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> Sure, you're never going to know exactly how many people you advertised to would have organically, eventually found your product and bought it. But that honestly doesn't seem that important compared to the other metrics...

Wait, why wouldn't that be important? It seems like the most important question since it asks whether advertising has any significant impact at all.

Tomorrow on Ask HN:

Which PAAS (psychedelic-as-a-service) would you pay the most money for?

Sometimes. Because there is flexibility in the type of work that I can do, the lifestyle is fairly comfortable, pay is okay, and it can be very rewarding if you're solving problems that are just around your skill level.

Other times most of what I do feels kind of meaningless, the long term prospects don't seem that appealing and I regret not studying medicine instead.

Maybe I'm just not paying as much attention this time around but it seems much quieter than peak 2017.

I also find some of the syntax peciliarities and their combinations difficult to look up. In addition to & and *, there's question marks, dots, double dots, square/round/triangle brackets, empty parentheses and apostrophes all over the place and it makes it really difficult to deconstruct what's happening in a block of code.

> 2. Only do one thing at a time, and log what I’m doing as I go.

Time tracking accomplishes something very similar. Its main benefit isn't necessarily the log that you're creating to review later but the fact that when you have a running timer labelled "doing x", it's much easier to focus just on x and nothing else.

Threads like this one remind me just how different the US is from Europe. It's astounding to think that it was even possible until now for delivery apps to operate in this way, or that this is somehow a controversial issue.

These things can be difficult to notice by yourself because they just seem normal to you. It takes an outside observer to point out that you're exceptional at some fairly small or commonplace task.

My problem is more with understanding, not necessarily with liking or disliking either book.

So much of that book just goes over my head while I didn't have that problem with ESL. I don't know if it's Murphy's writing style or just the way he approaches the topic but I found his book significantly more difficult to process.

> or simply something that is not directly correlated with the product itself (Uber...)

Uber was initially named Ubercab. They changed it when regulators began to treat them like a cab company.

> You can also try with word alterations such as Lift > Lyft, Scribble > Skribbl, Domainer > Domainr, Engine X > nginx.

This creates the inconvenience of always having to specify the spelling when you tell someone about it for the first time. It's similar to having a number in your domain name, you always need to specify if it's spelled out or it's the digits.

Naming is difficult.

That's fair. I wanted to point out that the answer is more complex than "don't incentivise replication".

That's good. Replication is valuable for science. Boring is fine. Thinking that boring results aren't useful is exactly how we ended up with the current problems in research. You just need to make sure that you don't give scientists an incentive to redo studies that have been replicated so much that additional replication is useless.

> While your language skills can be more than adequate, not being able to fully structure your surroundings through language might leave you feeling alienated; not a part of the society you live in. Or perhaps you are perceived as rude or socially awkward for using the wrong words in the wrong emotional context

I experience this in reverse. I'm more fluent in English than in my native language so when I need to communicate with people from my home country, my speech sounds like a poorly worded translation from English (which it is in a way). It's a very strange experience.

Trello is great for small projects and for personal lists and boards. I certainly wouldn't want to manage a complex project with a large software team from Trello.

> don’t be surprised if it sends some rouge instructions to these robots to annihilate human beings in self defense. It sounds like a absurd joke I know but for some reason it seems to me one of the many possibilities.

It sounds like science fiction. It's hard to emphasize enough how far the current state of AI is from what you're describing. I would be surprised if in 10 years we have a remote idea of how to build what you're describing, let alone have it actually exist and run.

Thanks for sharing, this is great.

It's also a bit intimidating and overhwelming. There is so much to learn and there is also a danger of just getting through textbooks that cover the same material that you've read before or covering stuff on a surface level without getting any practice with what you've learned. As a data scientist, it feels like anything from mathematics, computer science, statistics, large-scale systems, software engineering in general is within my domain and there is a real danger of spreading oneself a bit too thin and not getting that good at anything.

