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devgutt··on A Candle Loses Nothing by Lighting Another Candle
I understand the reasoning but sometimes I caught myself in the dilemma if I told the person that they is wasting their time in this stupid project. I mean, I respect the person wits, but this particular project is bad. If it was me, I would like a honest opinion, so I don't know what's really right.
devgutt··on Making $0 in Sales in 31 Days
Come on, internet is not made for cats.
devgutt··on Making $0 in Sales in 31 Days
We have to use pen and paper for everything.

The doctor probably is saving himself a lot of headaches. I work with programming for many years, but computers are not made for regular people. This is a myth. Many times I have to save my wife about something strange happening in her computer, a WiFi printer not connecting, some virus suck in and showing popups, screen freezing, internet is not connecting, and this goes on and on, almost every day. Man I hate Windows. At least when I solve the problem I can come back to my solid Ubuntu. Wait, one update arrived. Oh god now my keyboard is not working anymore. I hate computing.

devgutt··on An easter egg for one user: Luke Skywalker
I wish they could have allowed Mark to change the third set by passing his hand over
devgutt··on How to Survive as a Solo Dev for Like a Decade or So
For me, the reason is different. I don't mind people walking or even talking nearby, but I really hate the process of pack/unpack. Before work, I need to setup the laptop, the cables, the IP to access my local server from Android, get notebooks, pens, ohh my earphones, and a lot more, only then I can jump to work for maybe 2-3 hours (I feel a little uneasy to stay longer in the cafe). If you are working alone, the bathroom is more complicated. Oh and the outlet. And internet... It doesn't work for me. Office is my only option, because I want everything ready to start immediately.
devgutt··on Show HN: Cheaper flights when flying multiple destinations by route optimisation
I don't understand why all this types of applications assume that a have a destination and dates. I'm very flexible and I can work remotely. Surprise me with the cheapest flight anywhere. Does this kind of app exist?
devgutt··on Android, evolvability and Comcast
But you can always check the code easily and figure out how something actually works. Not the best solution, but it saved me more than once when the documentation or stack overflow doesn't suffice.
devgutt··on How Mint.com Uses Messages (Email, SMS, Push, Etc) to Improve Retention
This is a depressing way to see the value delivered by a startup to their users. Instead of making awesome things to their user, they are using messages to "engage" users to not abandon their product. I want to believe that they were doing the former. Believe or not, some of us are not trying to trick users or do anything to show growth, but actually trying to help our users.
devgutt··on Recommend a Founder for YC
For a minute I thought it would be a service to match founders of fail startup from previous batches with others entrepreneurs willing to apply. I would definitely like that.
devgutt··on Ask HN: Digital Nomads: How do you manage taxes?
How is it going by far in Estonia? It is on my radar for a while.
devgutt··on Show HN: Math Attack – My side project of 3 years
Loved the game. I don't mind about the ads. It was well thought, because when you lose, you deserved ;)

As I suggestion. You didn't need to waste time in so much detail for the first version. If you haven't mentioned about the birds and the building lights I would never have notice. It is a nice to have, but surely it would be better to ship the game earlier. Even though, I would rather like different cities. The city is destroyed, no matter what :0

devgutt··on Ask HN: Successful one-person online businesses?
This seems to be a fun project (enticing really), but I think I should use my programming skills to improve my startup's product. There is so much to do. I'd like something like Uber. Push a button and a salesman with a black suitcase pops in front of me. ;)
devgutt··on Ask HN: Successful one-person online businesses?
This is what I see on mobile (Android): https://postimg.org/image/hmixjrbop/
devgutt··on Ask HN: Successful one-person online businesses?
Sales are a big struggle to me. Where did you find this partnerships?
devgutt··on Ask HN: Successful one-person online businesses?
How do you make money? I didn't find any pricing page or premium plan.
devgutt··on Ask HN: Do SMBs still care about their websites?
I read an interesting post just some days ago about Ads in Local Business. The site is horrible, but the content is good:

http://neilpatel.com/2016/12/15/we-analyzed-120000-google-ad...

devgutt··on Rethinking email confirmation
yep, I was thinking the same. User informs email. System sends a code. User uses the code and log in. No password. Transparent validation.
devgutt··on Show HN: CakeResume – Drag and drop resume snippets to build a unique resume
In this case, print the CV is not a good option. Maybe a online profile, with a no-image print option.
devgutt··on Show HN: CakeResume – Drag and drop resume snippets to build a unique resume
Or at least, be able to see the full template size before dragging.
devgutt··on Show HN: Skov – A visual programming environment
I don't know why I thought it would be a visual language to develop on mobile. On desktop, I don't think this is useful. I tried to teach once using Scratch, and the IDE was not the problem, but the logic and the way to think about the problem and solution.
devgutt··on Logojoy: AI-powered logo creator
Actually it is an iframe with https (using stripe)
devgutt··on Priceonomics Idea Tester
Interesting to notice that they are writing not what they believe, but what they think what the readers will like. Very inspiring.
devgutt··on Show HN: Whosfiring
Interesting, never occurred to me that react-router could be the problem, I will investigate that. But this other post [1] didn't use React at all and made API requests to GitHub with the same problem.

[1] http://andrewhfarmer.com/react-seo/

devgutt··on Show HN: Whosfiring
I did a lot of tests on this and Google just didn't wait, no matter the configuration. I tested using webmaster tools. The App was built using React, and I ended up implementing SSR to fix the problem. There are a lot of posts that hack this embedding JSON directly on the page. I didn't find any post that figured out a way to make this works through async API requests. I would thank you if you point one in that direction. Maybe I'm doing something wrong.
devgutt··on Show HN: Whosfiring
Unless you are fetching data async. Google and other will not wait for data.
devgutt··on Blueprint – A React UI toolkit for the web
Same here on mobile, completely unusable. I wonder if the logo (unnecessary) animation is the culprit.
devgutt··on ‘Black Mirror’ Finds Terror, and Soul, in the Machine
San Junipero is superb!
devgutt··on Half of U.S. Smartphone Users Aren't Downloading Apps, Data Shows
I was working in an App which builds Apps to local businesses. When it was ready, I realized that local businesses don't need an App at all. It was a f* moment. So I pivoted the App to build websites too, which makes much more sense to local businesses. I wish I had have this realization earlier.
devgutt··on This should never happen
You should have kept that message. Much more authentic and refreshing ;)
devgutt··on Study: Immigrants Founded 51% of U.S. Billion-Dollar Startups
multi-level-delusional
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