prompt
stringlengths 16
15.6k
| completion
stringlengths 4
6
|
|---|---|
Title: Hello,<p>This my third and final time posting this post, first time it was labeled as spam and the second time someone suggested that i edit it and so i did.<p>I have 4 years remaining in my U.S visa, each visit i can stay 6 months, i don't want to break any U.S rules that's why i want to code for your startup for no money, just food and a place to live in transportation would be nice too but i am not going to take money from you and i am not going to ask your for health insurance or be your employee, i don't want to break any rules, i have +8 years of experience in JS, PHP, Ruby mainly as a full stack web developer i also do game development using Unity3D + C#, i'm a Musician since over 15 years at my free time and i can design sounds and soundtracks i work with many DAWs, i'm bilingual i speak fluent Arabic and English beside having many more skills.<p>I am doing this because i live in a war torn country, some issues happened and i've lost all my savings, I'm 31 years old and i don't want to spend the rest of my life in this place, i've been to California in 2014 and i loved it so much, i can't get an H1B visa because i don't have a university degree although i have a high school diploma and a college diploma in business management and e-commerce.<p>If you'd like to interview me please send me an e-mail to [email protected], thank you.<p>Thank you for reading my post.<p>ps: Please if you can't help me at least try not to be negative in the comments i already have enough negativity going on in my life and i could really really use some motivation, but after all you are free to write whatever you want of course and i appreciate it.<p>One more thing, thank you "dang" for telling me about the spam filter and helping me.
Upvote:
|
584
|
Title: Seeing huge numbers of 503s from the S3 API in us-east-1. Anyone else having problems? I only found one other on Twitter: https://twitter.com/cperciva/status/630641484677558273
Upvote:
|
268
|
Title: Slack message from my ZA 10 min ago:<p>I'm up late tonight and received an email to my personal email from Zirtual that for financial reasons, they cannot continue as a company effective immediately. I would still like to help you in any way I can! I no longer have access to my Zirtual accounts, including the secure system where I had saved your passwords, but I'm glad I can still access this Slack! I can still access your calendar, too. I would be happy to discuss how to continue our assistant-client relationship if you would like. I'm also sending you an email from my personal email [redacted]. This would be a difficult transition, but once I have access to everything like [redacted] again, we can just continue as we had been before
Upvote:
|
66
|
Title: As hackers, do you feel like you can hack life and get more years out of it then the average joe?<p>Or do you feel lost in a culture that hails 20 year olds that are dreaming up the next big thing?
Upvote:
|
108
|
Title: We're seeing similar problems to last night -- lots of 503s from S3. Anyone else?
Upvote:
|
99
|
Title: For me pursuit of happyness, it had a profound impact and I learnt to appreciate things I have.
Upvote:
|
48
|
Title: Since earnings via ads are rapidly decreasing I am looking for other ways to monetize my websites. My experience with donations have been disappointing at earlier tests, about 0.5% earnings of income via ads. But maybe I did it wrong, or choose the wrong donation channels (I used paypal, flattr, bitocin)
Did anybody manage to get a non ridiculous amount via donations?
Upvote:
|
58
|
Title: YC partner, designer, and master of friendly feedback Kevin Hale is going to do another round of Show HN comments this Friday, starting at 2pm Pacific time. If you'd like to hear Kevin's thoughts on your project, post it as a Show HN on Friday.<p>The last times he did this went really well (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9748308) so we're excited to see it become a thing.
Upvote:
|
74
|
Title: Today, I look my github page, and I find 10 cloned repository of my project: they have the same name, but they are built from different account. They are not Fork, but just clone. So how can a user know what is the real repository? and if I update the repository, the new update is not available on the other cloned repository. So what do you suggest? Shall I contact the users and suggest to fork the main repository? Any ideas?
Upvote:
|
46
|
Title: I wrote an article how to learn Erlang by example [1] which got a lot of good feedback recently when it was posted on HN. Thanks for the good feedback! :)<p>The past weeks I am working on finding bottlenecks and try to improve the performance of Erlang Open Source projects.<p>Based on my findings and insights I was asking myself if you would be interested in a book about way to measure and improve Erlang performance. Like my blogpost it would use real world examples, this time from more Open Source Erlang projects.<p>What do you think?<p>Best,
Robert<p>[1] http://robert-kowalski.de/blog/lets-learn-erlang-and-fix-a-bug-on-a-couchdb-cluster/
Upvote:
|
77
|
Title: The shower peaks late tonight (Aug 12) at 2 AM EDT (0600 GMT). A dark sky, lawn chairs, a thermos of tea, and enjoy the show.<p>The darker the sky the better. If you can make out the little dipper, you're in pretty good shape.
Upvote:
|
82
|
Title: I noticed that 500 days ago you said that you'd be working on Arc again [1]. How's it going?<p>-----<p>[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7493993
Upvote:
|
116
|
Title: Would love insights from people who used literate programming on non trivial projects.
Upvote:
|
101
|
Title: I'd think customizability and security are top concerns, what do you think?
Upvote:
|
104
|
Title: Dear Amazonians,<p>If you haven't already, I encourage you to give this (very long) New York Times article a careful read:<p>http://www.nytimes.com/2015/08/16/technology/inside-amazon-wrestling-big-ideas-in-a-bruising-workplace.html<p>I also encourage you to read this very different take by a current Amazonian:<p>https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/amazonians-response-inside-amazon-wrestling-big-ideas-nick-ciubotariu<p>Here’s why I’m writing you. The NYT article prominently features anecdotes describing shockingly callous management practices, including people being treated without empathy while enduring family tragedies and serious health problems. The article doesn’t describe the Amazon I know or the caring Amazonians I work with every day. But if you know of any stories like those reported, I want you to escalate to HR. You can also email me directly at [edited]@amazon.com. Even if it's rare or isolated, our tolerance for any such lack of empathy needs to be zero.<p>The article goes further than reporting isolated anecdotes. It claims that our intentional approach is to create a soulless, dystopian workplace where no fun is had and no laughter heard. Again, I don’t recognize this Amazon and I very much hope you don’t, either. More broadly, I don't think any company adopting the approach portrayed could survive, much less thrive, in today’s highly competitive tech hiring market. The people we hire here are the best of the best. You are recruited every day by other world-class companies, and you can work anywhere you want.<p>I strongly believe that anyone working in a company that really is like the one described in the NYT would be crazy to stay. I know I would leave such a company.<p>But hopefully, you don't recognize the company described. Hopefully, you’re having fun working with a bunch of brilliant teammates, helping invent the future, and laughing along the way.<p>Thank you,<p>Jeff
Upvote:
|
79
|
Title: The Elance is going to be shut down soon and merged into oDesk aka Upwork. And Upwork is an absolute disaster.<p>The messaging system doesn't work. The stats don't work. The search barely works. The ranking system is a joke. The invoices they send to clients are illegal in Europe.[https://community.upwork.com/t5/Clients/Name-on-a-received-invoice/m-p/92225#U92225]<p>And for the last few days, the job application system -- arguably, the most important thing on the whole website -- stopped working.<p>If you want to appreciate the full extend of the disaster, just visit their forum and see what their freelancers and clients have to say about it:
https://community.upwork.com<p>They are already loosing people and the only reason anyone's still using them is the lack of a better alternative.<p>This is the perfect chance for a new platform.
