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Title: Hello,<p>I'm going to set up my own VPN on some cloud hosting provider, and I'm toying with the idea of turning it into a small business.<p>Is there anything I need to know beforehand? Is it really that easy, or are there legal issues I need to handle?<p>Cheers<p>EDIT:<p>I should note that I <i>know</i> this is an extremely saturated market - I'm not aiming to build a hyper successful business, but moreso to manage a small public VPN as an ideological side-project. Anything above breaking even I'd consider a bonus.
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Title: I'm a software engineer in the bay area and have been thinking about moving somewhere cheaper (in USA or aboard) where I can live cheaply and focus on my own intellectual pursuits. I'd love to be in a place where the living costs are low and where there exists a thriving intellectual community (I've noticed cities near top academic institutions tend to create that sort of atmosphere but not necessarily). I'd prefer a place where English speakers are common enough such that I won't feel isolated by a language barrier. I haven't traveled too often and would love to hear from HN community about any places that match this general description. Thank you in advance!
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Title: I work on React. We have our own ideas on where we'd like to take the project (see https://reactjs.org/blog/2018/03/01/sneak-peek-beyond-react-16.html), but we always like to hear from larger communities too.<p>Whether you use React now, tried it in the past, or decided not to try it – what could make React better for you?
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Title: I'm rarely speechless, but my best friend - who is not a developer but tech-savvy - just forwarded an email invite to an event that she wants me to come to with her. The email was a standard transactional Facebook event notification.<p>When I clicked on the event, I was logged into Facebook as my friend.<p>Full privileges. I could have done anything. I logged out, called her immediately and explained that a) she shouldn't send anyone transactional emails from Facebook and b) that in my opinion, she hadn't done anything wrong.<p>This is an outrageous security violation, as well as a violation of the principle of least surprise. It seems completely reasonable to me that someone would forward an event invitation to other people. I see this kind of thing with older folks, in particular. The obvious concern, here, is that someone could (not should) forward that email to a much larger group of people.<p>In an era where people are unfortunately reliant on Facebook for their identity management, social connections and even professional networking, the idea of losing access to your Facebook profile to an unknown actor is terrifying. I don't understand how this ever made it past QA.<p>If you work at Facebook, fix this right now.
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Title: Could be work or life related - trying to get inspiration to write scripts/cronjobs for my own life.
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Title: It seems to me that governments can be counted out of taking the leadership needed to solve this within 12 years. If anything they seem to want to act against solving this issue in some cases.<p>So what can we do so our children don't live in some ghastly hothouse world?<p>The scientists have told us its our final chance.... not to start within 12 years, but solve it within 12 years.<p>I feel like the young people need to take charge of the world because the older generations have had their chance and not fixed it.<p>Maybe corporations are the ones who can be pressured to take the lead.
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Title: In my opinion, what makes algorithms and data structures course so difficult is that it requires a lot of intuition in analyzing problems and designing algorithms.<p>Are there any good resources or tips in teaching (and tutoring)?
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Title: I recall the mention of a CBS video streaming site, but now a major newspaper is prompting users to turn it off? Firefox's reader view works for now, but I wonder how long that will last...
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Title: Context:<p>- My source is a library that this company shamelessly copy/pasted into their product (whose source is also publicly available) without even giving me credit.<p>- This library is a core component of one of their (I would go so far to say it IS one of their) products.<p>- My source is publicly available BUT it's not licensed, hence it's still considered under exclusive copyright (see https://choosealicense.com/no-permission/)<p>- Both I and that company are in the EU.<p>Normally I would <i>never</i> enforce anything like this but we're talking about a company that was funded using public funds (Horizon 2020) and is now making money from basically selling my library.<p>I want to make money out of this. Any suggestions on how I should proceed? Thanks.
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Title: Several news outlets -- most prominently MSNBC (as of Oct 12 at 10pmEST) -- are reporting that Jamal Khashoggi may have used his Apple Watch in conjunction with an app like Just Press Record in order to capture audio of his own interrogation then have it be uploaded to the cloud. (It has been alleged that Khashoggi was then murdered.)<p>Turkey's Sabah newspaper first reported the story saying the audio was recorded on the watch but then discovered on Khashoggi's iphone -- that his finance was holding outside the walls of the embassy.<p>It has been noted that the LTE feature in Apple Watch 4 is not supported by any carriers in Turkey.<p>AppleInsider has the most uptodate coverage I could find in print:<p>https://appleinsider.com/articles/18/10/12/saudi-journalist-used-apple-watch-to-record-own-interrogation-and-execution-report-says
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Title: To my naivety, I spent almost 2 years building my own projects. First was a food social mobile platform. Think IG Story x Yelp. Took me a year to build from concept, design, coding, marketing, etc. I would say it's a good portion of Snap’s mobile app interface, built out by 1.5 developers (1 being me).<p>Then did a Bitcoin LN Wallet, from concept, design to code, took only 2 months.<p>I am quite proud of both, even tho they were anything but commercial successes. With funds running low, I spent the past 3 months looking for employment. Hoping these polished project will shine me in good light.<p>Was I completely wrong. Nobody cares. Being a bootstrap developer I admit I am not the most academic when it comes to the projects. I was from an EE background from school, and was in embedded Firmware for almost a decade. I didn't know creating a 3rd table to track Reputation/Likes between a user and a Story is a database concept called 'Joint Table'. I have no idea that creating an equation to decay reputation inputs is called 'Freshness'. I’ve done hundreds of things in the year. I can barely remember half them, let alone with precise terminology in a time constraint settings. One thing I can show is everything is open sourced on Github. If point questions are asked about my demo, I can reference my code and explain everything.<p>It seems like in today's world, nobody cares about experiences or what real product you have launched. It’s all about algorithmic puzzles in 45 min and describe hypothetical systems with academic terms. I can build an entire social media MVP by myself. But I can't get a job maintaining Settings menu for a (shall be unnamed) unicorn with a very similar app, which said app needing a headcount of 3k to keep running...<p>My advise is, if your side project didn't become entrepreneur success, they are useless dead-weights. You might as well spend your time reading CTCI and doing Leetcode.<p>Rants over... Help much appreciated..
