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eastindexon Ask HN: What is the biggest untapped opportunity for startups?

Mechanical Turk for Programming tasks would be great to see.

eastindexon Ask HN: What are good software architecture interview questions?

This could end up being stressful for both sides. Experienced candidates could/should counter with the same question. I doubt decision made under stress will turn out good.

eastindexon Atlassian acquires Trello for $425M

Be it for the general use cases or for the software team collaboration, time tracking and reporting features are always useful. As a user of both JIRA & Trello, I hope Trello soon gets all the time tracking and reporting love that JIRA team could add. Congrats and good luck!

eastindexon Ask HN: What web framework do you use? Why did you choose it?

I got lucky to get clients who either had preferred stack in mind when they reached out to me or had a existing product developed with various frameworks I mentioned where they needed technical input.

eastindexon Ask HN: What web framework do you use? Why did you choose it?

Used almost all of the PHP MVC frameworks across multiple projects:

Laravel (2015/16), Yii1/2 (2015-now), CakePHP (2015), Zend (2009), CodeIgniter (2009-Now), Symfony 1 (2008/9)

eastindexon Ask HN: Is it better to be good at many things or great at one thing?

> Do what interests you.

I had a roommate in college who every next morning after waking up talked of different interests/career options. This advice works for people who know what they are doing but, it's quite broad for people who have no clue what they are doing.

eastindexon Ask HN: If your economic necessities were taken care of, what would you work on?

Travel Asia, find a place to settle down somewhere up in the Himalayas. Teach kids computing. Write more.

eastindexon Ask HN: What is the bus factor at your company?

1, its always Jane or James.

eastindexon Tell HN: I think you're downplaying the PHP community

>> PHP is like a 15+ yo car imported from neighbour country

What about Python ?

eastindexon Constraints on the Universe as a Numerical Simulation (2012)

"time" is the basis, isn't it ?

eastindexon Constraints on the Universe as a Numerical Simulation (2012)

But "+" and "-" operations are inherently time bound.

eastindexon Rant HN: I hate hackerrank

Full stack engineer here. Are you currently hiring ?

eastindexon Ask HN: How do you pay overseas freelancers?

Thanks for the reply.

Sounds like the process is smooth when they are working through a company but, how about paying individual contractors?

eastindexon Ask HN: When was the last time you clicked an ad deliberately?

I've a personal account which is on a browser profile with ad blocking enabled and tracking disabled but on a different business profile I am keeping an eye on ads. I occasionally click them deliberately.