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New comment by sam1r in "I stopped tracking my time. Now I can't focus"

sam1r — Thu, 11 Jun 2026 20:56:48 +0000

Also, thanks for bringing light to a significant issue / topic— I feel like there’s a lot of ….

solo standing, no corporate or faang job (at the moment, by decision) & “founding status” technical full stack eng.. but “pre-revenue” for whatever projects you passionately pursue regularly.

“If you can’t create the curriculum for the day, how can you expect to succeed eod”

Hence, you gotta make it fun for yourself.. the items you achieve and get done after, will be a piece of cake (8-9 write only, until eod, read only + journal: tom > today).

You got this!

New comment by sam1r in "I stopped tracking my time. Now I can't focus"

sam1r — Thu, 11 Jun 2026 20:53:18 +0000

Hey man, the best way to go about this — is to gamify your schedule and make your self do the items you desire to do. Whatever you plan for your day 8-9am every day, can be “read only” until you journal eod.

Trust me, I’m adhd. Good luck!

New comment by sam1r in "Building from zero after addiction, prison, and a felony"

sam1r — Sun, 07 Jun 2026 21:37:25 +0000

Thanks for sharing!

What are your thoughts on Roller Coasters? Hit a good theme park, ride maybe 6 with your eyes closed within a couple of hours.

I can't help but feel riding one (Roller Coaster) is much more optimal than $200/hr flying a plane, and much safer than a motorcycle, even if you rented vs purchase one.

New comment by sam1r in "Building from zero after addiction, prison, and a felony"

sam1r — Sun, 07 Jun 2026 21:35:11 +0000

>>> I cut the article out and put it in a documents folder.

Had to read this a couple of times, to let it sink in that he is cutting with scissors and placing this paper document in a manilla folder.

New comment by sam1r in "Three Ways to Get Paid (2018)"

sam1r — Tue, 02 Jun 2026 19:20:11 +0000

He is obviously lying to us and becoming rich in SEO from our clicks to his page.

Took me a second. The reference "replace with found url" is a lie if the URL is not found.

New comment by sam1r in "Morningstar values SpaceX at $780B, half its IPO target"

sam1r — Tue, 02 Jun 2026 19:15:32 +0000

Best comment below: (15k likes)

>> In space no one can hear you scam

New comment by sam1r in "AWS Fired the One Employee Who Gave a Damn"

sam1r — Tue, 26 May 2026 13:34:12 +0000

Any business with an aws account should by default pretend like that world revolves them and their company.

Because if aws tanks, they will likely tank.

I pardon the drama. If you were in those shoes and the costs being spent for operating business costs- wouldn’t you be freaking the heck out?

New comment by sam1r in "Show HN: Audiomass – a free, open-source multitrack audio editor for the web"

sam1r — Mon, 25 May 2026 01:09:09 +0000

Significant props for accepting .flac files out of the bat. Incredible work.

New comment by sam1r in "Steve Wozniak cheered after telling students they have AI – actual intelligence"

sam1r — Fri, 22 May 2026 15:12:33 +0000

>>> the cost of building AI will always be more than the cost of humanity.

Wow! Well said! so shouldn't we focus on ... fixing humanity first?

New comment by sam1r in "OpenAI’s WebRTC problem"

sam1r — Sat, 09 May 2026 02:35:28 +0000

Yes,agreed. I also found it apparently obvious that they have proven their experts worth on this subject matter. Many times, over and over.

New comment by sam1r in "Bitter Lessons from the ISSpresso"

sam1r — Sat, 09 May 2026 02:26:03 +0000

The flow diagram provided for fracture control is incredible. Quite a work of art. [1]

[1] https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!AOMG!,f_auto,q_auto:...

Update: After staring at this flow diagram for quite some time, I realize it's actually the most robust, "complete-seeming" finite state machine I have seen used in the real world.

New comment by sam1r in "The React2Shell Story"

sam1r — Sat, 09 May 2026 02:04:48 +0000

>> Amazingly, despite being a weekend, the Meta team triaged, reproduced, and confirmed my submission in around 17 hours.

Incredible. Realize what you have done from start to finish (with confirmation) in < 24 hours.

New comment by sam1r in "OpenAI’s WebRTC problem"

sam1r — Sat, 09 May 2026 02:02:56 +0000

>> ... I say hi to ~~Scarlett Johansson~~

~~Had a nice chuckle.~~

New comment by sam1r in "Meta Shuts Down End-to-End Encryption for Instagram Messaging"

sam1r — Sat, 09 May 2026 02:01:29 +0000

I don't understand why they would go in this inversely-progressive direction.
Shouldn't we be aiming to increase e2e encryption for the most regularly used communication platforms?

New comment by sam1r in "US Government releases first batch of UAP documents and videos"

sam1r — Fri, 08 May 2026 14:22:00 +0000

Anyone else immediately notice that.. this is so built with angular.

New comment by sam1r in "A new spam policy for “back button hijacking”"

sam1r — Tue, 14 Apr 2026 23:26:47 +0000

That's only because SPAs routing maybe internal for that particular app. In that case, the UI/UX to end user is *only* possible and smooth when they hijack the back button as such.

New comment by sam1r in "A new spam policy for “back button hijacking”"

sam1r — Tue, 14 Apr 2026 18:31:06 +0000

Finally! (For this feature to be shipped).
Almost unrelated, but.. I wonder ..if there was an APM intern[1] behind this, or maybe this was this project. Because, this, would have been an excellent one!
[1] I had the fortune to be one myself in June 2012 for the Chrome Team.

New comment by sam1r in "Study investigates how mass distribution of baseball bat affects performance"

sam1r — Wed, 08 Apr 2026 20:20:27 +0000

Modern 2026 click bait:
1. Provide “distinct” proof 2. Title it as the antithesis

New comment by sam1r in "Science confirms torpedo bat works as well as regular bat"

sam1r — Wed, 08 Apr 2026 20:17:34 +0000

This is just the most oxymoronic article. It’s like it knew we would all be like… wait.

New comment by sam1r in "OpenAI says its new model GPT-2 is too dangerous to release (2019)"

sam1r — Wed, 08 Apr 2026 03:21:52 +0000

Absolutely agreed. I am using this term on overdrive the next 24 hours.