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revoradon Slack raises $200M at $3.8B valuation for business messaging

I guess because most conversations are not about documents?

revoradon Ask HN: What is the best way to find Contract work or Remote Part-time work?

There's a set of monthly hiring threads right here on HN. In fact, the next one should be today. Look out for it later today.

Also, you can still reach out to people hiring in past threads:

https://news.ycombinator.com/submitted?id=whoishiring

revoradon Canvas: Notes for teams of nerds

Here's my obligatory recommendation for Simplenote. It is so good - http://simplenote.com

No affiliation, just a happy user.

revoradon GM to Acquire Autonomous-Vehicle Technology Developer Cruise Automation (YC W14)

Isn't this the biggest YC exit yet?

revoradon 301 redirects: a dangerous one way street (2012)

Thanks for this. Can you please share an example of the cache headers you add to 301 redirects?

revoradon Ask HN: Best way to learn HTML and CSS for web design?

I recommend the following:

1. Check out Jennifer Dewalt's project 180 websites in 180 days - http://jenniferdewalt.com

2. Free Code Camp is quite good (but the focus is more on coding rather than design) - http://www.freecodecamp.com

3. Nathan Barry's books are great - http://nathanbarry.com/books

4. [Plug] - I'm starting a new site for online courses and need beta testers for some HTML and CSS courses which go from scratch to pro level. Happy to give your friend early access for free - http://learnetto.com

revoradon Digging to the Future – Broadband for the Rural North (B4RN)

Cool project I came across via this tweet:

https://twitter.com/Yorkie71/status/694787981824102400

"Frustrated by poor internet access, local communities in the rural north of England are finding an answer in Broadband for the Rural North (B4RN). This unique project, built and owned by the community, is on a mission to provide a future proof fibre optic network to all homes, however remote. This short film sees Lancashire communities coming together and digging through all weathers to bring this vital utility to the hardest to reach areas."

The B4RN website - http://b4rn.org.uk/

revoradon Introducing the Keybase filesystem

Thank you!

revoradon Introducing the Keybase filesystem

Hi John, mind sharing an invitation?

revoradon Ask HN: Feedback on my startup's landing page – http://learnetto.com

Jeroen, thanks so much for taking the time to give such detailed feedback. Much appreciated.

revoradon Ask HN: What did you achieve in January 2016?

1. Started doing intermittent fasting. Of all the fat loss things I've tried, this has been the easiest to stick to. Will post about my experience in a couple of weeks.

2. Started running regularly - 3 days per week. If anyone is looking to get into running I can't recommend the NHS Couch to 5k plan enough.

3. Launched the private beta for my new online learning marketplace - http://learnetto.com and got featured on Betalist.

Pretty excited about February!

revoradon Ask HN: What did you achieve in January 2016?

Awesome, much respect to you.

revoradon Ask HN: Feedback on my startup's landing page – http://learnetto.com

Clickable link - http://learnetto.com

revoradon Ask HN: Courses like Coursera or Udemy but without the videos?

I'm building a new online learning site and this is one piece of feedback I have received a lot. So I'm working on multiple formats, including text, audio and video. Our first course on Rubymotion is entirely in text and will be launching soon.

Please check it out if you are interested - http://learnetto.com. Also feel free to email me with any comments and feedback - hrishimittal@gmail.com

revoradon Startup Playbook

Can you please get the designer of this playbook and ycombinator.com to redesign HN too?

revoradon Reconsider

That's the definition of business.

revoradon Visualizing popular machine learning algorithms

Can someone please explain this?

revoradon Show HN: Ligify iOS App – One-Tap Save or Share Your Live Photos as GIF or MOV

Thanks for the promo code!

revoradon Comparison – R vs. Python: head to head data analysis

Yeah there's a lot more R stuff on SO now than when I was using it. The mailing lists were more active so that's what I had to use to ask for help.

revoradon Comparison – R vs. Python: head to head data analysis

Agreed about Hadley's prolific work.

I used to work a lot with R many years ago. I was shocked to find how bad the documentation was, and worse how rude and unfriendly the "community" of grumpy professors was. I shudder to think of the horrible meanness towards beginners asking questions on the mailing list.

I got so fed up I even wrote a book about R data visualisation. But this was all just around the time ggplot2 came out. Unfortunately I stopped using R soon after, but since then Hadley has single-handedly done more good for the language than anyone else.

I don't know what the R community is like now, and whether people like Hadley have made it friendlier, but it's clearly one reason Python is superior.

revoradon Comparison – R vs. Python: head to head data analysis

Hadley is actively working on ggplot2. In fact, he just tweeted a list of improvements - https://twitter.com/hadleywickham/status/654283936755904512

https://github.com/hadley/ggplot2/blob/master/NEWS.md

revoradon Ask HN: How do you answer the question “what salary do you expect?”

patio11 offers some good advice here - http://www.kalzumeus.com/2012/01/23/salary-negotiation/

revoradon Evernote cuts 47 employees and shuts down 3 offices

Another vote for Simplenote - does exactly what it says on the tin. In 2-3 years of using it, I had only couple of issues with sync. When I reported them, support was super responsive and the issues were fixed with subsequent updates.

They also offer easy exports of your notes.

If you've never tried, give it a shot - http://simplenote.com

revoradon Ask HN: Best books or videos to get better at sales?

Read and listen to everything Steli Efti says -

https://twitter.com/steli

His book - http://www.startupsalesguide.com/

“The Predictable Revenue Guide To Tripling Your Sales” by Aaron Ross and Jason M. Lemkin - http://www.saastr.com/the-predictable-revenue-guide-to-tripl...

revoradon Hackpad source code

Try https://www.aerofs.com

revoradon TauCharts: Data-focused JavaScript charting library

https://plot.ly/

revoradon Ask HN: Mailchimp or Sendgrid?

Just ask both, why try to guess who will sponsor?

revoradon Periscope by Twitter

Always has been the message, right from Microsoft to Apple to Twitter. I expect Uber will do the same - they're just in the "let's open up our API to make the world a better place la la " phase now. As soon as someone builds a breakout app on their API, they'll eat it.

revoradon I Am Sam Altman, President of Y Combinator. AMA

Do you disagree with Peter Thiel on competition?

revoradon I Am Sam Altman, President of Y Combinator. AMA

I understand your motivation. My point is that your advice on how to become a huge company seems a bit flawed - specifically because it ignores all the companies which failed even after following that advice.

Anyway, there is so little data on the topic that I don't feel anyone has good advice on it.