Upvote:
|
52
|
Title: Time flies! It's that time of the month again for HN'ers to share what they are working on. We've had some awesome projects shared in the previous threads.<p>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9891487
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9696274
Upvote:
|
46
|
Title: Hi HN,<p>Our startup company is about to initiate a 6 month long development cycle for a mobile app project which will be published in Turkey next year. The team consist of back-end and front-end engineers as well as UI/UX designers with at least 2 years of experience.<p>It is arguable that there is a supreme approach that our product will benefit most but we are eager to know our options and be able adapt ourselves.<p>We've done some research on how to apply scrum to our process and although in many cases, the guidelines seem beneficial, some of us argued that a plan driven scrum or some merge of scrum and waterfall may suit us better. TDD is not an option.<p>There are a few points we all agree which are:<p>- A week is a sprint in which each developer and designer achieve at least one goal by the end of Friday, unit tested and pushed to master branch in the end.<p>- Every member of the team at some point have to be given the chance to monitor the other without interfering with their work. This will help us track whether we are falling behind or some estimations that are done incorrectly or not. The one responsible for this task is also appointed to update our weekly change log and schedule board. A single entity/manager comparing the planned schedule with actual development for 6 months is therefore discouraged.<p>- Meetings should be short but also informative enough for the team to boot a single sprint.<p>- Stories should be prioritized and categorized by their importance and estimated development time.<p>- At least some sort initial plan (not a draft but a real one) is necessary to minimize future modifications to already developed parts. The requirements are not likely to change unless our technology stack suddenly meets a major update in its components.<p>We may have studied our lessons but a kind commenter may and should suggest any methodology if he/she finds it more suitable for our case.<p>Thank you!
Upvote:
|
41
|
Title: I've been programming for 20 years, the last 12 in ASP.net webforms (I know, I know). In every job, I've been told I was the top dev at the company. I kept my current job because of the money and flexibility they gave me to stay, but now that working here isn't worth it anymore, I'm feeling that remaining in this job has soured my career. I'm not sure where to go from here.<p>I've held management positions, and while my projects were successful, I'm not interested there. The monotonous consulting-services work I've been doing for the last 5+ years hasn't lent itself to exploring new technologies, so I don't have the breadth for an architect job. I've tried the solo-business route, and while my app is loved and has sold copies, it's only breaking even and won't sustain me now.<p>Almost all of the jobs I am interested in (remote or product-based) want newer technology. SQL Server's been a big part of my entire career, but it feels like that is losing relevance with the ORMs/EFs of the world. I've only worked with MVC on personal projects, but even if I brushed up on it, I'm guessing managers would feel I am an expensive hire without any advantage a junior dev who worked with MVC their whole career.<p>Do I try to build a MVC portfolio, since that seems to be the popular MS technology? Or work on a JS portfolio (my web style today is already JS calling JSON services) and try to rebuild myself on the front end?<p>Do I take a big pay cut and try to rebuild my skills with a company open to a senior dev without the exact experience?<p>Do I try to gamble and find myself a newer technology to reinvent myself into, hoping it sticks around?<p>Or am I just at the natural point in my career where I'm supposed to be working for another services company?<p>Anyone refactor themselves into something new at a similar point in their career? I'd love to hear your advice.
[email protected] in case you have any private advice.
Upvote:
|
110
|
Title: Has anyone else noticed Stack Overflow clones in Google search results? They come up frequently for me. I can't help but wonder who's behind these. It can't be hurting Stack Overflow's SEO.<p>So far I have saved 5 different domains, and it looks like 2 have vanished.<p>- [dead] http://www.codeitive.com/0izVUjjXVP/selective-foreign-key-usage-in-django-maybe-with-limitchoicesto-argument.html<p>- [dead] http://www.codedisqus.com/0QmqWVgjgg/hide-label-in-django-admin-fieldset-readonly-field.html<p>- http://w3facility.org/question/image-servingurl-and-google-storage-blobkey-not-working-on-development-server/<p>- http://goobbe.com/questions/3109325/how-can-i-disable-a-third-party-api-when-executing-django-unit-tests<p>- http://www.ciiycode.com/0HyN6eQxgjXP/django-admin-inline-popups<p>I actually wrote Stack Overflow support about this in April 2015, but so far nothing has changed. Here's the thread:<p>Me: "Hello,
There a lots of spam results on Google. As a web developer, I am frequently googling for how to resolve some programming issue. Often, I get these spoofing sites that link to stack overflow.<p>I would suggest adding a stricter robots.txt or perhaps blocking some of these bots that are scraping your site.<p>Here is an example.
http://www.ciiycode.com/0HyN6eQxgjXP/django-admin-inline-popups<p>Thank you."<p>Response: "Hello,<p>Thank you for reporting this content. I've passed the information along to the person at our company who handles such issues. It's the diligence of users like you that helps us stay valuable!<p>Please note, bringing these sites into compliance (or getting them to no longer serve our content) is often a long and arduous process. You may not see immediate results. However, rest assured that we're working on it.<p>Thank you again,
Stack Exchange Team"<p>Thoughts?
Upvote:
|
71
|
Title: I know this gets asked all the time, but to me, the more the question is asked, the more meaningful the lack of response is.<p>Why isn't HN updated for viewing on a mobile?<p>- I would wager a vast number of users use their mobile to view the site (or at least want to)
- The change required is tiny; I'm sure even I'm this thread someone will be able to propose the optimal change to make.
- Varied screen sizes are not going to go away so the change needs to be made at some point
- It seems fundamentally against the ethos of a company like YC to not adapt to the changing needs of their user base<p>I'm sure there are more, but I think that is enough.<p>Can someome explain to me (and the others asking) why this hasn't already been done and, more importantly if this will ever happen?
Upvote:
|
97
|
Title: This site seems to be pitching itself as the replacement for odesk and elance- where you work with the "top %3 of developers" (who knows how they can make that claim) and they pay you well, because you're the "top %3".<p>Has anyone gone thru the process?<p>The fundamental issue of outsourcing is usually trading quality for low price... given their language towards the developers on the apply page, it seems like this is a sweatshop that doesn't pay well.<p>But my mind is open. Is it really worth doing? For someone who isn't junior?<p>(EG: I have several patents, and several decades of experience.)
