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d_luaz

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code.luasoftware.com 7y ago

Win10 Problematic Modern Standby – Battery Power Drain

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code.luasoftware.com 7y ago

Dell XPS 15 9570 Review (for programmer)

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code.luasoftware.com 8y ago

How to Recognize Employee's Contributions

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news.ycombinator.com 8y ago

Ask HN: Feedback on a Task Management Tool with Pomodoro Timer for Solo Hacker

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news.ycombinator.com 8y ago

Ask HN: What do you think of Streak Gamification

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news.ycombinator.com 8y ago

Ask HN: Business model for content creator

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blog.travelopy.com 9y ago

How to plan for DIY Travel

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news.ycombinator.com 10y ago

Ask HN: Early adopters for hire

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blog.travelopy.com 10y ago

Travelopy App: a replacement for Evernote Food as travel journal

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blog.travelopy.com 10y ago

Travelopy Android App: Discover Place, Capture Moments

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news.ycombinator.com 10y ago

Ask HN: Request Submission of Engineering Post of Stack Adoption

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www.stackbus.com 10y ago

Show HN: StackBus, what stack you use, why and what you build?

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blog.travelopy.com 11y ago

Where to upload your travel photos?

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blog.travelopy.com 11y ago

Travelopy: a travel album and blog

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news.ycombinator.com 11y ago

3 Versions of “Zero to One” with Different Pricing on Google Play Book?

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luaz.blogspot.com 12y ago

Lessons I learned from playing Dota 2

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luaz.blogspot.com 12y ago

What did I learn from 1 week of Dogecoin mining

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luaz.blogspot.com 12y ago

The Forbidden Path

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gcdc2013-hackerio.appspot.com 12y ago

Search Engine Optimization Tips & Tricks (Collaborative Edit)

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gcdc2013-hackerio.appspot.com 12y ago

What is your favorite programming language? What do you use it for?

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gcdc2013-hackerio.appspot.com 12y ago

Show HN: Hackerio, resources for Hacker

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luaz.blogspot.com 12y ago

I won't and can't secure funding, for now

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malaysiamostwanted.blogspot.com 12y ago

Malaysia Price Checker shut down on 01 September 2013

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blog.startuptale.com 13y ago

Things to know about Appengine Datastore Indexes

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blog.startuptale.com 13y ago

Serious Consistency Shit for Google App Engine Datastore

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luaz.blogspot.com 13y ago

A funny case of using the PC

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luaz.blogspot.com 13y ago

Lua’s Startup Way: Dropping the Baggage

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luaz.blogspot.com 13y ago

The Unglamorous Chairman

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code.google.com 13y ago

GAE Bounced Mail Bug not fixed for 3 years

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luaz.blogspot.com 13y ago

Community-owned Hackerspace

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It's still possible in the case of Digital Ocean vs AWS: 5-10x price reduction, focus on a subset of core service. You still need to deliver friction-less service in the beginning, reliability and customer service eventually.

Not all will move from AWS, but the price saving is significant for small players who doesn't need the full suite of AWS.

- I don't think "stuck in my room for 6 months keep trying to find "the right one"" is a good idea. Please change your plan/approach.

- Since money is not an issue, we can cross out the need to get a job to make ends meet and start thinking about fun things to do.

- I believe Idea is not a light-bulb moment after meditation for 6 months in your room; it sort of require you try doing different things in order to bump into the light-bulb moment.

More random advices:

- Do u like Hardware or Software? Assuming you are into tech ideas.

- Unless you have partners and funding, the scope of your project need to be within your own capabilities in order to reach mediocre success in terms of user adoptions.

- You don't need the best idea, just good enuf idea which interest you. Why passion/interest in important? So that you will work on it even though there is no money and users for 6 months, and you use/like your own product.

- Discipline. Build/Ship something every month is an interesting idea.

It's funny to ask for advice from others who barely know your passions and capability, but it will give it a few random shots:

- follow your passion, not the money. when you work on your startup, do you truly enjoy at least some part of it, or just following the hype or hoping to become millionaires?

- are you well off where money is not an issue? if money is an issue, get a job; you can choose to work with well-off Malaysian startup like GrabTaxi.

- rather than keep thinking about money making startup, just work on small projects which you found interesting. e.g. https://levels.io/12-startups-12-months/

I guess remote work is an option, but not quite a total solution at the moment. 1) not all work could be remote 2) self-discipline/communication is tough

Woofoo (about 7 people) did remote, but the founder admit it's tough and challenging even for such a small and motivated company (imagine your workforce > 1000 people), though there are some obvious benefits.

It's not just about tools (slack, skype, etc.) and finding a procedure that works, but more about company culture, motivation, discipline, adaptation to remote environment, family at home, etc. Not every employee could survive a remote environment and continue to be productive :(

Before everyone could work from home, maybe the idea of multiple office location/work-space (rather than centralized) could be explored, yet it will have many pros and cons.

Announcing Rust 1.2 11 years ago

Whenever a new language popup, I always wonder 1) who us it 2) why they use it 3) what they use it for

Hopefully more people share their stacks on http://www.stackbus.com/ (FYI, I build it) so that it help others to decide better.

- User: I usually just skip this service and use OAuth + Login management library

- Email: I remember it works with gmail; you can overwrite the "reply-to" header.

- Image Upload: seems to work fine by uploading to blobstore or GCS. Image serving is superb with images.get_serving_url!

You cant compare AppEngine with DO or Heroku with AWS. Yes, AppEngine is costlier than DO 5-10X is comparing cost of computation power. You pay the price for not having to deal with DevOps, scalability and some cool API/services.

Assuming M$ is always evil is still a personal opinion, doesn't mean it's bad. Replace M$ with Google, Apple, Amazon or any other company doing the same thing, does it actually bring out any meaningful conclusion?

I assume better Ardruino support on Windows is a good thing.

The author did mentioned "it's meant to complement it", I assume that is good: use if if you like it, ignore it if you don't.

I guess the opinion of "not worthwhile" doesn't constitute good or bad either for the Ardruino community.

No one say it would be easy to work on the things you love: sacrifice have to be made, and there shall be big challenges.

We could argue it's impossible for someone to do it due to external circumstances of being less privilege; think about some of the public figures who made it? Are these people doing the impossible more privileged than you are?