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>Just starting to have income near the two year mark is what I assume would happen.

Yeah, I'm encouraged by Cory Zue's progress. He's a couple years ahead of me, but I'm sort of matching up with his first few years of income:

http://www.coryzue.com/writing/master-plan/#the-master-plan

>Assuming you still need to make income at some point, how long would you go before you decided it was time to go work for someone else? Three years? Four years?

Good question. At this point, I feel like I could do this indefinitely, even if I roughly broke even. The things that would change are if my life circumstances change and I need the money (e.g., having children, a catastrophic health event for me or someone in my family).

>BTW: I'm more interested in how you self-reflect on your entrepreneurial abilities. How do you make decisions around that? How do you prevent yourself from falling in love with your work if it's not going to make money?

I've found it helpful to set goals and hold myself accountable for achieving them. I do enjoy writing software for software's sake, but a lot of my satisfaction in being a solo dev comes from improving my skills on the business side. Given that, I'm probably not in danger of reaching complacency - failing to earn money would mean I'm not growing in the way that I want, so I wouldn't be satisfied with that.
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> Do you happen to know why the standard doesn’t use that trick?

Many of the early implementations of `std::string` were COW (copy-on-write), which is not entirely compatible with SSO strings. In practice, COW strings proved to be troublesome and slow, and the SSO strings won out. The standard was changed to effectively mandate SSO strings and forbid COW strings.
> So you are willing to make it impossible for people to boycott organizations as a means of social change, as long as those organizations had an arms-length relationship with anything "political".

No. Please try to respond to what I actually say instead of making stuff up; this is a straw man argument.

There are plenty of other ways we could find out about organizations supporting odious causes and boycott those organizations, without violating the privacy of their members. In fact the the point of "organizational transparency" is to make it hard to hide when organizations do bad things.

In addition to accusing me of saying things I didn't say, you're ignoring what I actually did say. Are you willing to make it impossible for people to privately donate to virtuous causes as a means of social change, when donating to support those causes publicly so would be a risk to their careers and reputations? I'm not going to continue this conversation further if you won't respond to this point.
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And yet, losing money for the first 2-3 years is AFAIK typical for new companies (especially those with 1-2 employees).
Friesland (formerly part of Melitta) sells the kettle for about 37 euro. If you have a way to add the messaging, you are well on your way.

https://frieslandversand.de/teekanne-1-4l-weiss-utah-teapot
Last I heard the attrition rate at Coalfire was quite high. Issues like these I'm sure aren't helping.
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As someone who has done quite a bit of shopping for various services, having a language-specific library ready to go is a major factor. I doubt that someone already paying you would still need one, though, so it should probably be considered a strictly "customer acquisition" feature.

I understand your rule, but I don't think it should be that strict.
Who is “we” ? Imho HN isnt homogeneous or representative enough to constitute a “we” unless referring to YC companies. Its fit for certain kinds of discussion but pretty bad for others. I self censor my account heavily here, and in fact often delete my comments that are voted down, in order not to attract negativity. Despite that, my account is rate limited
Most of my consulting work was with early-stage startups. I would ofter offer a fixed cash cap (say, $50k) at an hourly rate, and any work beyond that would accrue towards a SAFE. Less risk for the founder, gave me incentive to finish the bulk of the work within the cap, but also didn't punish me if I didn't.
With subroutines and recursive patterns I think you could do something parsing valid HTML.

Your sanity won't be left intact tho.
@mtlynch what tech stack do you use?
I don't understand why the Github repository lists regexper as the source of the visual graph code but the frame only shows iHateRegex as watermark?

If the only thing that is embedded in that frame was taken entirely from a different project, that project should at least be mentioned in the frame.
I don't think testing for this is actually that hard or that hard to scale - we had the full virus sequenced and its genome up on the internet within a couple weeks. Initially we do pcr based tests (easiest to "develop" - you just find the right primers which takes a couple more nites and then maybe a week or two to make sure it works). And there's already talk of people using new tools like SHERLOCK (CRISPR based diagnostics tool, and other tools like LAMP could be used as well (it's a special type of very fast, very sensitive pcr) since I recall some work done with LAMP in previous coronavirus outbreaks. One thing potentially making it hard is just getting equipment/kits into shut down cities (see article discussing Roche's diagnostics effort linked below). There are definitely challenges, but in diagnostics, the technology has come a long way to allow cheap, rapid, scalable testing.

Roche: https://www.bloomberg.com/amp/news/articles/2020-01-30/roche...

LAMP: https://virologyj.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/1743-42...
Why not just lang:ja
If worse comes to worse and he goes to $0 in the account, he can probably just get another job. I guarantee employers will look upon his self directed work ethic positively.