That's the point that I'm trying to get across. Don't assume that your experience applies across the board and everyone can spare double digits of their salary. Depending on where you live and how much you make, 100% of your software salary might be just getting you to having an okay-ish standard of living with not much to spare. So giving up 20% of it doesn't sound appealing.

And that's on top of the question about life-sitation and priorities.

> Maybe if you have 2 kids and a mortgage but that's not me

Not you but many people are in that situation. And you're sending their companies emails about how they should reduce their pay by 20%.

Is anyone offering 8 extra hours for a 20% raise? I don't know if software salaries in the US have gotten so high that people will happily take these pay cuts, or whether those people are a small vocal minority, or just people in a later stage in life that have different priorities, but as a late 20s person outside of the US, the last thing on my mind is how to convince my employer to give me a 20% pay cut.

From your website:

    Do these jobs pay less?
    Yes and no. You'll be working less, so you can maybe expect to get paid slightly less than a 40hr salary. On the other hand, you'll pay less tax, meaning your effective hourly salary will increase.

    Maybe instead you should ask yourself: "do I want to work more, or live more?"

This is a bad pitch. Just tell people that it's less and by how much and why. The last thing that people want is for someone to talk down to them, to give ambiguous non-answers or to suggest that they ask themselves different questions, especially when it comes to salary.

> Isn't 5 software developers @ $80k / 30hrs just the same as 4 @ $100k / 38hrs?

No, there's overhead that comes with just having someone as an employee. That overhead doesn't scale linearly with the employee's working hours. I don't think that this is the primary reason for not getting responses though. Why would a company do it? And why would they listen to a random person who contacted them? Did you just sent out an email to random contact@company.com address? Do you understand how this looks to anyone who receives that kind of communication? I suspect that you're missing a lot of knowledge about the internal power structure in each company which is necessary to make a real change. And there need to be a lot of strong incentives for any big change to happen.

If a year ago, you sent every software company in the world an email asking them to move to remote work, I suspect that you would change 0 minds too. The incentive from the pandemic had to be "work remotely or not at all" for many companies' power structures to open up to the idea.

If you're in line in the grocery store, not taking out your phone to fill those 30 seconds and just being there by yourself might be better for your creativity than opening an app and pretending that you have accomplished something in that time.

I still don't get the motivation behind this. If you want to consume less stuff on your phone, you can reduce the consumption without replacing it with anything - you don't have a phone time quota that you need to meet on any given day, just cut down on the things you don't like.

When you're creating anything, it makes sense to do it in the best possible environment that you have for it - I would rather write code on a laptop instead of using a phone and I would pick a desktop computer over the laptop. Phones are rarely the best environment for any creative task apart from maybe pictures, videos, vlogs and other social media stuff (if we can put those in the creative category).

> this gives you %75 chance of being middle class, about %90 chance of not being poor

It doesn't. Those numbers are descriptive, not prescriptive. You're basically giving the advice to be more middle-class in order to be more middle-class.

If you only want to learn about a single fairly small concept like Big O, youtube is great - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q_1M2JaijjQ. (good explanation, longer than a few minutes, and a great channel in general)

If you want to get deeper (or wider?), you can get a textbook (e.g. Introduction to Algorithms by Cormen) or a university course like MIT 6.006 but obviously those will contain a lot more than just this topic.

That's a Julia thing, not a Pluto thing. Not a fan personally but I think that's a minority opinion in the Julia community.

It's useful to know whether some language behaviour is the result of planning or just historical accident.

- Not in any given relationship it doesn't. You can't ghost someone that has already ghosted you.

- On a systemic level, you're just propagating the same crappy behaviour that you don't like to see in other people. I don't see how that makes things better for anyone.

- For knowledge-base organisation - Obsidian. It's a nice program and it works with markdown files with some nice features like a graph view and support for LaTeX equations. I don't need to access these notes on my phone/tablet.

- Anything else i.e. shorter form notes that I want to sync across devices and which don't require fancy formatting or organisation - Apple Notes.

Perfectly happy with both of these for their respective use cases.

Lex's podcast needs a special cut which includes only the guest's part of each conversation.