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Title: A movie about the Armenian Genocide, called The Promise, has received 129k reviews and the majority of them are negative.<p>With only 3 airings previously and an airing date today, this is clearly not right.<p>I hope this gets the attention of someone working on IMDB and sets this straight.<p>http://www.imdb.com/title/tt4776998/
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Title: I've been using Vagrant for about 5-6 years now to automate the setup of development environments. It was a great tool for spinning up environments that were similar to production and easily shared across team resources that jump in and out of projects.<p>The number of issues we're dealing with daily with Vagrant is rising. The productivity boost it provided is entirely gone and the support is taking a substantial amount of time.<p>We love Hashicorp and, I don't mean this to be a slight against them, but I'm curious what alternatives people are using to:<p>- Automate building dev environments (Linux-based) with dependencies etc.
- Ensure that your development environment is similar enough to production to reduce/eliminate potential issues moving to production.<p>I have done some googling around, but it still appears that Vagrant is the top dog in this space. Willing to accept that it's us and not the tool, but issues with NFS sharing, port collisions, support for Fusion, deprecations with legacy Chef setups and more is just more than we can handle right now.<p>Bonus points for tools that can be re-purposed for automating deployment as well (Terraform). Parity between development and other environments is important.
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Title: Hello,<p>I'm in the process of starting a startup, but I'm outside the US. Does it make sense to go through ycombinator.com or should I choose some other entity? I'm not sure if I want to be incorporated in the US.
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Title: I keep reading about AWS killing the DevOps profession and was wondering what were your thoughts on the matter ? Is DevOps dying as a profession ?
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Title: Hi HN,
I enjoyed volunteering teaching children to code back at university and during the holidays I like gathering food for homeless people.
What kind of volunteering has helped you grow the most? What kind of volunteering do you find the most fulfillment from?<p>Discussion about volunteering software skills online: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13678952 I am looking for something more physical or personal in London. Feel free to get in touch to chat more about volunteering, we can grab a coffee if you are in London.
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Title: As the title suggests, I'm in the market for a new smartphone and the sole thing I care about is battery life. I currently have a Samsung Galaxy S6 Edge, I unplug it at 08:00 with 100% and find by 10:00-12:00 the battery is already significantly drained ~50-70% remaining.
It's quite unacceptable and I can honestly say if I don't charge it throughout the day it will die around 15:00-16:00.<p>I've had the device for two years and what I've learned most is that I'm NOT buying another Samsung. The amount of irremovable bloatware, including the f*cking Facebook app I NEVER use is irritating. Something with a microSD card slot would be nice, removable battery too, obviously it'd be cool to have a fingerprint scanner but it's definitely not necessary.<p>I would love to hear what the HN crowd recommends, I'm willing to do a lot (i.e. ditch the phone contract, purchase from Amazon/Ebay etc.) to ensure I have a good lasting phone I'm not going to regret in 3 months.
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Title: Im currently working no more than 6-7 hours per day, which leaves me with a lot of free time during the evenings.<p>What kind of side project could I start to make some extra money?
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Title: Just some background: Currently a student and introverted to a large extent. I tend to avoid company parties or any other large gatherings. I'm intimidated whenever I intern at a new company because it seems like every other intern is outgoing and making the most out of their experience. Just as an example, some interns invite random people working in completely different departments to lunch. I've noticed most people who go out of their way to do things like this do go on to to be successful in general.<p>So my question is, knowing that I'm (very) introverted, how do you think I should change or improve myself to have a more successful career?
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Title: Hello HN. I see a lot of people here ask regularly what skills to learn to get a job they can do remotely.
I aggregate remote jobs from the majority of job boards on my website. Here's a data dump I did today for you:<p><i>Top remote jobs (last 30 days)</i><p><pre><code> - JavaScript
- Support
- WordPress
- PHP
- Full Stack
- WooCommerce
- Ruby
- React
- Product Manager
- Backend
- Meteor JS
- Machine Learning
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<i>Top remote jobs (last 90 days)</i><p><pre><code> - JavaScript
- Ruby
- Full Stack
- Support
- React
- Product Manager
- Meteor JS
- Backend
- PHP
- Dev Ops
- Marketing
- WordPress
</code></pre>
<i>Fastest growing remote jobs (last 30 days)</i><p><pre><code> - Machine Learning
- Laravel
- Bootstrap
- Node
- Linux
</code></pre>
<i>Fastest dropping remote jobs (last 30 days)</i><p><pre><code> - Sales
- Sys Admin
- iOS
- MongoDB
- Android
</code></pre>
The usual caveats apply, data scope is limited and there might be many more reasons for job categories to rise and fall outside of actually becoming more or less popular (for example, people hiring outside of job boards).<p>- @levelsio<p>(Source: Remote OK, <a href="https://remoteok.io/remote-work-statistics" rel="nofollow">https://remoteok.io/remote-work-statistics</a>)
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Title: As you might understand, having your own private open source library used by Discord is something big. Something that makes your effort worth while. So you download the distribution and look for your own, hard earned, copyright notice. Well it's not there because fuck you.<p>What I found by downloading the (Linux) Discord client from discordapp.com was that they clearly were distributing source copies of my project, but it had no license or copyright mentioning me (which is required). I also found that they are distributing ffmpeg binaries but I couldn't find any matching LGPL license or source code in the distribution.<p>So of course I contacted them. First via GitHub where I have reached them before, and then two times via their support people on their home page. I get about the same response as any one else: "I'm sorry but we cannot help you. Were you satisfied with the support response?".<p>It's not okay for companies to pull their pants down and take a big dump on your personal work. Not when they clearly do not even bother with complying with basic open source exchanges. If I write something I want to be properly mentioned as is required in my very license.<p>Discord, is this so fucking hard to understand?
