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Title: I do freelance work and offer my clients bug fixes for free (for defects in the software I wrote, that they already paid for). I have a client who for several weeks has been sending me long lists of bugs they find in my software. But for every single issue so far it's because other components of their system (written by other developers) are failing. And in some cases it's just user error (entering wrong username/password). Should I just accept that I spend hours at no charge addressing their concerns? I would feel bad sending back an answer that it's not my bug, and then saying they owe me a few hundred dollars.
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Title: I decided a few weeks ago I wanted to see what the environment for local software development might look like if I sent an old fashioned letter directly to a bunch of businesses in my community.<p>Yesterday I sent out the letters so I'll soon be finding out what sort of response I'm going to receive.<p>Assuming I get a few responses, I wanted to see if anyone that already does software development for other businesses would be willing to share examples of the contracts that they use (preferably) or ways to structure things so I don't sell myself short.<p>One of the things I'll be gauging over these next few weeks (and talking with the businesses and building some nice software for them) is to see if any of these projects have some more general commercial opportunity so within the contracts I'd like to retain any ownership of the software and not grant the rights over to the company I'd be working with (this might be assumed, but I'm not sure if it has to be written into the contract explicitly).<p>I've read in past threads that I should charge at least $100/hr or try and schedule things in blocks (day/week) so additional details on the best way to do that would be great (I have a day job, so I don't have unlimited free time, scheduling things out in longer blocks probably wouldn't work too well in my case, but may still be an option I can use some of the time).<p>I'm sure I could use Google and find a decent example contract I could put to use but this seemed like a good topic that would generate a fair amount of discussion and I'd be happy to hear the community's advice on this one ;-).<p>Thanks!
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Title: The vulnerability allows attackers to discover (more precisely: reconstruct) the private Friends List of any Facebook user.
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Title: Are most of the hackers leftist/anticapitalist/cryptoanarchists? Most founders in SV capitalists? Do you need to be like that to get VC funding? Do these groups get along fine together?
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Title: I wanted to send out a quick letter of appreciation to the HN community for helping me make a connection with an awesome company, who later made me an offer, which I happily accepted.<p>Last month, I posted my resume on the "Who wants to be hired?" thread [1], and was contacted by several companies, many of which were relevant to what I was looking for, both in a company and in a position.<p>After a few rounds of interviews, one of those companies, Kaggle [2], decided to make me an offer, and within a couple of days, I accepted. Not only do I get to work with an awesome team on a great product, but I get to do it all from home. And, I get to travel to the great San Francisco a few times a year and meet face-to-face with the folks I will be working with.<p>My last day with my previous company was Friday, and I will be joining Kaggle two weeks from today. I will be spending this time off building my dream setup in my new office upstairs.<p>The main reason I posted this was just as a thanks to those that allowed that thread, and those that helped keep the thread active.<p>The secondary reason was to hopefully hear some success stories others may have had from the thread.<p>The third reason was to let others know that the thread was successful, and that I see value in it as a recurring whoishiring thread, benefiting others in the HN community looking for a good fit.<p>The fourth reason was to encourage those of you looking to get hired to post in this month's thread [3], as it may very well help connect you with your next opportunity.<p>[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7685170<p>[2] https://www.kaggle.com<p>[3] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7833250
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Title: <i>Note: This was posted last month [1], and received a lot of up votes and some positive feedback [2]. So re-posting again for June 2014. Also note that I will not be submitting my resume this time due to making a successful connection [3] with an awesome startup as the result of last month's run.</i><p>If you're looking to be hired by a company, please use this thread to let other HN members know.<p>If you're looking for talent, by all means, check out the candidates below and if you see a good fit, connect! Please no recruiters, unless specifically indicated (opt-in).<p>If you're not hiring/looking to be hired, take a look over the candidates below and connect with them if you're aware of a potential fit for them.<p>Up/Down Voting: I would propose that up/down voting be reserved to help promote high quality submissions, and push down those clearly not putting in much effort or are off-topic. Use sparingly.<p>I am loosely proposing the following format (obviously you're welcome to use any format you'd like):<p><pre><code> [Location], [Remote | Relocation], [Full Time | Contract | Part Time]
Stack: [Comma delimited list of technologies]
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[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7685170<p>[2] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7698119<p>[3] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7833251
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Title: It appears that my hosting is failing... Posted same article here.<p>https://medium.com/@keslertanner/i-quit-my-job-today-is-day-2-c5f00278e426
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Title: "11.17 Apps may facilitate transmission of approved virtual currencies provided that they do so in compliance with all state and federal laws for the territories in which the app functions"
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Title: A secure mail startup founded by CERN and MIT scientists in 2013.
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Title: From what I read about the concurrency primitives in Rust, they seem to be more inspired by the actor model in languages such as Erlang (and Scala?) than Golangs "hardwired" channels.<p>Is this notion correct?<p>At the same time it seems it has the counterparts of go-routines (lightweight tasks) and I have seen channels mentioned.<p>All in all, I would welcome a little elaboration on what are the differences between the concurrency primitives in the two languages.
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Title: I've been trying to get a job for the past 3 months, then I got accepted into a startup accelerator, my team promised to share the money they got with me, but backed out of that, and now I'm about to lose everything.<p>I've tried a crowdfunding campaign, and I'm willing to build a full MVP for $3k if anyone has an idea for an app. My stack is Laravel MVC, I can also help deploy it on linode, cloud, shared hosting, wherever.
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Title: In the last few months Freelancer changed their modus operandi by trying to screw their coders in more than way:<p>* They bumped up the price for the standard membership from about $25 to $50 without a serious reason. They simply take advantage of the fact that the coders can't retaliate/protest in any way.<p>* They hide the buyers history (a freelancer can see the history of a buyer only after he bids and the buyer sends him a message). Given the fact that you have a limited number of bids per type of membership this is a really nasty move.<p>* The entire site is a huge money making machine with no concern whatsoever about coder's experience. All they care about is to make more money no matter how crappy the experience is for the coders. For e.g. they ask you money for cheating their own system (if you pay $2 your bid will be better placed than a bid of a coder with a better rating/history).<p>* They silently tolerate spam projects where buyers ask basically for free work (or they give no information about what they actually need until you place your bid). The idea is that Freelancer will get their cut no matter how a project ends (they charge both the buyer and the coder some fees). They don't actually care if a project is finished or not as long as they get their cut.<p>* Last but not least, they offer no financial protection for both buyers/coders.
