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Title: Hi HN,
As I programmer I lack ideas what side project ideas should i try to make skillset strong
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Title: In the current climate it appears remote working will be more common. So where would you want to move too? Or would you become a nomad? Or is current home, perfect?
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Title: Since the beginning of the pandemic some of us have seen some of our economic perks disappear, in some cases these were a significant part of our income. The main reasoning in many companies is that we are not using the company office so we don't get the company perks.<p>But we are in fact using a new office, that many of us have had to isolate from the rest of the family and house, effectively removing this useful space from our homes. Is your company paying part of your rent to compensate for it?
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Title: https://www.theverge.com/2014/9/30/6874353/reddit-50-million-funding-give-users-10-percent-stock-equity<p>I always thought this was a bold idea and yet I never heard anything about it after was this one comment from Sam Altman's AMA:<p>https://www.reddit.com/r/IAmA/comments/2hwr02/i_am_sam_altman_lead_investor_in_reddits_new/ckwqv8x/<p>Did it not pass regulation or did they just abandon the idea?<p>Gigster also made similar claims and I have not heard anything since:
https://techcrunch.com/2016/11/01/gigster-fund/
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Title: It hit me when filling out an application form that most of my achievements have been largely academic.<p>Other than that I've spent most of my time exercising, socialising and volunteering. Nothing outstanding. I haven't done any expeditions, climbed high mountains or led a sports team to victory.<p>I wondered what some of the most impressive things you had seen in young people were.<p>Obviously you will have outliers who have started companies at 16 and sold them for a few hundred thousand etc.<p>But what are the things that you've heard of, or in fact done yourself that you've thought "Yeah wow, thats bloody impressive!"<p>Or perhaps I'm looking at this question the wrong way?
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Title: This just landed in my inbox. The discussion on hackernews (<a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23279837" rel="nofollow">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23279837</a>) surely helped Triplebyte understand that it was a mistake to create public profiles of their users by default:<p>Email by Triplebyte CEO, Ammon:
---<p>Hi xxxxx,<p>There’s no other way to put this--I screwed up badly. On Friday evening, I sent an email to you about a new feature called public Triplebyte profiles. We failed to think through the effects of this feature on our community, and made the profiles default public with an option to opt out. Many of you were rightfully angry. I am truly sorry. As CEO, this is my fault. I made this decision. Effective immediately, we are canceling this feature.<p>You came to us with the goal of landing a great software engineering job. As part of that, you entrusted us with your personal, sensitive information, including both the fact that you are job searching as well as the results of your assessments with us. Launching a profile feature that would automatically make any of that data public betrayed that trust.<p>Rather than safeguarding the fact that you are or were job searching, we threatened exposure. Current employers might retaliate if they saw that you were job searching. You did not expect that any personal information you’d given us, in the context of a private, secure job search, would be used publicly without your explicit consent. I sincerely apologize. It was my failure.<p>So, what happened? How did I screw this up? I’ve been asking myself this question a bunch over the past 48 hours. I can point to two factors (which by no means excuse the decision). The first was that the profiles as spec’d were an evolution of a feature we already had (Triplebyte Certificates--these are not default public). I failed to see the significance of “default public” in my head. The second factor was the speed we were trying to move at to respond to the COVID recession. We’re a hiring company and hiring is in crisis. The floor has fallen out on parts of our business, and other parts are under unprecedented growth. We've been in a state of churn as we quickly try various things to adapt. But I let myself get caught in this rush and did not look critically enough at the features we were shipping. Inexcusably, I ignored our users’ very real privacy concerns. This was a breach of trust not only in the decision, but in my actual thought process. The circumstances don’t excuse this. The privacy violation should have been obvious to me from the beginning, and the fact that I did not see this coming was a major failure on my part.<p>Our mission at Triplebyte has always been to build a background-blind hiring process. I graduated at the height of the financial crisis as most companies were doing layoffs (similar to what many recent-grads are experiencing today). My LinkedIn profile and resume had nothing on them other than the name of a school few people had heard of. I applied to over 100 jobs the summer after I graduated, and I remember just never hearing back. I know that a lot of people are going through the same thing right now. I finally got my first job at a company that had a coding challenge rather than a resume screen. They cared about what I could do, not what was on my resume. This was a foundational insight for me. It's still the case today, though, that companies rely primarily on resume screens that don’t pick up what most candidates can actually do--making the hiring problem much worse than it needs to be. This is the problem we're trying to fix.<p>We believed that we could do so by building a better Linkedin profile that was focused on your skills, rather than where you went to school, where you worked, or who you knew. I still believe there's a need for something like this. But to release it as a default public feature was not just a major mistake, it was a betrayal. I'm ashamed and I'm sorry.<p>Triplebyte can’t function without the trust of the engineering community. Last Friday I lost a big chunk of that trust. We’re now going to try to earn it back. I’m not sure that’s fully possible, but we have to try. What I will do now is slow down, take a step back, and learn the lessons I need to avoid repeating this.<p>I understand that cancelling this feature does not undo the harm. It’s only one necessary step. Please let me know any other concerns or questions that I can answer (replies to this email go to me). I am sorry to all of you for letting you down.<p>Sincerely,<p>-Ammon
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Title: I found Jane Portman’s “Productized Consulting Guide” intriguing, and am curious to see more examples of how people in different fields put this idea into practice.<p>Here’s an example I encountered today: https://punchlinecopy.com/work-with-punchline/<p>Do you have a similar page on your site? Have you come across others which impressed you?
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Title: Do you do anything to allow yourself to spend more time outside whilst working?<p>I.e. laptop glare protectors, shadings for monitor or laptop, devices to keep laptop supported while standing or walking.<p>Appreciate any thoughts!
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Title: A common way of deploying a web application database at scale is to setup a MySQL or Postgres server, create one table for all customers, and have an account_id or owner_if field and let the application code handle security. This makes it easier to run database migrations and upgrade code per customer all at once.<p>I’m curious if anybody has taken the approach of provisioning one database per account? This means you’d have to run migrations per account and keep track of all the migration versions and statuses somewhere. Additionally, if an application has custom fields or columns, the differences would have to be tracked somehow and name space collisions managed.<p>Has anybody done this? Particularly with Rails? What kinda of tools or processes did you learn when you did it? Would you do it again? What are some interesting trade offs between the two approaches?
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Title: There is so much talk around companies going permanently remote. If that is really the case then what's the need to compete for talent in the Silicon Valley? Keeping aside the challenges due to different time zones, if a person's skill can be validated would you hire developers in India, or for that matter any other country?
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Title: I think there are several reasons to get a job at FAANG such as good compensation and interesting problems. But if we look at other companies interesting problems exists every where
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Title: I've spent last year interviewing only to find out that I'm considered too old (I'm 45) for most shops around. They won't spit it out directly of course but people talk and what they say is that I need to be stellar or young to be hired. Companies won't invest in me the slightest bit, so the moment I miss a question in the long interview process I'm out of the door without second thought.<p>So...<p>1. I might be banging the wrong doors. E.g. FAANGs don't seem to be right. Any companies that don't drink/sell the youth cool-aid?<p>2. I might be searching at the wrong job boards. Any suggestions welcome.<p>3. Finally I might be better doing sth else altogether (but what?) rather than fighting a loosing battle against preconceptions that run so deep.<p>Anyway. Thanks for any non-insulting answers in advance.<p>PS: I'm based in EU and I'm a SW Dev working mainly in DevOps and Reliability.
