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Re:Finland has slashed homelessness; the rest of Europe is failing
on Tuesday January 26, 2021 @06:27PM (#25922280)
I don't necessarily disagree, and have no expertise on the subject. But skip to any part of this (excellent) documentary about a 'wethouse' (basically what you describe, a place for homeless
alcoholics to live, drink and socialise) and you'll see abject chaos, violence, misery at every turn. It's probably better than the streets, but not by much.
Re:How Video Works
on Tuesday December 15, 2020 @03:55AM (#25428368)
Perhaps someone here can answer a question I've had for a while: if you stream a video which is actually a static image (think a song on YouTube, the 'video' is just the album cover) is there any way to optimise that? Or must the server stream that same image constantly as though it was a regular video?
Re:Cockney Rhyming Slang History
on Tuesday October 13, 2020 @06:19PM (#24770974)
There is 'Sherman' for an American which is Sherman Tank -> Yank. So that can only be WW2 onwards. And 'Ruby' for curry (Ruby Murray) is from the fifties. Those are the most recent I can think of.
Re:My friend starts her job today, after learning to program in prison
on Thursday October 01, 2020 @04:25PM (#24655808)
I do wonder why people are so motivated to help the perpetrators of violent crimes. You could take that same energy and help the victims instead. I doubt whoever suffered whatever violence it was that merited 13 years has forgotten the whole thing by now. I doubt they're stoked to see their attacker off to start a cushy new job. You don't get 13 years for something trivial.* If after that time you find it to get a job, well, you kinda have to wear that.
*for non-violent stuff, like drugs, obviously you can. I'm referring to this specific example, which is described as violent. Non-violence shouldn't impact your future in the same way.
Re:Modeling a Wealth Tax
on Wednesday August 19, 2020 @03:07AM (#24207929)
Jobs also disappear when Amazon competes with other companies and wins which doesn't always leave heaps of choice in the labour market.
Re:One-third of American renters expected to miss their August payment
on Friday August 07, 2020 @08:18PM (#24087830)
I don't doubt that it will happen regardless, but what is the point of evicting people if no-one is waiting to rent the property? If the bottom falls out of the economy and regular people can't rent then landlords are screwed aren't they? Rent-seeking is the section of the economy which has to change, I think.
Re:45 Richest Germans Own as Much as Entire Lower Half
on Saturday June 22, 2019 @06:24AM (#20248894)
Very succinct summary of why that's a wild and untenable idea.
Re:Ask HN: What's the most thought provoking short story you've read?
on Thursday May 23, 2019 @03:20AM (#19989331)
"I have no mouth and I must scream"
Ask HN: SaaS MVP – form company before or after getting paying customers?
I'm in the UK if it makes any odds.I am about to release the MVP of my first ever Saas product which (hopefully!) will have paying customers. I know I'll need to deal with the business sides of things at some point - form a company, create a company bank account, track money in/out for tax purposes. Should I do all of this before getting a paying customer? Or afterwards..?The MVP philosophy...
Ask HN: How to Send Money to Users?
How can I send money to users (much like how Patreon sends money to their creators)?Payment gateways don't seem to cater to this - except Stripe which only supports US debit cards.
Re:Ask HN: Go to sources on SaaS development
on Saturday March 02, 2019 @08:34AM (#19289183)
> Don't deal with event-driven architecture when you're at MVP stage
Interested in why you'd recommend that? Event-driven architecture decouples everything up front and the benefits are immediate. In this scenario the introduction of billing is en excellent example. User does something they should be billed for? Raise an event. Listen to it to bill them. Next iteration needs to email the user or update some history? Listen to the event. And so on. All the ephemeral saas infrastructure stuff just hangs off of the domain. And writing the code that way really isn't much more onerous than otherwise so I wouldn't discourage it for an MVP.
Re:Show HN: Startup Cemetery – Learn why 100+ startups have failed
on Thursday February 28, 2019 @12:27PM (#19273061)
Beat me to it!
Re:Ask HN: What is your prediction for next 10 years?
on Tuesday February 26, 2019 @04:46PM (#19258580)
WebAssembly. If it usurps javascript, and there is every reason to believe that it will, then it will revolutionise the web.
Re:Ask HN: Getting a Cs Degree After 15 Years in the Industry?
on Wednesday February 20, 2019 @03:14AM (#19206436)
A colleague of mine read and thoroughly recommended 'The Imposter's Handbook' for devs in this situation - it's a CS overview for developers without CS degrees. Data structures, Big O etc.
I don't think going to university after 15 years of industry experience will reap any benefits. Something like this could just plug the gaps in your knowledge for less than a hundred dollars and a fraction of the time.
Re:Ask HN: Which tech company is most transparent internally?
on Saturday February 16, 2019 @07:44AM (#19178349)
Stripe have an open email system where all emails are visible to all employees https://stripe.com/blog/email-transparency
Ask HN: Examples of well-designed highly-configurable user account UIs?