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Title: I've just recently joined Hacker News and I think it is a great community, however there is one flaw. While browsing through the "Ask HN" section, I find nearing half of the entries to be "Show HN". I think there are so many people who are now "showing" things to HN, it deserves its own section up top. Does anyone else share this opinion?
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Title: Law Enforcement Disclosure Report: http://www.vodafone.com/content/sustainabilityreport/2014/index/operating_responsibly/privacy_and_security/law_enforcement.html
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Title: It might be a stupid question due to my lack of knowledge in physics and low-level networks, but I don't see how there can be a true feel for a real-time (with imperceptible to the human brain latency) collaboration.<p>I made the following simple calculation - the biggest distance on earth between 2 points would be 1/2 * 40000km (the circumference of the Earth on the equator) = 20000km.<p>Lets say these 2 points are connected with an absolutely straight optical fibre. For simplicity's sake, there are no penalties for signal amplification and repetition and the speed of the signal is 300000 km/s.<p>From these const's we get that the latency (in milliseconds) of this signal would be:<p>1000 / ( 300000 / 20000 ) ~ 67 milliseconds.<p>So, 2 people, 1 in Sydney AS and the other in London UK, will have a theoretical min latency = 1000 / ( 300000 / 16983 ) ~ 57 milliseconds.<p>While this might seem OK, its far away from it - when a piano player plays on a midi keyboard, the perceptible latency between hitting a key and hearing the sound starts from 10 milliseconds, grows annoying on 20 and for most becomes hard (even impossible) to play from >30 milliseconds.<p>If I was to attempt to design a solution I would probably divide earth's area on regions, but still I am not sure what the real distance would be for latency <=10 milliseconds?<p>It will be really interesting to read your thoughts on this topic.
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Title: In the previous thread there was a discussion to give the details of how the phone companies were able to charge customers excess profits and get tax perks that were supposed to be used to upgrade the networks.
This book -- link attached --- has a description of how we calculated the numbers -- though it was written in 2004 - the 20th anniversary of the break up of AT&T.<p>We have a new book coming out where we update most of the stats, but essentially, the phone companies were able to claim -- en mass --that they were going to replace the copper wires with fiber starting in 1991, and from 1993-to about 2005 they did nothing (with some exceptions) but they were able to get state laws changed to do funding of the upgrades. No state ever went back and examined the commitment and got refunds—so all rate increases are based on the original ‘commitments’—and changes in the law.<p>In 2005, after they closed the networks to direct competition they started to do new upgrades-- "FiOS-Verizon" and AT&T, which simply used the old copper wires, added some remote terminals and called it U-Verse.<p>
Yet, Verizon and AT&T were able to charge basic POTS customers -- phone customers in most states for upgrades-- again. -- even if they will never get it.<p>Our new report on Verizon New York shows that the 'affiliate companies, such as Verizon Online or Verizon Wireless, are able to use the networks and get expenses paid for by regular phone companies-- even though Verizon had announced no more upgrades
http://newnetworks.com/verizonfiostitle2/<p>The cringley numbers are also our stats.<p>The one thing to keep in mind is that we've been tracking this since 1991-- and so every year the numbers are going to increase.<p>... thus differing amounts based on the date.
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Title: A group of locals watch eagerly, mindful not to trip over an orange cable lying nearby in the grass
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Title: I'd like to learn about entrepreneurs who successfully started companies whilst employed.<p>- What type of company did you start?
- How did your employer take it when you left?
- Where is the company at now?
- And any helpful advice you could offer someone trying to do the same thing?
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Title: Configuration management is the foundation that makes modern infrastructure possible. Tools that enable configuration management are required in the toolbox of any operations team, and many development teams as well. Although all the tools aim to solve the same basic set of problems, they adhere to different visions and exhibit different characteristics. The issue is how to choose the tool that best fits each organization's scenarios.
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Title: This weekend I made a fairly major change to how I interact with the web- I consciously switched default browsers. Fed up with Google's constant ramming of G+ down my throat, I've decided to hit 'em where it hurts: their marketshare. So I've switched to Firefox, and while noticeably slower, I feel it's a browser I can put more trust into.<p>Google should be employing a strategy of invisible control over how people interact, not forcing a centralized interaction layer on something that is inherently decentralized. They should be quietly creating and controlling channels of communication that I cannot live without. Apply the strategy that grew their search engine to all Google initiatives.<p>Or I will find alternatives.
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Title: Obviously things took longer than intended and expected, but in the end:<p>Items moved from /12345 to /12/34/12345. HN now starts in one fifth the time, and better utilizes the filesystem cache. Backup speeds are also improved.<p>Profiles moved from /kogir to /ko/gi/kogir, and from /KogIr to /%k/og/%kog%ir, which works on case-insensitive filesystems. Similar performance improvements were observed.<p>Passwords moved from a 45MB user->hash mapping file into user profiles themselves. Previously, this mapping file was re-written in its entirety every time a new account was created, and is why the site went down on May 18th. New account creation is now incredibly lightweight, and should allow us to further limit and possibly eliminate our use of captchas.<p>There were additional changes to support new features currently in the pipeline, but which we're not yet ready to announce.<p>I'm sorry that we were offline for so long. Nothing else we currently have planned should require anything more than a simple restart, so with any luck this will be the last major disruption the quarter, and maybe even this year.
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Title: Learn more: http://www.zeldman.com/2014/06/10/the-color-purple/<p>In Memory of Rebecca Meyer, help fund childhood cancer research: https://www.stbaldricks.org/donate/fundraiser/539/2014
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Title: Background: this is my first job out of college, and I joined the startup ~9 months ago, right when they launched (I'm engineer #2, before me, the founders outsourced the prototype to an offshore team). The company is working on ecommerce/ affiliate model with a small twist.<p>Right now, we have ~1200 registered user, with about 100 active users, and we gained about ~100 users/month. On the development side, we have a straight up waterfall process with 1 hour "scrum meeting" everyday, we have 5 developers right now. We have no automated testing at all, a deployment update every ~4-5weeks, and a tech stack/ jobs advertisement that would look like it's from 2006. A few months ago, I tried to write some unit tests, and I was asked to removed it from git because the CTO doesn't want git to be polluted.<p>I believe that a) Our rate of growth is too slow, and b) Our development process is a bit less than ideal and c) Fundamentally, something is wrong with our company (at least, from the tech side), from all the things that I've heard and read. However, I acknowledge that startup is far from the pinnacle of engineering, and even the user stats could be misleading. I talked with one of the founders about speed of development being too slow, and he (with a business background) said that from his experience with other startup, it's not slow, with which I firmly disagree. So the question I'm wondering is, how could I judge the state of the startup right now?