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Title: Prof here. Need to create online lectures for delivery this fall. Course is scientific computing. Plan is video of ipython shell and an editor plus audio of me blathering on. I use a Mac. Suggestions for software for the screen portion? Thx!<p>Edit: OBS Studio? Screenflow? Camtasia?
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Title: <i>// sorry if I'm wrong but I believe that a significant number of tech companies buy Shutterstock's packages or subscriptions</i><p><i>// throwaway because I'm involved with stock image production</i><p>Today Shutterstock announced[1] their new payout levels where they now start to reset authors' commission rates every year. Level 1 starts at 15% per sale, then it goes to 20%, 25%, 30%, 35%, and finally 40% per sale after 25,000 sales which most photographers and illustrators will never achieve in a single year.<p>They are also switching from the $0.25 flat-rate commissions per image bought via subscription packages to a percentage fee that will result in payouts as low as <i>$0.10 per image</i>. And with the aforementioned yearly commission reset, even popular authors are going to receive these miserable royalties during the first months of each year.<p>In other words, total payouts are going to drop for <i>50% or more</i> for the absolute majority of authors (who are usually from low-income countries like Ukraine and Thailand). There is no good reason for this except for Shutterstock being a stagnating rent-seeking company in need of higher quarter earnings. Of course there's no way to influence them because the contributors can't simply delete their portfolios from the largest stock platform out there, even if it pays peanuts per sale.<p>Most authors upload their content to multiple stocks at once, so please switch to any alternative out there to help them earn more (except for Bigstock because they're owned by Shutterstock).<p>[1]: https://www.shutterstock.com/blog/contributor-earnings-update
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Title: I recently decided to stop using social media. Since then, my online downtime is pretty much spent on reading HN. But it can only go so far. So I'm looking for other fun yet informative places to kill some downtime.<p>Where do you spend your online downtime?
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Title: I've been spending a bunch of time recently browsing online content now that I'm at home a lot more.<p>I find that the reading UX between newsletters, news sites, Medium, Reddit etc is super varied.<p>Is there anyone site that makes reading content particularly enjoyable for you?
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Title: Hi there.<p>HN has became part of my daily routine, i wonder what other websites / news aggregator / app do you use for getting informed ?
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Title: Hey everyone!<p>I'm Rob and I want to share what I've built - a solid ledger behind simple API: <a href="https://decimals.app" rel="nofollow">https://decimals.app</a><p>The ledger is a key piece of any financial system and is easy to get the design wrong, resulting in troubles for making sure money movements are adding up.<p>I took a lot of inspiration from good designs from Square, Uber, and others for the scalability and security aspects. And on the usability side, I applied many concepts from the Ledger CLI, making it very easy to use.<p>I'm really happy I get to show this to you all, thank you for reading about it! Please let me know your thoughts and questions in the comments (The sample code on the landing page is not working, I'm fixing it).<p>[1] <a href="https://www.ledger-cli.org/" rel="nofollow">https://www.ledger-cli.org/</a><p>[2] <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iN6mhI5hFt4" rel="nofollow">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iN6mhI5hFt4</a><p>[3] <a href="https://developer.squareup.com/blog/books-an-immutable-double-entry-accounting-database-service/" rel="nofollow">https://developer.squareup.com/blog/books-an-immutable-doubl...</a><p>[5] <a href="https://docs.decimals.app" rel="nofollow">https://docs.decimals.app</a>
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Title: I'm thinking of paying a tutor online, but I'm curious about other ways to go about it
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Title: I recently talked to someone who helped a company with their main-frame architecture in the 80s.<p>As a 90s kid, I grew up with internet, github and stackoverflow so it can be argued that I got everything easily.<p>But I'm eager to know what was it like before internet or personal computers were a thing.<p>Who hired you? What did you work on? How did you learn ? How did you fix issues? How did you find talent? How did news spread? Do you have any war-time stories ?<p>Thanks
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Title: Seeing fellow programmers left and right switching to dark mode and everyone seems very happy. I gave it a try a few times but it just doesn't work. I can't focus.<p>It is not the time that I need to get used to a different syntax highlighting scheme because I switch between editors all the time. I'm perfectly fine as long as the background is lighter than the foreground, so it has to do something with the dark mode itself.<p>Is it that I have to give it more time (so I can stop noticing that "something is wrong"), or simply it doesn't work for some people? And if so, what am I losing (reduced eye fatigue, better sleep...)?
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Title: Most of the highly recommended books for software developers are about 400 pages. Sometimes I want to start and finish a book in a weekend and 400 is too much for me. Which books under 200 pages do you recommend to software developers?<p>Bonus: Best non-tech books under 200 pages https://www.goodreads.com/list/show/19194.Best_Books_Under_200_Pages
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Title: In May of 1963, I started my first full-time job as a computer programmer for Mitchell Engineering Company, a supplier of steel buildings. At Mitchell, I developed programs in Fortran II on an IBM 1620 mostly to improve the efficiency of order processing and fulfillment. Since then, all my jobs for the past 57 years have involved computer programming. I am now a data scientist developing cloud-based big data fraud detection algorithms using machine learning and other advanced analytical technologies. Along the way, I earned a Master’s in Operations Research and a Master’s in Management Science, studied artificial intelligence for 3 years in a Ph.D. program for engineering, and just two years ago I received Graduate Certificates in Big Data Analytics from the schools of business and computer science at a local university (FAU). In addition, I currently hold the designation of Certified Analytics Professional (CAP). At 74, I still have no plans to retire or to stop programming.
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Title: I've been coding since I was young, so I'm not worried about struggling academically, at least in my CS classes. I'm more interested in knowing what I should do now to give me an advantage in getting a job or otherwise.<p>All advice is appreciated!
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Title: There are a few tools to split commits from sub-dirs to a branch which you can then push to a public repo/monorepo.<p>E.g. `git subtree`, https://github.com/facebook/fbshipit, https://github.com/splitsh/lite, https://github.com/ingydotnet/git-subrepo.<p>A lot of these approaches though rely on the source-of-truth being the internal company monorepo. PRs are synced internally, merged, and then pushed out. It means that someone outside the organization cannot be a maintainer, and the speed of PR merges is dictated by the available resources inside the company. So I'd argue this is not the right OSS way of doing things.<p>Even if there are two public monorepos out in the open you can have similar problems trying to collaborate, because to modify one line of a package, you may need to pull a huge monorepo and its tooling down.<p>Does anyone have a solution or an example of an OSS-friendly approach to monorepo open-sourcing?
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Title: Yesterday I needed to message my CS teacher about an exam question, and discovered that I was unable to formulate my question in Swedish, so I opted to write the whole message in English instead. I don't want to share the message, since it is related to an exam, but it was about Iacono's working set structure.<p>Have your native languages incorporated CS terms to any usable level, or do you have to switch to English, in part or wholly, when the topic is discussed?
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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 <i>not</i> an option, include ONSITE. 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. Readers: please only email if you are personally interested in the job. 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: <i>Who wants to be hired?</i> <a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23379194" rel="nofollow">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23379194</a> and <i>Freelancer? Seeking freelancer?</i> <a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23379195" rel="nofollow">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23379195</a><p>Note that these threads are paginated and usually end up with several pages of comments. Click "More" at the bottom of each page to go to the next.
