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Title: Hi all!<p>I should interview potential new candidate for the team I work in, and based on the many opinions on "fixing the job interview" here on HN I figured I will solicit some advice.<p>My situation looks like this:<p>* Candidate has been pre-screened by HR already<p>* I have read the CV<p>* We have 1.5 hour video-call scheduled<p>* Predominantly a dialogue<p>Any tips how to best lead this dialogue?
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Title: Why is Amazon injecting commercials in their Prime content? I was just subjected to a Geico commercial. I pay for no commercials. That is the only reason I have it. Why is there not a firestorm about this online? I contacted customer support and they told me they are called "snippets" based on my viewing habits; "they aren't commercials". I will be cancelling if this does not change.
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Title: I feel like it makes people have to reply in a negative manner rather than just being able to lower the comment
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Title: I'm working at a company with lots of dot-commie perks including an open vacation policy. It seemed great on paper when I joined, I actually took a 40% salary cut for the promise of more vacation and freedom to live abroad and work from everywhere.<p>At my company, however, it's feeling like just another typical silicon valley sweat shop. Nobody who isn't an executive seems to take any vacation days. For the most part "unlimited vacation" means being able to work from home because you have errands to run or you broke your ankle.<p>Every attempt I've made to take vacation days has been met with the resistance of, "You have taken more vacation than anybody else in the team".
I've taken 4 days off for vacation, and 2.5 days off to ease the jetlag when I flew home to Turkey from San Francisco.<p>Recently I tried to take off 1/2 a day for my birthday, and I again was given this same argument. I politely reminded my boss that I make $50k/year less than anybody else in our engineering team, and that we have an open vacation policy.<p>After that conversation I began looking for a new position.<p>I'm curious, what are your experiences with companies who have open vacation policies? Are you "allowed" to take vacation days, or does it just feel like a scam to prevent you from actually taking time off?
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Title: Inspired by threads about Amazon [1] and Google [2], I thought that we would all benefit from some more information about the pay of remote jobs.<p>Some companies seem to highly adjust for location, for example, Buffer is paying $93k for a developer in Hong Kong, $77k in Buenos Aires, and $144k in San Francisco, for the same job.<p>This raises questions about determining 'fair' salary outside the major cities, where the cost of living is well known and understood, and sources such as Numbeo and similar sometimes miss essential issues.<p>So, dear reader, what's your job, where are you based, on what's your salary?<p>The more information we have available, the better off we are! :)<p>[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11312984<p>[2] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11314449
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Title: w3clan Tutorial Network is platform to create tutorials or documentation of your product or services or any guide/story you wish to share on internet.<p>Each courses or tutorials or documentation have option to use user custom domain or user custom sub-domain or default is which w3clan sub-domain for free to all users.<p>site : https://w3clan.com
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Title: I work at one of the "Big 4" tech companies and haven't been satisfied for a while. Did an interview with another "Big 4" company and failed hard.<p>I've been feeling extremely anxious about work. I don't feel well in my current team because everyone is smarter than me and I think no one likes me (people forget to invite me to meetings, I'm not invited to outside events, etc.). Every pull request I submit gets a load of criticism. I don't feel valuable to the team.<p>The first thing I thought is that my attitude is bad. But this can't be - I've heard from multiple people that I'm the nicest and most patient person they've ever met. In fact, my manager has criticized me more than once for being "too nice" i.e. that I should stand my ground more, or push people for things I depend on from them.<p>I wanted to jump ship and find an opportunity I might feel more passionate about. Found said opportunity but failed hard in most of the interview puzzles.<p>I'm feeling lost. I feel that 1) I'll be forever with the current company and 2) if I'm ever laid off, I'll never get a job again because I can't solve the puzzles.<p>Interview puzzles are so hit-or-miss. No matter how many of them I solve, I always stutter when I'm faced with a new one. If the problem is new, it either "clicks" right away or I bomb the interview. No middle ground.<p>My thoughts are descending into the darkest reaches. Death doesn't seem so bad anymore. Then I don't have to think about all this.<p>I don't know where I went wrong. I used to be intelligent. I used to be liked by my teams. I used to be good at puzzles.<p>Now I'm dumb and worthless.<p>I don't have the option to stop working for a while. I have the savings for it, but it's unacceptable to my wife.<p>I don't know what to do.
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Title: I'd like to test integration with various bank systems, is there any API/Sandbox for Citi, HSBC, JP Morgan Chase or any other American Bank - similar to PayPal's Sandbox?
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Title: I keep reading threads in HN talking about passive income, small side gigs that make money while you sit.<p>I don't want that. I want to escape my 9-5. Reach financial independence. I don't care about expensive cars, houses with multiple rooms I won't use.<p>I just want to work for myself and live my life.<p>How do I do that?<p>Skill set: Average Developer, understand marketing, SEO, exceptional Project Manager
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Title: At http://www.fairpixels.co, we help ambitious projects look less sucky through mainly logo and brand design as well as other design services.<p>We love open source, so we launched www.logodust.com a while ago and started open sourcing our own unused logo designs.<p>Today we want to expand our open source efforts and design an awesome logo for an Open source project that one of you is working on for free.<p>Here's what to do:<p>1. Pitch your open source project in the comments and add a URL to your website/github<p>2. The most upvoted project by this community, 48hours from posting this, wins the free logo design service.<p>3. Make sure we can contact you by having an email address on your website or your profile<p>Looking fwd checking all of your open source projects!