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Title: My father has been working as a networking engineer for almost 40 years. He is exceptional at what he does. The problem is we live in a country, where things like perfection, attention to detail mean nothing. Also he is old, which is a big problem for most employers. 3 years ago he quit his job, because the owner of the company hadn't payed him for 7 months. My father didn't care for 5 months, continued doing his job, as if he was getting payed twice as much. After 7 months passed he brought the project to an end and the firm maid a substantial amount of money because of his work. He then resigned. My Dad didn't care if he wasn't getting payed, his work matters most to him and he proved it. It pains me to see him today (3 years later), still searching for jobs and going crazy, because he can't do what he loves the most. He started developing projects on his own, yet no one want to invest, because of the situation in our country(riots).
This has had quite the impact on our family in all the ways you can imagine.
I tried talking to him, yet he has grown distant and bitter. I'm loosing my father. He is in dire need of a job and i feel helpless.
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Title: I haven't heard anything since the first few forum posts. Did we ever figure out definitively if it was a hack, information operation, canary, dead man's switch or what?
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Title: I am looking for any kind of feedback on my side project template2pdf[1]. My main problem is to spread the word about the service without behaving or feeling like a spammer. I get a sign up now an then, some people are using the service on a regular base, so I guess I am not totally off with the product itself.<p>If you have the time and energy, please provide feedback on the following questions:<p>Do you understand the problem I'm solving? English is not my first language, if you have an idea on how to communicate better, please let me know.<p>Do you like the website itself?<p>Any idea on how to improve the sign up form? Should it be on the start page?<p>Sadly, I have not nearly enough visitors to do A/B testing, so I need people to actually tell me their opinion.<p>At the moment, you could actually enter a wrong email address and just start testing. Should I advertise that?<p>About getting people to know the service:<p>I'm not active on facebook, twitter or any kind of social media service that could help me to spread the word. Does anybody have experience in paying somebody to market to a target group there? Without feeling that this is somehow shady?<p>As a general question: How do you promote stuff without already established social media status while not behaving or feeling like a spammer?<p>Thanks for your time.<p>[1] http://template2pdf.com/
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Title: I have no particular background in programming languages design and theory but It's been an exciting topic the last few years since a lot of new languages have gained popularity and also most of the big companies seem to have one or two of them in their portfolio (no need to list them all really C#, Go, Swift etc).
I've been also on an exploration lately into the history of computer science and reading about the Lisp family and Smalltalk as they seem to viewed as the better designed ones. There is also that quote from PG where he says langs that are invented for the use of the author tend to be better.
So what I don't understand and hope somebody here could shed some light on it is what's with all the new languages? How many of them really bring something new to the table, a better way than the old one? How is Go or Rust better than C C++ Ruby Python Lisps Java Smalltalk Erlang and whatnot. Are those languages designed for very specific cases where older languages can't cope with. When I read about Smalltalk or Lisp or Haskell people regard them as the pinnacle of programming language design and yet their popularity isn't really proportional to those statements.
How do languages get popular? Money, syntax, portability? Why did PHP rule the 90' and not Common Lisp or Erlang or whatever. Why do I read so much bad stuff about C++ from smart people yet it's one of the most popular languages. Why isn't Objective-C more popular since it is too C with classes? Why Java and not Self?<p>When I ask those questions I am in no way trying to discredit new languages and their usefulness, I am just young, naive, not very smart and trying to get and idea of how the real world of programming and computer works.<p>And yes, I know the story of JavaScript. Surely that's an exception in the rule of how languages get popular?
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Title: It seems like it's an awkward time when Swift will definitely take over, but the environment around it may not be mature. My ios friends seem split on the matter.
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Title: KnightOS is a third-party Operating System for Texas Instruments z80 calculators. It offers many features over the stock OS, including multitasking and a tree-based filesystem, delivered in a Unix-like environment. KnightOS is written entirely in z80 assembly, with a purpose-built toolchain. Additionally, the KnightOS kernel is standalone, and you can use it as the basis for your own powerful operating systems.<p>You can download the latest (experimental) version here: http://www.knightos.org/download/
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Title: Last week Matt Cutts said at SMX advanced that negative SEO wasnt a thing. Rand Fishkin asked for evidence it does. Well....... hows this?
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Title: What I built: Bonjournal, a travel journal app<p>- iOS app (https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/bonjournal/id719266933)<p>- web app (https://bonjourn.al)<p>What and how I learned (in order of importance):<p><i></i>* Ruby on Rails <i></i>*<p>- Michael Hartl's Ruby On Rails Tutorial<p>- Railscast<p>- Code School<p>- Ruby Toolbox<p><i></i>* Objective-C <i></i>*<p>- Nerd Ranch iOS Programming<p>- NSScreencast<p>- Code School<p>- WWDC Videos (for performance improvements)<p>- CocoaPods Rank (https://gist.github.com/luvtechno/8842522)<p>And of course, a lot of Stack Overflow.<p>I didn't think it would be possible. I thought I was too old to learn. But I had a project in mind that I cared about, and I wanted to see it completed.<p>It's never been easier to learn -- go out there and create!<p>Special thanks to my wife, who is also my designer. Besides all the wireframes, marketing, and testing she has done, she also learned a little SASS and Objective C to make all those little pixel and font size adjustments. That was HUGE.
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Title: What are you looking for if you are searching for a developer on oDesk or any other freelancing site? Do you post a job or do you go look for developers yourself and ask them to join you? How do you determine if they're capable to work in a team? etc.<p>I'm curious because many startups hire remotely at first, and there's still a lot of problems with that atm.
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Title: I looked into this many years ago, and Google had a beta going for running Adsense on ajax-loaded content.<p>The other day I was really surprised to learn that Google had actually killed this beta program a couple of years ago, and now it looks like they'll never support ajax loaded content.<p>What good alternatives to Adsense are there for ajax-loaded content, or is there a way around this with Adsense that I'm not aware of?