Upvote:
|
75
|
Title: Who are the most genuinely helpful recruiters (individuals), who you've interacted with and why? Hoping this might be a good supplement to Who's Hiring.
Upvote:
|
78
|
Title: I was just wondering what you all would recommend for doing real-time stock trading online for an individual investor?
Upvote:
|
56
|
Title: What tools or techniques do you use to maximize your focus on your project when you are working on it?
Upvote:
|
55
|
Title: Say a startup (early stage, no technical team yet) wants you to do consulting work or become their first technical employee and offers you a compensation package that includes cash + equity. The equity is based on a valuation that they (verbally) claim was established from their initial seed round. Is it appropriate to ask for confirmation/proof of that valuation and, if so, what would be the polite way to go about it? What would be other important things to ask/consider.
Upvote:
|
43
|
Title: There are a bunch of privacy enhancing and ad-blocking extensions out there, but it's impossible to figure out where their features are unique and where they overlap. Of course, too much overlap, and they start slowing down your browser.<p>My goal is to make my browser as private as possible with minimal damage to my usual browsing experience. For example:<p>- LSO and Flash: Blocked.
- As many third party cookies blocked as possible without breakage.
- JavaScript works most of the time?
- Ads are blocked
- Various forms of fingerprinting are blocked/disabled
- HTTPS is used as much as possible
- etc.<p>I'm currently using Privacy Badger + uBlock Origin + HTTPS Everywhere. It feels like a lot already, but there's also Ghostery, RequestPolicy, and a million others.
Upvote:
|
67
|
Title: I am getting tired of city life and want to try spending some time in rural area with mountains, lakes, forests, etc. What are some places you can recommend? It could be anywhere, doesn't need to be in the U.S.<p>The only other requirement is fast internet.
Upvote:
|
45
|
Title: Hi Everyone, one of my close relatives has been diagnosed with Stage IV Glioblastoma (GBM), and while there's literally tons of information online about treatments and procedures, how would one go about digesting it all ? For example there's 75 publications from the recent ASCO 2015 congress about GBM treatments, is there any tool out there to compare what works vs what does not work as well? Another question would be, how to find the best specialists in my Area for this kind of cancer?<p>Any help/advice is very much appreciated!
Upvote:
|
188
|
Title: I'm really excited about VR and Oculus, and I'm wondering how to get into it.<p>I'm pretty good with computer graphics and programming, but I've never done anything with VR. Where should I start?
Upvote:
|
76
|
Title: Please lead with either SEEKING WORK or SEEKING FREELANCER,
your location, and whether remote work is a possibility.
Upvote:
|
47
|
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>
Readers: please only email these addresses to discuss work opportunities.
Upvote:
|
112
|
Title: Please lead with the location of the position and include the keywords
REMOTE, INTERNS and/or VISA when the corresponding sort of candidate is welcome.
When remote work is not an option, please include ONSITE.<p>Submitters: please only post if you personally are part of the hiring company—no
recruiting firms or job boards.<p>Readers: please only email submitters if you personally are interested in the job—no recruiters or sales calls.
Upvote:
|
436
|
Title: This is embarrassing to admit after 15 years building web applications, but every project I hit a brick wall decomposing software.<p>I know the data inputs; I know the outputs. My prototype works. But my mind freezes when I try to rewrite the prototype into something maintainable that will run for 5+ years.<p>High level planning is fine, it's getting from what needs to happen to how to decompose into classes/methods/libraries, dependencies (logging everywhere) and organise message passing.<p>My current project is choreographing 3 enterprise systems to work together. Once past the lack of documentation it's conceptually simple; my code however is tangled.<p>Related, I have a mental block with drawing flow-charts. I can't isolate tasks, decisions, actions. The chart becomes spaghetti, or too detailed/too sparse to be useful. This is difficult when people want the system described on paper.<p>Either:<p>1) I need to learn something
2) It is an innate mental block, and I need to change fields<p>If I'm going to continue in software this needs to change, as I don't feel I'm delivering quality. The more senior I get the less I can stick with prototyping or "Just Works" as an outcome.
Upvote:
|
56
|
Title: Publications like NYT, WSJ, the Economist, and the New Yorker have paywalls that leave ways for readers to work around them. Such stories are OK to post to Hacker News. Yes, this sucks, but the loss of many substantive articles would suck worse. In the future, when someone doesn't understand this, please politely direct them to this thread or to HN's FAQ [1], which now makes this explicit.<p>Complaints about paywalls are off topic, so please don't post them. The spirit of HN is to discuss specific articles and avoid generic rehashing. Arguments about The Paywall Question are all the same. For an example of what we want to avoid, see [2]. For more on our thinking, see [3].<p>It's ok to ask how to read an article or to help other users by sharing a workaround. But please do this without going on about paywalls. Focus on the content.<p>1. <a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/newsfaq.html" rel="nofollow">https://news.ycombinator.com/newsfaq.html</a><p>2. <a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10178012" rel="nofollow">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10178012</a><p>3. <a href="https://hn.algolia.com/?query=by:dang%20paywall&sort=byDate&prefix&page=0&dateRange=all&type=comment" rel="nofollow">https://hn.algolia.com/?query=by:dang%20paywall&sort=byDate&...</a>
Upvote:
|
176
|
Title: What are the most recently updated and most helpful books on the programming language you program in most?
Upvote:
|
81
|
Title: Honest question here. Do you think we're going to see any new product that will possible replace Twitter/Facebook/LinkedIn in the near future?<p>Which companies should we follow closely?
Upvote:
|
42
|
Title: A lot of advice out there says find a co-founder. But for those of you who are doing it alone, what is your startup?
Upvote:
|
57
|
Title: I'm dealing with a project that lives through content and I was wondering if it's still worth the time to invest making some RSS features that someone suggested.<p>I honestly rarely hear about RSS. My idea is to build whatever users are asking and stop investing time in features that will go unnoticed but, since this is a young project, I might be wrong and losing something.<p>My question towards this community is...how many of you still use RSS to subscribe to content?
Upvote:
|
56
|
Title: Hi,<p>Long story short, I keep getting the run around from a freelance web development client and sometimes no response at all as to why my last invoice bill still has not been paid. Originally when we started working together we didn't sign any contractual agreement, just word of mouth and then I sent an invoice every month for billed work. I did get paid for a few months but then after that things went silent.<p>So what are my options now? I'd just like to get paid without having to pursue any sort of legal actions and put this behind me. But if legal action is needed what do I need to do?
