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> For example, people have more ways to search for information than ever before — and increasingly this is happening outside the context of only a search engine. Often the answer is just a click or an app away: You can ask Alexa a question from your kitchen; read your news on Twitter; ask friends for information via WhatsApp; and get recommendations on Snapchat or Pinterest. When searching for products online, you may be visiting Amazon, eBay, Walmart, or any one of a number of e-commerce providers, where most online shopping queries happen. Similarly, in areas like travel and real estate, Google faces strong competition for search queries from many businesses that are experts in these areas.

I like how they've mentioned competitors as if they want to take a stand against regulations together while also enacting a feeling that there's enough competition within each of these markets.

Opposed to both. I should have been clearer.

As the parent comment appears to assume that the decisions taken by the government in Kashmir are tied to the terrorism in the valley as opposed to being mere line items in their manifesto that stems from their political ideology. So assuming what they're saying is correct, I only wish to understand the metric for peace.

Let's not push the narrative of Kashmir being peaceful after the abrogation of Article 370 without any meaningful metric for the same.

Not that I disagree with what you're saying but can you please clarify what you mean by "third-world approach"? It seems to imply some sort of inferiority compared to "first-world".

> I always wonder: when their week is over, where do people find refuge? Sports, hobbies, entertainment? I just don't understand how people can think about leaving this world without having something that is really their own. How do you live when you're just a consumer? What happens if you lose friends? In my own conception of life, I just don't understand how people can not feel lost if they don't create something that stems from their own selves.

Personally I'm happy to be with myself. I spend most of my idle time reading, talking to my loved ones and reflecting on my days. I'm not sure if I call myself just a consumer because I don't enjoy going out to drink, try new restaurants or purchase things I have no need of.

Regarding what happens if you lose friends. Keeping your friends close to you takes effort. I try to stay in touch with my closest friends and take interest in their lives.

Lastly, I have no desire to leave an imprint on this world as my own creation. What I do desire the most is to create an impact in the lives of people I do care about. So far this impact is limited in sharing my thoughts about philosophy, science and society.

I feel this is much more applicable to SRE and Ops Engineers where performing, rehearsing and practicing is much more applicable.

Where I work, SRE work on their own tooling that is synonymous to releasing. They rehearse in the form of conducting weekly drills like failovers. The rest is similar to what is written in OP.

Thank you for sharing this! I have always organized my directories similar to concepts explained here but the introducing of decimals adds that extra attribute that helps with searching records in the future.

I started organizing my local files and Dropbox. I'm hoping to eventually organize my Personal and Work Google Drive as well.

Isn't what you described an example of how buses work. I know very little about the state of public transport in SF but if it was better won't it solve what Chariot tried to do?

Where exactly are these unwritten tipping laws written? I've been living in US for the last one year and I feel that the entire tipping culture is a social custom that you are expected to adhere by. I was told that I should always tip at least a $1 per drink at a bar or cafe and I've been doing that but I notice that people go for "No Tip" on these iPads.

So if most people are choosing "No Tip", where did this unwritten rules of tipping go. If I should be concerned of living wage, why is there no consumer pressure on business owners to make these changes? If people keep on complying with this unwritten culture of tipping, most people will always be in a dilemma when they are expected to tip.

I probably don't understand their architecture well enough since they don't try and explain it in detail. The blame is also put on microservices whereas it's the architecture that can be fixed to improve performance and the cost of deployment.

A shared library works up until a certain point. If every service uses a shared library then you are already getting to a world of a monorepo. A monorepo for different services should work fine if the overall architecture is feasible.

Something very similar had happened to me at my previous company. Our team was not as small as yours, rather pretty big.

So the story goes something like this. I was given stocks after having worked there for around six months. Their rationale behind it was that you need to earn stocks at [company] and I totally get that.

After a total 17 months at the company I decided that I wanted to leave and had a conversation with my manager regarding the same, they were ready to let me go. But they did not let me decide my exit date. My first set of options were set to mature in another week and they asked me to leave.

When I get my full and final settlement, I was given cash for my stocks. I wanted to exercise my options and keep them, but instead they cashed them out for me.

I have always wanted to build something like this since I was a kid. The biggest driving thought was to make traffic signals dynamic and build a central communication system for a city's transport.

Really glad to see a product coming into the regular consumer space for this :)

I was looking around and I found https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.facebook.l... which comes from Facebook itself. Strangely it is incompatible with all my devices and I think this is due to a play store location based restriction (I am based in India).

