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f3r3nc

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http://zenheads.hu/ http://www.urbancyclr.com

ferenc_at_zenheads_dot_hu

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f3r3nc··on Schema Therapy
It sees this was never on HN, which is surprising, given how much psychological, wellbeing related content is on HN.

After almost two years of (net) work which took me more than a decade (interrupted), I can finally say that I am thorough and this works and highly recommended. There are a lot of disorders that I thought I had but ultimately it seems that all of these are my coping mechanisms that worked when I was a child but drags me down as an adult. Hopefully someone finds this helpful.

f3r3nc··on What's so hard about PDF text extraction?
seems to be only for the electronic invoicing in public procurement
f3r3nc··on Ask HN: Freelancer? Seeking Freelancer? (January 2020)
SEEKING WORK | REMOTE | https://zenheads.hu | Boutique Product Company

ZenHeads is a full stack product company who will augment your team. We will work with you to develop your ideas, launch your product and pave the way to accelerate your company.

How We Can Help:

1. Make Your Business Digital

2. From Idea to Launch

3. Augment Your Team

Tech:

- Cross Platform mobile development (Xamarin + Native UI)

- React

- Django / Python (Elixir / Erlang / Phoenix)

- PostgreSQL

- AWS / Linode / DO

- Kubernetes / Docker

- Braintree / Stripe / other less known payment gw providers

Sectors:

- Finance (Risk Management / Invoice based Dashboarding)

- Logistics (Food delivery, Car sharing, Fleet management)

- Fashion

- Data pipelines

contact: ferenc+hn@zenheads.hu

f3r3nc··on [dead]
sales is just as important as tech
f3r3nc··on Why did Clojure gain so much popularity?
https://github.com/clojerl/clojerl
f3r3nc··on A physics master’s degree opens doors to myriad careers
in a few years much of the current technologies gets obsolete not the mathematical foundations
f3r3nc··on Mandrill has been down for over 30 hours with no explanation
We have issues with both. Some emails do go out, some not. No inbound.
f3r3nc··on Is Earth's Magnetic Field Flipping Soon?
No way to download all? Going through one by one, it might be too late already
f3r3nc··on Ask HN: What have been your best decisions in life?
would you share any games you made?
f3r3nc··on Random Darknet Shopper: A Live Mail Art Piece
All these items seems remote, sometimes funny or interesting until I recognize my friend's very passport.
f3r3nc··on Ask HN: What was your best passive income in 2017?
A game that had 2mm++ downloads free / paid since 2012. It's an online game with players still playing although well beyond it's peak. Since 2013 we pivoted from making games to it services and had not much time to make significant changes other than updating to newer iOS. It still generates about 2-3k yearly revenue which is a good bonus in central Europe.

soctics.com

f3r3nc··on Diablo creator David Brevik is back with a new game: It Lurks Below
Just get started with something simple and gradually increase / add complexity. Nowadays there are really great engines that pave your way. Do make good use of them. Any of them will teach you about the game loop, gfx, control, sound, ai etc subsystems that needs to work together to deliver an experience for your players. Also do read about game design. I personally liked Jessie Schell's Art of game design book with the 100 lenses that helps younalong the way.
f3r3nc··on Ask HN: What non-work task have you automated?
14 years ago, when low cost flights became popular in Europe with Ryanair, I moved to London with a friend for a year. To get the cheapest price, we had run a simple perl crawler in a cronjob to monitor the prices and it sent us a text over some free api. We didn't realize that time that this could have been a massive service and over the years many businesses basically executed on the same basic idea.
f3r3nc··on Ask HN: When has switching the language/framework made an important difference?
As others have said earlier, if the new tools serve the problem domain better there will be significant gain.

My first game server was hand crafted with php/mysql. It did work and was able serve players, however moving to Erlang allowed two order of magnitude more players onto the same box, while the code maintainability increased as well.

f3r3nc··on Ask HN: How did you grow from 100 to 1,000 users?
back in the days when we were making ios games we would send out a lot of promo codes to various youtube reviewers with followers between 100-10k. it was getting popular back then so we didnt paid for nor offered money for the review although few replied back and asked for it. well more like a paid service than affiliate. a few days later we experiences a spike that originated from a reviewer we never heard back.
f3r3nc··on Ask HN: Freelancer? Seeking freelancer? (October 2016)
SEEKING WORK - NYC / Budapest, Hungary + Remote - Full-stack Web / mobile development team

ZenHeads is your remote dev team at hand, team of 8 including the founders.

We help build your MVP and beyond (ref: classport.fit / trkr.net / riport.co.hu / soctics.com)

  * Mobile: preferably Xamarin MVVM Cross (Android / iOS / WinMobile) or Unity3d (VR)
  * Frontend: React, Redux, Angular (turning more towards React nowadays), D3
  * Backend: Django/Python, Erlang
  * Databases: Postgres, Redis 
  * OS: Debian Linux
  * Hosting: AWS or any smaller VPS. provisioning with Chef / Fabric
  * CI: Gitlab
  * Clients from NYC / high profile investors
info+hn@zenheads.hu

http://zenheads.hu

f3r3nc··on Ask HN: Freelancer? Seeking freelancer? (September 2016)
SEEKING WORK - NYC / Budapest, Hungary + Remote - Full-stack Web / mobile development team

ZenHeads is your remote dev team at hand, team of 8 including the founders. We help build your MVP and beyond (ref: classport.fit / trkr.net / riport.co.hu / soctics.com)

  * Mobile: preferably Xamarin MVVM Cross (Android / iOS / WinMobile) or Unity3d (VR)
  * Frontend: React, Redux, Angular (turning more towards React nowadays), D3
  * Backend: Django/Python, Erlang
  * Databases: Postgres, Redis 
  * OS: Debian Linux
  * Hosting: AWS or any smaller VPS. provisioning with Chef / Fabric
  * CI: Gitlab
  * Clients from NYC / high profile investors
info+hn@zenheads.hu

http://zenheads.hu

f3r3nc··on Ask HN: Freelancer? Seeking freelancer? (July 2016)
SEEKING WORK - NCY / Budapest, Hungary + Remote - Full-stack Web / mobile development team

ZenHeads is your remote dev team at hand, team of 8 including the founders.

