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Ask HN: Side Projects and Full Time Work – Creating a Startup
I'm currently working full time and spending bits of my spare time committed to a couple of hobby projects. One of my goals is to turn one of my projects into a startup/entrepreneurial endevour and transition away from employed full time work towards starting my own company.
I would like to gain some insight as to how people here have juggled between full time employment and their various side projects, whilst being able to build a startup or side business?

Also I find that one of the things that makes me slightly hesitant in trying to build a startup is that I'm worried that I don't know enough to successfully build a product. I feel as though I need to spend more time at a company, get some more experience with other technologies before I start building a complete product.

So I'm not sure as to how to tackle this situation, any feedback or suggestions would be fantastic.
I loved that one, too. Here's the clip on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X6lTSPXDOAI
No problem. You could always bump me up the early access list in return :)
This is precisely my point. You attribute the capacity to reason to chemical molecules because their behavior seems purposeful. It does not occur to you that living entities may have goals and achieve those goals by using information processing means other than Reason(TM).

By the same logic, you could argue that tables are indeed rational to fall down, because otherwise they would fly into the sky.
It is hard for me to get riled up over a TLD. Haven't they been decreasing in relevancy for years, first with the growth of search engines and then again with the growth of social networks? No one really searches for sites anymore by typing random words with a .com at the end. At this point, I just don't see that much difference between controlling a specific domain or a top level domain. I would have no problem if Google bought app.com, so why should I care if they buy .app? There are countless other TLDs to use anyway.
What does your comment have to do with anything I said in mine? Its as if you replied to the wrong one.
#LLAP Live Long and Prosper, Dear Leonard Nimoy
I can't say enough good things about VLC. It has its quirks (the glitch when switching between videos in a playlist is annoying as hell), but when it comes down to it, there is nothing comparable, at any price. I use it professionally in an audiovisual company I started a few years ago, for screening films on huge screens outside, and I've tried several alternatives (often to address problems that turned out not to be VLCs fault, like the fact that Apple ProRes format literally cannot be played back reliably on a laptop computer at high resolutions, including in Apple's own players) only to be horribly disappointed in them.

The playlist features are great. It's smart about multiple displays, and can be configured in such a way that it always get's the right display...we have two different types of projector (one is 1920x1200 resolution the other is 1280x800), and VLC is the only player that can be configured to always open the video fullscreen on the projector and put the controls on the primary display. I can't say enough about how important this one is. It's incredibly configurable...it's kinda stupid how busy the display is, by default, and it can be a little tricky to find all of the various OSD options, but once the configuration is right, it's perfect. It looks as good as any player I have for nearly every format, including DVD and Blu-ray, so even if the client brings me a film the day of the event, I can pop it into a playlist and expect it to Just Work(tm) (with the exception of high res, lossless, ProRes, which has to be converted to a compressed mp4 or similar, first).

I've often considered making a custom version just for my kind of use case...it wouldn't take much to make it perfect for professional cinema usage (well, maybe there's the DCP question which I haven't researched lately), or at least for low and mid-range type cinema options, for indie film events and such. An automatic compression option for loading files that are in lossless formats, no glitch on switching between videos and images in a playlist (assuming the video mode doesn't have to change, the import step could normalize videos to one resolution and color depth, as well), and maybe some built-in auto-calibration options (with a video input). Would be amazing.
Seems to be evidence that the earth hasn't been this warm in a very long time or these pockets of gas wouldn't possibly even exist now.
You mean those like Lenovo, or people who bought their laptops?
Sadly it's still crashing when clicking Set file associations in the Settings : https://trac.videolan.org/vlc/ticket/11953

Running Windows 8.1 64bit and tried 32bit VLC.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peer-to-peer_web_hosting ?
Can I use this to promote the Artpacks.org ANSI & ASCII Art Archive?

http://artpacks.org
It's a nice product. I accomplish something similar using Google Inbox delays/reminders, and by not caring about my email timestamps. :) If I was in a situation where sent time reflected on me, I would certainly use it, though.
I don't see anything on your web page about running on top of AWS...? It looks like you guys only run your own cloud. Can you point me at some docs or anything about running on AWS?
No.

