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Title: I learned how to code in University and did pretty well at it after an initial struggle. I studied EE but felt like being a programmer matched my interests better so I got a job in that.<p>I&#x27;ve been working a few years at the same place. I write Python REST APIs at the moment. The other person on my team does UI work, which I started out doing and still do sometimes. I&#x27;ve built the whole back end system from scratch so I feel like I have a good understanding of how everything works and the ability to work on any level of the stack, though I know the most about the back end.<p>I have been feeling disinterested in what I&#x27;m working on. My team is only 2 people and we don&#x27;t work together on much of anything. I find this other person difficult to talk to. A couple of friends from Uni work there but all 3 of us are different projects.<p>My company seems to have issues hiring people and the people there are mostly B or C level. It seems constantly disorganized and like there isn&#x27;t any vision or clear direction of where my team is going. I&#x27;d like it if I were on a larger team and was able to get feedback on my work so I can get better.<p>On the positive side, they pay pretty well, have no dress code, and allow flexible hours. I&#x27;m enjoying making money and building a life outside of work. However, I think I would enjoy my life more if the 8+ hours I spend every M-F felt more meaningful. I can think of other projects that have been mentioned that I would like to take on, but it seems there&#x27;s always something in upper management that keeps them from getting going.<p>I don&#x27;t know if I&#x27;m an A-level programmer that could get a job somewhere else. I&#x27;m probably a B or B+, but I think I might rather be working at a company with A and B level people so I can learn more. As it is, I feel like my interest is going downhill and that might start to show in my work. On top of that I&#x27;m not sure if it&#x27;s a good idea to stay at the same place for too long.<p>Any advice on how to get back into it mentally or how to find new work? Is this how it is everywhere? Upvote:
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Title: Hi HN -<p>I&#x27;m looking to get more involved with open source projects. From your experience, are there any projects that you have been involved with where you are impressed by how kind, supportive, talented, and effective the group of people are that work on the project?<p>Thanks, Mike Upvote:
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Title: I am a developer and I have a 40 hr&#x2F;week job. It is a very good job and I put a lot of effort in it. But I have also my own ideas that I would love to develop, but I am struggling to organize time and material to develop something for me.<p>I read a lot and have a lot of ideas, about little porjects to test new technologies or new patterns, but never find the time.<p>I would love to learn the experience and techniques used by someone who have been able do to something like this Upvote:
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Title: Better if technology related, but an open question nevertheless. Upvote:
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Title: Hi,<p>Customer support can make or break a site but for those with small businesses, handling customer support can be a real nightmare (esp. technical and billing questions). You can of course hire full time employee(s) but that is not an option until your site is making a sizable income, or you are funded.<p>So for the rest of us:<p>- what are the ways to handle customer support? - Do you do it yourself, outsource it to some other site &#x2F; person, or have hired person(s) do it? - What is the average time it takes you to resolve customer queries? - How much budget do you allocate for handling customer support? Upvote:
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Title: It seems like everyone from Gates to Blecharczyk went to private prep schools and then on to Harvard or Stanford. Is there anyone who DIDN&#x27;T have this advantage who made it in the world of startups and VC? Upvote:
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Title: Please lead with either SEEKING WORK or SEEKING FREELANCER, your location, and whether remote work is a possibility. Upvote:
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Title: Please lead with the location of the position and include the keywords REMOTE, INTERNS and&#x2F;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&#x27; nifty console script to search the thread: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=10313519" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=10313519</a>. Upvote:
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Title: I think this lack of disclosure is often a frustrating aspect of job ads, and I think a lot of the HN community recognizes this. I have wasted too much of my life on job interviews only to later find out they have a ridiculously low salary range. Can we try to make HN a change for good and have separate monthly threads for those who want to post salary ranges with their job openings? Upvote:
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Title: Six months ago, I took a new job as a developer. I expected to feel like an outsider for a while. No new job is &quot;comfortable&quot;. However, I started to notice that my team is really abrasive. They&#x27;re always correcting everything, job related or not (how to write code, best way to cook something, reasons for economic changes, etc). I make some comment about the world and get a response like &quot;Well, if you&#x27;d studied [such and such] you&#x27;d know that... [why you&#x27;re wrong]&quot;. Many of these things are opinion-based anyway. Despite the fact that I bring the most external experience, the guys I work with on a daily basis act like they are trying to teach me how to program. It&#x27;s really demeaning.<p>What should I do? (What CAN I do?)<p>I&#x27;ve debated talking to my manager about these concerns, but I don&#x27;t know that there&#x27;s any way he could address the issues--he can&#x27;t change the personalities of my team members. Still, I feel he deserves a chance.<p>Should I just quit and go somewhere else? It feels like doing so would make my resume look pretty bad since it hasn&#x27;t been long. Also, it seems like I owe something to this company for giving me a job and good pay.<p>Are there other ways I can address this? Upvote:
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Title: I was a good reader throughout my childhood, youth and academic years. Lately, and after a couple of decades, it&#x27;s becoming increasingly challenging to focus, consume and finish books. I&#x27;m becoming the modern age illiterate. I&#x27;m usually squeezed for time - but even if I find some, I don&#x27;t pick up where I left.<p>Does anyone encountering the same challenge? Any ideas&#x2F;tips that could help overcome the cycle? Do you think it&#x27;s caused by modern information overload, distraction addiction, or perhaps dealing with short cryptographic lines of code? Upvote:
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Title: (I&#x27;m sure this has been asked before, but I must be bad at search, because I couldn&#x27;t find the advice I was looking for).<p>I&#x27;m planning to leave the company I joined about 7 years ago as one of the first dozen or so employees. I have some options that are worth $X,000,000 as of the last tender offer, and would cost $X0,000 to buy. Exercising them isn&#x27;t a problem, but I doubt I could handle the taxes. The company itself was valued in the $500M-$1B range in the last funding round. I&#x27;d hate to leave the options behind, but even if I could afford them, that&#x27;s a ton of money to put at risk.<p>Does anyone have any experience with ESOfund? I&#x27;ve also heard that there are other private groups who help fund employee option purchases and taxes, but I don&#x27;t know much about them or even whether it&#x27;d work with my employer. Besides those, any other advice on what the best things to do are here? Upvote:
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Title: We’re building Refind, a community of founders, hackers, and designers who collect and share the best links on the web. It’s super early but we’re on Product Hunt today and we don’t want to miss the opportunity to reach out to HN too! Founders, hackers, and designers are the audience we had in mind when building this so we’d really love to know what you think!<p>https:&#x2F;&#x2F;refind.com<p>HOW IT WORKS Save great links that will come in handy in the future. Discover what others save. And then find everything again when you really need it – for example when you later search for this topic on Google, Refind highlights links you or your friends saved (optional).<p>DELICIOUS? Delicious pioneered social bookmarking in 2003. We’re trying to take up on where they left off. And here’s how we believe Refind fits into today’s landscape: https:&#x2F;&#x2F;refind.com&#x2F;home#difference<p>READ LATER? Refind is complementary to Instapaper or Pocket: Read Later is a reading list, Refind is an archive. Read Later is todo, Refind is fire and forget. Here’s how we see and use the two in combination (with the example of Pocket): https:&#x2F;&#x2F;medium.com&#x2F;@refind&#x2F;refind-pocket-a0ecb08de814<p>WHY? Here’s why we’re building this: https:&#x2F;&#x2F;medium.com&#x2F;@refind&#x2F;this-is-why-we-re-building-refind-7e7229bee370<p>We really hope you like it! Again, it’s super early but we’re going to work on this for a very long time so we’d love to know what you think! I’ll be around here and you can also reach me on Twitter (https:&#x2F;&#x2F;twitter.com&#x2F;dominikg) or at [email protected].<p>Thanks a lot, Dominik (Founder) Upvote:
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Title: Peter Roberts (<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;threads?id=proberts" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;threads?id=proberts</a>) is an immigration lawyer who has done stellar work for YC and YC startups. He has a long record of success in difficult cases and is good at explaining things.<p>Since HN users and&#x2F;or their companies have many concerns about U.S. immigration, we asked Peter if he&#x27;d do an AMA for HN. He kindly agreed and will do it this Friday (Dec. 11th) at 11 AM Pacific.<p>Peter says there are a lot of misconceptions about U.S. immigration floating around on the internet. Hopefully he can clear some of them up for the community here. This is your chance to get high quality information from a true expert, so please bring your questions on Friday! Upvote:
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Title: I&#x27;ve read HN for several years and thought it was a good source for news regarding programming&#x2F;developing&#x2F;upstarts and general new technical stuff. I had a hard time to read all interesting articles that was linked to.<p>But now, most high rated articles are none of those areas. Usually there are one or two articles worth reading.<p>Top today for example are: Being homeless a struggle, even with a $100k job offer (seattletimes.com)<p>How cash is carried across Congo (economist.com)<p>The Human Hemisphere (radicalcartography.net)<p>China&#x27;s Gold Army (bullionstar.com)<p>Guide to the Largest Ocean Carriers in the World (flexport.com)<p>etc.<p>Sure these articles could be fun to read. But then I rather find them in some other forum such as reddit. But these articles has fairly little to do with &quot;Hacker News&quot; to me.<p>Just saying... Upvote:
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Title: I spend so much time trying to understand the development ecosystem and fighting my way through the build tools and development frameworks that I can barely get to write a single line of code. Every problem I solve leads to the next roadblock and on and on and on. It&#x27;s depressing me and I&#x27;m feeling like maybe I don&#x27;t have what it takes to be a programmer. Upvote:
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Title: Hello HN. I’m a self-taught developer (currently doing an Msc in CS). I mostly do freelance web development. My UI skills aren’t good enough to label myself as a full-stack developer but I’m getting there. However I’m comfortable with server side development (Python and Golang mostly), client&#x2F;server side Javascript and I also have enough system admin knowledge to run my own server (metal&#x2F;VM).<p>Are there any revenue streams I could tap into with my current skill set that would enable me to generate (eventually) recurring monthly income of $3000 and above. I don’t mind putting in the work&#x2F;time to build it up. Upvote:
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Title: I am excited and honored to provide (hopefully) helpful advice and information to the community. It can be tough to respond to very fact-specific questions, because relevant information often isn&#x27;t included, so the best questions are general ones or those with all the pertinent facts. And of course nothing I say should be construed as legal advice. I will be available for the next 2 hours. Thanks!<p>Edit (1:10 PM PST) This has been an amazing experience for me. Thank you all for participating and for asking such pointed and interesting questions. I look forward to doing this again soon, possibly focusing on one or more specific topics. I need to sign off now, unfortunately, but best wishes to everyone for a happy and healthy new year. Upvote:
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Title: I have an extreme case of neophilia. Well, most of HN readers like new things, but in my case this is really extreme. I start many projects, but never finish them because they are inevitably losing novelty (I had better luck with shorter projects). I am a fairly decent software engineer, but I never held a job longer than 1 year (for the last 12 years), and recently I realised that the only thing that motivates me in software engineering is learning new things and trying new fancy toys, not building something working and useful (this is obviously an invalid approach in engineering, and it makes me sad enough to consider leaving this career path for good). I&#x27;ve been fired from 2 jobs this year (having a stellar start, then quickly boring for good). Everything I do seems to be motivated by novelty, it seems like a dangerous addiction now. I am 32, jobless, and have more than $50k in debt now.<p>What should I do? Is there a cure from novelty-seeking behavior? Or how it can be managed to be useful, not disabling? Please help, if you have any experience coping with this... Upvote:
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Title: previous posts:<p>https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=4639271<p>https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=6661536<p>https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=7094402<p>https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=8107588 Upvote:
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Title: Hi there,<p>I know a few teenagers interested in robots, but are not super sold on the blockly drag and drop programming.<p>Anyone have something slightly more complex, while still being geared toward Teens?<p>Thank you! Upvote:
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Title: My friends and I have decided that we are sick of living paycheck-to-paycheck. We want to start a business together that would bring us residual income. I have a few ideas, but I am all ears if you have any suggestions.<p>A little about me: I am highly knowledgeable in HTML&#x2F;CSS&#x2F;JS, website development, wordpress, graphic design, online marketing, and social marketing. I&#x27;ve worked with companies such as ARCO Gas, AMPM, HiteJinro, Ballantines Whiskey, and the LA Dodgers.<p>I have experience and understanding of the current state of the web and effective marketing.<p>An idea: buy cheap high quality phone cases from China<p>* The $5K &#x2F; mo would give us a variety of cases to choose from, as well as bulk discounts. Obviously, we would start small to test the market, maybe invest $1K in inventory<p>* Simple, modern website that makes purchasing easy on the web and mobile<p>* Highly targeted market. Example: (Item: a Justin Beiber case) Facebook ad target teenage girls in the USA who have liked Justin&#x27;s facebook page<p>* Analytics, A&#x2F;B testing, whatever I can do to maximize profits<p>* Sell $1 cases for ~$10; should result in very high ROI<p>* Even though the case market is saturated, with targeted ads I&#x27;m thinking it would be possible.<p>Any other ideas?<p>edit: Don&#x27;t get whats with all the downvotes :&#x2F; We are legitimately trying to start something that would help us get out of living paycheck to paycheck, and are simply open to hearing ideas. Isn&#x27;t this what the whole entrepreneurial spirit is about? Upvote:
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Title: Bridging Discrete and Continuous Logic in Automated Reasoning Systems<p>https:&#x2F;&#x2F;chriskohlhepp.wordpress.com&#x2F;the-reasoned-lisper&#x2F; Upvote:
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Title: After 10 years at my local newspaper (I&#x27;m 30 now) I think I will be facing the chopping block in the coming months. I&#x27;m nervous, scared, and somewhat excited.<p>Nervous because my whole adult life has been spent in between these walls. Scared because I don&#x27;t have a degree and at 30 I&#x27;m competing with younger, new grads. Somewhat excited because it will force me out of my comfort zone.<p>I got married in June of this year so that adds extra pressure since I am now a provider. Luckily, I dont have any kids, yet, to have to worry about.<p>I&#x27;ve spend the last decade working with HTML, CSS, Javascript, PHP and a suite of other tools. I&#x27;ve built banner ads for advertisers, booked online campaigns in various platforms Google DFP, Yahoo APT. I&#x27;m a jack of all trades master of none. I&#x27;ve always taken that as an insult rather than a compliment. I hear it as &quot;your mediocre at a bunch of things...not really good at anything.&quot;<p>So HN, what advice do you have for a 30 year old who&#x27;s about to embark on a new adventure? Upvote:
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Title: Hey everyone!<p>Long time lurker, first time poster. I&#x27;ve just reached beta in my game BoxByte Lyte.<p>-What is it-<p>It&#x27;s a free 3d arcade game for hardcore players that uses color matching in interesting ways. Also it&#x27;s a one button game, well movement and one button. Cool huh? The final release will be free too.<p>-What I need-<p>This is a very challenging game, so I really need to balance the difficulty so that it&#x27;s still hard but not impossible. It would be great just to hear your experiences of the game and how far in it you got.<p>-Where can I report bugs?-<p>https:&#x2F;&#x2F;bitbucket.org&#x2F;ZayWolfe&#x2F;boxbyte-lyte&#x2F;issues<p>-So where&#x27;s the game?-<p>Windows: https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.dropbox.com&#x2F;s&#x2F;3143ynz2hlqhg58&#x2F;BoxByteLyte%2012.17.15-win.zip?dl=0<p>Mac: https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.dropbox.com&#x2F;s&#x2F;welj1gswunfm4tq&#x2F;BoxByteLyte%2012.17.15-mac.zip?dl=0<p>Linux: https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.dropbox.com&#x2F;s&#x2F;ypvtnndmzklj17e&#x2F;BoxByteLyte%2012.17.15-linux.zip?dl=0<p>Win VR: https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.dropbox.com&#x2F;s&#x2F;bm0ydtzra4sjml0&#x2F;BoxByteLyte%2012.17.15-winVR.zip?dl=0 (Warning VR isn&#x27;t going to be an official feature. It&#x27;s just a cool experiment for kicks. Might be nausea inducing. I just think it&#x27;s cool :3)<p>For the most accurate movement, I recommend playing with a gamepad of some kind.<p>So if hard challenging gameplay is your thing, why don&#x27;t you see if you have what it takes to beat my game... Mwahahaha!<p>13 gates, can you reach the end?<p>Cheers! Upvote:
