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Interesting that it has started deflating already!

For a second, I thought I am high.

mamoriamohiton Choose a Programming Language and Stick with It

Oh this post resonates with me so much. Everytime I start a new project, I spend atleast a week figuring out which new tool/language/framework to use.

Almost always, in the end, I end up using the good old faithful and friendly PHP (Laravel).

mamoriamohiton Ask HN: How much info should founders share with early stage employees?

"What if we train our people and they leave?" "What if we don't and they stay?"

Forward-looking entrepreneurs are building in public. In my opinion, sharing news and information with core team is overall a positive investment.

If there's a lack of trust, maybe, there are bigger problems in the startup to fix?

mamoriamohiton Chrome allows websites to write to the clipboard without the user’s permission

Does changing it to require permission would mean that every "Copy Code" button will need a pop-up?

I am torn between the usability vs security of this issue.

mamoriamohiton Ask HN: Nested Resources in REST/HTTP API URLs?

This is good for fetching a single item. What if you want to list resources?

Eg. List all comments of a blog?

It has to be GET /blog/:blogid/comments

Then, how about creating a new comment?

It'll be POST /blog/:blogid/comments

When both of these have the blog's hierarchy in the URL, should we take it away when fetching a single item? Or the stay consistent, we should simply do:

/blog/:blogid/comments/:commentid

It's hard.

mamoriamohiton The cold start problem of a new identity on social media

Cold starting a new identity on the internet is a huge pain. Also, a single point of failure for someone who has gained an audience on just one platform. What if the platform kicks you out?

I wish you all the best!

mamoriamohiton Ask HN: Why are bookmarks second class citizens in browsers?

You're almost right!

You're not alone. I am with you.

To add to your little annoyances, I'd add one as well – categorizing the bookmarks.

Even if I end up bookmarking a site, I find it hard to organize it nicely in a place that I can go to later on.

I'd love to put some hashtags on bookmarks to search for later.

Just me?

mamoriamohiton Write a note to your spouse every day

I have had an opposite experience. Daily notes makes no difference. I was in a relationship for 2 years and have written a poem every day for 400 days straight to her. But it failed nevertheless. In fact, I was told by her that these notes put her in guilt. Weird.

Gestures like these amplify whatever the relationship there is to start with.

If there's a lot of love, they amplify it.

If there's a lot of lack of commitment, they amplify it.

They do not change lack of commitment into love magically.

Sorry for being the party pooper. I understand where the OP is coming from and I truly respect that. Just wanted to add a bit of more context.

mamoriamohiton Why your daily stand-ups don't work and how to fix them

I have been building and managing remote (+ async) teams since 2018 (way before pandemic), and the biggest breakthrough came in only after a year of struggles. The breakthrough was:

Spend 10x more time evaluating cultural fit, and you'll spend 10x less time managing people.

This allowed me to simply trust every single person, and let go of the processes and daily meetings/standups, etc.

Simply trusting + communicating in weekly timelines kept everybody calm and productive.

mamoriamohiton Does the internet have a 1 star review problem?

A rating system without contextual data will very quickly become extreme (1 star reviews or 5 star reviews).

Having the system to have contextual data (photos, comments) from both the sides – reviewed and reviewed – will be enough tools to let any independent person make a sound decision.

mamoriamohiton What are examples of programmers disregarding aesthetics for productivity?

Wow, I read these examples, and I feel like I am not productive at all, haha.

If I have to count examples, I'd also like to count stuff that is not happening on the computer, but around it. Example, the desk.

I know a very clever developer who rarely dusts off his desk. Plugs his headphones, opens up the laptop, and gets going.

I know a very smart chap who carries a water bottle everywhere he goes, and uses it to keep hydrated, but he doesn't wash it. Just keeps refilling it multiple times a day. No wash at all.

mamoriamohiton Please stop disabling zoom

It's specially painful when the zoom is disabled, and then a pop up comes up with a teeny tiny X close button.

I agree I have fat fingers but 8 our of 10 times, I end up opening up the ad. :(

mamoriamohiton How to Learn Nix

> Or you just memorize the “right way to do it,” and every time you type it, a part of you wonders why, until eventually your mind crystallizes around this idea that Nix is confusing and weird and too hard for you to figure out.

This stands true for most of the things in universe for most of the people.

mamoriamohiton Light mode, Dark mode, and Gen-Z mode?