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Title: A friend of mine is being interviewed for Big 4. In the first round of screening, (s)he was asked about a linear time algorithm to find all the maximum element in a sliding window in an array.<p>Now this is a simple problem for anyone who has taken any DS or Algo Undergraduate level class since it involves the important concept of the priority queue. However, it is my understanding that to do this in a linear time is neither trivial nor straightforward and unless that person is really gifted. (Its something called Monotone Priority Queue which is not present in any standard Algorithm textbook) So my question to the general populace is: Are knowing obscure algorithms like this any test of a person's programming ability ?
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Title: This question was asked on both 2015 & 2016 in HN. I would like to ask it again today to know what are the newest options for this.<p>Q: What would you recommend as a reasonably priced (sub 150$) quad-copter/drone, that has a camera, the ability to be programmed (so that I can process video/write my own stability algorithms for it), good range, and reasonable flying time?
In the event nothing fits that price point, any pointers on what the state of the art is?<p>Thanks!
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Title: Using named-entity recognition, how to extract book titles from HN comments? Should I train NER chunker on HN data?
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Title: We're currently going through a bikeshedding discussion about the log format that our microservices will generate.<p>Developers without Ops responsibilities want the logs to be as readable as possible to aid their development process (traditional timestamp, severity, component, action and a quick description in a single line and, depending on the type of event, maybe a JSON object in many lines with details about the request, possibly with blank lines and indentation to make everything very easy to read).<p>Ops people want the files to be easily parseable for injection into ElasticSearch. They want to avoid complex configuration and want more flexibility to generate reports. If logs were generated in a single line in JSON format, they would be happy.<p>It seems there is no way to please everybody. Are there any standard formats that microservices-oriented architectures are using these days? Is there a standard at all? How to approach this?
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Title: I realised today that Google has a separate committee [1] from which the employee needs permission if she wants to continue working on the personal project and also retain the copyright. Otherwise, Google owns any IP created while you're at the company.<p>How liberal is your company regarding personal projects?<p>[1]: https://opensource.google.com/docs/iarc/
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Title: Slightly tongue-in-cheek but nonetheless serious question. I've recently started looking into JavaScript UI frameworks and have the uneasy feeling they are actually worse than the now defunct Flash and Silverlight.<p>Angular and React seem to be a mish-mash of proprietary syntax and technologies (AtScript, JSX, TypeScript etc.) that paper over some of the cracks in JavaScript and CSS.<p>Are these transitory technologies that will be replaced by something better in the near future? Is there a better alternative available today?
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Title: I am currently in my ~8 year as a developer, doing my Masters degree while working as a part time developer.
That said i find it quite hard to keep improving, i know a lot of people that are better than me but i seem to be unable to really learn from them.
What i found out is that i rarely take the time to lern something in depth because i mostly learn stuff to use it and tutorials seem to move at a way to slow pace, so i mostly skip them.<p>As an axample, i started out with C/C++ development but am unable to keep up with the new standards. I see people write really nice code but whenever i sit down i just keep reusing what i know. The same goes for architecture, i have been building stuff for a long time but other people (with not that much experience) tend to be way better at abstracting stuff or architectual design than i am.<p>How do you guys keep lerning new stuff? Any techniques or tips?
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Title: Hi, I am learning web development for the last 5 months (mostly Javascript). I am fairly good (for a junior dev) at the language and the technologies I focused (React), so I started to look for a job as junior web developer.<p>But I noticed that lack of knowledge and practice in testing is hurting my chances. I was assuming that it would be something I would better learn in practice as part of an experienced team in a professional environment and that it was ok for a junior dev not knowing much about it. I changed my mind, so...<p>What online resources are great as an introduction to testing?
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Title: Wondering where do you see yourself in 5 years?
What are your IT predictions for next 5 years?
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Title: How is your experience? Interests? Success to the point of professional maths community recognition?
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Title: Hi HN,<p>I've been thinking about starting a blog / news site covering topics like privacy, cryptography, robotics, software etc, with a critical view on their evolution and potential effects on society at large.<p>Ideally it would be made of long form, researched, in depth articles and interviews with experts in those fields.<p>I'd also like to feature regular "hackers" doing cool stuff (like the guy who traveled to shenzhen to build his own iPhone)<p>What do you think of this idea ? Would you be interested in reading such a site if it existed ?
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Title: Please lead with either SEEKING WORK or SEEKING FREELANCER,
your location, and whether remote work is a possibility.
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Title: Share your information if you are looking for work. 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: At Oursky, we built several apps with electron.<p>We find that it's easy to set up, you can use npm packages. Yet the build size is quite big and it might not support all native features. What's your thoughts?
