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bbcbasic

3,059 karma · joined October 30, 2014

Yolo mofo. Fomo? Hodl!

You is posting to fast. Slow down. Dang!

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bbcbasic··on What Really Happened with Vista
I like it a lot. I declined the free upgrade offer. Why take the risk?
bbcbasic··on The Slow Criminalization of Peer-To-Peer Transfers
Surprising. I thought Bitcoin is classed as a commodity. So if I sell some copper for cash, or a second hand book is that considered money transmission?
bbcbasic··on Dissecting Marissa Mayer’s Yahoo Compensation
Nothing to do with reversion to the mean then?
bbcbasic··on How to lose $8k worth of Bitcoin in 15 minutes with Verizon and Coinbase.com
> safebox

Also don't tell anyone online/offline that you have coins. You might get intruders.

bbcbasic··on How to lose $8k worth of Bitcoin in 15 minutes with Verizon and Coinbase.com
Sydney office? Awesome.
bbcbasic··on Ask HN: How to teach programming to children?
Why not start with designing the world's for existing games.
bbcbasic··on Base65536 encoding
What do you propose as the standard for comparison? Base64?
bbcbasic··on 4D Toys: a box of four-dimensional toys
He's going to make some coin from this.
bbcbasic··on Poll Finds 70% of Bitcoin Users Prefer Segwit for Scaling
Wow. I managed to send some coin: $5 for 17c fee recently.
bbcbasic··on Ask HN: Why does thinking about moving homes give me a panic attack?
You may not be wrong.

It costs a lot to move. Not sure about US but here we have stamp duty. For me it's a year's salary. Another half years salary for agent fees. A month's salary for removalist costs. The only way to make it feasible financially is to do a reno project but that's more stress.

Selling stuff and being creative with space may solve issues. Living with "lower class" people isn't necessary a bad thing it may be good to prevent living in a bubble.

Yeah moving is stressful. If you do go ahead I wonder if there are services to manage everything for you. If you have the money maybe get the new place furnished ahead of the move.

bbcbasic··on Poll Finds 70% of Bitcoin Users Prefer Segwit for Scaling
What's a typical btc txn fee nowadays?
bbcbasic··on Ask HN: Why don't more open-source projects monetize?
Good opportunity to make their donations go to a charity. They can feel twice as good!
bbcbasic··on Ask HN: Ex-blockchain engineers, why did you get out?
... and raising capital of course
bbcbasic··on Ask HN: Which domain extension would you choose for your personal site?
.beer
bbcbasic··on Show HN: latexresu.me – A LaTeX Resume Generator
Oh that's a very odd UX. I'd suggest at least a previous next button on each page. But keep the menu for global navigation.

Nice site.

bbcbasic··on Show HN: Hide downvotes on HN
And kudos for superb trolling
bbcbasic··on Show HN: latexresu.me – A LaTeX Resume Generator
Can't get past template page on mobile. Android chrome.
bbcbasic··on Ask HN: Why isn't F# more popular?
I think the strength of the C# language vs. Java is a factor in this.
bbcbasic··on Technology is making the world more unequal; only technology can fix this
Not sure how it undermines elites? In fact it could be playing into their hands, as a scared population will vote for more draconian measures.
bbcbasic··on Ask HN: Why isn't F# more popular?
I think it's two things.

If you write a lot of F# then if anyone leaves you need to replace them and it's harder than finding a C# developer.

Secondly most of the libraries you interop with are C# and so you have to go through interop which is more annoying.

bbcbasic··on Going for the 5 hour workday
Just had my weekly Wednesday off (oceanic the zone) and spent 3 hours working on my side hussle that is a web store. Tweaked the theme, analysed ad data and set up some new ad tests. I felt super productive getting as much done as might take 8 hours if the work was "jobified".

Spent rest of day trying out mattresses, getting a massage, cooking fish and watching star trek. Hoping I'm successful so that every day can be like this!

bbcbasic··on Going for the 5 hour workday
Od the coding time. I spend 95% time looking at code and 5% coding.
bbcbasic··on Ask HN: What job did you leave IT for?
If I had such an illness then what I would do would depend on my financial situation.

E.g. can partner support you for a bit? Do you have children? Do you have total and permanent disability insurance or temporary sickness insurance. Assets? Own an expensive home and can downsize or move to cheaper city to access equity etc. Etc.

Based on this and a target income and number of work hours I'd look for jobs that don't require much mental agility.

It depends what is meant by no concentration but most jobs require some. However something with more carpe diem like waitor, cleaner, gardening etc where you d your days work and that's it. A small fuck up usually doesn't mess your backlog etc. In these jobs.

If financially able consider doing no work but plan daily activities to keep from stagnating. E.g. long walk and salsa class every day or whatever. Or learn Haskell for an hour a day but turn off if concentration becomes an issue.

bbcbasic··on Ask HN: Should I leave my company?
Just two? Rack em up.
bbcbasic··on Ask HN: Should I leave my company?
That's why learning on the job is the way to go. Skill up.
bbcbasic··on Ask HN: What are some examples of successful single-person businesses?
AI! They used to call it a spam bot.
bbcbasic··on Ask HN: What linux distro should I start with?
Just an idea, install an 'easy' OS like Windows or Ubuntu. Then try out different distros in VMs. Once happy make the one your like your main PC distro, if you like.
bbcbasic··on Show HN: Stretch – Free limousine rides
Do things that won't scale!
bbcbasic··on Ask HN: What are your goals – what matters to you?
Yes I know, and I have a young family too.

So...

Solution for me is to reduce to 4 day week. Lucky I can do this.

And don't write a line of code. Leverage the umpteen cloud services.

bbcbasic··on Ask HN: What are your goals – what matters to you?
Set up a side business to blossom into paying 3* full time salary so I can be free of commuting, can live a high life and build assets at the same time. Doesn't involve coding as I've had it with coding and hate the complexity nowadays. I have nostalgia for the simplicity of bbcbasic magazine listings.

If I can achieve this in 5 years it would be ideal. First stage is in progress.

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