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Ask HN: Possible to Become a Part-Time Manager? (Project or Product)
Hello HN,

In short: Is there any way to become a part-time PM (or similar)?

You helped me tremendously getting my first properly paid and interesting full-time PM job at a bigger company (and luckily with little overtime, but part-time is probably no option).¹ I plan to do this job for at least a year (for vita, experience and money), but ultimately I want to work part-time.

I could easily live on my current salary (just with less savings) and want to have more free time for side-projects and a generally better work/life balance.

All I have right now is vague plans on how to find something part-time: I will stay on the lookout on job-offers, hoping for startups that can't afford full-time positions. Alternatively I thought of freelancing, but here the generalist qualities of a PM (project or product) might make it a bit harder to sell myself and I'm not the very best at networking either. And freelancing is never part-time, right? Should I apply for full-time positions and try to convince them of doing part-time?

With product management, or more precisely writing concepts and non-technical requirements I could imagine contract work. But I don't really know if this is a thing.

About me: 30yo; in Germany; OK with leaving the country for a while; with a slightly off masters degree;

If you got any ideas or took a similar path in the past, let me know! Thanks you :)

¹ https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13409239 (thank you so much for all the answers here)
Only when they're stuck dealing with centralized entities.
Most robotic vacuum cleaners don't map anything at all, they just run around semi-randomly.

Some of them are a little smarter and map your room internally in order to be a bit more efficient and move in more predictable patterns.

And finally, there are a few expensive models that are connected and are able to upload your floor plan. If you don't want to take advantage of that feature you paid good money for, it is a simple matter of not letting the robot in your home WiFi.

The first category of robots start at around $100 and do a decent job at cleaning. I don't think you really need more.
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Google flexed its muscles with new ad-blocking rules some players are concerned
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It’s simply the synthetic meat version of the ultra-processed everything else at the grocery store. It doesn’t reflect traditional hippie style vegetarian or vegan values because the consumers don’t have those values.
Are you for real? There’s major headlines about screw ups with crypto codebases and exchanges constantly.
The Directive on security of network and information systems (NIS Directive)
Woolf also does this in a beautiful way. To the Lighthouse, Mrs. Dalloway.
So once again, the rift is between the IDE users and the vim users. :)
Thanks, I didn't find the format interesting, and yours was the first comment to mention or discuss the finding.

Info on Schnitzler Syndrome:
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Schnitzler_syndrome
What about slashing or bludgeoning damage?
Will the Brexit Impact EUPL Licensors in UK?
I like that downwotes on this co. Shows people fighting for the right to forget events where their side screwed up.

If you fight for not getting reminded, how would we make sure you still remember, eh?
It's harder to make fine adjustments, such as those made by the microtype latex package.
The article mainly denounces Quorn and similar products as being heavily processed, and further denounces any vegetarians or vegans who would eat it. It strongly implies that any actual vegetarian would of course eat only whole foods, which is blatant elitism.

Many people enjoy Quorn and similar products, and preferring not to eat animals doesn't mean denouncing processed foods. They're orthogonal concerns.
It has horrible always-there headers and footers that take a third of my 12" screen.

Web designers really need to get their act together. Nothing of such bad quality gets out of the door in any other real industry.
I mean, in relation to all everyday objects, 3 kilometers per second is stupidly fast and not at all sluggish.

The overnight backup was relatively sluggish last night, instead of 1 microsecond it took a little over 100 milliseconds.
Advanced Big Data Value Chain for Public Safety and Personal Security
I think the wood found in homes is pressure treated lumber which I don't believe is structurally any stronger than non-pt wood, but helps wood withstand the elements and wards off termites, microorganisms and fungal decay. The most common types of Pressure Treatments (at least that I am aware of in Canada) are Alkaline Copper Quaternary (ACQ) and Copper Azole (CA).

However, the wood material usually used to build these mid-rise buildings is cross laminated timber, which does add significant strength to the wood materials. Really cool material actually!

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cross-laminated_timber
Google Closure does a pretty good job at stripping unused code. ClojureScript is powered by Google Closure. Leiningen gets you package management.
You may be interested in Markua https://leanpub.com/markua/read
Put this way, I agree. There is always a risk to lose sight of your final objective and become myopic focusing on more immediately perceived issues.

I think I read Paul Graham (or someone from YC) stating that you want diversity of background on your team, but not diversity of objectives. I wholeheartedly agree with this. The more diversity on your team (regarding every dimension: gender, race, nationality, personality traits, education, etc), the more chance you have at building a great product; as long as all of them have unity of vision and goals.
I think the article's just against vegetarians & vegans. It's trying to say that since "so many" vegetarians & vegans endorse meat-substitutes they are all 'frauds' - claiming to eat plants for health purposes when they're eating highly processed meat-analogs.