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Title: I'm woundering how do you approach this kind of feeling when you don't feel motivated at work.<p>I think that majority of people will solve it with finding a new job or maybe take a vacation. But, this is all about long term soltions. What I want to know, how to turn your motivation back right away, without changing a job or taking a vacation. Is it even possible?
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Title: /r/personalfinance has turned me on to the idea of investing for retirement.<p>How does HN invest their money?<p>- Passive robo-investing with Wealthfront/Betterment?<p>- Actively searching for stock on the rise/timing the market?<p>- Real estate purchasing then renting those out?
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Title: We just received multiple "google doc shares" that seemed sketchy and were not sent by the claimed sender.<p>They came from different companies that have no connection to each other, I assume others are seeing them too right about now. Anyone know whats up?
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Title: I've been self-employed for the last 5 years. I created several SaaS apps that have collectively made $1.5M pretax during that time. I also have a semi-popular open source project, prior experience moving from a senior role into a management, and have kept my skills current learning things like Sass, Bootstrap, Angular and Flask.<p>I don't necessarily need a job right now, but I wouldn't mind taking one because my income is 100% passive. However, I haven't been getting any e-mails back.<p>What I remember about applying in the past was how easy it was to get an e-mail requesting a phone interview. Probably 1 out of every 3 jobs I applied for would yield one. Over the last week, I've applied to 25 jobs and only one yielded a phone screen.<p>Am I out of the loop already? Is my experience that much of a commodity nowadays? What does it take to differentiate yourself in 2017?
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Title: WhatsApp seems down for me and other family members. Messages are not delivered. We are in centrale Europe.
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Title: I'm currently using Gmail and getting more and more worried about my privacy. I'd like to know my options if I decide to jump ship. Should I setup my own email server ? Or use another less invasive service ? What are your thoughts ? How do you concile email and privacy ?
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Title: I have a full time job as full stack developer, wife and 2 kids. I commute every day 1 hour in each direction. On a work day I woke up at 5:30 am, wash, dress and jump in a car at 6:00 am, so that I can be at work at 7:00 am. I usually go home at 3:00 pm and if there is no traffic jam I am at home at 4:00 pm. I eat something, change clothes, clock says 5 pm and I try to spend some quality time with my wife and kids. Kids go to bed at 8 pm and at 9 pm I am exhausted as hell, and I fell to bed. And this repeats every work week.<p>On weekends I barely have time for my side projects (one is familyokjobs.com, which I created over several weekends when wife and kids were sleeping), because there is always something to do around the house. What I'm trying to say: where do you take time for your side projects or studying new technologies?
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Title: I see a lot of people teaching themselves data science and machine learning but it seems that in the real world you won't be allowed anywhere near such a position without having a degree in the subject.<p>This is opposed to regular programming gigs where you can get work based on a portfolio.<p>Also there are efforts to commoditize common methods and algorithms by wrapping them up in APIs and SDKs.<p>So is it a waste of time to learn it on the side with the hopes of getting a data science job ?
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Title: I've worked at the same company for the past 14 years, I am one of the founders. We do mainly C++ work on Windows and Linux. We're in the financial trading industry. We have grown to about 20 developers.<p>Every time we hire a new developer I give them a few weeks to get up to speed with someone else and then I meet with them and we talk. I always ask "What do you see that we could be doing better? It could be anything, our process, the tools we use, our structure, anything." And I get literally nothing. I just can't believe it. Am I not asking the right question? Or I'm not asking it the right way? I thought maybe people were intimidated by me so I had someone else do it, HR, team leads, but we get the same result. There are even some pretty obvious flaws that we have like a homegrown, google docs based project tracking system and our lack of using third party libraries but the developers never mention it. And I'm sure there are many other issues that I have trouble seeing.<p>Prior to starting the company I worked at six different companies and outside of the first one, my first real programming job, I would always have lots of ideas in the first few weeks about how things could be improved. Some of my ideas were bad because I just didn't understand what was going on well enough but I like to think that some of them had merit.<p>Any ideas how we can get feedback from our new developers on how to improve?
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Title: Today, LinkedIn listed a large number people from my Google Contacts and asked me whether I wanted to connect to them. I double checked and I never had LinkedIn authorized to access my Google Contacts. And my Gmail password is different from LinkedIn password.<p>It is interesting that list is not the exact copy of Google Contacts but it is quite similar.<p>This post is not to complain but to understand what kind of voodoo LinkedIn is using to get users Google Contacts.
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Title: I am looking forward to dabble in SaaS. I want to create something for which market already exists. Should I create a clone of any popular SaaS with rock-bottom pricing?<p>Would I be able attract customers? Does this make any sense?