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Title: Please ignore if your not me..unless you&#x27;ll find it useful too. Upvote:
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Title: Mine (they were read in this order, and I have left off many that weren&#x27;t as good): Zero to One, Poor Charlie&#x27;s Almanack, Snowball, The Outsiders (8 CEOs, not the fiction novel), Sapiens, Principles by Ray Dalio, Overcoming the 5 Dysfunctions of a Team, The Road to Character Upvote:
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Title: I&#x27;d like to know which books HN read this year. Did you like them or hate them? Upvote:
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Title: Curious about scientific publications in your field that are worth sharing. Upvote:
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Title: My day job strait up closes from the 24th to the 1st - including the weekends, we&#x27;re off for 11 days! (fully paid no less - awesome perk!)<p>Other then family get-togethers, what would you learn with your time off?<p>I bought some Swift courses from stackskills.com last week but I need it more as a refresher - I&#x27;m pretty decent with Objective-C as it stands and the Xcode tools so I got it just to get up to speed on the new language.<p>I&#x27;m very proficient with AngularJS 1.x, html, css, javascript, jquery, php, wordpress, server administration &#x2F; linux, pen testing, etc...<p>Maybe React? Scala? (if it&#x27;s there)<p>Docker? Upvote:
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Title: Hey All,<p>I want to know what you have learned in 2015 that you never realised before. I am going to start with my self, I learned one thing: 1. Identifying people who really matters in life is super important. We generally don&#x27;t think like this but when the person is not around you, you will realise how the person was in your life. And don&#x27;t forget to show your gratitude you never know when it&#x27;s the end.<p>I would really like to know your life lesson. May be some of us learn from other and can use in 2016.<p>Thanks in advance. Upvote:
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Title: A useful feature of google search is ncr, no country redirect, which prevents geolocation redirection to the localized home page. Useful if you travel a lot, only want results in English if you live in a non-English speaking country, and so on.<p>The url used to be<p>https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.google.com&#x2F;ncr<p>Unfortunately this seems to have stopped working recently (clear cookies and caches first for anyone using this to see). After not a little search effort as it&#x27;s either an unannounced change (or a bug?), you now need:<p>http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.google.com&#x2F;?gfe_rd=cr&amp;gws_rd=cr<p>Hope this helps anyone relying on ncr. Upvote:
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Title: Exceeded text limit, posted on Pastebin here: http:&#x2F;&#x2F;pastebin.com&#x2F;raw&#x2F;g0kQfuYW<p>I&#x27;ll include the TL;DR here:<p>TL;DR: Project in a very messy situation, I&#x27;m under tremendous pressure to deliver while all responsible parties are on vacation, my performance rating from 2.5 months ago was lowered after the fact, and a promotion I was told to be given was withdrawn. Advice? And are they even allowed to do that? Upvote:
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Title: e.g. Raspberry Pi or Cubieboard Upvote:
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Title: I have been thinking about arrogance for the last five years and I still cannot grasp it.<p>Answering any of the questions below will help to discuss the premier question:<p>1 - What exactly is arrogance?<p>2 - How do you detect arrogance?<p>3 - Why some people become arrogant?<p>4 - Is it always bad? If so, how do you avoid being arrogant? Upvote:
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Title: Hi HN, long-time contributor with ~1500 karma; throwaway for obvious reasons.<p>When I used to see these posts, I always was thankful for the position I was in. I never hesitated to send a personal message with my regards and best wishes, and most of the time I&#x27;d include a small bit of help. I&#x27;m hoping this all comes full-circle, because I desperately need it.<p>Let&#x27;s not make this about financial planning (it&#x27;s otherwise pretty good) but a client has just told me (after telling me they were waiting on a third-party...) they&#x27;re unable to pay their invoice this month and it&#x27;s put a strain on me.<p>About 2 years ago I had an excess of $100k in my bank account. As someone in their early-mid 20s, I was doing very good. I don&#x27;t live lavishly or have super nice things; I&#x27;m pretty frugal and basic. But after some hospital expenses and some very bad luck, I&#x27;m down to less than $1k in my accounts, and my assets are non-existent as, well, they never really existed in the first place.<p>My stack is Ruby&#x2F;Rails, HTML&#x2F;CSS&#x2F;jQuery (yeah, I know), and Sidekiq for background jobs. I can integrate any API or build them quickly. I&#x27;ve scraped more websites than I haven&#x27;t, and I&#x27;m pretty good at it. A JS framework (likely Vue or React) is in my New Years Resolution. Point being, I can get things done and get them done right. I can also consult on SEO, copywriting, marketing, and a couple laughs if need be.<p>I&#x27;d prefer to stay publicly anonymous; I can send over some samples of work via email and we can jump on a call&#x2F;Skype&#x2F;hangout&#x2F;whatever.<p>I know this won&#x27;t be met with some of the kindest thoughts; remember, everyone has a story. Some of them are prettier than others. At the end of the day, we&#x27;re all human.<p>Again, to reiterate, I&#x27;m not asking for hand-me-outs; I can&#x27;t morally accept them. I&#x27;m not asking for a loan. I&#x27;m asking if I can start hacking away on that project you&#x27;ve been putting off.<p>Email: [email protected] (forwards to my personal) Upvote:
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Title: The death of Ian was just a sad event striking the software and Open Source community, and i strangely believe that this man deserves black bar on HN for all his contributions and help of the technology, do you have an idea if it will happen ? Upvote:
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Title: As part of a New Year’s resolution to provide more value to the universe, I’d like to sponsor you to work on your passion project full-time.<p>- $700 USD&#x2F;week<p>- Expectation is to work on your project full-time, without any other employment or work-for-hire obligations<p>- Anywhere in the world is OK<p>- You retain all IP, ownership, etc.<p>- Can be open source or closed<p>Interested? Tell me a bit about yourself, your project, and your long-term goals. Email in profile, or post here. Upvote:
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Title: Please lead with either SEEKING WORK or SEEKING FREELANCER, your location, and whether remote work is a possibility. Upvote:
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Title: Please lead with the location of the position and include the keywords REMOTE, INTERNS and&#x2F;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&#x27; nifty console script to search the thread: https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=10313519. Upvote:
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Title: Hi All,<p>Happy new year.<p>As of 2016, I realised that video based courses in Coursera and Udemy are not ideal and are a drain on efficiency. You cannot skim through content in videos and you are constantly wondering what you will miss if you forward the video. You will have to adjust to lecturer&#x27;s speed rather than choose your own speed. You cannot listen to videos in noisy environments.<p>What I would like to see is repository of paid (or free) tutorials, which uses text and pictures to convey information rather than videos. Googling only shows scattered tutorials, but not the equivalent of Coursera. If anyone here please knows of such a resource, please let me know. Upvote:
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Title: Why?<p>1. What&#x27;s the culture like these days?<p>2. How does it differ from what&#x27;s publicized?<p>3. Are they stagnating (or becoming slow-moving) internally?<p>4. Is it still possible to have a meaningful impact (contribute in a relevant way to a major project)?<p>5. In what ways would working at a startup be &quot;better?&quot;<p>6. Does it feel like a large bloated company, or still like a startup?<p>7. How much politics is now present internally?<p>8. What are examples of places that have a better culture, freedom, ability to make an impact, etc? Upvote:
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Title: I have background in software development. At job I mostly do ETL and work with Hadoop ecosystem. I am trying to learn web development starting with a simple framework to become full stack developer.<p>My intent is also to finish a side project and start a side income. However, every single idea I am coming up is already tried by someone else.<p>How do I differentiate my development work if -<p>1. Someone is already offering same product and has paid customers ?<p>2. If market is thinly spread is it worth developing another product in same niche ?<p>3. Most of the product that I see now-a-days are selling data. Many SaaS companies I see have grabbed data and selling it one form or another with monthly &#x2F; yearly plans and give access to API.<p>What you think of this model of selling data ? Is it worth pursuing given that there are already N players competing for customers.<p>Thanks ! Upvote:
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Title: No matter how much I try I can&#x27;t stop forgetting where I kept my stuff, spending a lot of time looking for frivolous stuff. Recently, for the third time I lost my ATM, and I just can&#x27;t recall where I might have lost it, despite being rarely careful about keeping the card in my wallet.<p>It is really an annoying problem for me. Any solutions? Upvote:
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Title: What are everyone&#x27;s favorite conferences to attend?<p>I had a blast at WWDC15, although its the first conference I&#x27;ve been to so I don&#x27;t have much to compare to. The talks were very informative and I&#x27;m an iOS nerd so I was in heaven :)<p>How is F8? Google I&#x2F;O? Any other lesser known ones? Upvote:
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Title: During my christmas break I started building an automatic investment system.<p>What did you start? Upvote:
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Title: In the last year I saw how many tech and startup-related people moved their blogs to Medium, from wordpress, blogger, Google+ or even self-hosted.<p>I&#x27;m asking this with no agenda and (hopefully) trying to avoid a flame war.<p>I was wondering if there are any substantial gains by moving your content to Medium, or is it mainly because of the fad&#x2F;coolness factor. Maybe it is the community? In any case, I&#x27;d like to investigate further into this.<p>Do you have a first-hand experience you can share? Have you seen an increase in visits or quality of contributions by moving to Medium? Upvote:
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Title: I have a service that may be of interest for you to blog about called http:&#x2F;&#x2F;elevtr.io. I made it because I have a lot of app ideas but I have trouble knowing whether my ideas are actually good or if they only sound good to me. I also have trouble gaining my first couple of users whenever I release anything. Elevtr io allows you to test your idea by writing a post. Other users can view your post and if they say that &quot;they would use your app&quot;, they are put on a listserve. When you are finally ready to release your app to the public you can click launch and we will email everyone who agreed to use your app. Upvote:
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Title: Would it be possible to blacklist forbes.com links? They now block viewers who are using ad blockers, and have recently been serving advertising malware to visitors [1].<p>They also have awful interstitial ads [2] and, while they masquerade as a news organization, are actually a blog farm [3].<p>Blocking Forbes would be no great loss in terms of content, and would avoid a surprising amount of advertising- (and malware-) generated pain.<p>[1]: http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.extremetech.com&#x2F;internet&#x2F;220696-forbes-forces-readers-to-turn-off-ad-blockers-promptly-serves-malware<p>[2]: &lt;any Forbes article, e.g. http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.forbes.com&#x2F;sites&#x2F;kathleenchaykowski&#x2F;2016&#x2F;01&#x2F;08&#x2F;meet-the-queen-of-imgur-the-image-sharing-site-thats-half-the-size-of-twitter&#x2F; &gt;<p>[3]: https:&#x2F;&#x2F;np.reddit.com&#x2F;r&#x2F;technology&#x2F;comments&#x2F;3zs6qk&#x2F;gq_and_forbes_go_after_ad_blocker_users_rather&#x2F;cyp2uls?context=3#cyowy51 Upvote:
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Title: Almost a year ago, a HN participant asked about the best affordable programmable drone: https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=8989411<p>I&#x27;d like to ask the question again. Are there any new contenders for the best programmable drone, ideally for $100 or less? I have two daughters, nine and seven years old, who have just seen a demonstration of a drone by a friend of our family&#x27;s, and they&#x27;re hooked. Before we purchase one, I&#x27;d like to take the opportunity to buy a programmable one so I can mess around with it, too (and teach the kids to program it).<p>EDIT: Ideally, I&#x27;d like something like this, but programmable&#x2F;hackable: http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.amazon.com&#x2F;gp&#x2F;product&#x2F;B00MNG37C2&#x2F;ref=s9_simh_gw_g21_i1_r?pf_rd_m=ATVPDKIKX0DER&amp;pf_rd_s=desktop-1&amp;pf_rd_r=01GMYMFRR2QNC3AT5DG0&amp;pf_rd_t=36701&amp;pf_rd_p=2079475242&amp;pf_rd_i=desktop<p>Thanks! Upvote:
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Title: I&#x27;ve loved computers since I was a kid. Got a degree in CS, worked at a few small companies, and then landed a job in a large tech company, which was my dream. Then everything went to shit.<p>Before that job, I was crazy about anything related to software. My life was devoted to reading papers, learning new languages, libraries and frameworks, and thinking about the future of things and what could be improved. I had an extreme drive to work and deliver, and a stellar career up to that point.<p>I really wanted to work for one of the big tech companies, so I started applying to them. I didn&#x27;t really care about the project I would be in, as long as I got a job in one of those companies.<p>So I landed one of those jobs. And the project SUCKED. In two years, it turned me into a complete cynic towards software. I don&#x27;t see the value in things like I used to anymore. I don&#x27;t want to think about technology. I want to use computers as glorified calculators, nothing more. I dread hearing about frameworks, IDEs, debuggers, compilers, Unicode, RFCs, protocols, what have you. Everything seems unnecessarily complex.<p>I thought the problem was that bad project, so I switched teams. One of the coolest teams in the company, actually - lots of publicity, contributes to open source, really smart people. But the scar from the previous two years is still there. I can&#x27;t find that passion in me anymore, and my performance is mediocre. I spend my days dreaming about early retirement.<p>What depresses me is seeing how uninteresting a person I am now that I don&#x27;t have all that passion for software. Because I spent so many years focusing on it, I feel like I have nothing else in me. I don&#x27;t have hobbies. I haven&#x27;t traveled a lot. I don&#x27;t appreciate art. I don&#x27;t even play video games. I&#x27;m as good to talk to as a brick of mud. I don&#x27;t know what to do.<p>Sorry for the wall of text. I guess I&#x27;m looking for people who have been through a similar experience and recovered from it. Upvote:
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Title: During the late nineties I was making various interactive&#x2F;dynamic websites using the then standard technologies: HTML, PHP, Perl, Mysql, and a tiny bit of CSS. This was the time when Javascript was really only used for form field validation and to spawn popups (Ajax was not yet around), when all layout was done using borderless table&#x2F;tr&#x2F;td HTML elements, when there were no mobile devices and all you had to care about was one or two screen resolutions and basically two browsers: Netscape and MSIE. Since then I have been pursuing my IT career in a different area. But sometimes I still find myself wanting to setup a website every now and then. But in the little free time I have available, I stumble upon all kinds of web technologies and frameworks: JQuery, Node.js, Ruby on rails, AngularJS, Backbone.JS, Django, Bootstrap, to name a few. Ofcourse all have their purpose, weaknesses and strengths. But after work and family, there isn&#x27;t much time left for exploring and trying new things. Maybe other people have already made this journey and can share their experiences? What would be the best way for a nineties web developer to update his knowledge and skills? Upvote:
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Title: Junior dev, about 6 months out of college at a smallish (~20 engineers) software company. Monolithic java codebase that all runs on a single cluster of app servers. I&#x27;ve been feeling frustrated lately and wanted some advice.<p>The most common comment in my code reviews: &quot;You&#x27;re reinventing the wheel - we already wrote something similar. Take a look at [X], extend it a bit to fit this use case, and toss what you have.&quot; Since X is always undocumented this involves sleuthing + picking senior dev&#x27;s brains. The process slowly repeats until my feature eventually converges onto a configuration of existing components, with as little new code as possible.<p>That&#x27;s great for the business but not much fun for me. It means that to do a task that could be completed from scratch in X hours, I must spend X^(size of our codebase) hours grappling with other people&#x27;s ideas, solutions, and mistakes. It means my thoughts must be bent to fit some pre-existing shape, which eliminates the need for my thoughts, and suggests they should be permanently replaced with those of my predecessors.<p>Is this actually the sign of a good codebase? Should I be deriving pleasure from this? Is this what software development is? Upvote:
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Title: What is your best source of &#x27;passive&#x27; or recurring income?<p>previous links added in the comment Upvote:
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Title: Hi HN,<p>This is going to be long, but please stick with me here..<p>My wife came to the US to do her MS in EE and graduated in 2011. After graduating, she started working at a company in the Bay Area, which wasn’t e-verified at the time, meaning that she could only work for 1 year on her student visa using OPT. To add to that, they botched her H-1B application, resulting in her employment with them terminating when OPT ended, which was by the end of 2012.<p>As a result, she was forced to go back to being a student for a year or so, after which we got married and she came back to the US on an H-4 visa. Thanks to the new H-4 EAD rule that was passed in 2015, she was able to obtain an EAD in September via my H-1B visa.<p>Now, she is legally allowed to work for any employer, but she just hasn’t been able to get any calls from any company that she’s applied to so far (both big companies and startups). All in all, she’s probably applied to 100+ companies over the last 6 months, but she hasn’t received a single call back.<p>Though she has an EE background through her MS, her work experience was in C++ and Matlab development, and she’s focused on sharpening her Java and Python development skills over the past year or two. She’s mainly been applying to Java and&#x2F;or Python development positions, or just SW Developer positions in general.<p>Recently, there was an initiative by Braintree (http:&#x2F;&#x2F;hire.jobvite.com&#x2F;CompanyJobs&#x2F;Careers.aspx?nl=1&amp;k=Job&amp;j=owj61fwG&amp;s=PPpage) that fit her profile to a T, but she received a reject from them as well.<p>At this point, we’re willing to try anything. Do you have any clues about why it is this hard to find a job? Is it the 3 year break? Her MS is from a decent school, she’s done several research projects and has a year of experience in the industry.. She also has a profile at CodeEval, and plans to continue solving problems there and keep coding every day.<p>Any advice and&#x2F;or help will be sincerely appreciated. Upvote:
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Title: Well this may sound very familiar to most of HN but it also makes it the best place to ask this question.<p>Background: I am a project lead in a Digital Media company and I am taking care of the engineering aspect of our products. I only get a chance to pair code with my team and hardly get any alone coding time apart from few R&amp;D And POC work. I have some 7 years of core development experience and my past 2 roles were Team lead and tech lead handling a team of 8 to 12 member engineering team. I am mostly dealing with large scale complex projects. I consider my self fairly Okay when it comes to my Software engineering concepts. And I keep pushing my team to learn new stuff and educate them whatever I learn.<p>Problem: Instead of my best efforts in taking care of my team and teaching them engineering aspect, I FEEL THEY DON&#x27;T LIKE ME and think I am jerk. I felt like asking this now because this is not the situation in current company but it has been in my past 2 companies as well. So I am wondering if I am really that bad.<p>Just to let you know I constantly keep asking for feedback from my Reporting managers and my team and keep on improving. However I think that I am expecting too much from my team when it comes to engineering and they may not like me because of that.<p>Any suggestions on the approach I can take? Let me know if you have any further questions. Upvote:
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Title: Also looking for readings on best practices.<p>Curious about your company&#x27;s on-call for details about:<p>* expected duties (only answer on-call, do other work, etc)<p>* how deep does your on-call dive into code to fix, vs triaging, patching, and creating follow up work to fix permanently?<p>* priority order of work (on-call tickts vs regular work vs existing on-call tickets vs special queue of simple tasks)<p>* what happens when the current on-call can&#x27;t complete in time?<p>* how do you manage for other teams&#x27; risk? (ie their api goes down, you can&#x27;t satisfy your customers)<p>* any other tidbits Upvote:
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Title: ffmpeg vulnerability allows reading local files and sending them over network using a specially crafted video file. This affects not only file conversion (including thumbnail generation), but also any other operations that involve ffmpeg processing your file — for example, ffprobe is affected.<p>This is not remote code execution, the vulnerability is limited to reading local files and sending them over network, but that is already bad enough.<p>For example, a specially crafted «video» file uploaded to your server by an attacker could read your website config&#x2F;private keys&#x2F;etc and send that to the attacker once you try to generate a thumbnail for it or just probe it with ffmpeg.<p>On a PC, you don&#x27;t even need to open a file to get affected, just downloading it would be enough in some cases — video files are processed with ffmpeg for filemanager thumbnails (i.e. KDE Dolphin), for search indexers, etc.<p>That vulnerability is public, has code samples to reproduce and build a malicious file, and is not fixed atm.<p>The recommended quick fix is to rebuild ffmpeg without network support (--disable-network configure flag).<p>Original post: http:&#x2F;&#x2F;habrahabr.ru&#x2F;company&#x2F;mailru&#x2F;blog&#x2F;274855&#x2F;<p>The original text is in Russian, use https:&#x2F;&#x2F;translate.yandex.com or https:&#x2F;&#x2F;translate.google.com&#x2F; to read it. Upvote:
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Title: I recently purchased a boxed set of Donald Knuth&#x27;s The Art of Computer Programming on Amazon ( http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.amazon.com&#x2F;gp&#x2F;product&#x2F;0321751043 ) based on its stellar reputation as one of the indispensible, foundational computer science books that every programmer should read.<p>I excitedly started delving into it last night but after an hour or two of reading and exercises I started getting the sinking feeling that I&#x27;d just wasted $178.08. It seems quite mired in 1960&#x27;s-era academic minutiae and tedious mathematical formalism that doesn&#x27;t seem very relevant to a modern practicing programmer.<p>For all its focus on algorithmic performance I found no mention of pipeline stalls, designing for cache performance, branch prediction, multithreading, etc. which are all very fundamental aspects of good performance on modern hardware.<p>So for those who are practical programmers and have gone down the Knuth TAOCP rabbit hole I ask - was it worth it? Did it give you knowledge and skills applicable to your programming work or was it mostly academic &#x2F; intellectual entertainment? Upvote:
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Title: I taught myself to code (everything from Visual Basic to Assembly Language) as a teenager in the 1990s, but have had a couple of decades off because life happened. I’d like to get back into it now, but things have changed a lot.<p>I learn better by experimenting with other people’s code than by a textbook gradually taking me through improvements to “hello world”. I have some ADHD-like aspects to my personality, so I need to see results quickly to be able to sustain my momentum.<p>I’m looking for recommendations of textbooks, online tutorials, or easy-to-get-to-grips-with open source projects that encourage a hacker&#x2F;circuit-bender mindset. Arduino seems spot on, but I’m more interested in pure software, especially on a commercially viable platform like Android (although I’ve been a bit put off by the convoluted Android Studio IDE), so I guess Java would be the best language.<p>I would ideally like to avoid having to learn to navigate the ins-and-outs of an overly involved compiling process, a complicated IDE, or loads of SDKs. I want to be able to get straight to the coding.<p>There are a couple of things that really interest me, so bonus points if material relates to one of these in some way: agent-based modelling, simple iterative evolutionary processes, and simple AI (e.g. non-instructed collision detection).<p>Any pointers very gratefully accepted. Upvote:
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Title: What is the benefit of using Azure comparing to AWS or Google Cloud? It is so expensive Upvote:
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Title: I&#x27;m a fairly &quot;fresh&quot; developer (less than a year out of college) who will be moving to the Chicago area in May. Since graduation I&#x27;ve been working at the company I interned at and was able to secure that position through the internship program at my university, so hunting for a tech job is totally new to me.<p>Using some of the more standard online outlets for job searching (Dice, Stack Overflow, Indeed, Glassdoor, etc.), I&#x27;ve found very few jobs that aren&#x27;t web-related. I have seen a handful of embedded programming jobs, but those tend to require a background that I lack (EE or CE, whereas I have a Comp. Sci. degree). My only other prospects seem to be in the financial and gaming industries, but those positions are few and far between and tend to require previous professional experience that I lack.<p>I&#x27;m afraid I&#x27;ll have to pursue a masters or doctoral degree in order to pursue jobs in any area outside of the web. Is this accurate, or am I simply looking for employment in the wrong places? Upvote:
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Title: Original: https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=10813746<p>I wanted to share with HN what happened, since a lot of these &quot;hey, help me&quot; posts go unanswered.<p>I was able to successfully pay rent thanks to a few quick gigs that came my way. I was able to work about $2k, a comfortable position while I decide what my next move is.<p>Said invoice remains unpaid. I&#x27;m now a debt collector. There are options to consolidate, but the amount is in excess of $25k which makes things difficult. I do have contracts in place, and counsel I can lean on, but it’s an incredibly exhausting and lengthy process. As a 24-year-old dev-shop founder I have learned my lesson. I&#x27;ll require pre-paid invoices from here on. There’s more to the story, but in short, I&#x27;ve wound things down after my co-founder (design&#x2F;sales) unexpectedly left us in early Q2 2015.<p>The response was overwhelming. I was quickly playing catch-up with the number of emails I received. It brought tears to my eyes, especially coming from HN where elitism is often bred and found.<p>I&#x27;m unsure what my next steps will be. Obvious question of “why don’t you ask your clients?” My answer is either, “they don’t have a need for me where I can make a direct impact” or “they’re too big&#x2F;too corporate and couldn’t justify being billed by a one-man consultancy&#x2F;dev-shop, let alone a felon.&quot;<p>What other options may I have that I&#x27;m failing to see? As I said, I can&#x27;t pass a background check. It has rarely hurt me, but I’ve rarely put myself in a position to find out if it will matter. As you can tell, I’m pretty open and honest about it, but a little timid.<p>If you’d prefer to reach out to me directly, you can send me an email at [email protected] and it’ll forward directly to my email.<p>All-and-all, I’m entirely thankful (albeit surprised) that HN came through with such a response. The elitism is still here, and I still get a little perplexed reading some comments, but for the most part we’re good peoples. Upvote:
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Title: Which people and groups are researching new approaches to programming?<p>I&#x27;m interested in groups who are thinking about the next thirty years, rather than the next five years.<p>Some projects I find interesting:<p>* Subtext by Jonathan Edwards: https:&#x2F;&#x2F;vimeo.com&#x2F;106073134<p>* Apparatus by Toby Schachman: http:&#x2F;&#x2F;aprt.us<p>* Bret Victor&#x27;s explorable explanation and introspectable programming demos: http:&#x2F;&#x2F;worrydream.com<p>* Eve by Kodowa: https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.youtube.com&#x2F;watch?v=VZQoAKJPbh8<p>* Scratch by the MIT Media Lab: https:&#x2F;&#x2F;scratch.mit.edu<p>* Mathmatica by Wolfram Research: https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.wolfram.com&#x2F;mathematica<p>Why am I interested? I&#x27;m working on Code Lauren, a game programming environment for beginners: http:&#x2F;&#x2F;codelauren.com I want to learn as much as possible about work done by others in the same area. Upvote:
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Title: I&#x27;m evaluating solutions for secrets management in relation to a distributed microservice architecture and am curious to hear what everyone else out there does. Some options I&#x27;ve considered:<p>- Git-crypt and deploying secrets along with binaries<p>- Hashicorp Vault<p>- Square Keywhiz<p>- AWS KMS<p>- Lyft Confidant<p>- Roll your own<p>All seem to have pros and cons depending on use cases and how mission critical the service you are offering is.<p>So what do you do to solve this problem in your world? Upvote:
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Title: I&#x27;ve noticed that it&#x27;s become more acceptable to add noise and meaningless comments to HN threads. I came across this thread yesterday: http:&#x2F;&#x2F;i.imgur.com&#x2F;ZZt3F0M.png. The parent comment about the wingsuit flyby was somewhat relevant to the original topic. The subsequent replies were silly noise.<p>Please refrain from writing comments that don&#x27;t add anything meaningful to the discussion. Hacker News is <i>not</i> a place to post chains of memes. If you want to do that, go to reddit where it&#x27;s an accepted and important part of the culture. Please do your part to keep the signal to noise ratio here high. Thank you. Upvote:
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Title: I created a small application, and got one user. It&#x27;s absolutely a hobby project -- so I&#x27;m not advertising, and I&#x27;m not looking for thousands of users. That being said, it&#x27;s exciting to have people use things you make! I&#x27;d like to get small numbers of people to use it, but I&#x27;m not sure how.<p>What are some low-key ways you have grown hobby projects? Is it just something you let happen naturally? Upvote:
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Title: Consider the following projects:<p>* Facebook&#x27;s Free Basics initiative in India: http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.bbc.com&#x2F;news&#x2F;technology-35169226<p>* The Stingray phone surveillance device: https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Stingray_phone_tracker<p>* North Korea&#x27;s Red Star operating system: https:&#x2F;&#x2F;media.ccc.de&#x2F;v&#x2F;32c3-7174-lifting_the_fog_on_red_star_os<p>* Hacking Team&#x27;s surveillance software (sold to countries with a poor human rights track record): https:&#x2F;&#x2F;theintercept.com&#x2F;2015&#x2F;07&#x2F;07&#x2F;leaked-documents-confirm-hacking-team-sells-spyware-repressive-countries&#x2F;<p>Do you think that the software engineers who consented to work on the above projects acted ethically? Upvote:
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Title: Starting at 11 am PST today, Michael Seibel and I are going to do online office hours. If you&#x27;d like help with your startup, please post a top-level comment with a one or two sentence description of what you do and the first thing you&#x27;d like to talk about.<p>Update: We&#x27;re just going to try to answer as many questions as we can. Let&#x27;s get started!<p>Michael: hey folks really excited to meet as many people as possible and talk about startups!<p>Update: We&#x27;ve gotta run, but this was great. Thanks so much and enjoy the weekend. Upvote:
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Title: When I read the interwebz, I see other devs pumping out code to open source projects like food-to-code machines. They manage open source projects, be on top of the latest trends and even drive the hype causing these other developers to follow suit. Part of me wants to become like one of these prolific developers. I want to learn a lot of things, do a lot of things.<p>However, in contrast, I find myself out of energy after work that I just drop dead in bed only to wake up the next day. People advise me to do recreational stuff instead of writing more code on the weekends. Even my boss advises against writing code even when deadlines are just right around the corner. Forcing myself a few times, I felt like I was inches away from becoming part of the zombie horde.<p>How do these prolific developers spend their time? How do they work, do open source while staying healthy and awesome, and not become zombies at the same time? Upvote:
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Title: I work 10am until 6pm every day and I have a lot of endeavors I&#x27;d like to partake in post-work, everyone else on the team just works and then chills after work.<p>Ideally I&#x27;d work 6 hours a day, from home with no breaks (obviously a 10-15m lunch) but that&#x27;s it.<p>3 hours of mine are wasted <i>every day</i>. 1.5 hour commute&#x2F;getting read, 1.5 hours lunch + various breaks.<p>So essentially 8 hours of work, and an extra 1.5 hours of wasted time, taking up 9.5 hours of my day. I could be saving 3.5 hours per day (that&#x27;s a full month and 5 days every year!)<p>It just seems ridiculous to me as I&#x27;ve already had two really successful remote roles and the dynamic &#x2F; team size &#x2F; software stack is the exact same as previous startups I&#x27;ve worked at.<p>I&#x27;m their first hire and the founders come from a corporate culture so they just do all the same corporate stuff, meanwhile me and the employees are dying and I&#x27;m really feeling like quitting. I am cleaning up the mess of their old developers of the past 5 years, I am very good and in one month I have already completely rehauled their entire product myself. I have the stones, the problem is I am very very young and tend not to get taken seriously.<p>Time is MUCH more valuable to me than money. The money just goes in my account and investments, I don&#x27;t really go out or drink or anything so that money to me is just future time.<p>What should I do? Upvote:
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Title: Let&#x27;s assume for the sake of discussion that XMPP has died or is at least on its last legs. What could we learn from XMPP that would help us find its replacement?<p>There are a few key questions that need answering. What did XMPP do right and could be copied? Why did so many big players ditch XMPP? What would it take to get big players to adopt it? What are the existing resources for creating protocols similar to XMPP? Is it possible to simplify a chat protocol or is it complex in nature?<p>I briefly tried working on an existing XMPP server implementation but found the protocol and all the extension overbearing and very hard to grok. Upvote:
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Title: I&#x27;m in a bit of pickle.<p>I need to let someone go from my startup (20 people, millions of users, funding) who was here since the very beginning.<p>He&#x27;s been using his personal laptop and has at least one copy of our production database on it that he uses for analytics and data mining.<p>He won&#x27;t take the firing well (I think) and I worry that he might leak some of that information. It could be company-killer.<p>How should I ensure the data is deleted and mitigate this risk? Upvote:
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Title: So far we&#x27;ve supported OpenAI and we will soon start the basic income project. We have a few ideas about what to do next, but we&#x27;d love to hear from the community about what we should be considering. Thanks! Upvote:
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Title: I couldn&#x27;t think of a better word than &#x27;unfashionable&#x27; but what I mean by this is a programming language that is not new, upcoming, or has much traction.<p>The language may have unique or novel features, it may be a language with a passionate and dedicated band of programmers. But one thing the language does not have is much &#x27;mindshare&#x27; amongst programmers: its time in the spotlight has passed. It may still be in active development, or it may be moribund.<p>Examples of &#x27;unfashionable&#x27; languages include: Cobol, Snobol, Icon, Unicon, Forth, Pascal, Eiffel, D, Smalltalk, Basic etc.(Note, I realize this is subjective to a degree.)<p>If you use an &#x27;unfashionable&#x27; language, what keeps you using it? It is a unique feature? Is it familiarity or comfort? Is it speed or performance or some other quality? What do you think we could learn from that language when developing programming languages today? Upvote:
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Title: Lots of people have spent years writing programs spanning platforms, servers, services, and languages. However, efficient and elegant code is far and few between.<p>What code has stood out to you for being elegant and efficient? Why or why not? Upvote:
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Title: I do alot of research for both product&#x2F;market evaluation and general interest type stuff. Evernote&#x27;s tagging features have served me well for a long time and make it easy for me to find stuff.<p>Their web-clipper is also an amazing tool that is super-useful, but not essential.<p>I&#x27;m getting involved in a project where the nature of some of the data I&#x27;ll be handling is such that I can&#x27;t host it with Evernote. So I need an alternative.<p>I use mostly Mac&#x2F;iPhone. I don&#x27;t like OneNote. Would prefer desktop software, but I&#x27;m fine with something with a server requirement. Open source is preferred. Upvote:
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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&#x2F;CV: Email: </code></pre> Readers: please only email these addresses to discuss work opportunities. Upvote:
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Title: Please lead with the location of the position and include the keywords REMOTE, INTERNS and&#x2F;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&#x27; nifty console script to search the thread: https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=10313519. Upvote:
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Title: Say you had to incorporate an Ecommerce startup that&#x27;s based in Portugal, currently sells in Portugal and the Netherlands and plans to sell all over Europe? Main issue is tax planning. Upvote:
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Title: Second time this has happened to me and I&#x27;m frankly annoyed. I&#x27;m dabblin with the idea of full time and over the last two &quot;Who&#x27;s Hiring&quot; posts I&#x27;ve found company&#x27;s which have both piqued my interest and for who I have many many years of relevant experience in their stack. I write, excited to have a conversation, point to a relatively polished portfolio, and an HR person comes back to tell me that the position is filled or they are hiring a stronger match.<p>I don&#x27;t want to whine too much but I feel like there is some SV pedigree nonsense going down here. Bottom line. Don&#x27;t post in that thread if you have no intention of talking with the people who email you. Upvote:
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Title: Hi, I am curious if anyone could give any suggestions as to an appropriate sector within the software development industry given my interests.<p>My interests within the field is not what one would call narrow. Primarily though, I have a fondness for programming language theory, compilers, parsing and writing my own DSLs so that I can make powerful compile-time assertions regarding my code as well as generate tests automatically from the DSL itself.<p>My StackOverflow cv has an additional set of tasks that pertain to my interests, http:&#x2F;&#x2F;stackoverflow.com&#x2F;cv&#x2F;filipallberg.<p>Regarding my primary interests, the only relevant &quot;thing&quot; I have come up with is web-scraping, but I find it is a dull task as it is a trivial matter to me.<p>Machine vision is also something that I think a lot about, however most of my ideas are consumer-facing utilities and not something to build a business around. If I get a good idea I&#x27;d be willing to go into business myself. Upvote:
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Title: Please share suggestions of whats worked for you and what hasnt Upvote:
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Title: There seems to be a real advantage to using the JVM. It has practical-to-use, interoperable implementations of a wide variety of programming languages: from statically typed OO and OO&#x2F;FP languages (Java, Kotlin, Ceylon, Scala, OCaml-Java) to Lisps (Clojure, ABCL, Kawa) to GIL-less ports of popular scripting languages (JRuby, Jython). You can call Java from a slower language like JRuby for the performance-critical bits instead of having to either write an interpreter extension in C or bite the microservice bullet. Deployment is simple. There is a lot of high-quality open source libraries. The price for this, slower application startup, greater memory usage and, in JRuby&#x27;s case, a degree of incompatibility with the reference implementation, seems worth paying.<p>Still, I don&#x27;t see a great number of startups or side projects that get featured on HN using the JVM from the get-go. What are the technical and the nontechnical reasons behind this? Upvote:
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Title: I&#x27;m creating a &quot;stress-free&quot; guide to salary negotiation for software engineers, and I&#x27;d love to know what those in this community feel has been the biggest pain in the butt or burning question when it comes to getting a raise.<p>I&#x27;ll reply with advice to your questions here as well (I&#x27;ve helped hundreds of SEs already, but want to do more research), thanks for taking the time to help me out! Upvote:
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Title: In Hacker News we have the &quot;no procrast&quot; mode. Nonetheless, that&#x27;s not a common function in social media or email apps.<p>I have been using Rescue Time (to track my activities) and StayFocusd Extension (yes, &quot;focusd&quot; without the &quot;e&quot; and it basically blocks the access to a determined site after some time).<p>Rescue Time and Stay Focusd have been useful on my desktop. But in mobile (I have an Iphone) I am lost.<p>Especially, concerning to Whats app, I definitely use it more than I should.<p>Does anybody have this problem? How do you manage it? Upvote:
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Title: What are the best practices for naming? What is the hierarchy for folder organization? How do you name assets built in Maya versus those that are built in the game engine? What about code? Is it saved with its corresponding asset? Or in a dedicated code folder? Is there a template for this? I&#x27;ve been working on a team for a year developing for VR and web. When I first arrived on the scene, I saw that there was absolutely no organization in the 3D models, textures, scripts, etc. It actually took a full 2 weeks to figure out what pieces were being used in the current working build. Now I am able to navigate and do my work no problem. However, we just added two new members to the team and they spent an hour talking about how disappointed they were that they were expected to just know what to do after having been given that jumbled mess. I&#x27;ve been looking around online for examples of folder organization and naming conventions for the variety of files used in a game, but with no avail. I was playing Skyrim the other day and all I could think about was how they named all the NPC&#x27;s locally, where they saved all their textures, animations, ai scripts, etc. Even for all their environment assets. Not all rocks are the same, so I am pretty sure they didn&#x27;t name it &quot;rock01&quot; &quot;rock02&quot; etc. Surely there&#x27;s a code or a method for naming everything as well as a folder hierarchy. I know they are unique for every game, but I think it would help to just see a few templates&#x2F;examples. Upvote:
