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pknerdon Ask HN: What Are You Learning?

- Solidity and writing about it on my blog as I am getting more inquiries about work related to it.

- Exploring Manifestation and subconscious mind.

pknerdon PHP has been removed in macOS Monterey

Didn't know about it. I either used Laravel or MAMP.

pknerdon Cristiano Ronaldo snub wipes billions off Coca-Cola’s market value

Read "Atomic Habits" by James Clear, I wonder how can we implement 4 laws to get rid of this bad habit.

pknerdon Ask HN: Freelancer? Seeking freelancer? (June 2021)

SEEKING WORK

Location: PK

Remote: Yes

Willing to Relocate: No

Technologies: Python(Scraping,Automation, ETL, Blockchain Integration), PHP Laravel, Code/Db Optimization, Go and Solidity Smart Contracts.

Blog:- http://blog.adnansiddiqi.me/

Resume: http://adnansiddiqi.me/Resume2020.pdf

I have interest in working domains like Finance, Healthcare and Bioinformatics. I wrote a bit about each in my blog as well. Or just anything which is interesting and challenging.

Contact: kadnan @ gmail.com

pknerdon Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (June 2021)

Location: PK

Remote: Yes

Willing to Relocate: No

Technologies: Python(Scraping,Automation, ETL, Blockchain Integration), PHP Laravel, Code/Db Optimization, Go and Solidity Smart Contracts.

Blog:- http://blog.adnansiddiqi.me/

Resume: http://adnansiddiqi.me/Resume2020.pdf

I have interest in working domains like Finance, Healthcare and Bioinformatics. I wrote a bit about each in my blog as well.

Contact: kadnan @ gmail.com

pknerdon Replit used legal threats to kill my open-source project

> Specially in the US, where justice is mostly a rich man's game

Same in Pakistan.

pknerdon The story of the Tank Man photo by its photographer

I hope you are trolling because Gulf wars, Bosnian War, Gitmo are few of the medals earned by Western democracies.

pknerdon Ask HN: If you were starting your career today what would you do to get rich?

Quant or anything that's combo of CS and finance or biology.

pknerdon Stack Overflow sold to Prosus for $1.8B

Hope the new owners don't turn it to another _Expert Exchange_.

pknerdon How Our Slack App Got to 200K Users with No Marketing Whatsoever

Marketplaces are pretty powerful. Shopify also have similar strength.

pknerdon Vietnam War images from the North Vietnamese side

After a few decades or years someone will come up about afghan war, the next Vietnam for US.

pknerdon Ask HN: Where is a nice place to host which is not AWS / GCP types

Can you share more info? Like you got a vps or running instances. Where do you host DB?

pknerdon Ask HN: How do you find time to do all the thing you want to do?

No emailing/ surfing either?

pknerdon Ask HN: What are some tools / libraries you built yourself?

I built Fehrist(https://github.com/kadnan/Fehrist) and Gocache(https://github.com/kadnan/GoCache/ last year during lockdown while learning Go.

pknerdon Ask HN: What do you think will come after Kubernetes?

Websites using sqlite.

pknerdon Ask HN: What passive income investments exist to supplement your salary?

I run a tech/programming related blog which helps me to earn both active and passive income in form of affiliate, guest posts, ads and gigs.

pknerdon Ask HN: What passive income investments exist to supplement your salary?

You should write a book how one can do it:)

pknerdon Ask HN: Best Sites to Procrastinate

How to find interesting wiki links? I am interested in science and philosophy.

pknerdon Ask HN: Freelancer? Seeking freelancer? (May 2021)

SEEKING WORK| Remote

I am a developer having 10+ years of experience. I am a backend developer and mostly work in Python, PHP and Go. So far I have worked on Web apps, scrapers, APIs and systems integrations.

Check my profile at: http://adnansiddiqi.me/Resume2020.pdf

I also blog at: http://blog.adnansiddiqi.me

For contact mail at kadnan AT GMAIL

PS: I am a curious person and looking to work on something interesting and challenging, especially Healthcare and Finance

SO buzz me, even if it is unpaid, I'd go for it if it is interesting and have something worth learning.

Thanks

pknerdon Chrome extension recommends local businesses while shopping on Amazon or eBay

Loved the idea. While it is US specific. There could be contry wise version of this idea

pknerdon The handshake emoji is more complicated than you might think

World's great minds busy in making emojis.

pknerdon List of apps people pay for but have low rating

Can you provide it in downloadable/CSV format for each keyword search/filter?

It'd be very helpful!

Good job by the way!

pknerdon Twitter is blocking tweets that criticize the Indian government

Twitter India is on payroll of Indian govt. It's not a hidden secret.

pknerdon India’s second wave

It's not clear whether India got some new variant like we heard of UK variant?

pknerdon India’s second wave

Yes Asians have lots of such hacks based on wisdom of ancient ppl. Many work too. My only concern is ppl don't take precautions like masks etc after following such hacks. In Pakistan ppl started taking a Herb based on Prophet Hadith which has nothing to do with this covid-19. Some one recommend and everyone started following as a religious obligatory. Many suffered from dirrehea . My friend died due to one of these hacks. He took no mask, got severe congestion and died.

pknerdon Ask HN: What programming concepts do/did you find hard to understand/implement?

Recursion Abstract Classes Pointers, thanks to Golang I don't feel so insecure anymore.

pknerdon India’s second wave

The problem with subcontinent countries is that their citizens mostly believe in pseudo science promoted by religious celebrities. Yesterday I was reading that Baba Ram Dev has suggested to inhale olive oil which will push covid-19 virus in stomach where it'd be killed by stomach acid. Such ppl exist here in Pakistan too one way and other and I see ppl don't bother to use masks when going mosques. Not sure what kind of stuff do these guys smoke.

pknerdon Ask HN: How can a unhireable person get a job?

Most probably you're unable to sell yourself? Did you think of making your own product? How about a platform where ppl like you share rejection stories? Who knows it get exploded?

Do you maintain a GitHub or public profile? How about running a YouTube channel?

pknerdon Cyber Attack on Iran's Nuclear Facility

A bit off topic, is there any hollywood movie on stuxnet incident?