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Re:You Weren't Meant to Have a Boss (2008) on Sunday May 31, 2026 @04:45PM (#48349556)
What PG wrote here truly resonates. I worked for a large Co and then 7 years ago started my own thing.

At first it felt unnatural. Doing something that most others are not feels wrong. Eventually, once I accepted the daily feeling of ambiguity created through exploring a limitless world, I knew I had made the right decision.

My advice to anyone navigating the transition is to ensure you first setup something for initial survival (e.g., figure out how to freelance, find a flexible job, learn a skill).

Having even a bit of money flowing in (irrespective of the amount really) while not being tied to a large Corp gave me that initial sense of freedom I needed to truly think big. It kept me from "giving up" and going back.

It's a slippery slope though, if you get too used to just doing freelance, you've built around yourself artificial barriers similar to those that exited before for you. You will gravitate to the easier projects because they will have the best ROI for you on your time.

Find the right balance. Just enough freelance to live, but not too much where you're not trying new things and truly learning how to build long term value.

Re:Whole Earth Index on Tuesday November 04, 2025 @04:16PM (#45815979)
Project like this make me stop and truly appreciate the time someone took to make this... and make me wish I had more time in my day to consume this beauty in its entirety. So much knowledge retained here.
Thank you for making this.

My dad passed away from squamous cell carcinoma in 2010. In retrospect, through my casual research into the space and tools like this one, it occurs to me that the entire event was likely preventable and occurred merely because we did not react quickly enough to the cancer’s presence.

My 3yo loves chatting with Gemini, more than just watching some show. It give her undivided attention and always asks follow up questions to her silly comments.

Ask HN: Help Me Understand This Website Scam (Friends Business Site Cloned)

Hoping the community can help analyze a suspicious site that clones my friend's legitimate business. Nutripea (https://nutripea.com/) → Real company, real physical location. Norleaf Food (https://norleaffood.com/) → Clone of Nutripea’s website, no physical location, questionable intent. A few things stand out: -The source code of Norleaf Food is nearly identical to Nutripea’s,...

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https://experts.mcmaster.ca/display/ironsga <-- A professor of steel making named Dr. Irons
Re:MTA's A.I. bus cameras issue mistaken parking violations on Tuesday December 03, 2024 @03:34PM (#42311021)
> pay a second company $58 million to outfit an additional 1,000 buses with mobile camera systems

How could it be $58k per bus to install a camera?

Re:Have McKinsey and its consulting rivals got too big? on Saturday October 19, 2024 @03:29PM (#41890076)
Since this is reported on by "Insurance Journal" it makes wonder how much of this fine was paid for by their liability insurer. Does anyone know? Presumably they have no coverage for illegal activities, but they never agreed they did anything illegal.
Re:OpenAI is shockingly good at unminifying code on Thursday August 29, 2024 @08:12AM (#41389992)
>I apologize, GPT-4, for mistakenly accusing you of making mistakes.

I am testing large language models against a ground truth data set we created internally. Quite often when there is a mismatch, I realize the ground truth dataset is wrong, and I feel exactly like the author did.

Re:SanDisk introduces the first 8TB SD and 4TB microSD cards on Saturday August 10, 2024 @10:28PM (#41213615)
I still have a photo of myself holding a 256 MB micro SD card. I was in awe when I saw it.

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