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Post by vmception »

thyrox wrote: post #53

How many of you are waiting for X to happen before you can do Y? Maybe we can share that so other people can give us their insights. For me, I naively quit my job last year joining the indie hacker movement of creating my own online business. And now I'm just obsessed with finishing it and getting it to the same mrr as my last job's salary before I can do anything else. I used to travel all the time but now all I can…

Reminds me of the meme “I quit my 9-5 and now I work 24/7”

If you have debt or obligations that you arent willing to sacrifice or accept the consequences of sacrificing then don’t bother playing

But to answer your question, I started living for experiences more after big financial losses. I noticed that I was saving for something indeterminate and that after a loss I would have just been better off going to that festival or taking that vacation or something else consumptive

Eventually I got the inspiration and success to support my obligations and experiences. Probably not related, many paths possible, but I do think I meet more interesting people traveling to events than I did in an office setting

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Post by eCa »

HPsquared wrote: post #98
luckman212 wrote: post #52

Earlier quoted context omitted.

What's with that huge drop in life expectancy between 1910-1920?

I wonder if there will be a similar dip in 2020-21.

A dip, but nothing like the 1910’s. I’ve heard a rediction of up to two years. Covid mostly killed older people, while WW1 for obvious reasons mostly killed young people, therefore having a greater effect on life expectancy.

Re: Death Clock

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Post by sebow »

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…

Hey! I used that website when i was very young and surfing away my curiosities on the limited web.Thanks for that, i never thought i'd see the guy who made it.Also i believe it's one of the first sources (if not the first) where i learned what BMI was[if the version back then had it, which i think it did].

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Post by Zababa »

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

The website is made to show you how much time you have left, to highlight that time is precious. To get this reminder, you have to enter your date through a date picker. This date picker is cumbersome, and makes you waste time. I think this is not a tangential annoyance, but a central one. Those two things are in opposition, and this detracts a lot from the message of this website. If time is so precious, why is my time wasted by an unknown file picker with a foreign interface?

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Post by pmarreck »

If only it didn't take me 10 minutes to scroll the calendar back to april 1972 lol

EDIT: You can click the month and year directly. Meh, I don't like "invisible UI". And the result seems wrong, I doubt I have 61% of my life remaining at this point, alas... And the small dots stop at about 28... and the big dots stop at 70... no unit shown... Is this years? It's unclear. Guessing each dot represents a week? Maybe? 28 years is certainly wrong, as I'm 49. And at least on Firefox, the dot that the 20 lines up with and the dot that the 30 lines up with are actually 11 units apart, not 10... This is why I prefer backend dev, we have to be strict, while frontend can just... "does it look good? no test coverage? only a dozen JS errors that only other developers who actually care about JS errors will see? fuck it, wing it and post it to HN!!" lol

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Post by 29athrowaway »

henriquez wrote: post #130
rpastuszak wrote: post #128

“YOU HAVE NAN% OF YOUR EXPECTED LIFESPAN REMAINING” Fair enough

The author must have taken inspiration from Death Note.

A similar website, http://www.deathclock.com/, has been around for a very long time. Since at least before the Death Note manga came out.
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