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Ask HN: What to do if you lose your job during pandemic

Isolation policies are crucial to stop coronavirus but these policies have side effects like killing lots of start-ups which depend on people spending money. There are many contract-based developers and, contracts are easier to terminate when budgets get tight. If isolation continues much longer, losing your job can be possible, also it will be harder to find another one. Do you have any advice...

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Ask HN: Efficient Usage of an API, Framework or Language

All of us use some kind of framework, API, language built-in libraries or 3rd party libraries while developing software. These software bundles provide us tools for reducing complexity, write more efficient code and apply DRY. But, what is your method to traverse a library and find out suitable methods for your need or how do you know the task in your hand is already done by the library you...

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Re:Ask HN: Making a mobile app as a back-end developer? on Monday December 30, 2019 @02:00PM (#21915764)
Thanks, great mind map !
Re:Ask HN: Making a mobile app as a back-end developer? on Saturday December 28, 2019 @07:31AM (#21898552)
Thanks for pointing out Cordova. Just took a quick look at it, this can be a very good starting point, appreciate.

Ask HN: Making a mobile app as a back-end developer?

My main area of expertise has been backend java development for years. I have a few mobile app ideas I have been designing the backend for a while. But since I have no frontend experience, I don't know how to proceed. Should I start learning, which will take large amount of time since there are plenty of platforms you need to publish, or should I outsource it somehow ? If outsourcing is the...

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