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Title: So many recruiters are looking for senior developers like me to join their early stage team and to do development and assist junior devs via knowledge sharing.<p>But I don't want to exhaust myself helping other people. I want to do things for myself and for a client. I would prefer to get a more rewarding position:<p>* Not in an open office
* Possibility to work from home
* Android + Spring Boot
* Not so many meetings
* No incompetent managers who induce stress to people
* Colleagues who are calm and quiet but enough sociable to perhaps grab an occasional beer and have a nice chat<p>Do these kinds of jobs exist? Do you suggest I go solo and take on development jobs myself? I think part of the problem is that many companies around expect the workplace to have open office and so on and many cannot provide me with a work environment I can thrive in.<p>I'm 40 years old without any children and would like to be able to not be stressed and work overtime and solve hard technical problems and move towards a more rewarding job where it's not so stressful but interesting creatively and my work is valued so that I can balance well with my life.<p>Do you understand my question? I don't want to take on roles that people want me to do but find jobs (by your insightful ideas) that suit me better.
Thank you!
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Title: I am the lead developer for my startup with two other non-technical co-founders. What problems can I expect to arise ?
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Title: I am 20 y.o, I live in Indonesia. I don't know what's going on with my country, but it looks like everything is getting worse. I don't see a bright future here, so I am looking for a better country. I am willing to move abroad.<p>The problems are, I don't know where to go, and how much does it cost. Right now, I have around $1,000 in my bank account. It's all the money that I save from my job.<p>Unfortunately, I don't have any degree. I am a high school graduate. But I'm good at design and good enough at front-end dev. I am also into fitness, I workout alot, mostly calisthenics.<p>I'm thinking about to move to Canada or Japan. But I don't think I have the money. Probably some of you can help me. I just want to get out. Where to go? Thank you!
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Title: Hi all,<p>I'm currently validating an idea for a new BaaS solution which will allow you to build and host a web app backend without writing a single line of code.<p>The app is called BackendLab and the landing page is here: <a href="https://www.backendlab.app/" rel="nofollow">https://www.backendlab.app/</a><p>The idea is that it allows you to define your database models by specifying what fields to include and BackendLab automatically creates a CRUD API which you can start using straight away.<p>We've just launched the public beta and are looking for early adopters (free of charge, just looking for some feedback on the tool)<p>Looking forward to hearing your feedback!<p>Thanks,<p>Chris
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Title: While it's always usefull to be great at fund raising, it seems not always wise to raise big $$$ before achieving product-market-fit. When such a startup fails, it always makes for great headlines and 20/20 hindsight commentary.<p>What are good examples of where it did work out great? And what can we learn from it?
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Title: Everybody I know has a set of little software tools that they use that make their work either slightly easier or slightly more pleasant.<p>What are the tiny tools that you use for your work?<p>Some of mine:<p>Skitch -- Little Mac app that makes it easy to take screenshots and draw/write on them<p>Be Focused -- A simple Pomodoro timer for Mac<p>"Remove Stickies" -- A URL bookmarklet I wrote that removes all floating elements from a page
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Title: I'm looking to learn more about web software. I like the all in one approach of the Rails framework, but fear it may be losing popularity. Any thoughts? If you were to advise someone today what the best approach to learning web development would be, what direction/resource/book would you recommend?
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Title: I'm curious - what are engineering managers seeing on my resume that makes them apparently routinely reject my resume? My summary: 35 years in Silicon Valley; 3 STEM undergrad degrees, MS in AI from Stanford, PhD in AI from a top-10 program; ICPC champion; always considered to be an elite programmer; very current knowledge; constant employment; wide variety of skills; management experience with small teams; very stable life; no vices; very healthy and energetic; I get along with everyone and like working in teams.<p>I've been applying for everything from senior engineer to VP of engineering. Ever since I turned 60 last year, I'm getting no hits on my resume. And yes, I still code (the first and most common question I get) and I still love it. If you were hiring, can you tell me why you might not even do a phone interview? I need to know what (mis)perceptions I apparently need to overcome.<p>Thanks!
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Title: I want to give some young kids a small cheap computer that "switches on to basic" or some other programming language?<p>Like in ye olde computer days when you brought home your Commodore 64 and turned it on you were in basic.<p>I'm guessing everyone will want to say "Raspberry Pi" of some form, but does that meet my requirement? Plug it into TV, turn it on and you're in basic and can start programming. Ideally with some sort of book or resource for learning how to make the computer do things on the home TV screen.
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Title: Hacker News loves talking about the state of startups in France [1], and the particularities of our social security system [2].<p>There is no official answer in English on the Web to the question "how to start a company in France", so we've built a website to guide you through it with as little headache as possible.<p><a href="https://mycompanyinfrance.fr" rel="nofollow">https://mycompanyinfrance.fr</a><p>It's open-source software [3] built inside the French public startup incubator, beta.gouv.fr.<p>For those interested : does it convey most of the information you need ? What's missing ? It's the first iteration, and we're planning many new features.<p>[1]: Startup nation ? <a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18066248" rel="nofollow">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18066248</a><p>[2]: The French healtcare and pay as you go pension systems are also regularly discussed e.g. <a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12998163" rel="nofollow">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12998163</a><p>[3]: Source: <a href="https://github.com/betagouv/syso/" rel="nofollow">https://github.com/betagouv/syso/</a>
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Title: "I still think Oracle is two engineers thinking about B-trees and then several million salespeople"
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Title: I'm a tech lead in a small shop (around 5 developers and growing) and our company has recently been acquired by a bigger one at the beginning of the year. We've been lucky so far as we've maintained independence of process and priorities. We've demonstrated times and times again that our development processes and our talent was order of magnitude superior to their existing dev teams.<p>Management from the head company is currently in the process of signing us up in Jira without consulting with us. Their motivation is to be able to track what the dev team is doing and keep a log of the activities, with the end goal being to be able to qualify this work as Capex.<p>I'm close to the product owner so I can pull some strings there if this is a trap but I need to act fast. We've got nothing similar to Jira in place and are dealing with things without any dedicated tools, which means I'm open to learning Jira as I know our current methods will not scale. I'm worried for the following reasons :
- I haven't heard good things about Jira, especially on HN
- I'm afraid it will only add more paper-filling work to my team (or myself)
- I'm afraid they will use Jira to enforce a specific process to my team (I do not expect to have admin access to setup workflows properly)<p>Any thoughts on how I should handle this?
