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Re:Ask HN: What did you do after quitting the IT industry and how have... on Friday January 06, 2017 @04:53PM (#13340603)
that could actually be something people could pay you for as well. airbnb on the road with scenic views.

let me know if you ever try that.

Re:"I know how to program, but I don't know what to program" on Wednesday May 11, 2016 @03:57PM (#11678714)
I personally reached a similar conclusion[1] and ended up building small little chrome extensions that solve some of workflow problems I face daily. This plus using zapier to automate the repetitive has brought back joy to programming as a tool rather than end goal.

[1]https://medium.com/@hu_me/how-i-got-past-trying-to-reinvent-...

Re:You probably don't need a JavaScript framework on Saturday April 30, 2016 @04:57AM (#11601002)
yes this what I was curious about as well. Interesting the simplicity of creating snippets with markdown makes it easy to use for posts as well sharing code snippets ala gists
Re:Asana on Wednesday March 30, 2016 @04:18PM (#11392630)
we found it insanely powerful but hit a lot of snags trying to see an easy view of tasks; especially with team members on the move switching between online and offline.

Ended up writing chrome extension[1] which hit a nerve with a lot of other people as well. We got thank yous from as as africa where teams are using asana with patchy connectivity.

[1] https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/asana-task-viewer/...

Re:Embed Linkedin profile page to see who visited your website on Monday October 12, 2015 @11:12AM (#10374994)
google chrome has a multiple user option with quick switching, i have multiple profiles with different settings / extensions suited to mode.

saves the time to login to accounts [unless thats the whole point for you].

Re:Segment (YC S11) Raises $27M for Its “One API to Rule Them All” on Friday October 09, 2015 @04:40PM (#10363136)
Love the tool using it since beta. Its an obvious pain point brilliantly executed. Between segment and google tag manager the analytics instrumentation has become exceedingly easy and better documented in the last 3 years.

And I know from experience lock in is immense, once you add an analytics tool there is no turning back. With segment you can play the field more easily, ofcourse while being locked in to segment :)

Re:LogMeIn acquires Lastpass on Friday October 09, 2015 @09:12AM (#10359737)
logmein has almost ruined my current favorite password manager Meldium. After they acquired it the service has become gradually to the point it does not work on half the sites stored in it. This week I finally decided to start migrating to LastPass (a few clients use it and it appeared a more dependable alternate). Guess will continue my search for alternates.
Re:How Zapier Went from Zero to 600k Users on Friday August 21, 2015 @12:06AM (#10095913)
they have a pretty detailed guide here with some partner examples https://zapier.com/help/partner-co-marketing-guide/
Re:How to set up your own free VPN server on AWS on Tuesday March 24, 2015 @03:33PM (#9258882)
the same tiered machine running for a full month costs about 7usd.
Re:Google Is Shutting Down Google Helpouts, Its Expert Video Chat Service on Saturday February 14, 2015 @12:05PM (#9050089)
you could try codementor.io they offer a similar service but more suited to cs. Even offer introductory free minutes
Re:Ask HN: What small webapps do you know that have a large audience? on Sunday November 02, 2014 @03:06PM (#8547895)
sorry about that I thought sun night would be a good time to move to heroku. should be resolved now.
Re:Ask HN: What small webapps do you know that have a large audience? on Sunday November 02, 2014 @11:45AM (#8547056)
http://utm.io

url shortener with builtin support for google analytics link tagging utm parameters. time saver for marketers creating tracking links for google analytics.

Re:Show HN: Stop constant buzz of your smartphone notifications while ... on Friday October 17, 2014 @08:19AM (#8470521)
yes initially built it for our sanity, but the code is opensource[1] PR welcome :) https://github.com/marketlytics/android-idlenotifier
Re:Learning Online on Monday September 29, 2014 @03:44PM (#8384822)
This is similar to how I learned javascript in almost REPL manner. Started with poking around in chrome developer console with quick copy pasting of code examples from stackoverflow / w3schools. Repeating and customizing until console logged what I wanted. With occasional diversions to understand compilerish.

And once it was working saving the code to the actual file.

My only regret was I discovered breakpoints a bit late. It was fascinating to pause code and just hover over different bits of code variables / parameters and see the data being transformed.

Re:What We Do and Don't Know about Software Development Effort Estimation on Saturday August 30, 2014 @04:09PM (#8247442)
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3522910
Re:Google Maps On Mobile Gets Uber Integration on Wednesday May 07, 2014 @03:50AM (#7709054)
This is actually an interesting monetization experiment for google maps.

Google might create an ad type allowing all the different ride sharing companies to bid on this ad space. Should be able to attract pretty good cpm considering the user has already shown clear intent.

Re:Ask HN: What to look out for in Cross border equity grants? on Friday May 02, 2014 @08:12AM (#7685182)
Thanks I am based in Pakistan. I am researching this further but wanted to understand if there are any implication for me in Britain. Any pitfalls in contracts. As well as experience of someone who has gone through this.
Re:Hum on Sunday March 02, 2014 @02:52AM (#7328185)
IM / text conversations are shorter but they also drift from one topic to the other. Generally chats are grouped based on people while emails are grouped based on topics. Categorizing them with subjects wouldnt really be practical.

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