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Title: Based on my experience, Google searches rarely surface high quality blog posts, articles, and insider analyses. Twitter + LinkedIn have an SNR problem. HN is great only for the (primarily US) tech&#x2F;startup scene, and other similar sites often lack the community standard or size to maintain a consistent flow of worthwhile new content.<p>What <i>hand-curated</i> newsletters or websites do experts in any field find incredibly useful? A recent example I&#x27;ve found is Mattermark&#x27;s daily email newsletter, which has a curated list of 5-10 articles and blogposts from investors and operators.<p>Open to lists that aren&#x27;t career related too -- ie: a jazz playlist curated by professional jazz artists. Upvote:
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Title: Hello,<p>Are you curious to discover which snippets of your code were copied from Stackoverflow?<p>Where else on the Internet are those icons that you copied a long time ago?<p>Or simply to discover which licenses apply to the open source in your code?<p>There&#x27;s an app for that: http:&#x2F;&#x2F;triplecheck.net&#x2F;quantum&#x2F;<p>Development of this tooling took over two years, we archived over 630Tb of open source data around the web. Some sources of data have gone offline in the meanwhile but we kept a copy for posterity.<p>Things to consider: - Stackoverflow snippet detection is limited to Java at this moment - However, snippet detection works for mainstream languages in other repositories (sourceforge, github, googlecode, etc) - app is command line based (our UX skills suck), you need java installed - please let me know if pricing is too high or too low. We are bootstrapped, since there is no VC then pricing == survival - bugs will happen. Early edition, my apologies in advance for any bugs that surface - privacy NOT guaranteed. I don&#x27;t store your code, only fingerprints are sent to the server and these are NOT stored after scan is concluded. However, your data will be captured by network providers. Please don&#x27;t scan critical code, there&#x27;s a secure offline app. Details at http:&#x2F;&#x2F;triplecheck.net&#x2F;what-we-do.html - more than 300 open source licenses are detected<p>If the tool helped you: please retweet, upvote or just share your feedback and tips on how to make this grow from here. From one engineer to another: My personal thanks, I mean it.<p>-- Nuno Upvote:
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Title: Hello everyone,<p>I&#x27;ve seen people working in finance or interested in finance on this board, so I thought I may ask.<p>According to you, what are some open problems in finance, old or new? I am especially interested in quantitative finance.<p>I would ultimately like to come up with a list of them, a little bit like we do in mathematics, physics and computer science.<p>Thanks and have a great day! Upvote:
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Title: Pretty simple question. The acquisition for just under $100M [1] happened before Periscope had a public release, and only a few months after starting conversations with Twitter execs[2].<p>Seems like is has been a reasonable bet given the numbers [3] but seems like a lot for a pre-release product.<p>[1]http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.wsj.com&#x2F;articles&#x2F;twitter-acquires-live-video-streaming-startup-periscope-1425938498<p>[2]http:&#x2F;&#x2F;techcrunch.com&#x2F;2015&#x2F;03&#x2F;13&#x2F;how-periscope-works&#x2F;#.fhzefvp:TKeD<p>[3]https:&#x2F;&#x2F;medium.com&#x2F;@periscope&#x2F;periscope-by-the-numbers-6b23dc6a1704#.ivtvmsx9n Upvote:
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Title: A friend is a graphic designer who specializes in print (e.g., product packaging) but wants to learn html and css to get into web design.<p>Which books and&#x2F;or online resources would HN recommend for a person with a non-technical background? Upvote:
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Title: I&#x27;ve been wanting to make a SaaS business for years. I&#x27;ve done PHP freelancing for years for some cash on the side of my full time Systems Engineer job, but rather than develop stuff for other people I&#x27;d like to take a break from that and make something for me.<p>My work, and several of my clients I&#x27;ve had, pay for and use StatusPage.io. I&#x27;ve always thought I could make something similar (obviously not as fully-fledged as SP.io) as it would interest me. At work I play with stuff like Redis, Galera clustering, VM management (Puppet etc) and outside of work I play with PHP - so this seems like it&#x27;d be a good project to bring them both together - I get to build&#x2F;develop a site and also make it autoscale with AWS (never used AWS) etc - fun all around.<p>Is it worth doing months of research trying to find an &#x27;untapped&#x27; niche or something that doesn&#x27;t have a major leader, or is every niche going to have competition and I should just give it a go regardless if I&#x27;m looking to learn. I would love to learn, I&#x27;d class it as a success if it paid for its own hosting and made me more than say $100 a month. Upvote:
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Title: Folks,<p>this night I dream an architecture to build a &quot;clone&quot; of AWS Lambda.<p>The more I think about the more it seems reasonable.<p>Before to start coding and stuff, I would like to know if you guys are using AWS Lambda, what you like of the service and what you dislike.<p>What would it be your perfect Lambda ?<p>Thanks :) Upvote:
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Title: Company seems to be doing poorly (14 straight quarters of declining revenue) and according to markets. Would be good if someone with a grasp of how the company works could explain what&#x27;s going wrong Upvote:
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Title: I&#x27;m in UK at the moment. I just want to quit and go somewhere to nature, seeing mountains and stuff, and work on a few projects. What are the best places? Thinking Switzerland, but it&#x27;s really expensive, any other options? Upvote:
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Title: https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;freddiebarrsmith&#x2F;Ansible-Hidden-Service-Deployment<p>Hi guys, worked on this last night. Thought it may be useful or cool to deploy a .onion url automatically in 7 commands.<p>I&#x27;m also aware it&#x27;s not particularly good formatting but should work fine. Upvote:
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Title: Go for systems and backend, JS for frontend, Julia for data science.<p>It seems python is assaulted on all fronts..would now be a bad time to invest in a python stack, or will efforts to future-proof python (numba, blaze, nuitka, pyjion, Django channels, pyparallel) bare fruit? Upvote:
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Title: this is a pretty dark post but I&#x27;m pretty much burnt out. Not one of those &#x27;take a break&#x27; and come back but I just don&#x27;t think I can deal with working in tech anymore. I started out as a software dev for a couple of years, moved on to selling my own software and just too tired to go on. Like I don&#x27;t think I can compete or have the willpower.<p>I tried to think of new software ideas to work on but I really can&#x27;t muster any energy to do it. I know there&#x27;s ton of exciting new tech stuff going on but after 16 years I think I&#x27;ve had enough.<p>It&#x27;s been a really interesting 6 years working on my own thing. But it was far too isolating. Too much mental health issue causing. And it&#x27;s a zero sum game I&#x27;m realizing, one that is won by whoever can raise the most amount of money in the shortest time period.<p>I don&#x27;t know maybe my head was too high in the clouds. But I&#x27;m turning 30, and I think it&#x27;s time I quit and look for other things. I don&#x27;t know anything else besides making software, and I feel so old to be trying something completely new. If I keep going I think it&#x27;s going to drive me nuts. Even reading HN and Techcrunch these days I&#x27;m not even feeling excited or let alone interested.<p>I haven&#x27;t had any success and all I&#x27;ve done was get taken advantaged of by crappy customers, worked for free for years, and yeah.<p>I know I&#x27;m not owed or entitled to anything. It was my decision after all to work on something alone for such a long time. And it was all for shit.<p>I even got a hold of investors but I just think it&#x27;s too late. I should&#x27;ve taken money 6 years earlier, not now. I&#x27;m burnt out and can&#x27;t do anything in front of the computer anymore. Like I just want to get away from computers permanently almost. I try to imagine what life was like before internet and computers and I don&#x27;t fucking know and it scares me.<p>tl;dr: want to quit making software &amp; tech but don&#x27;t know where to turn. Upvote:
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Title: It seems like Quora has been popping up in Google searches more and more lately, and it&#x27;s doubled in popularity in the last year [0]. Does anybody have any idea why? They recently pushed out a snazzy new design (at least for Quora.com), but this can&#x27;t be the only reason. What do people think?<p>[0] https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.google.com&#x2F;trends&#x2F;explore#q=%2Fm%2F0bm8t1r Upvote:
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