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Title: I'm a noob founder raising Angel/VC for my startup, what are the common pitfalls and other things that I need to be aware of?
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Title: Melbourne (AU) has an awesome museum called Scienceworks that currently has CSIRAC on display, so I went to check it out. The museum is primarily aimed at school kids, but honestly, with or without kids it's a really great place to go check out.<p>Website about CSIRAC with lots of good info: <a href="https://museumsvictoria.com.au/csirac/" rel="nofollow">https://museumsvictoria.com.au/csirac/</a><p>It was the fourth computer ever built, and is the only first generation computer still intact. It was designed and built in Australia in 1949.<p>One bit I found especially interesting:<p>> For a long time, it was believed that computer music was pioneered by Max Matthews in 1957, at Bell Telephone Laboratories in the United States.<p>> However in mid-2004 composer and sonologist Paul Doornbusch proved that the first computer to play music was CSIRAC<p>> The computer’s first public performances, of the popular tune Colonel Bogey, took place on 7-9 August 1951, at the inaugural Conference of Automatic Computing Machines in Sydney.<p>Edit: I added the photos to the comments as they don't link if I add them here.
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Title: Pays well and everything but what are the things that make you dislike the industry.
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Title: I joined one of the big-4 tech companies a month ago after years of freelance work. Since joining, I’ve had trouble “hooking in”. For one, it doesn’t seem like I have all that much to do. I’ve submitted a few very simple bug fixes, and I have some larger feature work coming up, but it’s all on the order of maybe a few hundred lines of code. I’ve also spent maybe a week more than I should have on a fairly simple feature, just from fighting with my tools and trying to figure out where to put a few sparse calls in the codebase. It’s really embarrassing.<p>The other issue is that I’m riddled with anxiety every day. For one, I’m worried that my coworkers might think I’m slacking off, or that I’m incompetent or a bad hire. Everyone around me is always on point though many of them are younger than me. Their thoughts are completely clear. I rarely hear them make mistakes or misunderstand anything: they seem to have no weaknesses. In contrast, my thoughts tend to be extremely muddled. I often take in information without making much sense of it at first, and it seems to take me a while to clarify these thoughts into some whole. (And even then, I’m not always able to talk about it clearly.) I think this has always been my way of thinking, but it feels out of place here..<p>The other big issue is that I don’t really know how to reach out to people. I’m not a collaborator; I’m a recluse. In my life, I’ve always done things from scratch. Now I have to make meetings, ask people for information, decide that something needs to be done and tell another team to do it, etc. To get good at this, it feels like I basically have to rewire my entire personality, and I don’t know how to go about doing this. I’ve also found myself not asking clarifying questions when something doesn’t make sense in a meeting—see “muddled thoughts” above—and then I’m stuck figuring out whatever it was that I misunderstood on my own time (or not at all).<p>I don’t know if this is impostor syndrome, because I might actually <i>be</i> an impostor. Deep down, I think I’m riddled with fear that I’m just not good enough to be a “Googler” (or your favorite FANG here).<p>What do I do? How do I get better?
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Title: Specifically in the context of engineering management, how frequently do you have 1-on-1s with your direct reports, how do you structure them, and what have you found to work and not work well?
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Title: And how did you manage to solve the problem?
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Title: I recently redescovered the keynote video in which Looking Glass was announced and realized it’s now 12 years old.
I remember watching this video in awe and still today I findit quite remarkable although a bit gimmicky.<p>https://youtu.be/JXv8VlpoK_g<p>I wonder what was the motivation behind this project and why it never really took off. Also what are the people behind it up to nowadays - does anyone here know the backstory to this?
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Title: I am a wantrepreneur. For over 7 years, I have wanted to start something. Really hard, wanted.
Surely, I have tried to find an audience for a twisted "Come Dine With Me" (but who would host 3 others random unknown people in their own house??), have started some websites (extractemailaddress.com, linux-commands-examples.com) in the hope to get a big enough niche audience... But all I can get is an average of 8€ per month of donations, which barely covers my hosting costs.<p>I am trying to get new ideas done. But after one day of programming for my job, I am exhausted and I cannot extract any brain-juice any more. And if I try to work during the week-ends, I can't rewind enough for the next week. And my progress are damn slow. It seems I would need a year to achieve what a good programmer could do in a week.<p>It seems to me impossible I would be one day a Takuya Matsuyama who makes enough for a living with its app (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18216783), let alone be a Mark Zuckerberg.
Even if I have some theoretical knowledge of starting things, as I have read news, stuff, feedback on HN and other sites for years.<p>Creating a successful business seems to me like the only viable career path to me. I don't see myself as a good developer (maybe it is due to the First month in a new company imposter syndrome, https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18257767). So this is not a long-term plan. And I have nerver learned to do anything else. So the only thing left is to create some things, and be successful enough in at least one to make a living out of it.<p>What should I do?
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Title: My job frequently takes me to places without reliable internet access. What kinds of projects can be worked on with no or unreliable internet? I don't want to be forced to stop working on my side projects just because I don't have all the data I might need.
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Title: Updates to gist are getting lost. It accepts them as normal but the next page load for the gist is the previous version. Twitter accounts describe the same sort of problem for git repos.<p>status.github.com reports "We're failing over a data storage system in order to restore access to GitHub.com."
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Title: Four months ago, one of my projects was ready to be posted on "Show HN", and so I did. After a couple of hours it reached the frontpage and traffic was through the roof. A handful dozen of trial users signed up, and with feedback of the community, I thought that if I were to spend a bit more time on it, this would be the side project I could continue working on and make some side-money with.<p>Long story short, four months later, I am the only user of my service. I hired a brand strategist who looked at the market, with who I forged a marketing plan, and with who I set goals. Needless to say, none of them were met.<p>What does/can this mean? Should I accept that what I built will only be used by myself, or is this a phase each product/service goes through? If only there were one extra paid user, I would have enough motivation to continue, but with zero conversion the motivation starts to fade.<p>I think it is irrelevant to re-post a link to the project, but feel free to ask/look it up if you think it's relevant.
