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Title: I want to be a faster programmer, to increase my coding speed.<p>How can I do that? Is it even possible?<p>At the moment I feel like I have no choice but to go at the pace that my mind allows me to operate at.
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Title: Are there any good books on debugging? I think debugging is one of the key skills of a good developer, but I have never seen a book (or blog) especially about debugging code and distributed systems.
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Title: What do you think about them?<p>Which ones do you take?
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Title: Why? What benefits has it brought to your work and life?
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Title: I think RapGenius (i.e. Genius) is a really powerful way to arrive at a crowdsourced understanding of what content is. This works well for static content like lyrics of a song, text in some literature etc. I got curious what something like this might look like for code and after a cursory google, I stumbled upon Omniref, which looks like they're targeting this exact problem. Of course, they're aiming to provide a very comprehensive solution that scours and indexes the web to surface code that can be annotated. AFAIK, their solution works for Ruby and more recently Javascript.<p>I'm curious if this could be packaged as some github plugin that is language agnostic. Think of it as a persistent Q&A that holds a "conversation/discussion" on specific lines of code. Naturally, this feature is available when you send a PR to start a discussion, but once the PR is closed that's the end of the discussion. One problem code presents that other literature doesn't is the fact that it tends to be less static (i.e. code keeps changing over time whereas lyrics to a song may not.) If there were an elegant workaround to this problem (where prior versions of a line of code and its Q&A is cached so that an interested user could view what the past conversations were) I'm tempted to say that this could really streamline the learning and collaboration process when it comes to using/writing code.<p>Anyone here play around with this idea in the past? If so, I'd love to hear your stories. If not, anybody interested in joining me on hacking some POC up to see what this could end up looking like?
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Title: Hi,<p>I recently got offered a startup job at a nice little company in SF. Everything seems OK with the company and job. After going back and forth a little on the compensation we came to an agreement.<p>However, they are pressuring me to take the job asap because they have a short list and who ever says 'yes' first gets the job.<p>I've never encountered this situation before. Is this normal?<p>Here's something else that makes me suspicious: I'm a terrible interviewer and not a great programmer and am suspicious that there's a company that will accept me. The interview process was a bit long and through with a phone screen and an office visit and a follow up interview. Maybe this is the interview I finally just nailed after many failed interviews. I can't really tell.<p>I'm a little worried about leaving my current job because now I'm wondering if this is just a tactic or foible on the part of the CEO or is it an actual sign of something is wrong.
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Title: I have never really consciously taken the time to learn how to read academic papers, because it never occurred to me it's something I needed.<p>I replied to a tweet today suggesting people ought to take a course how to read them, and got a great reply from Glenn Vanderberg on a starting point:<p>https://twitter.com/glv/status/579411305347489792<p>Does anyone else have any thoughts or opinions about this? I have a hard time learning things. Maybe this insight is part of the reason why.
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Title: Hey HN, I'm the author of a popular music plugin for streamers, http://sourceforge.net/projects/obsmusicstreamd/<p>My plugin takes the current playing song from several music players, and outputs it to a text file, so it can be shown on a stream. Spotify's most recent update broke compatibility with the plugin however, and now I'm being flooded with emails :(<p>Previously, it looked through all Windows using the win32api, and looked for windows with "Spotify - " in their title. Spotify's most recent update replaced the title with "Spotify Premium" however. And now I'm at a loss, I've tried contacting their support to connect me to an engineer, but they didn't want to.<p>I've looked through Spotify's Appdata/local and Appdata/roaming folders, but found nothing I could potentially scrape to get the currently playing song.<p>So now, I'm looking for either someone with a lot of experience with Spotify who can help me out, or a Spotify engineer with inside knowledge...
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Title: It seems most Apache projects are written in Java. Why such a heavy focus on Java at Apache?
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Title: Wordpress has long been an easy way to set up a brochure-ware site which can be maintained by a non-technical user. Someone just needs to install it, customise a (free or paid) theme, and occasionally install updates. The business owner can add/edit pages whenever they want, without assistance.<p>Are there tools for maintaining static sites which are as easy to use (after initial set up), or is Wordpress still the way to go?
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Title: I always open the comment page of a HN post first, then read a couple of comments. When not many comments are there, I click on the link on top and read the article. Many times, I never read the actual linked article. After reading the comments of people here in HN, I can understand the gist, or more, of the article linked, and also know the thoughts of many people. I enjoy reading the agreeing, disagreeing, proving, disproving, controversial comments much more.
Am I the only one?
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Title: I see a lot of articles and posts about hiring the right person, dealing with underachievers, etc, but still did not see one with underachiever's perspective.<p>I was hired 4 months ago to work for a quite desirable software company. On my interview and first days I was quite confident and a bit cocky I must admit. I thought I knew more that I actually did, but at the same time was aware that I was lacking specific experience needed for that particular job, but was very willing to work hard to develop myself, and actually saw that as a desirable challenge! I thought that mentoring and time was given to ramp up and learn the missing pieces. Non of that happened.<p>My teammates have tons of experience, and there is a clear “every man for himself” mentality. Most of them have big egos and really rotten and bitter attitudes. They are stars, they know it, and treat people who are not at the same level like idiots (like idiot me).<p>As a result, I stress through the work days trying to decode what my co-workers are thinking, and trying not to say the wrong words (which keeps me silent for most of the meetings, work days and then bleeds out into my personal life). By night I have a quick dinner and bury myself in intense study. Honestly, its horrible. My self esteem plunged, I am ashamed to communicate with talk with other people. It is wearing me out. I question myself several times per day if this is really worth it.<p>Questions:<p>1. I feel I handled this wrongly, and started with too much confidence. If I am the least knowledgeable person, and a co-worker ignores, despises and almost makes fun of me for your lack of experience, how should I act in order to maintain my dignity but also be humble enough to acknowledge the co-worker's knowledge?<p>2. Is it normal to be hired as a junior and just being thrown to the lions, with no help or time to ramp up?<p>3. Do all star/ninja/rock-star software developers have rotten attitudes?
