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I've been a hobbyist programmer since I was about 6 years old. I had done just about every other job in IT besides sling code. Reading HN and conversing with a friend of mine in a CS program at Uni are what motivated me to turn my hobby into a new career, at 31 years old. It was through HN that I realized that I knew a heck of a lot more relevant job skills than I thought I did. Threads on HN also connected the dots…
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You're most welcome -- glad I had the link. > Very hard to find such data. That is the understatement of the decade.
Huh interesting the site is offering the free data as a byproduct to sell affordably priced subscriptions. They could probably improve their SEO, unless they are new within the past nine months or so. When I searched historical options prices extensively nothing came up. Do you have any affiliation with them? If not I can reach out directly. There are some pretty obvious strategies that would make them much more prom…
But by all means reach out to me if you've got a winning options strategy :-) or want freelance data-mangling or web stuff done (I'm retired, I'm a pretty good programmer) to get there.
I learned how to negotiate when someone linked to the famous kalzumeus software article on the subject. I've probably made tens of thousands of extra dollars in my life from it.
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> In order to keep the EV/time positive, I have become more disciplined around which articles I decide to read the comments on. Can you expand on your methods here? I still get value from HN but want to dial things back a bit.
The average comment quality nosedives when the subject has in any way been politicized. I don’t always follow it, but as a rule for any post about climate, immigration, diversity, and so on reading the comments is at best a waste of time even when the submission is high quality. Comment quality is generally high on computing related technical subjects—unsurprisingly for a community composed of subject matter experts.…
The thing to realize about HN, social media more broadly, and life in general, is that there is always much more noise than signal, but there are also always nuggets of extremely valuable signal mixed in at random with the noise. If you want to discover the signal, you can't hate the noise. Understand that noise may even be a generator of signal. Embrace it, explore it, and harvest the signal from it. As such, a few…
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I've been a hobbyist programmer since I was about 6 years old. I had done just about every other job in IT besides sling code. Reading HN and conversing with a friend of mine in a CS program at Uni are what motivated me to turn my hobby into a new career, at 31 years old. It was through HN that I realized that I knew a heck of a lot more relevant job skills than I thought I did. Threads on HN also connected the dots…
Did you become a software engineer?
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Last I ran the numbers (which was a couple years ago) the HN community was at least 50% outside the US.
But the assumption is that the US userbase is concentrated in the bay area. So its mostly people in or near SF and the like.
It's nothing and not a huge amount of money but it's my SaaS after 10 years trying to make and build a profitable SaaS app that people are willing to use and pay for.
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the app is an email forwarding service https://hanami.run