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Title: I work as a sole founder with little work outsourced and an employee to help with chores. My technical background coupled with marketing exposure I am able to enjoy awesome profit margins in my eLearning business. I now plan to expand my offerings and hence team but have no clue where to start. I don't want a co-founder as such. Right from the smallest of technicalities like giving control of my domains, server, sites to employees scares me. Then whom should I hire first, a core employee or a HR person? I have never dealt with such stuff and no clue how to proceed. How do small companies deals with such issues? Is there any exhaustive resource/course/book/video/case-study which lays down a process to take a 1 man company to a 'n' person organization?
Sorry for my naivety. Would love to get answers from the super awesome HN community.
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Title: For owners of small websites running on DigitalOcean, GCP or AWS, how do you handle DDoS and DoS attacks?<p>For context, while exploring the load testing tool Siege running on a VPS, I was able to bring down multiple sites running on shared hosting, and some running on small VPS by setting a high enough concurrent number of users. This is not a DDoS, but it goes to show how easy it is to cause damage. Note: I only brought down sites that I own, or those of friends with their permission.<p>What tools are useful in fighting DDoS attacks and script kiddies? Mention free and paid options.<p>What are the options to limit damage in case of an attack? How do you limit bandwidth usage charges?<p>There was a previous discussion on this topic 6 years ago https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1986728
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Title: I have no professional experience, so I'll be applying to junior positions. What kind of projects should I build to showcase my skills?<p>I'm thinking of doing re-designs of a few popular websites (2-3 pages mobile & desktop, wireframes) that I think can be improved. And then coding them into life.<p>Would that make a good front-end portfolio or are there better projects that I can be doing? Also, I'm new to github-- What could I contribute to on there?
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Title: As there seem to be many here that suffer with depressive symptoms and/or anxiety, maybe you'll get some benefit from looking into the following stacks:<p>https://trackmystack.com/users/baccheion<p>You can also join the following subreddit, as the users there regularly talk about and consume many of these supplements/nootropics: https://www.reddit.com/r/nootropics .<p>Other sites that may be helpful:<p>- https://examine.com<p>- http://www.longecity.org/forum/<p>These supplements come into play after you've ensured you don't have any vitamin or mineral deficiencies (it's common to not be getting enough vitamin D & K, magnesium, and calcium).<p>If supplementing with vitamin D, then it's important to supplement with vitamin K as well (to direct calcium away from soft tissues to where it needs to go), and to avoid extra/unnecessary calcium supplementation (as vitamin D increases the amount of calcium absorbed through the intestines). Life Extension has a vitamin D & K product which shows a good ratio of vitamin D to vitamin K MK-4 to vitamin K MK-7.<p>If you have a magnesium deficiency (or want to ensure you don't), the best approach to resolving it is to get one of the magnesium oil sprays (Life-Flo brand if you're not sure), then to apply it all over like lotion (avoiding the "sensitive" areas, as it can sting/burn) while orally supplementing (the glycinate/lysine chelated form is a good one) the RDA. That is, oral supplementation of the amounts required to clear a deficiency tend to be distressing to the digestive system, and it's highly likely enough won't be absorbed. Going the topical route avoids the digestive system, while also creating a signal that you have enough magnesium (the body won't really absorb magnesium through the skin if it doesn't need more, which will result in a white film (dried salt) forming).<p>As each 8oz magnesium oil spray bottle contains 26g elemental Mg (the body has about 28g all throughout), once a bottle is finished (or a white film begins forming on the skin, implying the body isn't absorbing any more), you can be fairly certain you no longer have a magnesium deficiency.<p>You can also get a blood test done (RBC magnesium levels or the ExaTest, however, not serum levels, as serum levels can be misleading (the body takes magnesium from the red blood cells to keep serum levels high, so OK serum levels may lead one to believe there isn't a problem, when in fact the body desperately needs more magnesium)).<p>Many of the recommendations (on the Track My Stack page) work well, but you can also become addicted to them (or develop a tolerance, or have nasty side effects) if not taken properly (frequency and dosage). Therefore, it's strongly recommended that one first properly research each thing (and also discuss with whoever's relevant (Doctor?)).<p>In any event, safety issues aside, when these supplements/nootropics work, they work well, and can often significantly alleviate or completely eliminate symptoms/issues.<p>You can also search PubMed ("site:www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed INSERT_SUPP_NAME_HERE") to read through the abstracts of whatever clinical studies exist.<p>Tianeptine Sulfate is effective for many people with symptoms of depression (not sure about clinical depression), especially when they've failed to respond to SSRIs (while having less potential side effects/issues).<p>Phenibut is effective for many with anxiety, but one can become addicted and/or tolerance can form, so it's recommended you only take 1-2g (split across 2 servings) 1-2x/week (and that you also take fasoracetam each day).<p>Memantine is effective for OCD, but it can cause debilitating brain fog (or dissociation), so it's recommended that you start at 2.5mg (or 5mg), then taper up in 2.5mg increments every 3-4 days until it begins working (which usually happens at around 10mg (which then sometimes needs an additional 5mg at night), but one can go as high as 20mg 2x/day).<p>N-Acetyl Selank (or regular Selank, if you want the version that's been around longer and has more studies implying its safety) can also help with anxiety and OCD symptoms, but you can read more about that on the Track My Stack page I linked to above.<p>You can add N-Acetyl L-Tyrosine to the fluidity/creativity stack, but some won't want to do that, as it mainly enhances convergent forms of thinking/creativity (Math or problem solving of the linear, logical kind), rather than divergent thinking/creativity.<p>There are also things like meditation, brainwave entrainment (Neuro-Programmer 3), CBT, etc.
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Title: I am starting to learn Hadoop and what are some of the good tutorials that can help me with it ?
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Title: I'm recording the next episode of this tomorrow w/Elon (http://www.ycombinator.com/future/) and have time for a few more questions. Any requests?