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Title: Sam,<p>I will take your bet.<p>I run a VC fund called Immaculate Conception Ventures, I am a TechStars Boston mentor, and I like to invest in TechStars alumni companies.<p>Michael de la Maza
Immaculate Conception Ventures LLC
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Title: I am a 27 years old PhD in computational mechanics (finite element method, elasticity ...) who should be graduating in around 6 months. I have been tempted for quite some time by the idea of trying to get a job in the US and work as a programmer. A personal dream, I really would like to experience the life in the west coast for a few years. What are my odds of achieving that?
Any advices on what I should try to learn or do in the next 6 months? During my PhD, I have been coding in Matlab, Python and mostly in C++ (I have read Effective C++, Modern Effective C++). I have learned OpenMP, MPI and Cuda (though, I don't consider myself very experienced in them) and I have taken an introduction course in algorithms.<p>Edit: Since some people have asked, right now I am in UK and I have an EU passport. Thanks for the very encouraging answers.
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Title: Why is this not in the mainstream news? Even if it's not the Chinese government directly it's a group with significant power inside China -- so why isn't this being considered a foreign attack on a US company?
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Title: I feel like I have a pretty firm grasp on OOJS and am proficient at solving any JS problem without using a library. What should I be concentrating on now to be "Javascript developer"?
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Title: I've been doing freelance web development for the past 7 years. I have consistent work and "OK" pay. I've experimented with my rates over time, and am at a point where I have trouble finding work if I raise them...but become part of the "commodity freelancer market" if I charge less.<p>Last year, I had a client (who had their own client...which we'll call the "true client") for a big project. At the beginning of the project, upon receiving my quote, my client told me that it was "way above" what the true client was willing to pay. I asked for more clear budget numbers, and was told very clearly that it was 60% of my original quote. After days of negotiations, I ended up reducing my quote considerably. Keep in mind, this did NOT involve me reducing my rate; I know better.<p>Part-way through the project, I found out that not only was my original quote under the true client's budget, but my client had also quoted them a price which was 3 times my original quote amount. Not only that...but they had used my quote to create their own, and then proceeded to cut me down farther.<p>I felt undervalued and belittled by the news. I wasn't upset about another company profiting off of me (of course that's going to happen by default, if I'm working through an intermediary). Rather, I was really bothered by the nickel-and-diming and flat-out lies I was told about the project's constraints and budget.<p>Since that time, I've paid closer attention to the companies I work with. They're consistently profiting off of me at ridiculous rates; however, if I raise my rates to compensate, I don't get work. I've tried to form my own "digital agency" with another partner...but we had a harder time finding work as a new agency than as freelancers.<p><i></i>TL;DR:<i></i> I'm tired of being nickel-and-dimed, and want to move beyond the "freelancer" title. How did you become the digital agency that you are today? How did you drop the "freelancer" title and make something more of your daily life?
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Title: Instead of cluttering the front page with fake product announcements, let's just post them in here instead. One thread where each top-level comment is just a title and a link.
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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.<p>PS. No April Fools Day content please.
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Title: Share your information if you are looking for work. Please use this format<p><pre><code> Location:
Remote:
Willing to relocate:
Technologies:
Résumé/CV:
Email:</code></pre>
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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: Please link to the GitHub pages or the repo page, and also mention the prerequisites.
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Title: I used to code for a living but decided that I enjoy being a technical writer and PM much, much more.<p>Things I enjoy:<p><pre><code> * Writing detailed functional specifications.
* Creating wireframes & mockups.
* Creating flowcharts, BPMN docs & graphs to explain a project.
* Planning Poker, Creating sprints.
* Discussing technical issues with developers.
* Simplifying technical issues for customers.
* Learning about new technologies.
* Explaining new technology to customers.
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My question is; Is there a need for someone like me in any open source projects and if so, how do I contribute?
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Title: I recently moved to a new town and am living alone. The neighborhood is decent and my building has security too. However, it just seems like good sense to me to implement an extra layer of home security apart from the usual (locked doors).<p>I was looking for ideas and was wondering how people on this forum go about securing their houses?
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Title: I didn't find a blog post yet, but when logged in to heroku, they announce new pricing, linking to this page: https://www.heroku.com/private/beta-pricing (which needs a signin).
Before the free tier allowed you to run 1 dyno for free all month (going down if there is no traffic). Now the hobby tier only allows you to run half a month, or you pay $7/month.
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Title: Announcement: https://groups.google.com/d/msg/kivy-users/PZpI1g-W3do/OZ84jGTlp4wJ
Blog post: http://kivy.org/planet/2015/04/kivy-1-9%C2%A0released
Downloads: http://kivy.org/#download
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Title: I’m Lachlan (@lachlanjc on Twitter), a 13-year-old with skills in Rails, React, Front-end, and UX. I’ve built Noodles (http://www.getnoodl.es/), a cooking app, and helped build Helpful.io (http://helpful.io) with the community on Assembly (http://assembly.com).<p>I’ve been looking for internships this summer at startups/larger companies, but most require having already studied CS in college or something along those lines. Has anyone heard about good internships (most likely in NYC) for this summer?
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Title: I find it difficult to remember much from a book -- technical and non technical -- I read only once, especially when I haven't used the knowledge or facts. Is that true for everyone?
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Title: Almost all are either B2B (which includes marketplaces) or B2C hardware products. Almost no B2C software:<p>http://ycuniverse.com/ycombinator-companies<p>Did this shift happen a long time ago and I never noticed?
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Title: I am 29.5 yrs old and was born in poor family. First it was education , paying college fees. I had to work since 16 part-time for paying fees. Then landed a job. Worst professional environment one could imagine.
Changed job last year. After marathon search ,apply, reject,re-apply landed a opportunity after 3 months.
In personal life also I am yet to find girlfriend. Never had one.
When I look at my colleagues, friends I feel like many of them have it quite easy. College, job, personal life but its me who has to try ( or repeat process 1000 times) for simple things.
Why this is so? Its just makes me frustrated.
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Title: There are so many 'startup' networking events everywhere now. But shouldn't the founders be home working on their product than "connecting the dots" with mediocre startup wannabes? Has anyone found them of any use?
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Title: Gradberry appears to be mass-spamming contributors to various github repositories. See http://pastebin.com/mmjkUY0w for one example, and https://twitter.com/jacobian/status/585287293860093952 for another.