I think that's a pretty awful way to treat people. Why do you care what vegetarians/vegans eat? Why attack them?

Every now and then it's fun to have a quorn "buffalo patty." It satisfies a desire of mine for something like that. But I don't have to eat healthy in order to be a vegetarian or vegan. I don't have to make health food my choice to be either vegetarian or vegan. I can simply be grossed out by animal products, or any other reason that results in me not eating/using animal products. My reasons for the way I live my life are mine, and yours are yours. I don't ask this person to explain their life nor dietary choices, so they shouldn't bother with mine.
Threads is Gmail aren't perfect. Some threads aren't nice neat linear threads and I find I can lose track of branches. But, overall, that's been one of the big wins of switching to Gmail for professional stuff. Now some long but uninteresting thread in a mailing list or whatever is one line rather than overwhelming my inbox.
Sorry, let me clarify. Say Doubleday is buying books from authors and selling them in bookstores - the usual model. Should Penguin be allowed to print copies of Doubleday’s books as long as Penguin gives those copies away for free?
Rust open source project ideas
I'am an experienced software developer leaning Rust now and I would like to start a new open source project. Does anyone have an ideas for new open source project to be written in Rust that would be useful for people (for developers or for others)?
As did I and I feel your pain. Thanks for the link.
Hello,

I see many people on here deriding low calorie diets as “starving.” As someone who was 100+lbs overweight I can attest that low-carb, diet, exercise, weight training were not sufficient to help.

For whatever reason, genetics combined with work and lifestyle, I was unsuccessful with any commonly recommended diet for reducing body mass, I tried for years.

Recently, I lost 40lbs using intermittent fasting and then continuos fasting. The experience was night and day, I have written about my experience here: http://rexstjohn.com/thoughts-fasting-part-iv-lost-40-lbs-tw....

Starving is the wrong way to frame this diet approach. I want people to change their minds about how they frame the problem of obesity. If you have 10 lbs of excess body fat, that represents 35,000 stored calories. Your body is used to doing much more work and exerting much more energy to locate food than what we do in modern society. If you wanted an Apple 100 years ago, chances are you had to walk for 30 minutes.

Furthermore, our bodies are adapted to numerous days of fasting. If you are hunting a wounded deer over rough terrain, you don’t have room to carry a refrigerator with you - you burn stored reserves. If your crop fails and you have to wait three months to eat again subsisting off of grass and worms for vitamins, your body can do that too (I don’t recommend it).

In my research I have found numerous examples, personal blog accounts and scientific studies backing them of people fasting for a week or greater and suffering no ill effects. The real issues with fasting occur only after many weeks, with low vitamin / potassium / electrolyte consumption or when you fast while having low body fat resulting in true starvation.

In the example of the man who fasted 360 days and lost 350+lbs, doctors had him eating supplements and brewers yeast (protein, low calories) and they documented very few noticeable negative side effects which were addressed by adjustments to supplementation.

Starvation is when your body consumes itself. This happens when you completely exhaust your stored fats. Fasting becomes riskier after the first 21 days, the really dangerous effects such as referring syndrome only occur in extreme situations where you had indeed been starving for a period of time before eating.

I have lost 40lbs in the last year using these approaches and recommend them to everyone I meet. Fasting is a skill anyone can learn.

I believe fasting is the best way to lose weight, don’t call it starving.
Would you get a second one to use them together? Because in that case you might as well just buy a bigger wide-screen...
Sure, there are a bunch of people who eat crap, so why should we forbid vegans to eat crap too?!
Haha, I do not trust machines -- I check the calculator by doing the math by hand.
I just spent a bit of time researching the incident, since I don't really follow Chinese social media that closely, and found a Zhihu (Chinese Quora) question that was quite informative: https://www.zhihu.com/question/52987944

Some people definitely did mind, since the social dynamics caused lots "pretty women" posting selfies (not all of themselves) to ask those men with scores > 750 for money and/or attention. Someone punned the Chinese name for Alipay (支付宝, zhifubao) into "pay the pimp" (支付鸨, pronounced identically), which might give you an idea how someone who culturally values social stability might come to reject such a company. As far as I can tell, the feature was then scrapped pretty quickly.
As far as I understand it, the only things a receiving device needs to work out where it is are a stable timer, a good view of the sky and time.

Each satellite transmits where it is and the current time in UTC, which means you can get a pretty good idea of what the time is (presumably to within a second) by picking up a single satellite's transmission, then work out what the actual time is once you've got all the other satellites and triangulated yourself.

Phones can do this a lot faster by connecting to the internet to figure out what the time is, what the satellite orbital parameters are and where they all are right now.

(Sources: A friend explained this to me once and I just skimmed the wikipedia page)
Pubmed itself is open (just google "pubmed"). However, while many scientific publications are open access, many more are not.