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Title: Access to servers, SaaS apps, crucial infrastructure software. There are tons of things that need to be accessed by people in the organisation. Although, in many cases, there is an option to create new users but sometimes it's not and often, creating new users is more of a hassle every time someone needs access.<p>How does your company deal with giving and managing access?
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Title: Title says it all.<p>How did you escape your 9 to 5 job to start your own business?<p>I am curious about how you effectively spent your time while having a full time job and a side business and at what time did you decide to take the full plunge.
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Title: Share your information if you are looking for work. Please use this format:<p><pre><code> Location:
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Willing to relocate:
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Readers: please only email these addresses to discuss work opportunities.
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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. A one-sentence summary of
your interview process would also be helpful.<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' console script to search the thread:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10313519.
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Title: Looking for contributors to your project? Feel free to post any project that may interest HN readers, with a strong preference towards open source. Please follow this general format:<p>Project name
Project description
What do you hope to build this month?
What kind of skills do you need?
Link to your GitHub or somewhere else you'd like to onboard new contributors, like your project management software or chat room.
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Title: Is there a place on the Internet for general -- including political and economic -- discussion that is filled with civil, insightful commentary?<p>Outside of specialist corners (such as HN), the Internet often appears to be filled primarily with hateful repetition of populist punchlines, providing little to no insight into the big topics that concern the world at the moment. This is such a shame, as the Internet really should be the enabler of discussion across borders and societies (which of course can become heated but should always be respectful and rooted in trying to understand each other!).<p>From what I have read, The WELL seems to have been such a place (or still is?) in the "old days", but where do you go today for such an exchange of ideas on a variety of topics?<p>(Note: It is allowed to cost money.)
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Title: I've recently moved back to reading non-tech books (I have spent the last years reading on solely programming languages or frameworks) and it was a bit of an eye opener regarding getting a more general picture of startups and businesses.
I have read the four hour work week, the daily entrepreneur, and the 22 immutable laws of marketing.
I have a few others under consideration (like Peter Thiel's From zero to one) but I'm wondering which other books have you read that have had the most impact on you professionally or even personally?
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Title: It is unusual that HackerNews is still a powerful, vibrant community despite Reddit's rise:<p>- Every subject you can find on HackerNews is also found on Reddit: programming, entrepreneurship, academic news, etc.<p>- HN celebrities don't participate that often, so I don't think that is the difference<p>- Reddit has more features (esp. when combined with RES)<p>How do you explain the success of HN despite the rise of reddit, and does this mean other reddit-style communities might succeed despite their similarity to Reddit?
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Title: What's your daily work like? Do you spend all day at the keyboard working with CAD and sim tools, or do you work with actual hardware, too?<p>The reason I'm asking is that I'm a pure software engineer, and I sometimes wonder if I'd have been happier on the hardware side. But I've gotten some reports that these days the work isn't actually all that different.
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Title: Would anyone like to give away / sell the projects which they've started but have no time or interest to finish?
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Title: Imagine these scenarios:<p>* You sit in some pub with a few friends. You show them a video you filmed yesterday on your phone. You're speakers are really bad, and you want to send it to a friend who has better speakers.<p>--> You try to send the video over What's App. You discover you have no cell reception. You give up.<p>* You are at a conference, about to give a talk. For some reason, your MacBook won't work with the projector. You want to copy the presentation to some other laptop. The WiFi is overloaded.<p>--> You spend 5 minutes finding someone who still carries a USB stick and transfer the files.<p>* You are in an airplane, and you have a bunch of company documents stored on your laptop, which you want to read on your tablet. You forgot your micro USB cable.<p>--> You are angry at yourself for not installing a file sharing app and for forgetting to send yourself the documents with GMail and downloading them on the tablet.<p>Everytime I run into one of those situations, I just get angry that there is no easy solution, and most of the time we have to resort to some clutch, like relying on a centralized service like email or messenger apps.<p>How do we still have this problem in 2016, where we all carry multiple supposedly inter-connected and interoperable devices?<p>There is an endless amount of file sharing apps for iOS and Android. There are countless protocols and options for discovering devices and sharing files (including "ancient" options like Samba, NFS and FTP).<p>Why is there no universally accepted standard that facilitates device discovery and file sharing between devices over WiFi AND Bluetooth, with implementations installed by default on every device?<p>Am I alone in seeing a need here?
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Title: An individual or small enough team of individuals' care and dedication to a project can outshine and outlast better funded/manned projects in the same space, often at the cost of reduced material rewards. Which such projects do you find inspiring?<p>A few personal favorites:<p><pre><code> GPG - Werner Koch (see https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9003791)
Tex - Donald Knuth
Fabrice Bellard's projects</code></pre>
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Title: I type at 100+ WPM on a Laptop (Qwerty) keyboard (120+ on a nice cherry blue keyboard). I know many typists get faster than this. I practice on http://play.typeracer.com/ a bit, but it doesn't seem to improve my speed much.<p>I have no need to type faster than 100 words per minute, but I'm interested in how one would keep improving when all the learning resources are targeted at beginners.
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Title: I'm a senior undergraduate Computer Science student, and I recently began a paid internship position working remotely with a startup during school.
It's been a bit of a rough start, and I'm having trouble getting clear tasks with well-defined requirements. The company has only begun working with interns in the past few months, and had very little in the way of established workflows. I effectively report directly to the CEO, who is an alumnus of my school and doesn't seem to have experience managing software projects. They only started using task tracking and workplace communication tools in the past few weeks, and so far I've primarily communicated via email and calls. I'm beginning to feel quite useless, as I have no real idea of what's expected of me or what the acceptance criteria are for the feature I've been tasked with implementing. Said feature had a rather unrealistic deadline to build from scratch, even for a professional working full-time, let alone a college intern working remotely for maybe a dozen hours a week. There are a number of other things regarding the company that strike me as red flags, and at this point I'm not sure it was a good idea to accept the position. I'm interested in the work being done though, and I think it could be a beneficial arrangement for all involved if the managerial/logistical issues can be sorted out.<p>So how can I make the most of this experience and provide as much value to the company as possible?