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Title: Should I? Or would I be learning C the wrong way? This would be my second language and I am still a programming newbie. Learning C so I can reverse engineer.
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Title: As mentioned in the "What I'd tell myself about startups..." post (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9333330), everyone has a set of unused domain names. What are yours, and what did you plan to do with them?<p>Here are mine.<p><pre><code> translateteam.com - javascript based copy/translation editor
forhipsters.com - news site for trendy things
bootstrapcms.com - drag n drop cms based on bootstrap
10printhello.com - for my programming blog
globaldrugwar.com - Stringer Bell simulator
apinest.com - programmable http proxy a la cloudflare
questiondash.com / surveydash.com - a surveymokeylike
dropify.net - a dropbox PAAS
</code></pre>
Interested if you have any better ideas for any of them!
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Title: I'm a 26 y.o. software dev working on going indie. All my life, I've struggled with procrastination. I find it very hard to sit down and work on a project without an external motivator, and on many nights I end up vegging out in front of the TV or aimlessly clicking around on the internet. As a result, even though I am successful on an absolute scale — CS degree from a top-10, worked at a startup and a large company, enough savings to last a few years of solo development — by my own metric of success, I am crippled by the feeling that it's "too late". Every day, I read an article by some hot-shot young dev who has a handful of fancy projects behind his belt (not to mention a great website and design sensibility) while I have exactly zero — and he's half a decade younger than me! How will I ever be able to catch up? Experience-wise, I'm still a junior dev.<p>It's a constant, irrepressible gnawing in my chest. Every morning, I take tally of my age. Whenever I encounter a technical article, I immediately and compulsively investigate the author's age. If I'm behind — which I always am — I will lock myself in my room and force myself to work, even though I still end up on HN half the time. It's exhausting and terrifying, but I also don't want to loosen up. At my core, I am intensely ambitious. I have so many great ideas, and knowing that the main obstacle between them and me is only myself keeps me in an endless state of panic.<p>It's been getting better. For the first time in my life, my procrastination is starting to get tamed. I've been working hard on my first big project, and I expect it's going to be a great one. But I can't help but feel that if I had started in earnest at 25, at 21, at 19 — then maybe the list of accomplishments at the end of my life will be longer. Mentally, I've resigned to the fact that I've procrastinated away a decade of valuable time, and it just endlessly haunts me.<p>Does anybody else have this problem? How do you deal with it?
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Title: It sometimes happens that programmers lose the ability to use their hands due to accidents/illness. Has anyone here used / seen an efficient setup for programming (i.e. entering code in various languages) that works with voice recognition, perhaps combined with eye movement? Please share info (hardware/software/effective "typing" speed). I'm sure it can be implemented better than using standard voice recognition software and text editors.
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Title: (a) contributing to open source projects. long term disciplined approach, takes time to get evaluation
(b) ship a real product. too many environmental parameters, takes time to get evaluated
(c) participate in coding competitions. These tend to test your algorithm chops, and less of system design. But accurate results.
(d) be generous about recruiter requests. show up for interviews without doing much interview prep (like practicing problems cracking coding interviews). but quick and fast evaluation. This gets very hard when you don't work remotely.
(e) exact opposite to (d). be picky about interviews, prepare a lot for an interview.
(f) attend conferences, hackathons. time consuming and may be costly and not sure how effective it is.
(g) read some classic cs books cover to cover. no accurate measure<p>What do you do regularly to evaluate if you are getting better?
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Title: We wanted an easy way to connect #channels/rooms between different chat teams, so we made Sameroom. It's like plumbing for chat—allowing you to connect different services in interesting ways (e.g. Hipchat <=> Slack, Flowdock <=> IRC, Slack <=> Slack). Would love to hear what you all think about it.
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Title: I'm finishing the Art of War by Sun Tzu and I'm looking for some book suggestions, so I'm curious to know which books are being read by the members of the HN community.
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Title: Hey guys, that pretty much describes the app that my friend and I've been working on for a while.<p>We call it "FlipFeed", because you flip through a continuous feed of ephemeral photos and messages. You get 30s to enjoy, and then the moment disappears, and you move on.<p>The idea actually came from what one of my friends always did on Instagram. Check out a photo, like, and move on. And that's what humans do, right? We are interested more in what's coming up next than what we've already seen - and this is exactly what FlipFeed wants to target.<p>Any FlipFeed user (FlipFeeder?) can upload photos and messages (status, rant, general info, love note, quotes, or anything you like), and all these photos and messages submitted to FlipFeed are lined up and shown in a sequence. There's no filtering! So, it doesn't matter if you upload from New York or California, or from somewhere in China, everything shows up in the same sequence/order.<p>You can directly private-reply to anyone on the app. So, let's say if you're viewing my photo, you just tap the "Reply" button to send me a direct private-reply. This is a great way to start conversation with anyone, and make new relationships. Also check out the Easter egg in the "Write a message" screen.<p>We've kept the app pretty simple, because we want the content to be in the spotlight. It's very different from other apps. If you think about it, seeing photos and messages one-by-one submitted by totally different people is pretty exciting, because, as mentioned, you don't know what you're going to see next, and from whom. So, there's always that excitement of what's the next photo or message? People want to see interesting things, and with FlipFeed, we want people to share and check out interesting things - 30s at a time.<p>Check out http://flipfeed.co to get iOS app or to add yourself in the Android wait-list.<p>Thank you guys. Feedback is welcome.
FlipFeed team.
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Title: I guess this is aimed more at older devs and admins who have been sitting at their computers for the last 20 years like me.<p>I'm starting to feel my age. I get tired quicker. My health isn't what it used to be. I get the feeling that staring at a computer screen and sitting down all day in an office is not particularly healthy.<p>Has anyone got any tips how to improve mental and physical well-being?
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Title: When I travel to the US I usually buy a pay as you go AT&T sim card to use during my stay. I used to take Lyfts to move around, till today.<p>If you have a phone with pay as you go service and for some reason you don't pay the bill for a month, you will lose your number.
Then a few months later someone buying a new sim card will have your old number, so if they download lyft they will have your account with your credit card. And guess what? They can have free rides charged to your credit card!!!<p>So there's a creepy guy taking lyft rides in san francisco with my account.
