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Title: 2018: <a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18740939" rel="nofollow">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18740939</a><p>2017: <a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16045859" rel="nofollow">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16045859</a><p>2016: <a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12637239" rel="nofollow">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12637239</a><p>Ever: <a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18217762" rel="nofollow">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18217762</a><p>Bonus: <a href="https://link.medium.com/GYN66jgmD2" rel="nofollow">https://link.medium.com/GYN66jgmD2</a><p>Thanks.
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Title: It’s easy to find a book about a specific programming language, but I’d be thrilled to know of a book or resources that will provide someone with a solid foundation for good software engineering principles, regardless of the language being used.
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Title: I'm in a weird place. I used to work as a developer but never thought I was that great. Most of my jobs were small features, fixing bugs, etc. Honestly I was quite lazy and coasted somehow. I’m trying to change all of that now.<p>I feel like I'm behind 'bootcamp grads' because they can actually push deploy real code.<p>I have a bunch of hobby project ideas, for example one tries to use the Spotify API and the MapBox API, but every time I start I get overwhelmed with what stack I should use, and how to actually get a ‘real’ application out. It’s hard to explain. I have a lot of anxiety and analysis paralysis about this.<p>I’m hoping for some great resources to actually build something and learn at the same time, so I can get my confidence up and actually get some MVPs going so I can ‘learn by doing’.<p>I feel like every tutorial I look at either:<p>1. Starts out great, explaining stuff but then becomes outdated/frustrating by the end (ex: https://www.smashingmagazine.com/2019/03/spotify-app-vue-nuxt-javascript/)<p>2. Is WAY too basic. I don’t want to learn basic syntax over and over.<p>3. Keeps making me switch tech stacks. I just want to use Python/Flask or learn JS/Node. I want to use VUE just because it’s new and it’s docs seem good. I don't even know what's out there anymore or what's good about it. I just want some consistency. Everyone says the stack doesn't matter too much anyway. Just want it to be fun...<p>RealPython and FullStackPython seem like they have good tutorials so far but what I’ve been googling so far (Spotify Vue Tutorial Project Setup) has not come up with stuff that clicks with me.<p>Sorry for the ramble… I just want to work without feeling bored or overwhelmed. Any suggestions? Thanks ~
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Title: Just wanted to get into the top 0.01% axons. :>
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Title: As it is already Christmas Day in my part of the world, I wanted to wish everyone on HN a very Merry Christmas and Happy New Years!<p>Thank you everyone for sharing your tips and stories and like every year I've learned so much from many of you.<p>Here's to a great 2020 for us all!
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Title: I hope everyone had a great 2019 and an even better 2020.
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Title: I have a degree in the hard sciences and went through a period of homelessness during which I started teaching myself how to program.<p>I have been on the hunt for developer positions in the United Kingdom without any luck. I am also open to developer positions else where in Europe.<p>I am reaching out to the great community here in hopes that there are hiring managers/employees who can give me an opportunity at interviews and also for any advice that may help get a foot into the door.<p>Although I welcome opportunities all over the UK and Europe, I am located in a rainy city in northen England so I have a preference towards any opportunities or leads in my area.<p>Thank you for being a humanitarian and enjoy your holidays!
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Title: I am working from home and my workload steadily picked up over years currently almost reaching my limits working basically full time, some days 08-18 only with few minutes break for lunch.<p>I always enjoyed working from home for few hours and having much more spare hours than regular employees who have to sit in work no matter, if they have actual work or no.<p>But since I don't wanna be potentially replaced by competition I haven't taken vacation in years (that was not problem before since I was not that busy and could rest enough every day to have free morning or afternoon) and I don't won't to refuse any projects to miss on money I can't imagine taking vacation, because I'm not gonna lose only vacation expenses, but also similar amount in lost income for every day I would not work.<p>Oh and I forgot to mention because of my partner company is in China I can't follow even my European holidays (while living in Europe), meaning I worked even on Christmas, yesterday and today and have only few free days during CNY and October golden week (but none of them actually as long as in China since I get anyway more tasks in advance or some Chinese will give tasks to us even during Chinese holidays).<p>The best case scenario would be if my partner company decreased amount of projects, since I would be perfectly fine even with half money I earn in exchange for saving half of the work hours without me rejecting anything, but that doesn't seem realistic.<p>So how would you justify taking unpaid vacation with family under such circumstances? As I see it now I will give family vacation, meaning wife and children can enjoy different place (beach) and I will work from hotel room, possibly finding few free hours in early morning or late afternoon and free weekend.
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Title: Open Source is changing the tech industry. But there are still a lot of space where the closed source proprietary software is the only player.<p>Can you comment some of the space? So a person who is thinking about creating a new open source project can get the idea and start making a alternative?
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Title: Mine are to:
• read at least a book off of my reading list per month.
• AWS certs
• Write a blog post per month
• Save $X for a house per month<p>What are your goals/resolutions for 2020?
or what have you learned in this past decade?
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Title: Hi HN<p>I'm an ex-AWS employee, now working for myself. Together with a friend of mine (who also recently left Amazon) we tried an experiment and put almost everything we know about AWS in one short digital book. We launched the book yesterday (xmas day) and it sold over $13K already: https://twitter.com/dvassallo/status/1210352939539161088<p>This is the first time I got paid for something I wrote, so I'm still very new to this. But I'm happy to share what I learned so far, so please feel free to ask me anything.<p>And here's a discount link for the book if you'd like to check it out: https://gum.co/aws-good-parts/hn
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Title: I'll be working as a full-stack developer part-time for the next few months from home. It's a small team of about three or four devs that I've worked with before. It's a really nice company and I'm looking forward to going back to work for them. However, I'll be working from home for the vast majority of the foreseeable future, and this is my first time working from home. Any advice on what I can do (or not do) to maximize productivity, reduce distraction, and facilitate teamwork?
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Title: My main area of expertise has been backend java development for years. I have a few mobile app ideas I have been designing the backend for a while. But since I have no frontend experience, I don't know how to proceed. Should I start learning, which will take large amount of time since there are plenty of platforms you need to publish, or should I outsource it somehow ? If outsourcing is the right answer, where to find people I can work with ? Please forgive my English.
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Title: Now that the decade is coming to a close, what where the most (personally) influential books you read? Which impacted you the most either personally or professionally? The ones you learned the most from?
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Title: And that's on top of the hundreds of tweets that I also "bookmark" in order to check later, on top of a couple of client projects I am currently working on, on top of my relationship that often feels neglected and on top of my life as an individual (= my friends, my family, books I want to read, movies I want to watch, music I want to listen to, places I want to go to, etc etc).<p>But to add some more context: I am a freelance developer (web, mostly), one of my clients is a company that has hired me to do data analytics for them in a field that's quite new (and so there's a lot of studying (about statistics) and research (about the field) from my side) and I really, <i>really</i>, like exploring, studying and learning new things in many areas.<p>So, over the years, I've been collecting pieces of knowledge or other general information that I found interesting. And now, I find myself just before the start of a new year (= reflectioning and resolutioning) and just before a commitment that will require some very effective time management for the next few months, thinking that I just can't do it.<p>Now, to "do it" means to take action over all of these ~7.5K items. With very simple mathematics, if each item requires an action of ~5' each (this number is quite off but I am using it just to make more sense), I need something like ~26 days of doing nothing else other than "actioning" on these items (or ~52 days if I split the day in two halves, etc etc). Not very possible.<p>And here I am, asking for thoughts, opinions, advice. How do I do it? I could just "-f delete -all" in my inbox, pocket and bookmarks folder but I just "can't". Have any of you been in any similar positions? How did you deal with it? Is it some sort of standard "digital hoarding" situation? Is there something deeper? Should I seek for professional help, maybe?