I remember the time when I first used <marquee> and I jumped like a little kid. Fast forward a few years when I started designing for web as a career, and I was sad to see that nobody used <marquee> in production. It turned out to be a toy.

Heart broken.

But I grew to love the minimalism design.

Recently I started Youtubing and make designing thumbnails, minimal doesn't work. The demography 18 to 35 year old prefer something that quickly grabs their attention.

Amused to see the trend seeping into UI/UX as well.

mamoriamohiton DigitalOcean acquires CSS-tricks

CSS Tricks played a critical part in teaching me about web designs. It was a paradise for an introvert like me to hangout at, and also learn new skills.

Congratulations, Chris!

mamoriamohiton Religion should be taught in schools (debate)

It's elitest to only learn about one religion - the one we are born into - and that too, in bits and pieces.

Okay, so my point is - the current methods via which we learn about religion are limiting and biased. All of us learn about only one religion - the one we are born into - and that too, in bits and pieces. Thus, we are a.) equipped with half-knowledge about our religion, and b.) criticize other religions without any knowledge about them. A deadly combination!

If religions would be taught in schools, everybody can realize that moral lessons are common across all religions. Just knowing this one fact will remove the elitist mindset that most of us grow up with.

The hypothesis is instead of teaching one religion to a kid, if he/she is taught about all religions and then asked which religion he/she would like to choose, chances are they will choose not to choose any one religion. And a generation later, we'll have a world free of religion-based hatred.

mamoriamohiton The Anti-Portfolio

Are the invites sent out already? Haven't received any email -- neither invite not rejection. :/

mamoriamohiton The Anti-Portfolio

Same here.

mamoriamohiton Understanding Blockchain in plain English (~3500 words)

Transaction fees will keep increasing (because of demand) and we would have moved to renewable electricity by then (free electricity), therefore miners continuing mining.

That's my opinion.

mamoriamohiton Understanding Blockchain in plain English (~3500 words)

Every transaction is added in the block in the order they happened. Every transaction has a timestamp associated with it.

mamoriamohiton 11 things for when you'll be defeated

May be, someday — after a wrecking failure — a broken soul will stumble upon this post and by the time she would finish reading it, she’d have gathered enough courage to start the journey all over again.

mamoriamohiton False Positives

> Being right confirms our own self-worth. As students, we learn to avoid as best we can the embarrassment of being wrong. Getting the right answer becomes the primary purpose of our education. Can you imagine the generative and exciting learning environment that would result from a class that rewarded asking the best questions? If you think about it, the most intriguing questions are those that don’t offer simple answers. Even more, they drive our thinking into greater complexity and curiosity.

mamoriamohiton Lazy work needs hard thinking

Here’s the scene —

A small team working out of a room; launches an MVP; gets more than 50k people using the product.

What comes next? Feature requests. Lots of them.

This is how we solved three different problems using one feature. :)

mamoriamohiton 2017 is also a (re)Prime Number

Memory is an expendable resource and on average, we tend to spend it on three to four most urgent things in a day, but that doesn’t mean little things aren’t important.

mamoriamohiton Once, I was the fake Steve Jobs. Fixing it now

Excerpt: --- It took us several months and a bank balance of three-digits to realize the problem — the fake Steve Jobs — me. You think I didn’t know about Lean Startup and all that on Seth Godin’s blog? I did. But wasn’t I supposed to be the one to whom the rules of the world doesn’t apply? The one beyond the rules? The one who was supposed to break the rules to make the world a better place?

mamoriamohiton Elevator.js

I thought this is a useless library, UNTIL I checked out HN comments to find out that the library played a sound too while scrolling up. :)

mamoriamohiton YC S15 invites will be sent out today

Midnight PDT of April 10 has already passed.

Or did he mean midnight of April 11th? Not sure.

mamoriamohiton YC S15 invites will be sent out today

Exactly. Invites are sent sometime around 6pm PDT.

Fingers crossed.

mamoriamohiton How may I help you this week?

Haha! I've been trying to find a girlfriend for a long time now. Kinda given up on it. Every girlfriend I had left me because I spent time on y laptop more than what I did with her.

I've been in that situation too and I've a list of names and logo with me that I consult for my side projects. You think, that might help you?

Who knows may be, the name of your project is hidden somewhere in the list. :) Just a thought.