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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: Questions (pick 1...n):<p>1. What's your process?<p>2. How did you start? What was hard? What was easy?<p>3. How do you stay motivated? Do you?<p>Bonus:<p>4. What were the struggles you had to overcome to develop a regular writing habit (e.g. shyness, self-consciousness, poor time management skills, etc...)? How did you do it?
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Title: Must haves: Be able to display a message on the landing page
Nice to haves: A Folder to keep articles<p>I know Strikingly has a cheap ($12?) website building tool, but. It just seems wrong that I can't just buy a domain and get some random content on it without having Go Daddy charge me $5/month to host it? I apologize in advance for the noobness, but this is a serious question ;).
Hope everyone is well.
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Title: We just had an interesting data loss at work, that was due to data being encrypted at rest. We somehow managed to delete the encryption keys (still figuring out how), which became an obvious problem once our main database instance was rebooted.<p>Luckily we were able to restore the data, but now I (we) really want to learn what a proper setup would look like.<p>If you have any clear overview reading on the topic I'd be very interested to to know about it.<p>In particular I'm wondering: how do you back up your encryption keys, or even put them in escrow somewhere? Assuming we don't rotate the keys constantly I would love to just save them in somewhing like a passsword manager that's secured with 2FA/FIDO.<p>Would love to hear your thoughts!
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Title: Does anyone else feel this way?<p>I don't know about you, but I am smart. I know I'm smart, I am told that I am smart, I do smart things but . . . I am also old, and all my life I have worked (mostly) for people who were not smart as me, and somehow they:<p>* were my boss<p>* had a better/faster career<p>* or .... they owned the company<p>I am old now, but I can still kick some ass, and that's what my intention is.<p>When I was younger I was:<p>* insecure: some of that shit still lingers.<p>* anxious: yeah, this is related to the shit above, but I wanted to highlight it. And while I am over it, some of that shit still lingers<p>* more smarterer #LOL<p>* more courageous, in a way. Now that I am less anxious and more secure, I seem to have lost the hump!<p>Any tips for me how to overcome the snart-complex, kick my own ass, and start making money?
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Title: I started a SaaS business official in May 2019. (Although I spent about 8 months developing the application). I didn't officially acquire my first customer until May 2019. Fast forward to May 2020, and I've got about 8 paying customers. I'm really proud and impressed by this accomplishment.<p>Growth is, however, slow. I have a good understanding of who my target customer is now, 1 year later, after talking to them and noticing common patterns in terms of their needs.<p>This is my first real business. I would really love to hear from someone experienced in building a SaaS business from scratch. Your insight would be appreciated. What should I expect in terms of growth? How fast did businesses grow in the beginning (BaseCamp, for example, Digital Ocean, MailChimp)?<p>Thanks
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Title: We spent our time in lockdown building Workspace (https://www.tapchief.com/workspace), a full-stack toolkit for freelancers.<p>With Workspace freelancers can send invoices, oversee their projects, craft proposals and do everything they need to grow their business, for free.<p>Here’s a bit on why we built Workspace.<p>4 years ago we launched TapChief from our college dorm room, a marketplace for freelancers to discover and work on remote gigs. Over the course of 25,000 gigs and 2M$ earnings on TapChief, we noticed major challenges with the way freelancers worked with clients on projects.<p>We saw our users having to jump between 10 tools and ultimately rely on a good ole spreadsheet and email to make it all work together. Projects were all over the place, work was siloed and expensive to manage with these tools. And thus was born Workspace.<p>Workspace is in the works and we’re looking for early adopters to try it out and help us build something that freelancers around the world will love. Get early access here - (https://www.tapchief.com/workspace/coming-soon)
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Title: By project, by tool? What do you do with pdfs and reference stuff, surely not Dewey Decimal?
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Title: I've been considering going "cold-turkey" and packing my laptop away for a while in order to unlearn some bad habits related to focus/distractions/procrastination, but obviously there are downsides to this for someone based in tech.<p>I'm wondering if anybody in the community has ever attempted this and would like to share their experience.<p>A handful of questions to seed the conversation (but please don't feel obliged to answer them all):
- What did you give up? How long was this for? Was this intentional or due to external circumstances?
- What were your motivations for giving the technology up?
- Was your overall experience positive or negative? In what ways?
- Did you notice any changes in your happiness, focus or stress levels?
- Is an "all-or-nothing" approach as such unrealistic? Would a strategy of using tech "in moderation" be more suitable?
- Do you have any advice for how someone could regain focus, avoid distractions and generally use technology in a more
mindful manner?<p>If you happen to know of any interesting blog posts/articles/previous discussions on the topic, please share.<p>Thanks in advance for your insights!
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Title: I have lost perspective on what is reasonable to expect, and need a reality check from HN.<p>Some time ago, I left a large-ish company with what I perceived as overall quite good engineering to join a smaller company. When I say "quite good", I don't mean perfect, but what I consider the basics were there<p>- Code review, where we would consider architectural concerns, failure cases, etc. ensuring maintainability. Shortcuts were taken intentionally with a plan to address them<p>- Test coverage was good enough that you could generally rely on the CI to release to production<p>- Normal development workflow would be to have tests running while developing, adding tests as you introduce functionality. For some projects that didn't have adequate test coverage, developing might involve running the service locally and connecting to staging instances of dependencies<p>- Deployments were automated and infrastructure was managed in code<p>Those are what I consider the basics. Other things I don't expect from every company and am fine setting up myself as needed.<p>In $current_company, I was surprised that none of the basics were there. All agree to do these things, but with the slightest bit of pressure those principles are gone and people go back to pushing directly to prod, connecting to prod DBs during development, breaking tests, writing spaghetti code with no review, leaving us worse off than we were before. This is frustrating since I see how slow dev is, and I know how fast it is to develop when people write good code with discipline. Most devs in the company don't have experience with other kind of environments (even "senior" ones), I think they just can't imagine another way. My disappointment isn't with the current state, but that people of all levels are making it worse instead of better.<p>These setbacks are demoralizing, but I'm wondering if my standards are unreasonable. That this is what mid-sized companies are and I just have to endure and keep pushing
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Title: Hey, hive mind! Could you point me in a direction where I could research more about how to handle disagreement/discord within management of a company? I am a software engineer who has been growing through the ranks until I reached level of management structure in our company. The company is rather young (<10 years), rather small (<500 employees), but not tiny any more. Currently the company follows approach that feels a bit insincere or on times even totalitarian to me - managers cannot disagree with each other in front of other employees, a manager cannot criticize management actions/decisions. Of course, I could be completely wrong about this and it could be the best policy. Yet I'd like to learn more about this topic and adhere to it because I agree with it, not because I was once told to follow it.
My discontent stems from several ideas - everybody can make mistakes, a lot of decisions are really compromises with up and down sides and not silver bullets. This, together with "obligation to dissent" approach that I personally like, makes me believe that it's better to be able to voice concerns and disagreements instead of hiding it. So I would prefer to have a system where management actions are seen more like a social contract that we all subscribe to (I've joined this company because I think it is doing a mostly good job), not a god-sent infallible order, which cannot ever be criticized.
Now it feels like I am just trying to sum up "obligation to dissent" in other words :) Are there any other resources/research/etc to compare totalitarian style vs more open?<p>Some disclaimers:
- I have tried searching for this topic, but didn't find too much related stuff
- I'm not sure how to submit to "Ask HN" directly, I only see the general "submit" button, so here we go. Sorry if this post ends up in a wrong place
- account name is pretty much random, so that it doesn't remind anyone of me
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Title: I am a recent grad with beginner knowledge in programming. I wanna get into programming seriously, and my former university is sponsoring all my coursera certifications. Which ones should I do over the summer?