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Title: I'm wondering what framework do you use to plan your product development.<p>Right now I'm using just Trello with a 4 lists, Planned, In-progress, Staging and Production. Works ok but I feel I can do better, like adding a progress % or something to get a better overview of my tasks.<p>Are you using any agile framework that's simple and good enough for a solo dev (and maybe to support a team of max 3 more devs in the near future)?
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Title: Lately I've been working toward keeping a logbook of what I've been up to throughout the day. I've been using things.app to record things as completed tasks, which has the advantage of being available on both computer and phone and seamlessly sync'ed up.<p>But I'm interested in being able to pull in more automation--for example, download a csv of transactions from my bank and integrate purchases into the log, maybe add in entries for emails sent, phone calls made. The goal is to capture information passively enough that I can add context and commentary when I want to without spending more time on it than it's worth. I have an idea that it would be helpful for me to be able to look back and get a long term sense of things that I'm doing and interested about.<p>Do you know of any tools that might make that easier to accomplish? I struggled to find a general purpose app for the iPhone to write new records to a database, and I thought about using a google form but I don't want to have to manually record the time. I thought about sending emails to a specific address, but I couldn't come up with a simple way to do the kind of purchase integration that I'd like to do, and I have a hunch that the whole thing is really only going to be useable if it ends up in a database or spreadsheet form.<p>With all the personal data collection going on right now I think it would be interesting to start trying to use similar tactics to bring more of my attention to the decisions I'm making about how to spend my time and focus.
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Title: Are there any programmable Pebble alternatives nowadays? I've heard of Pebble Versa 2, but people are complaining that it's not possible to create an always-visible custom watch face.<p>My goal is to create a TODO/Pomodoro watch app (as I had on my good, old Pebble) that is always on.
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Title: You can find a lot of articles about the most successful startups / companies in 2019 but these lack information of one-man companies, unless you started as a one person and now you have dozens of employees.<p>My candidate is my friend. He built mobile app that generates revenue around 30 - 50k $ per year.
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Title: I am really at a loss right now. I worked for a startup for two years and put my heart and soul into helping build the company as a senior manager.<p>I ended up quiting about 2 months ago to focus on relaxing during the holidays and spending time with my family (did not take a vacation) before seeking a less intense position.<p>Some old members of my team have come forward to inform me that their was a set of data breaches on the platform and the internal answer was to not announce it and put the blame on me. From what I am told their is no prooof other then a geo location that points to where I (and multiple other employees) live.<p>I reached out to the CEO and basically the first question whas who was it to leak this and then basicly a statement that the company did not accuse me of anything and there is nothing that can be done about the gossip. When I left the company I took every precaution to revoke my credentials and return my equipment promptly. I now know I can not use anyone at my current employer as a reference and feel these false accusation will greatly damage my future employment opportunities. I am currently have meetings with attorneys on how to protect myself but figured I ask the community if anyone has ever gone though this.
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Title: I've had a rather uncreative year, and I'd love some inspiration going into 2020. Please share your side projects/businesses/hobbies, ideally with links and traction numbers. :-) Have a lovely new year!
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Title: Let's stop listing our incredible achievements from the year that has passed.<p>Instead, let's discuss our biggest failures, what we didn't do, what we launched that flopped, and so on.
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Title: I saw a note[0] about using a script to activate Redshift in Linux and wondered what other cool, useful, or otherwise interesting scripts you might be using.<p>[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21916949
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Title: I am trying to learn CS on my own. But there are so many resources available online for every course from many of the top universities.<p>For example:<p>For intro courses:<p>* Computer science an interdisciplinary approach (princeton)<p>* CS61A - UCB<p>* Introduction to CS and programming (MIT)<p>* Stanford<p>* CMU<p>Data Structures and Algorithms:<p>* Princeton Algorithms<p>* CS61B - UCB<p>* Stanford Algorithms course<p>* MIT Algorithms<p>* CMU<p>Apart from this you have multiple books on each topic - Data Structures/Algorithms, Discrete Mathematics, Theory of Computation, Operating systems, Networks, and so on.<p>Apart from these you also have resources like teachyourselfcs, ossu, functionalcs.github.io/curriculum/.<p>I am attracted by the resources/online/books posted by courses in UCB/Princeton/MIT/Stanford/CMU. At the same time I get boggled down and overwhelmed that I have soooooooooo many materials to cover. Intro courses aren't that big of a deal since I am able to recognize/solve most questions fairly easily in multiple resources. But my next step of Data structures and algorithms is overwhelming that I am unable to start somewhere.<p>How do you recommend to choose the right resource (online/book) for each topic/course? Is it worth going through multiple university courses/books for the same topic?
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Title: I found a DOS vulnerability in an Open Source project whose maintainer seems to be MIA at the moment. I found it in-the-wild, but not as an exploit so I've only made minimal effort to contact said maintainer - no surprise I haven't gotten a response so far.<p>I don't want to draw any attention to it in a bug report and I'm not sure it's OK to dig up email addresses from commit logs either.<p>It also got me thinking: why don't we have a Bug Bounty-like program for Open Source projects as a whole. What I mean is somewhere where we can post sensitive bugs (even for no pay) and have someone who knows what they're doing guide the process of reporting it responsibly. I know some big projects have this, but e.g. look at the mountain of dependencies that most projects are built on - many of them barely maintained.
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Title: I am a regular Hacker News reader. But I like to explore similar options news for Sci-tech and Geo Politics.<p>What other news sources you use ?
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Title: For D programming, I was wondering what sort of setup do people have in terms of code editor, plugins for editor and build system?<p>Do you have features like autocomplete and refactoring in your environment?<p>I recently started exploring D and I use VSCode and the code-d plugin with dub or simply dmd -run for small files, but was wondering what more seasoned developers use.
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Title: I want to focus on Machine Learning for this 2020 but I see to many options; Deep Learning, AI, Statistical Theory, Computational Cognitive and more... but to focus just on ML, where should I start? I work mostly as a data analyst on pharma where the focus is batch process.
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Title: It seems that people need to sacrifice life outside of work to make it in the software industry. Has anyone made it and maintained a healthy work life balance?
