mattknox · HackerTrans

hace 3 añosdiscuss

I've been a customer of theirs for at least 12 years, I think (I have an entry in my password manager from about that long ago, and I might have had an account before that). It's been fantastic, in general: I can get a phone consult anytime I've wanted one, and can get in to see a doc with pretty short notice. They are good at giving me the referrals I ask for, even if they are weird (eg., after listening to Chamath Palihapitiya talk about Coronarary Arterial Calcium scans, I got curious and wanted one, and 1med got me the referral I wanted/dealt with insurance, etc.). About the only downside is that it's a bit harder to keep a very consistent GP, in that 1med seems to have a fair amount of turnover. I don't know if it's hard to keep a consistent GP in other contexts, as I pretty much didn't go to doctors between the time I left high school and when I started using 1medical.

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hace 4 añosdiscuss

Native retweet on twitter, probably.

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hace 5 añosdiscuss

I've known at least a half-dozen superb bootcamp grads, but the quality is definitely uneven.

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hace 5 añosdiscuss

Yeah, a huge number of early twitter folks did exactly this.

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hace 5 añosdiscuss

I felt that way too, but I have mostly changed my mind. My wife, who has a FT job, a purse company, and 2 kids, plays a SHOCKING amount of Maple Story. She never pays money, but at a reasonable-for-her time value of money, I'm sure she'd be well into 10s of $K/year of cost. Is that malfeasance on the developer's part? I dunno. I'd generally prefer she play less, but she is an extremely functional adult, and she gets to make her own choices.

Thought experiment: if she spent 10X less time but $2K/year on the game, would that be more or less troubling? If she took that trade, she'd be an addict by your lights, but she'd be spending 10-30 min rather than 3-5h/day, and I'd be THRILLED. It's interesting to me that we are generally totally fine with something that sucks up (or alternatively, makes enjoyable) all or more-than-all of someone's free time, but we get upset when it takes even trivial amounts of their money.

mattknox

hace 5 añosdiscuss

Have you looked at SICM? (Structure and Interpretation of Classical Mechanics, the far less popular half-sibling of the SICP) https://mitpress.mit.edu/books/structure-and-interpretation-... -it has you derive classical mechanics, which is to say most() of Newtonian physics up to around 1900, by writing a giant pile of scheme that drives graphical simulations.

() For a curious value of "most" that elides thermodynamics, electromagnetism, etc..

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hace 5 añosdiscuss

He was rich enough not to need more money before starting YC-the acquisition price for viaweb was $49M, and it roughly ~10x'd between then and the peak in late 1999. (cites: https://www.cnet.com/news/yahoo-buys-viaweb-for-49-million/ https://venturebeat.com/2008/10/08/as-other-tech-stocks-rall... ). I don't know how long he spent there or what fraction of the company he still held, but I'd assume that he'd have stayed long enough to get to his personal Fuck You Money.

More generally, I know many many people (maybe literally tons by weight?) who continue to work long after they don't need to, usually because they're just deeply interested in the domain. I've seen this up close with my father, who continues to farm at 70, and with some founders who keep founding despite having more money than they will ever need. So when someone in that situation says they work on a thing because it is interesting to them, I generally believe them.

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