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Title: Few days ago I came across one site which gives a nice path and modules by modules progress of learning and practising algorithms.
I forget the site name, do you have seen any products like this ?
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Title: I'm a dev with almost no experience in a 3rd world country. Considering the COVID situation, In the worst case scenario I'll be without a job for a while. I have finances to manage for (probably) a year and a month or two.<p>I want to ask what are the ways with good probability of making ~ $1-1.5/mo (enough to live and still have considerable remaining in my situation)<p>I'm asking for ideas because the popular ideas are out of question:<p>- Domsetic Freelancing/Consulting does not have much scope, SMB don't seem to be doing well so site-dev work for them also isn't viable<p>- Making software for companies and govt. here isn't much of an option either, there's corruption and they don't particularly care about having a $99/mo solution when there are people willing to work for that rate<p>- More of a opinion, but overseas freelancing opportunities aren't gonna hire a newbie and fiverr is a race to bottom.<p>I'd appreciate any advice on how to proceed, any problem you think is a opporutnity to have a solution for or just your experience from another economic depression.<p>Meta:
Started coding 3.5 years ago and probably have enough under my belt to try multiple projects over this duration. Made a new account as I don't want to link this to my real identity. I'm not looking for job offers out of sympathy. This is just considering the worst case scenario, and I want to have something to fall back to if it turns out to be the case.
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Title: One night in 2013 I had this stupid idea that people would start searching google for "who is retargeting me" just like they do with "what's my ip" — I've created in 30 minutes, bought the domain whoisretargeting.me and put Google Ads. It's made €7000 in 7 years. (1)
Do you have projects like this?<p>(1) https://pasteboard.co/JbPKJRs.png
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Title: Is now a good time to move to Canada for tech-related jobs, data science/analytics in particular? What parts of Canada should one consider?
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Title: I want to create content on web development and earn passive income.<p>Is the Youtube space convoluted or is there enough areas where one can create contents?
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Title: Hey Hacker News! I was recently involved in a startup where the CEO had made a crazy complex app with prisma - it did loads of things but it was a mad balancing act of insecurity, bugs, badly mangled code and database design that left a lot to be desired. I think my problem is they were just copying something that already exists rather than making something new that needs extreme user testing for it to become a thing. Obviously on such a codebase the CEO could get things done pretty fast but I couldn’t help feel it was completely hopeless for anyone else trying to make the project work correctly. Of course even with all this brittle code there were no tests.<p>My question first is<p>a) has Hacker News/YC ever seen a startup fail because the codebase is so bad.<p>b) what is the best calculation to make when trading off code quality vs features?<p>c) do most YC startups write tests and try to write cleanish code in V1 or does none of this matter?<p>Should we just be chucking shit at the wall and seeing what sticks? Do most startups bin v1 and jump straight to v2 once they have traction?
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Title: Thanks to a mix of luck, hard work, high energy, study, drive, and self-discipline, I achieved most of the things I wanted out of life so far.
I got to a point in my life where I'm free from debt, free from mortgage, free from bosses, free from clients, and financially independent. I'm healthy, I live in one of the world most beautiful cities, loved by my family, surrounded by good friends, happily married with a kid and a dog. I travel, take pictures, hike, meditate, read.
I got the full pack. Yet I feel lost.<p>I'm 33 and I feel I am now wasting productive years, setting slightly more challenging goals week after week, chasing a moving target, and never actually getting it. I feel I have way too much freedom, too many choices, and feel paralyzed.<p>What should I do? I am not the kind of person who can keep living like this forever... I feel like I realized (most of) my dreams, but not fulfilled a real hardcore purpose/mission.<p>How do I find meaning? What should I spend most of my time on?<p>This time I'd like to start really pouring my soul into something that can provide meaning to my life, without rushing into the next app/side project/hustle/startup to temporarily calm my curiosity.<p>help?
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Title: Similar to Calculus where two different people were more or less discovers the same thing around the same time, was anyone else working on something that would have led to its discovery? If not when do scientists thing it would have been discovered?
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Title: To add more context to my question, I’m currently in a product leadership position at a ~300 person SaaS company and I found my way here by way of a semi-decent exit as part of a startup’s founding team. However, I have been considering a switch to a much bigger company (Microsoft, Google, AWS) of late. All I’ve ever learnt over the last decade has been by operating in a capital constrained environment. Moreover, I don’t have a lot of reserve energy in the tank to direct it at another startup after 10 years of blood, sweat and toil.<p>I often find myself thinking of and seeking out experiences from my peers at these behemoths on how decisions are made and products get built there. On one hand, I’m scared of slowly going further away from all my learnings as an entrepreneur (a lot of which haven’t come easy!!!) but on the other I feel like not having had relevant experience in the right BU/product within a big co is limiting my field of vision. What are some things I should consider before switching?
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Title: Today software development looks pretty fragmented and complex depending on what angle you're coming at it from. I've spent the past decade building web apps, distributed systems, infrastructure and all sorts. My feeling is that as a developer there is still so much that stands in my way getting from some local piece of software to something that runs and scales in "production". I'm starting to rethink this from first principles and curious to know what others deem as the ideal developer experience for 2020.<p>Share your thoughts!
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Title: Hi HN !<p>I recently took on a managerial role / project manager (I manage 2 programmers) at my work. Now that the summer holidays are approaching, my boss asks me, that during my holidays, I take my emails or that I be available to be called (~ 3h week).<p>He tells me that this is normal and that it comes with the role of manager.<p>On your side what is the vacancy policy in your company when you are managers ? Have you any advice on how to handle this ?<p>For the context it is a small business of 6 people.
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Title: I'm mid-twenties working as a Software Engineer. I'm still working at my first job out of college and making just about $80k. Not FAANG salary but supports my cost of living as of right now.<p>Currently, my job is very easy (mostly spikes and research) and extremely flexible. We basically spend time just researching the latest hypes in the tech industry and seeing if the company can offer products in the space.<p>As I said, it's easy, but also pointless and kinda boring at times. But I deal with it, nonetheless.<p>My question is what would the smart thing for me to do next? I'm still in the stage in life where I'm searching for "happiness and fulfillment" and want to try new things but I am also afraid of making dumb career decisions. Just for context, outside of work I mainly focus on my other interests (politics and government, filmmaking and socializing).<p>Should I:<p>1. Try to find a higher paying job? Bite the bullet and challenge myself to get a $100k salary job? I guess that if I'm going to be bored at work, I might as well be bored but making more. But I also know this will probably mean I will have to put in more work than I'm accosumted to. Also, I have a great work life balance that I would hate to lose. (I'm stricly 40 hours). But I'm also cautiously thinking how your earning potential lowers as you age.<p>2. Stay where I'm at and spend that extra time developing in the non-career areas I care about. I.E, getting more involved in my government and filmmaking stuff.<p>3. Start a business? Something I've spent the last two years researching and wanting to do, but I just don't have any ideas/problems to solve.<p>4. Something else?<p>Sorry if this is a dumb question. I wish someone would make a guide for young people titled, "how to suceed at your life."
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Title: As the title states.. Is the HN ranking algorithm based purely on a post/comment's upvotes and engagement, or is the author's karma points an input into the algorithm as well?
