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Re:Ask HN: Does your job make the world a better place?
on Monday August 23, 2021 @09:30PM (#28284158)
The worst thing to come out of tech industry is the attention economy, because time is all we have. A tech job shouldn’t be about wasting people’s lives. By not participating in this vulgar scheme I make the world a better place
Re:Ask HN: Why is it so hard to get a good job as a junior developer?
on Monday August 23, 2021 @09:15PM (#28284065)
Just work on fiverr or freelance sites, for $500 you don’t need to leave your home
By freelancing you can make more than $500/m
Re:Ask HN: Tell how a startup/product died for a stupid or unexpected ...
on Sunday July 25, 2021 @11:24AM (#27949815)
No it’s not legal, but the attacker hides behind privacy protection
Re:Ask HN: Tell how a startup/product died for a stupid or unexpected ...
on Saturday July 24, 2021 @05:00AM (#27939345)
Yes, I found out the attacker was buying links. One site was offering links for a monthly fee. After I got removed from that one, about 1000 were gone. So he is using multiple link farms
Re:Ask HN: Tell how a startup/product died for a stupid or unexpected ...
on Friday July 23, 2021 @09:36PM (#27937680)
Negative SEO. Thousands of low content link farm sites started appearing at the start of the pandemic. Google Disavow didn’t work, hosting companies like Cloudflare, Godaddy refuse to remove the
Link farm sites. Domains are hidden behind privacy protection. Every week there are hundreds of new link farm sites, lost 70% in 1.5 year
Re:Ask HN: Should everyone who work on software be called an Engineer?
on Wednesday July 21, 2021 @01:26PM (#27909270)
No, it should be called Software Hacker. Engineering has to do with the physical world, there is nothing physical in software
Re:Ask HN: Building a Better Google
on Saturday July 10, 2021 @06:16AM (#27792422)
First I would ignore bad backlinks as they’re not a good indicator of quality. The better your page, the more likely a competitor will start creating thousands of bad links.
Re:Ask HN: What do you think of Bitcoin?
on Monday May 03, 2021 @12:59PM (#27027565)
It’s interesting p2p got back into popularity. Where most stuff seems to be client-server crud stuff, it was something refreshing. But it’s over a decade old now. While originally intended as digital cash, it seems more like another asset class
Re:Why porn industry comes with a stigma even in the technical world?
on Friday April 30, 2021 @08:07PM (#27001330)
I feel it’s just TV industry, not tech.
Re:Ask HN: How do you deal with being a failure?
on Tuesday April 27, 2021 @05:28PM (#26961812)
You only fail if you give up
Re:Do you start a company, just to try out a business idea?
on Thursday April 22, 2021 @06:27PM (#26908913)
In the Netherlands there’s a lot of freelancers operating as a sole proprietorship. If you make a 100.000$ or more you can consider a business license.
Re:Ask HN: How do you become an active reader and deep thinker?
on Monday April 19, 2021 @06:08PM (#26868450)
If you surf mindlessly, you can listen to ebooks on repeat (while you clean your home or work)
Re:Ask HN: Does it make you feel down that you are not successful like...
on Thursday April 15, 2021 @05:17AM (#26818070)
For every olympic winner there are many losers, it’s how the game goes. Overthinking or quitting doesn’t get you anywhere.
Re:Ask HN: How much do you read and what do you get from it?
on Thursday April 15, 2021 @05:07AM (#26817992)
1-3 books a month. Exposed to different ideas and new insights
Re:Ask HN: What other news sources do you use?
on Tuesday April 13, 2021 @04:08PM (#26798466)
tuxurls.com
Re:Is it true? Can Covid-19 vaccines connect me to the internet?
on Wednesday April 07, 2021 @05:33AM (#26722342)
“There is another reason bad ideas continue to live on, which is that people continue to talk about them.
Silence is death for any idea. An idea that is never spoken or written down dies with the person who conceived it. Ideas can only be remembered when they are repeated. They can only be believed when they are repeated.”
James Clear
Re:Ask HN: Where to find vintage OS wallpapers/screenshots
on Sunday April 04, 2021 @04:54AM (#26687901)
You can use an AI image upscaler
Re:Ask HN: Am I wasting my time working as a software engineer in West...
on Wednesday March 31, 2021 @03:25PM (#26651860)
Use your existing network or a project bidding site for projects. My network is still small
Re:Free Software: An idea whose time has passed?
on Thursday March 25, 2021 @06:25AM (#26578413)
You will own nothing. You will be happy.
Re:Ask HN: Am I wasting my time working as a software engineer in West...
on Wednesday March 24, 2021 @04:17PM (#26572351)
Work as a contractor. You can earn more than 100k, or well your LLC can. If you work a lot, you can make 16k a week. If more normal work day 2k-4k a week. You would have to deal with bureaucracy, taxes and administration though. It’s hard but there’s no artificial limit
Source: I’m a contractor and work with other European contractors
Re:Why Even Go to Work
on Thursday March 11, 2021 @06:19PM (#26430296)
You don’t have to go to an office, but you have psychological needs that money alone doesn’t solve. Sure you can be rich and lay on the beach all day, but it’s not a very meaningful life. You cannot escape the search for meaning and to find it, you work (even if it’s just for yourself - as a rich person)
Re:Ask HN: Is HN Essentially a Subreddit?
on Saturday March 06, 2021 @04:03PM (#26370505)
No, hn users are different
Re:Ask HN: What Disqus replacement should I use on my personal blog?
on Thursday February 25, 2021 @03:33PM (#26267890)
You can use static comments https://bsdnerds.org/comments-static-site/
Re:Ask HN: Are you experiencing kernel panics on your M1 Mac?
on Wednesday February 24, 2021 @07:23AM (#26249147)
Yes like 5 times a day, but it boots fast. I usually have vscode, xcode, terminals and a couple of others things open
Re:Ask HN: How to Make Money Blogging?
on Friday February 19, 2021 @07:04PM (#26199751)
Make a product and link to it
Re:Ask HN: Anybody Using UML in 2021?
on Tuesday February 16, 2021 @08:19PM (#26161389)
Yes, in Gitlab you use plantuml to write your sketches. It’s easy
Mostly UML courses focus on classes, which is a shame as OOP is more about relationships, activities and user stories.
But if I can, I skip all that and just hack
Re:Ask HN: Are you interested in a privacy-first photo management solu...
on Tuesday February 16, 2021 @08:14PM (#26161338)
Not me, to much effort and everything is botnet. For “privacy” you would need a complete OS in an isolated space. Probably dedicated hardware too. Kaspersky was spot on
Anyway, there must be a market for that. The value proposition could be meaningful
Re:Ask HN: Does anyone find it strange that sport is part of daily news?
on Tuesday February 16, 2021 @08:12PM (#26161314)
Yes it is because a journalists job is pain tourism. I guess it needs some entertainment not to become a total doom story
Re:Ask HN: How can cryptocurrency be always in power resource hunger
on Friday February 12, 2021 @04:54PM (#26118996)
If talk about bitcoin, miners need to get a hashing result. The faster they can do hashing, the more likely you mine the coin. The mining difficulty increase, thats why bitcoin is power hungry.
However this is the first cryptocurrency from over a decade ago, there are many other cryptocurrencies snd I don’t think this generalization holds true
Re:The Queen has more power over British law than we thought
on Wednesday February 10, 2021 @05:18AM (#26087455)
Yes she has. But a strange premise of the guardian that different is better.