...I stumbled upon a highly rated comment of yours and stood speechless; at no point in my life had I read a comment so insightful and informative.
I remember that comment well. Just one instance of many in your collection, which is just one collection of many from other commenters, too.
I like your baseball analogy, but sometimes I prefer the spaghetti analogy, especially when it comes to blog posts and comments: just throw a bunch against the wall and see what sticks. You never know whose life you may influence.
Sorry to hear about your parents. This time of year may amplify the feeling of loss, but also reminds us of the wonderful memories we still have just one seek away.
Best wishes for the new year, Daniel, and please keep on giving. I, for one, will gladly keep on receiving your gifts here at hn!
I was lucky if I could put a sentence or two together, but I wanted to help, so _I just started giving the guy bullets_. I went on and never really thought much about my reply.
For a while now I have pondered starting "hacking for good" (unfortunately, the domain seems to be taken by someone else now - .org still seems to be free, though), meaning I and hopefully others would donate some of their time to solve problems with software for free. Not sure about the setup - maybe people could submit suggestions, and the hacker group would decide which one to tackle every month.
Maybe donating one day per month would be a good idea (or even one day per week)? I haven't really started yet, because I still struggle to make money for myself. But maybe with more giving there also comes more flowing, too.
Anyway, would anybody be interested, and what do you think would be the best mode for it?
There recently was "random hacks of kindness", and probably there are lot's of other similar things (I also participated in a http://socialactions.com competition once), but it seems to be on a rather large scale, with a limited set of problems posed by large humanitarian organizations. I was thinking more small scale/local, ie how to help people without huge organizations behind them. Ultimately, I have no experience with charity work, though.
Update: just registered hackingforgood.org, I figure I'll start with just a wordpress blog stating my intents, and people can bring up sugggestions in the comments.
Actually I am currently donating time to a project, http://blog.energy-streetfight.com/ , so it is not completely true that I haven't acted on my idea before.
It appears he registered the domain http://receiving.it for his app. Italian domains don't come easy: I had to supply substantial evidence of my existence (a scan of my passport) before I could register my own .it domain.
I too remember that comment, particularly the bit about creating. It came across with a force that just's not normal, and got me writing poetry. Thanks DBM.
Great perspective. Describing something as a "failure" makes it easy to overlook the value it's created. I prefer "less successful than I had hoped" :-)
I remember that comment well. Just one instance of many in your collection, which is just one collection of many from other commenters, too.
I like your baseball analogy, but sometimes I prefer the spaghetti analogy, especially when it comes to blog posts and comments: just throw a bunch against the wall and see what sticks. You never know whose life you may influence.
Sorry to hear about your parents. This time of year may amplify the feeling of loss, but also reminds us of the wonderful memories we still have just one seek away.
Best wishes for the new year, Daniel, and please keep on giving. I, for one, will gladly keep on receiving your gifts here at hn!