He can live his life without the regret of not trying to venture out on his own.

Edit: typo
Is this just the nntp bridge or is the web archive returning as well?
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> California has just passed statewide rent control. Things will continue to get worse on this front and I don't see a way for California society to change the situation.

They did just change the situation. They made it worse!
That is not correct. 15 is total maximum number of repeats including the first one. Even the diagram on https://ihateregex.io/expr/username correctly says that loop can be taken between 2 and 14 times.
He talks about that a bit - most of his money was invested in a simple S&P 500 index fund, with some dabbling in crypocurrencies (which worked out in his case.)
Interesting analysis. I especially like your personal goals and the "Raise prices, even if nobody's buying". This is a really valuable insight. Thanks for sharing that.

I have one question:
Do you have a feeling about the market size you are in and how does this influence your planning?
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Property taxes aren't wealth taxes, they're consumption taxes.

This is obvious when you consider the fact that a person who owns a piece of property outright pays the same property tax as someone who owns a similar piece of property but carries a mortgage.
To add to this; Cosa Nostra is Sicillian. Over the water, in Naples, it's "Camorra". In Puglia it's "Sacra Corona Unita". In Calabria, it's the awkward to pronounce"'Ndrangheta", who I believe are consindered to be the most dangerous, and closely aligned with the Albanian Mafia IIRC.

There are more, but those are the main active ones. Collectivley, they are Mafia type organisations.

The word Mafia itself is Sicillian in origin, and means "Swagger".
I know I'm falling asleep when the movie of thoughts and images playing in my head becomes more like watching something play out on its own than thinking it myself. The thoughts and scenarios stemming from myself become more vague and start to come from somewhere else, basically transitioning from inner-monologue narration of images to compiled dreams that I no longer have control of. However, if I think about my own falling asleep as it's happening the self awareness wakes me up.
The technique of macroing C to death to look like another language never died! It's still a very popular thing to do, but it's gotten a bit less wild now that C has been standardized to death.
Good stuff.

I've seen a bit of negativity about this being a waste of time since you're not making equivalent money to old job. For those people: This isn’t any different from spending time earning a degree by returning to full-time study. And your attempts are growing. The compound interest from these investments in time and effort will help you regardless. Even if you fail on every business at first you'll still get so much experience and momentum you can't help but do better next time. And I doubt any will actually fail: each will have an element that wasn't good enough but still capable of being tweaked to fix it. Even if you don't fix it, you've still learnt something in the attempt.
Kerbal Space Program manages it.

(by moving the world around the origin)
What does this have to do with that TLD? The link doesn't even mention any .gov sites.
The article says that SB 50 was supported by environmentalist groups.

>The bill also garnered support from environmental organizations, including Natural Resources Defense Council and California PIRG, because of its potential to reduce the carbon pollution that comes from long driving commutes.
You're probably right, that's probably what was meant. I guess I'm so used to thinking geometrically about quaternions, I don't see much advantage to geometric algebra for 3D rotations (but geometric algebra does have other advantages, like working in any number of dimensions!).
You can implement the regular sieve of erathostenes using mutable unboxed vectors if you like. If you did not spend enough time in Haskell to realize that you are in no position to judge it.

On the other hand, I would have used CL as well...
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The scent of a rose improves learning during sleep
>I fail to see the downside here. Isn't that a good thing, and exactly what you want in California (SFH being replaced with more units)?

Depends on whether you're a preservationist or not. There are also other answers to high density than a few condos per each 5,000 sqft lot. Combine a few of those lots and you can build a 10-20 story tower which will hold many more people.
Yes, the even Clifford algebra is the quaternions. So what?
I agree with you entirely, but how would you build a business around a library? It's one of the side effects of the (amazing) open source ecosystem we have these days that installing some kind of paid-for package isn't really that easy. Nor is preventing widespread pirating/reverse engineering of your library if it is successful.

Although it's wildly inefficient, a SAAS offering solves those problems.
Great post Micheal, and awesome to see it hit the top of HN - a reminder I guess that the core bootstrapper/hacker community is on here and strong as ever!

The numbers and stuff aside (which are looking promising, btw, congrats - look forward to see how the trends continue in y3) the part I liked best was the I still love it section. It's incredibly important and, I'm sure you know, the real driver behind doing what you're doing, not money.

I think there's a tendency, maybe especially for technical people, to want to quantify and maximise etc, and money is an easy metric for doing that with and therefore to focus on. But on reflection, it's pretty obviously not the main reason we do what we do.
I discovered Tarkovsky only last year. I didn't "get" him until the death of my father. Roiling in ineffable grief, I struggled to find meaning, to sum up the arc of my father's life. The experience had (and still has) a timeless, absurd quality to it.

