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Ask HN: How to find clients/projects for a software development company?
We are a relatively new startup with two founders, located in Europe, Latvia.
We've got 1 client, from whom we earn the bare minimum, and it's been tough to find new clients.

Both of us 5+ experienced senior backend engineers. We specialize in eCommerce. We do everything from simple APIs, CRM, and ERP platforms to even more complex backend apps. We have a suitcase full of many integrated apps that we developed ourselves (e.g., UPS, Amazon, eBay, etc.).

We have opened company profiles on multiple freelance platforms, with no significant result. Most of these platform's service providers automated their proposals to the point, that it's hard to compete for starting accounts and require marketing specialists, that we can't afford yet. We've tried email marketing, and other advertisement with no lead.

Looking forward for some advice or networking.
If you have any project you can outsource, we're looking forward to chat with you:

Sincerely,
Nurbek

Our website: https://scalecast.eu
Our profile in Clutch with a portfolio: https://clutch.co/profile/scalecast
My email: nurbek@scalecast.eu
This is the right answer. By the time anything goes to court there's going to be more investigation than looking at a forum post.
We started out with all docs actually, and decided to narrow to dev docs because
1. Markdown files are structured and easier to parse
2. Engineering teams tend to have more influence in their orgs. We tried talking to a lot of traditional customer support teams and while they were interested in the product the sales cycle was long. Whereas with many teams working on developer facing products the conversation was just "hey that looks cool, let's try it!"

And yep we're running into some issues the new Slack we set up for public testing. Sorry for the inconvenience, we should have tested it more thoroughly. It should be up in the next hour or so.
As far as I know, web browsers use JavaScript as a scripting language and do the heavy lifting in C++.

Your average Unity game developer does not do anything in C++. The engine itself is implemented in C++, but the game logic written by game developers is in C#.
Show HN: Wirepig – Mock HTTP and TCP deps with real sockets in Node.js tests
Wirepig lets you stand up mock HTTP and TCP servers for your dependencies, all from within your testing process.

That means even in tests your application sends real requests over localhost, but without giving up the nice ergonomics of programmatically controlled mocks.

Let me know if you have any comments or suggestions!
Same here. Chromium based Edge used to be nice at the beginning, it was a breath of fresh air after Chrome forcing Google services all the time.

But Edge seems to get worse after each update.

Recent updates have give me a new sidebar and video backgrounds on tabs. And a cloud based Microsoft Editor or something that I guess it sends everything I type to the cloud.
It’s a Chinese company, they don’t care about O̶S̶S̶ ̶l̶i̶c̶e̶n̶s̶e̶s copyright.
> If you're doing scientific computing, use Python and C++.

You're ignoring the very significant codebase in Fortran. I think Fortran might even be the dominant language for supercomputers, but I don't have hard statistics on the language mix.
He’s been at twitch since 2006. How many founders stay that long? Mark Zuckerberg I guess? I just don’t think the numbers back up your premise that being a CEO of a top company requires a pathological drive to stay there until death
I'm not surprised Triplebyte isn't standing on its own.

I set up identical profiles and passed all the relevant quizzes at Triplebyte, Hired, and LinkedIn (all 3 offer timed, multiple choice question tests with limited retries), but only LinkedIn was able to match me with opportunities willing to pay what I was asking. Triplebyte and Hired both let you set a floor salary, but have no ability to set a floor total compensation, which meant it was effectively worthless for determining if a company was competitive for me.