You stated that the article lacked solid critiques, but failed to address even one of the critiques presented and show it's lack of solidity. You further claimed that "instead weighs to emotion" but provided no evidence of it.

Stating such things as if they are self evident from the text is posturing, not argument. This sort of blather serves no useful purpose in discourse, and is rightly despised as a favored tool of the demagogue.

I'm well beyond diminishing returns here, so I'm done with this.
Blitzkrieg 3 ditches premium accounts for “pay once” pricing
I meant his own site, linked in his profile.
> Meh, he lived to be 83, which is really quite old. How much pleasure did he derive from smoking?

Clearly, not enough that, looking back, he thought it was worthwhile. And the cost isn't just years, its quality of life impacts of smoking-related illness (in his case, COPD.)
You're not wrong - its just that most people aren't THAT serious about it. People that pay for it, or even think about paying for it, give more focus to that area. But for many devs that's simply not going to happen. They'll just go with whatever is free, and to be honest thats perfectly fine.

I would say, if you want to take your sites typography to the next level... pay for a font library. But if you just want it to be better than defaults, plenty to be had for free.
Option 6. Create software that writes itself
Online Mortgage Startup Lenda Aims to Shake Up Industry
You're simply defining weaknesses of Subversion, not centralized versus distributed in either direction. E.g., we made blame for Git repos in Kiln ridiculously fast by caching memoized states for each file. You could also do that locally; we happened to do it server-side because it made more sense. There's no reason that an outright centralized system couldn't do that (and indeed, some do, though neither CVS nor Subversion).
Methane is unstable in oxygen atmosphere. Ice ages are caused by earth orbit and rotation axis orientation changes.
It makes me wonder if Nordstrom ever stocked the now-defunct Pornstar clothing brand.
You don't need your own copy of the universe in order to search like that. You only need the capability built into the source-of-all-truth.
It really depends on who you consider to be the recipient of the engineering services. The customer can't be trusted to evaluate the quality of the software, so they can't evaluate whether or not you've met your ethical obligations. You need a third party to look over the code.
And there's no reason someone couldn't create similar bindings for atom/node/iojs etc...
Awesome, thanks. I think you exemplify something that's gonna happen a lot in the next year or two, and I'm really interested to see how it goes. I learned systems stuff in college, and so when people have asked me for resources, I'm a bit lost... So my solution is to make them. I'm hoping others do too. Systems is fun!
John McCarthy and Doug Englebart got a black bars as well.
I'm ambivalent on closed tlds and against closing generic-sounding ones but what does this have to do with the open web? It's no different from owning a regular domain, just one level up.

How did OP go from owning a tld to North Korea? And what's with the excessive use of quotes? In particular, it's pretty clear what "open" means when applied to Android: https://source.android.com/source/downloading.html
Hard in gimp - text layout is not directly available as a method separate from fonts. And fonts cant do color in Gimp. So have to parse text, look for tags, insert icons, do your own word wrap etc. All in Lisp. Yuck.
Google has tried to build housing in Mountain View multiple times but their plans have been rejected:

http://www.mv-voice.com/print/story/2012/07/13/google-housin...

In general, it's much easier to build office space than housing. Cities like it because it generates revenue but they don't have to provide additional support services such as schools, police officers, etc.
So is it old, buried organic (flora,fauna) matter thats causing the methane ?

I'm wondering a couple of things :

1) Is there any way arial or satellite imaging can help predict where these methane bubbles in the permafrost will occur ?

2) Could this be tapped as a resource ?

P.S , is anyone else reminded of the "Spice blooms" from Dune ?
The previous discussion refers to the slideshare and did not include the new blog post and video.
Then all work is manual labor and it's a meaningless term.

>manual work is physical work done by people, most especially in contrast to that done by machines, and also to that done by working animals.

Here, inconveniently, "physical" is left undefined. And in fact, it's being used to mean "non-linguistic/non-social."
+1; this feels unhelpfully verbose, and it tries to do too much.

I spent the last two weeks reading the entirety of the 30 minute intro, TRPL, and Referecne, and Rust By Example. My background is primarily Python / Java / JavaScript. I can read but am uncomfortable writing C.

This article touches on mutability, references, stack versus heap, ownership, and lifetimes. It has listings of C and C++ code interspersed with Rust. At one point there are nine tables representing memory layout, with no clear indication of what's changed, and only the first 3 tables even fit inside my browser in their entirety.

