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Are you going there as a hobby or plan to work as a watch repairman/watchmaker? if the latter, how big is the market these days for analog watches? I feel like everyone is wearing electronic watches. I have been thinking of also learning horology as an entry to building automata machines
I love it. Just recently got my first plotter, and it is so much fun. Sadly though this still keeps me near computer.
Not exactly a hobby either
Anything can be misused by the bad actor. Knives, guns. With AI things are getting easier to develop bio-chemical weapons. There was recently a video of a YouTuber creating a portable rocket launcher in <100 USD.
They don't need to. They need just good enough. Don't underestimate "Made in Europe", just like "Made in America"
They should instead focus on their overall software stability and usability. And introduce more physical buttons for climate control. I don't want to click 4 times on a screen while driving in order to enable seat heating.
I have always wanted a super simple local startup job board for my country. No calls, no AI chat bots, no fancy matching. Spending 1-2 hours a week on this
Having worked for different startups for 10+ years and started 3 of my own (eventually failing), I always wanted a job board for local startups. Not necessarily IT-related jobs. Finally built it about a month ago: https://estonianstartupjobs.ee
There are few similar projects too, one is itself a startup which sadly on the verge of bankruptcy, and another aggregates only IT-related jobs.
Why does everyone assume that if something is open source it must also be free and licensed under permissive license allowing you whatever? Briefly looking at their website I got the impression that it was meant for transparency reasons rather than in the spirit of free and open-source.
You have the right to queue for several hours and present your biometric passport to a human who will take your picture, save it to another database, and then visually compare that to your face.
Growth is not everything. I remember reading "Let my people go surfing" by the Patagonia founder where he mentioned multiple times that they were trying to artificially limit their growth by raising the prices for their products. You don't need to chace ever higher profits. Staying small and enjoying your life is also an option.
Salv | Product Engineer | Tallinn/Tartu, EE, or Vilnius, LT | onsite | full time
We build a platform for banks and other fintechs to help fight money-laundering. Well-funded and growing startup where your work will have positive impact on many people.
We're looking for multiple engineering roles. We use Kotlin and Typescript. The work is remote but you must be tax resident of Estonia or Lithuania.
Read more about this and other engineering positions: https://salv.com/careers/
Good luck trying to swap rubles to dollars with that exchange rate. They block foreigners from their stock exchange which prevented the collapse in prices. They blocked people from trading their rubles to usd or eur to prevent the exchange rate from soaring. Normal people cannot do anything there. So that exchange rate and their stock market is nothing to be proud of or point to.
I'm the author (and an indie dev) of the project here. I stumbled upon the public roadmap [1] for Wise [2] recently, and being the person behind product roadmap tool wanted to see how easy it is to build a similar looking one [3]. Turned out pretty well.
Working on two things. During the day I am (almost) a solopreneur and building shipit [1] - a tool for people to help visualize their product plans and connect these to company goals. There is a fair share of competition here, but all of the existing tools are extremely broad (think Jira vs Trello), and when you just start using these it's hard to figure out what to do first. Trying to solve that issue by keeping shipit super simple and avoiding feature bloat.
While I try to keep the blog relevant to the target audience, every now and then a technical post slips in:
- encrypting sensitive data in the database [2]
- using checlists for testing the build before release [3]
- moving from software engineer to product manager [4]
To avoid burning out, in the evenings I also build a remote-controlled car that uses 4 independent motors and is controlled by PS3 joystick. I got inspired by the video showing torque vectoring [5] in Rimac, and wanted to build something like that too. There's also an old project called Aelith [6] doing similar thing. I'm still in the early stages, and experimenting with 3D-printed motor mounts. When that is ready, will move to the software part.
[2] https://www.getshipit.com/blog/securing-data-at-shipit/
[3] https://www.getshipit.com/blog/software-checklist-testing/
[4] https://www.getshipit.com/blog/from-software-engineer-to-pro...
Initially WHO was saying the same about the original Covid-19
Someone apparently has bad memories from the USSR-era where they centrally planned the whole economy, including how much people have sex.
They are about Yandex results. I always get a note when searching cyrillic content.
All of the comments under video say it's not guided but rather stabilized.
Likely because some of these companies are still in business, but are struggling right now, or raising another round, or are in the process of finding a buyer.
Damn, didn't know the grugq was reading hacker news, mind you, even have an account here! :-)
I would argue about the roadmap being visual. When you present people with the gantt chart, people tend to focus more on the timelines rather than the direction. This inadvertently pushes you to follow clearly defined deadlines and makes your roadmap a release plan instead (which Jira or similar tool is much better at).
We've been experimenting with gantt-style vs a simple table/list-view [1] and found that in many cases the latter actually works better in presenting the product vision, albeit at the expense of longer reading times.
[1] https://www.getshipit.com/blog/should-you-use-gantt-product-...
Well, it's actually not that hard to fall for social engineering even if you're well educated about the topic. Have a listen to an interview Christopher Hadnagy gave on Darknet Diaries.
Probably both. I remember the very first versions of Gitlab when it was just announced on habr.com, and it used to be a minimalistic (more in terms of UI) version of Github. As the functionality grew, things got a bit out of control.
Currently UI looks more like it's been designed by people who write code rather than those who have spent considerable time thinking through user interactions and designing based on that. So it's not bloated in terms of the code and libraries, but rather all of the functionality is just thrown to the user as is without much thought.
Maybe they're migrating their infra to Azure?
To a degree, they did a sane thing: listened to the advice of an expert. Now if you look at the other side of the ocean where the orange man didn't listen to the advice of an expert, look what happened.
I don't know how these things work in government, but relying on the opinion of just a single expert might not be the best strategy to win here. It's unlikely though that policy makers will come out in the worse shape here than they were before because even though they might have failed (a big if in the long run), they've relied on the advice of the experts rather than their beliefs.
There are a bunch of similar projects where such people could (and likely already are) move: I2P, Freenet, GNUnet, and probably some others. So closing (or not supporting) Tor just because some bad actors are there is pointless. Every tool can be used for both good and bad things.
Gotcha! Thanks for a thorough explanation
I'm likely out of touch here, but at least for the person mentioned in the article, why does he need a huge SUV? If the crisis hits and you cannot re-pay the bills, that would be the first thing I'd get rid of. It doesn't look like he needs it for work, and he could just get away with a used Honda Civic or a similar smaller car that doesn't require much gas, expensive insurance, and most importantly monthly loan payments.
During the last financial crisis I sold lots of stuff that was dear to my heart but wasn't essential like motorbike, mtb, etc.
Is it the cultural gap that I'm not seeing as a European? Or something else?
I'm surprised this got to the front page with a few upvotes. These days it's either the news about the Corona virus or that one of the companies that SoftBank has invested in is announcing a layoff. These days every other company is announcing layoffs or salary cuts.