Tarkovsky's films seem to exist in a different type of time orthogonal to our own, and the experience of engaging with them is difficult to describe. They are both powerful and ineffable.

From his writings, he could be mistaken for a practitioner of Zen. I would like to share my favorite Tarkovsky quote:

"Everybody asks me what things mean in my films. This is terrible! An artist doesn't have to answer for his meanings. I don't think so deeply about my work - I don't know what my symbols may represent. What matters to me is that they arouse feelings, any feelings you like, based on whatever your inner response might be. If you look for a meaning, you'll miss everything that happens. Thinking during a film interferes with your experience of it. Take a watch into pieces, it doesn't work. Similarly with a work of art, there's no way it can be analyzed without destroying it."
On the flip side, working for yourself means the job never ends. As an employee you can do 8 hours at work, 16 hours for yourself. You can drop a project and pick it up the next day. The client is pissed? You're still making your salary. It's up to management to staff correctly, not up to you to kill yourself overworking for a salary and no overtime.

When it's just you, and your entire livelihood depends on sucking up to big fish to get that one payday that will float you for the next few months while you find another big fish, the boundaries between work and home dissolve. You feel a constant stress to get projects done and you even lay awake at night terrified of what happens if your next big fish doesn't materialize. Your performance in any one task decreases because you have to wear every hat. You're a good programmer, but are you a good businessman? Advertiser? Hustler? Lawyer? Can you afford a team? Will do you everything yourself?

If you're still a kid, don't have debts, don't own property, don't have a family, don't have any roots, the risk/reward and excitement of this chaotic and generally financially ruinous lifestyle could be good or even make you happy.

But for many people, the stress of putting your family, your investments, your retirement and ultimately your future on the line is one of the most unhappy things possible.

I don't think there is anything wrong with doing your 8 hours to make a living, and then taking the next 8 hours to enrich your life -- not for profit, but for health. Exercise, learning and growing, cooking and entertaining, starting a family, investing in life and happiness outside of coding... it's just notoriously difficult to do these things as an entrepreneur, and all the "big successes" as a rule (with exceptions) are "16 hour workers", as in, 100% of useful waking hours spent on the job.
Could you stop your mindless dictatorial attitude? The title says "work on Newton's Principia", which suggests at least minor original contributions to the work itself.

Who do you think you are to rudely lecture people who may be more qualified than yourself?

You are the one who is constantly rude here.
Article 3 of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights: "Everyone has the right to life, liberty and security of person."

You don't really have an inherent right to security and security is not really even possible in a state of nature.
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"Without having to update anything" seems a bit disingenuous - does this software even work offline, without having to ask for some data from an online server, just to load the front page?
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That's not how it works in programming in general. Many - if not most - abstractions turn out to be extremely leaky. (For example, you do want to know the difference between the "root construction of Reals" as it is done in mathematics and what is taken to be their representation in the computer.)
I'll offer a counter example in that the startup I joined failed miserably and I ended up losing out on a LOT of income.

I am now working for a decent 6-figure income and EXTREMELY happy with the stability and 40-50 hour work weeks...in comparison to the ABSOLUTE GRIND I went through trying to help that startup get off the ground - this is a godsend.

Your scenario is VERY UNLIKELY IMO.
I license all my software under the AGPL. Best license IMHO.
LUKE: These are the same Jawas that sold us Artoo and Threepio.

BEN: And these blast points, too accurate for Sandpeople. Only Imperial stormtroopers are so precise.

LUKE: Why would Imperial troops want to slaughter Jawas?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BTKHZN8c2L8
I used impress.js for the slides.

It's intentionally lightweight. I don't have a lot of public projects that I can link to. Plus it seems like the kind of thing where you shouldn't try too hard. So I left it at kind of the level we're pretty much anybody can do it.

The only types of jobs I'm looking for are part-time jobs and remote jobs. So that's my audience.

By the way if you looked at HANK and want to talk about that send me a message!

Anyways thank you for the critique. It'll be helpful to me.
Keeps thing as-is is okay I think. Don't fret over it
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I completely agree it wasn’t inherent to GA, but I wouldn’t summarize it as they didn’t figure out how to use it. They were fluent, the problem is the rest of us weren’t.

The problem with what they did, and what this article is doing, is suggesting we “fix” something that takes 2 or 3 math classes to understand by replacing it with something that takes an entire semester to understand.

