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Honestly, chess fits your description perfectly. Easy to learn the rules, rich gameplay, and easy to play on the go.
True micropayments integrated in browser would be amazing. Imagine instead of ads or subscriptions, you could pay a few pennies for an article. It would revolutionize online content, in a good way. Nobody would be willing to pay for clickbait type stuff, but I think people would be willing to pay for quality content and journalism.
I looked at the book reviews yesterday. Tons of one star review, but if you sorted by verified purchases the vast majority of them disappeared. Honestly, to minimize gaming Amazon might just have to start restricting reviews to verified purchases, even though that has its own set of drawbacks.
As another Oracle anecdote, a family member worked for IBM (this was about 15 years ago) as a software engineer and then as (what is now called) a sales engineer/technical consultant, where he'd travel to client sites and demo IBM products, answer technical questions, etc.
He said Oracle was without a doubt the most unethical competitor they ever had. IBM had internal guidelines on acceptable limits for gifts, meals etc you could give to clients, but Oracle sales people had no such qualms and would sometimes essentially bribe VPs/whoever had the power to make the purchasing decision.
IBM was certainly no saint (this family member ended up leaving a few years later), but he was astounded by how ethically untethered Oracle as a company was.
If you're interested in free food, I recommend checking out www.freefoodguy.com. He's a blogger who's sole mission in life seems to be finding free food deals and sharing them via his email list.
Posted by
canremember on Tuesday October 27, 2015 @04:21PM
from the ask-hn dept.
I'm a web developer who doesn't know Javascript. Yes, that's a bit shameful to say, since Javascript is the language of the web. I've basically managed thus far with just backend languages and frameworks and hacking together CSS/Bootstrap/a tiny bit of jQuery, but obviously I need to learn JS.Assuming I have close to zero JS knowledge but know how to program, what's the best learning path for...
My family signed up for Amazon Prime fairly early on. We all knew that, given Amazon's reputation as a loss-leader, one day the price would rise. It certainly wasn't sustainable--in addition to two day shipping on almost everything, it gave you access to Amazon's Netflix clone. But for us, it worked as Amazon wanted. We ended up buying much more from Amazon than we otherwise would have because of Prime.
Posted by
canremember on Tuesday February 04, 2014 @04:39PM
from the millisay.com dept.
Do you think learning web development in its current form is a good idea? The scenario I'm concerned about is spending a few years learning web dev only to discover my skills are obsolete since the world has gone mobile.
Posted by
canremember on Saturday September 07, 2013 @04:15PM
from the ask-hn dept.
I have limited experience with both Android development and web development. In a previous Ask HN I mentioned my plan to rapidly improve my web dev skills.But I wonder, is web dev being superseded by mobile app development? As someone in college who wants to work for a startup or start a startup in the near future (2-5 years), would I be better advised to focus on mobile apps or the web?...
Thanks, this is good advice. I'd consider an internship, but I'm concerned that most of the good ones wouldn't accept me since I'm still lacking in several areas. I'm willing to put in the work to learn quickly on the job, but I feel like I'd probably fail a technical interview.
I'm a CS student, but the fact that I've made so little progress with the confines of the classroom is what made me contemplate this idea in the first place. I could try for an internship during the summer, but I'm concerned about getting a good one. I'm smart, willing to work hard, and love to learn, but I feel I'm at a disadvantage since my skills are still so limited.
Posted by
canremember on Thursday August 29, 2013 @12:02AM
from the ask-hn dept.
I started programming as a freshman in college. I'm currently a junior and I've been very dissatisfied with my progress. I've noticed a lot of coding "bootcamps" arise in the last year or two (HackReactor, Dev Bootcamp, etc.), and I think the real value is that students get hundreds of hours of intensive practice guided by experienced mentors.I want to create a coding bootcamp for myself so I...