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Ask HN: What you up to? (Who doesn't want to be hired?)

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Post by boppo1 »

splintercell wrote: post #311
atonse wrote: post #286

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Thank goodness for Obamacare (at least in the mid-Atlantic US). Before Obamacare, individual plans were absolute shit (my individual plan wouldn't have covered my wife's pregnancy with our first kid... her job's insurance did). Thanks to Obamacare, individual plans have the same coverage as employer plans. Without Obamacare I couldn't have started my company which now employs 9 people in well paid tech jobs (without…

I’m not sure if I agree with your experience, in New York City Obamacare plans are horrendously bad, The coverage comes nowhere near to the crappiest employer plan. I had to hire a Nigerian kid to just call the doctors listed on Obamacare website which accepted the silver plan, and about only 40% of the doctors really did (this was for a delivery). $1400 per month for a mother and a child. I currently pay $1400 per m…

> hire a Nigerian kid to just call the doctors listed on Obamacare website which accepted the silver plan

How much did this cost? How did you find/arrange it? This is fascinating. When selecting my healthcare I remember wishing I had the time to make so many calls and then just gambled with an educated guess.

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Post by hidden-spyder »

david927 wrote: post #817
hidden-spyder wrote: post #797

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Emailing dang requesting for this to be made a monthly post might help us.

I'll just start posting it at the same time as the Who's Hiring each month.

That'll be great. Thanks!

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Post by grupthink »

colecut wrote: post #825
grupthink wrote: post #823

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It took me a few tries at parsing your situation. Holy shit. Big hugs to you, brother. Be strong.

It's been a wild few years. My only sibling overdosed and died in 2019 as well, on Easter weekend.. There are some interesting similarities between heroin addiction and cancer.. I don't need anything from anyone but I appreciate the sympathy, the amount of views that my video received from this post is crazy. I'm very touched and I hope she is too.

Wild is an understatement. The shit you've been through! For context, I'm only 20 and when I broke up with my gf last year that messed me up. The only thing I know is, when you're ready to move forward, you have to somehow channel your energy into passion and vigor for your life and those around you who love you very much. Fight your way with all your spirit. I wish you all the best colecut. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8KyorrH_Vu8

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Post by abnercoimbre »

hellweaver666 wrote: post #545
optimiz3 wrote: post #447

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1. Take up and learn about investing. Managing large amounts of money can be a part-to-full time job, and not knowing key mechanics will cause you to get screwed or be at the mercy of others. 2. Find love but keep your wealth a secret until you're sure they are the One and financially responsible. Love comes undone fast over money, and you'll probably need a pre-nup to avoid getting cut in half if things go south. Ea…

2 is an interesting one because almost every day on /r/relationship_advice there is at least one thread where someone asks what to do when they discover "the one" has kept a secret from them for a long time and now they don't trust them any more. I imagine that response would be different if someone suddenly declared that they were rich, versus that they used to be a sex worker but sudden changes in the relationship…

There's also plenty of couples from different wealth levels doing just fine. I'd say reveal it early, though not necessarily on the first few dates.

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Post by yakkomajuri »

readonthegoapp wrote: post #838
yakkomajuri wrote: post #832

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This is definitely not a bad idea. I have become a regular at a cafe that I go to on Tuesdays and Thursdays, and met a few people around there, including some other devs. I do wonder where to "advertize" this though. I've ran a Meetup group in the past but that's not a thing here. Facebook would probably be the way, except I don't have an account (does make life harder at times). But I will consider this, thanks!

i created a laptop sticker to semi-advertize my openness to talking to other indie hackers and it's worked a little bit. i prob look like a mean asshole most of the time when i'm hacking (and most other times), so this is somewhat intended to explicitly invite people to break thru that barrier if they might be so inclined: https://imgur.com/a/UZaH1Wa i didn't want an official meetup, nor an unofficial meetup, maybe j…

Oh I do love this idea!

A sticker could probably go a long way. You do notice some people looking around as if wanting to talk but few people ever take the first step.

Especially when it comes to the Nordic countries, providing "explicit consent to bother me" via a sticker could be quite useful.

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Post by barrenko »

truly wrote: post #815
barrenko wrote: post #700

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Well I'm mostly concerned because I am planning to interview soon, and I struggle with them.

Good luck with your interviews! Unlikely for me to have videos in time for your interviews, though. I'm sure however that you can find other sources on the internet to learn. What have you tried?

I'm getting the hang of it, there are some helpful videos on YT already.

Basically I'm going through "Elements of programming interviews" (in Python), and filling in my gaps.

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Post by mxwsn »

tppiotrowski wrote: post #767
mxwsn wrote: post #133

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That's so cool! It's inaccurate for Manhattan though ;)

If you zoom in to city-block level you can see building shadows...

Oh wow, that's incredible. I didn't zoom in enough when I first looked, evidently!

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Post by kartoshechka »

BinRoo wrote: post #263

Reading a textbook on abstract algebra so I can ground myself to the stability of mathematics. The country, the world, it all changes too quickly but at least this is forever.

it is forever as long as everybody at least partially agrees with Bourbaki set theory

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Post by kartoshechka »

djrockstar1 wrote: post #388

Great thread, feels like a time capsule for some of the people that are starting new things in life, moving to a new city, getting a start-up off the ground, trying to get used to their new lifestyle. I hope I can come back to this thread some time in the future and reminisce as I'm sure many of you will. To answer the question, I'm working full-time at a job that I feel completely hopeless at. Basically fresh out of…

hey, just letting you know you're not alone. Difference is I can't communicate with previous devs who left dogshit quality codebase without any sort of documentation. But more I'm accustomed with it, the more our (new) team realize that behind all these pointless abstractions and "services" is just the dumbest map (data structure) transformer ever

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Post by ehnto »

bri3d wrote: post #692
ehnto wrote: post #348

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That is wicked. Would you ever be interested in developing an open source ECU platform? I feel like there is a hole in the market for affordable and hackable ECUs. You could monetize it by selling the hardware boards I guess. There are some projects out there already but none of them seemed usable for a full size track car at the time, and the issue was still a lack of suitable hardware to run it on. Idealy you could…

Have you looked at RusEFI? It's definitely usable for a full sized track car at this point, and their hardware looks pretty smart and reasonable to me. I haven't actually used or contributed to it yet, but I plan to buy a unit and see where I get as I am working to convert my old 280GE from K-Jetronic to EFI.

That looks a lot like what I was envisioning now, they have come a long way since I last looked!
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