PacifyFish

I recently started using Semantic UI instead of bootstrap, and I felt productive in ~20 minutes. It was amazing. Never going back!

Ah thanks, missed the "ig."

I'm sure this work was groundbreaking , but let's not kid ourselves that imitation is some high and misunderstood form of intelligence.

Nor should we kid ourselves that this is new information. The adage "monkey see, monkey do" has been around for, what, centuries? Is it really that surprising that apes imitate things they see? Does it really reveal a paltry understanding of monkey cognition?

The point of the comment you’re responding to is that we don’t have very much evidence even for things that make intuitive sense to us.

Parent is not saying reading to your kids isn’t good, he’s listing things that many people find intuitive even though they might only have a few (if any) data points on which to base their conclusion.

I use React daily so wasn't expecting to learn much, but the vids on forms were helpful! Handling form submission can actually get pretty annoying in React if you want to do anything remotely customized.

Also love the idea of including "Project Ideas for Practicing" as its own module. Two thumbs way up.

I disagree. The most common way to predict payout is to compare to other companies' exit valuations.

E.g. "Oh, company X got acquired for $250 million. We do something similar. If I own .025% of the company, I'd make $62,500 if we exited at that valuation. Cool."

It's important to be aware of dilution events so that you realize when you accept the offer that your .025% will be more like .008% if you're lucky enough to have a successful exit.

Awesome landing page! What did you use to make it?

Also, are you planning on charging in the future? If not, I'm worried support will disappear which makes me scared of investing time into the app ) :

Assuming your monthly expenses are ~$20 (server costs + miscellanae), you’re telling me you have two paying customers at $10/month, and you sank $85k into this??!

Cut your losses, friend, and don’t invest any more money into it until you hit at LEAST 10k monthly recurring revenue.

I would sell it if you can get anything over $1000.

If you don’t want to sell the app, start cold calling again and get wayyyy more customers. Target companies with the same need as your current paying customers, hop on LinkedIn, and start dialing/emailing.

If my initial cost assumptions are way off, please say so! Because if instead your customers are paying $X,000 a month that changes things.

What seems gag-worthy to you? Too much work? It is definitely a big ask, but not outrageous imo.

Le astroturf

Wow, that’s cool! I didn’t know you could do it all in the browser. Hats off to the Babel devs.

Could you paste the simple script tag that makes React work without transpilation? I always thought you needed Webpack (or an equivalent) to transpile JSX into a vanilla js function the browser can interpret.

If you're referring to Create React App, it uses Webpack - just preconfigured so you don't have to fiddle with it before you start building.

As crazy as this feels to say, ordering a dvd and figuring out a way to consume it in this day and age is a huge ask! I haven’t had a DVD player in my house for about 6 years now & no CD-ROM drive in my laptop.

And, again I can hardly believe I’m saying this, it would be such a hassle to physically insert the disk when I felt like watching!

It’s got to be on HBO/Netflix/Hulu/Amazon or available on demand from my tv provider or I won’t watch it outside of theaters. Convenience has bested my better judgement shrugging emoticon

What makes you think that now, rather than all points in history, our "transition from hierarchy to a fully connected network" will work? Seems to me entities made up of many people are organized hierarchically for good reason.

For specificity's sake.

Huh this surprises me. For me, text chat is worse than voice in every way.

* Less engaging (eg other person can be browsing HN while we chat with zero risk of me realizing)

* Less expressive communication

* Greater anonymity, and thus more difficulty establishing trust

I guess you’re coming at it from the perspective of an expert and I the person seeking expertise. But the whole value of the platform isn’t in giving away your expertise for free, it’s giving it away in exchange for the expertise of someone who can really help you!

IMO it makes the most sense as a user to optimize for a better expert-seeker experience. The benefit you derive from a super helpful conversation with an expert is likely to far outweigh the slight annoyance of voice chat when you’re the expert.

Why does money need to be allocated for rising interest?

Parent comment was disputing the “obviously” claimed for US-based engineers.

You were disputing the “obviously” claimed for US-based engineers. Most of those are based in SF/Seattle/NY. Move the goalposts as you please.

1mm is their revenue. It will be reduced by cost of goods sold, rent/electricity, taxes, payment for services like AWS, etc. before employees are paid.

Someone's been searching for cellulite cream on Amazon!

I think the sleeping child is the "other person" here.

This type of article has been about 5% of the front page for as long as I’ve been in the community (~4 years, lurker for ~3).

Yes, maybe it feels obvious. Yes, it’s doesn’t cite a whole lot of evidence. But it resonates with people, and being reminded of the obvious continues to be useful if not glamorous.

So I’ll keep upvoting those that resonate with me!

If your app is as good and parent comment’s is as shit as you claim, you shouldn’t have any problem succeeding in the open market.

Dare you share the name of your app on HN, or are you afraid of someone taking a big steamy anonymous dump on it like you just did?

"Should be decided by Asians themselves" - if you're going to denigrate an action based on the actor's race, at least try to be precise about race yourself.

As for your argument, who do you think will be deciding Google's success in China? It will in fact be the Chinese consumer.

There's no healthy way to use cigarettes, plenty of people manage to use Facebook without freaking out about it.

The Facebook == cigarettes claim is disingenuous.

I love German words.

Disappointingly this article skirts around the obvious English translation: “ass-in-seat.”

To out-pedanticize (?) your pedantry, by convention currencies are valued against other currencies - this is why the tickers at the bottom of Bloomberg show USD-EUR, USD-CNY, et cetera.

In the context of this thread, you're expected to interpret "the value of the Dollar is rising" as "it costs more Turkish Liras to buy a dollar today than it did yesterday."

I don’t presume to know what the original intention of bitcoin was, I’m only interested in it’s current viability as an investment. My goalposts are - and have always been - is it likely I can sell this later for a healthy profit?

Sounds like you’ve got a bone to pick with some ideology I’m not privy to.

And to your point - bitcoin doesn’t need to solve a crisis to be useful! It just needs to be useful to be useful.

This is something I assume to be true (based on the assumption that most of Venezuela’s population has open internet access), but it probably only applies to people with at least cursory technical knowledge. Maybe ~5% of the population, optimistically.

But you can extrapolate from present-day Venezuela to future runaway-inflation crises, at which time (again, making an assumption here) bitcoin and the internet will be more accessible/prevalent.