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Title: Hi.<p>I am just starting out in web development and am looking for any tutorials on Phoenix/Elixir/Erlang. I am not familiar enough in the language to a) know if a tutorial will actually compile (I have had issues with this in the past) and b) how recent the tutorial needs to be given the latest updates to the language builds. Any and all tutorials where I can build an actual thing would be very useful to me as would resources such as "this in x minutes" that gives snippets of code that do something. I find large documentation sources good for exploring ideas later, but at first I need to get to compile something, if for nothing else than my own sanity.<p>Thank you in advance for your help :D
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Title: I guess it was bound to happen eventually..and i’ve just been lucky.<p>But after 10yrs of consulting.. I finally have my first major deadbeat client!<p>long story short..<p>I started smelling something bad, when they decided to suddenly fire their main backend guy ( just 1week before we would release their MVP which they wanted asap ) and without this dev, we could not continue fwd.
This was the same time our invoice became overdue.<p>When I asked what happened, they said that without any notice, their main investor pulled out and that they were going to work on some new financial docs to present to them for reconsideration…and that i should be patient and wait - as the company is now downsizing.<p>When I requested a small 5k “good-faith” payment..or that i would pursue “other” paths,
their COO ( my main point of contact ) called me to say she too was not getting paid, but that she was positive, and that i should just be patient.<p>some details:<p>1 - been working with the client for the past 6-months.<p>2 - they’ve been paying us on time for the last 4.5-months.<p>3 - they love our work. no issues there.<p>4 - they had a seed round 2-yrs ago for 3.5M ( which i guess they burned already )<p>What kind of options do i have?<p>What tactics have worked for you?<p>*I want to avoid a long drawn out process ( since i just blew all my extra savings on paying my in-house devs )<p>thanks!
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Title: How many of you out there are still active programmers contributing to open source and community, while being greater than 30 years ? How to you manage personal life, work and contributions ?
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Title: I'm curious about the details of the usual working day for different professions/positions (not necessary technical).<p>Examples of professions/positions: UI Designer, CEO, Sales, CTO, Welder, Trader (online/offline), Recruiter, System developer/administrator, Web developer, Civil Engineer, Quality Assurance Engineer, Teacher, Professor, Astronaut... Anything.<p>I'll start:<p>Profession/position: Web developer - full time, remote - <50 employees organization.<p>Workday:<p><pre><code> - Wake up & prepare myself.
- Join a 10~15min call with my team (3 Developers, 1 Manager, 1 Designer).
- Start working on assigned issues, usually for 1~4hours.
- Catching up with emails/team conversations.
- Reviewing other developers patches.
- Repeat until calling it a day, usually 7~8 hours with 1 hour break.</code></pre>
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Title: With a very large number of companies now vetting the social media accounts of their applicants I was wondering how its seen if someone has no social media presence at all?
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Title: Confession time, has anyone ever done this? Given the number of bored developers in this thread[1], it seems like a given that this happens. Have any of you maintained more than one remote job at at time? If so what obstacles did you encounter? Would you do it again? Any tips or techniques to go unnoticed?<p>[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14290518
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Title: Anyone facing dilemma of being trapped in a shitty well paid job?<p>Cons
1) shitty management
2) old technology stack
3) inexperienced teams trying unstable stacks
4) politics
5) more politics
6) no clear vision<p>Pros<p>1) company is a monopoly
2) job security
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Title: I've been freelance Rails developer for 8 years and have never wanted for work. Over the past six months, however, things seemed to have dried up. And it's not just me. I've spoken with devs in other languages, designers, devops, and writers and everyone's saying the same thing: work's slowing down.<p>A couple people think it's because companies are more optimistic and are therefore hiring full-time workers instead of contractors.<p>What do you think? Are you seeing the same downturn?
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Title: Who's using Clojure in production today and what are you using it for? I'm curious about the state of the ecosystem and its adoption today.
There are a lot of old threads (on HN[1] or Quora[2]) that ask this - but none of them seem to reflect latest on who's using Clojure in production in 2017.<p>[1] https://hn.algolia.com/#!/story/forever/0/whos%20using%20clojure<p>[2] https://www.quora.com/Whos-using-Clojure-in-production<p>Ask HN post from 2014 : https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8549823
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Title: Hey everyone!<p>After two long years of writing along side my co-author, we have finally released the book: Tragic Design.<p>It's about the true impact of bad design and how to fix it. We felt there was a need to shed light on the discussion of Design Ethics by exploring the ways bad design can harm people and offering up solutions. When most of us think about bad design, we think the worst case is lost customers. This book explores the very real impact it has: physical harm, emotional harm, and more.<p>We are excited to have John Maeda writing the Foreword to the book, who has been a long supporter of inclusive design.<p>The book is out right now and I made this website for it: <a href="http://www.tragicdesign.com/" rel="nofollow">http://www.tragicdesign.com/</a><p>Were excited to finally have this out in the hands of designers, engineers, and others making products, and start making an impact on this important issue.<p>Thanks HN
- Jonathan
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Title: What services are freelance developers using to manage time logging, expense tracking, invoice generation, and reporting for multiple clients?<p>Preferably a service that offers both a web and native app.
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Title: iPhone: https://keybase.io/_/download/keybase-for-ios<p>Android: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=io.keybase.ossifrage
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Title: Do you use - Universal SSH Key Manager, ManageEngine Key Manager Plus, Cyberark Solution, or any other tool? Tips please.
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Title: I'm a guest host @ Software Engineering Daily & I want to cover tech stories from places which don't always get a lot of coverage.