Upvote:
|
49
|
Title: Any recommendations on books that changed how you think about VR/AR/reality?<p>I've been enjoying Ready Player One and Snow Crash lately and am wondering what I should pick up next. Thanks!
Upvote:
|
45
|
Title: I want to try to get into Software Consultancy. I've read many of @patio11's pieces on Consultancy which have been incredibly informative and helpful but one question remains on my mind: how do I deal with maintenance on past projects?<p>Most potential clients I've talked to want me to create a somewhat simple website for them in 2-3 weeks but what happens if they find a bug or they need to scale it up months down the road? How do I prevent myself from being monopolized by maintenance requests from past clients 2-3 years down the road? Should I charge for maintenance?
Upvote:
|
57
|
Title: Here are some experimental new features to help improve story quality on HN.<p>We've adjusted the dupe detector to reject fewer URLs. If a story hasn't had significant attention in about the last year, reposts are ok. That's been the policy for a while, but we've brought the software closer to it. It will still reject reposts for a few hours, though, to avoid stampedes. Allowing reposts is a way of giving high-quality stories multiple chances at making the front page. Please do this tastefully and don't overdo it.<p>When reposting, please don't delete the earlier post. Deletion is for things that shouldn't have been posted in the first place, such as if you regret having said something publicly.<p>When a story is a duplicate—that is, has had significant attention on HN in the last year or so—it's helpful to post a comment linking to the previous major thread, so users and/or moderators can flag the dupe. In addition, when a URL isn't the best source for a given story, it's helpful to post a better URL in the thread. We often see those and change the posts to use them.<p>Both these practices are common in the HN community and make a big difference to story quality here. Thank you all! The following features are intended to make them quicker to do. We built them to make moderation easier for ourselves, but hope they'll be helpful for community moderation too.<p>First, you can click on a story's domain to see the previous HN
submissions from that site.<p>Second, when you're logged in, stories on /newest and on /item pages have 'past' and 'web' links. Click on 'past' to search HN for previous stories with that title. This helps with finding duplicates. Click on 'web' go to a Google search for the story title. This helps with finding better sources and catching spam.<p>Finally, when a story is the first post from a site, logged-in users will see the site name in green, by analogy with the green usernames of noob accounts.<p>These really are experimental and if any proves unhelpful, we'll toss it. We want HN to stay simple and coherent and not just be an agglutination of features. Your feedback will mostly decide what we do, so feed away!<p>Edit: ok, we tossed the green sites. More people disliked than liked them, and the same information is available just by clicking on the site name anyway.
Upvote:
|
306
|
Title: The services CloudWatch, SES, SNS, SQS, SWS, AutoScale, Cloud Formation, Directory Service, Key Mgmt and Lambda experience very high error rates for about 3 hours now.<p>Dynamo DB is throttling API access and seems to be having issues with the management of meta data.
Upvote:
|
276
|
Title: I have to take written exams about Maple and I am struggling with keeping track of the myriad of commands. Any tricks/methodology I can use?
Upvote:
|
61
|
Title: I'm looking for projects that are based on Angular and have good practices, follow guidelines, etc. A project where it can be educational to look at their Angular code.
Upvote:
|
64
|
Title: Here's a question to managers and startup and founders out there, but first a bit of context on my situation:<p>We are a small team that has recently created. As such, we've been given a fair amount of control over how the team are structured. This involves everything from how we work, how we progress in our careers and how much we are paid. While this is a really nice position to be in, it raises a number of concerns.<p>In an ideal world, I believe that a flat structure would be best. We are all technical people, working on a series of short (months in length) projects that tend to be self contained. There is no immediate need of a hierarchy. But in this case, how do you define “progression”?, both how people are paid, and their “title” within the group.<p>To get around this, the obvious answer is a well defined “hierarchy”. Progression and pay are well defined ahead of time and everyone knows how it works. The problem is that we have only just been created, and as such the variance of the pay within the group is big. Initially this isn't an issue – we all agreed to be here for the amount we are paid, but over time it can become an issue: without well defined progression, this issue of separate pay will become an issue and half the group will leave.<p>Another problem (and a separate one, one that we will also need to address) is that judging the direct merit of each others work is hard. Mostly because the work is a spectrum between “core” work, that is required, and “new features” which can bring in a large profit (or fail), and disentangling the two is hard.<p>There has to be somewhere in between these two position. And we can't be the first to find ourselves in this position, and I'd like to here from others who have been here:
- What worked well?
- What worked badly?
- What would you have done differently?
Upvote:
|
136
|
Title: I'll be the second remote worker I think. I've worked there before in person a bit, so I know everyone and I'm excited to go back! I'm curious to see if I'll face any new challenges while remote.<p>Do you guys have any tips for how to manage myself well? Are there any good tools you've found success with? Anything you wish someone would have told you earlier? Thanks!
Upvote:
|
74
|
Title: I have spent the last year, thinking about how I'm going to spend the rest of my life.<p>I started to work as a software developer in government in my country, but found that entrepreneurship is really my thing. So I quit my job and began my own startup. I learned a lot about how to start a company, but the reality hit me like a truck. Colombia is a really tough environment to be a tech entrepreneur. (Very low purchasing power, internal conflicts, the government doesn't help, etc.)<p>So although I have felt frustrated, I'm a big dreamer. And I'm willing to leave it all to achieve my dreams.<p>I wish to make it big in one of the best places in the world to be in tech: SF. (I'm in love with this city). So I studied a lot of english the past months, saved some money, and sold some things, to travel to SF and pursue my dream.<p>My goal in this trip is to find an opportunity to join a good startup. It would be awesome to get a internship as a developer, some short-term job (I can stay up to 6 months in U.S.), or even a remote job.<p>I'm have Ruby on Rails and AngularJS skills. Not an expert yet, but I have code some projects.<p>Just wanted to share this with you guys, because this is the board of the best entrepreneurs community in the world. If you know about some opportunity, some startup to write at, some place to visit, or some advice for me, It would be hugely appreciated.<p>best,<p>Stephen
Upvote:
|
84
|
Title: Business: Advertising<p>Secret: Most agencies who pitch you several ideas, will often on purpose have one or two ideas they know you wont chose, so they can nudge you into selecting those they want you to choose.<p>Hopefully we can use this format.
Upvote:
|
50
|
Title: Hope it's not too early.<p>What are you most successful side-projects / passive income sources in 2015.
Upvote:
|
70
|
Title: What are your favorite tech and non-tech podcasts?
