futuretro

Re:Soviet-Era Industrial Design on Tuesday April 24, 2018 @12:03PM (#16913782)

As a nerd interested in all things future and retro, thank you for sharing that subreddit. I will definitely check it out!

Re:Ask HN: How will you manage your digital assets when you die? on Wednesday March 14, 2018 @02:22AM (#16582763)

Your decision to stay away from social media, any reason for that? I ask this only because for someone in your twenties, the pressure to get on social media must be extremely high.

Re:What are some good online tech communities for non-hackers? on Monday April 03, 2017 @04:57AM (#14021444)

thanks!

What are some good online tech communities for non-hackers?

Posted by futuretro on Monday April 03, 2017 @03:40AM
from the self-post dept.

For a non-hacker (no computer science degree) who is interested in tech, and learning simple coding (starting off with html, css), what community or forum would you recommend I join? I'm looking to find a place where I can learn, ask questions and contribute.So far, I'm looking at hackernews, indie hackers forum, subredditAny suggestions would be appreciated. I’d like to focus my time on one...

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Re:Ask HN: Has anyone at Google worked on Google Finance in the past 7... on Saturday April 01, 2017 @08:24AM (#14011790)

I use Trading View too. Even their free plan is great.

Re:Ask HN: Has attracting a blog audience become harder? on Saturday April 01, 2017 @08:11AM (#14011753)

I feel Twitter as a microblog works for short updates (really short, 140 char!)

Longer ones can fit in a tweetstorm.

But I think 1,000 word posts deserve a proper blog post of its own. Correct me if i'm wrong, but wasn't that Medium's initial objective?

Re:Ask HN: Has attracting a blog audience become harder? on Saturday April 01, 2017 @08:00AM (#14011714)

I believe by social, he probably meant cross posting links to social media as a form of marketing.

It's tricky though, because Twitter is a micro-blogging service, and Facebook has Groups and Pages.

Re:Ask HN: Has attracting a blog audience become harder? on Saturday April 01, 2017 @07:57AM (#14011704)

I actually see the rise of social media as a double edged sword when it comes to blogging.

On one hand, you have people spending more time updating their feeds.

On the other hand, it also means people are less compelled to start a personal blog describing their day to day lives (remember the days of livejournal?).

Re:Ask HN: Has attracting a blog audience become harder? on Saturday April 01, 2017 @07:52AM (#14011685)

Same, i recently decided to overhaul my RSS addiction. I did a ruthless curation of my RSS feeds and picked only a select few that i truly enjoyed. Then, i looked for the publication's Twitter and added the accounts to the relevant list.

The upside is i no longer feel compelled to finish reading everything in Feedly. Before, the unread markers was distracting.

Re:Ask HN: How do you make money from your side projects? on Saturday April 01, 2017 @02:07AM (#14010770)

Neat site. When did you launch? I had a similar idea like this a few months ago. Glad to know someone actually did it!

Re:Ask HN: How do you make money from your side projects? on Saturday April 01, 2017 @02:03AM (#14010756)

I agree. I started on an affiliate site and while i consider it passive income, there is some level of involvement on a regular basic. I realised that frequent updates keep Google's indexing bots happy. Stagnating content tends to drop in rank after a while.

Re:Ask HN: How do you make money from your side projects? on Saturday April 01, 2017 @02:00AM (#14010738)

Can i assume it's a html site, with the calculator running your own code?

Re:Ask HN: How do you make money from your side projects? on Saturday April 01, 2017 @01:50AM (#14010704)

Might want to include an affiliate disclaimer in your post. Amazon is quite picky about disclosures.