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by asim 3y ago
yes thanks for clarifying that. I really do mean, private as in, no one outside of your circles of real connections can see it and it's entirely invite only. Who do I invite into my home and personal conversations? Well not the people
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by asim 3y ago
Yes, I use WhatsApp, my family uses WhatsApp, my wife's family uses WhatsApp. I found it to be an incredibly effective tool and was a really big fan of Jan Koum and Brian Acton pre-sale to Facebook. And now, I wonder how to replace it.
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by asim 3y ago
Public networks are dead. We did it for two decades and now people need to go back to something more real and private. Social networks in the current form are just attention seeking. We've been trained to say things that will garner li
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by asim 3y ago
Yea I've sort of explored all these options and ultimately found that nothing really fit. I grew up in the internet generation. Despite having an in person religious community where I go every Friday to pray it's sort of hard to e
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by asim 3y ago
Thanks, always open to feedback on it. I think we're due for a decentralisation kick but anything we run needs to be drop dead simple.
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by asim 3y ago
I'm an engineer so being part of a Dev community is important. Hackernews is part of that but I have a more intimate group of friends which I maintain a slack with. Right now I'm more in search of a Muslim community. I was surpris
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Ask HN: What do you do to combat loneliness and isolation?
3 points by asim 3y ago|7 comments
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by asim 3y ago
Something about the simplicity of the UI is so refreshing. Thanks for sharing.
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by asim 3y ago
This. All trends are cyclical. Microservices have a purpose. Monoliths have a purpose. They are not mutually exclusive. One is the path to the other but there may also be resets along the way. I spent 10 years doing microservices and now I&
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by asim 3y ago
Thanks! Still trying to figure out the AI aspect, it was mostly just anonymous ephemeral messaging for a long time. So trying to understand the best way to add that in. Also whether I even care about charging for it tbh.
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by asim 3y ago
A cheaper form of therapy. Therapists are mostly mirroring your own thoughts or helping you see things you can't see. Ideally you have something that can just listen and echo your thoughts back or acknowledge them, without the need to
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by asim 3y ago
Lots of things. But one I am coming back to is called Malten ( https://malten.com ). It was essentially a place for me to blackhole my thoughts anonymously rather than putting them on twitter. Recently as I've seen ChatGPT ta
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Ask HN: How many websites, apps or notifications do you look at to “catch-up”?
70 points by asim 3y ago|102 comments
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by asim 4y ago
What's old is new again. In 2007 we were using triggers and stored procedures heavily with mysql and a java app. Unfortunately we were also reliant on read replicas. Some of this replication behaviour did not translate well with the mi
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Tell HN: Eid Mubarak
815 points by asim 4y ago|328 comments
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Ask HN: What if there was a non profit version of Twitter?
5 points by asim 4y ago|5 comments
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Show HN: M3O – Serverless Micro services gateway(github.com)
2 points by asim 4y ago|0 comments
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Major Internet Outage in UK(old.reddit.com)
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by asim 4y ago
Say this to a non developer. This just isn't realistic for the majority of people, nor do they care, or should they. What we need is interoperability between services so that backups and transfers are much easier. That isn't the c
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by asim 4y ago
Every generation faces this sort of issue which is learning skills for the current technology which then get displaced in 20-30 years. I think there's always a worry we're going to lose some knowledge in the process but equally th
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Vinod Khosla: 70-80% of VCs Add Negative Value to Startups (2013)(techcrunch.com)
9 points by asim 4y ago|1 comments
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by asim 4y ago
Oh to have enough money to sink $30m into a landing page and an announcement. Heckling aside, I think it's good that the likes of Mozilla are investing in this space. We need diversification from the bigger players and Mozilla has a re
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Platform APIs(micro.dev)
1 points by asim 4y ago|0 comments
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Show HN: Micro – Platform APIs built for developers(micro.dev)
7 points by asim 4y ago|0 comments
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by asim 4y ago
Exactly! Absolutely phenomenal and I think we'll see this in many places. Knowing Google, it will start in the office and then end up dispersed elsewhere, potentially purchasable in the home, but just imagine finding these booths anywh
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by asim 4y ago
Innovators dilemma. You were early to market, you did all the work, and no one wanted the product. What do you do? Keep going? Or give up from exhaustion? This is the unfortunate situation with many who tackle new spaces like Mobile, VR and
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Ask HN: What are the use cases for Zig?
3 points by asim 4y ago|2 comments
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by asim 4y ago
lol I'm not actually calling them cult leaders but I'm giving you a point of reference. People in mainstream media can have a "cult following", a group of fans who are so enthusiastically devoted. We have that for brands
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by asim 4y ago
Again, it's about needing a catalyst. People suffer through much worse. What Elon did and the subsequent behaviour from alt-right uprising was enough not to just cause some people to leave but gave the vocal people with large followers
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by asim 4y ago
No I'm not changing my story. You mentioned Elon musk and I said it was a catalyst, not that it was the reason. There's a difference. A catalyst is an accelerant, it's not the source of a reaction. You're removing contex

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