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Ask HN: Is there anything like HN for creatives?

Wondering if there are places with updates about things like photoshop and cameras or video/cinematography things and a place for people to show off what they are working on (and they are serious about their craft rather than just instagram)

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Net Neutrality Petition

Anyone know of a good way to contact the larger content providers of the world (FB, Reddit, Amazon, Netflix.. even Apple and Microsoft) to see if they could reduce their server count or something for the remaining 10 days we have to save net neutrality? Slowly loading the reddit symbol isn't enough. Lets make our netflix shows blurry and slow, our FB feeds slow, our reddit feeds slow... lets...

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How to plug the sinking ship

Are there common things you have seen happen that make a ship sink fast in terms of the quality of their software? What about common things orgs try to fix that don't actually solve the problem for customers? What happens when companies start to trend downward, lose customers, and the attitude begins to turn sour? Do you just jump ship. And if you don't, what sorts of problems do you look to...

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How can back end developers 'practice'?

It seems everyone says to build something if you want to learn a technology. This is an issue for me because I work on server side code, mainly working with databases and how to optimize their performance. I am not a UI/UX person at all. So to build a website or project just feels... disjointed for me. I care a lot about the whole product, but I don't want to do front end work. So what sorts of...

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Ask HN: Where do you go for exciting and objective articles?

I've noticed a trend in opinion articles where the author uses a slew of hyperboles to make what they are saying exciting, but the article never seems to be objective. Everything seems overdone just to get people to click on it, and lots of this gets posted on HN even. Is there another source you go to for finding articles that can be both exciting and objective?

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Re:Ask HN: How do you find potential coworkers for a startup? on Tuesday October 20, 2015 @01:16PM (#10420440)
Thats a good. Because its both a hardware and software solution, and i'm a SWE is there somewhere the hardware crew typically hangs out? Is there specific places to look for hardware people? I feel like Meetup is heavy on the Software side of things.
I was trying to allude to the fact the talent pool where I am is significantly smaller than it would be in a large city. I should have made that more clear. I'll have to check out this book too. Thanks for the suggestion!

Ask HN: How do you find potential coworkers for a startup?

I feel I have a good idea for a potential company (bias recognized) but I don't have anyone to help me get it off the ground. I don't live in a big city, nearest one is 90 minutes away, and I honestly don't trust the people I do know with this project because they don't seem to follow through. I can't ask my current coworkers either, who I wish I could, for various reasons. Thoughts or...

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