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Title: Happy new year! Wishing everyone a great year 2020! :)
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Title: I enjoyed reading Gwern and slate star codex's essays. I wonder if you can suggest another one.<p>https://www.gwern.net/
https://slatestarcodex.com/
https://www.gwern.net/
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Title: My dad recently received a call from “Windows support”. He figured out it was a scam call and so luckily no further harm came from it. However, how do you protect your parents from similar tech scams - short of locking down their computers with parental controls?
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Title: I have written a passwords/secrets manager for my personal needs. Maybe it solves some of your problems too.<p>It is written in Go and is a self-contained executable for a small web-app:
https://github.com/jarmo/secrets-web<p>There is also a CLI version if that is your taste:
https://github.com/jarmo/secrets-cli<p>To read about more technical details, look into the core repository at https://github.com/jarmo/secrets<p>Any questions/comments/suggestions are welcome in here or via GitHub pull requests.
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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 either SEEKING WORK or SEEKING FREELANCER,
your location, and whether remote work is a possibility.<p>Bonsai (YC W16) (<a href="https://www.hellobonsai.com" rel="nofollow">https://www.hellobonsai.com</a>) offers freelance contracts, proposals, invoices, etc.
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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. 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 are personally interested in the job.<p>Searchers: Try <a href="https://findwork.dev/?source=hn" rel="nofollow">https://findwork.dev/?source=hn</a>, <a href="https://kennytilton.github.io/whoishiring/" rel="nofollow">https://kennytilton.github.io/whoishiring/</a>,
<a href="https://hnhired.com/" rel="nofollow">https://hnhired.com/</a>, <a href="https://hnjobs.emilburzo.com" rel="nofollow">https://hnjobs.emilburzo.com</a>, <a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10313519" rel="nofollow">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10313519</a>.<p>Don't miss these other fine threads:<p><i>Who wants to be hired?</i> <a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21936438" rel="nofollow">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21936438</a><p><i>Freelancer? Seeking freelancer?</i> <a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21936439" rel="nofollow">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21936439</a>
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Title: 2020's version of <a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1025681" rel="nofollow">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1025681</a>
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Title: I have been working on a few side projects that usually have Go backend services. Right now, they log straight to a file and it works just fine since I only have a couple of instances running.<p>If I were to scale this to more instances/servers, I would need a centralized logging service. I've considered ELK but it's fairly expensive to both self-host or buy a managed subscription.<p>Any advice?
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Title: I have read less than 50 books in my life and probably less than 5 books in the past 10 years.<p>Growing up with the Internet, I always assumed that everything could be found for free online.<p>I spend most of my day reading online articles/conversations, watching videos, and listening to podcasts. I have thousands of non-fiction (mostly self-improvement) books in my reading list on GoodReads, but almost never bother to read any. I assume that the best part of the best books will surface in daily conversations, YouTube videos, CliffsNotes, podcasts, Reddit posts/comments, blog articles, etc. I even find myself reading the comments and not reading the article most of the time. I'm fine with bullet point style summaries and don't care much about the fluff that fills most books I've read in the past.<p>Up until recently, I didn't think I was missing out. I thought that online content was roughly equivalent to 80% of what I'd get from reading actual books for 20% of the effort. I also thought that most books probably don't age very well and that most of the bleeding edge stuff could only be found online. But I'm starting to wonder if that's true. I'm starting to see people online mention that books are infinitely better than online content. I read that millionaires and billionaires read tons of books. I wonder if I'm missing out?<p>One issue for me is that books are a very big time investment. I read very slowly and I don't remember everything I read either. The last few books I read were mostly filled with fluff, anecdotes, stories, jokes, and trivialities. Even if I wanted to read books, I just don't know which ones I should start with, out of the 1000 "must-read" books in my reading list.<p>Are books worth it? Is it more true for some fields than others? Is it more true for older books? Isn't most of the information from books freely available online? Am I missing out?
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Title: Hi HN,<p>Over the past 6 months I've been working on a technical book focused on helping aspiring data scientists to get hands-on experience with cloud computing environments using the Python ecosystem. The book is targeted at readers already familiar with libraries such as Pandas and scikit-learn that are looking to build out a portfolio of applied projects.<p>To author the book, I used the Leanpub platform to provide drafts of the text as I completed each chapter. To typeset the book, I used the R bookdown package by Yihui Xie to translate my markdown into a PDF format. I also used Google docs to edit drafts and check for typos. One of the reasons that I wanted to self publish the book was to explore the different marketing platforms available for promoting texts and to get hands on with some of the user acquisition tools that are commonly used in the mobile gaming industry.<p>Here's links to the book, with sample chapters and code listings:<p>- Paperback: <a href="https://www.amazon.com/dp/165206463X" rel="nofollow">https://www.amazon.com/dp/165206463X</a><p>- Digital (PDF): <a href="https://leanpub.com/ProductionDataScience" rel="nofollow">https://leanpub.com/ProductionDataScience</a><p>- Notebooks and Code: <a href="https://github.com/bgweber/DS_Production" rel="nofollow">https://github.com/bgweber/DS_Production</a><p>- Sample Chapters: <a href="https://github.com/bgweber/DS_Production/raw/master/book_sample.pdf" rel="nofollow">https://github.com/bgweber/DS_Production/raw/master/book_sam...</a><p>- Chapter Excerpts: <a href="https://medium.com/@bgweber/book-launch-data-science-in-production-54b325c03818" rel="nofollow">https://medium.com/@bgweber/book-launch-data-science-in-prod...</a><p>Please feel free to ask any questions or provide feedback.
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Title: It is always good to keep yourself up to date with the hottest tech stacks. So what are your suggestions for 2020?<p>For example:
Flutter / React Native ?
ML? Tensorflow / Keras ?
GraphQL ?
Vue JS?<p>Go or Rust?<p>+1 if you suggest something cutting edge that very less people know about!
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Title: I joined Google straight from college 6 years ago as a SWE, and by now I'm used to the style of work of "do the minimal work possible to do the job", I never challenge myself to deeply learn about what I'm doing, it's almost like I've been using only 10% of my mental capacity for work (the rest was on dating/dealing with breakups/dealing with depression/gaming/...).
Even when I get a meaningful project, all I do is copy code from the internal codebase and patch things together until they work. I was promoted only once.<p>Now that I'm thinking of jumping ship to other interesting companies, I'm having serious doubts that I really learned what I should have learned during all those years. Especially since I'm considering companies with a higher hiring bar than Google.<p>How can I keep myself accountable while I'm still at the company to deeply learn the FE/BE technologies to be better prepared for other companies? Should I start by preparing a checklist of technologies and dive into each of them for a month and continue from there?
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Title: I saw this question today on Indie Hackers and thought it would be interesting to ask the HN community.<p>For me, the answer would be Stripe Atlas (https://stripe.com/atlas)
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Title: What has been the biggest "a-ha" moment or epiphany in your life thus far and how has that changed you?
