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hiouon HumanPredictions – Bootstrapping a SaaS app to $18k/mo in under a year

He basically gets a spot in the family business which he uses as a launchpad to creating a SaaS product. Come on, this title is so far off from reality. No problem with what he did and it sounds like he does a great job, but let's at least keep the titles from indiehackers somewhat accurate. It gives a lot of people thinking about starting their own company really unrealistic expectations.

hiouon Tesco Bank halts online payments after money was taken from 20K accounts

Thanks Dad. You realize that for every single bad thing that happens there are always additional steps that could have been taken to prevent it? Unfortunately there is a trade-off most people make between living their life and prepping for the end times.

hiouon Be careful about what you dislike

I imagine the firefighter that prevents fires has strong opinions about how they start.

hiouon Internet Pioneers Slam $750,000 Settlement for the 'Man Who Invented Email'

Sorry, had to downvote this as you have to be trolling.

hiouon Show HN: Cloud Commander orthodox web file manager with console and editor

This has to be the greatest logo I've seen in a while. Did you create it yourself and if so what did you use?

hiouon Show HN: Make an app by adding JSON to this app

This is fantastic. Thank you for taking the time to create it. This looks like an amazingly simple way to create a prototype.

hiouon Be careful about what you dislike

I find that people who sit in the greys tend to be very worried about their public perception or have very little passion beyond maintaining personal comfort.

The people I look for are those that take strong stands but are willing and able to adjust and even quickly reverse those stances.

To me it's the difference between a leader and a worker bee.

hiouon Docker in Production: A History of Failure

Can you point to any evidence that people enjoy being down voted without an explanation? Clearly the fact that there has to be two entries in a fairly short comment guidelines points to the reality that many people have expressed that they do not like being down voted without any explanation.

And since it is such a frequent occurrence, would that not point to the fact that people do enjoy talking about being down voted?

hiouon Docker in Production: A History of Failure

By "most of us" who exactly are you referring to? I wasn't aware there was some kind of user survey etc that was used to determine that stuff. I thought one person just added that to the bottom of the comments guidelines. Was there a vote or something? I'm very curious how you know that is what "most of us would prefer".

hiouon Docker in Production: A History of Failure

Anonymous downvoting is pretty popular around here. I agree it's a very rude thing to do. Also, just an FYI, I was scolded the other day for acknowledging the downvoting in an edit.

Edit: case and point

hiouon Docker in Production: A History of Failure

I think Docker can somewhat be seen as a generalized term like Linux. Linux doesn't write EXT4 but it is often referred to as "Linux filesystem".

Docker has been actively trying to become to household brand name for containers so it's difficult for me to give them a pass with your line of reasoning.

> Re Persistent Data: You are probably going to have a tough time if you try to do persistent data. Containers really excel at stateless tasks(or temporary state like caching). Certainly it's doable but for someone early in their adoption the proper toe in the water is probably the stateless business logic not the state layer.

hiouon StackOverflow Importer – Import code from Stack Overflow as Python modules

> Do you ever feel like all you're doing is copy/pasting from Stack Overflow?

I don't really feel like anyone is taking this very seriously.

hiouon StackOverflow Importer – Import code from Stack Overflow as Python modules

Somewhat related https://github.com/gleitz/howdoi with the vim frontend https://github.com/laurentgoudet/vim-howdoi

hiouon Writing more legible SQL

As long as it does not deviate into getting really creative with the spec, keeping everything consistent is overrated in my opinion.

There are the exceptions of very widely used projects where contributors will only look at the code a couple times when making a change to be pushed upstream or where there are significantly junior developers that need a narrow scope of the language to help them with the learning curve and getting up to speed with the code base.