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this is a throwaway because job hunting reasons.<p>Im from EU and currently looking for a new job. I've reading good things about working in Sweden as Stockholm is rising as a tech hub.<p>I've lined up some interviews (software engineering) and I'd like to know how is like to work and live there.<p>Anything from salary, quality of life, job market or things I should be aware before jumping.<p>Anyone working in Sweden?
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Title: I received this email from Riseup today and thought I should share it with this community.<p>The news is not good
------------------------------------------------<p>We hate to be bad news birds, but we need to tell you that Riseup will run out of money next month. We had a number of unexpected hardware failures, lower-than-expected regular donations, and a record year of new Riseup users which puts more financial pressure on us than ever before.<p>We need your help to keep things going this year, so we are starting a campaign to ask Riseup users to give us just one dollar!<p>Can you give us a dollar? There are a lot of easy ways to do it: https://riseup.net/donate<p>Is it really worth giving just a dollar?
------------------------------------------------<p>Yes! It might seem inconsequential, but if you and every Riseup user gave us just one dollar, that would fix our current financial problem.<p>Riseup is now delivering over a million messages a day, but we need your help if the messages are to keep flowing. You know the importance of alternative infrastructure. You know the importance of communications systems that put people before personal tracking and corporate profiteering. We <i>need</i> at least 5% of our users donating monthly to be sustainable. Can you become a monthly donor?<p>Spread the word
------------------------------------------------<p>Are you friends with a carrier pigeon? Do you know morse code? Are you skilled in building signal fires? Help us spread the word about this campaign with your community. You can even use the internet, that might work too.<p>Not everyone can afford a dollar to donate. We provide services to so many people and social movements around the world, many in places where even one dollar is a lot of money. If you can give us one dollar, maybe you can cover one other person by giving two?<p>In Europe it is now easy to give to Riseup with a simple bank transfer! Tell your friends that it is finally easy.<p>Thanks!
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Title: I'm looking for job boards that specialize in remote positions.
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Title: I recall a few years ago being able to create really meanifull and helpfull queries on facebook like:<p>Friends of friends who like mountain biking and live in New Zealand<p>However it seems that facebook's search has been dumbed down. Were the searches too computationally intensive or abused in some form?<p>Any FB employees care to chime in as to what happened?
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Title: I've been thinking to apply - but I was wondering if anyone here at HN has any experience with Stripe Atlas so far?<p>How long the acceptance phase during does it last?
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Title: Software bugs are a fact of life and, sadly, many never see a (timely) fix. This can lead to some some unusual workarounds in order to continue using the software.<p>What are some unusual/quirky/bizarre workarounds to software bugs that have been encountered by the HN crowd?<p>A recent one I struck was with Google Earth desktop app on Linux. It has a tendency to crash on startup unless your mouse is contained within a small rectangle in the middle of the screen [1].<p>[1] http://askubuntu.com/questions/642027/google-earth-crashes-when-opened#comment1071599_677717
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Title: Been doing application development, primarily backend development, for a number of years. I've always found it quite easy to move up and down the stack and work anywhere from UI down to the bare metal in a number of environments and languages, and always the 'fast learner' who quickly knows the system inside-out, even when thrown into some area that I've never seen.<p>Lately I've been doing some web development on a fairly long-lived and large code-base, but I'm finding it MUCH harder to wrap my head around than application development ever was. I think my difficulty is that the whole environment feels so... HACKISH... everything is a horrible hack on top of a horrible hack. (yes, I'm familiar with the history, been using the Internet since before the web) I'm not even talking about the fact that everything has to be stateless, in fact I develop desktop apps as stateless even driven UIs as well, but just the fact that it really feels like there's no consistent way to do anything, there are 1000 different frameworks, all with their own way of doing the most basic tasks, and my experience is that they all ... well... suck.<p>Am I missing something? Is it me resisting change? Is web programming really that bad? Is it really just that I need a new mental paradigm?<p>Can you recommend any good resources to help me orient my mind to this new way of thinking?
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Title: I was satisfied as a programmer, but sometime you have to manage some project, I want to be ready when I got a chance.<p>So, what should I do/learn ? Is there any roadmap/checklist for a programmer ?
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Title: I've noticed lately that posts stay for a much lonfer time on the main page. Half year ago I almost never saw a post twice if I checked every 24 hours but now I do. What happened?
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Title: I'm working as a software engineer (mostly web, mostly backend). I've worked some years as a freelancer (now working at a part time job + contractor job) always working on the backend side.<p>I'm getting bored of this kind of job and I'm exploring data visualization. In my job (news media) my boss started to ask me to make some things with d3.js and I liked it, with the plus side that the "deliverable" is something people can see and if it's done well it could be easily shared and generate visits.<p>So I started to think about learning more about d3.js, build and show some things with it in my free time and then start looking for clients.<p>Anyone here already doing something like this? what do you think about it? what are your experiences?
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Title: This is something that struck me a few moments ago, because it's very logical but completely unexpected. I have a Macbook Pro that's doing some hard work with the fans on loud, and calling Siri turns the fans off the period that Siri is listening.<p>It's pretty amazing someone thought of that.
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Title: What mode of communication (LinkedIn InMail, Facebook Messages, email, phone or something else) do you use when trying to build your network? What general advice do you have for someone who is starting to grow their professional network?