The best part is that I can't remove the credit card from that account because I no longer have that phone number, so I can't access my account!<p>I sent an email to Lyft support but no one answered.
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Title: When would the suspense be lifted?
Waiting with fingers crossed.
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Title: I have a Firefox plug-in, "Ad Limiter"[1]. Recently, the number of users as logged by Mozilla's AMO site began to climb rapidly. When Firefox checks for updates daily, it reports the installed plug-ins to Mozilla, and Mozilla publishes those statistics.<p>The rate of increase in users exceeds the number of downloads. At first I thought Mozilla's statistics system was broken. But that's not the problem.[2]
Someone is apparently distributing some form of malware which seems to be impersonating Ad Limiter. They're using Ad Limiter's Mozilla AMO ID number, but a random version number. (Real version numbers are 1.3 to 2.0. Fake version numbers range from 2.17.71 to 1009.99.992. All bogus versions have three-number versions, while all legitimate versions have two-number versions.<p>All this is inferred from Firefox statistics logging. We haven't seen the actual malware yet. If anyone has a copy of Firefox with Ad Limiter installed, and the version isn't between 1.3 and 2.0, we'd really like to see it. Please save a copy of the Firefox add-ons directory before deleting the bogus add-on, and send a copy of the bogus add-on to "[email protected]". We want to see what this malware is doing in our name. Thanks.<p>[1] https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/ad-limiter/
[2] https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1152966
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Title: Amazon seems a big consumer of open source technology.<p>Does it give much cash in support to open source projects?<p>Does it contribute much in other ways?
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Title: After 3 in-place jobs, I've been working at home for three months now. One thing I have noticed is that I can deliver a comparable ("samey") amount of progress in less hours of pure work.<p>At my office-located jobs, I waited to complete 7-8 hours of work (excluding chit-chat, etc) in order to feel satisfied. Now I can do with 4:30 on average. For me being interruption-free is a huge boost.<p>Personally I do believe in measuring effort in work-hours. Assuming you feel optimal (which I constantly make sure of), the more time you spend the more you get done. Also, 90% of webdev does not require that much creative hard-thinking imo.<p>My question simply is - do you find 4:30 of work a day acceptable (for you)? And marketable (for employers to accept it)?<p>Anyway, feel free to post how many hours you work, and what you think about it.
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Title: I've been contacted by a major law firm to testify against a former employer about how they've broken California and federal law. I have proof and witnessed it from a bunch of people inside so I'm not worried about that part.<p>But what will this do to my career? Now when people google me, they find good stuff like projects and presentations and blogs posts. They won't let me be anonymous and the employer is prominent and popular here so people will find out. What happens if they find this instead? Would it be a deal killer if I applied at your company?<p>I'm looking for career advice here, not legal advice. I have enough of that.
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Title: I finished my CS degree in UK university 1 year ago. Just after finishing it I started working. First few weeks were quite interesting as I was learning a new framework I had to use, and also learning some aspects of working in a commercial environment. But it got boring quite fast. The salary and other perks are great, but the job is boring. I usually just do stuff that doesn't require any creativity or thinking or coming up with interesting solutions. Besides that, it just doesn't matter. I just do stuff so the clients could sell their stuff.<p>It has made me a little bit depressed...<p>I am young (23y), and I have so much energy and desire to do something important, to change something, or at least try. I've never cared about money as long as I was able to afford rent and food, so I don't really care about salary.<p>I remember the days when I had some hobby project (can't come up with new ideas for the last year or so to work on), or some interesting Uni project that involved solving some interesting and harder problems, and it just made me feel alive, it made me think about solving it even when I was trying to fall asleep. I want that again, I want to live like that.<p>What should I do? Where can I find companies / start-ups that would fulfill me, in UK or some other European country (I really wouldn't mind to move)? Is it even possible? I don't think I even care about the area I would work (as long as it would require computers and programming), I am ready to give all the time to it, and learn stuff. The one problem maybe is that I am not very smart, although my employers are very happy with my work, and basically all the clients I've had since 15 years old, but that was just simple websites, nothing difficult.<p>What should I do? I really need some guidance, I feel my life is just being wasted.
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Title: One of the things I do on HN is look up previous discussions. When doing so I deliberately keep my search terms open and under-specified, because in that way I regularly and frequently turn up related items that turn out to be of interest.<p>Many times I want to follow up on the discussion, to recount more up-to-date experiences, or to find out what happened so I can share in any discoveries made. People so often learn things, and so rarely come back to share them.<p>But very few people have any contact details in their profiles. I've not been gathering data explicitly, but this submission is prompted by the frustration of wanting to help, wanting to share my experiences and/or expertise, wanting to respond to a request for assistance, or wanting to find out how things turned out, and being unable to.<p>I know people are concerned about exposing email addresses, etc., but I get virtually no spam to the HN visible email address, and what little I get is more than out-weighed by the emails I get from the HN community.<p>Sometimes people think they have shared their address when in fact they haven't. The "email" field is not visible to others, it needs to be in the box of text.<p>Do you share your email? Have you explicitly listed contact details in your profile?
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Title: Got an interview call from YC. Mood: Super Excited/Freaking Out. I'm wondering if there are any YC alumni/interview candidates around who'd have any advice before I appear for the interview?
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Title: The Indian mobile operator Airtel has proposed a new scheme called Airtel Zero here in India , which is supposedly an "open" platform that would allow any app maker to pay for the data so that customers can use the app without paying any data charges.<p>This is ofcourse , a blatant violation of net neutrality and has caused an uproar here in India . However they're trying to make this into a Rich vs poor thing by saying that banning zero rating is to deny poor people access.<p>The worse thing is that both Google and Facebook are in support of this scheme even though they support net neutrality in the US. Facebook was already in violation with their Internet.org scheme but I didn't expect this from Google.<p>If Airtel's experiment succeeds I think that this could be replicated across the world and destroy the very character of the internet.<p>The other problem is that zero rating is a bit of a trickier debate since it's not the customer who's paying.<p>We need to force the tech majors to take a stand against this. What can be done to force them ?