Upvote:
|
44
|
Title: I am trying to learn to write some interesting essays/blog post, and I need some advice, because I'm completely stuck.<p>I have had trouble coming up with things to talk about my whole life. I read a lot, and I feel like I know a lot of things, but when I sit down to write my mind goes completely blank, I have nothing to say, or rather I feel like there's nothing worth writing about.<p>I don't have anything to say to people who know less than me, because explaining obvious things seems boring, and I don't know what to say to people on HN/LessWrong, because I feel like they are smarter than me and already know everything I am about to say.<p>For example when I read Eliezer Yudkowsky's essays, I think that I already know a lot of the things he is talking about, so before I've read them I had this information in my head, information that could be turned into some interesting writing. I was supposed to be able to write at least something similar, but clearly I didn't. I assume I have some interesting information in my mind, it can't be completely empty, but when I try to come up with topics for essays I hit this weird roadblock, and end up with nothing.<p>Recently I'm making some progress at writing fiction, but with essays I'm completely stuck, I've got <i>nothing</i>. It's like I'm missing some key element necessary to just start writing things.<p>Can you help me out? Do you have any advice that could help me to get started?
Upvote:
|
50
|
Title: It is with great sadness that I announce to you that Giuseppe Venturini (@ggventurini), open source developer and hobbyist, has passed away on the 21st of September 2015.<p>Giuseppe worked for many years at CERN, as an electronics engineer. He was a passionate hobbyist and an open source enthusiast. He has started many open source projects over the years, more remarkably python-deltasigma and akhab. I had the pleasure to meet him and, although we were not close friends, I know he was appreciated by everyone as a kind person.<p>I didn't have any contact with Giuseppe over the last months, so, it's hard to know how he would like us to remember him. However, I am sure he would appreciate some form of contribution to cancer research:<p>https://github.com/ggventurini/python-deltasigma#support-python-deltasigma-with-a-donation<p>Giuseppe's web site:<p>http://ggventurini.io/<p>Giuseppe's Projects:<p>http://ahkab.github.io/ahkab/<p>http://www.pythondeltasigma.io/
Upvote:
|
48
|
Title: Please lead with either SEEKING WORK or SEEKING FREELANCER,
your location, and whether remote work is a possibility.
Upvote:
|
59
|
Title: Please lead with the location of the position and include the keywords
REMOTE, INTERNS and/or VISA when the corresponding sort of candidate is welcome.
When remote work is not an option, please include ONSITE.<p>Submitters: please only post if you personally are part of the hiring company—no
recruiting firms or job boards.<p>Readers: please only email submitters if you personally are interested in the
job—no recruiters or sales calls.<p>You can also use kristopolous' nifty console script to search the posts in these threads: <a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10313519" rel="nofollow">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10313519</a>.
Upvote:
|
368
|
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>
Readers: please only email these addresses to discuss work opportunities.
Upvote:
|
55
|
Title: After hearing/reading about the negative experiences many people have had with upcoming graph databases, I am wary of jumping into a graph db. But almost any modern application has things that will be suited to a graph representation.<p>So I am considering a workaround to use a graph structure, but represent the underlying data in a reliable rdbms, in particular postgres.<p>The approach is:
1. Make two parent tables: node and edge.
2. Make separate tables for all "objects" (like people, places, things, etc.) which would be inherited from node, so they would all have a unique node ID.
3. Make separate tables inherited from edge which would be used to represent the many many relations. So each relation has an edge ID, and each table inherited from edge can be thought of as representing a specific kind of relation (like person lives in place, or person is friends with person).<p>One thing I have observed so far, is a large number of tables with few columns, but I think that lends itself to the advantage of easy indexing. There can be a large number of individual queries from the front end, but I believe I can use views to make represent tables with more comprehensive info to reduce the number of queries.<p>What do you guys think of an approach like this? What am I missing, what is wrong with it? I haven't come across this previously, and so am a bit nervous about the ramifications. Is someone else also doing this?
Upvote:
|
87
|
Title: I am in charge of implementing a web-accessible dashboard to visualise some data we are collecting on behalf of a client.<p>I am currently planning to use Tableau. However, my (admittedly very limited) exposure to the platform has left heavily underwhelmed. Tableau dashboards appear expensive, slow, ugly, and completely lacking in statistical tools.<p>Can anyone suggest a platform that can improve on any/all of these issues?<p>I am experienced with Postgres, JS, Ruby and Objective-C, and also with Stata and R, so I'm not afraid of some coding. But I am looking for something considerably quicker than coding the thing from scratch.
Upvote:
|
54
|
Title: I'd like to use it to experiment with and explore interesting parts of the spectrum. For example: decoding digital television signals, seeing what my cellphone sends/receives and how it encodes it, downloading weather satellite images, and so on.<p>I've no experience whatsoever in radio, only in software. Where should I start? What should I buy to begin with? Any general technical advice?
Upvote:
|
85
|
Title: It seems inevitable that self driving cars are coming. When they do, they will change housing dynamics in a fundamental way.<p>Will this change make city living more or less desirable?<p>A few forces could be at work here:<p>* Parking lots in major cities are free'd up because they no longer make sense creating more housing real estate. City living is more affordable.<p>* Traffic Congestion is reduced so commutes are shorter creating more demand for suburb living.<p>* Distances feel shorter because they are no longer inconvenient so living outside the city makes more sense - more suburb demand.<p>* City living gets even more desirable because of the abundance of cheap self-driving cabs not available in more rural areas - city prices go up.<p>* More?<p>I'm sure some of these things will have a very little impact while others will have huge impact. I just wonder about the net result. Any speculation?
Upvote:
|
66
|
Title: And what are some current examples?
Upvote:
|
62
|
Title: How do you deal with a toxic developer co-worker?<p>I've been working with one for some time now, and I'm really tired of it. I just don't know what I should do. Moving on and finding another job is something I only want to consider as a last resort, and I am afraid that if I do nothing, then I see no alternative, on the other side, I feel like if I do something, I may be forced to move on.<p>Background:
The employee is quite capable, and they were hired in as a top developer. Our manager respects their opinion about technical matters, and is a thought leader on how we should build our applications. The employee's biggest issue is their personality. They constantly belittle other employees, usually to a coworker after they have left their office, when this employee dislikes work they have done. Anytime someone screws up in the organization that person is an idiot or worse. For someone who is supposed to be a technical leader, they set a poor example for other developers to follow.<p>This person is favored by our manager because they get things done when there is pressure. I know this employee has been counseled by our manager on more than one occasion. Afterwards, his attitude improves for a few weeks before falling back into old habits.<p>I am just not sure what to do. I have a few options.<p>1. I could speak directly with my manager. I am concerned about this, because my manager has a big mouth, and I cannot trust that my complaint would be 100% confidential<p>2. I could go above my manager. Probably not an option here. My manager and his boss are close. I think it would make things even worse<p>3. File a complaint with HR. This seems like the best option, but I have my reservations about going down this route.<p>4. Just leave. I would really rather not do this. I do enjoy most of my job, and I worry that the grass may not be greener on the other side.<p>5. Shut up and do nothing about it. Is an option but I would still feel miserable.
