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undefined_user6on Ask HN: What resources do you recommend for learning Haskell?

I also found this course to be a great resource!

undefined_user6on Ask HN: Is there any software you only made for your own use but nobody else?

This is genuinely cool, but, just curious, why not use an ad-blocker like uBlock?

undefined_user6on Qlock – A JavaScript Quine Clock

The Mandelbrot one is really cool too (click to start)

undefined_user6on Ask HN: Charging a Client for On-Call Time

> If their website is a core part of their business, it's enormous - they're getting the peace of mind that if anything happens they have someone reliable they can call to get things fixed.

Good point! This is kind of what I was thinking: since they are a software company, the value of $1000/month is like you never have to worry about your company suddenly breaking.

undefined_user6on Ask HN: Charging a Client for On-Call Time

> You've been doing it for a few months, so you have an idea of how disruptive it is, and having done it for free, the thought of $1000 for doing the same thing may sound nice now, but be sure to extrapolate it out another 6 months or so of being tethered 24x7 to work, and price it based on how you're going to feel then, not now.

Good point. Perhaps I can charge $1500 instead.

undefined_user6on Ask HN: Charging a Client for On-Call Time

Thanks! This is a great idea.

undefined_user6on Ask HN: Charging a Client for On-Call Time

Hey, yep I'm in the US. Thanks! Yeah I feel like more explanation is probably better.

undefined_user6on Ask HN: Those making $500/month on side projects in 2022 – Show and tell

FWIW, I also couldn't find it at first. Took me like a minute to find it.

undefined_user6on How is search so bad? A case study

That can't be right if, according to OP, the first result was a reddit post from six years ago, yet the date according to Google was Jan 11, 2020. So the first time Google saw that page would likely have been the day it was published.

undefined_user6on Rush Drummer Neil Peart Dead at 67

RIP. One of the best drummers and lyricists of all time from one of the best bands of all time.

undefined_user6on People Who Are Obsessed with Success and Prestige

Article for those interested: https://www.nytimes.com/2015/04/12/opinion/sunday/david-broo...

undefined_user6on Ask HN: Are books worth it?

Don Quixote is the funniest book I've read in my entire life.

undefined_user6on Happy New Year HN!

I like the idea of privacy workshops. Do you have any resources for someone who is interested in organizing something similar?

undefined_user6on Ask HN: Which is the most successful one-person business you heard of in 2019?

That's awesome. Just FYI the link to the Firefox extension at the above URL is a dead end.

undefined_user6on Ask HN: Best books you read in the past decade?

Wherever you go, there you are by Jon Kabat-Zin

Meditations by Marcus Aurelius

Neither were written this decade but they influenced my worldview the most, by far.

undefined_user6on Show HN: Dating Site Without Pictures

Is it normal to provide relationship history on dating sites nowadays? I would feel extremely uncomfortable just giving out that info.

undefined_user6on Go through your family's phone settings and turn on all the privacy features

This link to a recent NYT article about mobile privacy options from the tweets comments is also relevant: https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2019/12/19/opinion/locat...

undefined_user6on Show HN: SlowTube – Learn songs by ear by slowing them down

I think it's just youtube's playback algorithm

undefined_user6on Ask HN: Any recommendation for minimalist web app language?

I'm not sure exactly what you mean by 'minimalist', but Elm (elm-lang.org) seems really cool. I want to try it out on the next web app I make.

undefined_user6on Ask HN: I can’t pass tech screens, Should I change careers?

thanks for those links. I didn't know that so many other people thought the big tech companies' hiring processes were broken, too.