios (or some other XHR-wrapper library) request.
After I took the time study webpack (a day) or reactjs (a month) for example, I really appreciated the options webpack brought (code related plugins), and the structure reactjs brought to my project.
It's an individual OS with a filesystem of its own, based on the "image" and what is pre-installed (such as an OS, plus, if you choose: some extras pre-installed based on your project need.).
You can link your laptop or server (AKA your "host" computer) to it through Docker Volumes. And, you can link containers together through Docker Networks, for example.
So, you can see how a single compartmentalized OS (a "container") can: 1. interact with another computer's file system and 2. interact with another computer on a network. And, each one can be quite customized.
So, a container is an OS + filesystem* + network*
* = can be connected to others to transfer data
I am considering building a map related app on MapBox API.
Alternatively, there's the OSS "OpenLayers": https://openlayers.org/en/latest/examples/