Ask HN: How long have you known your co-founder for?
YC application has this question. Is there a trend here out of successful YC alumni ? How long have you known your co-founder for and how did you meet?
bo_Olean
Re:Ask HN: 30+ men and women in software, how much do you make?
on Sunday October 02, 2016 @12:36AM (#12621057)
Do you enjoy or find time to write code outside of work?
Re:What is the best advice you ever received?
on Wednesday September 14, 2016 @03:26PM (#12500410)
If you have an option, listen.
Re:Ask HN: How to dive into large codebase?
on Friday July 22, 2016 @03:46PM (#12146258)
I usually start from presentation layer and dig deep into the data models. Sometime, in reverse order if the codebase is fairly bigger.
Re:Ask HN: How many of you gave up working as a professional coder?
on Monday June 13, 2016 @08:43PM (#11898972)
>> I've got several prototypes, one being evaluated by a publisher currently, and I've been going to conventions and networking with other people in the industry. If one of my designs ends up being a hit, I should have enough money to make the transition.
Care to share more on this ? If I want to, where do I start making board game prototypes ? An email would do good, I don't see your contact info on your profile. All the best.
Cronyism
The practice of partiality in awarding jobs and other advantages in close circle
Re:Ask HN: I am turning 20 today.Got some advice?(as an entrepreneur o...
on Thursday May 12, 2016 @01:44AM (#11681557)
Just Two things:
1) Always be writing code to build things.
2) Be selling what you build.
Without (1) you won't grow professionally.
Without (2) you won't survive.
Smart Plug Resets Router Until It Works Again
Shutdown Day
Ask HN: Getting into Video Game Development?
I've been a web programmer most of the time but have basic experience with C++, C# for non web stuffs (desktop, basic unity 2d etc). I always wanted to get into video game development and I think the time has arrived to move on from my current web dev job. Are you hiring or do you know anyone who is taking intern, jr video game developer in SF or Berkeley ? Any recommendation is highly...
Re:Ask HN: How much do you make working as a CRUD dev?
on Sunday March 27, 2016 @03:01AM (#11369182)
Yes I can.
Ask HN: How much do you make working as a CRUD dev?
I recently joined an agency in Bay Area and I'm getting paid roughly 50K/yr. Work load is heavy and I got quickly assigned a lot of responsibilities and even have to deal with managing and training new hires. I'm fairly good and competitive on my skills but lately I'm having a feeling that I'm heavily underpaid. How much do you make working on similar agencies writing or maintaining traditional...
Ask HN: PHP based startups gone open source?
Are there any known PHP based startups gone open source and doing well ?
Re:Ask HN: What advice would you give to a self-learn programmer just ...
on Thursday March 17, 2016 @04:10AM (#11303085)
Write code.
Write some more code.
Write code again.
Do it everyday.
Do it until you can't live without doing it.
Re:Dear GitHub
on Friday January 15, 2016 @06:45AM (#10908646)
How reasonable is it to make issue tracking and social interaction part of the SCM itself [with optional web interface] ?
git issues "This needs attention"
>> Issue #1 created
git issues
>> List of issues
git issues -u #11
>> Issue #11 up voted
>> #11 Important stuff, needs attention
git issues -d #6
>> Issue #6 down voted
git issues -f #4
>> Issue #4 flagged
Re:Ask HN: What do you do if you can't pass technical interviews?
on Wednesday January 13, 2016 @12:28AM (#10892474)
>> Should I just burn my CS degree ?
Neah !! Jobs are not about the degree only, still having a degree always adds up. Try half a dozen other companies. This response is typical of small size startup who instead of inviting you for a drink invite you to an interview with their two person team. I was rejected by three companies (2+ engineers) before the present company (15+ engineers) made me an offer. It wasn't even a coding interview at all, the Sr. Engineer wanted to have a conversation for a couple of minutes.
Re:Valuing time over money is associated with greater happiness
on Friday January 08, 2016 @02:14AM (#10863434)
If I'm not mistaken parent is talking about 'working for a startup' that IMHO isn't as risky as 'co-founding' the startup, which of-course has its whistle bells. Why would a 10th employee join a startup for the risk and not for the money ?
Re:Ask HN: Losing interest
on Sunday November 29, 2015 @12:50AM (#10643878)
If I were in your situation I'd use that time off the actual work to learn new things. Work on open source project or start my own projects etc.
Whoever you work with at the end when it comes to learning it falls back to how far you are willing to dedicate time to learning. The best way to learn is by yourself. As far as getting influenced by A level people is concerned you can get influenced by them fairly anywhere in the internet.
Re:Ask HN: Which is the first site that autocompletes your browser for...
on Sunday November 29, 2015 @12:05AM (#10643789)
Re:Is college really worth it if your goals are to become a web develo...
on Tuesday March 27, 2012 @01:01AM (#3760096)
Is college worth it?
-> Yes.
Is going to one of these camps and working on a portfolio to demonstrate your skills a better choice?
-> Yes.
Or is it best to try to learn it all on your own?
-> Yes.
You see it's better we find a balance between all these.
Re:You Are Responsible for Getting Your Ideas to Spread
on Wednesday February 22, 2012 @10:31AM (#3621200)
Bottom line – to get your ideas to spread you have to connect with people in a way that is meaningful and useful to them. If you can’t do this, it’s your fault, not theirs.
Don't blame your customer.
This one tip will get you the job at Startup
Re:Translation of ''Happy New Year'' in various world languages
on Thursday February 09, 2012 @01:29PM (#3572301)
Nawa Barsha ko Shuvakamana ;)
Re:Ask HN: Which one should I learn deeper, Node.JS/Express.JS or Ruby...
on Thursday February 09, 2012 @01:25PM (#3572276)
I like playing with JS. It's nice to have JS on both ends.
Ask HN : Is your LAMP server secure? How?
I recently had discussion with my colleague about securing own's web server. According to him, a server is secure when you "show" what you want to show to public and what you do not want to be public is always inaccessible to them.My questions:Is it a acceptable definition of a secure server ?How does file permissions affect server security ?What are best measures to consider to secure own's...
Re:Ask HN: Company vs. Startup
on Thursday February 09, 2012 @01:10PM (#3572205)
What if we started as a service company which recently launched a product (with some sustainable business model)?
Ask HN: Company vs. Startup
When you release more than one product does is become a company ? What is the actual difference between a company and a startup ?
Ask HN: How to Business Manager and be a decent Developer both?
I work in small web development firm. Since we are just starting out with our product / service aside for bootstraping, I have to take care of all the responsibility of business aspects (searching clients, communicating with them, managing projects etc) and my most day hours are involved in working as a developer too.I'm getting tired of this double role. But, one thing is sure most HNers were...
Re:Ask HN: Open source projects on GitHub that need junior level help?
on Monday December 12, 2011 @11:01AM (#3343877)
Let me tell you one thing, I haven't committed any code to "popular" opensource projects yet. But, I've been closely watching one opensource project from its beginning. Dev team pushes new changes, there I am learning a bit more from it. That way it took me two years to build up confidence that now any code I submit to them would meet the code guidelines, standards and will improve existing system. I've been releasing small features on my own repo and contributing to community forum too. Now i think it's time to go ahead and surprise them with a new feature push.
You named >> mongrel2, Rails, Sinatra
I never understood this. Are there shortage of opensource projects in the internet ? I wonder why every one wants to commit to the already "established" and big projects. They have enough genius community backup to them. Why not give a shot to small projects just starting out in language of your choice ? I think, the end result will be more satisfactory.