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Title: I'm the sole developer for a product that has been selling as a desktop version for a couple of decades, with me 'on board' for around 15 years. During my time as the helm, I've implemented a number of improvements to the architecture of the software (including a rewrite enabling development of Mac and web versions, based on the original PC-only version).<p>My agreements with my business partner are based on royalties (20% of all sales and renewals). He works in an office and deals with customer support, I work remotely. He covers all business costs. Our agreements included payment for development work, however then I have needed to pay these pay with reductions in royalties -> I was given an interest free loan for my own salary, and eventually he's out of pocket nothing for development costs. Total income for our royalties agreements across time equate to 2 x yearly average salaries in my home country, but spread across the last 6 years.<p>Now he's discussed selling the business. If sold, I would receive royalties for the balance of our agreement, using the average sales for the last year.I made a mistake in that I agreed to the 20% royalty rate without negotiation initially, I know that much. I have worked many hundreds of hours under these agreements, and he agrees sales have not been as we would like - but of course, with 80% of the income, it's still (roughly for him) 3 -> 3.5 an average salary per year.<p>I wish to renegotiate our agreements to include a clause that gives me part of the sale value of the company as a cash payout, the reasoning here being that my work has increased substantially the value of the company. At say a valuation of 20 x the average salary, I was thinking of 10% i.e. two years of an average salary. I feel that my value to the company is larger than what is being recognised currently, given my contributions (i.e. every single line of code in the company's products have been written by me).<p>Am I being unreasonable here?
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Title: When writing documentation and project proposals I struggle to write in a concise way. I find it difficult to write in a lucid way. Even after rereading and editing my docs multiple times I am not happy with the outcome. In fact I fall into dilemma on which of my edited drafts should I choose as final version.<p>How do I learn to write concisely?
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Title: Hello HN,<p>I'm Paras Chopra, founder of VWO. We're an A/B testing platform that was born here as a Show HN in 2009.<p>As a 22 year old fresh out of college, I had launched an early prototype of a marketing platform in 2009 here, got initial users from HN (including patio11) who gave their feedback that my product was trying to do too many things. Their inputs are what that led me to focusing on one thing (A/B testing) and that's how I built and launched "Visual Website Optimizer"(now called VWO). Here's that Show HN thread from 2009: <a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=876141" rel="nofollow">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=876141</a><p>I can't thank this community enough - without Hacker News, VWO wouldn't have existed. Today, we're a team of 250+ people and seen that initial "Show HN" grow into a $20mn+ bootstrapped business (no VC funding). If anyone's interested in reading more, I've blogged this journey (from launch to now) on our website: <a href="https://vwo.com/blog/vwo-evolution-10-years/" rel="nofollow">https://vwo.com/blog/vwo-evolution-10-years/</a><p>For any early stage entrepreneurs / indie hackers reading this, I'm sharing my story to let you know that you don't need connections, funding or breakthroughs to build a successful business. All you need is a hunger to make it happen and a community (like this one) to give you honest feedback for iterating on your product. If you are what Paul Graham calls as relentless resourceful, you will build a successful business.<p>So, thank you HN! Thanks @patio11 for your feedback and initial shoutouts in 2009. And thanks Paul. Beyond YC funding, you've impacted lives of many other folks (like me) through your essays and by making Hn happen.<p>PS: I don't know if this post will get any attention on HN today, but I felt like I had to do this :)
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Title: For those into reading books, I think it is common practice to pick a new interesting book most of the time. However I want to know if there are books you found so valuable, you went back to it multiple times. Which book(s) was it, and how many times did you read it? What compelled you to reread it?
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Title: Getting better at coding is usually a long, slow process of study and practice. However, sometimes I run into something that's easy to understand and, once I'm using it, feels like I've leveled up.<p>A few personal examples are:
* version control - specifically, reading up on git and understanding the more complex commands
* debuggers
* flame graphs for performance debugging
* good code search<p>What have you added to your workflow that's made you much more productive?
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Title: China is obviously a major world player, but we rarely see articles/repos/posts/etc., that seem to originate from there, translated or not, or simply referred to. Are we missing out on lots of cool advancements from China? Or do Chinese engineers generally publish in English? Is there some massive Chinese GitHub with cool stuff we don't know about? Science is science and I can't shake the feeling that we're missing out on stuff, but I really have no idea. Would love to hear people's thoughts.
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Title: Currently, I'm working through Gilber Strangs new book "Linear Algebra and Learning from Data"
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Title: i'm 31.<p>have Bsc in CS, worked as software eng. for ~7 years.<p>tbh, i'm completely disillusioned with the industry and people in general. my expectations coming into the industry were based on the hacker ethos from the 80's and 90's, where a group of passionate and crazy smart people worked on tough and important problems, pulling engineering miracles daily. i'm talking about netscape and jamie zawinski, xerox and alan kay, l0pht and mudge, valve and gabe newell. legends.<p>entering the industry in the early to mid 2010's i found a landscape filled with self serving product managers, conmen (i think they call them executives and MBAs), and a populous of engineers that cared nothing for the tech or the work, and didn't need to as there were no real challenges to tackle.<p>perhaps i made bad career choices but what's frustrating is that the industry seemed to shift into something else. in other words, the hacker ethos was lost. the culture changed. instead of engineering-centric one it shifted to sales and "growth" and hype. engineers have become relegated to the "peasant" cast, working the fields so that the ceo can sell the company for an inflated sum and move on to the next con (sorry, startup).<p>as i see things, my choices are either to open a company of my own, making what i believe in, or go back to academia where i'll have more spare time to pursue my interests. but academia is dying, and dare i say irrelevant. it's an outdated concept for a world where i can get "educated" on a subject within a week using the internet, at least enough so i can accomplish what i need. i'm not going to discover the higgs boson, nor do i want to become an expert in a singular domain. i want to build things.<p>so that takes me back to creating a business around something i believe in. but, it'll have to be bootstrapped (vc money is just another boss), so the chances for success are extremely low.<p>what do you think?
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Title: In the next 3ish months I will have unmetered, symmetric 10gig fiber Internet available at my house. I recently exchanged messages with the first person in town to get the 10gig service, and his reasoning for getting the 10gig service was "it's cool", which I understand...<p>I'd like to actually be able to justify 10gig service. Ideally, running something on it that appeals to other potential customers of the municipal broadband, to attract new customers to it.<p>The easy one is to set up a Linux mirror server. In the past I've run a mirror server for ~a decade, so that shouldn't be a huge deal. I like the idea of running a Tor exit node, but worry about the liability of that. Some sort of a block storage for backup service came to mind while reading that Cloudflare Utah post yesterday.<p>I run production Linux boxes and networks as my day job. But I don't have machine space at my house, so I'm limited in the number of servers I can put in place.<p>Clever ideas to attract other locals to the Municipal Broadband service?
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Title: Hopefully not directly from the pandemic.<p>During the Facebook debacle last week, a fair number of my friends have publicly supported interests that seem directly opposed to my safety.<p>Is anyone else experiencing pressure to defend their values harder than ever, to the point of conversation deadlock?<p>It used to be a lot easier to maintain a diverse group of friends, so I'm curious about any of your experiences through times like these.<p>How do you stay creative, balanced, cope with lots of change, ...<p>thank you.
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Title: For self-education from books, textbooks are essential. They are literally designed to convey information on a subject to students. But there are a lot of textbooks. Which ones are the best?<p>Preliminary research has suggested Spivak is best for Calculus. SICP is another famous one I've heard of. What about Physics, Biology, Chemistry, Anatomy, History?<p>Any contributions to this list are much appreciated.