In Oct-Dec '22, I got ~400 LinkedIn recruiter messages (3% with high enough total comp), ~20 triplebyte messages (0 with competitive comp) and ~10 hired messages (0 competitive). None of these recruiters were connections beforehand on any platform, so it's just representative of the total number of recruiters on each platform. (In case anyone is interested, I also cold-applied ~20 places, and none of those resulted in me making it past the hiring manager stage, if that. I ended up with 2 offers, both from random LinkedIn recruiter outreach.)
Given that you have an issue with ads, how do you respond to the fact you can pay $5/month to subscribe to a specific streamer to avoid all ads? Would you prefer if there was a platform-level subscription level which allows you to avoid all platform-driven ads across all channels, similar to YouTube Premium, for example?
Then again, they might not.
It might be time to accept that Roberts has carved out for himself the perfect job until his retirement. Paid well for promises without any commitment or accountability. He needs to feel the back of Adam Smith's invisible hand.
Elevator Hacking – From the Pit to the Penthouse [video]
Blind Interviews and Voice Bias
Visually navigating on foot uses unique brain region
I'm a firm believer that you can evaluate exactly what you test. If you are asking someone to rush to deliver an algorithm, you are testing their ability to rush to deliver an algorithm. If you actually want to know whether they can deliver a polished solution, you asked the wrong question.

In my case, I actually do want to know how quickly people can pick up a new problem and get started writing some code, and that's how I evaluate what they deliver.

> Any junior can copy / paste some functional yet poorly done code. Or make ChatGPT come up with something, I suppose, now that that's a thing.

I have two thoughts about this.

1. If people can deliver, they can deliver.

2. If you come up with an original problem (rather than lazily copy and pasting some fizz-buzz type problem), you'd be surprised how many people fail to apply any basic problem solving.

> a discussion about an example piece of code

I do find that it is useful to keep code exercises short, but ask a few questions about their solution as a follow up. People often struggle to explain their solution if they just copy/pasted.
Plot twist: this is secretly sponsored by some of the big AI players so that they can easily identify original human-made material to train future versions of their AI on.
Came here to post this. Your engineering team is a fail, your problem is a joke, and your hiring process is overfitting. Maybe you could post stackoverflow questions...and then wrong answers...and get better results from people correcting you?
> What I don't is that there seems to be no use case for which Rust isn't good.

There are plenty of such cases and those raised constantly here and comment threads even slightly related to Rust.
Neither do many US-based companies.

https://wiki.fsfe.org/Migrated/GPL%20Enforcement%20Cases
Civil legislation is already in place.

All you need to do is hire a lawyer and file a lawsuit.

The obvious problem being that open source developers may lack the revenue/income/funds to make this a practical reality.
Also known for having lots of variant spellings of his name (https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/stamp/stamp.jsp?arnumber=6500167) due to every Latin-alphabet language having different conventions for transliterating from Russian.
I reported one, got lazy for the next one. Perhaps GitHub should make their spammer reporting process less tedious. I even got an email with a ticket ID about my report. This is a bit much.
"Until then, it's all just (un)educated guesses. "

We know that long time weightlessness causes damage, so 38% of earths gravity will likely have some bad effect, too. This is not just wildly speculating. But yes, for finding out, whether humans still can bear it, we will have to find out and there is no shortage of volunteers.
I had a weird experience with Triplebyte. First I take their intake test and then I’m ghosted for a year or two. I email them and I got unghosted somehow. They said it was some kind of glitch but it didn’t really appeal to me…
No; many things in biology are not easily defined (due to limitations of technology, or our own ability to classify things is faulty) but are solidly in the area of quantitative biology.

Example: in the past, "rho factor" was a magical component in a test tube that had a well-defined activity but nobody knew "what" rho was (hence the term "factor"). Eventually, rho factor was isolated and purified to the point where molecular characterization determined it was a protein with a specific function. but that didn't stop people from studying it as a "thing" that had no real "definition" other than the visible activity of its function.
United States never invaded Libya or Syria in the same way as Russia invaded Ukraine, or the US invaded Iraq. Both are essentially civil wars where the US was (and continues to be?) involved, but that's not the same thing as an invasion.