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Title: Includes an interesting comment from ESR:<p>http://jeffcovey.net/2014/06/19/freshmeat-net-1997-2014/comment-page-1/#comment-2111
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Title: A few months ago I quit my job to pursue the "bohemian" life style. After reading blog post after blog post of programmers leaving their day jobs and travelling, the idea slowly took over my mind until one day I just did it.<p>Originally I started my company with a very close friend, and it was great. We decided we can't be cold calling all day and getting contracts, so we brought a business guy.<p>It's been three months now, we have employees, many clients, and my phone is going off with texts every 5 seconds.<p>I have never felt so much anxiety in my life. This is the direct opposite of what my goal was. I don't want employees. Or a company. At all.<p>If I leave, everyone will hate me. I was the one that painted the vision, the direction, did most of the work. I just want to earn decent money and be able to do what I want to do whenever during the day.<p>I honestly thought I was super tough and I can take this on. I actually really just want to kill myself. I so<p>Right now I'm working 14 hour days and everyone gets mad when someone tries to leave while the others are working. There is no FREEDOM. The whole point of this venture WAS FREEDOM. Beers at 2pm? Sure! Not "um we have 8 pages left to design for tomorrow, nobody is going anywhere" says one of the developers. This attitude, day in, day out. Always something to do, always due tomorrow. I don't have the spine to delay my clients or deliver anything less than perfect and it's breaking me. My developers don't want to do anything besides work, which I mean is fucking great, but this is the flip side.<p>I can't ditch my clients, my business partners, my friends, my employees. I don't know how to get out. I so furiously pitched my friends to start this company, I brought them ALL into this. I hired everyone, I convinced them to jump ship from their jobs and work with me. If I bail now, every word I said, anything I did, will mean nothing.
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Title: I'm a full stack freelance web developer with several projects all heavily delayed. Meanwhile I'm living overseas in a country where I don't know anyone (Vancouver, British Columbia), have $60 USD left in my bank account, and only have rent paid for another 2 days (at a hostel). Food here is pretty expensive and runs about $15/day even if you really try to save, especially if you don't have a permanent place for groceries.<p>It seems to me my best bet of making money is exchanging programming services for money as usual. How do I make this kind of trade last-minute?<p>Resume is in profile if that helps give advice. Also, this is a special case, but I have no one to borrow money from.
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Title: A side-by-side comparison of things you can use to get started making an app with AngularJS
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Title: I am a developer and the startup I joined as employee #2 a year and a half ago has been growing steadily. There are now double digits employees and I've been given more responsibility and authority.<p>Aside from development, some of my responsibilities up to this point have already included project management, staff management and proposal writing. Now I am joining the senior management team and taking on more strategic responsibilities, including determining the direction of many of the company’s future plans and projects.<p>There are several paths I am looking at for preparing myself for my new responsibilities. I thought I’d start a discussion as out of the demographic on HN, I am sure I am not the only one in such a situation.<p>Self-teaching directions I’ve been looking at so far are:
- Business Analyst processes.
- Agile planning
- Agile requirements modeling
- Effective proposals
- Business development<p>Although there is certainly no absence of literature in this area, I've found it hard to find good recommendations. Does anyone have any suggestions for specific books in those areas, or any other areas that would benefit a developer taking on a more strategic role?
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Title: I've been out of the webdev game for perhaps a decade. The most recent things I've done are @Media queries.<p>Finding this inspires me to learn about what else I could create in css - also it has really funky behavior in IE8~ and if you zoom in:)<p>Note - this isn't mine, it was found on r/programming.
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Title: I've been developing for about 4 years now, 'seriously' building fairly complex web and mobile apps for about 2. Yet, every day I run across articles here and comments that make me feel incredibly useless and inexperienced.<p>How do I bridge that gap between where I am now, and being able to spend time browsing through modern php, ios, (whatever language I know) articles and not feel under water and under the average knowledge bar?
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Title: GLMap is a framework for iOS developers with a simple mechanism for integrating detailed
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Title: Hi all, this is @omervk, one of the co-founders and maintainer of Plain-Text Offenders [1].<p>I've just finished creating two FAQs: One for developers who come to the site and don't understand what's wrong with what they're doing [2] and another for the laymen who want to understand what we're all about and how to protect themselves [3].
The idea is that people could also send these links around to educate others.<p>As HN is one of our main supporting communities, I'd love to hear your thoughts about both of these new pages.<p>[1] http://plaintextoffenders.com/
[2] http://plaintextoffenders.com/faq/devs
[3] http://plaintextoffenders.com/faq/non-devs
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Title: I'm a software developer, just like many of you.<p>My software has issues, lots of them. Customers are calling, there's this and that to do. The to-do list is seemingly never ending.<p>And then there's every day where I'm overwhelmed again:<p>Snapchat launches a fantastic re-design. Facebook changes its newsfeed algorithm with significant implications for marketing agencies and small businesses. Facebook replaces its complete Android SDK with a new API. You have to adapt. You have the SDK in your app? Change the references. Apple releases a completely new programming language. Apple releases new versions of iOS and OS X. Google brings Android to TV and your wrist. They release a brand-new Android version. A new cross-platform design language. They replace the Android VM. Notifications change how they work. This. And that. And this. And that.<p>Issues and customer feedback pile up in your mailbox. You don't know how to manage the today and the past and yet the future is waiting with millions of new opportunities, needs, demands and risks.<p>I'm out.
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Title: 2 months ago I had never touched code but I was always dreaming of releasing my own product. 2 months later and with A LOT of help from teamtreehouse and stackoverflow, I've released my first app.<p>Any feedback would be very appreciated.
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Title: A series of conversations between Kent Beck, David Heinemeier Hansson, and Martin Fowler on the topic of Test-Driven Development (TDD) and its impact upon software design.
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Title: Linus Torvalds stewardship is often cited as critical factor in thriving linux kernel development
Ulrich Drepper is often cited for preventing widespread community contribution to glibc and causing forks such as eglibc.
For casual observer like me it appears both are technically brilliant individuals who have strong opinions and dont suffer fools lightly. What caused linux to thrive ? Was it the organizational heirarchy of having individual maintainers for different components in the linux kernel ?