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Title: I am a Computer Systems Engineer who is good at front end development. I want to learn machine learning next. How can a front end developer utilize machine learning?
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Title: Hi HN,<p>After seeing all the news about lost data recently, I need to get my arse into gear and get an automated backup set up properly.<p>I'm using a Mac, so I looked into the Time Capsule. That said, if one of the data loss scenarios is a well-written ransomeware worm, it feels like the Time Capsule is going to be just as vulnerable as my main machine.<p>What approach would you recommend to back up data, with both hard drive failure and ransomware in mind? I'm open to cloud based solutions if that actually makes more sense.
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Title: The shape languages are called "Shape Grammars"<p>The fancy geometry is called "Kisrhombille Tessellation"<p>You make languages out of shapes and then the shapes interact to create complex shapes, the whole process guided by code.<p>They're fractals. Infinite. And as customizable as code. It's a geometry programming technology.<p>---<p>Here's an overview of the geometry.<p>https://github.com/johnalexandergreene/Geom_Kisrhombille/blob/master/README.md<p>---<p>Here's a tool for making your own custom grammars (it's easy) and looking at pretty pictures.<p>https://github.com/johnalexandergreene/Forsythia/tree/master/app/grammarEditor<p>There's a README there. It provides a little overview and explains the UI.
There's also a video walkthrough that shows you how to make a simple grammar.<p>---<p>Here's the main project. Much pictures and videos. Fractal dive videos too.<p>http://www.fleen.org/<p>---<p>Peruse the github repo for various demos and stuff.
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Title: There was a recent post on HN about marriage. An insightful hacker commented:<p>What ends up happening is sooner or later one ends up pulling dating partners from eccentric and probably unhealthy places. And the ones most willing to engage have their own reasons for seeking out a lonely programmer.<p>Generically, bad places to pull a spouse from: online dating sites/apps, bars, concerts, large parties, etc. Just about anywhere that attracts people from a variety of social strata and offers zero curation for common values, education or habits of mind, and/or doesn't sort people in any way based on useful proxies for those things.
The trouble is that those sources are tempting if you are socially isolated (from the opposite gender) and perceive yourself to have few options, and/or because you're lazy or fatigued from the ever-frustrating chase.<p>Always bad? No. But the median outcome is going to be worse than with other, more enlightened dating strategies.<p>When asked what are some enlightened dating strategies, he replied: If I had a good answer for you, my own life might have gone differently.<p>I find myself in the same situation, and probably I'm not the only one. 37 years old, been 8 years at dancing classes & parties (mostly salsa), which resulted in various short-term relationships.<p>What dating advice/strategies do you have for software engineers aiming to establish a family? I'm even considering Facebook ads, with the risk of getting my face known by all single women in the city.<p>Much appreciated.
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Title: I am a Dutch high school student and last year I had to do a large project of my own choice. Together with two other guys I decided to do a project about digital logic. We had an ambitious plan: building an 8-bits computer.<p>At that time I started learning programming and I already knew some HTML and CSS. So we decided to not build a physical computer, but one running in a self-built simulator. I was going to build the simulator, the other guys took care of the computer.
I was hard, our school hadn't taught us anything about computers and programming so we had to learn everything ourselves. Our mentor told us our project was impossible to do, but we didn't listen and we worked hard.<p>After a year we did it, I have built the simulator, called BOOLR, and the other guys have built the 8-bits computer, called Tineke. Our mentor was really impressed, we got a 10/10 grade.<p>I've created BOOLR with JavaScript and Electron, the UI with HTML & CSS.<p>-------------<p>About & Download website: <a href="http://boolr.me" rel="nofollow">http://boolr.me</a>, feel free to download it and play around with it, it has a tutorial mode to show how everything works.<p>On Github: <a href="https://github.com/ggbrw/boolr" rel="nofollow">https://github.com/ggbrw/boolr</a>, I'm new to programming so don't blame me for the ugly and messy code. Next year I am going to study computer science so I hope to learn more about organizing and optimizing my code, but I am really proud of the result.
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Title: Happy Mother's Day to all you great Moms out there who manage to survive and thrive in this tough tech world while working to make your family function. It ain't easy when the only person you need to look out for is you. Respect.<p>Congrats!
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Title: any script that you are using to automate your life? How's it been done? Appreciate you sharing codes.
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Title: I'm sure it topped the home page ten minutes ago. I came back two minutes ago to see if there were any comments, and the entry is nowhere to be found.
What happened?<p>This was the story: https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2017/05/y-combinator-head-who-pushes-basic-income-is-reportedly-running-for-office/
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Title: Recently, I've noticed my quantitative abilities slipping. I want to refresh myself on probability, statistics, linear algebra, and maybe calculus?<p>Piggybacking on the thread below, I'd be curious to hear any new sites/apps/books/practices the HN community recommends. This is more of a mental exercise than an application towards a particular problem. Thanks in advance!<p>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3569761
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Title: I'm leaving a startup I founded due to disagreements over team/strategy. I worked on it for about 16 months.<p>We are 3 co founders and we have 33/33/33.<p>I want to quit it in 2 months and we are currently in the process to raise 500K for 25% before the end of the year.<p>Is it reasonable for me to keep 10% of it. - They think it's way too much.<p>Sell to them 10% right now - How much??<p>Sell 13% of it after the 500k raised - How much??<p>Thanks!
