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Post by porker »

colecut wrote: post #385

My son's mom died of cancer last February, and two days later they found tumors in my then girlfriend/now late fiancee. She passed away last month. I stopped working several months ago and have no immediate desire or need to go back to work. I'm not sure if it's a blessing or curse to have so much free time to grieve. Enjoying the downtime with occasional spontaneous bursts of tears. Edit: thank everyone for the kind…

I'm sorry.

People are precious and our time with them even more so.

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Post by BrandonM »

colecut wrote: post #385

My son's mom died of cancer last February, and two days later they found tumors in my then girlfriend/now late fiancee. She passed away last month. I stopped working several months ago and have no immediate desire or need to go back to work. I'm not sure if it's a blessing or curse to have so much free time to grieve. Enjoying the downtime with occasional spontaneous bursts of tears. Edit: thank everyone for the kind…

I'm very sorry for your loss. May their memory be a blessing.

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Post by sigil »

tppiotrowski wrote: post #23

A 2D slippy map that shows sun and shadow around the world. Today’s sunset around Puget Sound: https://shademap.app/#47.89056,-122.66785,7z,1635813675213t

This is great! It’s been on my hacking project list for a couple years now. Glad to see it go. :)

I hike a lot. Figuring out exactly where & when sunset will hit is next to impossible in mountainous terrain.

Feature request, if you’ll entertain one: instead of a 1-bit sun vs shade, show a heatmap of sun angle. Think “interactive golden hour map” for photographers.

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Post by adv0r »

philangist wrote: post #180

I won the IPO lottery and I’m in the middle ground between rich enough to never work again but not quite rich enough for the yachts/mansions/private jets lifestyle. I haven’t worked in 6 months and I’m struggling to find a larger meaning to my life beyond getting yet another tech job. I’ve considered going to college for a math degree, moving to my parents home country, and joining the military (among many other opti…

Same here, but without the meaningless feeling. Started like you, and quickly 6 months became two years. Now I have two kids that fill my day routine. And I too read philosophy and reddit a lot.

don't be sad.

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Post by umen »

wraptile wrote: post #332

I've started a free education blog on web-scraping: https://scrapecrow.com/ Web-scraping and reverse-engineering is such a brilliant subject in my opinion and there's an unsurprising lack of resource in this area as it's a rather secretive medium - as a good scraping/reverse engineering strategy is often considered to be a business secret. It started off as a need to not repeat myself on stackoverflow. Web-scraping i…

great site , what im missing on the web is information on how to build or use proxy server for use with the wev scrapers

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Post by zmmmmm »

waldohatesyou wrote: post #319

I wish I had something interesting to say here but honestly, kind of depressed. Not the clinical kind of course but more the aimless 24 year old kind. I've been working at this startup (or perhaps scaleup would be a better term considering they're already worth 7 billion dollars). It's great career-wise. I'm learning a lot and I feel like I'm being compensated fairly. But I thought my life would feel "complete" once…

> the close friends that I thought I made in university don't seem to care much for me these days

Just one dot point: a second wave of friendships comes when (if) you have children. It's a much under rated part of being a parent that suddenly you get thrown in with a whole new crowd of people also looking for like minded friends (since family based activities pretty much exclude all your old friends from most of what you now want to do).

Of course, this is not much help if you don't have a life partner yet, but just to say, don't conclude all your opportunities for friendship are gone.

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Post by rav3ndust »

I just finished spinning up a new xmpp server/site for myself and friends, as well as anyone else (its public - https://civitaz.xyz). Other than that, doing more stuff for FOSSphones (my Linux phone news site) and working on my side project TTS game. Fun stuff.

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Post by benjaminwootton »

muzani wrote: post #394
AYBABTME wrote: post #301

Earlier quoted context omitted.

If from the Coinbase IPO, you just got out of lockout and you're new to that amount of money. You're probably still near 100% invested in Coinbase and need to divest into something more diversified and less volatile than Coinbase before you can sit on your hands and look at the number in your brokerage account as if it was real retirement grade money. Plus you'll need to pay a ton of taxes on the capital gain. So don…

There's a Ask HN thread, maybe a few, of people who hit it rich and later lost it. The common theme is it's easier to make lots of money than it is to keep it, which is a little unintuitive.

Do you have a link to this one please? Sounds interesting!

Re: Ask HN: What you up to? (Who doesn't want to be hired?)

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Post by wraptile »

umen wrote: post #405
wraptile wrote: post #332

I've started a free education blog on web-scraping: https://scrapecrow.com/ Web-scraping and reverse-engineering is such a brilliant subject in my opinion and there's an unsurprising lack of resource in this area as it's a rather secretive medium - as a good scraping/reverse engineering strategy is often considered to be a business secret. It started off as a need to not repeat myself on stackoverflow. Web-scraping i…

great site , what im missing on the web is information on how to build or use proxy server for use with the wev scrapers

Thanks, that's a great suggestion! I actually have an article on proxies in the works however I'm a bit stuck on making it a bit more accessible since proxy access is either really expensive (for a single dev) or extremely unstable (like free proxies).

I've always had the luxury of paid quality proxies in my web-scrapers however for article purposes I'd like to have an example of cheap or free proxies for casual usage/education. Are you using something in particular?

One idea I've explored was using VPN service as a proxy but seems like most big VPN providers are not providing proxies anymore.

Anyway, I can PM you once I figure out how to put this together properly! :)

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