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Hah, I thought of Kommu when I saw this post! I've used their slack to stay in NYC and had someone stay at my place in Austin. Would (and have) recommend to a friend

If I were giving a security recommendation to famous people and congresspeople I would recommend using a password like this. You might think it’s incredibly insecure, but imagine this GIF contained that 6 digit number that the congressman uses for all of his accounts. Suddenly, a ton of other services and passwords are vulnerable to an attacker.

In reality a lot of iPhones now require authentication at the app level for apps that have sensitive data.

To each his own, but knowing how public you are and how many people would want your passcode, I think the best practice is to use something dumb like 6 of the same keys.

Ironically, your pricing page is down. Starting an updown competitor now!

I think you need 500 karma or so.

Amazon gets all the attention because it's Amazon. Work a retail job anywhere and you will discover that MILLIONS of retail workers must do similar checks.

The additional revenue from this stream is a drop in the bucket to Uber. I could be off here, but this seems like they will likely use these type of things just as advertisements and branding.

Great experience with Amazon Lightsail. The smallest instance is only $3.50 a month, and you can add a swap file if you need a bit more than 512 MB of RAM.

Lightsail is like swimming in the shallow end of the AWS pool. Doesn’t have a drop down with 50 services like AWS, but has enough to run a small or medium sized web app.

I still think the US has hope for rail and high speed rail that won’t bankrupt everyone. If, and this is a huge if (bc people love their cars), the US can replace a lane or two of major highways between cities with a rail. This would avoid forcing people to leave their homes or have massive payouts for stubborn landowners. The highway infrastructure is a pretty reasonable layer to build on as many highways already take close to the hypotenuse between major cities.

Anybody know why this concept isn’t talked about more?

To be honest, I think wind resistance would play a lot bigger factor than people give it credit for since its force scales nonlinearly with velocity.

At 1000 or even just 600 km/h, wind resistance would do some damage just by letting off the accelerator.

Not controversial IMO, but useful.

Most companies are stuck in the dark ages, despite what you think after browsing HN. A lot of money to be made in consulting if you can market yourself well.

This is worth other people chiming in on.

When I was an intern at an Aerospace org, I had a mentor that was the head of engineering of several smaller companies at once emphasize one point - Always align yourself positively with people 2-3 levels of leadership above you. That is, if necessary, skirt around your direct report(s) if you have something to bring to the table for higher up people. It is how you move up faster, but of course, strains your short term relationship with your direct report. Haven’t had the chance to try it yet, but maybe others can chime in?

That's a great start up idea - Cloud based UI elements.

Not super familiar with the space, but ReWork by Jason Fried and DHH, founders of BaseCamp (DHH made Ruby on Rails), was pretty good. They provide a very different take on business and startups than typical on HN. They are almost anti VC, and really have some good points when it comes to making something and running a company differently than typical enterprise and startups do.

This post should make many people on HN feel confident that they can run a company that does millions in revenue. As long as you aren’t doing favors for family and buddy’s, you too can run a small tech business and make millions.

I can confirm Schwab banking is the real deal! No fees ever. Reimburse ALL atm fees (even those pesky international scammy ones that are like $10 a pop). Effectively wherever you are in the world, you are in network with Schwab ATM's. Used them as an exchange student all over the place.

The biggest plus IMO is if you travel a lot. You get, from what I have experienced, no currency conversion fees, and no mark up on the exchange rate. They basically give you the Visa official exchange rate which is very good!

The only thing I’ve put together from light searching on GitHub might be to do with the fact that 15 and s15 can be used to describe school years (s for spring 15 semester) and a lot of people post assignments to GitHub.

15 is also a common number in coding problem sets that people post to GitHub. It’s a stretch but it might be something to do with 2015 being a year that has a lot of coursework commits, and 15 is a pretty low number (i.e. higher probability a student posts solutions to #1-15 than #1-19).

The same goes for schoolwork. Many people do online MIT and Stanford courses that are from previous years ~2012-2016, but there has been less time elapsed for students to post answers from 2016,17,18,19)

This is mostly conjecture, so I hope someone has a better answer!

I thought the most common file names had some peculiar results.

the filename “15” & “s15” made the top 50 most popular filenames

Anyone know why?

https://boyter.org/posts/an-informal-survey-of-10-million-gi...

My org was constantly behind the “business” deadlines, leaving developers to work nights and weekends often. Bad personal growth (boring C#, tightly coupled, extremely complex enterprise app) due to doing the most lame bug fixes, and copying code to add a new UI. No fun! Tired of making pennies - needed to get out on my own!

Awesome! I’m going to give that a try!

Yeah, I suppose it was a little open ended. I’m using Flask, gunicorn, and looking for tools to keep it simple.

Someone on HN made a github project called Monolith. It’s a command line thing. Go check it out and see if it will accomplish what you want

https://github.com/Y2Z/monolith

This is an interesting answer - one I have never heard of. I can’t say I agree with the premise that the world neither exists or non-exists. Am I missing something, or are you saying the boolean value of existence has a 3rd option?

Taleb might say this is a sibling to the Lindy Effect

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lindy_effect

First exposure to real coding was in college - 16 bit assembly, then C. Never really clicked it all. Then I moved onto higher level courses in Java. It clicked somewhere along the way, I was able to retroactively understand almost everything in assembly and C that didn’t click originally. Magical when I sit and think about it. Almost switched out of electrical engineering in that original phase because of frustration and failure.

Super thankful I had an extra push from people around me, because I love it all now.

I love HN so much for threads like this.

It is seriously one of the best places in the world to grab some popcorn, hangout, and watch beginners, students, CEO’s, experts, consultants, etc rant and rave about company X or programming language Y.

Genuinely love the spirit of HN, even if people say it’s different for the worse now.

I assume there aren’t many places on the internet for nerds to publicly hang out with experts and executives in their field.

On another note, many of these arguments talk about typing. Why say a language must be static or dynamic, etc, when you can achieve both. Making a C# MVP is much more verbose than python. Maintaining an untyped 3 million LOC monolith, is likely harder than C#.

Everyone here is working on pretty different projects and codebases, so why argue for one?

Anyone have gripes about mypy, or experience successfully using it(or an alternative)?

I was struggling through electrical engineering, not sure if I ever wanted to become an actual engineer. In hindsight, college was extremely challenging because I had no clue if I wanted to go into engineering, or finance, or consulting. I have a feeling if I knew the joy of programming and being able to build a company from my house over the internet, I would have ditched college and just started my own thing. Wish I found HN back then for sure!