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Title: I'm writing a new book & trying to use lean startup ideas myself in writing it. The new book is only available via Kickstarter, and the campaign ends in 56 hours, so I thought I'd stop by and answer questions about the new book, lean startup, or anything else.<p>Kickstarter URL: bit.ly/theleadersguide<p>EDIT: 1:05pm. I need to sign off for a bit. Thanks for asking such great questions. I'll try and stop by later in the day to pick up any stragglers that come in.
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Title: I'm currently going through a mini depression. We've gone without salary for the last 4 months, abandoned our business model to do pay for hire work in the hopes of trying to raise money to keep the lights on.<p>Honestly I feel like I'm going to be evicted from the house. My rent is already up, and as of now I have < $1 :).<p>My partner is fine actually, he has rich parents and doesn't really depend on the startup for income. Which actually gives my friends and family the illusion that we're both killing it.<p>We have almost 0 chance of raising more money, it's much harder to get money it seems if you're in a poor country.<p>So, if you've had a failed startup, how did you know? Did you run out of money and call it quits? If you succeeded, did you have a patch so rough that you were evicted?<p>I'm 25, I feel like I'm losing at life already. It was okay to be broke earlier, because it's expected. It's not anymore, when almost none of your peers are. Also, I'm not in a developed country, where being broke means living on ~$1k a month. I've been living on ~$200 a month.<p>Anyway, I just want any input from you guys. Like anything, I just wanted to get this off my chest. Not even sure I've really expressed what I wanted to express (English isn't my first language).
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Title: I was searching for something on HN and I happened upon this thread:<p>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2262527<p>I thought the top comment by neilk was just beautifully written and really encouraging (with the slight irony that he encourages the OP to stop reading HN!). I have bookmarked it and resolved to re-read it when I'm feeling low.<p>It got me thinking, there's a lot of introspection and self-criticism here on HN, but there's even more wisdom and kindness. What are the most positive and uplifting comments you've read?<p>And to neilk and people like you, thanks. You've probably helped more people than you realise.
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Title: I was recently surprised to learn how professional photographers charge for their work. They charge for their time and expenses such as equipment rental, food, etc but the client never actually owns the IP. The photographer then charges a usage fee separate to their day rate and expenses. For example if its going to be in a magazine thats having 100,000 copies printed they would negotiate a fee for this and any additional use by the client would have to be paid for.<p>I see software companies as having a similar model where its pay per install etc.<p>What if independent developers were to adopt a similar charging model? Say I build a website for a company - charge for my time in building the site but then also issue them a monthly bill based on the number of people that have accessed the site. In reality I can't see anyone agreeing to it - but somehow professional photographers are able to charge this way.<p>In this article: https://fstoppers.com/originals/guide-pricing-commercial-photography-part-4-license-fees-8713
The author gives the example of the woman who designed Nike's logo and only earning $35 because she didn't have a license in place and at the time didn't expect Nike to become the company it has. It seems kinda incredulous to me that this person feels entitled to more money simply because they did a job for someone and was paid for it (presumably a fair amount at the time) and then because their business has done great they should be entitled to be paid more when they haven't really done anything extra to make the company the success it has become.
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Title: This could be developing a piece of software, creating a website or webapp, writing a book, founding a company, obtaining a credential, or whatever else you're most proud of.<p>Tell us about it! Inquiring minds want to know... =)
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Title: Hey,<p>I have read in various answers by highly influential programmers is to find a mentor. I wanna know how to find a mentor? I'm interested in mostly developing web applications (both front-end and back-end).<p>A little background, I will be finishing my Bachelors in Computer Science in a month and currently based in India. I have been programming in Python, Java and C# mostly.<p>Thanks!
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Title: I'm in the middle of negotiating a nice freelance gig. The client now wants me to be available large parts of the day during office hours so internal developers can run things by me and be more productive.<p>That's all fine, except that part of the reason I'm freelancing is being able to be flexible in how I schedule my day.<p>Is it common to negotiate for an upfront retainer fee based on this? After all, I'm committing myself to be available for solely said client during the agreed on hours.<p>Another way would of course be to try and get a higher hourly wage, but it seems better from a negotiating standpoint to split to two.<p>Thoughts?<p>-EDIT-
To be clear, the time that I need to be available for them are billable hours, i.e.: to get the primary job done for which I'm hired.<p>On top of that I need to be available for internal developers during those hours should the need arise. I therefore have to structure my working hours around the office hours of the client.<p>Therefore a retainer fee would sit on top of billable hours and would compensate for my lack of flexible working hours NOT incurred opportunity costs.
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Title: Hello Guys, I am a Freelancer on Odesk.com and yday I was contacted by a new client on Odesk to work on project but before letting me on details, he wanted me to sign this agreement(http://pastebin.com/qm9JMk7m) sent via the id [email protected] to my email id. Please carefully read lines 53-75.<p>I replied the client asking about these foolish clause in the contract and he said he just wanted to filter out the potential developer and wanted to see who paid attention to the details and he will send me the revised version.<p>Now he replied to the same email(the email with previous contract) with new contract where line 53-75 replaced by a para which said I cannot disclose any of the info given by the client about the project. Now what yahoo(client)/gmail(me) did was, it nested the old contract inside the new one as it was reply to the thread by the client but while replying to the email for agreeing, I manually removed the nested part from the reply which had the old agreement and added this line "I accept the terms and conditions stated in this email and this email only.".<p>After this, the client said since you have agreed to the terms, you will have to buy a control panel access by paying him via paypal to which I disagreed post which he started threatening with legal consequences since I have signed the agreement. He kept threatening me by Odesk messages. The odesk message thread: http://i.imgur.com/yxgOXgB.png<p>I reported this to Odesk but I just got a reply from them asking for screenshot email where client was asking for money, I replied more than 10 hours ago and there has been no response from them.<p>Now my doubt is, Am I legally safe here or is this some noob online trying to con me?<p>also, He has my email id and basically anyone can get my complete address and phone number using my email id from whois databases since I purchased few domains with same id. Is it possible to get that data removed?<p>What should I do next?
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Title: Alternatively, what startups did the YC partners failed to see become successful, but did so?