You can dismiss it as a "game", but the reasons and specifics of the situation DO matter. A lot. Denying this means, for example, that the Nazi invasion of Poland is just the same as the allied invasion of Nazi Germany. After all, both are foreign invasions in a sovereign country. No reasonable person would agree these situations are the same; the invasion in to Nazi territory was horrible because all war is, but was, in the end, a good thing. The same cannot be said about the invasion of Poland.
I consider the MS Language Servers pretty much the most important bit of vscodes IDE functionality as it provides autocompletion, lookup, refactoring etc, which is the feature i was specifically thinking of here.
They were originally all open source, but aren't anymore.

they're still free (as in beer), but their licence only allows usage with the official visual studio code distribution
If I was worth ~100 million dollars, I would definitely quit my job AND my family
Your prejudice is that Indians would be a net negative to the economy. Even if they were only fit for lower-skilled work, they'd free up the native workers for native-specific jobs.
There’s a requirement to include the license with the product, isn’t there? I’d hope removing a license is actually a pretty serious offense.
It is pretty easy to get started with Cursive and the tutorials are useful but some widgets also seem buggy (or at least underdocumented). Using large strings with text widgets is very slow with scrolling and reflowing.
I demoed Karat as a customer and I think they're just awful. They pretended that the interview process was customizable, so we sent them what we wanted. Then to demo it I signed myself up as a candidate.

Literally all of our feedback was completely ignored. They didn't touch on any of the topics they said they would, and even though we explicitly told them it wasn't an algorithms heavy position that was their entire focus. On the plus side I did pass the interview, but we ultimately decided that using Karat would have had a real negative impact on our hiring.
Between Virgin Galactic and now this hard to see him as much more than a pump and dump SPAC grifter.
Yeah we're thinking any type of product in a technically complex field could benefit. Legal, compliance, software, etc. For these types of products companies need highly trained employees with specific expertise to provide support and to create content, which makes it extremely expensive to scale.
Copilot can automatically create PowerPoint presentations
Ooh. I mean, ooo..
> Also, creators on a platform that grew its original userbase through piracy and media re-mixes with little or no content-policing now have to be extremely careful about even very clear-cut fair-use of commercial media

Monetization is a big part of this problem. It is possible for something to be fair use and commercialized, but once you've commercialized it you're fighting an uphill battle to claim fair use.
I'd still prefer, as leetcode needs "prep" and studying, even if you are senior. I don't have that time free compared to a few take homes in areas I already know
In a test of verbal reasoning, photographer is to Photoshop as writer is to ...?

I don't think "AI" is the way most people would complete that sentence. Perhaps "Word"? Or "LibreOffice" if "Photoshop" were replaced with "Gimp"? Personally I use Emacs or Vim. You could incorporate AI into any of those tools, but how exactly? And would it be a core part of the functionality? And would it be something that the best artists make much use of?

If you used AI to make the spelling/grammar checker more reliable, probably most people would use that (assuming no privacy problems), but if there's an AI-driven autocomplete for sentences probably a lot of people, including the best artists, would turn it off, just like I turn off the autocorrect on a word processor today.

If an AI can complete the sentence, then perhaps the sentence isn't worth completing, at least if we assume that the reader is as clever as the writer and has similarly sophisticated tools. Perhaps the AI-driven tool should instead put some kind of wavy line under the second half of the sentence to indicate that it's boring and obvious and doesn't need to be there.
Bring back Glass Steagall and stop all this madness. Regular banking should be boring, not all that profitable and separated from speculation.
I found obvert in the daily puzzles.. and tabanid in the practice puzzle. There's nothing wrong with learning "Scrabble" words.
Maybe instead of a summary we should ask what the most interesting parts of the article are?
They are carefully omitting that it also can be harmfully, time-wastingely, non-obviously wrong. Clearly there is no way that they can exclude those possibilities. Since Copilot apparently is wrong often enough that they have to address that in their marketing copy, they are trying to paint it in a positive light, although evidently it would be better for Copilot not to be wrong.
Right, the difference is that there's an enforcement mechanism here.
You could probably try to get these blocked from import. But that's pretty expensive, and not always very effective.
Without Angular, we may very well not have TypeScript today.

