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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
Just work on fiverr or freelance sites, for $500 you don’t need to leave your home By freelancing you can make more than $500/m
No it’s not legal, but the attacker hides behind privacy protection
Yes, I found out the attacker was buying links. One site was offering links for a monthly fee. After I got removed from that one, about 1000 were gone. So he is using multiple link farms
Negative SEO. Thousands of low content link farm sites started appearing at the start of the pandemic. Google Disavow didn’t work, hosting companies like Cloudflare, Godaddy refuse to remove the Link farm sites. Domains are hidden behind privacy protection. Every week there are hundreds of new link farm sites, lost 70% in 1.5 year
No, it should be called Software Hacker. Engineering has to do with the physical world, there is nothing physical in software
Re:Ask HN: Building a Better Google on Saturday July 10, 2021 @06:16AM (#27792422)
First I would ignore bad backlinks as they’re not a good indicator of quality. The better your page, the more likely a competitor will start creating thousands of bad links.
Re:Ask HN: What do you think of Bitcoin? on Monday May 03, 2021 @12:59PM (#27027565)
It’s interesting p2p got back into popularity. Where most stuff seems to be client-server crud stuff, it was something refreshing. But it’s over a decade old now. While originally intended as digital cash, it seems more like another asset class
I feel it’s just TV industry, not tech.
Re:Ask HN: How do you deal with being a failure? on Tuesday April 27, 2021 @05:28PM (#26961812)
You only fail if you give up
Re:Do you start a company, just to try out a business idea? on Thursday April 22, 2021 @06:27PM (#26908913)
In the Netherlands there’s a lot of freelancers operating as a sole proprietorship. If you make a 100.000$ or more you can consider a business license.
If you surf mindlessly, you can listen to ebooks on repeat (while you clean your home or work)
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
“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

You can use an AI image upscaler
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.
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: 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

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

Yes it is because a journalists job is pain tourism. I guess it needs some entertainment not to become a total doom story
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.

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