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ohadron··on Start a fucking blog
That is extremely expensive if all you need is a place to host your thoughts available to a wide audience.

($15/mo basic tier, and if I drag the slider to 20k 'members' the 'creator' tier is at $149/mo billed annually).

ohadron··on Ask HN: What’s your way to get rid of a hangover?
Something greasy like a hamburger with fries and a pint of beer.
ohadron··on Ask HN: Which is your most favorite API?
Using the Todoist API, I fetch all the open tasks with a certain tag and post to a group I share with my spouse when requested. Another bot I have is everyday at 8:30am to summarize the completed goals from the previous day.
ohadron··on Ask HN: Which is your most favorite API?
I really like Telegram's bot API. https://core.telegram.org/bots/api

Helps me automate stuff around my life with a few small apps that connect to Telegram message threads. Summaries from other APIs, smart home functionality, family errands and shopping list reminders with my spouse and more.

ohadron··on Ask HN: What prevents a company from hiring remote employees internationally?
I think you listed most of the important issues.

From a company standpoint, being fully-remote is already a non-conservative approach and minimizing risks by only hiring in a certain region makes sense. Your talent pool will stop being a constraint anyways so why add more complexity.

One more thing I'll add to this list is culture and language. Even if on paper everyone speaks English, communication is much easier when everyone speaks the same accent / dialect / local non-EN language.

ohadron··on The great Covid and smoking cover-up?
Interesting. Or smokers having to spend time outside and away from crowded places.
ohadron··on Stellantis CEO: European Union makes cars unaffordable
He makes it sound like it's a bad thing.
ohadron··on Ask HN: How do you decide which bugs to ship?
Unless we're talking medical, aerospace, weapon system, financial infrastructure code etc, from my experience this is not achievable.
ohadron··on Ask HN: How do you decide which bugs to ship?
Criteria: how easy it is to fix, are there any workarounds available, how disruptive it is to core use cases, is there any immediate business impact, are we planning to work on that part of the system any time soon, is it a new bug or something that's been there for a while, could it corrupt user data, does it cause a compliance issue.
ohadron··on Ask HN: How to Pickup the Habit of Reading?
I started this habit by getting a kindle, putting it next to my bed, and promising myself that no matter how tired I am, I need to read at least one page before I go to sleep. Which is easy - it takes 1 minute. But it gets the ball rolling. I've finished 30+ books since I started doing this, and more importantly I'm reading every single day.

In general I recommend reading [Atomic Habits](https://jamesclear.com/atomic-habits) to learn how to pick up habits. Maybe that could be your first book.

ohadron··on Ask HN: How would I send 1 dollar to everyone on Earth?
Interesting challenge. Sounds like you will need a bit more than 8 billion for all the logistics involved.
ohadron··on Ask HN: What are some examples of well-designed complex UIs und UI systems?
An F-16 fighter is quite complex yet it's cockpit was at the time a masterpiece in simplicity and human-machine interaction.
ohadron··on Ask HN: Startup video production companies (like the one for Descript?)
https://sandwich.co/
ohadron··on Ask HN: How can I attract recruiters to my job site?
Just an idea, without prior knowledge of the common business models of this domain:

Maybe instead of asking recruiters to pay in order to post, just post on their behalf and charge them for candidate applications. You'll need some sort of flywheel to get the marketplace running, so if you're confident you will be able to source relevant candidates, maybe that's your chance.

ohadron··on Ask HN: How long did the honeymoon with your co-founder last?
I think that friction and clashes are inevitable even when your co-founders are not assholes. No two people will agree on everything. Usually when the going gets rough that's when you'll uncover the differences. That's why I'd suggest:

- Make sure you have a good co-founder agreement that addresses the tough points and doesn't assume best interests.

- Try building something and working together even before you're committed to an investor or a client.

ohadron··on Is there a valid reason why Google Meet doesn't support 1080p?
Some possible reasons -

- More costly data transfer and compression processing

- Significant user segment with not enough bandwidth to support it

- Significant user segment with sub-1080 cameras (Most being sold today are 720p or less)

- Low ROI - it might make sense to solve other problems first with the same engineering resources

ohadron··on Ask HN: Coding music playlist to increase code throughput
This might be what you are looking for: https://musicforprogramming.net/
ohadron··on Show HN: Sharing, command-line tool to share files with your phone
Really cool. One of my favorite things about iOS+MacOS is the ability to copy/paste between devices, but I can think of a bunch of use cases where this would be even better.
ohadron··on Tell HN: It would be cool if a mousewheel momentum scrolled
Try out the Logitech MX Master 3 scroll wheel. It's similar to what you describe, and honestly not a huge game changer for me.
ohadron··on NFL warns teams not to destroy their Surface Pro tablets
Feels like pretty good publicity for the Surface, which as of now is a very small player in the iPad dominant tablet market.
ohadron··on LinkedIn ran social experiments on 20M users over 5 years
I'd imagine the terms of service we all agree to 'notify' us of such consequences.
ohadron··on Show HN: Another Darn To-Do List App
Congrats on your first launch! Way to go. Getting something out there is never easy.

Website feedback: I'd show potential users what's in it for them before requiring them to sign-up.

ohadron··on LinkedIn ran social experiments on 20M users over 5 years
I think this is extremely common for social networks to experiment with this kind of things. Trying out various blends of user experience, social circles and so on to see what best converts users to premium members.

Not saying it's right, just that it constantly happens.

ohadron··on Shasta: AI-powered audio recording and editing
The Adobe XD :: Figma move didn’t work as well as they’ve hoped in the end…
ohadron··on Apple’s iPhone 14 Redesign for Repair
I think he meant that though the redesign is comprehensive an it's basically a different phone from the inside, reviewers still considered it an exact same design externally.
ohadron··on Bank tells customers to disable updates and not upgrade to iOS 16
Good luck with that.
ohadron··on Ask HN: Recommendations for “Hacker Fiction” Films?
Not a good answer I guess, but I was reading your question and couldn't think of anything else but the game EXAPUNKS from Zachtronics (https://www.zachtronics.com/exapunks/)
ohadron··on Ask HN: Who acquires big macOS apps?
I think acquirers will typically be more interested in financial figures rather than the size of the codebase.

There's flippa.com and the likes, you could start your research there.

ohadron··on Ask HN: What are the best tools to set and track personal goals?
A spreadsheet.

Columns - daily / weekly goals, rows - days. Every morning I fill in the previous day and reflect on the upcoming one.

I've tried a bunch of tools and also develop some of my own, but so far (~20 months) this simple solution has been the most effective and sticky for me.

ohadron··on Atomic Habits: An Easy and Proven Way to Build Good Habits and Break Bad Ones
> if you can apply it, you obviously didn't need this book in the first place anyway.

Maybe you can, but if you don't know you should then this book helps.

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