wdaher
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Comment · 3 months ago
I’ve also seen this called “The Whispering Earring”, and have seen it hosted here (this version slightly more readable)
Comment · 4 months ago
It's just been one of those "I just haven't gotten around to it yet" aspirational acquisitions. It seems very interesting and maybe I'll eventually get around to it.
It's more the satisfaction of (a) doing a small nice thing for a stranger on the Internet while also (b) freeing up a little shelf space is also worth the ~$5 it would cost me to mail it to someone.
Comment · 4 months ago
Assuming we’re talking about the Stripe Press book: if you email me and if you have a US address I’d be glad to mail you my totally unread copy which is mostly just gathering dust for me. (Email in profile.)
Comment · 8 months ago
The Sorcerer's Apprentice is a poem by Goethe, or more famously, a sequence from the Disney movie "Fantasia", which you can see here: https://video.disney.com/watch/sorcerer-s-apprentice-fantasi...
The short summary of it is: the sorcerer's apprentice (Mickey) uses magic to get a broom to fetch water for him, and then the situation gets out of control as the broom continues to get water, and he has no idea how to stop it.
(It's a cautionary tale about the danger of playing with forces you don't really understand/"be careful what you wish for".)
Comment · 11 months ago
This is 100% about Delaware Franchise Tax and is a rite of passage for all first-time founders. (There is no portal you can log into to view your federal taxes owed.)
Here’s a detailed writeup I prepared a while back about exactly how to resolve this if you want to DIY it. (This is one of the very few filings I actually recommend you DIY.)
https://pilot.com/blog/how-to-file-your-delaware-franchise-t...
Comment · 1 year ago
Scalability is overrated - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34656776 - Feb 2023 (232 comments)
Comment · 1 year ago
This is the correct parsing of it.
(I can't take credit for coming up with the title, but I worked on the project.)
Comment · 1 year ago
A bit reminiscent of Tallis's "London Street Views": https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=mdp.39015051808932&se...
Comment · 1 year ago
See my example here for where it ends up biting you: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44180533#44204246