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Re: Death Clock

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Post by karaterobot »

cfjedimaster wrote: post #16

I built another version of this about 30ish years ago, you can see it now at www.deathclock.com. I sold the site about 15 years ago (helped pay for an adoption). It was my first "successful" website, getting near 5 million views per day. It was also a useful programming exercise (learned the painful way that one ColdFusion function wouldn't support large numbers and others would, so had to do so wrangling to get the…

> The best part was the emails I'd get. Wow.

What were the emails like?

Re: Death Clock

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Post by samwillis »

dang wrote: post #127
samwillis wrote: post #44

As an aside, I really dislike the style of date picker they are using. I always find them so cumbersome. If you are designing a website/web app please use a html input type=date, at least on more modern devices and provide a fallback for older ones. The UX for date selection in modern browsers is very well thought through. Apologies for being off topic. EDIT: This shouldn’t be the top comment, you should probably sto…

" Please don't complain about tangential annoyances—things like article or website formats, name collisions, or back-button breakage. They're too common to be interesting. " https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

Apologies dang, I regret the post. Quite right pushing it to the bottom where it rightly should be.

Re: Death Clock

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Post by parhamn »

cfjedimaster wrote: post #16

I built another version of this about 30ish years ago, you can see it now at www.deathclock.com. I sold the site about 15 years ago (helped pay for an adoption). It was my first "successful" website, getting near 5 million views per day. It was also a useful programming exercise (learned the painful way that one ColdFusion function wouldn't support large numbers and others would, so had to do so wrangling to get the…

> The best part was the emails I'd get. Wow.

I've never been more curious. What sorts?

Re: Death Clock

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Post by quadrangle »

vincentmarle wrote: post #35

I’d say lower your expectations even further to reach true happiness: always expect to die tomorrow and adjust your lifestyle and the way you treat your loved ones accordingly. Or in Montaigne’s words: to philosophize is to learn to die http://homepages.wmich.edu/~rvr5407/3140readings/That%20to%2...

The real trick: expect to die in a minute.

No joke. The Buddhist perspective gets into that. The idea of dying tomorrow sets you up to worry about making the most of the future of the rest of the day, and you're still not really present. When we consider that these few breaths or bites or moments might be our last, we can release all the clinging and aversion because it's too late to do anything but be profoundly aware of being alive in this moment. And given that we usually don't just die, we get to experience that sense of life-flashing-before-your-eyes and immediate sense of love and compassion, and still an aspiration to make the very most of each moment (including planning for the future since that might be a thing).

This might be the final sentence you read. So, there's no reason to live each day as your last. It's okay to live each moment in whatever way it shows up. It's all we have, and there's nothing to do but to be aware of it. And, remarkably enough, once we stop striving and just let go, we magically find ourselves more attuned to our deepest values of love and compassion.

This writing might be the last action I ever do. Love to everyone and everything

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Post by crate_barre »

This thing should really ask when your oldest relatives on both your mother’s and father’s side died or what their age is currently, along with basic health conditions like weight, diabetes, hypertension, etc, and what your job/family situation is (kids, no kids, divorced, high stress industry, low stress industry, etc), and debt to income ratio.

Re: Death Clock

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Post by peterpost2 »

cfjedimaster wrote: post #16

I built another version of this about 30ish years ago, you can see it now at www.deathclock.com. I sold the site about 15 years ago (helped pay for an adoption). It was my first "successful" website, getting near 5 million views per day. It was also a useful programming exercise (learned the painful way that one ColdFusion function wouldn't support large numbers and others would, so had to do so wrangling to get the…

This is amazing.

This is going to sound stupid but your website is one of my first memories I have of the internet. I was shown it by a school friend (we were about ~8 years old) and I remember being scared about the result, none of could read English well so pretty sure we filled out nonsense for the weight input :)

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