I find that google scholar does a pretty good job at searching. I typically start with google before using pubmed.

Then you need a place to store your papers. I like to use F1000 workspace.

If your doctor is not helping you, get a new one, preferably in a big city with a university-affiliated hospital. These MD deal with highly educated levels of patients and colleagues, and they like it.
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Whoever is dumb enough to not be alarmed that their caregiver gambles, also deserves to lose everything.
What Stores Do with $90B in Merchandise Returns
That won't stop submicron sized particles
I wrote a complete case study on Google Wave here:
https://www.amazon.com/Why-We-Fail-Learning-Experience/dp/19...
It's not a comment about that. It's about thinking of where we should draw the line with allowing Western democracies to do things they were never meant to do.
I have an Android too but I lost all trust in Google when I realized the default keyboard sends my keystrokes to Google by default. And the number of times ive had to re-disable highly undesired defaults after an update is infuriating.
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We use google docs in school, the students do multi-player documents all the time. Being in the same room removes almost all of the friction. Want a team member to research part of the topic and while you write the intro? Super easy.

I'm not sure how to get that level of communication when the team is spread across multiple locations... webcams maybe
> The lua interpretors are just fine

I don't think I complained about the Lua interpreter itself?

> it's not because it's designed to be easily embeddable that it doesn't work just fine on its own.

I don't understand that sentence.
In general, I agree with you. There are a bunch of collaboration tools out there I just don't use much for some combination of others not using it and my just not finding it worth the mental load to fit into my workflow.

Google Docs, on the other hand, pretty much everyone I work with has adopted it even though it was more or less voluntary. The application itself works well but the ability to have everyone comment and make suggestions in a single doc is a huge win. Admittedly, we didn't and don't use Sharepoint so the alternative was pretty much to mail documents around.
I really, really hoped that they'd at last confirmed the existance of octarine :)
I am trying to make daptin just like you explained.

https://github.com/daptin/daptin

A JSON config plus backing database (mysql/postgres/sqlite) defines your complete environment.
The article uses words 'natural' and 'processed' in a very superstitious way that implies always bad or negative.

Just saying natural without explanation can imply: natural as obviously better or healthier, natural as in way it has been always done, natural as with non-modified biological growth process, natural as no processing or raw. Same for the word processed.

In fact, beer is “ultra-processed” in the way this article describes quorn. Quorn is product from common and unmodified mold found in earth's soil. It is grown in tanks where they add required nutrients, mostly sugars. I fail to see how it is unnatural. Is yeast unnatural? If the protein growing process involves continuous fermentation, flash drying, filtration etc. Is the processing somehow bad and unnatural? Allergy concerns are of course real, but the same thing applies to peanuts and most foods. Mycoprotein seems to cause much less allergic reactions than most 'natural' foods.

If the process that produces mucoprotein contains less chemical processing than the processed meat that most people eat, isn't that natural? World Health Organization classifies nitrite processed meat as a Group 1 - carcinogenic to humans.
They couldn’t find an adult to drive them.
I have found https://github.com/Neilpang/acme.sh to be incredibly easy to deploy in several different configurations.
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It is very much a hands on distro, for better or worse.

More akin to Gentoo than Arch, and far removed from the likes of CentOS or Debian Stable.

That said, rolling your own recipes is relatively straight forward. And with the /System/Index they are using these days, i think it should be less sensitive to hardcoded paths and similar idiocies.
For the price of that. I would rather buy raw panels and build something my self.

https://www.aliexpress.com/item/2560-2048-FHD-20-1-inch-LCD-...

Also medical monitors tend be very expensive for what they are, but have good contrast. Also a lot are only gray scale.
Preventing every possible form of tracking is so difficult it’s almost a lost cause.

Preventing forms of tracking that are actually in use is much easier.
>From my understanding, the Common Core approach to math is much closer to this approach I developed intuitively than the traditional methods.

It is. I recently had to help my daughter with common core math and I saw the similarities.

I think the biggest problem people have with it is at first it's impossible to help your kids with homework which is frustrating for both the parent and the kid. I had to learn it before I could help her with it.

Now all we need to do is finally covert to the metric system.
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It's almost the same amount of work to deploy a one-year cert as it is to set up an automatic LE cert which is going to save you from renewing the one-year cert each year, and forgetting etc.
Yes. Problems with wire transfers are clearly a conspiracy by the Federal Reserve (a private company!!!1), meant to enslave us all in debt and beaurocracy.
+1, much tastier than quorn - and meat.
I agree. Had started a project aiming to translate various literature books (no fancy math) into various languages, and markdown makes it a lot easier, for everyone.
http://github.com/ancap-ch/from-en

But it's required some regex "replace_all" to be applied when rendering the PDF.
How can I make money from my DNA?
seems to be on the right side of the prevailing food paradigm, which holds that eating meat, fish, dairy and eggs is a redneck habit that has had its day

Where does the author live that they think the “prevailing food paradigm” is vegan?
Maybe because sarcastic quips are a poor way to get a point across. Simply pointing out the title is clickbait and perhaps suggesting an alternative would be useful.
If this worries you, here's a cleaning tip for cleaning your tub with much better results and much less effort.