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Title: I started University Niche[0] with two friends to help college students find places to live off-campus around their universities.<p>If you've been through the college system in the US, chances are you know how difficult it is to find a house to rent. Many landlords will simply hang up the phone the second you tell them that you're a college student. University Niche is a database of rental properties that are open to renting to college students, with information curated specifically toward helping students find the best places to live.<p>We launched April 2014, and are now at three universities. We've seen a lot of success (~40% w/w growth, 100%+ m/m growth).<p>For many students, this is their first time living on their own, so we wanted to sell ad space to small businesses that would help students with their move (storage, furniture, etc.) and then to small businesses that would help them once they're situated (grocery stores, gyms, etc.). I coded up a basic self-serve advertising platform, and my cofounders and I went and found a local moving company. Walked in the office, talked with the owner for about 15 minutes. Sale.<p>Went to a mattress store. Sale.<p>Small restaurant, same thing.<p>We've walked in to six random businesses, and only one said no.<p>So we're pretty excited it works, but we have bigger plans than this. We have projections and budgets to expand to 150 schools nationwide.<p>We know how we're gonna do it and we know how much it will cost, but we are all at a loss for how to take that next step.<p>We have a validated product and now a validated revenue model. We've got traction. But we don't have the funds to take this thing to the next level, and we don't know how to meet the people who can help.<p>Anyone have any advice or been in a similar situation?<p>[0]http://universityniche.com
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Title: Spent the last 12 months on a startup that's basically failed and over the last 2 months fallen into a dark and lonely place. I'm typically an upbeat and positive person, but this failure has taken a bit of a toll. All of the family and friends money is gone. I feel guilty. I'm in tons of debt and have constant waves of disbelief at how I actually got into this spot. Especially as it's all self-inflicted.<p>Adding another layer, my long term relationship with my gf just ended. We were together for 8 years.<p>Looking for advice from other founders that have gone through some dark days. Preferably over email or IM
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Title: I've recently finished working on some clients projects and now I've got some time to work on my own projects. I'd like to know in which projects the hn people is working on for some inspiration.
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Title: Come have a look if you are interested in understanding how it works.<p>Original post here
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7940212
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Title: What's an an idea that you have implemented successfully in your local area that I can bring to my local area?
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Title: This was posted on HN a few months ago and got a lot of attention at the time (751 points), but I figured I would post a reminder to everyone about Jonathan Dale's cancer fundraiser. There's less than a month remaining and they only have about 10% of their goal:<p>https://www.giveforward.com/fundraiser/w704/beating-cancer-one-dollar-at-a-time-with-jonathan-dale<p>Original post:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7390638
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Title: I love hacker news. The community . The unsaid agreement to uphold all that is clever and awesome. The shared intelligence of a stimulating community. But I often find myself wishing for a little more (Is there no limit to human desire).
Don't get me wrong I've learned more here than anywhere else. But the relentless noise of software often drowns out interesting posts in math, physics and applied sciences . Maybe someplace where grad students and their ilk may share their experiments , thoughts , thought-experiments and engage in futile discussions on the definition of 'insight' in mathematics .
Comment below with your thoughts.
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Title: How do you attract users to use your website, if the website requires users to create the content? When there is no content, there will be no users. When there are no users, there will be no content. What are the best practices to escape this loop and build up a user base that is most likely to visit repeatedly?<p>Do you know/Do you remember what StackExchange looked like in its early days? How about Quora, Wikipedia or any other website with similar experience?
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Title: From the article:<p>Mr. Carroll [Blackwater's lead in Iraq] said "that he could kill me at that very moment and no one could or would do anything about it as we were in Iraq," Mr. Richter [the State Department investigator] wrote in a memo to senior State Department officials in Washington.
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Title: Just finished <i>Gödel, Escher, Bach</i> by <i>Douglas R. Hofstadter</i>.<p>You?
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Title: Spotted new instance types on the pricing page: t2.micro, t2.small, t2.medium
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Title: Please lead with the location of the position and include the keywords INTERN, REMOTE, or VISA if the corresponding sort of candidate is welcome. Feel free to post any job that may interest HN readers from executive assistant to machine learning expert to CTO.<p>Please do not post recruiting firms or job boards.
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Title: Please lead with either SEEKING WORK or SEEKING FREELANCER, your location and whether remote work is a possibility.
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Title: Share your information if you are looking for work.<p>Please use this format<p><pre><code> Location:
Remote:
Willing to relocate:
Technologies:
Resume:
Email:</code></pre>
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Title: Should I Use Polymer from Google for next project?<p><i></i>What are advantages and disadvantages for using Polymer?<i></i>(www.polymer-project.org)
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Title: A lot of people ask us why their submission gets kicked off the front page. The answer is almost always that it trips our voting ring detector.<p>Please occasionally read /newest so interesting stories that don't solicit upvotes can still get on the front page.
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Title: I have almost 3 years of experience in Enterprise organizations in managing their Infrastructure services.. But, since I always wanted to be an programmer I decided to take a leap for it this year at any cost..<p>given that i am already familiar with the front end stack, i picked up python for the backend and have been learning its frameworks and coding for 4 months now.. But, when it comes to finding the job it seems near impossible to at least make an impression.. How can I let the recruiter know that I am smart enough to pick up and learn things quickly and given the desire I have towards programming, I will be more resourceful?
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Title: Any info or insight on how common is it for companies that have both local and remote developers to offer different salary ranges based based on the employee's city/state/country? I am talking about regular full time remote employees ala 37signals, not lowest bidder outsourced contractors.
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Title: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7974727 was posted an hour ago
and quickly went to #1. It's gone now because the submitter has deleted it. We didn't touch
it, and we don't know who wrote it or whether it was true. Since the
post would otherwise be at #1, I thought some people might be wondering. Normally I'd post this as a comment in the thread, but there is no thread.<p>For the curious, "deleted" is like "dead" except users can't see it, even when they have "showdead" turned on. We never delete posts, except on rare occasions when users have a good reason for asking us to. The most we ever do as moderators is make a post "[dead]", and those are always visible if you have "showdead" turned on.
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Title: How did you do it?<p>What did it feel like when you first realised it was going to be true that you would never have to work again if you didn't want to?<p>How old were you?<p>What was it specifically that made the cash that ended up in your pocket?<p>Do you feel happy in your life?
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Title: The original article is from here: http://doandroidsdance.com/features/soundcloud-boldly-releases-new-app-allows-universal-flag-account-quietly-announces-data-mining-one-month/ June 27
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Title: I think that can be inspiring and interesting to learn about the early journey of already profitable businesses.<p>I enjoyed the 2012 edition : https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4088538<p>Impatient to learn about the accomplishments of the community.
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Title: Is anyone interested in a Startup School warmup "event" in London on July 25th?<p>Does anyone know a great location for such an event? Maybe an office of a London based startup?
