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What is your definition of “tech bro”? The post comes off to me as someone who is humble, introspective, interested in technology, interested in testing out new ideas, and interested in getting better. Not sure what’s “tech bro” about any of that, but maybe that means I’m a tech bro, bro! /joke

$229 for Suite upgrade. I love Live, but it’s getting harder to keep justifying additional money into it as a hobbyist. I might give Logic another go (purchased years ago and still getting free updates), even though it has always felt less intuitive to me than Live for whatever reason.

Edit: I’ve seen other folks online posting a price of $183 for Suite upgrade, so I would just login and see what price they give you. I think I came from Suite 9, so maybe that accounts for the price difference.

Awesome, will check out the podcast, thanks! Congrats on the success btw! Just picked up Mitch’s book on Amazon, as I’m always keen to add to the sales toolbox.

Out of curiosity, how did you land on the concept for your business?

Check this post out: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22792829. Some relevant tips in there to what you describe. The book in the top comment wasn’t a panacea for me but it was helpful in working through some of the issues you describe (or my personal version of them at least).

What you did sounds amazing! Yet I’m getting a tone from your comment that reveals some kind of disappointment in yourself. Reminds me of this thread: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22792829. Check out the book mentioned in the top comment (Refuse to Choose), it may resonate with you. It certainly resonated with me after reading it recently.

I would pay up to around $50 for a well-produced, high quality, and comprehensive hard copy book that documented the entire process. $30 feels reasonable for an ebook version of same high quality. What would be even cooler is if he partnered with a seasoned EE, who could chime in with contextual commentary on what they would’ve done differently and why. That would be even more valuable to me.

@burtonator: Are in-app flashcards coming anytime soon? Love the idea of a PKR. Tried Anki for that purpose, but it just didn’t work well enough.

Location: Austin, TX, USA

Remote: No

Willing to relocate: No

Technologies: HTML, CSS, Ruby/Rails, JavaScript, iOS, Swift, git, *nix, PostgreSQL

Résumé/CV: https://www.linkedin.com/in/frcarnevale/ (I've been working on my own product during all of 2018 - it's not listed on my LinkedIn yet)

Email: frank at fourward dot org

I've really enjoyed working on my own product over the past year, however, the isolation is wearing me down a bit. I would love to be a part of a team again. I've worked in large companies, as well as multiple startups. I've started a few of my own ventures. A clothing venture I started resonated so much with a customer that they tattooed my logo on their leg. Winning! Jokes aside, I'm product and user-focused by my nature, and have technical skills with a focus on clean code. I'm not the prototypical rockstar coder who gets off on elaborate VIM scripts and tmux configs (although I do love me some VIM-mode in Sublime Text), but I'm quick to learn, and have built useful, intuitive products.

I'm open to non-technical and technical roles alike. I just want to be a part of a team that cares about UX and quality, and is working on something interesting.

If you’re looking for a quick, fun sci fi read with this concept run amok check out Darknet by Matthew Mather.

This is the most recent one I’ve seen: https://vicis.com/. Has some big name players on board, Russell Wilson I believe. I’m surprised the NFL isn’t highlighting this effort more. I imagine it has something to do with existing equipment agreements.

For everyone saying that people are so used to clicking yes on dialog boxes without reading them: Then change that paradigm for different levels of importance. For example, for a test alert, use an automatic countdown that will activate the alert unless canceled within N seconds. The ramifications of a test alert going out accidentally are a lot lower than a real alert going out accidentally. For more serious alerts like this most recent ballistic missile one, turn the entire screen red, have “THIS IS NOT A TEST” header, with an explicit acceptance required to send the alert. Two people may mitigate this existing problem but it still doesn’t get to the root of the issue.

Same thing with your hammer analogy. Everything shouldn’t look like a nail then! A real alert should look like a nail. A real ballistic missile alert should look like a railroad spike (aka really big nail). Test alerts should look like a screw. Etc.

For sure! At best I’ll usually be able to recall the main idea of the book, and a few supporting examples. I still think it seeps into our minds in other ways :)

Sounds like you might enjoy Blinkist. It’s a paid app that gives you the highlights of a book. I tried it and thought it was interesting, however, I actually enjoy reading entire books. So it felt like I was doing CliffsNotes for stuff I enjoyed reading about. Also, you’re depending on the service to pick out what’s important. What resonates with them vs what resonates with you could be two different things.

I think we get too hung up on trying to wring every last drop out of life. If you like reading, read. The important themes you come across in different books will naturally reinforce and connect amongst themselves.