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Title: You rarely or never see this on reddit or pretty much any other community board. Why does it happen so often here when anyone submitting can easily find a non-paywalled source with the same information?
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Title: I want to learn Object-oriented programming.
When I was in college I had learnt few concepts, but now I don't remember most of the things.
Also, presently my work doesn't demand to learn object-oriented concepts or OOP.<p>Any suggestions on:
how/where to start?
which book to refer?
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Title: Been asked several times but interested to see references to more recent posts.<p>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2158116
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3996652
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Title: I am a tech entrepreneur and I live among apps and tech stuff but I'd love to discuss the what is going on the beer and brewing startup environment of these days.<p>What are the innovations in this market, products related and what the big and also the small craft breweries are doing to innovate ?
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Title: Hello everyone,<p>We just launched a side-project we have been building over the last couple of months -- Coderoulette is a pair programming game for developers, like a Chatroulette for hackers.<p>We match developers in real time and give them coding challenges they have to solve doing pair programming using a collaborative IDE and video conference.<p>You can check it out here:
https://www.coderoulette.com/<p>We also published an article explaining how we built it. I'd love to hear your feedback.<p>https://medium.com/@miriammuros/how-we-built-coderoulette-a-collaborative-learning-experiment-cc023bbff88f
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Title: What is your opinion, in terms of added value, of an university master in machine learning vs udacity machine learning nanodegree?<p>I want to further progress my education, but am very divided: masters are expensive and long (2 years in Barcelona).<p>Udacity seems more accessible(moneywise), and has also the advantage of being taught by world leaders in the field.<p>What's your opinion on the matter?
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Title: I'm pretty new to software engineering (~1 year out of college as a CS major) and am having some serious problems improving my skillset (particularly with interviews).<p>Background:<p>- I worked as a linux sysadmin at a startup before going to school for CS. After 3 years, I graduated with a decent GPA (>3.6) and a couple internships at a large tech company.<p>- In college, I always felt like I had to work a harder than most of my classmates in order to get the same result. I would regularly spend 60 - 80 hours per week on schoolwork.<p>- Upon graduation, I accepted a job with the company I interned with and have worked there for ~1.3 years. However, I've been prepping to jump to a different role for a few months now.<p>- Recently (past 1.5 months), I've spent 1 - 3 hours per day on tech interview prep using CLRS, Cracking the Coding Interview, etc. My current target is a role at one of the "big four" tech companies or a high-quality startup doing either webdev or infrastructure engineering.<p>- So far, I have interviewed for and been rejected by no less than 10 different roles. I was also rejected by approximately 20 companies during college. I always fail during tech portions.<p>- I am REALLY bad at algorithm problems and experience serious performance anxiety. Concentrated studying and mass interviewing haven’t led to positive results so far. I can solve most problems correctly given enough time (usually 2x+ longer than interviews).<p>Questions:<p>1.) Does there ever come a point where it just isn't worth it to continue trying to be a software engineer who can get into top-tier companies / projects?<p>2.) How can I find some positive reinforcement in interviewing / interview prep even if I constantly get rejected? I do perform post mortems on every interview in order to find areas to improve.<p>3.) If my goal isn't an impossibility, how can I efficiently progress towards it? Would a mentor be helpful?
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Title: Hello,<p>I'm a journalist looking for a way to identify results removed under EU law. I'd like a big set of pages to search/analyse.<p>I'm struggling to get my head around how to do this. If anyone has ideas, I'm all ears!
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Title: I work for one of the BIGCO. I am debating with myself whether I should go for MBA or not. I need some guidance from people who have done their MBA.
I have bachelor degree in Engineering. I don't like or don't want to get MS degree. My academics are good and I can say I have a good chance of getting into top 10 schools for the MBA.<p>I am Manager in my current role and have 10 years of experience in software development. I want to move into executive management at a mid size or large company. I will be specifially looking for eMBA as opposed to MBA option.<p>1. Does it make sense to do eMBA?<p>2. I did some research for MBA salaries from top schools and it seems that MBA salaries are in range of $125k to $150k. I make around same range right now without MBA.<p>Is doing MBA beneficial for big jump?<p>3. Last question is, what is best way to get into executive management ?
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Title: I am a Computer Science student in last year of my undergrad. While preparing my resume, I came across two conflicting sets of advice. One recommends a plain resume with minimal formatting, with black text on white background. The other set argues for using a modern looking resume built via sites like enhancv.com.
This made me curious: Are plain resumes still used by developers?
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Title: I am curious to know how long were you working on your side project until it was successful enough to become your full time job.
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Title: Context: I'm looking at Norman Wildberger's rational trigonometry[1], and here I was wondering how useful it is in physics. So I thought about testing it with the famous simple pendulum exercise.<p>It's not obvious we get any FPS gain, but still I find it cool to even be able to get the same result differently.<p>1. <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rational_trigonometry" rel="nofollow">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rational_trigonometry</a>
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Title: I'm looking for a new role, but would like to work with recruiters to reduce time consuming job searches and applications. Where can you go to basically announce to recruiters that it's worth their time to find a good job match for you, rather than just spam by keywords?<p>I'd like to be able to continue to be a good employee at my current job, have time to spend with my family, and develop my side projects. So I'd much prefer a recruiter to go to bat for me so all I'd have to do is show up for the interview.<p>I'm leaving because I feel that both professional and skill growth at my current company is limited, but otherwise have a good relationship with everyone I work with, so I'm in no rush to do an intensive job search on my own.<p>Thanks HN!<p>P.S. I could interview well with a mid-senior electronics role or a junior programmer role.
