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europa··on The security paradox of local LLMs
An LLM can be an “internet in a box” — without the internet!
europa··on Self-Hosting Dozens of Web Applications and Services on a Single Server
Can you elaborate on the terraform automation for gmail?
europa··on This Sneaker Does Not Exist
Make them NFTs !! to follow the trend.
europa··on Deploy your side-projects at scale for basically nothing – Google Cloud Run
Same thing happened to me once. I called google support and they send me another phone.
europa··on Shrink your ops team by putting the Dev in DevOps
If OP lurking here, How do you manage versioning terragrunt/terraform?
europa··on India’s Bad Debt Is Looking Better to Investors
May be you can share your source here to benefit all.
europa··on Pebble's next step
Whenever this kind of things happens. It will make all the more difficult for startups to acquire users because this reiterates "Startups are either going to be acquired and killed or die prematurely".
europa··on Show HN: Material Kit – Free Bootstrap UI Kit Based on Material Design
Can I use this for my SaaS?
europa··on Why I Quit My Job to Travel the World
http://www.thenewsminute.com/lives/503
europa··on Sending and Receiving SMS on Linux
I have successfully used an Android device as a cheep SMS gateway. An app installed on the device acted as the gateway and messages are triggered from the server via GCM push messages to the device.

Incoming messages to the device are intercepted by a receiver on the device and posted back to the server.

europa··on Kindergarten Has Become the New First Grade
Why (particularly the mom) should stay home with the kids and play ? Why not dad?
europa··on Why I started a free, on-demand curation service for Netflix
Clickable: http://www.wemakesense.co/
europa··on [dead]
May be as a first step you should post your blog url here
europa··on Ask HN: Where should I post to get reviews for my product
Why not posting your idea here? It might pique some interest here.
europa··on Ask HN: How do I name my web app?
May be you can try some good sounding plant scientific names http://plants.ifas.ufl.edu/node/22?letter=A
europa··on Ask HN: Abuse of my Google apps email
I already have MFA. Looks like you didn't get my question. How are we going to prevent anyone from using your email id in a signup form for some service? Spammers/abuser don't have access to my email account they just use my email id. What seems to be happening is some spammers creating fake accounts for services using randomName@myappsdomain.
europa··on Ask HN: Digital Ocean vs. AWS
If not using aws features like auto scaling , elastic load balancing etc. you most likely spending more money that needed if you are on AWS.
europa··on Ask HN: What B2B SaaS Apps do you pay for?
And you run a saas too? Just curious to to know how many users you serve with this. Only if you are okay to say it in public.
europa··on Ask HN: If you're “ridiculously in love with Python”, do you even know it well?
What language/languages you prefer for runtime speed?
europa··on Ask HN: Help me make a decision
Take B. Keep looking for a position at company like A or better and pays better or equal to B.
europa··on Python idioms I wish I'd learned earlier
You are right about your implementation. I was thinking about the Pythons collections.defaultdict

from collections import defaultdict s = 'mississippi' d = defaultdict(int) for k in s: d[k] += 1 d.items()

[('i', 4), ('p', 2), ('s', 4), ('m', 1)]

europa··on Python idioms I wish I'd learned earlier
Your defaultdict approach and the dict.get with a default specified is not really equivalent. In the defaultdict case when you encounter a non existing key it adds a new entry with that key into the dict. i.e. your dict will start growing.

whereas dic.get with default value keep returning you the default value without touching your dict.

europa··on Ask HN: Anyone making a living from Desktop apps?what had been changed?
My cousin in fact makes his application looks like a desktop application to sell to his customer base. He makes pos/accounting software with a windows application(skin) that talk to his php backend over http. He sells these apps mainly to his customers in middle east.
europa··on Show HN: Free, anonymous coding interview practice
Interviewer can be the person responsible for hiring in a corporation/startup. He/She can hire the interviewee. This is a win win!
europa··on Finding Your First Clients As A Freelancer
Finding a project which can be prototyped and sending live link to the prototype in my biddings worked for me getting my first projects in Odesk.
europa··on After working +1200 hours in oDesk
As a developer living in the US my experience with Odesk is that you cannot make a living doing just Odesk. But you can still achieve good pay rate on certain projects if you choose carefully. I used to charge , for example $600+ for a 3 hour job in the weekend. and if you are lucky you may end up building relationship with your client and get other projects outside of Odsek.

If anybody looking to get into Odesk, this is my advice on how to get over the chicken and egg problem(You are trying to build your work history while clients looking for your work history).

Find projects that can be partially or even fully prototyped and send the live link in the bidding. If the project is genuine most clients will bite. If they don't , write off your effort as marketing expense!

Also never bid for a project if you think you cannot get a 5 star rating after the delivery.

You can see my odesk profile below , all my ratings are 5 star. No surprise!

https://www.odesk.com/users/~014c438dbb17ea9c46

europa··on Magnus Carlsen is World Chess Champion
I think Yovel was asking for 'Go Game' book.
europa··on Ask HN: How much recurring income do you generate, and from what?
Yes . Most of the revenue coming in goes out as employee salary and vendor payout.
europa··on Ask HN: How much recurring income do you generate, and from what?
Making $4000 + / Month profit . Running a consulting firm. I have two direct employees and few pass-through 's . Revenue is much bigger a number at $100,000 + /Month . Effort is very less to maintain this profit as only spend few hours /month to run payroll , invoicing clients and make timely payment out to the vendors.

pass-through : Consultants not employed by my company but work for my clients.

europa··on NASA to test laser communications link with new lunar mission
naked optics
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