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Title: Please, stop.<p><i>Sarcastic disclaimer:</i>
I am not backing my statements with facts. I think infinite scrolling websites are already a fact against themselves.<p>- They might be visually appealing (sometimes) but they are against usability, load and usefulness in general.<p>- Not even Pinterest (one of the most famous infinite scrollers advocates) allows you to go back to your scrolling level if you refresh.<p>- They are annoying. Their format fits mostly mobile devices where knowing where you are in a page is perceived differently (and sometimes totally not important).<p>- Fitting analytics (that make some sense) on infinite scrollers is another pain.<p>- If I am using a website for anything different from leisure, I want to use its content as a reference for something I need to share or use later.<p>- They were already despised in 2013:
http://www.smashingmagazine.com/2013/05/03/infinite-scrolling-lets-get-to-the-bottom-of-this/<p>- They got XKCDed: https://xkcd.com/1309/<p>Even Google didn't like them, then got used to them:
http://www.zdnet.com/article/google-tries-to-save-the-web-from-the-curse-of-infinite-scrolling/<p><i>Other sources</i>
http://www.nngroup.com/articles/infinite-scrolling/
http://www.sitepoint.com/ux-infinite-scroll-good-bad-maybe/
http://designmodo.com/infinite-scrolling/
https://econsultancy.com/blog/61703-infinite-scrolling-pros-and-cons/
https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/20140626160300-5182010-bad-website-bad-infinite-scrolling-pages
https://www.quora.com/Is-infinite-scroll-and-parallax-design-good-or-bad-for-conversions-for-single-product-sites<p>- The only funny source: http://whitemenwearinggoogleglass.tumblr.com/<p>EDIT: improved readability
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Title: Earlier today I read an article on the decline of proper sysadmins in the age of containers. I thought I was doing a decent job of being a sysadmin+developer at the place I work but looking at the problems containers can cause I couldn't help wonder how one should go about becoming a decent sysadmin.<p>Main scenario is the one where you as an individual might on your own (or with a couple of friends) start some tiny sass product, or build an open source product that you want to keep secure.<p>At the most basic level, when firing up a new server I follow the how to harden your server guides and install fail2ban, disable root login, enable ssh only login etc.<p>Things I don't fully understand, user permissions or rather, how to use permissions to ensure good security. I'm also unsure about logging. I'm essentially clueless about where to look to understand what goes into being a good sysadmin.<p>Any advice would be awesome. Thanks.
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Title: I'll spend all my time next week studying machine learning. However, I know that it's easy to get lost in overly theoretical material when learning ML.<p>So I'm interested in some advice on how to best spend my time, given that I'd like to get as much practical knowledge as possible.<p>Here is the level I'm at now:<p>I'm currently halfways though Andrew Ng's ML course on Coursera, and will probably finish this within the week. I love the mix of theory an practice this course is based around.<p>I've also done the Udacity - Intro to Machine Learning, but found it too theoretical.<p>I kind of understand the basic principles of linear & logistic regression, cost functions and gradient descent & the normal equation.<p>By the end of the week, I hope to be able to do linear regression using gradient descent on an actual dataset. If so, the week has been very well spent!<p>My preferred language is Python.<p>All tips and suggestions are highly appreciated :)
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Title: Do you have a github project with hundreds of commits, meticulous documentation, but only a handful of stars? Feel like you can't get the marketing sauce right?<p>I've talked with many developers who have been maintaining passion projects for years without any decent recognition of their efforts.<p>I'd like to do a little to change that! Please list the projects you are most proud of along with their project URLs. Go ahead and say why it's awesome.<p>I want to give a way (right in this comment thread) for people to self-promote those things that get overlooked.<p>Thanks.
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Title: We used MonkeyLearn to train a machine learning categorizer with categories like `programming`, `business`, `science`, and downloaded samples from relevant sub-reddits to do the training.<p>The plot at the top shows you the distribution of categories for each hour, and you can filter the news by category.<p>The actual classifier is public so anyone can use it: https://app.monkeylearn.com/accounts/login/?next=/categorizer/projects/cl_GLSChuJQ/<p>Every five minutes the app polls the HN API to categorize the latest submissions.
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Title: Please state your career
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Title: I seem to read so many comments on discussion threads in which individuals encourage others to "Quit your job! Travel the world!", which often comes across as shallow and even flippant to me, given that the advice is so easy to extend but the action itself can quite be difficult for one to do, whether due to concrete reasons or any personal reservations.<p>So, my question: those who have traveled for an extended period of time, either instead of working or by finding a new way to work, what was the experience like? What were you able to do? How did you choose to budget? What moved you to this decision, and how was the process of finding work again after your travels, if applicable? If you were to do it all again, what would you do differently?
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Title: I'm a software engineer with more than 5 years experience. There have been more than 1 time I am contacted by big companies for interview opportunities. And every time I find myself in a position where I'm totally unprepared for it.<p>I know the drill, and I know my skills. I'm not terrific with algorithm problems. I need preparation and frequent practice to stay sharp. In the past, I have tried spending 1-2 hours each day to practice. But as I gain more experience, I find myself spending more and more time working on side projects, exploring things that interest me, solving problems at a different scale. I can't really keep myself motivated to practice random algorithm problems anymore.<p>I do want to be prepared when the chance comes, but I can't balance my time. What would you do if you were me?
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Title: I am currently a data scientist for a major firm, and I am facing a manager who wishes to fire me.<p>He assigned me to follow the instructions of an "expert" in completing a compliance document (a task in which I am not trained), and the "expert" turned out to be producing documents that are not in compliance with Federal law. The "expert" repeatedly stated in writing that I was doing an "excellent" job, and I am concerned I am facing retaliation for reporting that her work was simply not correct.<p>When I raised that issue, he immediately began the process of putting me on a 30 day review, a necessary step prior to termination. Such programs are ostensibly to give an employee an opportunity to improve performance.<p>When I asked whether this was a true opportunity to improve performance, or simply a formality, he hesitated for a great deal of time before making statements that strongly implied, without directly stating, that it was a mere formality.<p>I have no desire to lose my job, but I am most concerned that being fired would place future job prospects in jeopardy.<p>According to my colleagues, I'm very competent at my position, but this supervisor has been angry with me since I pointed out to him a few months ago that he may have violated firm policy in a severe way.<p>What should I do? I would like to remain with the firm and be transferred to another project, but the steps he will take will prevent that.<p>I do not wish to move, and if fired I will be effectively blackballed from most firms in this city. I have a life, friends, a girlfriend I love very much, and don't wish to leave that behind.<p>HNers, whether or not you know it, you've been a big part of my life since this site's founding. I value your input and advice tremendously.<p>What do I do? Do I simply begin looking for other positions? Do I report his increasingly erratic behavior, and waste of firm resources? Do I quit before the period expires?<p>What are your thoughts?