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Title: What real-world applications are you finding it useful for right now?
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Title: I've been programming for ~3 years now, first just on the side and now full-time. My learning has been in stops and starts. Now I can feel the cumulative learning paying off. I'm also realizing there's SO much more to learn. What advice do you have for programmers just hitting their stride?
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Title: I am in the late stage of developing application using Firebase, Google App Engine and some Compute for my application backend, primarily because it is less pain than managing own servers. But the post yesterday "Firebase Costs Increased by 7,000%!"[1] made me rethink my decision as I can not afford any surprise bills now. So the cheaper alternative would be to use Digital Ocean, but is it production ready and if anyone using it successfully for running a large production app ?
[1]https://medium.com/@contact_16315/firebase-costs-increased-by-7-000-81dc0a27271d
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Title: I'd love to learn a bit about what the current hosting/tech stack setup looks like. IIRC the posts were stored in files on the file system and scaled quite well vertically. Is that still the case?
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Title: Say I want to apply what I know to better our chances as a species and/or as individuals. What problems do i work on?
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Title: Regardless of topic, which websites/blogs/subreddits/newsletters/Youtube channels do you often read/watch (to acquire information)?
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Title: How would you publish maintain projects? How would issues be resolved? It will be nice if mention the era in the answer .
like 80's 90's 2000's
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Title: I recently was struggling with an design/architecture issue all day, and when I was finished I thought about writing down some thoughts about the what/how/why aspects of my solution for future reference. I then stumbled on the term 'developer diary' for this kind of thing (for ex. https://www.smartics.eu/confluence/display/PDAC1/Developer+Diaries), that apparently some software developers hold in high regard.<p>I will be trying to keep my own (though a bit more light/free form than that in the link) in order to bring a bit more structure to my day-to-day.<p>Do you have any experience with developer diaries? Have they helped you become a better developer, and if so, what kind of effects did you notice?
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Title: Which online courses/MOOCs are of superb quality but aren't well-known (regardless of topic)?
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Title: I have worked on various side projects involving design, development, music, etc. over time and generally kept the remnants living on somewhere (DropBox folders, word docs, random repositories). I like to have reference for nostalgia or to reflect on the lessons learned before my next pursuit. Recently, I have been considering creating a blog or documenting the key parts like screenshots along with a write up recap in an Archive folder somewhere and then purging the content such as code, mockups, assets, etc. I would partially like to write a post-mortem about a side startup but the rest are not as valued.<p>I was just curious if you have any personal examples or practices for closing out your cancelled or completed projects (Archive - Purge - Blog Post - Open Source - viking send-off)?
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Title: Lately I've realized that I consume way too much. Be it Instagram, Facebook, Reddit, HackerNews, Youtube, etc. Even though I have a job and I deliver value to society on a dialy basis, I feel like I could contribute more.<p>Another thing that is holding me back I think is the fear of commitement. I have a partially ready youtube channel, with two videos, not listed. I tell myself that I'll open the videos to the public and then start realising videos on a weekly schedule but the commitement seems like a such a burden on me that I don't think I'll be able to keep up.<p>I also would like to contribute to open source software projects, or write more for my blog, but I just can't force myself to do it. This is kinda a mix of fear (of what?!) and procrastination habits.<p>Am I pressuring myself too much to make the switch? How did you do it?
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Title: Hola HN!<p>I'm a software developer considering moving to Spain for non-career-related reasons. That said, the job opportunities there are a huge factor in whether I'll actually go.<p>I've narrowed down to Madrid and Barcelona as the two best options, at least regarding jobs. So I'm asking for the opinions and advice of HNers who have lived & worked in both those cities:<p>What shape is the tech sector in?
What types of work are available?
What do salaries look like, vs London/Berlin/Paris levels?
How limiting is it to not be fluent enough in Spanish for use at work, beyond chit-chat?
Is contracting/freelancing possible, without Spanish fluency?
Is there is an obvious leader between the two cities, tech-scene wise?
Are there any unintuitive factors to consider?<p>---<p>A bit of personal context, if it helps the advice to be a bit more concrete:<p>* I'd be going for senior developer roles. Most likely at small-mid size companies. Larger ones possibly, for the right job.<p>* My past jobs have been in the capital cities of Europe's strongest economies. I'm aware that moving to Madrid or Barcelona will likely involve a pay cut in absolute terms. But this is a trade off I'm more than happy to make.<p>* I'm currently functional in Spanish but I have a long way to go until fluency. That's one of my goals in moving to Spain. So I'm not put off by the language barrier for day to day life. It would be more of a near term concern if non fluency is severely career limiting, for example if it becomes a problem once you are anywhere above entry level positions, as is the case in some countries.
