Ask HN: How to get better at spoken English? 4 years ago
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Ask HN: What are some novel uses of air pods? 5 years ago
Listen Live is a neat feature that can be used for both good and evil.
https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT209082
They can also be used as hearing aides
https://www.hearingtracker.com/news/airpods-pro-become-heari...
Ask HN: What is your biggest problem with data? 5 years ago
As someone who is not in the field but reads about it from time to time I see the same theme over and over: The formatting, consistency, and manual cleanup of data. The theme of data scientists who are "data janitors" that spend most of their time "cleaning data" is a consistent one.
Ask HN: Have You Consulted with Experts? 5 years ago
So what exactly are you asking?
Are you saying that paying for the AWS product is too expensive and you want to pay a consultant to talk about alternatives?
Are you looking for flat rate consultants to answer infrastructure questions for you?
Clarify your question and your goals.
Any Kanban board should work.
That's normal and is why I count startup stock and options as $0.
Some recent threads:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25487130
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25496166
A couple ideas:
If you don't like privacy then you don't need curtains in your house.
Ask them to unlock their phone and hand it to you. Most people will balk.
One thing to think about is that some people don't mind losing their privacy to the government or a corporation but they do care about losing it to real humans that know them. As an example, if a husband is cheating on his wife he doesn't care if the NSA or Big Tech knows about it because they (most likely) won't do anything negative with that information. But he would want to keep that information from people he knows because they may use it against him and will definitely treat him differently by having that knowledge.
Food for thought.
Guy spends $5k for Ads on product. Not one sale 5 years ago
Thanks
Guy spends $5k for Ads on product. Not one sale 5 years ago
Do you mind sharing which books you purchased?
Ask HN: How do you manage social media time? 5 years ago
/r/nosurf has many suggestions
Take a look at the Ionic framework + Capacitor.
In essence it's a UI library with a HTML-like syntax. You write your application in Angular, React, or Vue and you don't have to mess with recreating UI elements. Here is a list of the pre-made Ionic components that you can glue together to create your app [1]. Here is a site where you can play with the components and see them in action. [2] You can also purchase "starter apps" that have boilerplate such as Facebook login, geolocation, and more built in [3]. You can also use Capacitor JS to access native platform features (camera, clipboard, localstorage) without knowing any native code. [4].
I too am new to this and to me it makes much more sense to use Ionic rather than learn the deep and ever-shifting platform specific-code.
[1] https://ionicframework.com/docs/components/
[2] https://ionicsvelte.firebaseapp.com
[3] https://ionicthemes.com/product/ionic5-full-starter-app-pro-...
Here are some blogs to investigate
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I stole this from someone else but what you are experiencing is this:
Some workplaces value consensus and some workplaces value correctness.
Sound about right?
Unfortunately there's nothing you can do to change the culture.
Instead of trying to change or deal with or adapt to culture, ask pointed questions about correctness vs consensus culture during the interview.
EDIT: One book to suggest is Survival of the Savvy: High-Integrity Political Tactics for Career and Company Success
This list has been around for a while but I'm sure you'll find some interesting software engineering blogs in here:
What’s the best non-smart TV sold today? 6 years ago
800+ comments from ~3 months ago
Zoom Shared US User Data with Beijing 6 years ago
It's because it happened to be an easy to remember brand that is now associated with the product.
Other examples are calling a tissue a Kleenex, calling a vacuum a Hoover, calling a cola a Coke, and so on.
Many mainstream people call a video conference a Zoom and it happened to stick.
Here's an article you may enjoy:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hidden_champions
It's not an answer to your question but there are a lot of "sleeper comapnies" out there.
Ask HN: What was a book that changed your life? 6 years ago
Black Like Me by John Howard Griffin
The premise was simple: In 1959 a white reporter used makeup to make himself have black skin. He then traveled around the southern USA. Even as a child it was easy to see how people treated him differently even though he was a white man underneath. The racism was undeniable.
Animal Farm, 1984, and Fahrenheit 451 gave me even more reasons to question authority.
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Ask HN: Best Password Reset Practices? 6 years ago
From a technical perspective you're correct. I can't think of any holes in your argument.
From a non-technical perspective I would say convenience. A link is a click or a tap that would open a new window and walk me through the reset process. A password-in-email I would have to highlight it, copy it, open (or move to) another window/tab, then paste it then go through the "change password" process.
A link is a much smoother user experience.
Mobile app development with Ionic Framework v5 [1] and Capacitor (version 3 coming soon) [2].
I have looked into mobile development in years past and I always got the impression that it was a hot mess. An ever changing everything, undocumented everything, tons of languages and frameworks to choose from. I was immediately turned off by how complex, immature, and ever-changing that everything was.
To me, the most important selling point of Ionic is that I can write code once (Ionic UI Framework + Angular or React or Vue), then run it through Capacitor and it spits out a NATIVE mobile app that runs in a WebView (not a PWA, but they support PWAs).
I don't have to know anything about Android or SwiftUI. If I want to access native features (such as camera or location) I simply use a Capacitor plugin. Again, zero native code, the plugin handles it. There are plugins for things like storage, clipboard, file system, haptics, and more.
If you were ever turned off by the complexity of mobile app development take a look at Ionic. If you know HTML, CSS, a JS framework, and can learn their (simple) framework language you can write a fully functional app without knowing anything about the native coding.
[1] https://ionicframework.com/ // https://github.com/ionic-team/ionic-framework