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Title: So, it seems for most of today about 70-80% of the front page have been "Show HN" submissions... nothing wrong with that, I enjoy seeing what people have built and am more-than-happy with the new 'Show' link and page in the header.<p>But did the algo change to give more weight/life to Show HN submissions? Or is this extra exposure purely down to how easy the Show HN submissions are to find now? (And that the announcement drew attention to that fact?)
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Title: Another interesting question might be: what factors have caused you to quit your startup before (that you co-founded), and do you think it was the right decision?
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Title: I have had an extremely good experience doing a 4 hour per day, 4 day per week job, in which I was mainly doing a greenfield project for a startup company.<p>Hands down, it was best work experience I have ever had. I was asked to do little every week, so I always had an extreme desire to outperform expectations, which led to an extreme drive to work, great work / life balance, and a very(!) productive throughput every single workday!<p>Another curious side-effect was to (on several occasions) actually work beyond the required ~16 hours per week, out of sheer pleasure.<p>I still remember that the same day I started working full time for that same company, my energy/happiness/productivity levels plunged, to only be lowered along the years.<p>I sincerely think it is quite unrealistic to ask a knowledge worker consistently deliver at full throttle for 40 hours every week (never mind the enslaving 60+ hours on many companies)<p>So my questions are the following:<p>- Are these 4/4 jobs easy to find? In which areas / programming language domains?<p>- Only greenfield projects make sense for this kind of work schedule?
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Title: i studied literature and philosophy @ a german university. after my master, i joined an it-startup - and as so many of them, we failed (but i don't regret learning so much within that time). even though, i got some interviews within the last ~7 months, i still can't find an avg. job to be able to finance a small room + living expenses.<p>now, i'm 31. i did some cs certificates offered by edx/coursera within the last 12 months (MitX: Introduction to Computer Science and Programming Using Python, Introduction to Computational Thinking and Data Science; BerkelyX: Engineering Software as a Service; HarvardX: CS50...).<p>and i'm totally addicted to coding - even when i notice my lack of math skills. i spent the nights trying to understand cs concepts and couldn't sleep or stop before i found a solution (sometimes i did not sleep the whole day).<p>sorry for the long prologue, but i thinks it's important for my main question:<p>do you think, it makes sense to study computer science at the age of 31? or is it too late?
do you have some experience with that?
or do you work at a human resources department and can tell me if there is a chance for those kind of people?
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Title: Recently I had several rounds of interviews with one of the big tech companies, and while they said my problem solving and coding skills were good, they said they eventually decided to reject me due to my inadequate solutions to design problems, particularly software design.<p>In the long term, I'm sure the usual advice of reading through great open source code is the way to go. In the short term, where can I find write-ups of software design, going from 'How would you build a spreadsheet program?' to actual UML designs, discussion of design patterns, etc.
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Title: Base info: I'm a front end dev born in the early 90's with three years experience.<p>A lot of older dev's that I've worked with have told me that best practice often includes making sure that the site is usable even if you've got javascript disabled.<p>To me, this is completely bonkers. Are we really supposed to cater to the sub 2% that chooses not to use javascript?<p>To me it would make more sense to use that time to make the sites usable for visitors with disabilities by including screen reader support and stuff like that.
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Title: There are many ways to promote your startup. What are some tactics you've used that were effective, that you'd recommend to others?
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Title: HN,<p>For the past few hours Israel and Gaza have been exchanging rocket and missile attacks, with many casualties on both sides.<p>I am the admin for an automated emergency alert twitter feed that thousands of users depend on to receive alerts on incoming attacks.<p>Currently, we are approaching API limits and require immediate relaxation of some of the limits.Support tickets have been filed, but no answers just yet, and escalation is required.<p>Any connections to Twitter support staff that can help us expedite handling of this ticket would be awesome, and would be helpful to many who depend on this feed during this difficult time.<p>Thanks,
@yuvadm
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Title: A few days ago I applied for a senior Full stack developer in a mid size company. HR interview went great, I had a quick code test on paper that went OK as well, and a quite long technical interview that went great.<p>The day after the HR sent me an coding test that involved creating a simple memory game in JS with a tiny back end to store high scores. So I banged out this code as fast as possible, while trying to emphasis on maintainability and testability. I sent back the result as github repo:<p>https://github.com/m4nuC/memGame<p>Didn't hear back for a few days but eventually arrived a mail stating that "this code felt far short from a senior developer standards" and obviously didn't get the job. I know I cut a few corners, no unit testing, a couple of minor bug and obviously not a production ready app but I thought that would be enough to show that I knew how to build a web app without spending 2 days on it.<p>I couldn't manage to get any more info from them on what they meant by "falling far short of senior developer standards" So what in your opinion went so wrong about the code?
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Title: If you were a 25yo Web Developer (Full-stack Dev), single, no debt and had $30k/£20k savings, what would you do?<p>Please bear the following in mind:<p><pre><code> - I am based in the UK
- I did not go to College/University
- I am self-taught
- From the age of 16-20 when I was learning
I didn't party a lot or go out much
- From the age of 20-25 I was in a
long term relationship
- I have been a tech co-founder of a company
which grew to $7m/£4m turnover at its peak
- From the age of 20-25 I was working 60-70 hours
per week, both in employed jobs and
growing the company I was a co-founder of
- I have no debts
- I have a core group of friends who I see perhaps
once per week but they are slowly getting into relationships
- I am currently freelancing for the company I was
a co-founder of (I sold my shares)
but I am working from home
</code></pre>
Sometimes I look around and I am grateful for the way everything has turned out. Having said that, I can't help but feel I have missed out. I never had my "party days", never travelled and I am working and living out of a apartment in the UK, which with my line of work, could in theory be anywhere in the world.<p>Some weeks go by and the only people I see are my family members, 1 or 2 friends and I may go out on the odd date now and again. My friends no longer want to go out to bars and clubs because they all did this when they were younger.<p>Part of me would love to put all of my belongings in storage, take my laptop and freelance from around the world.<p>My monthly outgoings are $2,500/£1,500 for rent and bills (I live on my own) and this is covered by my freelance work (8 hours per WEEK) so I barely have to touch my savings.<p>I want to meet more people, make more friends, meet more girls, have fun, come across exciting work opportunities, etc but I am not doing this right now.<p>What would YOU do?
