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Incerto··on Rethinking Innovation in the Real World
Disruption sounds exciting until it wrecks your margins and burns your runway. Let's get practical about what actually works.
Incerto··on IT consultants need to start acting like accountants, solicitors, and architects
Yeah
Incerto··on Japan stocks plunge as much as 7% as Asia shares extend sell-off
Long overdue. This 'everything bubble' needs to end. The sooner, the better.
Incerto··on Sell your micro startup for less than 25k dollars
Yet another sad testament of what the Indie Hacker space has turned into. Just Indie Hackers selling to Indie Hackers. A closed system built on a mountain of false hope.
Incerto··on Quit Your Job
This reads like a parody. I was CONVINCED it was parody and was waiting for the punchline.
Incerto··on Tech jobs market normalizing as July unemployment dips
Let's not count our chickens before they've hatched.
Incerto··on The Game Wallet
The reminds me of a crypto version of the DIWhy subreddit.
Incerto··on Ask HN: Lost in My Career
I feel your pain. I was stick in the same boat as you a couple of years back. It’s hard as CRUD really is the bread and butter of the industry. I did two things..

1. Took a few weeks of holiday and didn’t TOUCH a computer during that time, did a hard reset.

2. Longer term, I looked into stuff I had never programmed (during my spare time) to rekindle my love for it. Stuff that was (objectively) useless for my career but that I did anyway for the sheer love of it. In my case it was messing around with 3d games libraries and building a basic gaming server.

Hope this helps.

Incerto··on Ask HN: Is it ok to reject a job because I don’t like their software?
The more I read this, the more I'm convinced OP is trolling...
Incerto··on Ask HN: Is it ok to reject a job because I don’t like their software?
One of the few sensible replies on here. The level of entitlement on this thread is mind boggling.
Incerto··on Ask HN: Is it ok to reject a job because I don’t like their software?
Turn down a job for any reason you want - you have nothing to feel bad / guilty about. But honestly, don't go into detail / give that reason. It sounds unreasonable, and could hurt your reputation (people tawk).

If you have a long enough career is Software Dev, you will almost certainly at some point end of using a software product you personally don't like. Learning to compromise / pick your battles is a career skill like any other.

Apologies if this sounds overly critical, but as a hiring manager, I would consider it a bullet dodged. Drawing hard lines in the sand over small things like this would be a red flag for me.

Incerto··on Last-resort cancer therapy holds back disease for more than a decade
*studnets = patients. Typo
Incerto··on Last-resort cancer therapy holds back disease for more than a decade
If anybody is interested, there was a phenomenal documentary made a few years back, about the early clinical trials of CAR-T therapy for Leukaemia students.

"War in the blood" https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m0006nzt

Incerto··on BBC licence fee to be abolished in 2027 and funding frozen
This is long Long long overdue. Fantastic news.
Incerto··on Star Trek – U.S..S. Enterprise NCC-1701 – Highly Detialed Model Replica
Isn't playmobil a toy for <5yo? Honestly, I find this a little sad that it's marketed at adults.
Incerto··on Is Web3 Bullshit?
I remember people saying WEB 2.0 / AJAX was bullshit too. It's easy to lampoon the buzzwords / early failures of a new paradigm. People will be tinkering to learn new ways to working. Personally I believe Web3 has a huge future.
Incerto··on The FAANG Market Is Fading
Shouldn't we be calling it MANGA now?
Incerto··on Will We Ever Get Rid of Covid-19?
No.
Incerto··on How the ancient Romans managed their toilets
I had to stop reading when the author started talking about how togas gave them more privacy. 99% of Romans never wore a toga, and of those that did, they were only used for senate hearing and other special / public business.
Incerto··on After six months on Mars, NASA's tiny copter is still flying high
It’s been six months already? How time flies…
Incerto··on Apple has completed its acquisition of Shazam
A great app that PRE-DATES smart phones. I remember using Shazam when it was a dial in service (dial 2580 in the UK), hold your old brick mobile phone up and you would get a txt message a minute later with the song. Seemed like magic then and still does now.
Incerto··on Show HN: Answer.tv – You're Own Personal Video FAQ
Hi everyone, above is my start-up , answer.tv - I'd be incredibly grateful if you could have a play about with it and send me any feedback.

Thanks,

Incerto