Upvote:
|
42
|
Title: (This is my old username, which I thought fit well with this post. You may know me now as yegg.)<p>I launched DuckDuckGo on HN (then Startup News) seven years ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=315142 and the idea of Traction book five years ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2098068. If I hadn't gotten encouragement and excitement in these threads (which I did!) then I might have quit each shortly after. So thank you for that!<p>In 2009-2010, when I was struggling to get traction for DuckDuckGo, I started doing a series of interviews on my blog with successful founders about how they got traction in an effort to uncover a structured process for doing so. Naturally, I interviewed a lot of HN greats like patio11 (Patrick McKenzie), justin (Justin Kan), garry (Garry Tan), kn0thing (Alexis Ohanian) and other startup icons like Eric Ries, Jimmy Wales, etc. Last year I put a bunch of these early interviews on YouTube if you want to check them out: https://www.youtube.com/user/tractionbook<p>If I hadn't been part of the HN community I probably wouldn't have done these interviews or the series of blog posts that led to writing Traction, which in turn led to getting traction for DuckDuckGo.<p>A lot of people on HN have used DuckDuckGo and read the book and gave excellent feedback on both, a lot of which we have acted on to make these things what they are today today. The proximate cause for thinking about this was the second edition of the book came out yesterday, and I'm in a reflective mood.<p>I'm extremely grateful for being part of this community. Ask me anything, and I'll try to help where I can.
Upvote:
|
183
|
Title: Can we get someone from Dropbox/Mailbox to explain what is happening with the desktop application?<p>First development stopped for several months, then an ugly and buggy version was released, then the design was reverted back to the original one, but all the bugs and instability remained there. On El Captain, the application is just not usable, and the OS has been available for developers for almost 6 months now.<p>The apps may be free, but I think they owe their users an explanation. They've been very vocal on Facebook, by email, on the support forums, etc. Dropbox/Mailbox have remained silent. Their last Facebook post date back to June, and their last blog post to April.<p>I love Mailbox on the iPhone and the iPad, but it's useless if I can't use all the great features it offers on my desktop.
Upvote:
|
47
|
Title: The application deadline for our winter 2016 batch is next Tuesday, and people frequently have a lot of questions about applying. Also happy to talk about anything else!<p>EDIT 11:15 AM PDT: I have to go. This was fun!
Upvote:
|
341
|
Title: My partner is going to be testing software I've written. He handles the business side of things and isn't a programmer.<p>Can anyone suggest some resources for him to read to how to best touch our software?
Upvote:
|
54
|
Title: My family is quite worried about me. Two days ago I believe someone hacked in to my cellphone and computer. It was behaving oddly as was my cellphone. Coupled with several harassing emails one of which told me that "here is something over your head" and contained a link to someone using Metasploit in a YouTube video demonstrating a root kit attack against a mobile device, I became concerned.<p>However, I also truly believed that they had my cellphone and were intercepting outgoing calls to my wireless provider. I tried to use the home phone which, immediately began to call out when I tried to use it, even though I never completed dialing. I called my wireless provider to check data usage and it felt like the person was "off" taking long periods of time to answer and give normal pieces of info back to me like other phone numbers on the account and basic stuff. My passwords were all on my phone so I honestly believed someone was looking up the information and they were stalling for time. Battery was draining while phone was off and didn't seem to hold a charge well.<p>I also felt very ill about 2 days later and had stayed up resetting and wiping all my devices and router. I went to the 24 hour walk in clinic with symptoms of being very weak dizzy and other general things.<p>My family thinks I am crazy. At first I was angry but I realize there is no way for me to really objectively consider this. I really believe my system was compromised and I am starting to doubt my own sanity I guess. Is there a way to figure out if I am crazy? It could be brought on by lack of sleep and stress, I doubt/hope it isn't anything permanent. I am 26 male, don't think it is something as serious as Schiz. And I take adrall (40mg) daily, slightly more recently, but other than that do not take drugs or drink.<p>How can I evaluate my mental condition objectively?
Upvote:
|
88
|
Title: Looking at the "Complete list of unicorns"[1], something stands out. Out of the top 50 startups by valuation, only three, Snapchat, Pintrest, and Vice, are ad-supported. The others all sell a product or service paid for by its users.
Advertising may have powered the first dot-com boom, but it's not powering this one.<p>[1] https://www.cbinsights.com/research-unicorn-companies/
Upvote:
|
131
|
Title: Dear HN,<p>You've been a source of great information before, and I'm sure I won't be disappointed by your advice.<p>I worked as a Software Developer all my career (more than 15 years now), but now I'm interviewing for a Technical Lead position. I have almost two weeks before the interview.<p>I'm interested in resources and advice on how to be a good Tech Lead, regarding both technology and people skills. Of course I've seen and taken note on how other leads work, but still feels like a big step for me.<p>The development environment is Microsoft.NET. The main product is a complex software. The main goal would be to develop it so that it is "loosely" built, split into separate modules so that each one can be modified without touching the others.
Upvote:
|
520
|
Title: Is there a minimum funding they need to raise to qualify for a long term visa ?
Upvote:
|
191
|
Title: I am burnt out at work and not sure how to start the discussion with my boss. I've tried addressing the problem myself over the past year by means of exercise, diet, getting more sleep, more time spent on hobbies, socializing more, and pacing myself at work. It's not helping, it's just getting worse. I know quitting and finding a new job is an option but I would prefer not to. How can I have a productive discussion with my boss about burnout? How did you handle it?
Upvote:
|
153
|
Title: aptitude: a natural ability to do something.<p>What's the fastest way to tell if I'm cut out for, and should pursue programming?<p>I know a tiny bit of Java, and I can do FizzBuzz, basic recursion, logic exercises, etc. Can anyone suggest a few problems with max completion times for each that will let me know for sure?<p>Thanks!
Upvote:
|
49
|
Title: https://bigquery.cloud.google.com/table/fh-bigquery:hackernews.comments<p>The dataset is up-to-date for October 2015 and uses the official HN API as a data source. (Unfortuntely, this includes the HTML formatting in the comments) Dataset is about 4GB total; since BigQuery allows for 1000GB processing for free each month, it is effectively no cost to analyze.<p>Felipe Hoffa (who uploaded the dataset) has links to the dataset along with some sample Python code for analysis: https://github.com/fhoffa/notebooks/blob/master/analyzing%20hacker%20news.ipynb<p>I have a few scripts for downloading all the data manually (https://github.com/minimaxir/get-all-hacker-news-submissions-comments ), but the BigQuery table may be more pragmatic. I can do some more sample queries if requested. (See my BigQuery tutorial for Reddit data: http://minimaxir.com/2015/10/reddit-bigquery/ )
Upvote:
|
238
|
Title: How is the work environment at Blizzard and what challenges are you facing there?