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Title: I am learning to build apps in android. Most of the tutorials and even books I come across have quite small examples to follow, usually 2 activity files and 2 layout files. Honestly, the progress to build a substantial app is a bit slow because the projects are so small. It feels like being stuck as a beginner.<p>Looking at examples of most apps, they are usually made up of 10+ class files serving the app. I want to know what resources are out there that help you make the move from learning to build an app by showing you the basics to something substantial with architecture and design patterns - not necessarily spelt out but present nonetheless.<p>I want to know how you made the jump to 10+ files in a project, what resources are out there that lead you to get to that level?
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Title: My wife will be undergoing significant oral surgery in a few weeks and there is a SMALL chance she may lose the ability to speak. I'd like to prepare, just in case, to have technology to reproduce her voice from keyboard or other input.<p>My ideal would be an open source "deepfake toolkit" that allows me to provide pre-recorded samples of her speech and then TTS in her voice. Unfortunately most articles and tools I'm finding are anti-deepfake. Any recommendations?<p>Fallback would be recording her speaking "phonetic pangrams" and then using her pre-recorded phonemes to recreate speech that sounds like her. I feel like the deepfake toolkit is the way to go. Appreciate any recommendations... There must be open source tools for this??
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Title: I dont hate programming per say, but I hate everything that comes with the job. I hate the work, developers, the culture among developer teams. I also despise the leetcode interview. I know that good DS/A skills are important. I know why they exist and are so popular. I know that there are plenty of jobs that don't use them (but the reality is that the best paying and most interesting do). But at end of the day, I'd rather spend my time learning and working on cool projects than boring myself on some algo site so that I can compete with a bunch a quasi-competive programmers.<p>All that said, I still do enjoy programming and work on a number of cool projects for myself. I've started to wonder if I should do something else for a living and relegate programming a hobby I can still enjoy on the side.<p>There are plenty of stories of people going from programmer to some business position, whether that be management, sales, BA, etc., but I'm not really interested in any of that stuff. In fact, I think I would hate that more than programming. I've been interested in other fields since a kid, programming just won because of accessibility reasons. I've always enjoyed natural sciences (through school, I struggled in math, hated language arts classes, but always excelled in science). I also contemplated a couple going into a other engineering fields as a teen that I've retained an interest in. There are also some IT domains that look interesting (honestly I'd probably be a better network engineer that software engineer), but I don't think I could stomach starting at the bottom of that field. I expect a pay cut if I switch fields, but entry-level IT pays pennies.<p>I dont think I've ever heard of anyone doing anything like this. Googling only shows people doing the opposite going from <i>X</i> to software development. Everyone wants to be a programmer these days. Maybe it's the money and prestige.<p>Has anyone made a transition from software to some other technical field?
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Title: D supports Ownership and Borrowing, just like Rust. DMD, D's reference compiler, can compile itself in less than 5 seconds, thanks to a fast frontend and fast backend. D is easy to metaprogram through traits and templates. You can make your own JIT in D with dynamicCompile.<p>I'd love to hear some reasons why so D and Rust can learn from each other.
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Title: Hi, I'm 19 and currently in my second CS semester. I've got some projects on my portfolio, did some internships and will start an job as an research assistant at an institute next semester. However, I really have no clue how I can prepare myself enough before landing my first job after university. The only things I can find are: build a portfolio and contribute to open-source.<p>Which advice did/would have helped you landing your first job after university? And whats your best tip for life in general?
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Title: Is there any work being done on speech to code in a deep learning area . I have severe RSI which prevents me from coding at all . I have tried to use speech recognition software such as vocola and windows speech engine . but it required me to speak in such a way that I always would hurt my throat . I have also injured my throat multiple times so I am searching for a solution that is more conversational then command driven . I have written over 10000 lines of command Fargo Cola and they're still too many edge cases which require me to continually speak in an Abrupt manner that causes strain on my throat .
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Title: 0.08 per gb is... insane? Are they out of their mind? Maybe I don't get this but whenever I chose a provider, I always look at the bandwidth pricing in addition the the compute costs.<p>Bandwidth on DO, Vultr, Linode etc is priced reasonably at 0.01 per gb, though that can be decreased further now.<p>Such is the case with mongodb atlas (their cloud DBaaS) because they only provide their offering at those providers I can't use them.<p>Or am I missing something here?
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Title: I'm in my mid 30s and has been working in the software industry for the past 16 years. I'm a Lead Engineer at the moment and I've tried jobs as architects previously and didn't enjoy it. I still love writing code, learning new tech/tooling/stack and doing hands-on technical implementation. However, at some point it seems that everyone at my stage is moving into management or higher level positions doing project management, meetings, architectural discussions (mostly meetings), etc. which I really don't enjoy doing. Has anyone here work as a technical guy until retirement and can share your experience if you have any regrets?<p>Thanks.
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Title: Hey HN, I've recently started working on a side-project. It's basically a vertical search engine for programmers. You'll be able to quickly search through documentation, GitHub repos and stack overflow. It'll know what language you're using and what project you're working on and tailor results accordingly.<p>What other features would you want to see in this tool?
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Title: Hello!<p>I'm in the early stages of running a small startup/business and expect to reach $10-20k ARR in the next few months. Once we've acquired a customer, the service is automatic and doesn't require manual input.<p>Each customer represents $2-6K ARR, but we don't know their lifetime value. With a bit of effort and marketing I can imagine reaching $200k ARR in the next few years. Split with my cofounder, this could become a very nice lifestyle business, or we could go all-in and do the whole startup thing.<p>But what if it fails? I graduate next year. I'll have a CS degree, but my only experience will be building this. My GPA isn't amazing because I've spent most of my time getting to this point – it hasn't been easy.<p>Any advice?
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Title: I was fired shortly after WFH orders came into place in Canada, in large part because the lack of options for things to do made my job the overwhelming focus of the day and I lost the will to do the relatively menial developer tasks (building a website for a pdf based product using next.js) that were asked of me in a timely manner. I may have burnt out, I'm not sure. I'm not depressed, but I can't bring myself to really be enthusiastic for any given thing I could apply to. I think this is in part fed by being burnt (and burnt out) in the past, the significant time and energy investment in getting a job, but also the somewhat dispensable nature of most companies and tech products. It all just strikes me as "some tech crap that I'll never see put to use". It's tough to find a connection of any kind with the output of what is usually either quite dull intellectual work or very hard intellectual work.<p>The thought of assembling react apps for an arbitrary company is saddening and I can't focus on something I'm not intrinsically interested in. Not that building websites is not interesting, but it seems like the output is often very mundane compared to how how arduous some frontend architectures have become.<p>By contrast, I can focus very well on sufficiently difficult and impactful projects, most likely where I have some control in the decisions made about the project. Likewise, I have no delusions that I'm some slept on PHD candidate that is too good for basic work. But I don't really know where to go from here. Do I continue just sort of enjoying the summer like I have every other time I've left a job, perhaps spending my time on creating something or contributing to OS?<p>A good example of the previous, is that I was working on something I hadn't before in a domain that I'd never touched. Specifically figuring out how to compress files and embed them as attachments in PDF documents in the PDF product that we were working on. It involved understanding zlib and hex file signatures and compression methods. That said, the rest of the job included customer service responses and random troubleshooting for customers who used the SDK, something that made me dread coming into work and something that they did not make clear during the hiring process.<p>Do you have any personal experiences like this you'd share? What have you done when you've concluded that most stuff just isn't compelling enough to even get you out of bed for the morning meeting?