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Title: I have been working with MySQL and SQL Server for quite a long time and thought of trying MongoDB. I realized that I won't be having the ability of joining a lot of tables and all. Preferably what areas would you suggest that NoSQL databases would be beneficial over the traditional relational databases?
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Title: I’ve been inspired by an old HN thread that asks what software engineers with > 200K salary did to get there ( tinyurl.com/hwvw5yl ). I am looking for recent data points/advice on what people did or are doing to get > 250K base salary (total > 300K comp) these days. Silicon valley/new york data points are preferable, but other outliers are interesting as well. To keep the spirit of old thread - there are the questions: How much are you making? Is your income stable or volatile? What industry are you in? Where do you live? How long/What did it take to get to your level? What kind of work do you do? Do you enjoy it, or is it the stereotypical "highly paid because it's crappy" work? Is this a short-lived opportunity, or do you expect it to exist in 5 years? What would your advice be to a 25-yr-old aspiring developer? 30? 35 ?<p>Hope this post helps someone who is either entering the field or a current player looking for a similar path.<p>This was a quick write up, so I’ll add any important details I missed later.
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Title: I am a solo developer who loves to work on side projects in parallel his regular job.<p>I am REALLY struggling to manage them, I need some system that:<p>- does not require more work to keep updated than the project itself
- it quickly gives me the ability to understand at what point of the project I am. Often pass days or week from the last time I have been able to work on the project, and I need something that helps me having the general view of the status I left the project last time and what are the next steps.
- improves my ability to track the different aspects of the project. Whatever they are different functionalities or other more broad aspects as marketing strategies....<p>I know are hard requirements, but I am not looking for a tool suggestion, but a method or some suggestions to find the right path.<p>Developing software products has a lot of facets (technical, and not!), and I am losing among them, I need someone who can show me the way :)
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Title: edit: Although I originally intended this question to full stack web development - answers from any domain developers are welcome. (Minor changes to sentence)<p>Full-stack / web app development have a lot of moving pieces and these evolve at amazing speeds.
As a developer/startup how do you stay on top of your game with these evolving pieces ?<p>Im new to web development and looking for top 5 rules from battle-hardened developers, mainly, how do you keep evolving products-teams-yourself ?
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Title: Hey HN,<p>I am pursuing an engineering degree in Statistics, I hope to get into finance so I am interested in knowing what books you consider a must-read for someone who doesn't know almost anything about economics (from a philosophical point of view; positive vs normative economics) and finance in general to help them grow intellectually.<p>Thanks!
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Title: For a web development position that requires basic knowledge of HTML, CSS, JavaScript companies can easily find junior developers, people with little to none experience in programming. But for system programming, how can you define a junior? Is it a person with experience as a programmer in other languages (say Ruby) but little to none experience in the language of the offer (say C++)? Or can someone without any programming experience at all find a job as a C++, Scala, Swift, Go developer?
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Title: What you are learning would have to be software development related and the end goal would be to become an expert. At the end of the week you would have to have something to show how you spent your time. This question isn't about what tech you would learn, but more so how you would maximize your time spent to become and expert as soon as possible.
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Title: You had the idea and you've built it. You share your project with your friends on Twitter and Facebook for some feedback. But what's next, how do you make your side-project be accessible for a larger audience?
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Title: It's time for another go at this question; we had interesting ideas the last time. What do you wish someone would build, either for your personal use or for your business?<p>Edit: fixed typo
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Title: Every book I've come across is rated poorly for being superficial.<p>The one I've tried to read most recently (Mougayar's The Business Blockchain) also felt kind of superficial.<p>I'm interested in both technical foundation and practical/business applications.<p>Any books, videos, courses, or other resources you recommend?
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Title: Following the recent post about upgrading SSH keys to ED25519, I am wondering what the best practises (regarding security) for using SSH keys are.<p>For example:<p>- Is it better to use a different passphrase on each key, or does using the same one not matter much?<p>- How much less secure is it to not use a passphrase on a key?<p>- Should you use a different key per user account, per server, or per use-case (i.e. personal or work)?<p>- Does increasing the amount of bits in a key <i>really</i> have an effect on the security of the key, or does it not make much difference in a real-world use?<p>- How/Where should private keys be stored on a device using them?<p>- What are some of the pros and cons from a security standpoint, and how may doing different things affect the usability of a key?
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Title: I've heard all sorts of reasons against using .local, .dev or .app. Is there a definitive standard for this?<p>What TLD do you use for local development? or do you just forgo the domain all together and use your local IP?
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Title: Have you ever had to access a device or VM behind NAT and what would you use to do it? Say a raspberry pi running a web server. Would you use port forwarding or something else?
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Title: There's recently been a lot of discussion about how much people are making in different areas of the US, but the threads about London are either outdated or not too comprehensive.<p>Please include your company (be it BigCo, startup, finance) / contractor status, level / years of experience and compensation breakdown in GBP.<p>I'll start: Investment bank front-office, 3 years experience: £59k, ~10% annual bonus, no stock.<p>Links to previous somehow related discussions on HN:<p>- https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7672167<p>- https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11317897<p>- https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5804134
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Title: I created a chat site with an open chat. Very basic. Additionally I added a profile system. Also very basic. Now I have about 3K visitors a month, make about $30 dollar a month through adsense, but I dont have any clue on how to make it more profitable.
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Title: YC applications for Winter 2017 are due a week from today and I like to answer questions about applying to YC.<p>I'm also happy to answer questions about anything else!<p>EDIT: Going to bed; thanks everyone!