The top thing listed in this release (TypeScript doesn't follow semver, btw) is about Decorators. I find the whole story about Angular's role in TypeScript early days to be very fascinating because I don't hear people talk about it anymore (just search "AtScript TypeScript" if you weren't around at the time). It was the Angular team that forced Decorators to be added when it was still stage 0. In exchange, they forfeited continued work on their would-be competitor to TypeScript.

Even without the Decorators thing, Angular was intensely popular and it made a big impact how they went "all in" on TypeScript, pushing a lot of early adoption. I know lots of people that first started with TypeScript because of work on an Angular project.

I think a lot of people don't seem to know/remember how touch-and-go TypeScript was in the very early days. There were many large projects that were all-in on FlowType, and others still that were pushing for Elm, etc. For example, it took quite a while for you to be able to do JSX _at all_.

Today, we just have TypeScript. Well. I do know one company that uses ReasonML (or isn't it called Rescript now?)

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Historical stuff aside, I'm extremely happy we ended up with TypeScript over the others because the team is so incredibly awesome and dedicated. It's rare you see such a large project so well shepherded by such a talented set of individuals. It speaks volumes that the average tenure on that team is so high. We've seen some public apologies from the Flow team on this topic so I don't feel like I'm talking behind anyone's back if I say they ended up truly not being up to the task of being what TypeScript is today.
Can confirm as a musician this is a very natural progression. Amazing what people out there can do when they are willing to bend some of the rules though. ;)
Stop the sale of products that violate licenses in markets the US controls, and compel other states to enforce those licenses, as well. US already does it for other licensed IP.
People don't care that apple resolved iPhone worker suicides with jumpers nets, I don't think they will care of some weird, obscure licensing topic
Microsoft Releases 365 Copilot for Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Outlook, Teams
the "bent propellor" could just be an optical illusion due to camera FPS vs reality.
> So if a netflix series get 2 seasons, 12 Episode. it is just starting

True Detective season one: 8 episodes and done => one of the most acclaimed TV shows in many years.

Mare of Easttown: 7 episodes and done => one of the most acclaimed TV shows in many years

If you make actual stories instead of trying to create ongoing scenarios, you can hit it out of the park in less than 10 episodes.
You could just cross out the OSS part and say licenses.

China has a ton of copyright infringing knockoffs of anything remotely popular outside its borders. For a long time, companies like Microsoft took it as granted that the vast majority of their software running in SE Asia was likely pirated.
You could phrase it as:

On a scale of 1 to China, what level of IP infringement, technology theft, and corporate espionage are Xiaomi operating at?

China.
As an American, it always surprises me that people in other countries actually use week numbers in common use. I first ran into this when I was planning a trip in Norway and read something about how the train I had hoped to take would be under repairs in, I think, week 31.
YouTube TV raising prices by 12%
YouTube TV is once again raising its prices without adding any additional benefits.
Counterpoint, if one doesn't have their own baseline model how does one know the vendor is providing value.

Yeah having a whole big team create the internal baseline is not cost effective, but having at least one or two people work on something to actually know the vendor is worth their cost is important.
Do you mean impedance the concept (it's just resistance, in the frequency domain), the fact that amplifiers have an "output" impedance, maximum power transfer, or how a transformer works to convert output impedance?

There's a lot of inter-layered things behind "why do tube amps need an output transformer." The concept of impedance is pretty simple and doesn't really deal with that, other than being the 0th layer.
Something Pretty Right
Isn't that what "Twitch Turbo" is?
Writing can be improved. If your position requires better writing try to improve it, not replace your lack of skills with an AI. Using a AI is the same as to pay someone else on Fiverr to write the emails for you.
when I was doing research on ratings, one thing I noticed: no matter how popular or unpopular a show, its an almost certainty that the number of viewers viewing something goes down over time.

The first season almost always has more viewers than season 2, season 2 almost always has more viewers than season 3. The only real difference between the extremely popular shows is that the decrease from season to season is not as pronounced, but its still there.

