Jackypot

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by Jackypot 6y ago
I don't necessarily disagree, and have no expertise on the subject. But skip to any part of this (excellent) documentary about a 'wethouse' (basically what you describe, a place for homeless alcoholics to live, drink and soc
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by Jackypot 6y ago
Perhaps someone here can answer a question I've had for a while: if you stream a video which is actually a static image (think a song on YouTube, the 'video' is just the album cover) is there any way to optimise that? Or must
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by Jackypot 6y ago
There is 'Sherman' for an American which is Sherman Tank -> Yank. So that can only be WW2 onwards. And 'Ruby' for curry (Ruby Murray) is from the fifties. Those are the most recent I can think of.
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by Jackypot 6y ago
I do wonder why people are so motivated to help the perpetrators of violent crimes. You could take that same energy and help the victims instead. I doubt whoever suffered whatever violence it was that merited 13 years has forgotten the whol
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by Jackypot 6y ago
Jobs also disappear when Amazon competes with other companies and wins which doesn't always leave heaps of choice in the labour market.
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by Jackypot 6y ago
I don't doubt that it will happen regardless, but what is the point of evicting people if no-one is waiting to rent the property? If the bottom falls out of the economy and regular people can't rent then landlords are screwed aren
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by Jackypot 7y ago
Very succinct summary of why that's a wild and untenable idea.
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Ask HN: Ex-developers, why did you bail?
5 points by Jackypot 7y ago|2 comments
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by Jackypot 7y ago
"I have no mouth and I must scream"
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Ask HN: SaaS MVP – form company before or after getting paying customers?
4 points by Jackypot 8y ago|6 comments
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Ask HN: How to Send Money to Users?
11 points by Jackypot 8y ago|12 comments
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by Jackypot 8y ago
> Don't deal with event-driven architecture when you're at MVP stage Interested in why you'd recommend that? Event-driven architecture decouples everything up front and the benefits are immediate. In this scenario the intr
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by Jackypot 8y ago
Beat me to it!
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by Jackypot 8y ago
WebAssembly. If it usurps javascript, and there is every reason to believe that it will, then it will revolutionise the web.
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by Jackypot 8y ago
A colleague of mine read and thoroughly recommended 'The Imposter's Handbook' for devs in this situation - it's a CS overview for developers without CS degrees. Data structures, Big O etc. I don't think going to uni
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by Jackypot 8y ago
Stripe have an open email system where all emails are visible to all employees https://stripe.com/blog/email-transparency
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Ask HN: Examples of well-designed highly-configurable user account UIs?
12 points by Jackypot 8y ago|2 comments
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by Jackypot 8y ago
It was the UK who pushed for GDPR, so it won't be rescinded here just because we leave the EU.
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Ask HN: Who has a niche side project?
2 points by Jackypot 8y ago|0 comments
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Ask HN: Resources for user feedback on a website
1 points by Jackypot 8y ago|0 comments
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by Jackypot 8y ago
The whole 'sell before you build' theme is plastered all over this thread, as I expected. I think this originates from the whole lean/MVP school of thought but is sold in threads like these as though you can just create a &
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by Jackypot 8y ago
> The project will likely be a massive failure IMO That sucks man. I know that feeling.
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by Jackypot 8y ago
Just programmers that can't program. Guys with years of experience tucked under their belt who struggle with simple things. I have pair programmed before with a guy to whom it wasn't obvious when to use a foreach loop, and who did
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Ask HN: Working with developers who can't code
19 points by Jackypot 8y ago|13 comments
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Ask HN: Test coverage in side projects
2 points by Jackypot 8y ago|2 comments
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by Jackypot 8y ago
I would say knowing how formally/otherwise to dress. You've either got the chops or you don't, you can feel out the people you're speaking to during the interview to gauge how whether you can crack a joke or not. But tur
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by Jackypot 8y ago
There's no reason you can't combine the two and create some for-profit service which serves an honourable purpose in the grand scheme of things. The guys who created e.g. JustGiving did exactly that.
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by Jackypot 8y ago
I interviewed for a company which made auditing software for government departments. I asked why they chose Oracle and they explained that governments get a hefty discount, so it was actually more cost-effective than the alternatives (e.g.
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Ask HN: How to make Facebook forget me without access to my email?
10 points by Jackypot 8y ago|0 comments
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by Jackypot 8y ago
Nothing in particular, I guess just because of the learning curve - I'm MSFT top-to-bottom so I would have to learn how to e.g set SQLite up and find tools to administer it (as opposed to SSMS which I can use with my eyes closed). It j

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