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Title: We are currently inserting our logs in an sql database, with timestamp, logType, userId, userAgent and description columns. It makes it trivial for us to debug any event by just querying the db. However, after three and a half years of continued use, the table is now way too large.<p>How do you guys log application events in such a way that extracting information from it is easy, but still keep the size of the logs manageable?
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Title: I'm currently unemployed, broke and using a 5-year-old laptop to work on my startup. The laptop has undergone multiple emergency surgeries and is basically on life support at this stage, going into cardiac arrest every hour or so.<p>Does anyone happen to have an old laptop or desktop laying around unused? I'm really, really not fussy about what type of machine it is, or how many times it has traveled around the sun.
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Title: Who is your role model and why? I'll allow fictional and people no longer alive.
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Title: ScriptEd (scripted.org) is a New York City based nonprofit that teaches web development to kids from under served high schools and places them in paid summer internships with tech companies.<p>We're looking for more companies to hire our students as interns this summer in NYC. For more info, please see here: https://scripted.org/give/opportunity/ or contact Manish at [email protected].
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Title: Specifically /r/programming vs HN.<p>Is the user-base different? Is it just differences in karma/downvoting mechanics? Am I right to irrationally dislike reddit?<p>[Disclaimer: I am an avid HNer who has barely touched reddit]
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Title: It seems like there's a new web/cloud IDE every month. Codenvy, Cloud9, Koding, Nitrous, Codebox, etc. Has anyone shifted their development environment to one of these successfully for a decent size project?
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Title: I'm about to buy the new 12 inch macbook, primarily for webdev work while traveling. Would be interested in any experiences with this device.
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Title: There are tons of VC-backed startups making mobile and web apps but are there any VC-backed startups making a desktop app?
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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: Share your information if you are looking for work. Please use this format<p><pre><code> Location:
Remote:
Willing to relocate:
Technologies:
Résumé/CV:
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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: I guess we all know what sitting in a chair looking at a screen all day can do to you. Forward head posture, rounded shoulders, tight chest muscles, back and neck pain.<p>What do you do to look after your back and neck?<p>EDIT: As an aside to this, does your employer offer any help in optimising your work setup for posture? Is it reasonable to expect this?
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Title: I'm a CS junior who is doing a lot of web development as of late.<p>I just realized that all my life I've been basing my self worth on how awesome my programming projects are. That means if my project sucks then I go into a slump, and if my project turned out to be great then I am elated. I also judge people by how good their projects are or where they work and it leads to me not having a good social life. It's not the healthiest mindset I know.<p>Basically I have pretty bad self esteem and I feel like I compensate for it by trying to do more and more projects.<p>Has anyone gone through something like this and have any advice on how to deal with it?
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Title: It seems like there's been a massive resurgence in email newsletters recently. Maybe it's because slack has helped clear our inbox of tasks freeing up our inboxes for the kind of emails we love to read again.<p>Whatever it is, there's not much curation around email newsletters and there are just too many publishers to dig through (Mailchimp alone has 7m+ customers).<p>So I thought we could all share the best newsletters we're reading here.
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Title: For the past several hours I've been struggling to unravel a pull request from a newly hired coworker. It was apparent from a quick glance that it needed some work but I underestimated how bad it was. The main logic is in a monolithic ~400LOC function (in a dynamic language, not verbose Java or C) consisting of a deeply nested if/else spaghetti code. I wouldn't dare touching it with a 10 foot pole without tests but fortunately there are some and the original test coverage isn't bad. So I've cut it down to almost half the size so far but there's still way to go until it reaches a somewhat maintainable state. I've also found and fixed a few bugs along the way so strict refactoring is not even a goal at this point.<p>So I'm wondering how to go about this. A few code review comments here and there won't cut it. If I was to be brutally honest, I'd outright reject the PR and tell him to rewrite it from scratch in a clean way but that's probably not the ideal response. How do you deal with situations like this?
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Title: I have written my first iOS app in Swift, a Hacker News Client for iOS. I am a beginner iOS developer. I need some feedback from the Hacker News community about my code quality so that I can improve myself in the future. Be brutal and honest about what you think of my code structure and style.The project can be found at the following URL https://github.com/NikantVohra/HackerNewsClient-iOS.If you want to take a look at the app it can be downloaded from https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/hn-app/id983203003?ls=1&mt=8.
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Title: I have talked to numerous people and there is no set consensus on whether I should be unplugging my laptop charger when it is fully charged.
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Title: I'm struggling with depression, and don't know how to manage it.<p>Just to get my background out of the way :<p>I'm a programmer and have been severely under performing at work (to the point of almost being fired), and routinely question whether or not I deserve to be alive. As a result of my difficulties, I've begun seeing a therapist and psychiatrist. Both feel that I should be on anti depressants, and I am not opposed to this.<p>Short of medication, however, they haven't really offered any strategies I can implement. Perhaps that will come later, but for now I was hoping to hear about what may have worked for others. All the logical advice (exercise, go to sleep on time, live a healthy lifestyle) are things that I struggle to find the motivation for. Perhaps the medication will help in that department. However, I'm concerned they will dull my focus (which is a bit silly, considering I can't focus at all right now).<p>edit :<p>I am sincerely grateful for all the thoughts that have been shared. I've read every post in this thread. A few follow ups :<p>1. I understand the limitations of asking for advice about mental health online, and I want to reassure any/everyone concerned that I will not make any treatment decisions without the input of the specialists I'm seeing.<p>2. Related to the above, reading about the (mostly successful / positive) experience others have had with medication has been very reassuring. I did have some lingering skepticism about SSRI's (which may or may not have come through in my original post), and I am very glad to hear that medication has worked well for others. Maybe it's a bit silly to have an opinion partially validated by a peer group, but so it goes.<p>3. This is probably as emotional as I've been in weeks : reading through the responses here makes me feel like I'm not alone. Thank you, very, very much.