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Title: Hello everyone!<p>We’re Fitz & Malis, the founders of Freshpaint (https://www.freshpaint.io/). We make it dead simple to collect data from your site and implement tools in a single click and without code.<p>With our Autotrack javascript, Freshpaint automatically instruments your site. Then you can use our point-and-click interface to visually create events after the fact, and send that historical data to any of your analytics or marketing tools.<p>Customer data powers nearly the entire analytics, growth, and marketing stacks of today’s B2C and B2B businesses. But what’s crazy is that customer data is captured and managed using technology that is literally over 25 years old: Let’s say you want to see how many users clicked your signup button or played a song. Or you want to take the users who added an item to their cart and engage them in a marketing campaign. You have to manually write code for each and every event to capture and log that behavior. Then you have to send to it your marketing and analytics tools.<p>Segment is great because it allows you to collect data once and send it to a bunch of different tools, but Segment is still built on legacy technology. It still requires a massive engineering effort to stand up and maintain. Just last week someone told us that at unicorn-level grocery delivery company, it takes 2-3 extra weeks to ship anything because of this tax.<p>Freshpaint automates the challenges here so that engineering can focus on building product, implementations can be done in minutes not weeks or days, and you can make your stack work for you instead of the other way around.<p>We were inspired by a phenomenon we saw while working with customers as early Heap employees. We saw that lots of customers loved Heap for product analytics, but that was only a small slice of the stack. Across analytics, product, and marketing it’s common to see a dozen other tools that require customer data. We kept seeing the same data pipelines and integrations built using the legacy approach of manual code.<p>We built Freshpaint to instrument your entire site and hook up your stack in just a few clicks, without having to write any code.<p>How it works:<p>1. Install Freshpaint’s Autotrack snippet on your site. It takes 60 seconds, and from that point Freshpaint collects every click, pageview, etc.<p>2. Connect over 70 destinations like Google Analytics, Amplitude, Hubspot, Fullstory, Intercom, and a data warehouse. This is done by copying and pasting an API key or account ID. See our integrations here: https://www.freshpaint.io/integrations<p>3. Create events in Freshpaint. Our UI provides a point-and-click way of creating events. Data is retroactively available back to the day you installed Freshpaint, regardless of when the event is created.<p>4. Send data to any destination in one click. You can even backfill historical data.<p>5. Use all that time you saved to ship something new, build an awesome feature you can upsell, or plot your next marketing campaign to take over the world.<p>Great technology is not just about product. We commonly hear from Segment users that it’s really expensive for what you actually get. Search HN and you’ll see tons of complaints and even horror stories about their pricing like this comment here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19221872. With all the work that’s required after you purchase, we agree! On top of automating all that work, our pricing is designed to be much more friendly.<p>We look forward to feedback from the HN community!
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Title: Seems like companies believe the best hire is connected to their existing workforce in some way e.g. well known that most jobs are sourced through some internal referral.<p>And yet as a society we've increasingly moved on to blind dating via dating apps like Tinder instead of meeting people via a mutual connection.<p>Logically you'd think the "optimal" strategy for hiring and dating would be similar. In this case, either via a mutual connection or not.<p>And yet we see this divergence in strategy. Why is that?
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Title: I recently read "Masters of Doom" and found it to be far more motivating than any self help book. What books do you think are similar to it?
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Title: I'd like a secondary source of income. I like the idea of not having all my eggs in one basket. But I'm not sure there are any side jobs I could get that wouldn't require full days. Have any of you done this. If so how and what was it like?
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Title: Hey guys how do I go about making an extra $2000 monthly, I am a software developer who has tried the saas project angle before to no success sadly.
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Title: Hi HN — I'm 43, and at a bit of a crossroads. I sold my share in a company last year and have been taking time off to figure out my next move, and while I've mostly done startups my whole career, I am considering going for a job at a big tech company (FAANG/Lyft/Stripe/etc.). Does anyone have any experience doing this? I can still keep up coding, but should I do that, or try for management? What skills should I brush up on particularly? Mostly, I am a bit fed up with the stress and uncertainty of startups and looking for something more stable, at least for a while.
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Title: I'm in the camp of "Ideas are worthless, execution is everything". Not in a literal sense, obviously, but I definitely have more ideas than time for executing them. Most of them are fun little thing or tools that would be helpful but not enough to actually do them.<p>I would like to submit them somewhere and maybe someone likes it and wants to create it. Or maybe I could get input why it's a stupid idea or how to improve them.<p>It would be also nice to see others' fun ideas. Maybe find a collaborator to work on them together.<p>Are you aware of such a platform? If there is none, what do you think about the concept?
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Title: There's several auth-as-a-service providers on the market right now (Auth0,Firebase,etc). (By auth I mean, all the systems that facilitate password hashing and user authentication, along with SSO integrations.) Their common marketing argument, don't reinvent the wheel, and if you try, you'll probably get it wrong. This is pretty compelling as getting auth "perfect" seems to require some decent research and understanding. However, when viewing the customer pages of some of these providers, I don't see a ton of companies that I'm familiar with. Out of all the sites and tech tools I use, are they rolling their own auth, all of them? Once a site gets big, does it just get too hard to scale or adapt to the third-party provider?
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Title: I'm about to leave my job for another and i'm tasked with documenting the existing architecture and flow of the app.<p>I'd also have to document why certain decisions were taken.
I'm looking for any openly available similar documents for guidance mostly around how to structure the document.
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Title: I'm interested in what book(s) changed your life in 2014. I ask because I'm going through something of a personal and professional renaissance.<p>Thanks for a great community and I look forward to your suggestions.
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Title: Inspired by PG's tweet - <a href="https://twitter.com/paulg/status/1215673204125073408?s=19" rel="nofollow">https://twitter.com/paulg/status/1215673204125073408?s=19</a>
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Title: Invest like the best and For Your Innovation are two great podcasts that I came across last year.
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Title: I think about starting learning programming for android (possibly iOS) since I have macbook. Looking for decent guides, books, youtube channels. I am open to any advice.
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Title: I used to work till late hours. That is - extremely late, I could stay up until 4am, have 6 hours sleep and then work the next day. That is not to say that I was working this whole time, I used to waste some of that time - like play chess every once and again, read HN post...<p>This will not come as surprise that I realized this hurts my family and so I decided I have to change the way how I organize my day.<p>I managed to change my life style to start work early (I wake up 5am and I'm in the office at 6am so I can finish at 3pm) and then spend quality time with family (quality that is I'm not tired or under phone / email). Once kids are in bed and I still feel like checking in I give myself 1 hour before 9pm, I go to bed not later than 9pm so I fall asleep before 10 so I can wake up at 5am again.<p>Everything would be fine if only I had shorter warmup time. That means when I come to the office at 6am I often need around 30 minutes of wasted time to make my mind to actually start working. What do I do during that time? I waste it to play mahjong, sometimes chess or read HN post...<p>I tried different things to fight these bad habits. One post here on HN suggests to maintain a TODO list, so first thing you do in the morning is to curate that list and keep it up to date in terms of priorities. This helped a bit but I still find it difficult to just jump straight in without having some of my time wasted.<p>If you still read this you might probably suspect that this warmup time is not just morning thing. Every distraction during the day (i.e. meetings, standup etc.) make me to waste some time to go back to the flow...<p>What are your ways of reducing this warm-up time? Or maybe I'm just lazy and nobody else have this problem?