I wanted to apply 2 years ago but then I gave up cause someone told me it's not what everyone expects.<p>Thanks
Upvote:
|
49
|
Title: Throw away account.<p>I work as a programmer at a medium sized old school insurance company in the midwest on an internal application which assigns documents to a group of analysts for review. Accurate data is very important but we frequently get missing, incomplete or incorrect data in our claims, insurance adjustments or estimates.<p>A few months ago I had the opportunity to spend some time in one of our analyst centers to learn how they work. We have a total 80 analysts who review and scrub data mostly based on experience, lookups, cross comparison or simply informed guesses.<p>I found the work rather mindless and depressing which immediately made me brainstorm how I could automate the process given that I saw most of the same patterns repeating over and over.<p>So...I spent the next few months after work writing a small component which uses the same heuristics, lookups, guesses and techniques used by the analysts to correct the data. From my testing and comparing already reviewed documents with my output, it's at least as effective as our analyst team in a majority of cases.<p>So...what do I do now? Do I tell my management and potentially cost 80 people their jobs or do I just keep it to myself? I know some of the analysts are single mothers or people close to retirement.
Upvote:
|
82
|
Title: The question in itself is self-explanatory. Please mention your normal day job role (backend developer, full stack engineer etc) and what are the side projects you are doing currently.<p>This question is about having insight about what people are doing.
Upvote:
|
45
|
Title: I have near 10 years of experience by now. I have worked on ETL , Data migration , CRUD applications. I am well familiar with data warehousing and BI concepts and have worked on many projects involving both. Since last 3 years I have been working with Big Data applications on Hadoop platform mostly writing code in Java and using abstract language/platform such as Pig, Spark , RedShift , Hive.<p>I am tired of ETL , data cleaning , slicing and dicing projects now.<p>From business standpoint I have good knowledge of healthcare , insurance, advertising and little bit of finance.<p>I want to contribute to something big and grow professionally. I work as manager for a mid size company in bay area. I want to join next company as Director or higher level.<p>What are things I should learn to grow professionally ?<p>What are things I should keep tab on beyond technical knowledge for getting higher roles as Director or VP ? How do I cultivate the change ?
Upvote:
|
71
|
Title: We just deployed a new attempt to make HN work better on mobile. Should we keep it? Feedback, please.
Upvote:
|
497
|
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>
Readers: please only email these addresses to discuss work opportunities.
Upvote:
|
42
|
Title: Please lead with either SEEKING WORK or SEEKING FREELANCER,
your location, and whether remote work is a possibility.
Upvote:
|
117
|
Title: Please lead with the location of the position and include the keywords
REMOTE, INTERNS and/or VISA when the corresponding sort of candidate is welcome.
When remote work is not an option, please include ONSITE.<p>Submitters: please only post if you personally are part of the hiring company—no
recruiting firms or job boards.<p>Readers: please only email submitters if you personally are interested in the
job—no recruiters or sales calls.<p>You can also use kristopolous' nifty console script to search the thread:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10313519.
Upvote:
|
512
|
Title: Hi all,<p>I'm a Full-Stack web developer with 5+ years experience and am trying to transition into contract/consulting work. I've read alot of posts on this topic (and _all_ of patio11's blog) but am still struggling to come up with ways to find clients. My dilemma is that I don't want to price myself too low (I can find lots of projects for 20/hr or less), but I'm not sure how to get the larger jobs without doing this full-time.<p>Has anyone ever transitioned from the enterprise world into contracting successfully? Is it possible to do it over a period of time? (keep current job and moonlight freelance gigs). What did you do to get your initial clients?
Upvote:
|
89
|
Title: I always have this problem of feeling inadequate. I'm a junior CS student at a decent but not great school. Some of my friends go to Stanford or UT Austin and have already interned with multiple top companies, while I haven't accomplished anything of significance. I also read this site daily and I can't even comprehend most of the posts. I didn't figure out what I wanted to do with my life until recently, so now I'm 22 and stuck behind my younger peers.<p>I'm really impatient to achieve big things. It's like I need to in order to justify my existence. How do I transition to a healthier state of mind and stop feeling worthless?
Upvote:
|
109
|
Title: There are so many awesome startups out there... what are some that people are consistently following?
Upvote:
|
67
|
Title: I just got an offer from a late-stage startup, that is offering me a small number of shares at a strong price (the latest valuation is already 2x the strike price I would get).<p>But, if I give up some portion of my salary, I can get more equity.<p>How do you think about this trade-off? What inputs do I need to ask the company for?<p>Thanks!
Upvote:
|
55
|
Title: What were the best books you read this year?
Upvote:
|
41
|
Title: I can't understand how a human, even with heaps of intelligence and education, is better at predicting which stocks will go up/down than an algorithm that can look at all the data in the entire market. What skill do stock traders use that can't be replaced by computation?
Upvote:
|
59
|
Title: I'm leaving a startup I founded due to disagreements over team/strategy. I worked on it for about half a year.<p>When we founded the company, there was prior work done, so we vested some equity up front to acknowledge that. Since that time, we've pivoted and also recently added team members. Now that I am leaving, the other founders are asking me to return some/most/all of the equity that was vested up front.<p>Is this reasonable? Do I have any obligation to return/surrender the vested equity?<p>Additionally, when I voiced objections to returning the vested equity, they brought up the fact that they may start a new company on the same idea and reset the entire equity metrics altogether. Is this common?
Upvote:
|
82
|
Title: Read more here: http://assembly.com/
Upvote:
|
77
|
Title: Anyone else find it distracting?
Upvote:
|
51
|
Title: About 7 years ago I arrived in Canada from Southeast Asia to pursue a degree in Computer Science. I graduated and landed a decent job right after in the US, and have been working here since.<p>I have made many efforts to go out and meet new people, but unfortunately at this age it gets harder and harder to form deep and meaningful connections or friendships. Everyone already has their own childhood friends, family, support group that they have built themselves around their whole lives and grew up with. To them, I am just another 'colleague' or 'fellow member of X and Y group', and I know our friendships will never go past a certain level.<p>I walk past bars and cafes on Friday nights and I see groups of young adults in merry conversation and laughter. They are most probably friends since childhood / high school and I know I will never be a part of a group like that, because it is just too hard to break into a clique that already has formed a common connection amongst themselves, and the 'making friends' phase is over.<p>How do I overcome this sense of loneliness and dismality?