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Title: I'm looking for a good way to Mock APIs for a sideproject, so far I haven't found any solution that has blown me away and I'm wondering If I'm missing anything.<p>I'm curious what people recommend for the best way to Mock APIs?
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Title: Whatever the intent of the GDPR was, the practical result is that now I have to click away the annoying "we're using cookies" popup on every website.<p>Is there any way to do this automatically? If there isn't - there should be. Maybe people should use some special tag for them, so that it would be easy for users to block them on all the websites, if they want to.
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Title: Looking for some inspiration. Ive done a lot of MVPs/Early-stage apps over the years and I tend to lean on the same SaaS portfolio for mails, text gateways, payment etc, but Im sure Ive missed a few valuable additions.<p>Here's a few I use:
Mails: Mailchimp / Mandrill
Payment: Paylike
Search: Algolia
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Title: We run a backend API app on Heroku and for simplicity our frontend calls it via the herokuapp.com subdomain `<our-app-name>.herokuapp.com`.<p>We haven't bothered with a custom domain SSL certificate as the herokuapp.com subdomain has been just fine.<p>Fortunately I was monitoring the endpoint as I started getting SSL expiry warnings a few weeks ago.<p>It seems heroku is serving an old certificate for <our-app-name>.herokuapp.com, issued April 2019 and expiring 22nd June:<p>```
$ curl -v --head https://<our-app-name>.herokuapp.com/
* Connected to <our-app-name>.herokuapp.com (52.19.225.66) port 443 (#0)
[snip]
* Server certificate:
* expire date: Jun 22 12:00:00 2020 GMT
* subjectAltName: host "<our-app-name>.herokuapp.com" matched cert's "<i>.herokuapp.com"
</i> issuer: C=US; O=DigiCert Inc; OU=www.digicert.com; CN=DigiCert SHA2 High Assurance Server CA
```<p>It's a wildcard cert for <i>.herokuapp.com but it's different from the current one I see if I curl the root domain:<p>```
$ curl -v --head https://herokuapp.com/
</i> Connected to herokuapp.com (34.194.84.166) port 443 (#0)
* Server certificate:
* expire date: Aug 2 02:13:11 2020 GMT
* issuer: C=US; O=Let's Encrypt; CN=Let's Encrypt Authority X3<p>```<p>It seems they've transitioned to Let's Encrypt for the wildcard domain, but it isn't being served for app subdomains. I've checked a few other subdomains and see the same thing:<p>* govuk-prototype-kit.herokuapp.com
* heroku-status.herouapp.com
* juice-shop.herokuapp.com<p>I've been raising this with support since T-30 and they just keep saying things like:<p>> Our concerned team is aware of it and they are actively working on the renewal process. We'll get the new cert in there well before the expiration, and there will be no disruption of service.<p>Now we're at 7 days I've lost confidence that support has even forwarded my ticket to the right team.<p>I suspect in 7 days we're gonna see a lot of things break...
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Title: Hi everyone. I'm a software engineer with 2.5 years of experience. I've built a lot of frontends, backends, and I can take care of DevOps/infrastructure stuff.<p>I'm wondering if I should switch careers (maybe to sales/marketing) in order to learn new skills. I don't want to be good only in software development. The cons of switching careers would be that right now I work remotely (so I have time to spend on side projects) and I earn good money (so I can save).<p>What do you think?
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Title: Prof. Steven Skiena's book, "The Algorithm Design Manual", is currently available for free download from the publisher, Springer, as a PDF (no registration required).<p>This[0] is the book's page and this[1] is the direct link to the PDF (note: there is a reCAPTCHA).<p>The book is one of many textbooks that Springer has made available for download during the Covid-19 period (see here[2] for a complete list). While there have been prior posts about these free textbooks, I wanted to make a post about this specific book given how highly-regarded it is here on HN and because I expect that many of the people who might be interested in acquiring this title might well have skipped HN posts titled, e.g., "Free Textbooks from Springer, Categorized", thereby missing out.<p>P.S. If you like "The Algorithm Design Manual" and wish that there were a similar text about data science, Prof. Skiena's book, "The Data Science Design Manual" is also freely downloadable from Springer -- it is similar in style, e.g. conversational, with war stories, etc.<p>This[3] is that book's page and this[4] the direct download link (again, note: there is a reCAPTCHA).<p>[0] https://link.springer.com/book/10.1007/978-1-84800-070-4<p>[1] https://link.springer.com/content/pdf/10.1007%2F978-1-84800-070-4.pdf<p>[2] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23520545<p>[3] https://link.springer.com/book/10.1007/978-3-319-55444-0<p>[4] https://link.springer.com/content/pdf/10.1007%2F978-3-319-55444-0.pdf
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Title: I have received an outstanding job offer from a startup based on Data privacy products for the role of Implementation consultant.<p>I have been told, I'll need to handle the following tasks:
- Presenting the products to the client
- Helping with implementation / integration
- Helping the clients with after-sales etc.
- Maybe to conduct workshops every now and then.<p>I'm currently working as a software dev on an R&D team for building ML prototypes. I understand the job role mentioned mostly is similar to sales engineer.. but this is the first time I will be taking on such a role.<p>Is there something I need to prepare in terms of tools/methodologies etc before starting the new job?<p>PS: The startup is not based in my country, I will be mostly working with just a single other coworker, so mostly on my own<i>
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Title: What are examples of industries and companies that do exist, and that most people have never heard of?<p>One example is to open one's wallet and look at the back of the cards. Odds are, at least one of them will say "Gemalto," which is the largest SIM card manufacturer and has about 50% of the world market for banking cards. Most people don't know that this is a several billion dollar industry.<p>What are other examples?<p>Idea for this thread came from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23534319
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Title: I tend to prefer to read PDF files on a regular monitor, but moving up and down a page is wonky and most readers don't save your place on the document. Also, sometimes the font is too small when you fit to page and fit to width suffers from paging up and down that doesn't take into account the last visible line.<p>I'd like to hear what you do to read long PDF files, like one of the Springer textbooks. Do you use any readers that support bookmarking and/or note taking and sane pagination? I'm wondering if there is a reader that offers an experience comparable to the experience of reading an ebook on a device like a kindle.
Upvote: | 82 |
Title: I have “permanently” deleted my account thru the formal process given by Triplebyte on their website when the last Triplebyte drama occurred a few weeks back. I have also unsubscribed from their corporate emails, their community newsletters, EVERYTHING, multiple times.<p>And yet, this morning, I receive yet another email from Triplebyte with this text at the bottom:<p>“You received this email because you have an account with Triplebyte.”<p>Screenshot proof (see date on deletion email vs the one I just received this morning at 8:40am): https://imgur.com/a/BmrirNH<p>Edit: issue identified and supposedly resolved - will be sure to post again if I receive any more emails.<p>Thank you.
