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by torte 4mo ago
I finally shipped a Chinese learning app I wanted for myself for ages at https://wenmoji.com/ . Just never had enough time to sit down and code it end to end. Still need some improvements of course, but will slowly chip away
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by torte 4mo ago
Top 5 I have replayed over and over so far: - XCOM: Enemy Unknown/Within - XCOM2 (probably more replayed than the first one) - Prison Architect - Frostpunk (the first one, didn't get to replay the second one a lot yet) - Game Dev
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by torte 3y ago
Sure, I'll reach out
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by torte 3y ago
Have used it for a smaller project for a bit now and I really like it as well. Concise code and I can still map it to actual SQL in my brain. What has been a bit non-intuitive for me though is the expression builder since the latest major v
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by torte 4y ago
I kind of agree. Even now there are tons of third-parties dealing with the authentication for you, you will still have to write code to actually integrate with them and hook this up to whatever your user data is. I have written a few authen
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by torte 4y ago
Pretty much binge listened to these this year: - Startups for the Rest of Us ( https://www.startupsfortherestofus.com/ ): Great podcast for any aspiring entrepreneur and bootstrapper. - The Knowledge Project ( https:/&#x
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by torte 4y ago
Foxo | REMOTE (Australia) | Backend Engineer (with full-stack capabilities) | https://foxo.com Foxo is changing the way healthcare connects. We deliver powerful communication for healthcare teams, administrators, and organisatio
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by torte 4y ago
Foxo | REMOTE (Australia) | Backend Engineer (with full-stack capabilities) | https://foxo.com Foxo is changing the way healthcare connects. We deliver powerful communication for healthcare teams, administrators, and organisatio
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by torte 4y ago
> Which language if I may ask? Mandarin Chinese. I taught myself the basics (and a bit beyond) quite a while ago, but I am unhappy with either always having to start from scratch with every new tool I try or learn irrelevant things I am
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by torte 4y ago
Nice. I am exploring something very similar, but for a different language. I am curious if you considered making this a business (as in paid features/subscription based) and if not why not?
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by torte 4y ago
Foxo | REMOTE (Australia) | Backend Engineer (with full-stack capabilities) | https://foxo.com Foxo is changing the way healthcare connects. We deliver powerful communication for healthcare teams, administrators, and organisatio
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by torte 5y ago
Instead of focusing on a "cool" product, try to focus on companies/products which are solving meaningful or interesting problems (subjective to what you find meaningful and interesting of course) and then apply there. In my e
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by torte 5y ago
8 years old. 30 minute screen time per day. Enforced via Google Family Link and Switch Parental controls. He has to finish all his daily errands before he is allowed to play (mostly like unpacking his school bags, do his homework/readi
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by torte 6y ago
It depends actually what is your purpose. If you intend to learn about stock trading for personal finance reasons you can follow a lot of blogs or podcasts in the FIRE (Financial Independence Retire Early) community. Some examples are the s
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by torte 7y ago
There are some breaking features from added in 3.7 which were not in the language in 3.7. Meaning code written for the newer Python 3 version might not work with the older Python 3 version. Most of those additions are relatively easy to fix
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by torte 7y ago
I am a Software Engineer at Wattcost ( https://www.wattcost.com/ ), which creates a device and platform to read your energy consumption (even with older meters) and act on it. Eventually the platform is supposed to help you s
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by torte 7y ago
First time around it was a very small one-man operation (just me). I think my main problem at that time was that I lost track of what I wanted to build because I fell in love with the underlying technologies too much. Typical case of when s
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by torte 8y ago
The talk died down because it became a standard way of doing things now. It isn't something special anymore and the tooling has evolved to make it more seamless.
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by torte 8y ago
I am or actually was in a similar situation as you. I grew tired of developing software just for the sake to earn money (selling things, improving conversion rates, booking systems, etc.). Eventually I ended up only applying for jobs which
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by torte 8y ago
I find it actually slowed down in recent years. Things finally seem to settle around the React ecosystem (yes yes, Vue has more stars). I also think there are way more projects which help you get started now without having to know all the t
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by torte 8y ago
I think this is the beauty of this approach as well (vs actively teaching skills). If somebody does not work out, you will know pretty early based on how they approach the learning in the first place.
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by torte 8y ago
Understand, but I think the intensity matters here. If you are mentoring a junior developer and he asks you questions about every little detail (instead of working through some docs and trying things out), then I guess this is not the on-th
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by torte 8y ago
That's why it "might" be :) I think in the HN community this is probably common sense.
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by torte 8y ago
This might be an unpopular opinion, but I would expect that each newly hired developer (be it junior, mid-level, senior) can and will take time to do train and improve him/herself. I don't mind this being on job time, as long it i
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by torte 8y ago
So far a few: 1) Don't spend money and time on things you don't need or will need earliest in a few months from now. 2) Regardless if you have a brand-new idea for a product or try to improve an existing product/process, you
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by torte 8y ago
Access to venture capital and/or the effort to get it in the first place. To European businesses it often seems like it is much easier to raise funds in the US. Investors also tend to be more conservative here. B2C businesses tradition
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by torte 8y ago
Yes. Can not really tell what I am working on, but so far I am more or less happy with it. It is not as simple as advertised though ("just use async/await"). In order to write stable, performant applications you have to under
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by torte 9y ago
Most comments already get to the point. You can not hire a junior with senior or intermediate level skills. It seems like you are in the same shoes as me at the moment. What I suggest you to do is to prepare a small test tasks they can do a
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by torte 9y ago
Of course it affects my life. Now obviously the rest of the day and most of the weekend is either spend at work or home with my son (he is 3, so still needs more attention than older kids). On the other side, I was never really into side pr
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by torte 10y ago
Sydney, Australia

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