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I’ve found rejecting the tendency to reduce people to narratives so incredibly important with our children. Whether their latest choice has been probably good or probably bad, keep…

Technically, voting shares went to the trust, common shares went to an associated nonprofit. 100% between them.

This is close to three months, and many health plans renew at the beginning of each year, which accounts for the slight difference.

Almost anything smaller than a breadbox. I’m not trying to be flippant, but those are better starting conditions than I had for the moderately profitable craft kit or outdoor produ…

Something I’ve found helpful: imagine you were starting from scratch today. Is this still THE problem you would want to work on? If not, move on. You’re right that 6 mo is not a lo…

This only appears to be the case for https://news.ycombinator.com/news . None of the other pages or the index without the /news path.

When viewing tabs on Safari for iOS, the favicon for Hacker News is the Paris Review Eagle. This doesn't happen on other common browsers. What gives?

Well done - I’m working on something broadly similar for similar reasons. How do eventually plan to monetize to keep it ad-free?

Join a makerspace if you live near a substantial one. Mine (Protohaven in Pittsburgh) has both a CNC mill and a Morgan injection molder (a rare small injection molder good for 100s…

For those looking for more support (or criticism) for this way of thinking, the reasoning behind the priority view is quite similar to John Rawls’ arguments that people would adopt…

I’ve found http://ui-patterns.com/patterns to be particularly useful. The patterns both show you how others solve common design problems, and give you the vocabulary to meaningfull…

Let’s say ads will always make more money (I have no reason to believe they won’t), and that’s required to be the dominant search engine because the web is big and expensive to org…

I think Google was “better” from a users point of view in 2005 because it wasn’t that good at selling ads yet. I still remember the epiphany of the first time I used Google in 1999…