I honestly believe that GA has insights to offer, but I don’t believe it will save any time to upgrade the use of quaternions in any 3d engine.
If that "I bought a house" is literal then he doesn't have rent or a mortgage to pay. That's a big chunk of most people's outgoings.
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Totally agreed! Right now I only support javascript. But for everything shown there, it's pretty much the same for most flavors
In one sense words mean what their users intend them to mean.

If people start using TLDs in a sense that differs from the original intent, are these people necessarily wrong?

I don't have much of an opinion one way or the other. Although, perhaps, I'd be willing to say: who am I to tell others they're wrong?
My understanding of copyright is that the method of linking is more of a vague guideline than any set in stone legal principle. Copyright determines whether or not some work is a derivative work of an already covered work. If you simply proxy access to a covered work through a different communication interface, but still depend on it for the essential functionality of your own work, you are unlikely to get a free pass to evade the terms of the license.

Only a court can make the final decision about whether a work is a derivative work or not. As developers we need to use our common sense to determine whether what we are doing is creating new or derivative works. We've seen from Google vs Oracle that it is not necessarily clear cut as to the extent a work is covered, which is why you should never assume that it's OK to ignore license terms for some perceived "grey area," and if you have any doubts, you should seek a professional opinion.
Thanks for reading!

>Man, 2 years ago, when you posted you story of quitting, I was sitting in Yandex office at Moscow, and a lot of colleagues were talking about you and you story. Isn't that cool?

Definitely, that is really cool. That was one of the most fun parts of publishing that piece. I didn't expect it to be that interesting to people outside my circle of tech friends, but it was surprising to hear that it resonated with people in different countries and different industries.

>I really advice you to use your strengths (audience reach, mastery in writing, etc) along with you software development skills to find point of growth.

I've thought about this, especially when I first quit, but I could never think of a way to make money from my writing in a way that felt exciting to me. I think I just get more excited about building a product or service, but I do keep searching for ways to use my writing to complement my non-writing businesses.
Thanks!

TBH, I just got bored. All of the inefficient aspect of my work got slowly eliminated over the years due to process improvements, which meant that only the most unpleasant, manual aspects were left over (read: legal, negotiation, business development, etc.).

80% of my income was consulting related. I tried to branch off into making a SaaS and "failed" (which I'm still kind of excited about but have no time to pursue), but I did succeed in making an App Store portfolio which brings in decent profit.
Haha..careful. someone might take this seriously
Interesting. In that paper Mandarin has the lowest syllable rate and the highest information density.

https://imgur.com/4zwH1Ml
ij=k means that the product of two of the three unit vectors must equal the third, which is a fundamental, non-arbitrary property, and without loss of generality the signs can be chosen so that ij=k (rather than ij=-k).
Adding ii=-1,jj=-1,kk=-1 it's easy to deduce ijk=-1, j=ki, and i=jk, and ij=-ji, ik=-ki, jk=-kj.

Having to remember, out of the six possible permutations, that one of the three correct formulas is the one with the symbols in alphabetical order is much better than remembering the "right hand rule" (or was it "left hand rule"?).
That is quite a beautiful quote! I suspect we search for meanings and interpretations mostly to communicate what we feel to others we may try to share the experience with, although it seems that the best way to do this might just be to be honest about it and describe the feeing rather than the interpretation.

(Also, I’m sorry for your loss. Losing a parent seems un fathomable to me although I know it will happen to me too).
I don’t think that’s an accurate statement, and is a misattribution of responsibility.

The responsibility ultimately rests with the person who puts the drug in their own body. You can make an argument that their physician is in a position of trust, and that some responsibility lies with their prescribing it.

Extending it out to the workers of the vendor is as silly as extending it out to the workers of the keyboard vendor.
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>I am surprised so few Americans seem to realize they are imposing an entirely American centric view of the role of government and the rights of citizens.

I'm not the least bit surprised actually.
Easy with a sufficiently powerful engine: https://stackoverflow.com/a/4234491

Relies on ?(DEFINE): http://p3rl.org/perlre#(DEFINE)
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Thank you for the anecdote! Sorry to leave such a small comment but I believe you meant “foisted it on everyone”, not “hoisted”.
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I suggest you look at Mathoma's videos¹ on the topic on YouTube. His explaining is so simple (even too simple, some would say) that GA becomes a no-brainer. The magic really happens with this teacher (for me). A lot like Khan, for comparison.

[1]: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLpzmRsG7u_gqaTo_vEseQ...
A Timon for Our Time
Sorry, your houseplants aren’t purifying your apartment’s air
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Heh, like the president of Russia
Very cool! The site that worked best for me to learn regex was https://regexcrossword.com/ - after solving my way through all of them (I got really hooked when I discovered the site) I found I was alright at regex.
Nobody forced anyone to put those drugs into their body.
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