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Title: I'm a frontend developer in the greater Vancouver, BC area. After becoming burnt out at my last position over a year ago, I've had no success in finding further work and don't have all that much motivation to continue the endless cycle of humouring recruiters and sending resumes out. Not because I don't like software development, more so because of the cost of continued attempts and lack of potentially inspiring outcomes (technical, very time intensive interviews with very few compelling companies worth the effort) that I am qualified for.<p>Anyhow, I'd like to apply at companies that, for lack of a better description, essentially pay minimum wage and require building basic skill that I may not have developed in software. Like Starbucks, McDonalds, retail. However, computers and software are pretty much all I know and all I have on my resume. I'm reasonably outgoing, well spoken, and have some confidence that I can work with others, but making the backwards transition from my career to a more basic jobby job (no intention of being derogatory here) is surprisingly unclear.<p>Edit: Part of the intention as well, is to build versatile skills that might allow more job flexibility in the future. For example if I were to travel and work without requiring a skilled worker visa.
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Title: Answers relevant to the UK would be good, but if not then any info at all would be better than nothing.
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Title: If you will start your project today (medium to large application) which web framework technology would you pick:
- Asp.Net Core
- Node + Angular
- Node + React
- Django or Flask
- Rails
- Laravel or Zend
- Play Framework
- Other
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Title: There are bunch of informative/interesting comments on HN. Throwing here just few of them:<p>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14327829<p>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12941574<p>Which HN comment(s) are among your favorite ones? Which ones have created value for you?
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Title: Let's say I have $1 million in Bitcoin? How easy would it be for me to sell it all in 1 day and get $1 million in cold, hard cash back?<p>If it's not feasible in 1 day, how many days roughly would it take to sell it all?
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Title: Additionally, the project is on a new tech stack (for me). I would like to be productive as soon as possible and help the team move faster while adding quality and better engineering practices.<p>Any tips, help, books? Thanks.
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Title: What are good examples of interactive TUI/CLI user experience? I'm looking for nice layouts, use of ASCII color, interaction patterns, nicely written help text, etc.
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Title: Mainly I'm asking about websites, but other security mistakes are welcome (e.g., IoT, apps, firmware)<p>Also acceptable: Not common but happens reasonably often and exposes large vulnerabilities.
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Title: The common answer is, "It's nice to give back, blah blah".<p>Besides that, what real value does blogging give to you, the developer?
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Title: Hi HN,<p>Using a throwaway account because there's a lot to lose from speaking about how I feel.<p>I founded a company several years ago. Fast forward to today and we're profitable, growing steadily, debt free and are about to be acquired (there are LOIs on the table). You may ask what the problem is? Well, the problem is that I'm supremely unhappy.<p>Each morning for the past couple months, my first thought has been "What could today be like if I didn't work here?". I drift off into exploring what it would be like to work at Wal Mart, or the construction site outside, or as a bagger at a grocery store. It seems so stress free. Then, my phone starts ringing for the day and I'm snapped back to reality. This morning, I locked myself in the bathroom with the shower running (don't want wife to know) and cried my eyes out. I haven't cried in many years. It felt great, but only for an hour.<p>So, from my (possibly skewed) point of view, I have 2 options:<p>- Quit, which effectively kills any acquisition and likely the company as well<p>- Suck it up and work on the same thing for 2-5 more years<p>I'd been mulling over a third option (hire someone to do my day-to-day), but don't know how to make it work. The product is just too complicated (tons of domain knowledge required) for someone to come in and take over. Additionally, the product just isn't that interesting (glorified CRUD app) and it's been hard to retain developers.<p>Please tell me I'm missing something! Maybe I'm just being ridiculous- it's getting hard to tell. Is it common for a Founder to go through this train of thought before an acquisition? Is there a trick to convince yourself you want to keep doing this? Maybe I'm suffering from some kind of depression and need drugs.<p>Any advice appreciated.<p>- A founder in pain
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Title: Some recent personal observations and tutoring led me to believe that schools introduced mandatory laptops and tablets simply to appear modern.<p>What I see is pre/teens spending most of their days (evenings and weekends) on social media using devices mandated by schools and purchased at great cost by parents. I see close to none usage of the same devices for improved learning/teaching.<p>Kids don't hang out on Wikipedia. They follow pop stars on Instagram. All day (and night if not restricted) using electronics that supposedly improves education.<p>Majority of 'educational' usage is along the lines of looking up class schedule online and doing homework on ebooks which could very well be paper based. For example what are the benefits of using drawing program vs paper, pencil, ruler for basic geometry? Is it worth spending money on iPad Air to facilitate this? Wouldn't be better to use these funds for better teacher pay and teacher/student ratios?<p>Are there any studies supporting or disproving my observations? What are your personal observations?
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Title: Do they really need this many people to handle advertisers and run the app? I know they have a research team for the spectacles but this seems excessive.
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Title: I am a mid 20s white male who has been afforded immense privilege in life. I am outwardly extremely confident and able to get what I want. I have dozens of opportunities in front of me, more than 99% of people. Yet instead of being grateful for these opportunities, I feel like I do not deserve them. As a result, I frequently begin an endeavor, see some initial success, but then self destruct just prior to an inflection point, thus destroying any chance of future success.<p>This happens everywhere. School, athletics, relationships, businesses. Because I feel I do not deserve what I have, I self-destruct before I can take anything to the next level. It seems to be a subconscious attempt at equalizing my reality with what I feel I deserve.<p>I believe the cause of this is overthinking everything. I am analytical and often overzealous in my choice of analysis. I feel like I am observing myself from the third person. What I see, I don't like.<p>How do I get over this self-loathing? Do I need to stop overthinking? Is that even possible? Do I just need to accept this state of mind and seize control of it?
