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hsribei | 7 years ago | on: The Cost of Developers

Gitlab also took VC money and have an exit as their only option. Doubt they'll get as far as GitHub did though, and the option to just grow slowly into a solid independent business is off the table. Probably an acquihire with small return to investors.

hsribei | 8 years ago | on: Underestimating the mind-warping potential of fake video

One point that is often lost on the discussions of fake video/"deepfake" is that this development won't only make it easier to fool people into believing something that's made up, but it might also make people more distrustful of things which are actually true.

When it's been spread out enough that anything can be doctored to an indistinguishable extent, everything becomes deniable by those being caught, and the skepticism explosion is going to raise the bar for investigative journalism / actual evidence to standards high enough that few will have the resources to produce them.

hsribei | 8 years ago | on: Time to rebuild the web?

I think the Brave Browser and associated Basic Attention Token (BAT) are a step in the right direction. It's hard to escape ad revenue if you want to avoid paywalls, but Brave at least gives users privacy, control, and revenue share.

hsribei | 8 years ago | on: Spoken Binary (and Hexadecimal)

I found this after coming up with my own #spokenDSL for binary at https://github.com/ttobbec/rubble (pt-BR).

I found mental math became a lot easier after practicing it a little bit.

Might be a good way to teach kids binary. Tell them nothing about bases, conversions, or anything, just give them decimal numbers with a different name, wait for the phonetic patterns to take hold, then show them what's behind it.

Urbit's Hoon also takes the approach of coming up with phonetics for ASCII symbols, which I find great. https://github.com/cgyarvin/urbit/blob/master/doc/book/3-syn...

hsribei | 8 years ago | on: Ask HN: Is there a market (both supply/demand) for half-time software engineers?

I'd love such an arrangement myself too, especially remotely. I have friends who tutor on Thinkful or some other company so they can choose to do fewer hours a week and dedicate themselves to family/projects, but that pays much less than working as an engineer. It works for them because they live in low cost-of-living countries.

hsribei | 9 years ago | on: Ask HN: Should I create a clone of a popular SaaS with rock-bottom pricing?

It also pains me to have to sift through all the meta noise. But some examples do stand out. patio11 is one.

I recently found about Tyler Tringas, who has open revenue numbers, is profitable, and specifically focused on making the business as automated as possible to have time. He was going to write and sell a "metabook", but decided against it precisely for reasons of credibility. He's publishing it for free at https://tylertringas.com/micro-saas-ebook/.

Another one is Jason Kester, who wrote about how he did it for free on one simple blog post here: http://www.expatsoftware.com/Articles/guy-on-the-beach-with-...

It's good to see there are some actual cases, and it sounds at least more doable than the crazy startup lottery that is, ironically, more socially acceptable. (Passive stuff is for lazy people.)

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