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The Odd Lots podcast puts my wife to sleep

I think I signed up one of the first days after it launched, it was called Startup News. Either from a pg essay or reddit, can't remember which.

I have a history going back to 2012, which is great. I've always worried Spotify would stop working with last.fm, I wonder if this makes it more or less likely.

For me personally, looking for solutions like this and researching tinnitus makes it more noticeable and worse. The best approach for me has been to pretend it doesn't exist and is…

I always traced this to Ryan Holiday marketing the philosophy and selling books on the topic and starting a YouTube channel "The Daily Stoic"

This page shows some sites still using ColdFusion: https://w3techs.com/technologies/details/pl-coldfusion NPS.gov walgreens.com acm.org Cornell University: https://www.cornell.edu/…

Yeah, the people I've worked with at startups never said things like "I'm worried I'll get in trouble", they just did shit

Not large compared to Microsoft and Amazon, but Nintendo: https://arstechnica.com/gaming/2024/09/legendary-mario-creat...

Sharp Tech with Ben Thompson

I was finishing up engineering school around this time. I just remember handing out my resume at various career fairs and not getting any interest. Most of my friends and I took ve…

Yeah, I bought past versions of the Surface and the Surface Book. They would often never wake up from sleep or the battery would be dead unexpectedly. Hard for me to trust them aft…

There was an interview with the CEO on This Week in Startups today that answers some of these questions: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X-MNgciL5hw

Was reading about Blank Street Coffee raising money recently to compete: https://www.fastcompany.com/90867251/blank-street-coffee-rai...

I lived in Seattle for 4 years (2014-2017) and moved to SF in 2017. 1. Over time the weather in Seattle got to me and I became depressed. I've gotten more sunshine in the Bay Area …

Just follow the accounts of the tools and authors you mentioned on Twitter. LangChainAI, hwchase17, huggingface, replit, etc. It seems like there is a meetup in SF every few days l…

Any promising cures for tinnitus in the future? I've had it since 2018 and it appeared during a time when I was very stressed out. I have learned how to tune it out and live with i…

My path was to join a mobile game company and work server side. There is plenty of need for vanilla REST APIs, content management systems, build pipelines, devops, admin panel deve…

Developer Relations / Developer Advocate jobs involve a lot of travel.

For those not aware, you can also access O'Reilly books online through many local libraries for free: Seattle: https://www.spl.org/books-and-media/books-and-ebooks/oreilly... San F…

I second this. I've used PostgreSQL for a long time, but in the past couple of years I've spent time learning how to use TimeScaleDB, PostGIS, and the JSON data types. Recently I'v…

I was a full time web dev on a 2011 Air with 4 GB, so this one should be good :).

Similar experience, lived in both Seattle and Portland. There is a lot to like about the Pacific Northwest and I loved living there the first few years. But as the years passed I g…

Michael Arrington argues Silverlight is the future of the web https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18531 Segway, Google+, Google Glass, Theranos

From what I remember, Hacker News enjoyed crypto discussions in its very early days (early 2010's) when it was just bitcoin and a small number of technologists discussing it. I thi…