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bramggon Show HN: Snap a photo of your homework and get help

To try it out just email me (email in bio) and I can send you free minutes.

Similarly if anyone is in high school or has a child in high school I'll hook you up with free tutoring, all I want in return is feedback!

bramggon GitHub is apparently in crisis again

>if GitHub goes down, the software development world practically stops

Oh my goodness. Is this article just plain wrong, or does a large enough subset of Silicon Valley & friends actually do this that they mistook that behavior as including the other 99% of the software development world?

bramggon Tell HN: Looking to pass on the ownership of two open source projects

I haven't handed it over to anyone yet. Email me at hello@bram.gg :)

bramggon Tell HN: Looking to pass on the ownership of two open source projects

I don't know, I had them running on EC2 instances with a million other things.

Hipster Domain Finder could probably run for $10 a month on DO, and 99 Haskell for $20 a month.

bramggon Tell HN: Looking to pass on the ownership of two open source projects

Normally if I get tired of maintaining and paying for monthly hosting of something I just let it die. In this case there are too many users of these services for me to comfortably do that.

bramggon Tell HN: Looking to pass on the ownership of two open source projects

Clickable

https://github.com/bramgg/hipster-domain-finder

https://github.com/bramgg/99haskell

bramggon Facing Cash Crunch, Retailer Jet.com Racing to Complete Funding Round

https://www.crunchbase.com/organization/jet/investors

There's some pretty big guys in there.

bramggon Ask HN: Freelancer? Seeking freelancer? (November 2015)

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SEEKING WORK - Vancouver / BC / Remote

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- Full stack front end/back end/software developer

- Front end: Everything you need, i.e. HTML5[0], CSS[1], JavaScript[2]

- Back end: Node.js[3], Python[4], PHP[5], Golang[6]

- Databases: MySQL, MongoDB

- Notable APIs: Stripe, PayPal, Twilio, Mailgun, SendGrid, + many more

- Version control: Git

- Good with Linux server environments, I use the CLI every day

- Remote hourly rate: $45 CAD (currently $34 USD)

I am passionate about programming and making things, and would be happy to help you with your vision. You can see some of my personal work on my website at http://www.bram.gg and samples of my code on GitHub at https://github.com/bramgg. You may contact me via email at hello@bram.gg.

[0] Including Jade, Jinja2, STPL

[1] Including LESS, Stylus, Sass

[2] Including CoffeeScript, jQuery, and too many libraries to count

[3] Lots of experience. Used many times with Express for web apps

[4] Lots of experience. Used many times with Flask/Bottle for web apps

[5] Not a fan, but if it gets the job done!

[6] Minimal experience, but able to use comfortably

bramggon Show HN: How I put together a lightweight blog in a few hours

Done. And I found and fixed the damn problem that was causing it to crash in the first place.

Sorry about that.

bramggon Show HN: How I put together a lightweight blog in a few hours

Haha classic http://i.imgur.com/kzza281.gifv

Might wanna spend more than a few hours.

bramggon Ten. Million. Questions

>If a dev found a solution just half of those times, and it saved them just 30 minutes, that's nearly 1.85 billion hours saved.

Those are very generous numbers.

bramggon Ask HN: Favorite IRC Channels

I might as well plug #hackernews on Freenode here even though it's dead now.

bramggon Show HN: Turn any image into a collage of emojis

Fun, but you should really make it render with real emojis so people can copy/paste the results.

bramggon Online Cheating Site AshleyMadison Hacked

> The hackers aren't a part of a social movement prepared to proudly go to jail for the case of making cheating illegal.

They also aren't guided by morals at all. Anyone with half a brain can figure out that releasing this data would have massive life-ruining repercussions for both good and bad people. Applauding the hackers is incredibly naive, unfortunately that seems to be the theme of this thread.

bramggon Ask HN: Joining the Product Hunt Community?

OP: To answer your question, make something worth posting (can be a simple side project) and tweet Ryan Hoover asking for an invite. AFAIK he got traction initially by tweeting at people who posted Show HNs, and even though PH is past that now I'm pretty sure he's still very active on Twitter and your chances of being accepted are quite high.

bramggon Ask HN: Joining the Product Hunt Community?

> I'm a strong believer that this tool is an absolute necessity in this day and age

Wat

bramggon Ask HN: Every time I register a new domain, I get spammed

I'm sure this is what they do.

Whenever registering a domain with a TLD that provides zone files with my real WHOIS info filled out I get an email asking me to pay to "get my website on Google".

bramggon Ask HN: When was your last time you used “Feeling Lucky”?

Not since Google cleverly hid the feature by implementing automatic search as you type for that AdSense $$$

bramggon Ask HN: Has YC or other VCs invested in gaming startups?

FYI http://yclist.com and CTRL+F are very helpful :)

bramggon Show HN: Whales Report – spot paying users in mobile games

Me and my friend like to bet on games of Miniclip 8 Ball Pool, because of that we don't mind spending money on the best cues to gain an advantage. It's really funny seeing how the game starts treating you differently once it identifies you as a "whale". I was just thinking the other day about how that data would be so valuable if it was able to be obtained before a player outed themselves as such. One problem I imagine a data-sharing platform like this would have though is games lying. A game publisher has more to gain from taking data and giving nothing back than following the rules of the platform. How do you ensure publishers are being honest with you?

bramggon Show HN: 99 Haskell – Solve live Haskell coding problems in the browser

99 Haskell is open source and I haven't tested all of the newer problems myself. I'm out right now on mobile, but if you think you've found an error please don't hesitate to patch it! I've tried to make modifying the problems as easy as possible:

https://github.com/bramgg/99haskell

bramggon Tell HN: Kevin will be on Show HN again this Friday

Looking forward to it. Can we re-submit multiple old Show HNs in hopes of seeing what he says?

bramggon Reddit Bans Five Communities In New Anti-Harassment Campaign

I was saying your statement is obviously false. The onus is on you to provide proof for your original claim, not me.

bramggon Reddit Bans Five Communities In New Anti-Harassment Campaign

> Most of 4chan left in response. Many alternative chan sites were started, including 8ch.net.

A very small fraction of the worst bored on a bad website left to join an even worse website.

Don't kid yourself.

bramggon Ask HN: Chess

https://www.youtube.com/user/thechesswebsite and chess.com

bramggon Don't download software from SourceForge if you can help it

Yes

bramggon Don't download software from SourceForge if you can help it

I wonder how many people outraged here know YC funded a company that bundles malware with installers and continues to justify it publically on HN.

bramggon Show HN: Build a Viral Waiting List

Can you provide an example page?

bramggon Steal Customers from Your Competitors Using Social Media

Relevant, steal customers using HTML: https://github.com/bramgg/pouch

/plug

bramggon Do (do.com) Personal Insights

Kind of off topic, but how much did do.com cost? I understand if you can't share this, but if other people have purchased domains of similar status I'd love to hear about how it all went down.