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Fsp2WFuHon Ask HN: If HN didn't exist, which other community would you default to?

One that I'm working on myself and too afraid to post publicly. The people on this site are not my target audience either.

ps. There's no one on it but me.

Fsp2WFuHon Ask HN: Founder? Seeking co-founder? (May 2019)

Working on a social network for neighbors. It's basically Reddit + craigslist, where subreddits are cities.

Need someone to help me solve the chicken/egg problem.

Fsp2WFuHon Ask HN: How to find a co-founder?

It's possible you could just be looking for someone to motivate you. If that's the case, I'm in a similar boat, got a project, but I get lazy sometimes, I could use feedback to help me go forward but I can't find anyone to even look at my work.

Fsp2WFuHon Ask HN: What is the most technically interesting thing you've learned recently?

When creating spacial geography point in sql server, the longitude comes first (lng, lat). I always thought it would be latitude then longitude.

Interestingly, some points that I've inserted passed the validation, but later I realized the values were swapped when I tried to query nearest neighbor and the points were no where near.

Fsp2WFuHon Ask HN: Do you think there's a need for simple file sharing service?

Such a simple service does not require registration. Assuming you're mentioning this for reasons of logs/security/liability reasons, I'd probably just throttle. Maybe auto delete after 1hr after upload complete and no download attempts made, so server is always clean.

Fsp2WFuHon Ask HN: Do you think there's a need for simple file sharing service?

You want to send a file to a friend, maybe a word file, maybe a movie. So probably up to 4GB in size. Something that could be too big for email, or too large for imgur to not compress it (images).

I'd advertise my other products, so it would be a loss leader for me.

Fsp2WFuHon For $1B, Elon Musk’s Tunnel to O’Hare Would Be a Miracle

Yes, it will fail for other reasons.

Fsp2WFuHon Why most financial calculator apps suck?

Because the input variables are so different depending on your personal circumstances. Depending on how clever you accountant/tax professional is, you could be paying a very different amount in taxes/interest.

I might have misunderstood your question, as you didn't say which apps and how they suck. Then you start talking about UI and I get lost.

Fsp2WFuHon Ask HN: Biggest Investment Before Realizing Noone Wanted to Use Your Product?

Mostly about how the UI sucks, which I agree with but I don't have a creative UX skills. I'm mostly a data/business logic person.

Fsp2WFuHon Ask HN: Biggest Investment Before Realizing Noone Wanted to Use Your Product?

https://www.zipbash.com social network based on zipcodes. I was thinking it could be alternative to nextdoor where you can't post outside of your neighborhood. I also made registration optional, so you can post and comment anonymously. Also wanted to test out if people would pay $1/month for premium features I'd make in the future (private messaging...).

Anyway, most feedback I got was negative, so that's depressing. Maybe if I got proper feedback I could modify it for better.

I'm still working on it, there's a big change coming, not sure the outcome will be. Hopes.

Fsp2WFuHon Suicide rising across the US

Kindness doesn't solve this problem.

Fsp2WFuHon Ask HN: What keeps you going?

Honestly I don't know. I've been working on an ambitious project for the last 6 months fighting procrastination. Working all by myself, sometimes showing my progress to friends and family, but no one really cares. I could really use someones input, no matter what kind, just need someone to tell me it's good or it sucks. No one cares. So I just keep going, money is running out, new bugs keep showing up, I patch them. Hopefully when I release it will get traction because I honestly don't want to rejoin the work force.

Fsp2WFuHon Ask HN: What do you consider resume red flags?

I'm sorry, but some of my github activity is best be kept private.

Fsp2WFuHon Ask HN: Most clever business models?

I'm working on $1/month social network. Been working on it since December, MVP is about 80% complete now.

Fsp2WFuHon Ask HN: Any step by step guide to get better in CSS with projects?

I suck at CSS but I'm the only one working on my project, so I have no choice but to get good at it. I know I was writing bad CSS, so what I did was google videos recorded at conferences where they talked about refactoring CSS. Refactoring CSS is not exactly basics, but it helps you understand potential problems that arise from writing bad CSS so you know how to deal with it in the future or prevent the issues in the first place.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kbGYPm9uYfk

Fsp2WFuHon Ask HN: Is there no place for people, who are average at something?

Well, actually it's more like there are not that many average people. Let me explain...

When you hear that an average family earns $50k/year, what (I think) is really happening is that many earn under $25k and few earn over 100k.

I think same thing applies to individual people.

I used to work as CNC machinist, and most of my coworkers were either really good or ok enough to not get fired.

I as a developer now feel I'm below average, and I've met many like myself. Then there are really good devs out there I get inspired by.

Just my 2c.

Fsp2WFuHon Ask HN: Uses for old Mac hardware?

Can you mine with them maybe?