Could we make this a monthly post, just like the Who's Hiring one? I miss that aspect of HN.
+1, this is a great idea!
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#8021. Building a time tracker that encourages deep work [1]. It's an interesting experience and I'm fascinated by the amount of complexity that is hidden behind building a "simple" time tracker. Reminds me of "Reality has a surprising amount of detail"[2].
2. Writing more, but publishing less. In the past I've been publishing one article per week, but I've later realized that this doesn't improve my writing skills, but just builds my writing habit. These articles end up being low-quality pieces that are easily forgettable. So, now I've changed my approach and I'm investing more time into each article.
[1]: https://ciklus.app/
[2]: http://johnsalvatier.org/blog/2017/reality-has-a-surprising-...
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#803I reverse engineer/decompile games (and sometimes applications) from the 80s/early 90s for fun. The more complex the program, the more fun it is. As an extra challenge, I try to avoid runtime monitoring (i.e. in an emulator) and try to rely as much as possible solely on what I see in the binary file. Other people do sudokus, I stare for hours at disassembled code to figure out what complex data structure the game is…
I couldn't find it in your profile, but do you write/vlog about this somewhere? Would love to follow you and learn something!
Thank you for your interest. I don't have a public blog or vlog. When I reverse engineer a game, I sometimes post my findings in forums dedicated to the specific platform the game was runninng on. But I don't want to link those here due to privacy reasons (I don't want that the accounts that I used there can be connected to the account I am using here).
But I am currently planning to write a longer and more detailed article about a game I have reverse engineered. I will send you a mail when it is available.
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#804Good news: This year, we've doubled the revenue in our (now) core business. Bad news: This is keeping me really, really busy. I need to figure out how to offload some of the admin work, as most of what I'm doing is writing emails. My job has somehow become a mix of course administrator, manager, marketer, customer service person, tech person, business owner, podcast host, etc.... Really need to figure out how to rein…
you can't just pay a digital assistant $5/hr to do some of it?
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#805Not sure I should put it in this thread, but heck, here goes my caffeine deprived sleep. I've been grinding Leetcode and System Design questions for about 2 months now, hoping to land a job from India to US or UK maybe. This stride of mine comes in after trying 2 Saas products ( unfinished ofc) and realising that I'm not mature enough to tread on indiehacker path yet. Also, after seeing the second COVID-19 wave handl…
you're not considering Canada?
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#806Outside of work (which is great), my main personal battle at the moment is adapting to yet another foreign country. Have done quite a bit of moving around in my life but this time it was for a relationship (i.e. not for work or studies) and given that I work remotely, it's very hard to integrate into society. I know no one and don't have a place like an office where I get to cover my social needs (no coworking spaces…
curious if you tried to start your own coworking space.
not necessarily 'officially', because that could be a massive undertaing - but more, you just let people know hey i'm going to this cafe from about 8 am to 11 am Tuesday mornings. then put some cool name on it.
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#807I moved to a new team where we leverage the idea of precise dispensing of fluids but apply it to life sciences. A pipette is all about dispensing a precise amount where you want it - so is a printer. We think outside the box on that. Feels good to be making something to make people healthy and not to just sell consumables. I also finished walking every street in my city a while ago. See https://citystrides.com/users/…
Citystrides looks great fun, I'll be trying that out !
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#808I’m wanting to build a documentation tool for tech teams. There are many but I have various problems with each of them. I just want some quick and easy markdown based docs. One thing stopping me, for some reason, is building a user system. I don’t want to support 3rd party login systems and I’m also having trouble getting motivation to roll my own.
maybe i'm misunderstanding, but some web frameworks have built-in or easily-bolted-on and free user systems, like Laravel with various 'Starter Kits', or 'auth' i think is the one for django, or 'horus' and others for Pyramid, etc.
and, you can pay for boilerplate saas/subscriptions/payments functionality for most frameworks now -- some are realtively cheap ($99 Laravel Spark) or medium ($299 saas pegasus/django) and more expensive for ruby/jam/node/etc.
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#809Feeling very depressed as a 23 year old with agressive hair loss. Tried (and still trying) everything there is, but nothing worked yet (1.5 years into min/dut).
i figured hollywood would have sorted this by now - maybe not?
seems possible, but i don't know.
23 def young. one way to look at it maybe, is look at it as temporary. if there is no solution yet, there prob will be in 7 years. you might not want to go back at that point, tho.
i do generally agree that getting buff works wonders -- not even necessarily muscle-y buff, just fit, so you can not be like most people.
and if you look 35 as a 23 yo, you'll prob still get plenty of good attention, maybe even more -- if that's what your looking for.
and, see a therapist. i rarely follow it, but i believe it's great advice.
good luck.
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#810Earlier quoted context omitted.
God I hate "crypto". It's all a big fucking "get rich quick scam", all of it, without exception. Hopefully I will cash out at the right time (probably not).
Not true! There's also drugs and gambling! /s
I see the /s, but you're right. Those are literally non-scam uses of crypto.