I am currently creating a notification aggregation service where users have a bunch of configuration options which determine which notifications they will receive. I am struggling to keep the UI clean and intuitive as I have to cram so much in.Does anyone know any examples of highly-configurable user accounts in some website where the UI is still simple and intuitive? Free or paid, I can sub...
Re:GDPR: What Happens in the U.K. Post-Brexit?
on Friday February 15, 2019 @03:30AM (#19169375)
It was the UK who pushed for GDPR, so it won't be rescinded here just because we leave the EU.
Ask HN: Who has a niche side project?
HN is keen on side projects and threads always have plenty of us dropping links to their own and being very open.There is often the suggestion that people with small niche projects will lurk and not contribute to those threads for fear that someone might compete with them - that they have some secret market which the rest of us don't even know about.I'm interested in hearing from HN users in...
Ask HN: Resources for user feedback on a website
I am about to launch a website which I have built as an MVP and I want to be able to collect/encourage feedback from users -> does anyone know good (ideally free/with a free option) resources to facilitate this? I am thinking user forum/issue trackers/on-page widgets to collect feedback and report bugs etc etc.I don't want to spend lots of money but I do want to a) validate my idea and b)...
Re:Ask HN: Where am I going wrong?
on Tuesday February 05, 2019 @04:53AM (#19084016)
The whole 'sell before you build' theme is plastered all over this thread, as I expected. I think this originates from the whole lean/MVP school of thought but is sold in threads like these as though you can just create a 'coming soon' page with email sign up, wait for 1000 emails and then write your first line of code. In reality it is about building only what's necessary for a minimum viable product then ship and only add features which are demanded of you (i.e. adding value not speculating and building stuff no-one cares about). This does require some work/thought/assumptions up-front. It's not as easy as people make it out to be!
Re:Ask HN: Working with developers who can't code
on Sunday January 27, 2019 @05:38AM (#19011215)
> The project will likely be a massive failure IMO
That sucks man. I know that feeling.
Re:Ask HN: Working with developers who can't code
on Sunday January 27, 2019 @05:37AM (#19011213)
Just programmers that can't program. Guys with years of experience tucked under their belt who struggle with simple things. I have pair programmed before with a guy to whom it wasn't obvious when to use a foreach loop, and who didn't parse test failure output for hints as to what went wrong. Everything was just a mystery. We'd make a change, test would fail and tell us exactly why (lo and behold, it was the thing we had just changed) and he was unable to find the thing which was broken. It was painful to have to state the obvious (what ought to be obvious to a professional developer) all day long.
Ask HN: Working with developers who can't code
Does anyone else have experience working with developers who just cannot code? By which I mean professional devs with terrible development skills, and little knowledge or interest in the field. I'm amazed they find jobs but they seem to.Any strategies for working with someone like that? Or any stories about working with such people?
Ask HN: Test coverage in side projects
Have you guys noticed a difference in the number of tests you are inclined to write for your side project stuff as opposed to at work?I have noticed that I write significantly fewer for my side projects. Is this normal or am I being lazy/reckless?
Re:Ask HN: What do you wish you'd know before a job interview?
on Saturday January 19, 2019 @03:19PM (#18948950)
I would say knowing how formally/otherwise to dress. You've either got the chops or you don't, you can feel out the people you're speaking to during the interview to gauge how whether you can crack a joke or not. But turning up either woefully under or over dressed just throws you off your stroke at the first hurdle. I always explicitly ask what is expected of me ahead of an interview (with the bonus effect that it they want me to dress up for work, I know not even to bother with the interview!).
Re:Ask HN: Improving the world as a software developer
on Saturday January 19, 2019 @01:57PM (#18948542)
There's no reason you can't combine the two and create some for-profit service which serves an honourable purpose in the grand scheme of things. The guys who created e.g. JustGiving did exactly that.
Re:Ask HN: Who is still using Oracle?
on Saturday January 19, 2019 @01:15PM (#18948307)
I interviewed for a company which made auditing software for government departments. I asked why they chose Oracle and they explained that governments get a hefty discount, so it was actually more cost-effective than the alternatives (e.g. enterprise SQL Server). So the motivation can actually be the opposite!
Ask HN: How to make Facebook forget me without access to my email?
I had a facebook acccount when I was at university (10 years ago). Haven't logged in for over 7 years at this point. I have long switched email addresses and no longer can remember my login details for that email - I doubt it still exists (as webmail accounts tend to expire and get deleted after x years or so). I have tried to recover my logins to both FB and that email without success.I...
Re:Ask HN: Windows Hosting for Multiple Side Projects
on Wednesday January 02, 2019 @09:00AM (#18806168)
Nothing in particular, I guess just because of the learning curve - I'm MSFT top-to-bottom so I would have to learn how to e.g set SQLite up and find tools to administer it (as opposed to SSMS which I can use with my eyes closed). It just seems much easier to have a windows box to tinker on, but then I guess they know that and it's why it's so expensive in Azure.