I tend to feel the same as you regarding the body of the book being gone after a while. However, I do feel like every book I’ve read colors in my view of the universe just a bit more. Over time, I think it adds up to more than we might think. Also, I would imagine that our subconscious minds are gobbling up a lot of the major points of these readings, to be used at a later date. It’s all going into the intuition mill!

I think the assumption was that the people who live around you are genetically related to you aka family. I originally read the statement as meaning geography and proximity to strangers increases the chance that they’ll look like you.

I’m not saying unique to Apple. I’m saying unique to companies operating at massive scale.

Here’s another to add to the list: Ask your Apple Watch what the weather is. Crashes the watch and restarts it. Confirmed on my Watch S0 running latest version of iOS 11. Found out from https://forums.macrumors.com/threads/apple-watch-bug-causing....

If anyone from Apple is listening, please please please raise this up the flagpole on your teams. I love Apple, and think they’re doing fantastic work overall. I get that there are unique problems with having such massive scale, but iOS 11 has been a mess from the beginning.

Edit: It’s apparently “springboarding”, not restarting. Very similar experience either way.

Very cool! Thank you! How do you find it helpful to think in terms of code that generates a design vs. jumping right into the visual aspect of a design (I'm assuming the latter is how a typical 3D design program works)? In other words, why do you prefer this to other more traditional 3D design programs?

I would pay money for said course. I'm trying to piece together my own homegrown manufacturing curriculum through a combination of books, googling, diy projects, and YouTube. I don't expect to create world class engineering marvels on my own, but to be able to develop such a polished finished product as OP would be incredible. Any tips on where to start as far as 3D modeling and enclosure design goes?

I just meant that if a thread was killed because there's already an active discussion for it, I would've expected to be redirected to the active thread (rather than a blank page). Thanks for the tip!

Gotcha, thanks! Would've expected to just have it redirect the permalink to the existing thread rather than just load an empty page.

For reference, this is the article: https://beta.theglobeandmail.com/opinion/no-the-google-manif...

Why wouldn't you recommend regularly using your laptop with orange safety glasses? Inconvenience or something else?

Really neat! Why did you have to shutdown the website?

Edit: I'm referring to the customer research website you guys made, mentioned in the post.

Is it really that you suck at marketing, or that you'd just rather spend time coding/building? :) I totally agree with your comment either way.

YES! Thank you!!

Out of curiosity, which insurance company was it? How long after getting the policy did you cancel it? What made you cancel?

Based on your comment, I know you won't be swayed, so I won't argue :) My point was simply that allocating a small percentage of your money toward a WL policy can make some sense because it's such a flexible financial instrument (tax-deferred growth, tax-free withdrawals, policy payments made in the event of disability, a small but reasonable tax-adjusted return, permanent death benefit, etc.).

If/when I get married, my plan will look like this: majority of life insurance via term, modest WL policy, disability income insurance, some index funds, and some stock of two or three companies that I know deeply.

What happens to folks who retire after a crash like in 2000? It'd probably be better if they left their investments alone, and instead drew some money from their WL policy. You could argue that their allocation should've been well tilted from equities at that point, but what if it wasn't?

In a perfect world of automatic 10% yearly returns, and diligent saving/investment, buying term and investing the difference (from WL) would smack the performance of WL. Unfortunately it doesn't work like that. Most people don't save/invest diligently, and the market isn't automatic.

Great points all around, thank you for making them! Please don't help perpetuate this myth about whole life being a "rip off" though. Your statement is semi-accurate, but a bit misleading.

Don't get whole life - it's generally a rip off

Yes, if purchased from a non-mutual, financially shaky insurance company, it's quite likely a bad idea.

However, when purchased from a financially strong mutual insurance company (Northwestern Mutual, Guardian Life, etc.), it can make a great complement to term life insurance (and can be beneficial to the overall financial plan for a number of reasons).

One wouldn't want to "fully" insure themselves with whole life (that'd be cost prohibitive and inappropriate from an asset allocation perspective), but again, as a small piece it can make a lot of sense.

Anyway, didn't mean to detract from your overall points. It's hard to put a specific number on peoples' insurance needs without knowing their situation, but the spirit of your points was spot on. Especially about "own occupation" disability coverage - which I think is especially relevant for programmers.

TL;DR on insurance: Talk to a professional that you trust, figure out what amount of protection makes sense, and get protected. Term life insurance is an affordable way to get a lot of financial protection for your family. Your ability to earn an income is perhaps your greatest financial asset (edit: assuming you have many working years ahead of you), so treat it as such. Think about protecting it with disability income insurance.

I'm heartbroken every time I read one of these deeply personal stories. The situation is already stressful enough - one shouldn't have to worry about how the family will keep the lights on.

[Source: I once worked in financial services]

Care to share one of the two you're not using? :)