We help build your MVP and beyond (ref: classport.fit / trkr.net / riport.co.hu / soctics.com)

  * Mobile: preferably Xamarin MVVM Cross (Android / iOS / WinMobile)
  * Frontend: Angular, React, Redux (turning more towards  React), D3
  * Backend: Django/Python, Erlang (for soft realtime) 
  * Databases: Postgres, Redis 
  * Hosting: AWS or any smaller VPS. provisioning with Chef / Fabric
  * CI: Gitlab
  * Clients from NYC / high profile investors
info@zenheads.hu

http://zenheads.hu

f3r3nc··on Django 1.9 alpha 1 released
Might worth checking out webmaching: https://github.com/webmachine/webmachine/wiki/Overview
f3r3nc··on Ask HN: What's the best marketing effort for $1000?
As others have said, make it free. If it's paid now try to approach appgratis and pay them back with cross promotion.

While your game is free make sure they spread the word on any of the social sites and also get the players who like your game rate it in the AppStore.

Also try to get in contact with other indie game devs and cross promote with them.

f3r3nc··on PostgreSQL Studio
Workaround, why not making the tunnel yourself?

ssh -L5555:127.0.0.1:5432 host

Then you have it on your local 5555.

f3r3nc··on AppGratis pulled from the App Store. Here’s the full story
Happy AppGratis customer here. Note: we never paid for their services in cash but cross promotion.

A game of ours have been featured by AppGratis twice. They blow our charts what was then followed by a reasonable amount of paid players. That made a _huge_ difference for us. 2.5 months after the deal, there are still more downloads than was after 2 weeks of the release.

If you are a small team with very very limited resources. AppGratis is a really good way to get exposure this way. Would happily recommend them.

BTW, you can use other services to climb up the charts, like Chartboost or FB ads and I don't think any of them is any better or worst than the paid service of AppGratis.

Building great apps is hard. So is their marketing.

f3r3nc··on Ask HN:got macmini where to start to learn mac dev?
Go for iOS first to get familiar with cocoa, then move on to Mac. There are tons of info for iOS devs but bit less for Mac.
f3r3nc··on Ask HN: Freelancer? Seeking freelancer? (November 2012)
SEEKING WORK - Remote/Hungary

Small enthusiastic iOS (native) development team. We've built games and apps including:

* http://soctics.com

* http://www.urbancyclr.com

* http://fontify.it

Experienced with full stack iOS development:

* Obj-C, C, C++

* Erlang, PHP

* MySQL, MongoDB

* Nginx

* Linux

* Unity3d

Contact: ferenc{at}bitongo{dot}com

f3r3nc··on Self.HackerNews - Just wanted to say thanks
Grats! Would you mind sharing the site itself, maybe along with how it looked and how it looks now?
f3r3nc··on Show HN: UrbanCyclr a Social Bicycle HeatMap
Thanks for trying. Once you finished tracking, all the tracking data is sent to the server for further processing or next time the device has network connection and the app is turned on.

If the track is accurate enough, has no big jumps in it, it will be visible in a couple of minutes on the appropriate city's map or on the My Area map.

We do add cities manually but all tracks should be visible in case they were accurate enough.

Unfortunately, I cannot see any tracks in London which could mean that the track wasn't accurate enough or wasn't uploaded.

f3r3nc··on Show HN: UrbanCyclr a Social Bicycle HeatMap
At first, the app we made was just for pure fun. It was so popular in Hungary and also got some feedbacks from the surrounding countries that we wanted to open up to the world.

We didn't have any business plan at all but someone suggested ppl might like posters if they look gorgeous. This idea is outside from our group so thought this could work. Also told some friends who liked the idea although asking friends about this is probably not the best validator.

If there where some interest in the posters we would create customized maps. Your routes vs others' routes.

We are also open for other suggestions :) - Putting stores on the map who can advertise? - Sell the data to governments to use it as an input for cycle route planning?

f3r3nc··on Ask HN: Looking for a print and delivery service with iOS SDK
Customer handling would be a big help for marchants wannabes like us. Currently we only have the resource to put a lib into our app. We are not sure how well printing would go

Is there a reason you only do rasters? I've believed that vector graphics is superior. The printer has problems with the rendering?

f3r3nc··on Ask HN: Looking for a print and delivery service with iOS SDK
Looks promising.

- Do you also handle PDF or you prefer rasters?

- Are you considering handling payments directly from the customers?

Would be so much better w/ payment handling (one lib to integrate). We wouldn't even mind if the package is arriving with your logo.

f3r3nc··on Understanding Virtual Memory
The LWN article is from What Every Programmer Should Know About Memory: http://www.akkadia.org/drepper/cpumemory.pdf also discussed here: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1511990