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waterfallr | 3 years ago | on: Ask HN: What's Your Biggest Regret?

“Marry, and you will regret it; don’t marry, you will also regret it; marry or don’t marry, you will regret it either way.”. Søren Kierkegaard

waterfallr | 3 years ago | on: Putin’s Energy War with Europe Seems to Falter

The profit margin’s of the energy companies are more important than the economy. Take UK with only 8% Russian imports, but prices have somehow doubled. Same story in the EU

waterfallr | 3 years ago | on: Ask HN: Depressed, need to leave web development, what can I do?

What would you do if your only limit in life was your imagination?

waterfallr | 3 years ago | on: Ask HN: If you hate Google 2022, why not making your Google 2012?

I don’t hate google but Google is not just search, it’s an ecosystem. OS, browser, email, search etc.

Wrt to Search,

Scale: Huge cost of infrastructure, data is privatize.

You could run a hobby scale pagerank but for searching web it would be a needle in a haystack.

They have competition like yandex, nacy, baidu but are not for English web and not open source

waterfallr | 3 years ago | on: Ask HN: Solution for Distraction?

The book “make time” has many techniques

waterfallr | 3 years ago | on: Ask HN: Will I Ever Recover?

You can be successful, whatever success is to you.

If you have a dream, go for it. Don’t let age stop you.

waterfallr | 3 years ago | on: Netherlands on track to approve working from home as a legal right

There’s no law on silence. You could have neighbors blasting their music for hours. Good luck working from home