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by matt_s 5y ago
Ah the human (or maybe mammalian?) concept of social status. In the animal world there probably are life and death reasons (getting food, physical security, etc.) for fitting in a social status/hierarchy. You have skills and income th
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by matt_s 5y ago
AI driven anything these days doesn't show a lot of promise from my observations. Getting any voice activated service to do basic things requires speaking like you are programming and even then its hit or miss. How long have those se
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by matt_s 5y ago
Something that might be useful (and maybe pay for hosting/aws/whatever costs) is to find products people mention and get affiliate links going. That is if you want to monetize it, if not thats cool too. An example - I posted a que
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by matt_s 5y ago
Really boring is how I want my phone to behave: secure and boring. The fact they have a watch that works seamlessly also helps. I don’t think of these things as gadgets anymore. In the past I’ve built a Linux DVR - so I know how to tinker
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by matt_s 5y ago
A problem in the home services space is large, new work/replace jobs usually supersede smaller repair jobs. For example, "fix my deck stairs" is going to probably be much lower on a list of jobs from "build me a new dec
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by matt_s 5y ago
> Although I am a techie, I’ve grown away from associating with tech. It’s my 9-5, but afterwards I want to talk about anything else. One thing to consider (numbers perspective, not emotions) is opportunity cost of $2800/month for s
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by matt_s 5y ago
I would second this answer. These two are big enough to have solid support paths should you have questions and want to talk to a human. I don't find UI to be important because I'm not in the apps or web sites often enough and I d
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by matt_s 5y ago
From other comments it sounds like its an initial call. Something to think about is how your background in being a chemist can relate to software. Do you see similarities with how things are structured chemically and how you build programs
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by matt_s 5y ago
I've looked at zillow a fair amount over the years* and they are always consistently higher than actual sales data. I don't think based on my own observations that they are causing anything. They are 1 site and the vast majority
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Ask HN: Does anyone use keyboard/mouse extra buttons for coding?
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by matt_s 5y ago
Sparking a conversation about a specific piece of code is going to likely reveal if someone doesn’t know what they’re doing. If you narrow candidates down to a handful and talk about the same piece of code with each you will have some diffe
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by matt_s 5y ago
How about not doing quick tests? Throw some code up on a screen and ask a candidate to tell you what it does, what they think about it, what they might do different. We all have that piece of code that is the skeleton in the proverbial clo
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by matt_s 5y ago
I think we can keep the same term and socialize the term so it is more acceptable to those that might have a stereotype in their mind. Socialization via playing a game with friends goes back really far into human history I would imagine.
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by matt_s 5y ago
Maybe 3 weeks sounds more appropriate if your current company won't agree to 1 week. If your vacation time is already accrued then they owe you that anyways so 3 weeks gives them the standard time plus your week off. As a manager it m
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by matt_s 5y ago
I think anything needs to go beyond "app" and be a full blown business, albeit a non-profit business. An app alone doing computational things doesn't help people much. One idea is handyman services but employ under-privileged
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by matt_s 5y ago
I think a better question is will games traditionally built for PC's hold up on a mobile device? Mostly I'm thinking about controller vs keyboard+mouse. Typically you have more controls available on PC and when I play the same ga
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by matt_s 5y ago
I would counter the article that it isn't the death of hobbies, its a choice and effort to make a business. In the world of woodworking there are a lot of channels on social media where people are showing off stuff they did, get big e
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by matt_s 5y ago
Is time to hire a problem companies want to solve? If a company is hiring a lot of people, that might be quantifiable but if its a couple hires per quarter then maybe this isn't a problem a company needs help with. Maybe the vetting p
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by matt_s 5y ago
The parent to my comment was asking about law and specifically about violation of the law. Laws are about specific text and wordings in documents, who can create the laws and how they are interpreted by others (US courts). I never said the
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by matt_s 5y ago
US First Amendment: > Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, an
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by matt_s 5y ago
Generic Answer: - The tech stack that is best is the one you/team are most comfortable with using. Specific Answer: - If you were using Elixir, you could have 1 process (GenServer) per stock ticker that calls the API for just that stoc
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by matt_s 5y ago
Lately I've come to the realization that I browse certain sites (hn, reddit, yt, etc.) when I'm bored. There is this fascination of finding something cool, educational or entertaining where part of my brain thinks 'just one
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by matt_s 5y ago
We're also funding massive advertisement campaigns, those can simply go away with a couple Thanos-like snaps as far as I care. There is zero need to advertise drugs to potential patients which need a doctors prescription.
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by matt_s 5y ago
Yep, usually opening an office in a different country starts with sales staff. This gets that company over the hurdle of establishing payroll, benefits, taxes, etc. for that country. If they allow remote workers for software jobs then it w
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by matt_s 5y ago
Simple - it may be called a "currency" but really it acts more like a stock. - There are limited ways to convert the bitcoin to USD, much like there are limited ways (brokers) to move money in/out of stocks. - The exchange&#x
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by matt_s 5y ago
The regulation that is most likely to happen is regulating US firms (banks, hedge funds, etc.) to disclose positions (treating crypto more like a stock than a currency) over a certain percentage much like they do with stocks and other secur
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by matt_s 5y ago
Is it possible the pressure, or some % of it, is self-induced? How much? It sounds like you already established yourself with a good reputation there since they hired you from an internship. Maybe the culture there is always giving all to
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by matt_s 5y ago
I (not OP) would say 2-3 years minimum. If an employer doesn't have enough varied work for you to tackle and learn during that time then maybe less. One perspective is long enough to get a promotion. As a hiring manager, I would gene
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by matt_s 5y ago
What you might want to look for is a US HQ employer that already has EU based people, possibly a company that operates globally and has sales staff in your country. That should probably clear most hurdles of taxes, benefits, etc. since they
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by matt_s 5y ago
The concept of building an audience to the point where you are possibly internet famous/know-able in the software world is probably pretty hard these days. I would guess that a path to that is making significant contributions to open s

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