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Title: My mom calling me triggered a bug somewhere in our telecommunications system.<p>What happened:<p>First off: I live in SF, work on the peninsula, and have a Utah (801) area code. My mom lives in New Mexico. She has Verizon, I have AT&T.<p>Yesterday, my mom shows up on my caller ID. I leave my office and walk down the hall. I answer.<p>On the other end is a strange man. We are both confused. He asks if I'm so-and-so from Modesto, California. I say no, he is dumbfounded, "Really?! Wow." I ask him what number he is calling, and he starts with "209", but the call drops out before he finishes.<p>I call my mom back. She picks up. I ask her if she just called me, and she says yes, she left a voicemail, but she was confused because she got a voicemail from some "lady who sounded weird". She left a message, asking if I was in trouble, and telling me to call back.<p>I think when she hung up after leaving the short voicemail, it may have terminated the call I had with this guy.
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Title: Here's the offer:<p>My partner — a native Japanese speaker and actively working translator — and I want to translate a handful of iOS applications from English into Japanese for free.<p>Why?<p>Well, we're hoping to snag a few testimonials, smooth out any snags in the process (although my partner has translated multiple apps already), and also be able to say on our website, "These are some of the apps we've translated..."<p>Here's the catch:<p>* We're a two-person team, so we can't handle a lot of volume. (The exact amount will depend on the complexity of the apps that people send us.)<p>* There's no hard limits on the amount of words we'll translate, but we probably won't accept apps that have thousands upon thousands of words (like games with a lot of dialogue).<p>But for those who we do accept, the translation will be done with a lot of care (which is important, since Japanese is a highly contextual language) and, since Japan has one of the fastest growing App Stores, we're hoping you'll also see an uptick in sales.<p>To take us up on this offer, send an email to [email protected]. We'll get back to you within 24 hours if you're selected.<p>Regards,<p>David Turnbull, iostranslate.com
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Title: I've been developing with PHP/MySQL/Apache/Jquery stack since 2009. I'm looking to get some more clients, particularly to work on LAMP stack type of projects. So far I've tried craigslist, reddit but I find it tough to find remote based projects other than one time gigs (which I'd still be okay with if they were at least 4+ weeks worth of work).<p>Any other recommendations to landing remote PHP gigs?
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Title: I've worked for a few enterprise software companies on big products in the past and am currently working for a startup that may not be around in a few years (hopefully it will be, but that's reality).<p>Lately, I've been wondering how I could preserve my work to showcase in the future. I don't think it's always practical, or legal, to assume keeping a copy of the code is a good showcase. And screenshots are, well, shallow.<p>Anyways, I was curious if any of you have done the same? And what route you took for preserving your work.<p>EDIT: I'm not just referring to interviewing purposes. I think in general it would be great to reflect back on the things you've done from time to time. Who knows where you'll be in 20 years, but in a digital age it seems desirable to keep some kind of log of what you've done of the course of your career. Perhaps the word, "showcase", was a bad choice.<p>EDIT 2: My comment about keeping the code was poorly worded and being misinterpreted. I have no interest in keeping any former code, it'd be dated within a year or two. The heart of this question is about showcasing/archiving great innovations and cool things you've built that aren't easily available.
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Title: Can be related to either technology or entrepreneurship. An example would be TWiST.
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Title: We own 13 acres of ag-zoned land just outside of Chicago. We have access to an adjacent 70 acres. I am offering free use of the land for anyone who has an interesting project that requires land and proximity suburban/urban environment--and wifi network.<p>The land is located 35-miles from downtown Chicago and 25 miles from O'Hare airport. It's smack-dab in the middle of suburbia and there is a Menards within walking distance. http://goo.gl/6tjC8g<p>If the idea is interesting enough, I'll even build you a shed or a cabin (out of 2x4s; nothing fancy).<p>The land will include the following amenities, all of which is available at no cost (for really cool projects).<p>--well water (within reason)
--septic field
--electricity (within reason)
--wifi
--fenced and unfenced acreage<p>Starting next year, there will be bees, flowers, goats, chickens, dogs, and alpaca on the land. And very likely a mini-donkey, to keep the coyotes at bay.<p>Feel free to suggest anything you actually want to implement. Or just suggest ideas that others may want to run with. Other than providing power and internet, I don't have the time to help with anything else.<p>Some ideas my wife and I have come up with:<p>--real-life Farmville with wifi robots
--tiny, automated combines
--experimental wind turbine development
--cubesat ground stations (not really ag-related, but still cool)
--goat-milking bots<p>This is no strings attached. We just want to encourage really interesting technical-agricultural projects. Let a thousand flowers bloom.
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Title: The intersection of HN readers and Colbert viewers is probably pretty large but I still thought this was worth contributing.<p>Watching Colbert (and Stewart) I notice how much the internet informs their content. So when they invite and engage with one of the internet's principals it's hugely satisfying.<p>Vint Cert was the guest last night (Tuesday). The icing on the cake is that Vint not only avoids becoming a plaything for Colbert - as many of Colbert's guests are - but that he knocks Colbert off balance. And Colbert, as he always does, handles it with aplomb.<p>Great watching.<p>Part 1 of the interview:http://thecolbertreport.cc.com/videos/08a2dg/vint-cerf-pt--1<p>Part 2 of the interview: http://thecolbertreport.cc.com/videos/x9hnxr/vint-cerf-pt--2
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Title: (There's a shout-out to HN in the article.)<p>Two years ago, HN was the first to pick up on a post I wrote about my son's preliminary diagnosis via experimental exome sequencing:<p>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4038113<p>Two years ago, he was the only known NGLY1 deficient patient in the world.<p>By spreading the story, we've found 16 cases worldwide.<p>We've organized.<p>We've found preliminary treatments.<p>Clinical trials are in the pipeline.<p>In some cases, we've saved the lives of previously undiagnosed patients.<p>And, these children's cells are turning into gold mines for the basic science of glycobiology.<p>From the bottom of my heart and on behalf of the entire small but optimistic NGLY1 community,<p>Thank you.
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Title: this is my last day of vacation in Mexico and I must tell you it re-energized me! if you didn't take vacation for awhile - take it!
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Title: Looking to move a family to a different country for a few years, that may lead to permanent residence in that country.<p>What has your experience been?<p>What is your particular career?<p>What were your moving expenses?<p>How much is your rent or did you buy?<p>Where did you move to/from?<p>How are the schools?<p>Have you become fluent in the native language and was the language barrier difficult to overcome?<p>How long have you lived in this country? Are you a permanent resident or do you plan on moving back to the US?<p>What was the process like to become a permanent resident?<p>Did you have to already have a job when you moved to that country?<p>What's the cost of living compared to where you moved from?