In a spray bottle, mix 1/2 vinegar and 1/2 unscented dish detergent. Spray your shower/tub down with the mixture, including shower curtain. Walk away. In 30 minutes rinse off. You'll never use one of those industrial scented cleaners to do this again.
>Clickbait titles and suspense-novel narrative structures in articles like this really annoy me for some reason. Just get to the point.

You are right, the suspense approach, is terrible, I had the impression that the protagonist of the story was the Dr. May, and then it comes out as being only another doctor that remained clueless making every kind of unneeded tests for seven months until - by sheer luck - a curious trainee managed to find the right clue, reportedly by digging into early medical records.

I may add that it looks to me somehow "disturbing" the Senseless Capitalized Initials of the title and paragraphs.
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Do architects nowadays not have to be competent structural engineers? If so, it would amuse me greatly: how can you be entrusted in drawing new building shapes if you have no clue on their feasibility?

In other words, have the word 'architect' devolved into a 'building (exterior & interior) designer'?
If it's mostly a mold, then isn't it essentially a whole food? It's not like molds have to be spun up in a vat from inorganic compounds. It's mold - a whole organism like any other.
Why is it so bad if someone wants to get off meat and their end goal is Quorn?
dont know about proper, but https://github.com/raszpl/hackahackernews
How are Quorn and other mycoproteins crap? What specifically is it about them that is seen as bad?
elevator cores are cross bracing
There's another site I won't visit again. (modal popup to subscribe before I can even see the page)
29 researcher teams analyze same data set – different results (2015)
It might surprise you, but lots of documents and side sets are written without any formula at all.
This was like a real life episode of Dr. House MD
Also crashes Safari, Firefox, and Chrome on High Sierra 10.13.3
On the other hand for me, Trello is something I use now and then because some team I'm working with uses it for a workflow. But it's never really clicked for me and isn't something I use unless I have to.
I think it is worth the extra complexity to avoid having to write \section and \emph all the time, and to make your notes more readable as a .TXT files. Also I find it easier to just set up a basic document, for markdown you can just open a new text file and start writing, for Latex you have to do a lot of setup at the start of the document to define your margins and import packages. Its not going to work well if you want a perfectly formatted document, but if you want to write simple notes styled with CSS it is much nicer to work with.
Nice. I working on something that does exactly that for Korean videos on youtube. If you're interested in helping with feedback, I could repurpose it for Danish. If so, email me at jon@jonb.org.
> which is a nuisance. Logging-in, finding my process crib-sheet, running the update requests, updating DNS records, running the validation requests, shifting certs to servers, restarting services

You're doing it wrong. There are many ways to use the ACME protocol (and Lets Encrypt), I think pretty much anyone will agree this is simply the wrong way to do it.

The ACME protocol is an API (as opposed to the CA's "upload a manually created, signed CSR, then wait for an HTML email and click the link in it and then download this file" process) so that it can be automated, and hands-off.
And they tend to over-generalize - "While photons normally have no mass and travel at 300,000 kilometers per second (the speed of light)". The maximum speed of a photon is (currently?) around 300,000 kps but they often travel slower than this. Our fiber optics systems are coursing with photons that travel approximately 200,000 kps. The key results of this experiment is that the photons are interacting with each other ... and that they acquire mass.

The flashlight analogy is actually one that I not only described to people, but built a unique product around in the '90s. CyberFiber (yeah ... it was an tongue-in-cheek name for an engineering project that escaped into the marketing and sales department) was a duplex communication platform that used the same wave-length of light for both directions. It was a great marketing tool but required that your optical connections had very low reflectivity (and nobody likes to put coupling gel in their connectors).
Architects these days often seem to be large scale sculptors who inflict strange shapes on people who then have to live in or around them, without regard for engineering or human psychology.
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Totally legal. There is even blog/advertising for it: https://www.techemergence.com/artificial-intelligence-applic...
I think the author mentioned this elseware, but he wasn't suggesting to use .md for complicated documents, just for notes and simpler documents where you don't need the extra options like complex table formatting, you just want something quick that works.
People who walk into a McDonalds will spend money there. How much more would they spend at that hypothetical CreepyMcDonalds?

Ad targeting has it's place for certain applications, but it is easy to overestimate its impact.
I hypothesize that the abstract is a close literary relative of Lewis Carroll's work.