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pototo666··on China Eastern flight MU5735 crashes, 132 people were on board
As expected.

There is screenshot left.

https://i.redd.it/vlj0wyw9apo81.jpg

pototo666··on China Eastern flight MU5735 crashes, 132 people were on board
An insightful prediction from Zhihu, which is Quora for China:

https://www.zhihu.com/question/517618431/answer/2356205623

This post is from 2022.02.20. It says that Chinese airlines have showed terrible security risks since COVID, because COVID creates great losses for airline industry. At the end of the post, it says that deadly accidenty is abound to happen.

Last air crash from Chinese airlines was 2010.

The crashed site is not far away from my hometown. RIP.

pototo666··on A unified theory of VC suckage (2005)
> In entrepreneurship, these are cardinal sins. because of limited resources, startups fail when their bets aren't concentrated. startups also fail when prematurely optimizing costs because innovation is inherently wasteful.

As a founder who strugglews with concentration, I found that your insight is gold.

pototo666··on A unified theory of VC suckage (2005)
Do you still have contact with VC in China now? Is it still like this?
pototo666··on Ask HN: Question from self-taugh developer, my app is slow. What do I do now?
I haven't started profiling yet.

According to my cloud server's monitor, there is a big chance that the slowness is due to bandwith too crowded. I want to see if there is more slowness report or if I can experience slowness again, before I spend time to learn profiling.

But I guess sooner or later I'll have to do that. Now that I know what is in my armory, I feel more at peace :)

pototo666··on Ask HN: Question from self-taugh developer, my app is slow. What do I do now?
> An APM tool

Thanks :)

pototo666··on Ask HN: Question from self-taugh developer, my app is slow. What do I do now?
> Learn how to use a profiler

Thanks :)

pototo666··on Ask HN: Question from self-taugh developer, my app is slow. What do I do now?
Thanks NicoJuicy,

I just finish setting up CDN a few minutes ago. And my bandwith is 2M now.

pototo666··on Ask HN: Question from self-taugh developer, my app is slow. What do I do now?
Thanks.

I have never profiled my app before. Time to learn new skills :)

pototo666··on Ask HN: Question from self-taugh developer, my app is slow. What do I do now?
Thanks sir :)
pototo666··on Ask HN: Question from self-taugh developer, my app is slow. What do I do now?
Thanks Creatornator.

My database is mongodb and I use Mongoose as ORM. My crud operation is quite simple, therefore I doubt ORM causes the performance. But like you said, I need profiling.

pototo666··on Ask HN: Question from self-taugh developer, my app is slow. What do I do now?
Thank you sir.

I only log program exception. Your advice really makes wonder why I have not done what you suggested at first.

pototo666··on Ask HN: Question from self-taugh developer, my app is slow. What do I do now?
Thank you, Matt.

I have never analyze SQL queries. This seems to be the time to learn how to do it :)

pototo666··on Ask HN: Question from self-taugh developer, my app is slow. What do I do now?
Thanks, I tried some passages from Chapter 2 of the book you mention. It is awesome, just exactly what I need right now.
pototo666··on Ask HN: Question from self-taugh developer, my app is slow. What do I do now?
Yes, I have experienced the slowness

Thanks for your wise input, this makes sense: reproduce a bug before fixing it.

pototo666··on Ask HN: Question from self-taugh developer, my app is slow. What do I do now?
Thanks four your clear steps. It is very practical :)
pototo666··on Ask HN: Startup acquired by a large company and it sucks. What to do?
This sounds more like a misalign of interests. You primary interest is getting things done asap. The VM team's interests is fuck up things as little as possible. They don't care about your primary interest.

The whole structure of big corporation is structured in this way. Different apartments have different interests in concern. If you could align, fine. If you can't, then it sucks.

pototo666··on Ask HN: What things has tech made worse in your life?
My sleep.

I used to use smart phone before I lie on bed before bedtime. I know that I shouldn't use them. But the dopamine generated by digital devices and internet is too cheap. When I am unhappy or under pressure, I tend to use my smart phone. And I am always unhappy or under pressure recently. Then I use smart phone before sleep. Then I fall asleep very late. This creates some vicious circle. The worse my sleep is, the more unhappy I am.

I can no more live with a digital device in the same room before bedtime.

Before I go to bed, I have to leave all my digital devices, except for kindle, at first floor. Then I return to my bedroom at second floor. Without them, I can finnaly sleep well.

pototo666··on Groups never admit failure
The CCP under XiaoPing Deng creates indeed a schism. It no longer takes communism seriously. Its legitmacy comes from economic growth, rather than from whatever Mao cared.
pototo666··on Ask HN: Startup founders who work at home with children, how do you make it?
I might actually need to get out of the house. Thx :)
pototo666··on Ask HN: Startup founders who work at home with children, how do you make it?
Thx, I am acutually thinking about this.
pototo666··on Tell HN: Amplitude (YC W12) just went public – AMA
Congrats.

I just learned from this thread that Amplitude has more generous free tier than Mixpanel. I shall try it in my product.

pototo666··on China has forbidden under-18s from playing games for more than three hours/week
Parents hate games. The governament is ran by parents. That's why.
pototo666··on China has forbidden under-18s from playing games for more than three hours/week
Wrong title. Online games are forbidden, not all games. You can download and play many steam games.

Edit: or pirated games.

pototo666··on Chinese authorities say overtime '996' policy is illegal
Yep. Your writing makes me miss the morning coffee. I used to have a lot intereting talks beside the coffee machine. Coffee was better. Now I have to drink cheap instant coffee alone.
pototo666··on Chinese authorities say overtime '996' policy is illegal
I read Hacker News and Reddit, or read tech docs, or write some code, or talk with friends. Then I quit. I am making a Reddit for China now. I want to help all those boring souls like the old me :).

It is truly depressing. I would never go back. I earn 1/20 of my old salary as a solo developer. I can't make ends meet, yet. But I would never go back.

Paul Graham wrote somewhing like, if you fail, you would have to go back to those boring companies. This fact provides a lot of motivation. I can't remember the exact phrase. But yes, that's exactly how I feel.

pototo666··on Chinese authorities say overtime '996' policy is illegal
Coming out of one of those 996 companies, I would say that most of my working time are wasted.

I would do almost nothing in the moring. I did most of my work in the afternoon. In the evening I just pretended to be working.

Forcing a real 7.5h day would not hurt most companies. But it would hurt the ego of middle managers, who want to prove that their teams are trying their best by working long hours.

pototo666··on Work Hard (2007)
This.

Even though I know that working all night till 6 am is wrong, I still do this now and then, because work is sometimes addicting.

I need such message from real genius to help me control myself.

pototo666··on Ask HN: Free or cheap UI design course?
thanks for the info. I have decided to go for Refactoring UI. I use tailwind in my project anyway. ^ ^
pototo666··on Launch YC: 3D Web; Training; Child privacy; Pregnancy; Life science; Desk rental
This is amazing!

I am building a Reddit for China. I can't help thinking about builidng a 3D version.

This is like, what can I say, muse!

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