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Title: Hey folks.<p>Last year I was fortunate enough to sign a deal to write a book with my favorite technical publisher, The Pragmatic Bookshelf.<p>When I started out as an Engineering Manager many years ago, I found that there wasn't a huge amount of material that specifically and practically helped me understand how to do my job. When you learn to program there's all of these amazing tutorials, examples and guides, but what was there for new managers?<p>In response to this, a couple of years ago I started a blog over at <a href="https://www.theengineeringmanager.com" rel="nofollow">https://www.theengineeringmanager.com</a> which got a decent amount of traction - I had a few front-pages here too, which was awesome. I improved a lot as a writer.<p>This gave me the confidence to pitch a book to numerous publishers and thankfully my ideal choice wanted to work with me.<p>The book has now been released in beta, which means you get DRM-free access to the first 240 pages (13 chapters) and more chapters will be pushed out as they get finished. I've written 17 out of 19 of them so far. The hard copy should be out in the Spring.<p>It's available with free excerpts here: <a href="https://pragprog.com/book/jsengman/become-an-effective-software-engineering-manager" rel="nofollow">https://pragprog.com/book/jsengman/become-an-effective-softw...</a><p>If anyone's at all interested in learning about what it's like to pitch a publisher with their own book idea, then I guess I've been successful at that now, so I'm more than happy to give you any advice. I've had a great time working with PragProg and my editor and the other staff there have been (honestly) fantastic.<p>I'd love to hear your feedback, and the nice part about the beta process is that the book still isn't finished, so there's plenty of scope for improvements.<p>Thanks all!
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Title: Hello,<p>what tools do you use or know about, e.g. something like Talend DataPreparation (https://www.talend.com/products/data-preparation) ?<p>I found OpenRefine (http://openrefine.org), which is browser based like Talend DataPreparation.<p>It would be nice to have a "true" desktop application :)
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Title: Immediate downvote instead of helping, snarky comments - there was a time when it was awesome, not so anymore. Anyone else feel the same?
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Title: Y Combinator runs its annual Work at a Startup Expo in SF each year (<a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20033551" rel="nofollow">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20033551</a>), and one of the biggest requests we’ve been hearing is to bring this to engineers in other areas.<p>To that end, we are looking to host more location-specific events in 2020, and the first one is in Los Angeles/Culver City on March 7th. We welcome engineers to apply to attend: <a href="https://workatastartup.com/expo" rel="nofollow">https://workatastartup.com/expo</a><p>For this event: founders and hiring managers of 20+ YC companies (mostly from the LA area) give quick pitches about their business, their tech stack and why an engineer might be excited to join. After the pitches, we host an open house where engineers are welcome to meet directly with the founders/team to learn more. These events are an efficient and effective way to meet a lot of YC-vetted startups quickly, and to see what jobs are out there in case you’re looking for a new role.<p>LA’s startup ecosystem has been continuing to get stronger, and we’re excited to help engineers find great YC-vetted startups. This year’s companies cover the spectrum across software infra, AI, cannabis, health & fitness and more, and include both 5-person startups and bigger ones like Standard Cognition and Reddit (much larger, but still a YC-backed company and interesting to many people!)<p>Working for a startup may not be for everybody; Justin Kan has a great post on why NOT to work at a startup: <a href="https://www.atrium.co/blog/work-at-a-startup/" rel="nofollow">https://www.atrium.co/blog/work-at-a-startup/</a>. I’ve been through my fair share of startups and large companies, and will be the first to tell you what you’re getting into with either. I’m also happy to chat 1-1 with anybody who might be interested or have reservations: ryan AT ycombinator.com.<p>For any engineer in Southern California who is interested or curious about working at a YC startup, apply to attend the LA event here: <a href="https://workatastartup.com/expo" rel="nofollow">https://workatastartup.com/expo</a>
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Title: I remember like it was yesterday: I applied to a job overseas through a job platform and didn't get hired. People from the platform contacted me telling me one of the possible reasons was that I didn't have any code on GitHub. After that I started uploading all my code as open source projects and began to search places to tell people about it.<p>Soon I learned about Hackernews and made a post that got 1 vote. I then decided to contact HN to ask how can I get more traction to my projects and they told me about the Show HN, a tag design to share small and even unfinished projects. Soon I was posting every idea I ever had made into a project. After InvaderZ - a space invaders clone that uses genetic algorithm (<a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21577659" rel="nofollow">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21577659</a>) - people started liking my projects and I started to gain some attention. That was very important cause I was being approached by some companies.<p>I don't do projects to gather attention, I do cause I have fun doing them. I already had a lot of things done when I decided to upload them to GitHub. Well, in one of those times when my post was in top 10, a cool company from São Paulo saw me and called me for an interview. They liked my project so much they offer me a job.<p>I'm living in São Paulo now, it's a huge city full of things to do and places to visit. It's been really cool so far and I have a huge appreciation for Hackernews and the good people that work here. They provide a cool platform where people can share relevant news. They provide tools for people to start their own startup. They share job openings. They share companies that are hiring. It's a neat place for programmers, hackers and tech enthusiasts in general. I wrote this cause you never know when your story will inspire others and maybe there's someone on the struggle right now looking for a job. This was my experience. HN help me a lot and I think it might help you too. Thank you all and have a wonderful year.
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Title: I'd asked to be moved to part-time at previous jobs but they would never let me. I've asked local recruiters about part-time work and they basically told me that it didn't exist. But I imagine there has to be part time work out there and probably even remote work.<p>Do those jobs exist and if so how do you get them?
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Title: I'm currently working with a legacy system. One element of it has a loaded config in memory, but the physical config was accidentally overwritten and there are no backups. In addition the source code for this compiled binary has also been lost in the mists of time.<p>The service has current up time of 55 Months. The general consensus therefore is that as long as it is never restarted it will continue to perform its function until a replacement can be put in place. Which seems a little fatalistic to me...<p>Has anyone experience of doing something sensible in a similar situation?
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Title: I started a job at a fairly large software company about 3 months ago. I was fully prepared for legacy code and dated processes, but in the interview process I was sold on “transformation” and “change”.<p>Three months in and I am far less happy in comparison to my previous software engineering role. I work on a fairly distributed team, which was supposed to be agile. We don’t have a product manager and our manager isn’t involved much. We are told that we will be getting a PM, but nothing in sight.<p>I have one colocated team member and they are less than ideal. They fall asleep at their desk or during conference calls and don’t seem to care much about software development in general.<p>Onboarding and training was nonexistent. It has been pretty much trial and error since day 1.<p>I feel like I was sold something in the interview process that is not accurate.<p>Long story short, how long do I stick it out before looking elsewhere or even returning to my last job as I left on good terms?
