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hu_meon Ask HN: What did you do after quitting the IT industry and how have things been?

that could actually be something people could pay you for as well. airbnb on the road with scenic views.

let me know if you ever try that.

hu_meon "I know how to program, but I don't know what to program"

I personally reached a similar conclusion[1] and ended up building small little chrome extensions that solve some of workflow problems I face daily. This plus using zapier to automate the repetitive has brought back joy to programming as a tool rather than end goal.

[1]https://medium.com/@hu_me/how-i-got-past-trying-to-reinvent-...

hu_meon You probably don't need a JavaScript framework

yes this what I was curious about as well. Interesting the simplicity of creating snippets with markdown makes it easy to use for posts as well sharing code snippets ala gists

hu_meon Asana

we found it insanely powerful but hit a lot of snags trying to see an easy view of tasks; especially with team members on the move switching between online and offline.

Ended up writing chrome extension[1] which hit a nerve with a lot of other people as well. We got thank yous from as as africa where teams are using asana with patchy connectivity.

[1] https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/asana-task-viewer/...

hu_meon Embed Linkedin profile page to see who visited your website

google chrome has a multiple user option with quick switching, i have multiple profiles with different settings / extensions suited to mode.

saves the time to login to accounts [unless thats the whole point for you].

hu_meon Segment (YC S11) Raises $27M for Its “One API to Rule Them All”

Love the tool using it since beta. Its an obvious pain point brilliantly executed. Between segment and google tag manager the analytics instrumentation has become exceedingly easy and better documented in the last 3 years.

And I know from experience lock in is immense, once you add an analytics tool there is no turning back. With segment you can play the field more easily, ofcourse while being locked in to segment :)

hu_meon LogMeIn acquires Lastpass

logmein has almost ruined my current favorite password manager Meldium. After they acquired it the service has become gradually to the point it does not work on half the sites stored in it. This week I finally decided to start migrating to LastPass (a few clients use it and it appeared a more dependable alternate). Guess will continue my search for alternates.

hu_meon How Zapier Went from Zero to 600k Users

they have a pretty detailed guide here with some partner examples https://zapier.com/help/partner-co-marketing-guide/

hu_meon How to set up your own free VPN server on AWS

the same tiered machine running for a full month costs about 7usd.

hu_meon Google Is Shutting Down Google Helpouts, Its Expert Video Chat Service

you could try codementor.io they offer a similar service but more suited to cs. Even offer introductory free minutes

hu_meon Ask HN: What small webapps do you know that have a large audience?

sorry about that I thought sun night would be a good time to move to heroku. should be resolved now.

hu_meon Ask HN: What small webapps do you know that have a large audience?

http://utm.io

url shortener with builtin support for google analytics link tagging utm parameters. time saver for marketers creating tracking links for google analytics.

hu_meon Show HN: Stop constant buzz of your smartphone notifications while on computer

yes initially built it for our sanity, but the code is opensource[1] PR welcome :) https://github.com/marketlytics/android-idlenotifier

hu_meon Learning Online

This is similar to how I learned javascript in almost REPL manner. Started with poking around in chrome developer console with quick copy pasting of code examples from stackoverflow / w3schools. Repeating and customizing until console logged what I wanted. With occasional diversions to understand compilerish.

And once it was working saving the code to the actual file.

My only regret was I discovered breakpoints a bit late. It was fascinating to pause code and just hover over different bits of code variables / parameters and see the data being transformed.

hu_meon What We Do and Don't Know about Software Development Effort Estimation

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3522910

hu_meon Google Maps On Mobile Gets Uber Integration

This is actually an interesting monetization experiment for google maps.

Google might create an ad type allowing all the different ride sharing companies to bid on this ad space. Should be able to attract pretty good cpm considering the user has already shown clear intent.

hu_meon Ask HN: What to look out for in Cross border equity grants?

Thanks I am based in Pakistan. I am researching this further but wanted to understand if there are any implication for me in Britain. Any pitfalls in contracts. As well as experience of someone who has gone through this.

hu_meon Hum

IM / text conversations are shorter but they also drift from one topic to the other. Generally chats are grouped based on people while emails are grouped based on topics. Categorizing them with subjects wouldnt really be practical.

hu_meon Reddit to Give 10% of Its 2014 Ad Revenue to Non-Profits Picked by Its Users

its a good idea, making users supportive of advertising by giving some of it to charity. Now people with adblockers might more inclined to add reddit to whitelist.

hu_meon Facebook Buying WhatsApp for $16B in Cash and Stock Plus $3B in RSUs

it remains to be seen how the autonomy works out. whatsapp collects very little data about the user. Phone number, username. No chat history and even name is optional this contrasts with FB's approach of getting all the data. I think the data collection changes would be a good test of autonomy.

hu_meon Email is Broken: People Sent 67 Trillion Emails in 2013

gmail looks like to be on this path already except instead of allowing you to queue messages its trying algos to manage it for you. (Priority inbox / email tabs)

hu_meon Ask HN: Why are you still sharing content as PDFs?

exact presentation definitely looks like the major reason for using pdf. I think I need to find an app that does pdf parsing similar to Pocket/ Instapaper and makes the pdf adaptable to smaller screens.

hu_meon Ask HN: Why are you still sharing content as PDFs?

interesting but an issue with that is pdf dont adapt well to different screen sizes. On mobile / tablet I am yet to find anything that adjusts it to screen size without panning and zooming. Especially two column layout favoured by publications.

hu_meon Why we'll use Google Universal Analytics over Mixpanel and KISSMetrics

yes there isnt a way within GA to aggregate metrics based on custom dims at the moment. we have on occasion done it through reporting api using cd to maintain a unique count.

hu_meon Why we'll use Google Universal Analytics over Mixpanel and KISSMetrics

had missed that thanks for sharing. I have been using custom dimension for uId in our client projects its worked out well, though a dedicated api method is always welcome.

hu_meon Why we'll use Google Universal Analytics over Mixpanel and KISSMetrics

userId bit has been there from the start in Universal Analytics. Its called custom dimensions and can be used to send any property about the user into the GA and then link it to a User or a specific Visit.

https://developers.google.com/analytics/devguides/collection...

hu_meon Technology Workers Are Young (Really Young)

What's up with adding social media here. That's like saying boomers know how to communicate around water coolers.

hu_meon Obama’s Remarks on NSA Controversy

It also mentions that the spying doesn't involve reading emails of US residents? So that means people outside US jurisdiction are being targeted?

hu_meon Ask HN: What Freelancer site do you recommend?

well charging higher than 25$/hr cuts both ways I originally started from elance a few years back and gave a low-ish rate but I was being ignored or being asked for discounts on near bottom rates, I realized if you want to be valued you need to have a rate that's respected.

I have tripled that rate and the quality of projects and clients has improved considerably.

ps do give a rough range of budget on elance but never an absolute number, if someone invites me to a project offering 20$/hr I run the other way.

disclaimer: I run marketlytics and generally participate on these sites as a consultant so this maybe more to my benefit.

hu_meon Our Recurring Payment Pricing Was Rejected

i think the pitch here could be made more enticing. With SaaS you are not only paying for the current product but also for the implied updates and improvements that will follow. So a comparable model would be how much would a box software cost and what would its upgrades cost (as well as how often are they upgraded).

If the saas cost is being imagined for n years than they should also take into account the inevitable upgrades they would have to pay for with boxed software to keep the software productive.

for example we could take adobe creative suite and its upgrades together for a comparable saas offer.