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Title: Has anyone else noticed how incredibly terrible Gmail has become lately? In addition to a slow loading splash loading screen, the navigation isn't nearly as responsive as it used to be. Inbox was somewhat better when it was available, but I look back at classic gmail as being really responsive. I've personally switched to protonmail but I still use my gmail account to look up old information and maintain a few things. Doing this I just use the basic html page which works fantastic (I just wish I had the keyboard navigation on top).<p>Aside from Gmail, there are a lot of SWA these days that load tons of javascript and use loading splash screens (a lot of SASS) apps. I reference Gmail because of all the webapps I expected to never be slow, Gmail was supposed to be one of them. That being said, I'm thankful that I can even use the Basic HTML option at all and I wish more websites allowed this option.
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Title: We are excited to announce STACL, the first simultaneous translation system w/ integrated anticipation & controllable latency. This is a major breakthrough in #NLP due to word order differences between languages and simultaneity requirement. Demo & paper: https://bit.ly/2yTCvjE
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Title: Has anyone received an email yet?
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Title: I'm on of the founders of a small but fast growing startup. We're a team distributed across Europe, and so far we've had the fortune that everybody we employed had a sole proprietorship lying on the shelf somewhere.<p>But as we're growing, we can't keep asking every single employee to begin a company, right? Also, starting a mailbox firm in every country where >0 employees live sounds like administrative hell. How do other distributed teams (across borders) solve this?
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Title: What tools do you use to monitor uptime of your web apps and/or APIs? Also, how do you track SSL/domain name expiry?
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Title: We are a new team of developers working on a new project. We share a git repo and we are split between product teams. We are 6 developers and we review each others code.<p>Even though all of us have a lot of experience, we came from different organizations and we have different styles. I come from a very strict team where everyone was forced to give their best, the standards were really high and the code reviews were brutal.<p>Even though I appreciate my new colleagues and I want us to have a healthy team culture, I often find myself resenting them each time I review their code.<p>I don’t think highly of myself as a developer but I find my coworkers extremely sloppy and it seems to me they focus more on narrow problems than the big picture.<p>I don’t want to be the grumpy developer that thinks he is better than everyone else but that’s what I'm becoming.
How do I stop?
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Title: My own thoughts based on a recent series of queries below.<p>TLDR I think it is most definitely.<p>Recently I was fortunate enough to be able to afford buying a home.<p>An empty home needs a lot of furniture to fill it. I've graduated from Ikea furniture I suppose, or more correctly I don't think I'd be able to make a successful pitch to the wife that this is the correct place to shop for furniture.<p>So, off I go to Google to try and see what the landscape is for furniture. The usual suspects all show up. Cranes and Bottles, Possibly Barn, Mercys, Blossomdales. And that was it. I scroll down, different variants of pages for these, ads... again more duplicate pages of brands I already know, more ads, so on and so forth. The "next page" is replaced by a "see more", and when I tap it just more of the same.<p>I literally couldn't find anything organic other than major brands, who not coincidentally were likely paying for adwords as well.<p>This isn't what I want to see in a search engine, I doubt it is for anyone else. I could have just typed in those domains, I know them all already.<p>I feel like at this point, it's time for a back to square one search results engine. Monopolies eventually kill off all brand goodwill and it looks like we've hit the tipping point.
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Title: For me, it is working out everyday, no matter how tired I feel. the tiredness goes away as soon as I enter the gym.
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Title: With the most recent update to web-based Gmail, it is super janky and it feels like the interface gets in my way. I've started to dislike writing emails now.<p>What are good alternate clients that still get all benefits of Gmail, but with a fast productive interface?
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Title: Because every recommendation I see seems to be a Disqus esque service requiring a third party server, or have some dependence on an external business and their 'network'.<p>So what's the answer for those who want to host every part of the system themselves, with no reliance on third parties? Cause my site has a 'no third parties' policy, which means I want every single aspect self hosted rather than reliant on a service that can either go out of business, shut down, be sold off or be encouraged to stop serving me because of an angry mob.<p>I'm currently using WP Disqus, but it costs a fortune because of their business model (charging for every extra feature).<p>Any recommendations here?
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Title: I have suffered a loss of $10k due to an extremely unbelievable case of my client's as well as my own email domain was hacked.<p>–----<p>So, I run a very small pharma export company in India. I have a client in Ontario, Canada with whom I have been doing regular business.<p>2 weeks ago I got an order worth $10000 from them. So as usual I dispatched the material to them and then raised the invoice with my bank details from my email address called "abcde@mydomain
.com".<p>Now on the next day my client received an email from "[email protected]" stating that there is a change in invoice and revised invoice is again sent which had bank account details of a UK bank account.<p>Now an email like "[email protected]" doesn't exist at all.<p>My client asked me for a confirmation email again but this email never reached me. So the client made the payment and the money is already deducted from his account.<p>Also, what makes this even more strange is that I received a fake email from my client's company with 3-4 times about not asking for payment as it will be delayed.<p>I got this email from an email address like "[email protected]" instead of "[email protected]".<p>Now $10000 in an extremely huge amount for survival of my company. I want to know what are my options and is there any way of recovering it.
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Title: I've been doing a lot of GPU programming these last few years. Now, FPGAs are being used to accelerate tasks (algo trading, etc, etc).<p>Recommendations on how to get started with FPGA development? What cards are good? Do they make external cards to plug into a laptop like eGPUs?
Popular SDKs?
