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I've been following Demis a lot over the past year and he's alluded to this in interviews that basically he'd rather be doing research than leading a team. I know a lot of people h…

I think this is true more often than many people want to admit. One of the most famous examples being Lennon and McCartney. Even though they couldn't stand each other near the end …

I've had a personal health dashboard tracking my metrics for the past four years. Yes I am quantifiably healthier than I was.

Yeah this is what I did. All my personal services are running on one EC2 instance and I use subdomains to separate them. If I need more memory it's easy to scale up. I just use sql…

I'm a fan of Boox although I have the larger model.

I wrote a bit about this here as well. Don't really have the best solution yet but hope it helps https://mattmccormick.ca/we-re-all-managers-now-my-journey-i...

Closer to 10 months actually - Oct (Sept if you include the pre-season) through June. But just to add on for comparison, the NHL has 1312 regular season games. Plus 4 rounds of bes…

I know this isn't the point of your post, but as an aside, how come Intuit is an example of being grandfathered in? I wonder if we'll see the rise of plain text accounting[1] in an…

Here's the full version https://www.eff.org/wp/digital-privacy-us-border-2017 One of the names in the byline matches his HN username so it's likely this.

Note: The HN headline says "US citizen charged" but the article's headline and content do not mention his status at all.

I recall a similar quote from Elton John that I'll paraphrase: "I've had a lot of hits so you'd think I'd know in advance which ones will become hits. Songs that I was sure would b…

> I built a SaaS in a few hours. It does its job better than tools people pay real money for. It's easy to build something for yourself that solves your own use case. You know how …

I also really like Boox. I'm on my 2nd Boox product now having upgraded from my old Max Lumi so that I could get colours.

Reading and understanding documentation and producing clear, written requirements will be more critical than it is today. We've always known documentation is important but it's fre…

Same here. I tried something similar to Superpowers and it went completely overboard for a small bug fix - writing a TDD, generating artifacts, etc.

Even the CEO's "apology" is pretty bad. He still finds a way to take shots at the original poster saying his original message was inflammatory (could also be read as how I'm justif…

Wow, you sound exactly like me - except I have a bit less years of experience. Let me know if you want to connect to help keep stay motivated (email in profile)

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Bezos' parents lent him $250k to start Amazon. The point is that by the time Bezos started Amazon they were wealthy and could provide him this safety net. Not many middle class fam…

Reminds me of a blog post I once read from a manager writing about all the qualities of being a good manager. I read it nodding along that they all seemed like good traits. Then in…