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Title: I have been offered a job in Seattle that will pay 170k in total comp. I have 10 yrs of experience in software dev. Another competing offer was from Facebook but I declined it because they wanted me to join at in one level down than my current role.<p>I am 31 and don't have kids.I plan to marry next year. My wife may or may not work.<p>If I move to Seattle, what are hobbies I can pursue? I heard its usually gets very cold in winter. I haven't made up my mind but I found a place near UW for $1400 per month.<p>What are your thoughts?
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Title: I have been doing web development for as long as I remember. I get by with tools that are needed for the job. I don't fancy the new and shiny. I just get things done fast and done properly.<p>But I feel like I'm always a step behind the rest. There's this guy in the team knows how to operate Amazon, or this guy who that knows how to use Spring, or this guy that knows how to scaffold a Java app in minutes. Sure, I can write in the Java language but I don't know Spring by heart. I can build and run containers, but I don't know how to launch them in the cloud.<p>When is one considered to be a "senior" developer? Is there a means to measure where I am? How do I get there?
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Title: I'm kind of surprised there isn't a recent thread with comments and analysis of the impending relinquishment of US control over ICANN to another body.<p>I've read several articles, but I'm still having trouble understanding the reasoning, or even the technical details.<p>Does anyone understand what's going on?<p>What exactly is wrong with the current setup?<p>I would greatly appreciate an informed opinion.
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Title: I'm interested in hearing both technical and on the human management side (i.e. along the lines of the mythical man month book)
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Title: I am curious to know what men and women 30 and beyond make. I just turned 31 and have decade of experience. I am excited being in my 30s but concerned at the same time. I am well aware of and have witnessed ageism. I know if you stay good there are no lack of opportunities. However, once you buy house and have kids picture change dramatically.<p>I am single and yet to find a woman who I like enough to marry. Kids are off for me for at least 4 more yrs.<p>I will start with myself. I live in Seattle, 10 yrs of experience and make 135k (not Amazon).<p>How much do you make and what's your story?
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Title: For example, go to google.com and type in: "Squarespace". Squarespace has an ad at the top and then they are the first result. On the surface, this seems counter-intuitive because a user searching 'squarespace' would likely choose the organic link anyway. This is very common. Why do companies do this? Is it a defense mechanism so other competitors do not win ad placements right above their organic search result?
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Title: AWS has captured an enormous market. As a user I'm surprised there are only few serious contenders (cloud provider with an API and global footprint). Digitalocean has managed to captured the low end of the spectrum for people looking to run a few servers. Any serious alternatives to AWS today? Google App engine is still closely tied to there way of doing things.
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Title: TL;DR: Built a simple web app product, can't get it off the ground. Help!<p>To give context to this question, allow me to explain my situation.<p>I have been working as a freelance developer for a few years now and at times the work load gets a little difficult to handle.
That's when I hop on to websites like freelancer.com and upwork to find a few other freelancers to help me out.
The results have been really bad, bad quality developers at extreme rates cause they have have paid accounts.<p>Somehow, on multiple occasions I've managed to find skilled and in-budget developers on craigslist.
I presume this is because of craigslist's dead simple methodology and lack of rating systems or paid accounts.<p>Taking this into consideration, I built a little web app called FreelanceList.in (http://freelancelist.in/ still in beta.. or alpha-ish) thats follows the craigslist philosophy but focuses on freelancers.<p>Now the current situation is that I'm not able to get freelancelist.in off the ground!
I'm good at building products with a team but have no experience with branding or promotions.<p>The projects I work on as a freelancer usually have an active audience or a good brand value hence, I have no idea about launching this off the ground.<p>What do you think should be the next step ?
While you're at it, please leave a feedback too :)
Thank you!
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Title: I am wondering how many of you work part-time 10-20 hr freelancing or building other's MVP while still having a full-time job. Did you have to sign any agreement to the full-time employer for this ?
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Title: I'm a 25 year old for whom the internet has been a long time source of fascination and joy. My parents weren't well off and couldn't afford to send me through university so I decided to study on my own. For a self taught engineer who lived in a place where nothing extraordinary ever happened, I lucked out and worked for big name brands, with amazing people and made good money. But a year and a half ago, the most unfortunate thing happened and I lost my childhood friend to cancer. We did everything together, from racing toy cars as a child to hanging out at our favorite Persian restaurant as grownups, we were best of friends for 23 years. And needless to say his death destroyed me.<p>The first few months I cried every other day, I would scream my lungs out and cry in my car. It helped to cry, after which I could get on with the rest of my day. The crying eventually gave way to a need to rebuild my life. I took every opportunity to be social, exercise and do good work, all of which made me happier and my life was starting to look good again.<p>But in recent months, I have been losing motivation and the activities that used to give me joy no longer do anything for me.
Nothing interests me anymore. I am no longer motivated to solve problems, make money or do anything really. I just work enough get a paycheck, binge watch TV and occasionally go out with friends. I have become unproductive, feel constant anxiety and regret.<p>My judgement has become cloudy and I have trouble making even everyday life decisions. I find myself making decisions that I in hindsight usually regret. Even with all the agonizing, overthinking, reasoning, coin tossing and deliberating, I find myself making wrong decisions. The regret and failure of that decision manifests as an anxiety attack. I am tired of feeling this way!<p>How do I get over decisions that I know I screwed up on?
How can I think more clearly and make better decisions?
How do I get my life back in order?
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Title: I’m wondering if there are any tech companies in the Bay Area that offer private offices to individual non-executive-level employees. I find that I am extremely unproductive in open office workspaces. I can never concentrate due to all the noise and visual distractions. Putting on headphones isn’t an option. Are they <i>any</i> places that offer something like this? Are private offices really such a rarity now?
