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Ask HN: What is your Django vs. Phoenix story?

Django shop owner here who would like to ask other (ex/current) Django developers, who made (or not made) the change to the Phoenix/Elixir world, to share real world stories about what went good and what went not so good.We have been developing Django applications for more than a decade and we enjoy all the bells and whistles and also the accessibility of Python. While I also have some fond...

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Re:Schema Therapy on Wednesday July 20, 2022 @03:29AM (#32162625)
It sees this was never on HN, which is surprising, given how much psychological, wellbeing related content is on HN.

After almost two years of (net) work which took me more than a decade (interrupted), I can finally say that I am thorough and this works and highly recommended. There are a lot of disorders that I thought I had but ultimately it seems that all of these are my coping mechanisms that worked when I was a child but drags me down as an adult. Hopefully someone finds this helpful.

Re:What's so hard about PDF text extraction? on Wednesday March 04, 2020 @05:22AM (#22482590)
seems to be only for the electronic invoicing in public procurement
Re:Ask HN: Freelancer? Seeking Freelancer? (January 2020) on Thursday January 02, 2020 @04:44PM (#21940211)
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Re:A physics master’s degree opens doors to myriad careers on Thursday April 18, 2019 @02:44PM (#19693686)
in a few years much of the current technologies gets obsolete not the mathematical foundations
Re:Mandrill has been down for over 30 hours with no explanation on Tuesday February 05, 2019 @09:44AM (#19085646)
We have issues with both. Some emails do go out, some not. No inbound.
Re:Is Earth's Magnetic Field Flipping Soon? on Friday February 01, 2019 @10:02AM (#19054598)
No way to download all? Going through one by one, it might be too late already
Re:Ask HN: What have been your best decisions in life? on Saturday May 12, 2018 @06:23PM (#17056326)
would you share any games you made?
Re:Random Darknet Shopper: A Live Mail Art Piece on Wednesday April 18, 2018 @05:34PM (#16871429)
All these items seems remote, sometimes funny or interesting until I recognize my friend's very passport.
Re:Ask HN: What was your best passive income in 2017? on Wednesday April 11, 2018 @06:45PM (#16816438)
A game that had 2mm++ downloads free / paid since 2012. It's an online game with players still playing although well beyond it's peak. Since 2013 we pivoted from making games to it services and had not much time to make significant changes other than updating to newer iOS. It still generates about 2-3k yearly revenue which is a good bonus in central Europe.

soctics.com

Just get started with something simple and gradually increase / add complexity. Nowadays there are really great engines that pave your way. Do make good use of them. Any of them will teach you about the game loop, gfx, control, sound, ai etc subsystems that needs to work together to deliver an experience for your players. Also do read about game design. I personally liked Jessie Schell's Art of game design book with the 100 lenses that helps younalong the way.
Re:Ask HN: What non-work task have you automated? on Thursday October 12, 2017 @09:30AM (#15457779)
14 years ago, when low cost flights became popular in Europe with Ryanair, I moved to London with a friend for a year. To get the cheapest price, we had run a simple perl crawler in a cronjob to monitor the prices and it sent us a text over some free api. We didn't realize that time that this could have been a massive service and over the years many businesses basically executed on the same basic idea.
As others have said earlier, if the new tools serve the problem domain better there will be significant gain.

My first game server was hand crafted with php/mysql. It did work and was able serve players, however moving to Erlang allowed two order of magnitude more players onto the same box, while the code maintainability increased as well.

Re:Ask HN: How did you grow from 100 to 1,000 users? on Saturday April 29, 2017 @04:22PM (#14228542)
back in the days when we were making ios games we would send out a lot of promo codes to various youtube reviewers with followers between 100-10k. it was getting popular back then so we didnt paid for nor offered money for the review although few replied back and asked for it. well more like a paid service than affiliate. a few days later we experiences a spike that originated from a reviewer we never heard back.
Re:Ask HN: Freelancer? Seeking freelancer? (October 2016) on Monday October 03, 2016 @01:24PM (#12629399)
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Re:Ask HN: Freelancer? Seeking freelancer? (September 2016) on Thursday September 01, 2016 @04:00PM (#12408389)
SEEKING WORK - NYC / Budapest, Hungary + Remote - Full-stack Web / mobile development team

ZenHeads is your remote dev team at hand, team of 8 including the founders. We help build your MVP and beyond (ref: classport.fit / trkr.net / riport.co.hu / soctics.com)

  * Mobile: preferably Xamarin MVVM Cross (Android / iOS / WinMobile) or Unity3d (VR)
  * Frontend: React, Redux, Angular (turning more towards React nowadays), D3
  * Backend: Django/Python, Erlang
  * Databases: Postgres, Redis 
  * OS: Debian Linux
  * Hosting: AWS or any smaller VPS. provisioning with Chef / Fabric
  * CI: Gitlab
  * Clients from NYC / high profile investors
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Re:Ask HN: Freelancer? Seeking freelancer? (July 2016) on Friday July 01, 2016 @12:13PM (#12017341)
SEEKING WORK - NCY / Budapest, Hungary + Remote - Full-stack Web / mobile development team

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  * Mobile: preferably Xamarin MVVM Cross (Android / iOS / WinMobile)
  * Frontend: Angular, React, Redux (turning more towards  React), D3
  * Backend: Django/Python, Erlang (for soft realtime) 
  * Databases: Postgres, Redis 
  * Hosting: AWS or any smaller VPS. provisioning with Chef / Fabric
  * CI: Gitlab
  * Clients from NYC / high profile investors
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Re:Django 1.9 alpha 1 released on Thursday September 24, 2015 @08:08AM (#10271123)
Might worth checking out webmaching: https://github.com/webmachine/webmachine/wiki/Overview
Re:Ask HN: What's the best marketing effort for $1000? on Thursday October 03, 2013 @10:01PM (#6493323)
As others have said, make it free. If it's paid now try to approach appgratis and pay them back with cross promotion.

While your game is free make sure they spread the word on any of the social sites and also get the players who like your game rate it in the AppStore.

Also try to get in contact with other indie game devs and cross promote with them.

Re:PostgreSQL Studio on Wednesday October 02, 2013 @05:19PM (#6485476)
Workaround, why not making the tunnel yourself?

ssh -L5555:127.0.0.1:5432 host

Then you have it on your local 5555.

Happy AppGratis customer here. Note: we never paid for their services in cash but cross promotion.

A game of ours have been featured by AppGratis twice. They blow our charts what was then followed by a reasonable amount of paid players. That made a _huge_ difference for us. 2.5 months after the deal, there are still more downloads than was after 2 weeks of the release.

If you are a small team with very very limited resources. AppGratis is a really good way to get exposure this way. Would happily recommend them.

BTW, you can use other services to climb up the charts, like Chartboost or FB ads and I don't think any of them is any better or worst than the paid service of AppGratis.

Building great apps is hard. So is their marketing.

Re:Ask HN:got macmini where to start to learn mac dev? on Saturday December 22, 2012 @04:14PM (#4957494)
Go for iOS first to get familiar with cocoa, then move on to Mac. There are tons of info for iOS devs but bit less for Mac.

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