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Ask HN: Canadian developer looking for the American dream
1 points by curiously 12y ago|0 comments
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by curiously 12y ago
How do you monetize a large user base without credit cards? How would they get teens to get their parents to pay for the ability to send nude pics to their friends? Meanwhile, millions of small businesses paying $10 a month for secure docum
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by curiously 12y ago
to be fair the people who get appalled by reading the f-word are probably not the target customer. who drops f-word all the time? programmers, entrepreneurs, designers, developers, managers. certainly not established 100 year old corporatio
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by curiously 12y ago
Does this guarantee that the alert will be on top of the html elements on the current page? Sometimes this is important if you are building a browser plugin and need to show dialog to the user. For example, I use alert instead of a modal ht
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by curiously 12y ago
I've been using Flask, I love it for the most part. I use PeeWee but prefer to use just raw SQlite. It's supposedly faster with the new 3.8 sqlite version, so I think I'm gonna stay with it. My gripe with Flask is not itself
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by curiously 12y ago
Yes, with selenium you can actually watch the entire test happen and see where things go wrong. Very easy to debug and understand but PhantomJS makes it really tough to find out why something failed because its headless. Sometimes I would t
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by curiously 12y ago
I don't know but light being shone in your eyeballs for a long period of time I find worrying.
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by curiously 12y ago
firefoxdriver already exists in many other languages, I don't know what is the point of writing it all over again for javascript. The callback stuff gets messy. I still much prefer Python or even Java to write my tests.
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I waited and waited but just gave up. I really hope they bring it up to speed.
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You can use Selenium for automation and web page interaction. There is just an overhead of running Xvfb but it's trivial to setup. What I mean is that PhantomJS engine still falls short of a real browser. Advantage of running a real br
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by curiously 12y ago
the problem with Phantom.js is that compared to an actual browser it still falls short. I've given up on Phantom.js all together because it is actually not a true replacement for Selenium running on an actual browser. I found it far m
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by curiously 12y ago
I fear that just as bitcoin arrived suddenly it will go just as quickly. It's based on fundamentals that is not well understood, at least by people who buy it (because its gonna go up!).
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by curiously 12y ago
I don't think VR ide will be practical. You have a screen beaming inches away from your eye. It's bad enough we stare at the computer monitor all day. I think what would work is some sort of hologram reality agumentation that is a
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I wonder if there's a library that will be able to categorize things like company name, people's name, brand name, etc. Or some way to train a process that will be able to predict what category an entity falls into.
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by curiously 12y ago
you laid it out well. yeah I think im going to get more freelance/remote based work and then also do sales with this.
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sorry 15 X a mix of $100 and 300 plans. so far sold one $100 plan and one $300 plan. so if I can make $3000 a month at least, its not quite my developer salary but its close (Used to make $4000~5000 per month ish. Seems like I need to up it
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they think that I'm getting old and that I should go outside and socialize in work environment because they fear that I will become a hermit and never have a family on my own and that they will have to support me forever.
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Ask HN: How to run a SaaS in an environment with non-supportive parents?
7 points by curiously 12y ago|12 comments