ramijames

Ya, I'm sure the guy had his reasons. We were just kids. It's not like we were going to be buying a $4k computer. We were just a nuisance.

Ya, could be. We didn't get a copy at home for a while. Mostly, I remember when we got a new 486, which did have Windows 95. It was a multimedia machine with a CD-ROM and a fancy new copy of Myst. I remember being totally blown away.

I remember being 15, that August. We were excited for this release. My dorky friends and I went to a local computer store and tried to get the clerk to show us what Windows 95 was like. He had a pre-release version installed on one of their computers. I don't even remember how we knew.

The clerk refused to show us. I'm still irritated about it.

I'm in Boston. I'll never earn enough to buy property here. I'll never have a mortgage.

Sorry, but I don't care what other people think. It's my money and I'm careful with it.

The entire credit card industry is set up to squeeze out as much profit from people as possible. They offer discounts as an incentive, but it is a huge trap that many, many people fall into. I'm not interested in risk. I'm interested in simplicity.

It's participating in the credit card industry that is foolish.

I haven't considered this. I'm just one guy and juggling a bunch of different brands would be a lot of technical and marketing overhead I'm just not set up for right now. Probably worth thinking about though. Thanks for the idea.

I'm 46. I've never had a credit card. I have a bank account and a debit card. If I can't afford something, I don't buy it.

You can just opt out of using credit cards.

It felt like they are targeting EE labs, because that's what they personally are using them for. It felt out of sync with the video of Workbench.. doing web development work. I don't know. I think it's a cool idea and maybe for $500 I'd buy one. For $2000? No thanks.

I really wouldn't know. I haven't had any real exposure to either. I visited Maine once. It seemed nice.

I usually compare the US to Switzerland. I live in Boston, but was born in Lugano (southern tip of Switzerland).

Switzerland has an excellent quality of life, far better education system, remarkable stability, and amazingly good healthcare. The companies pay people well, give them adequate time off, and has 16+ weeks of maternity leave.

There are some pretty significant downsides in Switzerland, too. It's highly conservative, hard to make friends with the Swiss, and fairly expensive, depending on where you live.

We live in Boston because of family. It's a decent enough place to live, and from my perspective, just about the closest that the US gets to Europe.

You're right, my answer wasn't clear. I'm saying that I've identified a few places that actively produce job listings with the sole intent of getting you to sign up for their service. It's a dark pattern and I've banned them for it.

As for the name: It was an intentional brand choice. I'm not trying to build "most job boards" and I'm sick of toxic positivity. Don't like the name? Use Indeed or LinkedIn instead. It's your choice.

Lastly, your characterization of the site as a "bottom-feeding scraper bot" says more about how you view technology than it does about the site. By that measure, Google is the same thing as it goes out on a schedule, scrapes site for content, creates an index, and serves that to users who query. It's a one-to-one mapping.

Ya, I spent a month building a pretty complex scraper system that targets ~75-100K companies around the world and manually scrapes their career pages. It was just a fun thing for me to do and it morphed into something useful for others. I had never built a scraping system from the ground up and I really enjoyed it.

I appreciate that, and the feedback. Will find some time over the weekend to add it. We already have these facets, I just don't expose them in the filters. Good call.

I have a blacklist that filters them out at scrape-time.

I run a mid-sized job board (https://miserablyunemployed.com/) and I deal with a substantial amount of reports from users about jobs that aren't accurate or don't exist. They get taken down immediately.

The worse offenders are the companies that are using fake jobs to drive traffic to their sites. There is a special place in hell for those people.

I wish that legal systems were better equipped to deal with bad actors that obey the letter of the law, but skirt ethical and moral boundaries. I think a lot of the worst things in the world would get fixed if we had some better way of dealing with them.

I found the UI really interesting. Nice to see a group really trying something new. This really feels a lot like the raw experimentation of computer types and styles in the 80s.

https://customer-i8ks9tgi5lkllj0i.cloudflarestream.com/c60aa...

I remember the cost of RAM in the 80s and 90s. If I remember correctly my mom paid ~$1000 for 32mb of RAM in 94/95. Something or other like that.

While they have spiked this year, the trend is towards more RAM for cheaper.

https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/historical-cost-of-comput...

I think right now AI is mostly providing a much better experience for using a computer for people that already have deep knowledge of how to use a computer. For example, no matter how many times I've tried to explain how to use it, my wife is just happy to keep plugging away at what she does without leveraging AI for automating away the repetitive parts of her work. I think she's a much more real-world use-case than I am. I like to tinker. She just wants to do what she does.

Oh, I know, but the prices that I get on Amazon are definitely cheaper than what I can get from the real Wholefoods 500 meters away. It's absurdist.

Mostly I'm buying Amazon groceries because here in Boston if you don't have a car and access to Costco, wow are your local shops over-priced. Wholefoods, Star Market, and Trader Joes are all at least 25% more expensive.

In general I've been really happy to leverage Claude to quickly build software that only I use. It fits my needs exactly and I don't have to worry so much about how others will use it, if it is generalized enough, if the documentation is up to date, etc.

It's kind of nice.

I think, from a business perspective, they just don't see us at all. We're such a small, inconsequential part of the market that building open, free hardware with code that we can update, change, or alter for our needs is just.. not part of their business use-case.

In all fairness, so do I.

I also use Firefox on my mobile device. I have to admit: I'm not a huge fan of the interface. Super clunky.

Except now you can just install standard extensions in Firefox.

I don't want a chrome version of something. I want an independent browser that isn't effectively some version of adware.

I'll never understand why people don't get on board with migrating away from adware.

I appreciate it a lot. I shot you an email yesterday. Have a nice weekend.

If you haven't been using Firefox, what are you even doing with your life?

No job, no money, no healthcare.

For me, my life has gotten so stressful and awful, I just need to get away from my anxiety and the best way is through distraction. Music, podcasts, and audio books help me maintain some semblance of normalcy. I can't even fall asleep without some distraction. I'll stay up all night stressing about not being able to find work, my kid's futures, my piling up of bills, inflation, ever expanding war, etc.

I'll second this. I avoided React Native because I absolutely loathe using React in general (much prefer Vue/Nuxt or Svelte/SvelteKit). Flutter has been an absolute pleasure to build the mobile version of https://miserablyunemployed.com with. It's all really straightforward and I haven't experienced any real gotchas yet.