Jeeeesus I wasn't ready for that. my wife was diagnosed 11 years ago. we had been trying for kids for 4 years prior and finally had to give up. the drugs they put you on for cancer for 5 years, well, you cannot have kids. and she was already getting up there in age. she finally came off of them in 2020. then a year later, we found out she was pregnant. and because she was pregnant with a girl, my wife got a genetic test and found out she has the BRCA-1 mutation which explained her breast cancer diagnosis from 2014... and also put her on high alert for ovarian cancer. after the preventative surgery, it turns out she had precancerous cells in her fallopian tubes. this little girl of ours had saved her life. just by being born. she's now three. and my wife is healthy, and happier than ever. I'm a lucky, lucky guy.
I've been using Aegis for a number of years, and have found nothing I don't like about it. It's a perfectly functional app, and I'm looking forward to trying out the new update!
Funny you mention this. I've decided just today to begin a full week of no Twitter or YouTube. To keep myself on top of my addictions, rather than fully succumbed to them. Props to you for deleting your account and going all in.
And that's the thing... This page should always be about sharing and encouraging people who build things they're excited about, regardless of whether it meets some technical high bar.
Kudos to you, and I hope you keep that excitement going!
$100 Startup by Chris Guillebeau. Really good at stripping away many of the reasons I had been holding onto to not start something on my own.
The book is agnostic about how you raise capital. It gives you the pros and cons of bootstrapping or raising money, and leaves it to you to decide what's best.
My biggest beef is with the idea of trying to control something that doesn't need to be controlled for it to work, just because it'll increase profit margins. The web does not need to be regulated or controlled by ISPs for it to work. We've known this for decades. It's unfortunate that it's necessary to have a law in place in the form of net neutrality to keep ISPs from finding and using this as an avenue of revenue generation, but capitalism isn't perfect.
> "FBI sources say with 99% accuracy that Hillary Clinton's server has been hacked by at least five foreign intelligence agencies, and that information had been taken from it."
Wow, that seems far more than originally reported, and certainly more damaging. Which foreign entities have confidential information now? How will they use that information?
As historically cooler climates warm up, opportunities shift. A huge amount of industries where geography plays a crucial role will be affected. Vineyards, for instance, will be entirely changed.
The trick is to find an industry currently tied to a specific climate, and predicting where the change in climate will take the market.
I haven't thought about it a ton myself yet, but that's the line of thinking I've been on...
Yeah, I once got an email from them. Because I use email aliases (<[email protected]>) I knew exactly where they farmed it from, because they sent it with the + intact.
Definitely didn't provide consent to communication.
I love the focus on a particular topic or theme. "Reduce code fat!" for example. I've been to far too many general hackathons where the scope was so broad that the productivity of the hackathon itself was minimal, or even zero.
good on you, Randall. Congratulations.