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Title: Hello, I am a technical founder of a bootstrapped B2B SaaS company. Our solution is a very horizontal process automation platform that has the potential to adapt to a lot of different industries and company sizes with the goal to automate pretty much any business process. I do 100% of coding and my co-founder does sales. Our pricing model is $10/user/month.<p>We started working on the product 4 months ago, and are still in the validation phase of the idea, which is showing a lot of potential, yet this hasn't materialized into revenue / paying customers just yet. Trying to look objectively at our progress, it seems we have accomplished a lot in 4 months: we have a working product, 5 signed pilot agreements (to start once we finish a couple of features), and we definitely get a 'wow' impression when we showcase our product. Business process consultants seem to particularly see the potential of our platform.<p>We have only 8 months of runway left, and will need to raise capital to stay afloat. My questions are:<p>- Most blogs seem to suggest that in order to raise a seed round you need around $100k in ARR. How are we supposed to get anywhere near that, considering we started working on the product only 4 months ago? Even if we go through the rest of our savings, I don't think it is likely we can hit such a number in the next 8 months.<p>- Is the advice from these blogs for startups in a later stage? How likely are we to raise money without the kind of traction these blogs talk about?<p>- What strategy would you recommend for companies in our stage? Is friends & family / business angels our only option at this point? How much would be a good amount to raise from them? We think that if we could hire 4 - 6 people we would be able to move significantly faster. Even if we have a good product, it still needs a lot of work.<p>EDIT:<p>Product link: www.seliom.com
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Title: I am seriously considering moving away from Google (or writing a browser addon) which will revert search results back to clean and readable form.<p>It seems "ad blending" made a final step towards morphing into organic results. It was distinct background first, ads count limited, then it went further and further and now it's just a favicon saying 'Ad' which distinguish sponsored content from the organic.
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Title: The question is a generic version of the problem I am facing in my team.<p>A senior person keeps leaving comments to my diffs which are at best can be summarized as his preference for doing things.<p>More than not, I end up making those changes, because as they don't bring any benefits or harm over one another; trying to convince the other person is a more effortful job and also alters the relationship with that person for bad.<p>I am looking for ways how you handle similar situations and how I can make best out of it.
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Title: I suffer from frequent interrupts, and I'm finding it increasingly difficult to go back to being productive after an interrupt. Sometimes coworkers come to me with urgent problems, which is sort of OK, but often times they interrupt me for issues that could have been an email, or non urgent issues that could have been postponed.<p>I'm thinking about implementing "office hours" where I'd be open to interrupts. The rest of the day I'd like a "no admittance except on ~~party~~ urgent business" sign.<p>What are some tips to go about this, or maybe some pitfalls to avoid? Thanks.
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Title: In my job there are a lot of times where I am not doing much and slacking off. Unfortunately there is a lot of control due to security and I cannot do much on my computer (no install of software, a lot of websites are blocked by the firewall etc.).<p>For instance, I would like to learn a new technology, or consolidate one (for instance Node.js) that I know, but I can't because I cannot install Node.js, ore reach npm to install packages.<p>How can I use the time that I have available during work? What would you do?<p>Books are not a good idea because I don't think it would seems good to bring a book and study it at my desk<p>EDIT: I work in Banking and I cannot bring anything with me (such as my personal laptop). This means I am constricted to the use of my work PC. Something like repl could work, but for instance, that is not reachable for me
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Title: Hey founders! I'm working on a startup as a solo founder and realized that I'm only sleeping 5-6 hours per day for last few months. Don't think it's sustainable and healthy. I'd like to sleep 7-8, but just wake up early. I can't get myself to sleep longer or more. It's probably because I have too much on my mind and feel I have a lot to do.<p>Have you guys experienced this? How did you address it?
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Title: What is the best way to have careful, deep, written discussions among distributed teams? Are there tools meant for this? Would something like a BBS work. If so, are there good modern options?<p>We use distributed teams. We communicate using a mix of email, Slack, and Zoom. Our work involves lengthy discussions and deep dives into complex issues. This type of 'deep discussion' benefits from carefully written arguments and counterarguments.<p>Emails often start fine. Someone sends a well structured, well written argument. The first few replies will be strong. But then it diverges into a mess of threads that are hard to follow. People resort to color-coding their responses in-line, etc.<p>Slack is too chatty. Other chat-based solutions are the same. I've never seen it work for this type of 'deep discussion.' Conversations get scattered across channels and threads within channels. Maybe we're using it wrong. To me it's the worst way to encourage deep discussion.<p>Zoom, calls, and in-person meetings are hit or miss. The advantage is they seem to cut to the chase on simple issues. But for deep discussion, they often go nowhere. They favor speaking ability. No one prepares enough. Instead of careful thought and discussion, you get hot takes. A lot of our discussion benefits from going away to gather evidence or think more. Rarely is there a need for synced discussion. And there's never enough time.<p>I've tried to find off-the-shelf solutions. A simple, old-fashioned BBS seems best. It breaks things into the right unit of discussion. It works for short- or long-form discussion. It creates a coherent timeline of discussion, etc.<p>I worry that without the bells and whistles of a modern app, getting the team to use it will be a challenge. It'll be viewed as a stale company discussion board. A lot of options I've looked at have clunky interfaces and tough learning curves for what should be super simple and intuitive.
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Title: I created an add-on for Google Sheets called Flookup, and it comes both as a free version and a VERY AFFORDABLE paid version.<p>At its core, Flookup is a fuzzy matching add-on that helps you manage text that is less than a 100% match. Beyond that it can be used to:<p>1. Search for and match data regardless of whether it contains typos.<p>2. Highlight and delete duplicates duplicates even if the data has mismatched text.<p>3. Calculate the percentage similarity between strings.<p>4. Extract unique values from any column based on percentage similarity.<p>5. Sum and find the average of numbers based on corresponding partial matches.<p>Because of its versatility, Flookup can be used to return the best match, the next best match, etc. until the minimum percentage similarity is reached. This feature avoids weaknesses other fuzzy matching algorithms have because it safely hands power to the user, and I believe the user is the best judge of which data is a match or not.<p>Another great feature Flookup has is that it can be used to combine lookup values. This is particularly helpful when your data has many similar strings and you want to add extra information to your lookup value in order to increase the specificity of your query.<p>Finally, Flookup is good for more than just fuzzy matching; it is the improved replacement for VLOOKUP and INDEX/MATCH that you have been looking for.<p>Find out more by heading to <a href="https://www.getflookup.com" rel="nofollow">https://www.getflookup.com</a>,
Subscription information is available at <a href="https://www.getflookup.com/pricing" rel="nofollow">https://www.getflookup.com/pricing</a>
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Title: There were a couple links here today in the "New" section with headlines that peaked my interests enough to click on them but they went to "Medium.com" which requires I "sign in" with Google or Facebook.<p>I won't do that. I'm not a hardcore "do not track" surfer but I have my limits and that's just a line I won't cross.<p>I don't think it's a leap to say this probably happens more than authors think.