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Title: How has your experience been compared to your previous tech?<p>How mature is the standard library? How abundant are third party libraries?
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Title: I'm a full-stack engineer, recently built and soft-launched my side-project, but been told by several people that UI needs work.<p>I went to dribble and used their search * to locate designers that "Are for Hire". But the first few I found appear to be more like Agencies, most of which don't take on a single site or app like mine, and also costs 5 to 10K min.<p>I want to hire an individual developer so that costs are low (I'm bootstrapped) and also I have a chance of bringing in the designer as a co-founder if things work out.<p>Anyone have experience with this? i.e. locating and hiring an individual designer from Dribble? How did you go about it? How did you vet them? Were you happy with your results? Costs?<p>[P.S. If you are a designer and would like to know more, please contact me theblogdoctor (at) gmail. ]<p>I'm based in San Francisco and this is the site that needs work => http://visaok.in<p>* Search Page I used: https://dribbble.com/designers?twitter=&dribbble=&sort=popular&for_hire=on&location=&skills=<p>(I understand they have a job board I can post in, but would like to avoid the 375$ for 30 days costs, as I am bootstrapped and would like to use their search page to find designers if possible :)
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Title: There were no lecture videos posted this week and one of the old lectures (How to Invent the Future Part II) has been removed. Anyone know what's going on?
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Title: We've built a platform that enables private individuals and organizations to create their custom social network. We deployed a large range of features : you can chat, store your folders in our file boxes (works with Dropbox and Google Drive), assign tasks and display them in a Trello-like Kanban, create a portal for your organization... We're trying to gather some feedback in order to improve our service. Here are a few screenshots : <a href="http://imgur.com/gallery/EFanm" rel="nofollow">http://imgur.com/gallery/EFanm</a>.
<feel free to visit our website at <a href="https://whaller.com" rel="nofollow">https://whaller.com</a>
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Title: I've heard success stories of people making millions from adsense or from creating software products. It's made me think who has been the most successful at building a company as a sole proprietor.<p>I guess we should discount companies that have single ownership but outsource all the work.
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Title: Have been working with Java, Scala and Ruby backend with some front end experience (Basic JS, HTML CSS). I now have an opportunity to work in depth on front end engineering.<p>The front end landscape has always seemed quite messy and fragmented to me, and honestly a bit scary too. I am fine with taking the leap of faith, but wanted HN community's opinion on whether it would be an enlightening experience. Is there something like "too late to move to front end"?
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Title: Also, what would it take for Prolog to become a great general-purpose language?
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Title: Hi there,
I'm in a complicated situation and don't know what to do:<p>I work as a developer for an outsourcing company and I have been without an assigned project for the last several months, at first I didn't worry because there is always some downtime between projects but now its been too long, I'm worried how this affect my career because I'm doing basically nothing(I use the time to work in some pet project)<p>I have had several times when I was about to get into a project but for different reasons it didn't prosper.<p>What would you do? Would you stay in this comfortable(because I get paid for do nothing) but probably bad in the long term situation or find something else?<p>Thanks!
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Title: Anonymous for obvious reasons.<p>I am the ex-founder of a company that has had some moderate success, and I own a 5% equity stake. They're about to raise money at a $XX,000,000 valuation. I am skeptical of the company's future and want out. The hardball CEO offered $100k. What should I do?
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Title: I've recently been diagnosed with an illness that has left me little to no concentration and a very low level of comprehension,as such I will most likely have to leave my job as a software engineer as it's becoming overwhelming. So my question is, if you have had to leave your IT job, what was/is your new job.
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Title: I don't own/lead any significant open source projects, but it seems like there are very few projects that even attempt to monetize via dual-licensing, service contracts, etc. Is there some major barrier to monetiziation (i.e. legal fees)? Is it a philosophical barrier?
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Title: I am a non-technical guy who has validated a business model using messengers (WhatsApp and FB messenger) to sell stuff and made over $60K over the last 12 months without writing a single line of code. I now know how all the parts and pieces need to work together.<p>During the process I have encountered a lot of inefficiencies. If I had a technical co-founder, we would be able to build a web application that could greatly reduce these inefficiencies and scale this up significantly.<p>How would you guys go about finding such a person? (would be glad to talk to anyone here too). This is in Bangalore, India.
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Title: I'm coming from Python world and I just started learning F# for fun (and profit ;)). So far, my experience with the language was quite positive, so I was bit surprised to see that F# is not more popular. I guess I wasn't able to see its downsides just yet.<p>My question for more experienced F# programmers: What are the F#'s downsides which prevent its more widespread usage?<p>For other people who have tried F# and didn't continue to use it: Why did you stop? Do you use other functional languages instead?<p>General questions: Is it because of its ties to Microsoft and/or Windows? Is F# not as good as other functional languages (which ones are better, and why?)? Not enough learning resources, examples, etc.?
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Title: See https://status.github.com
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