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Title: No, this is not a flamebait, hear me out.<p>Since I got the iPhone X I have noticed that when I would watch movies in bed at night, I would wake up with sore eyes that would eventually turn into headaches.<p>Searching the web I found a lot of people complaining about the PWM on the iPhone X, and I got convinced that it was the screen that was causing my eye strain, so stopped using the X.<p>Until I got the XR a few days ago. As usual I watched some Netflix while in bed before falling asleep and woke up with the all so familiar sore eyes. This meant that all this time it was not the OLED the one responsible for my headaches, but something else. The only other think that was new both in X and XR was the FaceID.<p>I started thinking how can it cause problems and came with the theory below. When I am at bed the room is really dark and so I set the brightness level on my iPhone to the lowest setting. My eye-pupils are fully dilated to adjust to the lack of light. My theory is that the FaceID illuminator doesn't take into consideration the amount of light in the environment and uses the same intensity as if it was daylight.<p>To prove this I took a recording of my iPhone X in similar environment with an IR camera: https://youtu.be/7ewR9wUjnsc<p>If this wasn't IR but visible light it would be like the iPhone's camera flash going on every 5 seconds right in front of my eyes. There is no question that this would justify the morning soreness and headaches.<p>My question is: Does the IR light emitted by the iPhone "flood illuminator" have the same effect to my retina even thought I don't perceive it?
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Title: I'm thinking about having a beefy desktop computer at home and using some kind of remote desktop solution to connect to it from other places (e.g co-working spaces).<p>I have good bandwidth (250+ Mbit both ways) with low latency (< 10 ms) between the computers.<p>Is there any solution that's good enough for 100% full-time use. I'm thinking about stuff like high DPI ("retina") resolutions, transfer of audio input and output and just overall good enough quality and latency to not get annoyed by it.<p>The computer at home is probably going to running macOS, and I would preferably have a solution where the client can be run on macOS or maybe linux.<p>Does anyone have experience with a solution like this?
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Title: Hello everyone.<p>Since I was a teenager I've been worried about climate change, this led me to reduce my CO2 emissions, consumerism, and waste as much as possible; I do the best I can to not use my car, plastic bags, straws or bottles, re-use water and many other actions that I think can help.<p>However, every couple months I still read a new article stating that we are even closer than we thought to the point of no-return, even a few say we are already past it.<p>As a father I'm really worried about my children's future, and cannot avoid feeling overwhelmed by the fact that even if I do my best I just cannot fight against huge corporations that does not want to do the best they can to help climate change.<p>A couple days ago I read this http://carbon.ycombinator.com/ in HN's frontpage and got amazed about such creative and smart solutions, and cannot stop wondering what can I do to proactively help any of those, or any other idea, become true and help to repair the damage.<p>Sadly I'm just a Software Engineer and I feel that I cannot help as, for example, a Genetic Engineer to make those ideas become true. I'm not a genius, nor a millionaire philanthropist, neither a clever startup founder.<p>Is there anything I, a normal person, can do to actually help?<p>Thank you for reading me.
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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 state the job location and include the keywords
REMOTE, INTERNS and/or VISA when the corresponding sort of candidate is welcome.
When remote work is not an option, include ONSITE.<p>Please only post if you personally are part of the hiring company—no
recruiting firms or job boards. Only one post per company, please. If it
isn't a household name, explain what your company does.<p>Commenters: please don't reply to job posts to complain about
something. It's off topic here.<p>Readers: please only email if you personally are interested
in the job—no recruiters or sales calls.<p>To search the thread, you can try kennytilton's <a href="https://kennytilton.github.io/whoishiring/" rel="nofollow">https://kennytilton.github.io/whoishiring/</a>,
gadogado's <a href="https://hnhired.com/" rel="nofollow">https://hnhired.com/</a>, or kristopolous' console script
at <a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10313519" rel="nofollow">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10313519</a>.
Upvote: | 539 |
Title: I’ve got a paid Mac app that was mildly successful for a time, but trickled off. I’m considering making it free, and creating a Patreon account/blog to talk about technical issues and let patrons ask for specific features. Maybe it could even be open-source — I’m flexible.<p>I’d also be willing to sell sponsorships to companies, if any were interested (though I have no idea if any would be). Everybody hates ads but done well I’ve seen them work, when they’re not annoying.<p>Another option is making the app free, and then using an IAP to enable advanced features. Honestly, the part I hate most about that is the complexity I’d have to add to the software. I’d rather just give everybody all the features, and let people who want to financially support me do that. I don’t know how the economics would compare, though.<p>What other considerations should I have, for this type of change? What am I forgetting? What other alternatives should I consider, to try to monetize an app so I can keep working on it? Has anyone done this, and how did it work out for you?
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Title: Hello everyone,<p>I'm looking for companies that are currently hiring Racket developers or did so in the past.<p>I created https://www.racketjobs.com, because I was myself interested in workplaces that use Racketlang commercially, but couldn't find any. After sharing the site on /r/Racket and a couple of other sites I got a bit more than 100 people to sign up for the newsletter.<p>If anyone knows a company, using Racket, or a place on the web where I can find open Racket positions, I'd be happy to hear from you. Of course I did my Google searches before.
Upvote: | 188 |
Title: I have done 12 years Full Stack engineering, including some DevOps. Recently I have been getting very interested in Distributed Systems, and not just at a consuming level but at the theory level. I would like to get into the gritty details of distributed systems, perhaps to the level of a Masters' Degree.<p>Is it worth getting into the the subject? It would take a major commitment in time and efforts. Would it help with better career opportunities?
Upvote: | 77 |
Title: I make an average living (low six figures, have savings, house, no loan, etc) but for the last 2-3 years my greed for money has been unstoppable.<p>I keep reading about these people who are making millions of dollars and I want to be like them too. It is turning into an obsession. I used to love what I do but now it's all about money.<p>Every minute I'm not working is me not working towards my goal. I'm either working or criticizing myself for not working.<p>It is making me very unhappy and I realize that it's all because of this stupid obsession but I just can't shake it. It's not just greed but I'm also scared because I feel if I don't make a lot of money now I will miss my chance and I will be poor when I'm old (it's not 100% true since I have good savings but this thought keeps bugging me over and over).<p>Anyone else feel the same? Any word of advice?<p>:(
Upvote: | 77 |
Title: For me it's so unresponsive that I'm at a loss for words how google put this into production. I have a modern, new computer and modern, urban internet good enough for streaming 1080p on Twitch without interruption, but I can't delete or archive an email anymore without waiting 4-6 seconds for it to complete the action.<p>What has your experience been like with it?<p>edit: Guess I'm not alone. I can only hope someone working at Google sees this post or cares. Maybe too much to hope for.
