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by offtop5 6y ago
Browser automation tends to be fairly easy anyway, I can't imagine anyone who wants to build bad bots only does so due to an no code solution.
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by offtop5 6y ago
Why couldn't this guy, or girl just program that directly in JavaScript instead of using this product. I don't see making browser automation easier as something which would enable bad people
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by offtop5 6y ago
It's actually amazingly common for SAAS companies to do something like this. I will say it can be extremely stressful since you have to both support your core product, and your agency shop work.
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by offtop5 6y ago
It's weird, every place I see selling this stuff treats the shipping for the pi as a standalone thing. As and it cost $5 to shift this $5 part, and then even if you spend another $40 that just increases the overall shipping price.
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by offtop5 6y ago
Option three, create an agency which is building out its own product as the base for the projects you're taking on. For example let's say You're building homes using a special process that you're developing in house. You
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by offtop5 6y ago
Wait so you automatically deploy the lambda dependencies for me. The other issue I run into is occasionally you have to split npm packages into different layers when you deploy lambdas. I don't have time personally to contribute, but I
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Ask HN: Cheapest way to buy a Raspberry Pi Zero ( with shipping)
4 points by offtop5 6y ago|7 comments
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by offtop5 6y ago
How does this handle dependencies, for example if I'm working on a python project and I need to run a pip install. I will give you money if you can automate getting those python dependencies up into a lambda function. If you can do thi
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by offtop5 6y ago
This 2% are the are same folks who will berate you on Reddit for saying you prefer partners with jobs. At the end of the day you can decide to argue with angry people or not. Another perk of being social media free
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by offtop5 6y ago
The problem is most people buy more car than they can afford when they finance it. If I have to save $10,000, and I have it in my mind that I don't buy things on credit, I'm only going to buy a $10,000 car. But if I have $1,000 fo
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by offtop5 6y ago
Gas and insurance alone can easily hit 300 of you drive enough. Say you keep it at 200, 100$ a month to fix minor things isn't unreasonable. But that assumes you bought a car cash, from my experience people tend to finance cars just be
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by offtop5 6y ago
I don't have much confidence in most people being able to drive a car. While motorcycles do look really cool, it's just not something most people can safely do
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by offtop5 6y ago
Wear and tear on the car would be an issue, even if you presume Tesla's can effectively drive themselves for free, Tesla still break down. I don't think I'd be okay with anything over an hour each way
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by offtop5 6y ago
Actually in my area public transportation is more reliable than driving. Nothing like being able to play video games during your commute
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by offtop5 6y ago
The part about cars is pretty spot on, I'm upper middle class and I've been able to save so much money by getting rid of my car. On the low end you're going to hit 300 to 500 dollars a month for the privilege of driving. The
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by offtop5 6y ago
People aren't going to put up with this anymore , I suspect once most get a vaccine they'll be out enjoying bars / clubs / etc.
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by offtop5 6y ago
Au contraire, people with outdated phones are less likely to be able to afford to Ubers. Much of Uber's profit comes from people booking Ubers from airports, I've used Uber all over the world and it's absolutely amazing.
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by offtop5 6y ago
Only a few more months!
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by offtop5 6y ago
If someone's going to offer me $150,000 to do a job, I'm going to find it much easier than if I'm only offered $75,000. And plus I started my statement with "I find" , if you happen to program quantum systems and th
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by offtop5 6y ago
Depends on the shop. I've seen video game studios which essentially have a single wunderkind who has to dabble in everything because no one else reaches his or her skill level. No other industry has low pay and crunch
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by offtop5 6y ago
Depending on the game, you might need to do some machine learning programming. Forza heavily uses ML. You have Network programming, in there. Well I'm sure some specialties exist which are more difficult, it doesn't change the fac
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by offtop5 6y ago
Same issue with the video game industry. Even when you compare QA, a manual game tester is lucky to hit $15 an hour. A manual normal software tester can easily hit 80k. I find video game programming to be the most difficult of all, just bec
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by offtop5 6y ago
It depends, if your company has the money to hire a dedicated backend programmer then Firebase wouldn't be needed. But if you're trying to solo develop or working on an extremely small team Firebase can do a ton of the heavy lifti
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by offtop5 6y ago
I think the problem here is you have two complicated things to solve, both hardware and software and you're trying to do it with out too much money. A small hardware project on its own might be doable.
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by offtop5 6y ago
I would say either use Firebase or roll your own ( a open source self-hosted framework would fit this). Firebase seems to be one of Google's stable projects, so I love it. I've used it for at least 4 years. I'm only using it
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by offtop5 6y ago
To be fair when Columbus made contact with the original residents of the Americas, it didn't turn out so great for them.
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by offtop5 6y ago
Has AWS caught up to firebase yet , we went with Firebase as a backend for our Flutter web project and it's been a dream. Web hosting , auth, Nosql data storage !
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by offtop5 6y ago
I'd argue that the billing is much more straightforward. For example, you just pay $5 for a monthly droplet. AWS offers a near competitor to this,AWS light sail. Digitalocean is easier to use, but only marginally. I strongly suspect ma
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by offtop5 6y ago
I loved FRYs too, but shopping there was always a pain. I remember once I was buying a laptop, and at the very last moment they realized they put the wrong laptop in the wrong box, and just couldn't sell it to me without the price jump
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by offtop5 6y ago
I've only used Fiver, and only as a client. Absolutely amazing, for my passion video game project I've been more interested in the journey of getting my artwork made, and working on the video game then finishing it. Once I get all

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