I was like wow, I'm surprised they even bother with season 2s.
Well, I haven't watched TV for over 20 years now, so I wouldn't know.

Anyway, the issue is that it is a live streaming platform.

In comparison to last 5 years, in the last year I can recall at least 5 times where I missed significant moments because the platform automatically ran ads.
People don't buy Xiaomi because of their fancy tech, they buy it because it's cheap. Tech YouTuber telling people they steal that tech to make it cheap won't make people stop buying their cheap phones.

You can ask your government to take action for this IP violation by taxing those brands more, or banning them until they stop violating licenses. I'm sure they'll start caring more after that.
I might be a bit confused here. Is this just for open source projects (and companies built on top of them)? Or can I use it for internal repos?

I’d love the latter use case. A bot that scanned our internal engineering chat and answered our own team’s questions. I can provide many examples.

The difference is we don’t have public API docs. Instead we have code comments + confluence (reluctantly) + readme files in GitHub repos + the code itself. I imagine you could train off that and build the knowledge corpus over time?
A Student Writes a Rejection Letter Rejecting Harvard’s Rejection Letter (1981)
We have! The reason we didn't start there is because Confluence is usually used for internal docs, which means a longer sales and adoption cycle. The nice thing about developer docs is that they're public so we can ingest them and start adding value ASAP.
If that's all you're hearing you are so overly emotionally invested that it's blinding you to context.

No one is saying that citizens and corporations of non-aligned countries shouldn't submit patches which are accepted by the maintainers. They're saying that citizens and corporations of countries which are engaged in hot, cold, or proxy wars with the countries of citizenship of the maintainers shouldn't have patches accepted by said maintainers.
That's surprising, the Rust ecosystem is already getting quite mature for most things. Can you share the bug you ran into?
I briefly worked as an interviewer -- it wasn't for me, but I like and appreciate everything they're doing to make things fair across candidates and removing subjectivity where possible. Of all the bad ways we interview SWEs, Karat is one of the better ones, IMO.

The way I saw it, it removes a lot of stress and pressure for the candidate, and puts some of it onto the interviewer.
Rattler author here! I just published v0.1.0 to crates.
The cutoff is 100 episodes, which traditionally is a magic number for US syndication deals. An ongoing series with 100 episodes under its belt will get a good deal for everyone involved.

Most traditional series will hit that number in 5 seasons, but obviously nobody wants to make a deal for a dead series; so you produce season 6 too, to make it palatable. By this point, however, your talent bill has probably grown significantly, so making new seasons is less and less profitable - as well as narratively hard. So you pull the plug and start afresh.
The OpenAI system card suggests the opposite. They said GPT-4 successfully used TaskRabbit to hire a human worker.

The OpenAI system card: "ARC combined GPT-4 with a simple read-execute-print loop that allowed the model to execute code, do chain-of-thought reasoning, and delegate to copies of itself. ARC then investigated whether a version of this program running on a cloud computing service, with a small amount of money and an account with a language model API, would be able to make more money, set up copies of itself, and increase its own robustness".

Although it is ineffective at replicating itself, the system card is written in such a way as to suggest GPT-4 is able to perform the individual task of using TaskRabbit.
I'm sure the Lessons so Far list really does work, but it seems like mental illness to me. Trying to be entertaining to get followers, tailoring your work so that it gets attention, talking to the right people on social media and being sure to take their side or promote them. It's sickening.

This is why every YouTube thumbnail has a face with bugged out eyes and huge fonts. This is why all news is sensationalism now. It's all about grabbing attention and getting revenue over making or doing something worthwhile.
A contract, license, or agreement are only "real" if both parties have the means to enforce them.

Which means, you have to lawyer up and spend vast sums of money to go after people violating your license (GPL here).

Which is why you routinely hear about people violating the GPL - the interested parties have no means to enforce their license, and the counter party likely has deep pockets; deep enough to out last, out spend, and bury the licenser.