Upvote: | 422 |
Title: I am asking because I have Ankylosing Spondylitis and it is seriously reducing my quality of life. I have been considering to go for stem cell or similar (NK cell TR cell etc) treatment for 6 months now but am very apprehensive.<p>There is anecdotal evidence that my condition can be "cured" (at least for 3 years at a time) with stem cell treatment and there are some phase 1, 2 & 3 studies out of China [1][2] (that aim) to back this up. That said I am also aware of the risks and don't want to make a bad situation worse especially considering that I have reduced the conditions negative effects from an 8/10 to 3/10 using diet. Google is practically ineffective for research as it is polluted with companies offering treatment who are heavy on hype and light on evidence.<p>I'm curious to hear first or second hand experience of stem cell treatment for auto-immune conditions from the HN community. Please let us know about the condition, the treatment, the clinic and the outcome.<p>[1] https://sci-hub.tw/10.3892/etm.2017.4687
[2] https://clinicaltrials.gov/ct2/show/NCT02809781?term=stem+cell&cond=Ankylosing+Spondylitis&rank=4
Upvote: | 165 |
Title: Interested in knowing if vibrant online communities exist where people talk shop similar to HN for other industries, e.g. construction workers, teachers, actuaries, doctors, etc.
Upvote: | 138 |
Title: Hi All,<p>Quick question for you all:<p>Have any of you been asked for a % fee from their VC on a term sheet being tabled for acquisition to help close the deal?<p>Is this normal?<p>What kind of fees are usual?<p>Any experiences would be much appreciated.
Upvote: | 128 |
Title: I signed up for Stripe Atlast in 2017, and pretty much just forgot about it.<p>In Canada, if your company don't make any money, you don't file anything, and the company dissolves.<p>So imagine my surprise at the Rocket Lawyer letter stating I owe 100k+ USD in taxes for a corporate registry that has not turned any revenue to speak of or expenses.<p>am I going to get extradited over this shit? God damn, I really wish they would've been clear that if you register through Stripe Atlas, you will somehow owe 100k+ in taxes. I thought taxes can only be collected if your company made the money, how can they expect me to pay this?<p>I'm absolutely freaking out right now. There's no way I can pay this. It's fucking ridiculous that I have to pay taxes just for registering a delware company.<p>edit: MODS, why did this get flagged? I'm trying to find fucking answers, this is not helping me.
Upvote: | 138 |
Title: How do I become ok with life being unfair? What bothers me the most is my mortality; if it takes me x years longer to find love/dream job/etc. than other people, then that is x years I will never get back.
Upvote: | 48 |
Title: I would state up front that I'm a vim user and don't have much experience with either emacs or vs code. But as a product, both of them appear to be quite similar:<p>1. Programmable<p>2. Configurable<p>3. Can be used for programming in a variety of languages and frameworks<p>4. Bloated(?)<p>Hell, there's even an org mode plugin for vs code!<p>So, is it reasonable to view vs code (and atom?) as the successors of emacs, or as the emacs of modern day?<p>And if I'm thinking about jumping to something more feature rich than vim, should I jump to emacs or vs code(atom?)? I know that vim can be made feature rich with plugins, but you are lying to yourself if you say that vim can do anything an IDE can.
Upvote: | 46 |
Title: Inspired by Paul Graham's phrase, I’m curating an open list of hacks/stories of real founders who did “things that don’t scale” to power through their initial startup days.<p>What are some of the hacks you have heard or have personally experimented? Thank you in advance!
Upvote: | 539 |
Title: I'm always gathering links for articles, be it a blog post, or an academic pdf article.<p>Currently I've been using pocket, but it seems that I've been losing some articles.<p>Also, there are some features I'd like to have such as searchable content, or the means to save tweets and facebook posts.<p>This kind of sounds like Evernote, but since the changes to their payment scheme I haven't been following them.<p>But custom solution ideas are also nice...
Upvote: | 67 |
Title: Recently, in Chrome on macOS (Sierra and High Sierra), I find that clicking (wireless mouse and wired mouse tested) on Google search result links does not open the link. I find I'm often clicking on the blue underline of the link and it's not opening. I'll even move the mouse up a few pixels and it still does not open. Why is this happening?
Upvote: | 45 |
Title: CHICKEN is a compiler for the Scheme programming language. It produces portable and efficient C and supports the R5RS and R7RS (work in progress) standards, and many extensions. More info at https://www.call-cc.org/<p>A new major version has just been released. See the announcement message here: http://lists.nongnu.org/archive/html/chicken-users/2018-11/msg00006.html
Upvote: | 303 |
Title: I’m wondering if maybe I should leave the technology industry and do something else.<p>Older people I think find it harder to keep a dependable career and I’m not sure I want to continue in technology anyway.<p>But what else to do? I can’t imagine anything else that might be an effective way to make a living.<p>Any ideas?
Upvote: | 52 |
Title: Apparently bought in two chunks: 3.0.0.0/9 and 3.128.0.0/9.<p>Previous owner was GE.<p>Anecdotal reports across the Internet that AWS EIPs are now being assigned in that range.<p>https://whois.arin.net/rest/net/NET-3-0-0-0-1.html<p>https://whois.arin.net/rest/net/NET-3-128-0-0-1.html
Upvote: | 565 |
Title: I'm looking for a book on the computer science involved in <i>implementing</i> a database:<p>* Relational algebra<p>* Logical vs. physical planning stages<p>* Optimization (cost-based, etc.)<p>* Indexing algorithms<p>* Physical layouts<p>* Concurrency control<p>* Parsing<p>* Distribution<p>* OLTP vs. OLAP<p>* etc.<p>I'm <i>not</i> looking for books about how to write database apps or to manage them, nor books about modeling data or explaining SQL.<p>Thanks!