Upvote:
|
145
|
Title: So the situation is, we both came up with the idea together. She got a loan from a friend for $10K, out of which $8K was spent on getting incorporated, getting insurance, organizing pilot events, building the website, buying software to plug into the website and some other menial tasks. Overall, we have had little traction on the platform and that is because the idea will result in a huge cultural change so it will take a lot of effort to mobilize customers to try it out. Also, since we are financially constrained we have been bootstrapping and both been working on this ourselves, alongside school and haven't been able to spend any money on hiring the right people to market this or to pay for any marketing. Recently, we have very misaligned interests and a lot of ugly arguments so I will like to move on and have informed the other cofounder about this. I however have spent the whole year working on this on the side and will not like to walk ork away with anything gained from it. I am trying to figure out how best to resolve things with the cofounder so we are both able to work away not feeling cheated. How do I go about this. Decide on an equity split arrangement given the effort which has been put in so far or work on dissolving the company assets where everything that has been worked on goes to the debt holder (including the technology, relationships etc). I prefer the later and of course she prefers the later. The third option is for her to only get the brand and the other assets are divided up between us. I will really appreciate is I can get some alternate views on this.
Upvote:
|
142
|
Title: For the past few months building our app, we’ve used BugHerd for three main purposes:<p>1. Tracking issues<p>2. Posting to-do items<p>3. Noting new features<p>BugHerd is great for client websites, but we feel like it’s not quite right for a more long-term build.<p>Specifically, our lists get so long (we have a few hundred items in the Backlog) that it becomes difficult to find certain issues. Plus, organizing them isn’t that smooth.<p>I know some use Jira for this sort of thing, but it feels pretty old-fashioned. And, I know there are many other products, but researching all of them seems daunting.<p>So, I’m going to cheat, and ask: What do you use? Why? Do you like it?
Upvote:
|
75
|
Title: I've been very curious about this.<p>There seems to be a few categories of non-profits/social enterprise that are heavy in their tech usage that are also relatively large. The goal here is to see if it is possible to make a great social impact and be relatively unaffected by the interests of investors, which presumably will (but not always) be in conflict with the social impact interests.<p>* Direct Nonprofits:
- Wikipedia
- Khan Academy<p>* Nonprofits with for profit Subsidiary
- Mozilla Foundation<p>* For profits with a nonprofit like governance
- Craigslist
- Kickstarter<p>I would love to hear your thoughts on more examples to flesh out the above, or perhaps a refutation of my argument that a for-profit organization cannot make a huge social impact through traditional means. (For example, would Wikipedia be as influential today if it were a for-profit? Craigslist a nonprofit?).<p>I would also love to know if there are any further articles/books/reading on the subject.
Upvote:
|
59
|
Title: Hi,<p>My friend and I have been building an app (at http://getlooksgood.com/) in our spare time for more than a year, but we're clueless on how to get users to the page.<p>The app is fashion oriented and we think has potential, but that is not our area of expertise at all. Does anybody who has been in a similar situation have any advice? Do you think we should pursue it further or give up? It has been a great learning experience and a fun project to work on, so it's not all bad.<p>Thanks for your time!
Upvote:
|
85
|
Title: We all see "success stories" featured on internet blogs (basically every website with the "tech" prefix) and some trends tend to distort how we perceive how people arrived at where they are.<p>I want to know — How did you get your current job or startup? Did you go to college? Dropout? If your did go to college, have you ever failed a course? Did you have to move to a different country? How did you manage that and what was (in general) the biggest obstacle/low-point of your journey so far?<p>Note — Why I'm asking this: Because many of the people in this community may be in a low-point themselves, and reading about how other people persevered and what they did might just make things seem a bit easier for them.<p>Thank you all :)
Upvote:
|
72
|
Title: Hi HN!<p>I am an engineer experienced mostly with C++, Python and Node.js, total 6 years of experience.<p>During the last few years I have been having deal mostly with scripting languages, but now I realized that I want to switch back to C++ (or may be better to plain C) because I want to be more close to metal and write code that is really fast. I interested mostly in networking, DSP or implementing of some learning algorithms, and I would like to develop it for GNU/Linux.<p>The problem is that I am looking for this kind of job only remotely, and it looks for me like jobs of this type are usually on-site. There is a plenty of remote jobs for Node.js or Python, but it is nearly impossible to find a job that suppose working with C++ or C, is remote and not looking for a guru (I do not feel me a junior, but I am not a guru too).<p>What do you think about it, HN? Am I looking for not good enough, or it is really impossible to find one of such type?
Upvote:
|
61
|
Title: Do you not have Thanksgiving Plans? New in town? Are you wondering WTF you are going to do tonight? Feeling broke and maybe just a little lonely?<p>If so, you should come to my house and join my family for Thanksgiving. My girlfriend Stephanie is making Turkey and yams and stuffing and all sorts of other good shit. We live in downtown Menlo Park 5min from the Caltrain and a few blocks from Stanford University.<p>Truth is that no one gets anywhere in this world alone. When I was 20, it was the people who picked me up on my cycling/hitchhiking mis-adventure down the California coast and let me stay in their homes on Xmas. When I was 25, it was the New Yorkers who welcomed me into a new city and taught me how to stay safe in my job as a paramedic. When I was 29, it was the entrepreneurs & investors who introduced me to Silicon Valley and showed me how to go from Zero to 1.<p>And now, I feel compelled to return these favors however I can.<p>So...if you're in San Francisco Bay Area and you need a place to call home for Thanksgiving, let me know. We saved you a seat at the table.<p>RSVP at http://mattmireles.com/thanksgiving2015/<p>Happy Thanksgiving!
-Matt Mireles<p>Co-Founder, Stealth(ish) Robotics Co.
Upvote:
|
58
|
Title: We were a small consulting shop, with quirky and close coworkers. Suddenly (last 3 months) we have brought on an HR manager, a PR manager, a project manager manager, and many more developers.<p>Everything feels much more... corporate? Overly professional? I am struggling to think of how to describe it. The HR manager scares me, although I am not sure why.<p>I realize that all of this is <i>my</i> problem, that the issue is how I am reacting to things, not the things themselves. It is not something that anyone is doing wrong, it is just the nature of growth. Several people have quit because they do not like the changes, but I don't really want to quit.<p>So... does anyone have any experience with this? I guess I just want some advice on how to reframe the situation, so it is acceptable to my preference for casual/personal environments. Or maybe, I just want advice on how to keep things weird while growing.
Upvote:
|
81
|
Subsets and Splits
No community queries yet
The top public SQL queries from the community will appear here once available.