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Ask HN: What is your “I don't care if this succeeds” project?

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Post by sdfkj2 »

scarecrowbob wrote: post #398

I'm a musician. Long term. 43 years old, been playing forever. Don't care if I get any success at it. Not a hobby. Makes money sometimes. I play professionally. For money. On stage. If you play for your entire life, you can get really good at a ton of things. I played pedal steel at a rehearsal for my country band tonight. I played piano at a rehearsal for my hot club jazz band on Monday. I played upright bass at a r…

You aren't "succesful" because you have a "real" job that you care too much about. (You're a geek, not a musician.) A "real" musician tells the boss, the wife, the son to go "fuck themselves" and plays to an audience of homeless pedos if he has to, because it's in his blood man. It just ain't in your blood.

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Post by byecancer21 »

throwawayHN378 wrote: post #628
light_cone wrote: post #556

Earlier quoted context omitted.

It is sad that you would rather believe the parent has mental health issues, rather than entertain the possibility that yes, someone is actually doing something effective against powerful corrupt people, and that requires creative thinking. To me, it echoes "Discourse on Voluntary Servitude" by La Boétie. Powerful people are just people. They are powerful because we are collectively granting them that power. This is…

It’s fairly obvious to infer that OP is experiencing some type of psychosis or schizotypical behavior

Not being able to tell if the facts are true I see why one might be inclined to think as much. I did discuss the matter with friends throughout the course of events to assure my own sanity however, also because certain aspects are in our view rather entertaining.

A future matter is the health data protection violation the judge's family committed by hiring problem solving consultants first and giving them my personal info, prior to escalating to a false threat claim.

Interestingly the law assigns such cases to her branch of the judiciary.

So this judge might soon become a witness or even defendant at her very own court, in a matter directed against her actions.

I will grant you this sounds crazy on the face of it. It is the law however (SGB X).

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Post by mellavora »

tgsovlerkhgsel wrote: post #407
Galanwe wrote: post #275

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I hope original comments see this. Advising investment vehicles for money, without proper disclaimers and a licence is a very bad idea.

I feel like licensing could be an issue, but if you're advertising that you will lose someone's money, either you succeed (hard to argue that the customer didn't get exactly what they asked for), or you fail (hard to prove damages).

Rational interpretation, meet law. Law, meet rational interpretation.

we already know how this ends.

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Post by dorianmariefr »

franga2000 wrote: post #651

I've been working on a project that aggregates data for every public transport provider in the country (Slovenia) and presents it as a simple API, along with an application to find rides with as few clicks as possible (without having to check every provider's website). This has involved tiring meetings with city officials convincing them to give us access to the data and writing scraping bots where they weren't convi…

maybe not being in closed beta could help?

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Post by circlefavshape »

stillblue wrote: post #641
scarecrowbob wrote: post #398

I'm a musician. Long term. 43 years old, been playing forever. Don't care if I get any success at it. Not a hobby. Makes money sometimes. I play professionally. For money. On stage. If you play for your entire life, you can get really good at a ton of things. I played pedal steel at a rehearsal for my country band tonight. I played piano at a rehearsal for my hot club jazz band on Monday. I played upright bass at a r…

I'm 31 and just started learning music a year ago. Ever since I started this is probably the only thing I actually enjoy doing everyday. Is it possible to get to a level of proficiency at this point in life where you get to play good enough you can start getting paid for it?

Making a living out of music is difficult, but it's not that hard to make pocket money from playing in bar bands. You don't need much in the way of technical proficiency, but probably you'll need to do a lot of playing (esp with other musicians) to learn things like stagecraft and timing before anyone will give you a paid gig.

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Post by chasd00 »

I’m in the high power rocketry hobby. I want to get to the karman line. This year I’m on track to reach 130k feet which is about 1/3 the way there.

There’s no making money or early retirement possibility with this hobby nor fame and glory. Just something cool, so if i do it that’s awesome but if not it’s still fun trying.

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Post by tormeh »

melony wrote: post #357
jvanderbot wrote: post #123

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HN hug of death. And well deserved, I had a great time with this one.

Isn't elixir supposed to scale better than this?

BEAM is not fast. You're probably going to get better performance with Node.js. It is however really really low-latency. But that doesn't help with handling load. Anyway, even so I'd guess bandwidth or the database is the issue.

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Post by Centigonal »

AussieWog93 wrote: post #653
mikemcquaid wrote: post #638

I’m the project leader for Homebrew and have been maintaining it for 12 years. I have no planned dramatic changes for it or expectations I’ll radically improve it in any way. I just try to keep all parts of the project ticking along and I still enjoy doing so, despite feeling no real obligation to continue.

Possibly dumb question, but have you considered looking for a successor to take over the project? Homebrew has basically reached the point where it's "critical infrastructure" for macOS devs, and it would really be a damn shame to see it slowly fade away just because the creator has moved onto other things.

I think you may be misunderstanding GP's clarity around the intended scope of the project with a lack of enthusiasm about maintaining the project.

Homebrew is critical infrastructure, which is exactly why it shouldn't change dramatically.

Now, if GP has lost interest in the project, or doesn't have the time to keep it running satisfactorily, I'd definitely agree with you - but I didn't get that impression from his post.

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Post by samhw »

jheriko wrote: post #658

a compiler generator working from descriptions of the language producing a clang quality compiler (with richer errors actually...) with LLVM backend. it actually already works, with a few short cuts for generating itself... and ive used bits of it to do the 'make a scheme in x hours' thing in x/10 hours... the next step is unpicking those shortcuts so it can be completely generalised - there is no theoretical boundar…

Similarly, I've been working on a faster interpreter for Python, making more tradeoffs than the existing alternatives do (e.g. no C ABI compatibility, no eval/exec, etc; but usable auto-migration for real-world projects) and achieving more performance. By now I've learned to ditch parser generators and I usually copy-paste-alter my own derivative-assisted (https://matt.might.net/papers/might2011derivatives.pdf) bottom-up chart parser.

It also makes a hell of a lot of use of 'continuous program optimisation' for performance, which I think should be in wider use. In general, the principle of adapting optimisations for the specific program seems to get neglected in favour of treating every program as though it were the lowest common denominator. (Say, maybe you need a top-down parser for your LSP server, but you can use a bottom-up parser for your compiler.)

I have a deep philosophical belief in eliminating wasteful computation – I think we as software engineers have a responsibility not to waste energy, in excess of the logical minimum required by the job at hand – so I have more of an interest in this than the bulk of programmers, who seem to regard performance engineering as some sort of nerd game that's rarely advisable.

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