Upvote: | 57 |
Title: Trying to get some ideas on how to spend my time off.
Upvote: | 43 |
Title: I work on programming languages (as a career & hobby) and I’d like to make sure that my main language project is designed with accessibility in mind. I need some guidance & opinions from people with disabilities (e.g., blind or visually impaired people, or people with mobility issues) about your pain points with existing tools.<p>This doesn’t need to be just about the language itself, but the whole experience of developing with it, e.g., tooling, error messages, documentation, editor integration, &c.; as simple as “Avoid making me press Shift” or as involved as specific problems with existing tools and what you wish they did better. I’d also welcome examples of tools that do things particularly well!<p>So far I’ve had/implemented a few general ideas:<p>1. Making whitespace-sensitive syntax, like in Python & Haskell, optional syntactic sugar for explicit brackets & separators. It can also be turned off entirely, if e.g. you work with a screenreader and prefer it not need to speak all the indentation.<p>2. Striking a balance between concision and avoiding excessive punctuation-based syntax. I’ve also tried to make sure that visually similar characters have clearly distinct functions, so it’s less likely to mix them up—or if they are typo’d, at least the compiler should reliably detect this and produce a useful diagnostic.<p>3. Working on integration with existing editors (through the Language Server Protocol, an Emacs mode, &c.), so ideally you can continue to use the editor you’re comfortable with that supports your setup.<p>4. Allowing the interactive mode (sort of a souped-up REPL) to be customised to support screenreaders, colour settings for colourblind people, adapting gracefully to large fonts, and so on.<p>I’m certain there are plenty of things I’m still missing, though! So I’d really appreciate any help, personal stories, or links to the work of similar initiatives (like Accessible Scala) that you can offer. Thank you!
Upvote: | 173 |
Title: Exists some place like this? A place where experienced people help a young padawan to evolve his crafts? Just by providong feedback and direction.<p>How i find one?
Upvote: | 123 |
Title: It comes up every so often on HN "how to keep a journal" or "use this Vim alias to keep work notes". I'm curious, for those who keep a work log, do you review your notes? Or do you use them to optimize your working habits? And if so, how do you do this?
Upvote: | 42 |
Title: I just finished https://arxiv.org/abs/1705.06963 and was pleasantly surprised at state of neurotrophic computing. Specifically, the use of organic materials to build robust, low power networks that get past the von Neumann bottleneck and allow us to incorporate new levels of sensing into our environment and lives seems extraordinary. TPUs and chips are obviously interesting for orgs like google, but what about synthetic clusters of neurons integrated into our environment? How significant could that be?
Upvote: | 69 |
Title: My background is in computer science and I'd like to learn how probability theory is applied.<p>I was reading the GraphSLAM paper to get a sense of the algorithms used for SLAM purposes in robots. While reading it, I realized that I have a tenuous grasp on probability theory, especially on topics like covariance, conditional probability and multivariate distributions (even things like what posterior probability represents).<p>I'd like to rectify this and gain an intuitive understanding of the subject, since it is commonly used in numerous areas of engineering.<p>I dislike books that introduce fully formed theorems with no derivation or proof of how they came into existence. Which comprehensive book(s) can I read?
Upvote: | 53 |
Title: My attention span is absolutely terrible. I can spend maybe 30 minutes focused on Deep Work (as coined by Cal Newport).<p>Has anyone managed to regain their attention span to a point where they can engage in deep work for large blocks of time? If so, how did you do it?
Upvote: | 149 |
Title: I’m interested to know how fellow software developers (freelancers, small businesses) estimate projects for clients.<p>Do you use any tools to come up with a quote?
Do you send a proposal document to clients?
If so, do you use a tool to generate one, or do you just use a template in a word processor?
What are your main pain points when quoting for work?<p>Cheers!
Upvote: | 228 |
Title: Clients don't come knocking to my door in troves (yet), so I have to go and meet people to fill my pipeline.<p>I understand that when networking, you don't want to be in sales mode/handing out business cards because no-one wants to talk to somebody like this. Instead, you should listen to people, inquire about their business, find out what their problems are, and offer useful advice. If they need your services, they'll have you in mind when the time is right, but not if you were pushy when you met.<p>My biggest hurdle though is that I am an introvert and would much rather stay at home than going to an event with dozens or hundred of people and introduce myself. I dread it, and it sucks the energy away from me. But I'll never get enough business if I don't.<p>How do you fellow introvert freelancers deal with this?<p>How do you motivate yourself to get out of the house and talk to strangers for hours on end early in the morning or after work?<p>Are there any tips you're using?<p>Does it get easier?
Upvote: | 49 |
Title: A check of
https://developers.facebook.com/status/dashboard/
returns an error and I'm unable to login with facebook to some of my mobile apps.<p>EDIT: Commenters are reporting that this appears to only impact users that are hitting the US data center[1], and that it may only impact users through specific ISPs<p>1.https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18434457<p>EDIT: Appears to be back up
Upvote: | 74 |
Title: Maybe I'm just growing up, or building "character", but I realize I will always have to endure bullshit in life that I have no control over. In college, it's going through unhelpful TA's and price gouging by Pearson/Housing/etc. At work, it's maybe office politics or even in consulting it's unreasonable clients. A friend would tell me to "suck it up and drive on".<p>I'm slowly cutting out unessential social media. I only check the news twice a day. I've listened to "this is water" by David Foster Wallace. I've read the Cracked article on Six Harsh Truths. I do exercise/yoga and slowly am integrating ten minutes of mindfulness into my moring. I'm still crabby.
Upvote: | 60 |
Title: I'm not able to ssh into any of my boxes or access any of the sites, yet my status monitor isn't showing downtime. Spotify is also down for me, which is another GCP customer.<p>I'm in Los Angeles but the servers are hosted on us-central1
Upvote: | 174 |
Title: I'm looking for software, setup, ideas of how to learn to play piano in efficient way. For kids and adults.<p>Is there any software which may help to learn to play notes on the piano? I imagine that you could connect piano keyboard via MIDI interface and the software would present note which you are supposed to play. Then another note, and then revise the notes already learnt (in a Anki way/algorithm). Or maybe there is other, simpler/more efficient way?
