"six months of Rails and JS" sounds like the average HN reader. There's probably someone building a Saas with a REST-api for converting text betwen upper and lower case. Join them, post the link here and get your 10 remaining minutes of fame.
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To me it's like material things takes up valuable space inside of my head that already cramped more important. It's like even if you don't use the stuff you own, it still takes energy to keep track of it.
The paradoxical thing is that in a way I'm maybe more materialistic than everybody else because I get very attached to things. When I buy things it has to be perfect, and the process of finding the perfect product is sometime so cumbersome that even if it's something that I actually would need, I spend a week researching about what to buy and then end up just skipping it thinking "I managed so far".
Now I gotten so used to this pattern that I've started to actively buy as little as possible just to spare my self from this time consuming process.
> Do you use this "never satisfied" outlook for personal improvement?Do you use this "never satisfied" outlook for personal improvement?
Yes, absolutely. As I don't look for endorsement from other people, and money does not either interest me, that's the thing that keeps me going. If perfection and personal improvement wasn't important, then I really wouldn't know what would get me out of bed each day.
Secondly I hate everything material, even so money. I make just enough money to pay the bills and other essentials, but if someone I know even remotely would ask me for $100 I would never ever think about getting it back.
No one else who can relate to this?
Besides, even if it where some github.io page or something, I got the link here, now I can bookmark it.
Half a year from now i wont remember liquidapsive.com or http://www.yahoo.com/geocities/en/us/~liquidapsive/home.html anyway.
I actually don't think using domains instead of paths or sub-domains makes things easier at all. Here's an example. Lets say you wan't to know about the latest playstation. Where do you go? ps.com, playstation.com, playstation4.com or sony.com? As a non gamer, I have no idea but I know its made by Sony so I guess that's where I'd go.
"Hacktivism, Illicit Drug trade, Cyber Attacks, Human Trafficking, Money Laundering, and other areas - could have a set of predictive probabilities by analyzing huge volumes of data in virtual space and narrowing the common denominator IPs and other cyber prints."
This would be true one second ago, and a second ago this would be true about the second before that.
Now I used to think that we the humanity grown out of that hubris. That our kids will never be able to mock us because of the old technology we once perceived as cutting edge, simply because we gotten more distanced to our self no longer perceiving our self as being on the forefront in a world that's always changing.
But right now I feel like we're back in the hubris of the 80's. We will tell our kids about the time when every one was supposed to have a 3d printer at home. The material was super expensive, the material didn't hold up to anything, and who is going to have time to manufacture stuff at home when we don't even make our own food any more? And our kids will laugh at us for ever getting so out of touch with reality.
I know tough that before age 25 all memories where real, but now getting older the memories are becoming memories of memories, and it saddens me a lot.
And to be honest, most projects actually go way out of time and budget. The realist would have said no, because the scope was not realistic. Now if you wilfully or just by ignorance accept the terms and scope thinking you can always stretch other peoples time and budget, that's in my book immoral, but then again, those people will end up getting the jobs i decline.