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Title: For the past few months I have been interviewing at various big tech firms in the bay area. Ones that start with F, G, U, A.<p>Have a CS degree, > 5 years experience. Full stack engineer and have a good paying job. I want to interview to basically test the waters and see if something good comes up.<p>It seems the tech companies will spend calling you, paying for your flights and meals, spending entire days interviewing you but at the end say "sorry we will not go ahead with you, we don't give feedback"<p>May be the more time you spend writing code on an editor, the worse you get at writing code on a whiteboard.<p>I can't quite figure it out. Anyone else feel the same. May be the valley has shortage of "cheap" engineers.
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Title: A friend who is a sales associate within this particular industry complained to me about how hard and time consuming it can be to search for a particular item. He said if I could build a search engine that searches the top 500-1000 sites for this industry, it could be 'really' valuable. My target market for this search engine would be the owners and associates of the sites I would be scraping.<p>The data I would be scraping are images and its associated description. I would only store and display thumbnail images. Without an image, the description would be fairly worthless. For each image/item, a link would lead directly to the original website.<p>One business model I am considering, and the most obvious, is a subscription based web app.<p>While at PyCon last month I showed a few people a prototype. One person, an employee at Google, said, "Be careful." He was alluding to potential copyright and legal issues. "But," I said, "I'm not really doing anything different than Google." He countered, "Google has lots of lawyers." Ahhhh, message heard loud and clear!<p>I understand, in general, copyright and fair use [0]. But, I don't want to be writing letters to the owners of the original content arguing this fact let alone wind up in court. What advice or experiences can you share that might helpful?<p>[0] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fair_use
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Title: This article is on the frontpage so this might be a bit redundant but this article points to a worrying reality that we young programmers don't want to confront.<p>http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/philg/2015/04/<p>Many people just dismiss the issue by saying , "If you don't stay with the times then you deserve to be fired" but if MIT Grads , who are in the 99th percentile of ability and pedigree are in such a bad situation then one can only imagine how bad it is on the ground.<p>So , I'd like people who've been in this field for decades or those who are above 50 to share their advice and experiences.
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Title: Getting the unicorn on any pageload
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Title: Hi HN,<p>I'm a IT consultant with a background in CS and I'm trying to get an independent business started.
Recently, I lucked into two paying after-hours projects and I absolutely loved it!
Basically, I had to design, develop, install, educate, sell and price some stuff to make their life and company better.
It wasn't always easy, but it's the most fun I had in the last couple of years.<p>I'd like to continue on this path, but now my problem is finding new clients:
How do you get in front of potential clients when you don't know anything about their business? How can you make sense to them? And where to get started?<p>Any ideas?<p>PS: My target clients are medium sized local businesses.
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Title: Hi guys, I'm a full-stack web developer who's currently applying for full-time jobs, and I'm looking to brush up on my technical interview skills. Is there anyone in a similar position who would be interested in practicing together? This way we can mock interview each other and offer each other feedback.<p>I find that live problem solving in front of another person is very different from standing at the whiteboard yourself which is why I'm reaching out to you guys. I'm currently in Toronto but am open to practicing remotely as well.<p>More about my background: http://www.kortaggio.com<p>Contact me via email: bill.mei [at] kortaggio.com
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Title: All the Google and Facebook engineers who are currently using Mercurial, I want to hear from them how they feel about Mercurial over Git. If they leave GooG or FB, will they still use Mercurial?
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Title: It can be a SaaS app, a mobile app, or any side project that is netting you recurring revenue.
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Title: My learning from past experiences is that the more women I meet and get to know, the less likely I am to stay single for long. I guess it's a basic case of supply and demand.<p>The problem is that ever since I graduated from college and started working at a big tech company, I've come to realize that the number of new people I'm meeting has dramatically reduced. But what concerns me is when it comes to women: I haven't even made any new girl friend (as a friend being a girl :) in the past year.<p>What is odd is that people around me (at work, and more generally in the Tech industry) don't seem to be more single than anywhere else.<p>It's getting me to my question: where did you meet your partner? Was it in college?? Do you have any advices as to where I could meet more people (I've attended a language Meetup group, but everybody was 30 years older than me)?
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Title: LinkedIn will be drastically limiting their API next week. The grace period ends on May 12th.
https://developer.linkedin.com/support/developer-program-transition<p>One of the major restrictions is limiting the access of the r_fullprofile fields to only explicit LinkedIn partners. This is used by a lot of startups to create a great onboarding UX and minimize user data entry.<p>While this is a disruption to developers who will now have to adapt their onboarding, more importantly, it's a major setback for millions of LinkedIn users. LinkedIn is heightening their walls and there will no longer be an easy way for LinkedIn users to export their profile data out of LinkedIn and use it for other purposes.<p>We build an online resume/portfolio creation tool and are offering all our premium plans for free when users signup with LinkedIn until our API access to LinkedIn profiles gets turned off on May 12:
https://www.visualcv.com/?ref=freeLinkedIn<p>Before the LinkedIn API grace period ends, we would love to hear from any more startups that are currently relying on the LinkedIn API for signups and are offering a promo to their services one last time. Please list your startup in the comments below.
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Title: I'm not particularly motivated by money but this feels like something I should ensure that I'm doing myself justice.<p>I dropped out of University after first year and took pretty much the first job I liked the sound of that would pay me to code. It's been a great year and I wouldn't trade it for the world. I was the first technical hire at the company working with an external agency. Fast forward 10-12 months, I'm now an experienced Junior Dev. I'm currently working for £18k p/a. I've been interviewing at a couple of other companies and have had been quoted £26-32k and with a hard offer of £28k.<p>We're about to go for a funding round with a valuation of ~£7m. My bosses have informally agreed to better the £28k offer. I really like the idea of a minor equity stake. I was thinking somewhere between 0.125% and 1%. This feels like a big range. I don't want to come off like I don't understand the value of the potential equity stake.<p>After the funding i'll (hypothetically anyways) be working under an experienced CTO (new hire) with a quite substantial amount of responsibility.<p>I really appreciate any advice HN :)
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Title: How much money does an average VC make ? And how much does the top VCs make and how much personal wealth do they accumulate over their tenure as a VC.
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