Upvote: | 62 |
Title: I think I've broken my own record with this one ~2500 lines of incoherent JavaScript/C#. Works though.
Upvote: | 428 |
Title: Hi HN.<p>My fianceè is currently enrolled on CS50 Introduction to Computer Science online.<p>I'm a programmer and have been for around 5-6 years, I started with VB.NET since I first started learning, then progressed onto Web Development at a large agency for 4 years (PHP, JS, React) and I'm now back with VB.NET.<p>I've worked with a few "complicated" (they were to me) projects in the past, but now I'm being tasked with guiding my fianceè with this course.<p>Some of the problems which she is expected to solve are pretty simple problems, but I just can't seem to get the hang of any of them on my own.<p>I would have thought that my last 5-6 years of experience would at least help me here. I can point out basic syntax errors and help with debugging, but when it comes to me trying to solve these problems on my own, I don't know where to start.<p>It makes me question how I was hired in the first place.<p>Sorry for the rant, but I was just wondering if anyone else felt like this.
Upvote: | 404 |
Title: After many months of development, we are releasing Squally as early-access on Steam! This game teaches low-level computer science; topics such as data types, data structures, bin/dec/hex, and x86 assembly are gradually introduced through puzzles and gameplay.<p>https://store.steampowered.com/app/770200/Squally/<p>It's still very early in development, we currently have only released a card mini-game that teaches binary operations:<p>https://i.gyazo.com/0a33bbac5bbb5421f7eb120edd3ff6bb.gif
Upvote: | 123 |
Title: Are there any tools that make the search easier?
Upvote: | 80 |
Title: I'm considering membership, but thought I would also inquire to the community about recent experiences.<p>Do any of you hold IEEE membership? Is it worth it in your mind? If not, why not? If so, why so?<p>Likewise, do any of you hold any other professional organization memberships? Which, and why? Or if not, why not?<p>---<p>I searched through the archives and couldn't find anything younger than about 8-10 years old with few comments. It would be interesting to hear updated information from others in the field.
Upvote: | 70 |
Title: If I pay for GSuite and I browse the web while logged on to my GSuite account using Chrome, for example, does Google mine my data/metadata/behavior for the purposes of advancing their business model? Or just to "help deliver my services"
Upvote: | 65 |
Title: So what did you find on 23andme dna test which you aren't aware of and how did it change your life?<p>Let say if you discovered you've high amount of fast twitch muscle fiber and it motovated you to perform better at sports or smth.
Upvote: | 50 |
Title: My son would like to learn web development on his own, part-time after work. His goal is to get an entry level job within a year. He's currently working as a computer / electrical tech at an industrial fan company and doesn't have a degree or desire to go to college.<p>I'm a web developer and can easily google various resources but I'm looking for opinions from people who have actually done it and which resources turned out to be the best for them.<p>Ideally it would be a progression of HTML/CSS => Javascript => React
Upvote: | 45 |
Title: I put a lot of thought into a software which solves a real problem and could be licenced on a per machine basis. (Small company pays less than a bigger one - i.e. pay per use).<p>To go for a startup selling licenced copies, I would need an investor but I don't really know how much the product will sell. The investors like to see hockey stick graphs which I can't claim.<p>I know there are companies that created open source projects on github and then have businesses doing custom work around it, but I don't know if this will work for me.
I feel the product itself provides value and I would like to make some revenue off it.<p>Now I am thinking this is a good fit for shareware - i.e distribute freely - let anyone who feels it is worth pay for it.
I can distribute with source so if someone wants to modify sections they can do so.<p>Please let me know your thoughts.
Upvote: | 153 |
Title: It's the end of 2018 and I have not really come across any ICO that is not fraud (or hype and dump manipulation at best) in nature.<p>Doing start-up is already very hard itself. Trying to do a start-up and create a new economy surrounding a new currency often feels like downright fantasy-landish. I would say there is no point in creating a new currency when you are not introducing a new economy of some sort. It's just not pragmatic. And ICOs as a sale for collectibles will only result in constant deprecation afterwards, unless the start-up actually delivers what it promises (and restores investor confidence whenever there is a downfall).<p>So is there any ICO that actually deliver what it promises? (other than Ethereum which has successfully created an economy of ICOs)
Upvote: | 69 |
Title: Hi people! We're a bunch of developers tired of recruiters who get away with all sorts of unprofessional behavior.<p>After the n-th frustrating experience we decided to do something about it. We're trying to collect as much (anonymous) data as possible about bad experiences involving fellow developers and unprofessional recruiters and one day publish all the curated data for free, to create a sort of Yelp for recruiters.<p>You can help us by filling out the form at <a href="https://dontrecruit.me" rel="nofollow">https://dontrecruit.me</a><p>After all you wouldn't waste time at a crappy restaurant, why waste time with a crappy recruiter?<p>Let me know if you have any questions/feedback. I'll try to read (and answer) each and every comment.
Upvote: | 94 |
Title: What's the best book or paper you read in the last year, and why? 'Best' in terms of value it gave you personally - what's something you learnt from it, or something you used from it, or was it inspiring, what possibilities did it show you; what question(s) did it answer for you, where did it lead etc. Thank you.<p>I guess it could as well be a lecture, talk, video etc, I don't want to rule something out just because of the format.
Upvote: | 82 |
Title: While you are in busy, you want to learn or create something new. But, not when you have free time. It's always happened to me. And I ask some of my few friends and they said the same thing as well.<p>Can HN explain me why and how to overcome that?
Upvote: | 280 |
Title: Could be engineering, interpersonal, strategic, etc. This is purposefully open-ended.
Upvote: | 464 |
Title: I’m thinking of hiring freelancers to build my MVP. Is that a good idea? Any advice would be much appreciated
Upvote: | 61 |
Title: I've often wondered what things we have in style guides which make it difficult for visually impaired programmers. I would like to know how to make my code easier for you to read and write. Please help me to improve my code for you.
Upvote: | 202 |
Title: Any side projects, Game, OSS, Hacks.
Upvote: | 246 |
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