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Title: Around a year or two ago I noticed almost every single self-proclaimed No-logs VPN had started opening new servers with a provider called M247, which is based in Manchester, UK. At first it was nothing suspicious and maybe 20% of the VPN servers I used were operated by M247, and these were all servers in Europe, and there were no red flags or anything suspicious to me at the time.<p>However fast forward to the present day and I notice that M247 Ltd is operating an estimated 65-85% of these VPN servers, and 90% of the USA servers are operated by them. Now they have VPN exits everywhere. All over USA, all over Europe, they have some in Asia, even Australia. The fact that so many VPN servers are using their network concerns me for a number of reasons, the first being that with all the VPN traffic flowing through their network, there is now a target on their back by government organizations, etc, what's stopping them from putting DPI boxes on their upstream ISP, or forcing them to log all traffic?<p>The second is more concerning: What if M247 is just a front, not really a network provider at all but really an intelligence operation, created specifically so that VPN provider owners would rent servers with them so the traffic could be analyzed? I heard from some other sources that M247 has been known to conduct shady deals, etc. What if the government is offering up these servers for dirt cheap to VPN providers purposefully, and that is why they are all using them?<p>Another fishy thing that concerns me is the number of false names that M247 VPN IP addresses are registered with, previously I noticed they were all registered under the name "M247 Ltd" , "M247 Europe SRL" , "M247 Miami/Phoenix/etc Infrastructure" , but recently I notice they are registering their IP addresses under completely false names that don't turn up any results on google, such as "Ppman Services SRL" , "Secure Data Systems SRL" , "Venus Business Communications Limited" , "UK Web Solutions Limited" , "FirstClassIT Solutions" , and a few others that I can't remember at the time. These IPs all use the M247's ASN (AS9009) , and under "Organization" it does say "M247 Ltd" , but "ISP" says those false names.<p>Another strange thing I noticed was that they even used "Cogent Communications" as one of the false names attatched to some of their IP addresses (however just like usual Organization was M247 and AS was 9009). If they are a regular legal company, how can they possibly be making up ISP names out of thin air and using them, as well as using the name of an already existing network provier, Cogent.<p>All these signs point to M247 conducting some less than kosher business, whatever that may be. I'm now very suspicious of connecting to VPN servers where the ISP is M247, for fear that they are some kind of government front/data collection firm/etc. Has anyone other than myself felt suspicious of M247 and thinks they are up to something? Or better yet, is there anyone who knows more about them than I do who is willing to shed some light on them?
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Title: "It happened all of a sudden, and everyone now wants to be a part of it. Even the companies that have years of experience in the virtualization world failed to capitalize on this movement that doesn't seem to have a clear starting point"<p>I am becoming skeptical of the tech media and its role in driving the tech industry, especially the software aspect of it. Every technology or tool that we use, every meetup or conference that we go to is driven underneath with an agenda to sell the product, and not necessarily help engineers work.<p>I see no point in studying any technology, tooling than the toolings my organizations use because all these new tech is in someway linked to drive adoption of companies driving those technology and not necessarily improve the industry in general.<p>This is a cause of concern for me, because if the software that I'm using and promoting is low-key being used to drive someone's agenda, that I'm becoming part of that hidden-agenda too. It feels these organization are using us engineers as a medium to promote and drive their idea and it is eating me alive.<p>What does the HN community this about this? And how should I articulate this problem?
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Title: I like to throw together small tools to automate things. Most involve Crud screens. Simple Crud screens are all very similar but seem to take a lot of time to throw together. Are there good tools that allow you to throw these up quickly?
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Title: A collection of common templates and documents I have been using over the years. I am tired of trying to google them every time I need them, so I just gathered them all here.<p>I would love to hear yours and add them to the list.<p>The list:<p>- Pitch<p>- Vision<p>- Strategy<p>- Product Requirements<p>- Technical Design<p>- Product Opportunity Assessment<p>- Product Vision<p>- Run Book<p><a href="https://github.com/kbariotis/templates" rel="nofollow">https://github.com/kbariotis/templates</a>
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Title: Reading a tweet by Tommy Collison¹ reminded me that the best book I have read about musical harmony is practically unknown²<p>What are the best unknown books you read?<p>¹ <a href="https://twitter.com/tommycollison/status/1215008546657423361" rel="nofollow">https://twitter.com/tommycollison/status/1215008546657423361</a><p>² <a href="https://www.amazon.com/Harmony-its-systemic-phenomenological-aspects/dp/B0000E8F1U" rel="nofollow">https://www.amazon.com/Harmony-its-systemic-phenomenological...</a>
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Title: I've been well aware I suffer from low self-esteem for many years and have worked with a therapist to try and address this but it's obvious I've got as far as I can go with my current therapist. Before I just change therapists I'm looking for empirical evidence from HN readers that might have gone a different route that has yielded tangible (if personal) results. Does anyone have anything to recommend?
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Title: I wanted to have a framework that would let me build web apps faster than ever before. I didn’t care if it was a little hacky or didn’t use best practices — I wanted to be able to get a multi-user application out the door in hours instead of months. I researched the CMS space for months before deciding to build something from scratch.<p>My goal was to be 90% done building a web app once I had the static HTML and CSS finished. I’m not a big fan of building out API endpoints over and over again for every new app, fiddling with a database, or doing lots of config.<p>What I ended up with was a syntax that lets developers tag HTML elements as containing data (i.e. objects or arrays), thereby transforming the tree structure of the DOM into a JSON tree that can be saved to the current user's account. It took a while after that to evolve the syntax and make it easy to use.<p>I call the project Remake[0] and I’ve been working on it non-stop for the past year. After a failed Product Hunt launch[1], I kept going and managed to get my first few dozen users.<p>I live stream my progress on Twitch[2] (Thursdays and Fridays, 12pm EST) and I’m consistently able to build full CRUD web apps within hours — projects that would’ve easily taken me weeks or months before.<p>A bonus that HN might appreciate: Remake is a server-rendered framework, so the front-end library isn't even necessary or loaded for 90% of users. Only logged in users who can edit the current page need to have JS enabled.<p>To see a 12 line, fully-functional todo app, a 30 minute Trello clone tutorial, and the rest of the docs, see: https://docs.remaketheweb.com/<p>[0] https://remaketheweb.com/<p>[1] https://blog.remaketheweb.com/product-hunt-ux-bugs-derailed-my-launch/<p>[2] https://www.twitch.tv/panphora
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Title: I am interested in what podcast(s) changed your life.<p>Thanks for a great community and I look forward to your suggestions.
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Title: I've been in the industry for a long while now long enough to be past the stage of proving myself and looking more towards creating something of lasting value for the world and society and even my own legacy<p>Everyone around me from management to the HR apparatus and even my peers seem geared towards me remaining a non client facing worker bot content with my perks and not harboring any ambitions beyond 'solving challenging problems' as a means to elicit that dopamine rush towards the collective ego<p>Growing up I chose computer science because it wasn't supposed to feel like work it was supposed to be a calling a duty but now the whole system is geared towards blind compliance and disengagement<p>My good people how can I break the endless cycle of mindless mechanical labour that has become the software business and become the consummate professional I've always wanted to be?
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Title: I have just graduated and would like to get into the Compiler Engineering field.<p>Is the field still in demand?
Are there any opportunities?
What will I be working on?
What tips can you give me?