I started development actively in 2010. At that time I was in my first year of college doing Mechanical Engineering which I didn't grasp really well. So, I ended up putting all my time into development.

The first thing I built was a small website which was a music catalogue. When I think about it now, it seems utterly pathetic but it was the first thing I ever built. Later on, I got into WordPress and spent a lot of my time picking up PHP and writing new themes. This was an enlightening experience as I picked up a lot of plugin writing practices and I ended up being invited to a few WordCamps.

In the coming years, I learnt a good deal of JavaScript and was working with PHP frameworks to write a lot of admin interfaces for my own projects and some tools for my college's software development team.

In the last one year, I picked up Ruby and wrote a few tiny gems.

With this much experience, I have been able to port code from most of the languages I have encountered to all the languages I know.

Currently, I work at a company where I write a lot of PHP, SQL queries, a lot of front-end and all of us are expected to be full-stack.

My only advice to you would be:

1. Start slow. Try to spend a lot of time learning from other people's code and attempt to imitate a lot of code which is already out there. Solve the same problem many other's have done and trust me that you will learn a lot more from it.

2. Why don't you start a blog? You can start with a blogging system in the beginning and maybe later you can write your own.

3. When you say:

> "But I don't know how to make a site with logic and structure behind it that will lend itself to solid functionality that users can benefit from."

My answer would be, "If you can solve a problem for yourself, then there is bound to be a person who is benefit from it."

Good luck to you.

I played the game for a few years and it was absolutely fantastic, but I played only till Cata.

There is tiny chance that I might play WoD but I don't get the time to play WoW as much as I used to get in my college days.

But if you are really sure about playing, I would be more than happy to join you.

One of the best and well explained issues with the HTML5 DnD.

The specs for DnD are written very well but the implementation is brilliantly fucked up that the only way you are left is to use a library and enjoy the hardwork of someone who spent hours getting smeared in the dirt.

I have worked with quite some PHP frameworks in the past. Do tell me if I could help you with anything at all!

I have worked on and off on a small developer oriented CMS based on PHP, but I could never get myself to work on it continuously. If I had half a year, I would develop the CMS which I could easily customise to write applications faster.

I am curious to know why has this been posted on HN and why do I see it on the homepage?

I see it is a pretty useless package because switching to Stack Overflow once in a while isn't a big productivity hit for me. I would prefer not having anything except my project code on my window.

I tried Aviate but the UI made me uncomfortable. This launcher looks great to me. Will give it a try soon.

This is a common practice for such pre-releases. Though they could have added the APK on the Google Play store but then they will have to introduce a new internal API where they keep a check on the pre-release users. Can be done but I think this manual distribution can be used for many other things!

But it's annoying that they do not want to support rooted devices!

Interesting idea. Would love to see how it works out for them!

I came across Scrollback a few months back but I still wonder what problem is it trying to solve? IRC is not broken. And the IRC clients work just fine for everyone.

I would like to know more from the team about why they are building Scrollback?

The decision you all made is very logical because it doesn't make sense if all of you leave your business for pitching to a fund. I am not saying that the pitching part is not important but you are already running your company for 2 years and all of your leaving your office for such a long time would make your business suffer in some way.

I can understand when you say that $1500 x 300+ is a great amount they are investing at the cost of running their firm. While this is very important, we should not overlook the way the entire process is conducted (at least this is what I gather from the OP's post and personally believe too).

I don't know if the OP will read this comment but coming from India, I can very well understand the kind of circumstances you are in. When you talk about the expenditure they make on you and how you can pay your rent for 10 months, I can absolutely relate with it. Moreover, travelling across the globe and then being given only 10 minutes to understand what you actually do. You may actually have a better chance of getting funded in your own country without all this travel and hassles.

Someday, I would also start my own business and I understand that getting traction is of utmost importance. But, there is another aspect to it which is the fact that some people actually start a business or just run a simple idea for the sheer pleasure of solving a problem and to help others. I think you are on those lines and I wish you all the best to continue working in this direction.

I think your post was very well written and you have actually listed some of the possible issues with their selection process.

Yes, you can get those features but being a Motorola user for a few years, I have never seen quality hardware when it comes to Chinese manufacturers. I might be comparing two very different segments but the entire point of buying from a specific brand boils down to the support and quality received.

Whoops! Forgot to mention that.

Thanks.

Can't really generalize that but yes, the customizations can result in sluggishness at times.