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semicolondevon Ask HN: What do people say the most?

The promo video published by Google mentions people translate 100 billion words everyday with Google Translate.

According to the video[1] the most translated words in the world are

"Thank you", "How are you" and "I love you"

[1] https://goo.gl/epGctM

semicolondevon Ask HN: What are your unused domain names and how much would you sell them for?

mvpbazaar.com

anyone ?

semicolondevon How does (free) internet benefit Africa?

I get the information benefits, but beyond that?

>> Having access to information benefits individuals and society as a whole. I'd rather focus on how to utilize this access to internet and create things which are valuable for others to consume locally or globally.

How does a poor person in a rural area REALLY improve their life by just having a cheap android phone and access to the internet?

>> Internet connects people. Almost everything that you do in person can be done via internet. Rather than only being a clueless consumer of the internet, people can learn skills that matter to them. This age is of Knowledge and skills that can create things, solve problems. Sell things on internet. Write book and tell the world. Develop softwares for yourself and others. Earn a living. Help people.

semicolondevon Ask HN: What's the one thing you've always wanted to learn?

If you can identify you're writing insecure code or building insecure apps you are just being lazy to do it proper way. Web security IMO isn't about learning a new thing, these are concepts that are part of the development flow.

Good resources to start with:

OWASP Top Ten Project https://goo.gl/yv6D4t

OWASP REST Security Cheat Sheet https://goo.gl/93VPKD

semicolondevon Ask HN: What is your favorite data structure, what have you done with it?

Sounds cool. Thanks for writing. I found some links to followup:

What is an Aguri tree? http://goo.gl/mBWdbJ (this question on SO mentions your comment from previous HN threads on data structures)

Aguri: Coolest Data Structure You've Never Heard Of https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=101969

Aguri: An Aggregation-based Traffic Profiler http://goo.gl/zA4Vl8

//links shortened for length

semicolondevon Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (October 2015)

Location: San Francisco Bay Area

Remote: Prefer FT onsite or contract to hire (remote)

Willing to relocate: Prefer Bay Area (would consider Austin, Denver)

Technologies: PHP (5+ years, intermediate experience, 10+ sites on production), Java/Android (2+ years, intermediate experience, 7+ small apps), JavaScript/jQuery (Basics), Node.js (Basics, Launched one app on HN a couple of years ago)

Résumé/CV: On request

Email: In profile

semicolondevon What are you working on?

Building android apps:

- kiosk app for employee survey

- groupon inspired app for niche market

- airbnb for dogs (thinking)

- building next version of niche appstore that i launched a year ago http://appsjhola.com

Fixing bugs on customer's website.

Looking to transition to a full time job in cool startup in San Francisco. contractor / agency dev to => startup hacker (suggestions ?)

trying to finish reading Crossing The Chasm

semicolondevon Why WhatsApp Only Needs 50 Engineers for Its 900M Users

I have been looking for full time openings at the moment and I prefer this kind of hiring practice but it's been rare.

semicolondevon Why WhatsApp Only Needs 50 Engineers for Its 900M Users

For startups where technology is not the only infrastructure of the platform your observation is likely not true.

Look at startups like Cloudfactory: http://www.cloudfactory.com/home (they are actually on a mission to create jobs for millions)

semicolondevon Fixing Twitter

Can someone tell what is wrong with this observation and why the downvotes ?

semicolondevon Fixing Twitter

But the post won't discuss about financials. It went on bashing twitter as if it at its current state is pretty much screwed up which I disagree because I am quite active on the platform and find it cool.

-> Twitter feels too much like a one-way broadcast system. It needs to feel more like a community, with meaningful two-way interaction.

I totally disagree. If you follow a avalanche of people and brands your timeline gets useless within an hour. Twitter is place to build a community that you want to be in and participate if you want to get max out of it. If one expects it to be a community he/she shall participate. Why would I expect Paul Graham to be replying me on Twitter for nothing (just because I follow him and mentioned him some non of his business comment) ?

[Edit: added some reference from the post]

semicolondevon Fixing Twitter

Twitter like Trello is a tool, a mainstream tool got to be horizontal product [1].

There is no point discussing about it should be this or that. Feel free to use it the way you want it to be.

[1] http://www.joelonsoftware.com/items/2012/01/06.html

semicolondevon Ask HN: How much money did you make from a mobile game you developed alone?

I launched a turn taking two player real-time board game in HN 4 years ago, with zero returns so far. It took 3 months to build the web app, another 3 months for android app. But, lots of PR for the stunt. It is still up. 30K game instances so far and 3K players.

Recently I am having thoughts like should I relaunch this ? But won't want to do it without someone to look it as a business. This game feels like Chess but it is quick to learn, setup and finish.

Play with AI here: http://obaghchal.com/computer

semicolondevon Ask HN: As a founder how does your weekends look like?