Upvote: | 53 |
Title: I am ideating on a project[0]. So I wrote a document explaining the rationale for the project. And then explained the proposed solution. This is at a very early stage and I wanted some feedback on whether my document and the idea is understandable by both technical and non-technical audience. I posted this question on social media and received valuable feedback.<p>But to get feedback and develop relationships one has to constantly engage with people on social media. And that takes a lot of time.<p>So how do you divide your time between engaging with your users and at the same time work on the project? What is the best way to achieve the balance.<p>[0] https://bsldld.neocities.org
Upvote: | 145 |
Title: I believe I have a problem with internal motivation, in the sense that I have none, or very little at best. This doesn't lead me to, what one might call, "procrastination". Rather, it just makes me idle; content in doing nothing. I say "content", but obviously I wouldn't be asking this question if I didn't see it as an issue!<p>However, I don't just sit around doing nothing, a lot of the time. I attribute this to external motivators. This applies, as far as I can see, to almost every aspect of my life. To give an example: I know how to cook, but if I'm cooking for myself, I'll probably be lazy -- I might just eat something straight out of the packet! -- but if I'm cooking for myself and others, I'll go to the trouble of making something good.<p>I've recognised this in me for some time; the reason I bring it up now is because it's related to procrastination -- which was a hot topic on HN a couple of days ago -- and because I'm interested in doing a PhD. That requires enormous amounts of internal motivation, for several years straight, when there's little-to-no external motivation. I see that this could therefore be my downfall.<p>How does one develop and maintain internal motivation? What can one do, for example, to renew their enthusiasm if/when it starts to dwindle? Besides "passion" and "enthusiasm", what are other people's internal motivators?
Upvote: | 97 |
Title: I've tried several times to understand the vocabulary and concepts of electricity - basic things like volts, amps, resistance - but I'm not having much success with self-led study. Can anyone recommend any good videos, books, courses, etc.? Thank you.
Upvote: | 472 |
Title: Hey, to anyone late in their career who wanted to start a business but didn’t do it, do you regret it? Why?
Upvote: | 52 |
Title: Continuous 500s.
Upvote: | 59 |
Title: Hey HN!<p>We’re James, Felipe, and Bernard, founders of Mighty Health (<a href="https://mightyhealth.com/gift" rel="nofollow">https://mightyhealth.com/gift</a>), a personal coach that helps people over 50 become healthier through exercise, nutrition, and wellness.<p>With Father’s Day coming up, we thought some of you might be in the same position as we are, worrying about our parents and loved ones, wanting to do more to help out in these uncertain times.<p>A few years ago, my dad was rushed to the hospital for emergency heart surgery. Though he luckily survived, this was quite the wakeup call—he had to change his lifestyle habits immediately, or else he’d have to deal with painful, worsening chronic issues for the rest of his life.<p>These changes—exercise, nutrition, sleep, and reducing stress—are hard as is, but even more so for folks over 50. Most wellness apps are designed for motivated millennials, making them feel less relatable to older adults. They don’t take into account evolving health needs, joint issues, or technical limitations. Personal trainers and nutritionists are expensive long-term and often inaccessible. And because our older loved ones are at higher risk of COVID complications due to their age, they won’t be able to return to gyms for the foreseeable future.<p>That’s why we started Mighty Health. Everything is designed intentionally for people over 50:<p>1. Coaching: A personal coach keeping them motivated through SMS, providing a real human relationship<p>2. Exercise: At home workout videos that are easy on the joints, led by top-rated certified trainers<p>3. Nutrition: A personalized plan and grocery list designed by cardiologists for heart health<p>4. Reminders: Preventative health checkup notifications (based on their age and gender) and medication reminders<p>5. Celebrations: Texts to family members about milestones in the program so you can celebrate together<p>Our app is simple to set up and use, accommodating large and high contrast text. We chose SMS (through Twilio/Front) for coaching because it’s a more familiar medium, like texting with your family. We integrate with Apple Healthkit and Google Fit, as well as a number of cellular blood pressure cuffs and scales.<p>Dr. Bernard Chang, our medical co-founder, is the Vice Chair of Research at Columbia University’s Department of Emergency Medicine and leads our team of physicians, trainers, and coaches who develop our plans and content.<p>These plans are optimized for health goals specific to people over 50, such as losing weight to prevent chronic diseases, becoming stronger/decreasing joint pain, or reducing their risk of heart disease. On average, 85% of our users stick to our plans for at least 12 weeks and lose ~10 pounds.<p>We’d love for you to check out our website at <a href="https://mightyhealth.com/gift" rel="nofollow">https://mightyhealth.com/gift</a> and are eager to hear your feedback and ideas below. Feel free to reach out directly at [email protected] as well!
Upvote: | 134 |
Title: Required at times for interviews or programming puzzles, knowledge I lack.
Upvote: | 104 |
Title: There is building momentum around a return to blogging and RSS. Perhaps we're near a tipping point.<p>To give another push: How do _you_ RSS? What are your preferred tools? What are the highlights of your feed these days and why? What practices and workflows bring you value? What considerations should consumers and producers of RSS content be aware of?
Upvote: | 44 |
Title: Inspired by a similar Reddit question here: https://www.reddit.com/r/startups/comments/hc7vqb/whats_a_big_trend_right_now_we_should_all_be/<p>Curious what ya'll think is a major trend right now that we should be following and tracking, that might be big in 3-5-10 years.
Upvote: | 155 |
Title: Last week there was a post [1] that showed how to play YouTube without ads. I didn't want to upvote it because well, the more popular it got the more chances YouTube will figure it out and fix it. Now they fixed it.<p>[1]: <a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23479435" rel="nofollow">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23479435</a>
Upvote: | 85 |
Title: What do you recommend to physical product business which gets about 25-100 sales a day?<p>In case you are curious, what I sell it's 3d printing fimament which I make in my garage:
https://medium.com/endless-filament/make-your-filament-at-home-for-cheap-6c908bb09922<p>I am a programmer but I do not like building something which already exists and e-commerce platform is boring for me also Shopify while is good but I need self hosted one for ideological reasons.
Upvote: | 70 |
Title: Hello HN,
I have a personal CS blog named X. When you search for X on google, on the right side, it will show a business located somewhere, with that very same name X. This business is for helping people for computer problems. They're even showing my website url.<p>If you search for the X business name on official channels, it doesn't exists obviously. I've tried to have at least my website removed from the listing, but fun fact my removal request is handled by the listing owner itself. I've contacted Google directly, the answer was along the lines of the following:<p>> We don't care if the business is using your website name and your url, we are just showing information. If you want to get the website removed please contact the owner of that listing.<p>What makes me angry is that I legally hold the mark name in europe. It's possible to check my name on the whois of that website. And there is no way for me to get that sh*t removed.
What's also incredible, is that people will need to do all the verification crap for singing on adsense, but everyone can put every website in the listing with no verification and no one can't do anything about that.<p>What is even worst is that business will be associated with myself, and my users might call that business thinking to be speaking with me. And a business showing false information doesn't seems a business to trust. I've also explicitly talked about this, but Google didn't care.<p>Please HN. Tell me what to do.
Upvote: | 297 |
Title: Example:<p>Name: <i></i>CODARIUM<i></i><p>One-liner: I write about how to build end-to-end products with code<p>Link: https://codarium.substack.com/
Upvote: | 44 |
Title: While we were all in lockdown a lot of makers have been making incredible things. So I decided to make Lockdown Showcase to showcase all those products.<p>Post your own product or browse through other ones here: https://lockdownshowcase.com/
Upvote: | 217 |
Title: Hello HN,<p>Is there any idea that you have that is great, but feel that it is impossible at the present.Or may be an idea that you think that the incumbent or competition is super strong.<p>I am just looking an idea to hack on weekends after being bored of creating similar apps through out my IT career.
Upvote: | 41 |
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