apkallum
Re:Ask HN: How'd you start your business while moonlighting?
on Saturday February 20, 2021 @02:34PM (#26207068)
That's really interesting. Could you give some examples?
Re:Unemployed on Reddit
on Sunday February 14, 2021 @11:17AM (#26133560)
The amount of bureaucracy a typical adult deals with is astonishing. I remember hearing once that it may be economical for some families to group together and appoint one person responsible for dealing with bureaucracy + 'professional' consumerism a la Costco deals and such.
How ironic that all that individualism will lead to a communal living arrangements again - at least for those wanting to create families.
Re:Show HN: Osso – Open-source SAML SSO service
on Wednesday February 03, 2021 @02:45PM (#26018220)
Intentionally shifting the meaning of the term opensource is unacceptable. Open source means surrendering your monopoly over commercial exploitation of your code.
See Drew DeVault's article: https://drewdevault.com/2021/01/20/FOSS-is-to-surrender-your...
Re:Show HN: PSX Party – Online Multiplayer Playstation 1 Emulator Usin...
on Wednesday December 30, 2020 @01:02PM (#25584100)
Could you expand on the ROM game commands bit? Does it mean that all actions are serialized?
Re:What is an ORM, and why use one?
on Thursday December 10, 2020 @12:33PM (#25376108)
Hmmm, it seems I repeatedly have this discussion with others re: ORMs are inferior. If there is one point I initially wanted the article to make is to use relational databases first, and ORMs second. (i.e: as opposed to NoSQL solutions.) Perhaps I should edit the intro to the article to reflect that.
What is an ORM, and why use one?
Why should you use an Object Relational Mapper?
Re:Moving from Macbook to Linux
on Friday November 20, 2020 @03:48PM (#25164762)
This is a different author at Monadical. The author of this article still uses Linux. (Source: I work at said company.)
Ask HN: Best bang-for-the-buck marketing for consulting?
If you have a marketing budget of <100k to grow a consulting company, which avenues do you think are worth pursuing, bang-for-the-buck wise?
Re:Ask HN: How do custom software dev firms make money?
on Tuesday November 03, 2020 @02:11AM (#24977210)
How can I DM you?
Re:Ask HN: How can I make SaaS product more accessible to developing e...
on Saturday October 17, 2020 @01:31AM (#24807655)
B2B apps developed in the west are unlikely to be useful for developing markets given the disparate priorities and market structure between developing and developed economies.
However, for B2C products (e. g: Figma, PhotoPea) you could charge a much lower price based on billing address, similar to how for example Spotify costs much less in the Philippines than in the UK.
Migrating from Firebase to Django – Tips and Strategy
Re:Someone has stolen my Instagram account
on Sunday September 27, 2020 @11:52AM (#24607556)
Would you be kind enough to post more information about this?
Re:Someone has stolen my Instagram account
on Sunday September 27, 2020 @11:48AM (#24607515)
It's sad and upsetting, but when will people learn that Facebook, Google et al do not care at all about individual users? Their model simply does not factor in the worries of a single user.
(Worse is how they want to propagate the idea that software should be free and of highest quality, thus preventing any communal attempts at creating different models.)
I advice everyone who has an account to at least download their data to keep a copy of it: https://www.facebook.com/help/1701730696756992
Re:Programming with Categories
on Wednesday September 02, 2020 @12:22PM (#24354745)
David Spivak and other folks at Azimuth Forum[0] have been great at providing high quality discussions on ideas in this course and others. Many thanks.
Re:Zulip 3.0: Threaded Open Source Team Chat
on Thursday July 16, 2020 @07:10PM (#23864940)
Seconding this as employee of said company : )
Re:Canada is the world’s newest tax haven (2017)
on Monday November 18, 2019 @07:29PM (#21569658)
The program was suspended in the latest immigration reforms: https://www.immigration-quebec.gouv.qc.ca/en/immigrate-settl...
Re:Ask HN: Consultants in Montreal willing to let me shadow them?
on Sunday June 23, 2019 @12:44AM (#20253350)
That's great to hear. I have had the same impulse when I joined the previous organization I worked for - documenting how things are done not just by me, but by as many parts of the organization as possible. Managers were impressed by the idea but no one would like to do it themselves, you had to interview them one by one haha.
Re:Ask HN: Consultants in Montreal willing to let me shadow them?
on Friday June 21, 2019 @05:42PM (#20246530)
Software, sorry if it wasn't clear.
Re:Ask HN: Consultants in Montreal willing to let me shadow them?
on Friday June 21, 2019 @04:31PM (#20246067)
Sounds wonderful, will wait for your email.
Re:Ask HN: Consultants in Montreal willing to let me shadow them?
on Friday June 21, 2019 @04:27PM (#20246038)
It seems that Quebec is now a place you can hire from, so I guess I have to start by applying for a job at Gitlab then. :)
It's wonderful you have this initiative - Gitlab seems to lead by example in many progressive practices.
Ask HN: Consultants in Montreal willing to let me shadow them?
Shadowing is an excellent way to learn how experts work. Sadly it's mostly overlooked. I would greatly appreciate the opportunity to shadow a consultant/senior engineer, and I'm willing to use my skills to help them in day to day operations.Further details can be discussed by email - mine is in my profile.Edit: Wikipedia link for those wondering what shadowing is:...
Re:Show HN: I wrote a book on GNU grep and ripgrep
on Tuesday June 18, 2019 @10:51PM (#20220430)
Hello, I'm happy to edit this for free or lunch in Eastern Canada - email in profile.
Re:Come and Get ‘Em – Storage Pods That Is
on Tuesday June 11, 2019 @06:02PM (#20159914)
That's very interesting, thank you for replying. Do you work in media/video or such? 200 TB is a lot! Also unraid is interesting, for 30 storage devices it costs a one time fee of 120 dollars, is that correct?
Re:Come and Get ‘Em – Storage Pods That Is
on Tuesday June 11, 2019 @12:56AM (#20153102)
Would you mind elaborating on your Storinator setup?
Re:Ask HN: Self-Hosted or Encrypted Notes/Todo App Like Notion.so or W...
on Saturday June 08, 2019 @01:58PM (#20133938)
Juplin [0]
You can combine it with your own Nextcloud instance or install Cryptomater and use Dropbox et al.
Ask HN: Remote opportunities that don't require an insane costly signal?
Hello everyone,For a certain demographic of people (e.g: small-town, non-top-tier university grads), there seems to be a ceiling on the technical skills they can master. This is mainly due to lack of opportunities in their local setting, including access to experienced mentors. Advances in online education and the possibility of remote work should help eliminate that, but as we seen with the...
Re:Ask HN: Are you put off building something because it already exists?
on Wednesday May 01, 2019 @02:06AM (#19794937)
Would you be kind enough to point to resources where one could learn more about this?
Re:Show HN: B2blaze – A Backblaze B2 library for Python
on Wednesday June 27, 2018 @03:42AM (#17406424)
How did they do so?