Emails are very tempting. I am on the same boat but, I have been working with a remote team and usually happen to work a lot during weekends because of timezone issues. Working with 5 year old company (remote), bootstraped and I recently moved to Bay Area. Was wondering how it goes with other founders here. Thanks for writing.

semicolondevon Ask HN: If you had 15-20k to take a 2-4 week trip, solo, what would you do?

Going for people and culture ?

Pick different culture. Stay in one country/city, exploring it to the fullest, making friends. Learning to sign their songs.

Going for refreshment and nature ?

Hop in multiple places.

semicolondevon Your Body Wasn’t Built To Last: A Lesson From Human Mortality Rates (2012)

"Most people die at 25 and aren't buried until they're 75."

- Benjamin Franklin

semicolondevon WordSafety – Check a name for unwanted meanings in foreign languages

Turi prefixes Turing (which means the act of pissing in Nepali) and Lado is popular in Spanish i guess.

semicolondevon WordSafety – Check a name for unwanted meanings in foreign languages

Submitted bunch of Nepali swear words. People in Nepal will laugh out a loud when English speaking people talk about renting a Condo or generating a Rand number. Here are few /swear/ words in Nepali (Spoken by ~30M people)

Chick

Goo

Moose

Turi

Condo

Moot

Rand

Chalk

Lado

PuT

Fuse

If you are wondering what these words mean check this:

http://www.youswear.com/index.asp?language=Nepali

semicolondevon Ask HN: What advice do you have for non-technical people interested in tech?

Hit them with some tangible stuff that showcases your ideas. Eg. a LaunchRock page with clear value prop.

If you have any followup comments feel free to drop me an email (check profile)

semicolondevon Ask HN: What advice do you have for non-technical people interested in tech?

Question isn't clear about what aspect of tech you are interested in.

Still, i'd suggest to familiarize yourself with the underlying process of how startups/products are built. For eg. here's the Lean process: http://theleanstartup.com/principles

Find out where you can contribute and collaborate on the process or better if you have managerial skills go execute the process.

For a tech product there is more to writing code. It's like if you have a blueprint of house engineers will build the house for you.

Learn to draft, pitch and execute that blueprint for your tech interest.

semicolondevon Excel_to_code – Converts some Excel spreadsheets to C

You might not believe this but my boss builds web app mock-ups using Excel. I was surprised to find that out but it works.

semicolondevon Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (June 2015)

  Location: Los Angeles (on Visit)

  Remote: No

  Willing to relocate: Yes 

  Technologies: Node.js, Express.js, Backbone.js, Angular.Js, HTML/CSS

PHP (Laravel/CodeIgniter), MySQL/SQLite/MongoDB, Android (JAVA/PhoneGap)

  Résumé/CV: https://www.linkedin.com/in/bhu1st

  Email: bhupal -at- semicolondev.com

semicolondevon Ask HN: How much are remote software developers paid?

I've been working in Kathmandu since last 10 years. On average full time programmers here earn 10 times more than that. And for freelancers the average income goes above $2k/month. Parent charging $50 is probably a cost for small "task" of few hours.

semicolondevon Ask HN: How much are remote software developers paid?

I make Content Management Systems for small medium businesses with optional eCommerce integration mostly LAMP stack, 3 person team(PHP & Android dev, a Designer), earning $60/hr. Location: Kathmandu. Have been bootstrapping my company with these occasional contract works for last 3 years.

semicolondevon NEPAL – A new extensible programming language

I am too curious to know more.

semicolondevon Find your health plan on Health Sherpa

I'm from Kathmandu, Nepal. My first thought after seeing the HealthSherpa name was this must be a website of a health foundation somewhere which provides health services and facilities to Sherpa families in Himalayan Region. For 30M Nepalese + NRNs worldwide the word Sherpa reflects the respected guides in Mountain Expeditions.

NRNs: Non Resident Nepalese.

semicolondevon A 97-Year-Old Man Who Draws Using Microsoft Paint from Windows ’95

I use Paint:

1)when I'm bored. http://www.flickr.com/photos/bhu1st/4911339994/

2)when I've to crop/edit quick screenshots

3) while teaching students about web design process (I do design/prototype quick web page layouts using paint).

4)meme generator ! Stitch images quickly to share it online.

While switching to Linux or other OS I sometime unknowingly try to hit win-r->mspaint.

semicolondevon Apple Confirms That Its Dev Center Has Been Breached By Hackers

>> If you take the scale into account I don't think that their web services are "crapware"

What "scale" has to do with "crap" ? Considering both vertical and horizontal scaling - there is possibility that "crap" can be scaled too.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scalability

semicolondevon A simple GUI to set up virtual machines for PHP development

I was looking for an option to dump x/wamp setup. This is encouraging me to do that right now.