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Title: In the last year or so I've tried to make an effort to email people who have had some sort of positive impact on me. I specifically choose email because to me it feels more personal than a tweet or some other equivalent.<p>I've emailed quite a few people and have been very surprised at the 100% reply rate I've received and in some instances, the conversations that have developed from them.<p>The emails are usually very short, personalised messages along the lines of "Hi X, thank you very much for Y. It had a positive impact on me because of Z. All the best"<p>Some of the people include small to medium sized musicians, authors, developers, and teachers.<p>I kind of feel like a bit of a weirdo doing it because I don't really hear of many people who do the same. But sometimes I just genuinely want to thank a person for what they've contributed.
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Title: Running a profitable SAAS has been my dream from the moment I wrote my first line of code.<p>Here on HN and IndieHackers I've always looked up to the people who pay their bills with recurring revenue from their tools.<p>I've tried, many times, to do the same, without much success. A couple of rather successful HN pitches, but none of my projects ever even paid me a beer (let alone my rent).<p>Until this month! Last year I built myself and my girlfriend a tool. Even though I did build it for other people to use it, I had never thought someone actually would. Long story short, half a year later I provide my service to more than 5000 (fully organic) users.<p>This month is the first month in which revenue is high enough to pay my rent with it. Disclaimer: I share my rent with my girlfriend, but it does sound cool to say.<p>Looking back at the proces, it does match with a lot of other success stories I read over the years in the HN community. The main lesson which I can now confirm: build something that scratches your own itch.<p>So... Thanks you guys, for keeping me motivated and inspired.
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Title: My home was burglarized last week. My neighbor's security camera captured two 30s video clips of the individual, one at my front door prior to forcing it, and one with him leaving with a cloth grocery bag containing property he was taking.<p>The video shows his face, but it's not as clear as I would like. I don't know how to quantify its quality except to say its "not bad" but "not great either."<p>I would welcome any suggestions for extracting and improving still images from the two clips. I'd prefer to outsource this to someone that has experience in this kind of work.<p>I don't have a lot of confidence that the local police are going to invest a lot of time and effort in this, only because they are overloaded.<p>Any recommendations for providers or other actions to take would be appreciated.
Upvote: | 62 |
Title: Every time I saw something cool on the internet, I add it to my bookmarks.
Result: I have more than 5000 bookmarks on firefox.
I tried to add keywords and descriptions, but it takes me too much time to do that every time.<p>I also tried to use notion.so (an amazing tool !) to manage my bookmarks, but the plugin "Notion Web Clipper" does not allow to add tags when you save a link.<p>And you, how do you deal with your bookmarks?
Any good tips to keep interesting resources close to you?
Upvote: | 279 |
Title: As an example, the team I work on has been adding more precondition checking to all of our applications. The simple act of stepping back from the perceived data-flow and explicitly declaring what we believe should hold true has uncovered several bugs in our understanding of our applications.<p>We've likened it to having someone review a paper you've written: you often read what you <i>think</i> you wrote, not what's actually written.<p>This got me to questioning what others have found to be transformative in their development practices.
Upvote: | 236 |
Title: What question (or problem) separates the wheat from the chaff?
Upvote: | 54 |
Title: https://github.com/firmai/pandapy<p>PandaPy has the speed of NumPy and the usability of Pandas (10x to 50x faster)
Upvote: | 159 |
Title: I'm writing this here because of how frustratingly broken is google's and gmail's terms and services. My grandfather's Apple ID (and therefore iPad) is completely unusable because the apple id is blocked awaiting email validation.<p>Minewhile, the gmail account, which was used only for the Apple ID, and had no other uses whatsoever, is also blocked. Downloading the mail you can clearly see there is no activity in the gmail at all, except Apple ID, and somehow Google found this account as violating its terms and services.<p>Apple's and Google's security policies have become a Kafkaesque nightmare. They randomly trigger account locking for no reasons, apple's strict Apple ID renders your device unusable while gmail can apparently lock you out of 'terms of services violation' when you literally did nothing. Old people can randomly trigger those lock downs and end up with unusable devices. Why the hell is google allowed to lock you down from even receiving (not even talking about sending) emails when their stupid heuristics triggers a random lockdown?
Upvote: | 69 |
Title: What do you regret you didn't know when started programming for iOS or Android?
Upvote: | 237 |
Title: I need a monitor for work that has lots of space so that I can open up different applications side by side. I was initially considering buying two separate monitors but am now considering ultrawide monitors as an option as well. For those of you with ultrawide monitors, what's your experience been like? Are there any brands or models that you recommend? Is there anything I should look out for?
Upvote: | 58 |
Title: There are a lot of different ways to do authentication these days. How do you currently solve for it?<p>Any tools you swear by? Anything you recommend? Anything you hate? Do you recommend writing it from scratch or using a framework or service?
Upvote: | 114 |
Title: Would like to know how the tech community deals with bookmarks and links. They might just be read-later entries that you want to visit later on. Or could the links you have been collecting be a valuable resource? How would you share them?
Upvote: | 83 |
Title: I can't be the only one who has been locked out of Medium because I click on interesting titles on HN and quickly reach my limit. I don't want to upgrade Medium, I don't want to pay to get past paywalls.
Upvote: | 43 |
Title: I asked this same question a couple of years ago -> https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15715547<p>Since then a lot has changed. I'm curious what people consider the fastest/easiest way to build a full-stack SaaS app in 2020.<p>Assume the following:<p>- Can be picked up by almost anyone (assume basic HTM/CSS/JS understanding), doesn't require any deep CS understanding (think how easy Rails was in 2006)<p>- Has full-stack capabilities, not just front-end<p>- Is open source and can be deployed anywhere<p>- Is complex enough to rule our no code solutions like Bubble or Webflow
Upvote: | 77 |
Title: Hi, HN. I’ve been here for a long time and I really respect the maturity and experience of this community, and so I’m asking for your advice.<p>I’m a 30-year-old iOS developer of about ten years, and last year suffered an incredible amount of trauma, including a breakup from a four-year relationship, two separate cases of sexual assault, and the passing of my mother.<p>While on an insured mental health break for months, I struggled through holding myself together, until finally returning to work in December.<p>I had been doing well for a while, but recently have been feeling significant mental instability - just disorganized and incoherent thoughts, and unfortunate bouts of overwhelming PTSD symptoms.<p>My coping method to that has been to try to hold my work together more and more, to a point late last week where I wasn’t even sleeping properly giving myself anxiety about work the next day.<p>I’ve fallen heavily behind on a lot of the personal responsibilities I’ve needed to ensure my continued healing but I’ve been terrified to step down from my job.<p>I live in Toronto, I’ve been with the company for more than a year, so I believe Employment Insurance would be possible for me...I’m honestly very confused as to what to do, and I’m sure others here have been in similar situations. I do have a medical professional who I deal with for this who I’ve scheduled to see tomorrow.<p>Thanks for reading, HN. This site has been a blessing in my life.<p>EDIT:
Wow, thanks for all the support and responses, extremely grateful.
Upvote: | 305 |
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