More money.
Ask HN: What would make your life better?
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Re: Ask HN: What would make your life better?
#12More money.
The other day here I saw an Ask HN about how to enter the "$300K club". While I have a low cost of living abroad ($600/mo total), I'd be super happy to enter the $1K/mo club, and over the moon if I could get it up to $2K. For that, I'd need a better understanding of my skill set as well as how to develop a better one.
Re: Ask HN: What would make your life better?
#13More money.
The other day here I saw an Ask HN about how to enter the "$300K club". While I have a low cost of living abroad ($600/mo total), I'd be super happy to enter the $1K/mo club, and over the moon if I could get it up to $2K. For that, I'd need a better understanding of my skill set as well as how to develop a better one.
Yeah I saw that post, it was quite depressing. I'm a techie that has no interests in management, and where I live rent is £950+/mo (around $1300) without bills/council tax etc.
There's nothing quite like slaving away all day, completing on-call shifts and doing work on the weekends now and then, and being able to save barely any money towards buying a house instead of renting (as renting is a mug's game in the south of the UK).
Re: Ask HN: What would make your life better?
#14Passing this Amazon interview.
Re: Ask HN: What would make your life better?
#15Something like Uber, but for stabbing annoying people who won't stop bugging you with lame startup ideas in the face! ;-)
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#16Rental search that makes it easy to find a pet-friendly place. I live in London, UK, and although we have a few good property search engines (Nestoria, Zoopla, etc), none of them have a simple way to sort between pet-friendly and not.
I feel days of these rental portals are numbered - tech behind these are pre-Facebook days and they serve few million static pics!
Re: Ask HN: What would make your life better?
#17Something like Uber, but for stabbing annoying people who won't stop bugging you with lame startup ideas in the face! ;-)
Fist over IP.
Re: Ask HN: What would make your life better?
#18Rental search that makes it easy to find a pet-friendly place. I live in London, UK, and although we have a few good property search engines (Nestoria, Zoopla, etc), none of them have a simple way to sort between pet-friendly and not.
I feel days of these rental portals are numbered - tech behind these are pre-Facebook days and they serve few million static pics!
What do you think they'll be replaced by?
Re: Ask HN: What would make your life better?
#19Rental search that makes it easy to find a pet-friendly place. I live in London, UK, and although we have a few good property search engines (Nestoria, Zoopla, etc), none of them have a simple way to sort between pet-friendly and not.
On the subject of renting in London, something that disrupts letting agents, and/or facilitates renting directly to tenants.
They seem to be the worst kind of parasitic middlemen, and it seems to be in the interests of both landlord and tenant to get rid of them. But they remain stubbornly popular.
Failing that, our useless government could at least ban them from imposing exploitative "reference checking" fees.
Re: Ask HN: What would make your life better?
#20* A nice kitchen set. Probably the anodized aluminum or something. Non-stick, all the required sizes, but no extras (I hate storing extra stuff in the kitchen), matching. Handles attached well.
* The ability to sharpen things to "scary sharp." Mostly hand tools like chisels and planes.
* A stack of hardwood.
* A riding lawnmower. You try mowing ~2 hilly acres with a push mower (not even self-propelled!)
* Time to complete some programming courses or books. I'm becoming numb to programming; my work isn't very interesting, and so none of the programming I do is particularly exciting. The courses would give me some ideas to apply to my work, at least.