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Re:How some good corporate engineering blogs are written on Wednesday March 11, 2020 @12:20PM (#22547027)
What is the purpose of engineering blogs? Is it only to attract engineers to work for you?
Re:YC W20 Online-Only Demo Day on Friday March 06, 2020 @02:04PM (#22506258)
Can the general public view these videos some point in the future?
Re:Ask HN: Is there a website with advanced CSS puzzles? on Thursday March 05, 2020 @07:05PM (#22499792)
This is an oft repeated suggestion. But the problem is that, there is very little step by step commentary on these codepens. Its mostly only the final step that is presented. I tried recreating some and then got stuck with finer points of positions, margin-auto etc. Thats when I realised I need to solve some advanced CSS puzzles. Thanks anyways!

Ask HN: Is there a website with advanced CSS puzzles?

I am looking for question like :1) How would you transform this div from middle of page to end of page etc 2) Why is this div only 20px height even though the image inside is 100px height 3) Given this moderately complex CSS, how will you add a extra text div of dimensions 20px * 30px and how will you style it with minnimum classes.Something like this:...

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Neat idea. I would definitely use it, if you promise that that experts would NOT be from low cost countries like India, Romania etc (why? Because as a person from these countries, I want to learn parenting methods from advanced countries.)
Re:Ask HN: Freelancer? Seeking freelancer? (March 2020) on Monday March 02, 2020 @06:32PM (#22470261)
SEEKING FREELANCER | REMOTE ONLY

I am working on a website which where people give feedback to each other's interview performance. Part of the backend is ready , but I need frontend help. Mostly HTML/CSS and some javascript.

https://www.sideprojectors.com/project/14742/coding-intervie....

I am looking for frontend help. If you are interested, please contact through link above or through my profile.

Re:Ask HN: How do I help my Indian coworker get a raise? on Thursday February 27, 2020 @06:02PM (#22438927)
It depends on whether the person is on L-1 visa or H-1 visa. If L-1, I can't help. But if its H-1, In all probability, the guy is just afraid of interviewing outside. As someone mentioned below, changing job is tough but not very tough.

Please tell them to seek outside jobs.

Re:Ask HN: Freelancer? Seeking Freelancer? (February 2020) on Monday February 03, 2020 @07:07PM (#22230852)
I am working on a website which where people give feedback to each other's interview performance. Part of the backend is ready , but I need frontend help. Mostly HTML/CSS and some javascript.

https://www.sideprojectors.com/project/14742/coding-intervie...

I am looking for frontend help. If you are interested, please contact through link above or through my profile.

Re:Household Manager/Cook/Nanny Needed, Menlo Park on Friday January 24, 2020 @02:31PM (#22141640)
Who is this CEO? Any guesses?
Re:Visa Buys Plaid on Monday January 13, 2020 @04:23PM (#22038762)
So, pertinent question. I want to move my account to a bank which gives me an API so I don't have to deal with Plaid or Mint. I.e. I want data privacy. I want to build a personal dashboard of where my money is going.

Any suggestions?

Re:Milled: A search engine for email newsletters on Friday November 22, 2019 @04:27PM (#21610254)
Cool project. What is the end goal? A Lifestyle business? Only search by keywords?
Re:Ask HN: Who is looking for a co-founder? on Tuesday November 19, 2019 @04:40PM (#21578610)
I am building a website called interviewblindspots. Website provides code feedback with interviews in Mind. Its a large market so thats a plus. It aims to be a onestop solution for interview preparation (in short term) and a CS curriculum (in long term). I am a backend engineer by profession so I am having lots of problems with Frontend, Specifically CSS. If you are interested/intrigued in the idea, send me a mail (Email in profile).

Ask HN: Which bank is friendly to developers (with APIs and Oauth) support?

So, Is there a bank which provides a easy to use API or digital wallet, which then lets me download my banking data and lets me write (personal)apps around it?I am looking for something that lets me 1) Set limits on a per merchant basis, not on a per category basis. 2) Send me OTP alert if its a credit card amount beyond a certain amount (My teenage kid uses a addon card.)Someone asked...

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Re:YC Fall Hackathon 2019 on Monday October 14, 2019 @07:24PM (#21253957)
Yep. Need help with frontend skills. Mostly CSS. Idea is to build a code review site specifically focusing on blindspots in interviews. If interested, email in profile.
Re:Making the Tokio scheduler 10x faster on Monday October 14, 2019 @03:47PM (#21252049)
Does anyone know how to print the blog post. Storing it as a pdf only saves first page, not the entire conent.
Well, google cannot make their product with MS stack. But you can! So everyone using MS office online can use your product.

Even though Google docs is free, Notion is making enough money to keep it sustainable. You can do something similar.

Ask HN: How would you build a search engine in 2019?

So, I was wondering how to build a competitor to Google. We have Common Crawl and Internet Archive. Distributed systems is pretty well understood. How would one go about buiding a search engine in 2019?Would you do what duckduckgo did, which is to use some body else's index and ranking or would you just build your index from commoncrawl? How are Ecosia and Startpage.com able to stay profitable...

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Re:Engineer admits hacking Yahoo accounts searching for images on Monday September 30, 2019 @11:30PM (#21121776)
Yahoo owns AOL!
Re:Engineer admits hacking Yahoo accounts searching for images on Monday September 30, 2019 @11:29PM (#21121773)
When was the last time you changed your email address?
Re:Ask HN: Experience with Flipped/Inverted Classroom? on Friday September 27, 2019 @02:47PM (#21095051)
Asian Active Learning? Never heard. Can you explain more?
Was not aware of Grails before. Will check it out.
Thanks for the tip on JSP. I will look into it.
All big companies have HUGE java teams/projects. Its battle tested for distributed systems, has legions of developers who can do any task you ask for. Java is where the big bucks are.
Can someone here explain why companies pay only 40% of US salaries in India? One person from my team is leaving for India soon. He is paid $200k/yr currently in Bay area. But he is being offered INR50 lakhs which is roughtly $80k USD. What stops MS from paying something like $120k USD (converted to INR) because fully loaded costs in US (with FICA taxes) is abot $250K?

Especially, if the quality is the same in both places?

Yes. It does affect. If I, the buyer, determine that your code needs to signifcantly rewritten to fit my needs/systems, I will be willing to pay less money. Instead, I may want to build it myself.
Re:What Is a Roman Coloring Book? on Monday September 09, 2019 @04:39PM (#20922233)
Coloring this book would be fun but someone needs to suggest what colors to use. To a backend engineer like me, the only colors that exist are black and white (Terminal colors) :(
Re:Ask HN: Where can I download Amazon reviews as a dataset? on Saturday September 07, 2019 @01:26AM (#20901974)
Seeing if someone has already done that. Web scraping costs money, amazon may rate limit/block me etc

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