In my experience(which is very anecdotal I admit), the requirement for consistency is more about a particular personality trait that many developers have - the need for order and control - as opposed to a requirement for quality production code.

hiouon Slack may regret its letter to Microsoft

Which pairs up with the age old assumption that everyone is trying to create slack and couldn't have possibly been doing something more important with their lives than bringing IRC to the masses.

hiouon Visual Studio Code 1.7 overloaded npmjs.org, release reverted

> The feature was so great that we started to overload the npmjs.org service.

I'm not sure I would call my feature "great" if it could have brought down npm.

hiouon Wordpress on AWS: smooth and pain free

Please do not use "please" in a passive aggressive manner when you are giving an authoritative command. Use please when you are genuinely requesting someone does something as a favor to you. When you are giving an order, be and adult and just give the order.

hiouon Wordpress on AWS: smooth and pain free

That is one disadvantage. If you bothered to read the rest of my comments you would see that I said it depends on your use case. If you just need a basic website you are much better off using a site builder than wasting quite possibly 1000s of dollars on support when something breaks. Be honest. So many non profits with limited budgets have wasted so much money that should have been spent on the actual purpose. All because of the lies they have been told by shady agencies who want the sweet sweet support contracts that junk like WordPress requires.

hiouon Wordpress on AWS: smooth and pain free

What your requirements? With Google rendering JavaScript any static site generator is probably going to be better. If you need crud functionality any number of hosted and open source crud providers are available. Or just use a hosted site builder. They are all better at this point.

hiouon Wordpress on AWS: smooth and pain free

Sure, you need to support legacy software that is so junky you have no way to migrate off the platform. You're trapped in the dump. Even more reason to avoid WordPress and not get trapped in your situation.

hiouon CenturyLink to Buy Level 3 for $34B

Basically the company gets bigger when they add Level 3 to it so they can issue additional shares without diluting their current outstanding shares.

Think of it more as converting your Level 3 stock into Century Link stock.

hiouon Newly Redesigned Boston.gov Just Went Open Source

Please don't lump PHP into the pile of shameful garbage that is the DrupalPress world. Most Drupal developers don't even know how to write modern production quality PHP since one does very little writing of PHP when building a Drupal based website. I've even spoken to a couple people who consider working with Drupal for an extended period of time an automatic disqualification for applicants of PHP developer positions. There is a lot of great PHP being written these days. It's just far, far away from DrupalPress.

hiouon Instapainting – From $4k in debt to $32k/mo in passive revenue with no employees

Cost over COGS is exactly my point and why this is exploitation. What do you think the cost over COGS are for the artists actually doing the work? I'll give you a hint, it's often in the negative.

hiouon Running containers without Docker

My main concern is coming across a an issue only to research it and find a "won't fix"[closed] and 100 +1s asking for it. When I have something super important in actual production this scares me way too much to trust.

hiouon Snapchat Seeks to Raise as Much as $4B in IPO

I would look at similar products in international markets(especially SE Asia) for how insanely huge Snapchat could become.

hiouon Instapainting – From $4k in debt to $32k/mo in passive revenue with no employees

You really don't think the middlemen are the ones doing business on your platform? You've simply squeezed the margins so that the artists get even less.

hiouon Instapainting – From $4k in debt to $32k/mo in passive revenue with no employees

1. How does that compare to eBay and Etsy now that you have used SEO tricks to push yourself up in the rankings so artists now have to go through you?

2. 5-40% quite a broad range. Who determines this percentage and what percentage does the highest volume quintile pay out?

hiouon Instapainting – From $4k in debt to $32k/mo in passive revenue with no employees

He literally listed SEO as the most important part of the business. Which means he seized control of a location(Google ranking) and then sold it back to those who could not compete with his Google rank. No sure where "Everybody wins" in that situation.

hiouon Instapainting – From $4k in debt to $32k/mo in passive revenue with no employees

So what is your percentage per work?

hiouon HN comments are underrated

"Do you think it's healthy to speak to a child in a cynical way?"

Absolutely not. I don't think I would look to fill my team with people who wish to be spoken to as children.