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by _benj 5y ago
If you are familiar with it TypeScript could be a good choice. Language preferences are very personal but I personally like Golang. It's kind of like a "batteries included" language and deploying Go, which is copying a binary
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by _benj 5y ago
Something that I came across recently was commercial or hospitality TVs. They are made for waiting rooms or to display the menu at a restaurant. These are the best I could find for a modern TV (IPS panel, proper size) but still pretty dumb
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by _benj 5y ago
I'm so with you! Even thought articles like these (and all the comments here) can give a lot of (good?) information, it can also create a bunch of paralysis. I'm also working on starting my first SaaS and I completely believe that
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by _benj 5y ago
This was my experience too. I worked for a while in tech support for my university and while from time to time we'd get frustrated calls from professors that couldn't upload their grades or where frustrated by how things looked di
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by _benj 5y ago
This might the the case in B2C but wren in B2B a startup can make a product that paid for itself, say, improves a process or removes frictions or automated something or any other business needs that are tedious… that is a gold mine! Been lo
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by _benj 5y ago
When I was in a similar position we switched to Digital Ocean (no affiliation) simply because of their predictable pricing model, and that worked very well for us. Linode would have worked the same. Another service that I've used is us
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by _benj 5y ago
I’d love to see more ultralight websites, not only for emergencies but because they focus on content. Maybe that’s why I’ve been enjoying so much the Gemini space so much lately.
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by _benj 5y ago
I’ve had good Linux experiences with Lenovo laptops. A few of them, specially their business line, support Linux and you can even order them with Linux pre-installed. The support is more than the devices that the laptop has there are Linux
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by _benj 5y ago
not sure how you define modern but things like neovim, neomutt and ranger come to mind. I enjoy r/unixporn (it's actually sfw), they LOVE console apps there, everything from music to email to file manager to everything console! Th
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by _benj 5y ago
I've never thought about this! I tried to write a simple TUI with ncurses, but it turned anything but simple real quick! I don't think that this is inherent to ncurses but to any UI programming. Keeping state on the UI can be &quo
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Ask HN: Job contract limiting Outside Activities?
3 points by _benj 5y ago|1 comments
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- The Unicorn Project - The Phoenix Project - Clean Code - The Linux Programming Interface - Digital Design and Computer Architecture: ARM Edition - The Art of Electronics 3rd Edition
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You could look into product manager. On that role you are a lot closer to the actual problem that is being solved and success is measured in increased revenue, lowering expenses, customer satisfaction, etc. It’s also a plus when a PM has so
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by _benj 5y ago
https://web.archive.org/web/20210824042823/https://www.nytim...
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I completely agree with you. Honestly I don’t about an E/C ideal ratio. My only fear is an ideology becoming so popular to the detriment/exclusion of anything else. One slightly distressing example is our belief of the inherent va
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by _benj 5y ago
It seems that there’s a unspoken presupposition of “evolutionists = reasonable person” vs. “creationist = unreasonable extremist” The issue with this presumption is that it is the exact same cognitive deficiency usually attributed to creati
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by _benj 5y ago
I agree with a few suggestions here, suggest a sabbatical. It can give him time to figure out things by himself and also the absence of work could be a big motivator, that is, we engineers often find intrinsic motivation in building, design
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by _benj 5y ago
For me, I think that brilliant[0] might be one of the vest resources out there! (no affiliation) Their "learn to think" tag line is totally true, and after trying to learn sciences and math by myself (my formal training is in lib
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by _benj 5y ago
with the release of nvim 0.5 I started using a terminal based setup, which is just a full screen terminal with tmux split in usually vertically, one big terminal on the left and 1|2 on the right. On the past I've tried similar setups t
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by _benj 5y ago
I find it saddening, and yet too usual, that managers/business owners feel that they need to "have leverage" on their employees, say, use the stick while dangling the carrot. With the risk of coming across too philosophical&#
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by _benj 5y ago
I learned Go a few years ago and is now the main language that I use professionally. Building something with it would be a good start but learning around go routines, channels, interfaces, etc. is something that is often missed by people co
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by _benj 5y ago
I haven't been around the block a lot nor do I consider myself as "ridiculously good" but from my experience shipping is king, every time. It's very easy for us to focus on the tech and think that more knowledge, more pe
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by _benj 5y ago
I've felt that too until I once decided to take a look at what would it be like to be in their shoes. Now I have a huge admiration towards my PM and engineering manager. Writing code by itself doesn't make money, and keeping peopl
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by _benj 5y ago
Is it me or does it feel like Mozilla is using Firefox as a platform to push their new products?
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Firefox Relay?(relay.firefox.com)
1 points by _benj 5y ago|1 comments
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by _benj 5y ago
Most of what I've read on the comments seems related to job offers. How about tips for salary negotiation with a current employer? Any tips?
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by _benj 5y ago
In my case I’d go for embedded Lua with all the business logic in Lua and all the infra code in the host language (Go, Rust, etc…) What I have found with this approach is that sometimes it can be difficult to draw a clear line between busi
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by _benj 5y ago
I second this. For a long time the title was a turn off for me but I finally decided to give it a chance and it’s was awesome!! It is not as manipulative as the book title suggests. It’s more like “what actually IS being _nice_”
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That's really cool! I'm hoping to have it grow to a point where it can be sold too. If you wanna share some FBA wisdom, I'm all ears :) But it's really encouraging to hear about other people that have done it since what
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by _benj 5y ago
I'm exploring Amazon FBA. Is not a success story because I'm still in the midst of it, but from what I'm seeing it is something that I can learn, my tech salary allows me to save for some capital and try that business. Before

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