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Title: Looking for contributors to your project? Feel free to post any project that may interest HN readers, with a strong preference towards open source. Please follow this general format:<p>Project name<p>Project description<p>What do you hope to build this month?<p>What kind of skills do you need?<p>Link to your GitHub or somewhere else you'd like to onboard new contributors, like your project management software or chat room.<p>Your license(s)<p>Consider tagging your project’s relevant issues with “ask hn”. To search these issues, go to https://github.com/search?utf8=%E2%9C%93&q=state%3Aopen+label%3A%22ask+hn%22&type=Issues&ref=searchresults<p>You can also support DigitalOcean’s Hacktoberfest by adding the label “hacktoberfest”. To search these issues, go to https://github.com/search?utf8=%E2%9C%93&q=state%3Aopen+label%3Ahacktoberfest&type=Issues&ref=searchresults
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Title: Share your information if you are looking for work. Please use this format:<p><pre><code> Location:
Remote:
Willing to relocate:
Technologies:
Résumé/CV:
Email:
</code></pre>
Readers: please only email these addresses to discuss work opportunities.
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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. A one-sentence summary of
your interview process would also be helpful.<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' console script to search the thread:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10313519.
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Title: Please lead with either SEEKING WORK or SEEKING FREELANCER,
your location, and whether remote work is a possibility.
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Title: unicorn on each pageload
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Title: Simply put, what are your favorite talks or trainings? It could by a one-off lecture about a specific concept or a series of talks about a language. Maybe it's a TED talk or a session from a con. Either way, what's that one talk that changed the way you think and you feel everyone needs to see?
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Title: I received an email yesterday morning that I was accepted into the self driving car engineer nano degree program. Has anyone else gotten into this program? Whats your motivation of going through this program. My objective it to learn more about the different problems that need to solved when designing and engineer a system like self driving car. I am not necessarily looking to get a job in that space.
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Title: Do you use any apps, products that help you stay healthy? Do you work out during work or take a lot of breaks?
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Title: Is there anyone who wants to hire a whole team?<p>Due to a corporate decision, the OpenTable branch office in Chattanooga, TN is being closed down. Many of us are unwilling or unable due to family and homes to relocate to San Fransisco. (No, not everyone wants to live in SF, and we have faster internet here.) So we're looking for an "acquihire" without a company name.<p>About 8 Backend and 4 frontend engineers as well as a few product & design guys—all ready to hit the ground running. Most of us are startup veterans.<p>Interested parties can email me: [email protected]
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Title: I have a friend who is incarcerated, and is dedicated to learning how to code, no matter how slow or arduous the process may be. He has no access to a computer, just books and writing utensils. While it may be very difficult, what are suggestions you have on how to give him the best chance for success?<p>Even if he's not learning a specific language, what are some background concepts he can learn in depth that will help him understand coding? I recommended he study algorithms as a starting point but I am not a dev and am not sure how to proceed without a computer.<p>I realize this is an unusual question, but I greatly appreciate any responses. It's sad that someone so badly wants to improve themselves and can't easily do so because of our archaic prison system. I want to help give him a chance to have a real profession once released. Thank you!
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Title: I'm currently going through interview stages for several companies for the first time in years and the en vogue trend seems to be a timed hackerrank test. Without fail this involves an algorithms-heavy rip off from leetcode/projecteurler/googlefoobar/topcoder culminating in some trickily smart O(N) DP solution. I'm an experienced developer with 5 years of thorough product experience in the domain. I'd completely appreciate the importance if the role actually did involve trying to eek out efficiency in a distributed system with high throughput... but 9 times out of 10 it's boilerplate business logic.<p>On the one hand I like that it normalises the application process against prejudice (I was lucky enough to go to a top engineering school) so it allows a fair entry level to all, however, it appears to be just an utterly irrelevant IQ hazing.<p>Anyone else going through this pain? What are we to make of the recruiting scene going forward? Are we now at a point where an engineer should at all times be intimately familiar with competitive programming and codegolf techniques?
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Title: let's re-open this topic to see how things are going on this front :)
It can be a SaaS app, a mobile app, or any side project that is netting you recurring revenue
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Title: I am done with the coding and I would like to shoot my site into the wild and start some marketing. What are some of the best and most reliable options? Possibly cheaper ones..
Thanks so much.
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Title: I have a production site running on Digital Ocean. I'm looking for a cheap and reliable backup solution. What are your suggestions? Thanks.
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Title: This is to startup entrepreneurs living with high rent in the Bay Area especially SF.<p>Do you sell cereal, freelance on the side, couchsurf? How do you stay afloat?
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Title: In the past few years, there has been a surge in number of log management solutions — Loggly, LogDNA, Scalyr, Sumo Logic. Which one is being used by you / your company?
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Title: I can't read the paywalled articles on wsj.com anymore. So it's breaking my web experience of reading HN.<p>The first post on the page is mostly a TLDR or a link to an alternative article instead of a real comment. For example the current #1 post : Samsung to Permanently Discontinue Galaxy Note 7 Smartphone (wsj.com) - https://gyazo.com/440858bfcc2f94d912a087ca2ef7ce26<p>There will always be a discussion about paywalled articles and or alternative sources, which takes the discussion away from the topic and there is a high chance that this will be a top comment ( because of upvotes).<p>The current #1 link and #7 link are currently unusable to me : https://gyazo.com/578b105ce67f9b6d14cefe0dfeb43efb<p>The trick with bypassing it through the web doesn't work for me anymore ( and multiple others). This was good in the past, but not anymore.<p>An alternative like automaticly hiding articles from wsj.com would be nice, but i think it's more effectively to just ban the domain? Because it has no use for many HN-readers.<p>Suggested alternative: Add (paywall) automaticly to the link<p>Please discuss or give your opinion?
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