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

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

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Post by light_cone »

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

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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

Well, adding "obviously" to an argument does not add anything to the argument.

I can see how you _might_ think this some type of mental health issue, but seeing a behavior that is weird from your point of view does not make it a medical behavior automatically. It might, it might not, and you can't tell for sure.

To push another armchair diagnosis with exactly the same value, I'd say it looks someone who plays the game of life at a high level, which can sometimes looks like lunacy from the outside. But that's just like, my opinion, man.

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

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Post by darekkay »

Most of the projects I do are because they are useful to myself. I'm happy if other people find them useful, but I don't depend on them becoming successful.

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https://github.com/darekkay/dashboard

Customizable personal dashboard and startpage. I have a pinned Firefox tab that I check daily to get a quick overview of some areas I find important.

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https://github.com/darekkay/static-marks

Shareable bookmarks. I have first built it to maintain a list of bookmarks for me and my work colleages. Later I have migrated all my personal bookmarks as well. Now I can type "sm" (for static marks) in any of my browsers followed by a search term to open Static Marks and get to all my bookmarks, filtered by the search term.

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https://github.com/darekkay/evaluatory

Web page evaluation with a focus on accessibility. My motivation was that my blog previously had a small accessibility issue. I didn't catch it, as I've tested only the desktop breakpoint. Evaluatory runs axe-core at multiple breakpoints at the same time and generates an HTML report.

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

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Post by dimitar »

bojangleslover wrote: post #545
dimitar wrote: post #429

There is a company registered that commits the following mobile ads fraud: * The buy targeted ads from Google, served on YouTube targeting small children and clients of a particular carrier * When you click on the ad (even if by mistake) you find that you are subscribed to a game service and immediately charged a small fee (5 euros) via your carrier (DCB). You may or may not see a chrome window open and close. * If y…

The number of times that anti patterns have morphed into this (literal fraud) seems to be increasing lately. For example, after paying extra for a refundable ticket from JetBlue, it was impossible to cancel. Their "cancel ticket" button threw an error saying "This part of our website isn't working, please call this number" for which there was obviously a 6+ hour wait. I'm really keen on finding a systematic way of pr…

The systematic problem is the carriers who are processing such payments and don't ban abusive merchants, even when getting tons of complaints from users.

Here I don't think there is a legitimate mainstream use for DCB beside connecting to Google Play and Apple Store. The carriers can and should be able to tell me where my charges where coming from. Instead they call centre told me "its probably something you got from Google Play" even thought I've disabled the DCB payment method there. I found the vendor by inspecting my history as clicking an ad leaves a trace. Most consumers probably are not savvy enough to do that and give up at that point.

Edit: Even worse, this carrier offers a "safety online" package.. that is almost extortion since its safety they fail to ensure if you don't buy the package.

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

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Post by lucas03 »

For me it's easy. I've been working on it for past 8 years, as it started as a school project and I have been slowly extending it. Why I don't care if it makes money? I keep the costs low. Why I don't care if it won't get attention? Hmm, I guess I do, positive feedback is always nice to hear. But I would be working on it even if nobody else would be using it, as I use it myself and I find it helpful for planning my future. Oh, it's digrin.com, portfolio manager for dividends.

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

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Post by coffeefirst »

sundarurfriend wrote: post #421
coffeefirst wrote: post #62

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At this point I absolutely don't want my personal blog to "succeed." I don't want attention, or fame, or any of the shenanigans that come along with a large following. If it ever achieved these things I'd probably delete it. Building stuff just for yourself is underrated.

It would be ironic if you followed that comment with a link to the blog :D

Yes but if I did that I'd need to perfect the absurdity by adding an aggressive "sign up for my newsletter" lightbox, and that's a line I can't cross.

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Post by achenet »

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're an inspiration man, thanks for posting that. :)

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Post by exikyut »

tormeh wrote: post #667
melony wrote: post #357

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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.

> BEAM is not fast

> It is however really really low latency

I've been interested in Erlang for a while, and reading this is intriguing. Taken literally the above makes no sense :) but it also kind of... does, sort of, and I would like to understand how this works.

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Post by telesilla »

Centigonal wrote: post #669
AussieWog93 wrote: post #653

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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 po…

If I understand correctly, it's not about losing interest but ensuring there is a successor for when GP wishes to step back or is forced to do so. The community should acknowledge this and fund training and possibly salary for who's next.

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

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Post by wila »

A programmer's text editor for a language called DataFlex, written in DataFlex (well some parts are in C++ for performance reasons)

https://projects.vdf-guidance.com/projects/hammer

It's only 21 years in the making :)

Oh and I should mention that it is my main programmers editor for a variety of languages (not just DataFlex)

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