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LOL, yes. I'm a coder, ran my own "startups" (small businesses, no VC, no hypergrowth) from 2000 to 2014, my .emacs is thousands of lines long, etc. TY for the positive reviews of …

Thank you! So kind of you to take the time to say so!

This is similar to how I've been living on my homestead for the last 8 years, and I'm enjoying myself.

I made the jump 8 years and 3 days ago. (In fact, I wrote books about it https://www.amazon.com/Escape-City-1-Travis-Corcoran/dp/B093... and https://www.amazon.com/Escape-City-2-Tr…

This is an excellent point @bluntfang. I'll be very upfront: homesteading is a money losing proposition. It's a consumption good - it costs more than any (monetary) profit it bring…

Author of "Escape the City" here. I didn't "need" $90k to write the book. I chose to sell copies of a book, at typical book prices. Thousands of people chose to buy the book. That'…

Website won't let me read the article without signing in. Thesis proven!

The only winning move is not to play.

Agreed. "1 year sabbatical, backpacked around Asia." If I saw that on a resume I'd think it was awesome. (...and I've hired dozens of people).

There is a an issue in all statistics: "the seen and the unseen". It basically means "measuring benefits but not measuring costs". Even if the statistics is accurate. Even if denyi…

I fear that trying Scrivener might launch me into a five year quest to duplicate some of its features in elisp! :)

I've been using emacs for about 27 years, and even wrote two novels ( e.g. https://www.amazon.com/dp/B005JPPMS6 ) in it. Author friends tell me that I've really really REALLY got t…

Garbage article with garbage headline. One person expresses his political opinion. Unworthy of HN.

So much this. If you aren't generating profits, and want someone to work for you, either: * borrow the money in your own name * borrow against your house * don't bring them on You'…

I did this for six months. I live in NH, I got a well paying contract in MA, and they needed me to work 60 hrs/week to rescue a project. The 60 hrs/week is key, because it made the…

> SiteStacks can find the technology used at any domain I punched in a URL of a website I built, it didn't have data, went out to get some, then reported back that it couldn't. Mea…

> The geodesic dome is brilliant in how it minimizes the amount of materials needed to enclose a given space. Except sheet material is sold in rectangles, so you end up with a huge…

yep!

> Manufacturing of any kind is as competitive as hell. Absolutely true. And this is why I was very specific about picking a high end niche, and using tons of jigs, etc. If you try …

Woodworker. From running two small ecommerce companies I think I've learned enough about MVP, shipping, inventory management, etc. From 25 years as a software engineer I've learned…

There seem to be more and more "high tech farm" threads on news.yc over the last few months, and I've got several friends who are doing the same thing I'm doing: making a living as…

> Potatoes - Incredibly easy to grow. I lost my entire crop to the Colorado Potato Beetle https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Colorado_potato_beetle in 2016. Note: "However, many chemica…

As I've said in other threads re high-tech farming ( https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13063841 ), most of these websites and startups and schemes are completely inane. I'd bet …

I probably spent $50k in my first two years on my farm. * 30 HP tractor - $14k * brushhog, back blade, cone spreader, log splitter - $3k * 1,000 ft^2 greenhouse - $5k * water to gr…