Has your quality of life improved or not? How and why?
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Title: Everyone has those own little workarounds that make life easier.<p>Here are a couple of mine -<p>1. Using AutoHotKey to write my signatures, frequently used expressions (ex: plm becomes "Please let me know if you need some more information." , answers to frequently asked queries by customers, open specific files with a keyboard shortcut)<p>2. Using IFTTT : This tool helps a lot. One of the ways I use it is to save my monthly utility bills (arriving in Gmail) automatically every month direct in my chartered accountant's shared dropbox folder. That email in turn is auto archived, so such bills are completely out of my way.<p>What are your time saving hacks that you use frequently?
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Title: I recently submitted an item:<p>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8052399<p>It made it to and remained on the front page for a while. Then, after some hours, ~180 votes and many comments, a HN mod changed the title completely and also modified the URL to a <i>completely different article</i> on a different site.<p>I understand that the new article might have provided additional detail (which another user had also indicated on the comments thread), but why is HN <i>completely changing</i> what its users are posting, while still attributing it to those users? It's odd to have something attributed to me that I did not submit. And, if the answer is that "the topic was the same", "the first article referenced the second", or similar, then it seems that editorializing to this extent wholly changes what HN is about. That is, why not just have users submit proposed topics for discussion rather than URLs?<p>And, what of any quotes or references to the initially submitted URL in the comments section?<p>BTW, on the one hand, it seems fairer to allow the user to keep karma earned for the article (as HN did), but this begs the question that if so many people had already upvoted the article, then might it have already been "sufficient"?
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Title: I couldn't find any kind of traffic report from searching.
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Title: Hello HN,<p>A couple of days ago I released a html theme on a themes site, think ThemeForest. I have hopes it's gonna sell rather well, we've been working at it for about 5 months.<p>Another theme developer is threatening that he's filing a DMCA takedown on our theme because, he says, we copied code from him, which we didn't.<p>I asked him to show proof with code samples, which he didn't, and continued his tirade.<p>Our code is absolutely 100% written by us, we use a precompiler, which I think he doesn't, we have our own custom framework etc.<p>We are from an Eastern European country, they are Western.<p>1. What can happen if they "file a DMCA" ?<p>2. They say they don't need to show us any proof, that they will show that in court.
How can we deal with that, being different countries and all ?<p>Thank you so much for advice HN, it's not the first time you are helping me out.<p>PS<p>I'm currently keeping names and such private, but I might expose them for the douches they are, depending how this plays out.
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Title: On HN, there is a lot of advice for people just learning to code and a lot of advice for people who are making some money with their startup/side project. However, I'd love to hear advice about the steps in between, that is, advice from real developers on how they went from a basic knowledge of coding to actually landing their first paid internship/job/etc.<p>Some questions to consider:<p>-Did you learn to program in school or teach yourself?<p>-Did you do unpaid work to establish yourself?<p>-Roughly how long did it take you from day 1 of learning to day 1 of being paid?<p>-What was your first gig?<p>My hope is to make a website with different timelines and step by step guides that shows new programmers how to go from finishing a basic tutorial like Codecademy to getting paid for software development.
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Title: Having heard good opinions about Airbnb, I recommended it to my girlfriend looking for holiday accommodation in Spain. I personally have never used Airbnb before but having good experience both with 9flats and booking.com so far, I did not expect anything bad could actually happen. Airbnb claims they verify all of their hosts as the other similar websites, so booking a home should be as easy as possible.<p>After she had chosen a perfect home nearby Barcelona, she started having a conversation with the host. For users' convenience Airbnb provides a possibility to answer the messages sent from their website directly via email. It indeed makes the whole conversation easier (you do not need to log in every time you want to answer the message) however it increases the chance of fraud bookings.<p>The host was indeed sending the answers via Airbnb until he sent last one including booking details (usual emails from airbnb are sent from [email protected], his email was [email protected]). Provided URL was also redirecting e-airbnb.com instead of airbnb.com. The website was looking exactly as airbnb does and included all booking and payment details. All the other links available on this fraud website were redirecting to real airbnb website.<p>Unfortunately, she has done the payment via Moneygramm (as it was described in the payment details) and since then there has been no contact with the host.<p>Airbnb has been also informed about this issue. As they guarantee hosts' verification I would expect them to get more interested in this case. Sadly, it took them 2 days to apologise and it seems like they do not take any responsibility for their hosts ....<p>Hopefully, thanks to this post at least one person will save his money while booking on airbnb. We have lost almost 2k euro ...
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Title: We are two MIT students who just published our physics-based puzzle game "Marble Drop" (http://www.marbledropgame.com) for iOS and Android (originally created for MakeGamesWithUs` MIT iOS games competition). The game has been a huge success in its first week, and we are now pushing the top of the App Store rankings in all of the relevant categories. At this point, we really have no idea what we should be doing as we try to grow our user base. We have been doing obvious things like talking to press, updating content, etc, but I suspect that there are a number of key strategies that are missing from our plan.<p>Do any HNers have advice on how we should spend our time and resources as we grow Marble Drop? Thanks in advance!
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Title: I have been thinking to write blogs for what I learn during weekends.<p>I am looking for blogging platforms where I can share what I learn, share code snippets.<p>Please share your advices on what tools to use<p>Thank you
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Title: Hi<p>Being outdoors in the sun makes you high. It gives you energy and vitamin D, relieves headaches and is just generally great (within limits, of course - no skin cancer, please). Most of us here use the computer to make a living and some of us work from home or have flexible work place and hours - could we be doing this outside and improve our health and productivity?<p>I'm not posting to argue whether it's actually better or not to code outdoors, I only want to ask: How can this be achieved technically?<p>Personally I only need to be able to ssh to my server and have at least 20 lines of vim to work with.<p>I saw this last year: http://www.raspberrypi.org/kindleberry-pi-the-second/<p>This set-up is very cool but kind of unwieldy and maybe unnecessarily complex?<p>How can this be done in an easier way?
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Title: Good and bad news:
- Orchard close
- First Docker office in Europe.
- Fig continue up&running
- New Developer Experience group
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Title: Has 105 different websites that you can promote your startup or web app to. The post itself also includes a downloadable excel file.
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