I understand what you're trying to get to, but I don't think this is that. I'd appreciate detailed sidebars on how Rust avoids dangling pointers / data races / etc., but not part of the main path immediately following "Hello, world." Systems language folks will readily grok that stuff without exposition on what a stack and heap are, while those of us from higher level languages would get stopped in our tracks and completely bogged down in that morass.

Lifetimes and ownership were the most difficult concepts for me to grok, but I was able to make it through TRPL relatively quickly and come out knowing exactly where I was unclear. Rust By Example helped immensely on that front. I specifically appreciated the destroy_box function on http://rustbyexample.com/move.html, though the entire snippet was quite illuminating.

The examples of lifetime elision on http://doc.rust-lang.org/book/ownership.html#examples coupled with the attempts as manually annotating lifetimes in http://rustbyexample.com/lifetime/fn.html finally made that click.

I'm just one learner, but in my experience TRPL is fundamentally sound. I wouldn't fix what isn't broken. It may not sell Rust in the sense of putting its "best foot forward," but it's concise and it works. When shooting for first impressions, it might be worth focusing on the 30 minute intro or some other document instead. I didn't touch TRPL until I had been sufficiently sold on the language from other venues to commit to learning it.

Edit: But holy shit, Steve, thank you so much for the work and care you're putting into this. Rust wouldn't be where it is without you.
I'm not up to date on how google's current search indexing algorithm works. Supposing someone has a lot of bots that post links to `extra-small-teen-pony` or some other /sr query on nordstrom.com from other sites - would google index that?
I love that last line.

I can understand how YesGraph gets a larger % accept, and probably larger # sending because you are so much better than the terrible "solutions" built into most apps, but I don't see how larger # invites directly follow from what you have. Isn't the point fewer, better invites?
With a $60M Revenue Run Rate, ClassPass May Be the Next Uber
Why the Dress mania has much deeper implications
It's at least the second time they've announced something, since they announced a £650M / $1G building in London in 2013¹.

But it seems that's stalled.²

¹ http://www.independent.co.uk/news/business/news/googles-uk-b...

² http://www.techworld.com/news/startups/google-rent-offices-a...
Perhaps I worded the question incorrectly, but I was curious about the tradeoffs and differences in what you can easily express between languages.
(Author here)

To be clear, in real life, I do not actually like Subversion. I use Mercurial pretty exclusively for my own stuff, and would indeed use some of the centralized Mercurial extensions I linked in the article (e.g., remotefilelog, narrowhg, etc.) to scale upward if I had really big stuff flying around. The article is more about pointing out that going to a DVCS involves trade-offs, acknowledging that we have a lot of tooling designed to fake out those trade-offs, and discourage thinking of DVCS as a strict upgrade rather than an engineering decision with implications and costs and benefits.
Agreed, MV makes more sense than MTV
"who wants to be on the outside? Who wants to miss a birthday, a friend’s big news, a chance to sign up for Spotify, or the latest bit of juicy social intelligence?"

Me, me, and me. If it's important enough, I'll find out via other channels (like word-of-mouth). And no, that stupid dress doesn't count.
Mine is crashing under Server 2012R2 running a transcode. Reverted to 2.1.2 and everything works again.
Bookmarked this, thanks for taking the time to write it up.
Our ancestors were on the brink of starvation for most of history; only for a small slice of time have we* had caloric abundance. Humans turn to eating when facing all kinds of physical and emotional stressors; "simply eating less" is simplistic logic that doesn't hold water in practice.

*not everyone, of course.
Eating healthy is incredibly difficult in western society, and if you are suffering from Type 2 diabetes caused by lifestyle , chances are you already suffering from some kind of food addiction.

"Just eat less" is not a very helpful answer, it's incredibly frustrating to hear, believe me.

When your blood sugar is in the 60s or 50s range from trying like hell to do your diet all day, reason goes out the window and 'mere' will power is not enough.

It takes a lot of effort, lots of planning (preparing food, planning what, where and when to eat, snacks, etc) and a LOT of information (nutrition, insulin effects on the body, pros and cons of current 'fad' diets, etc) which takes a while to collect, also, lots of trial an error.

It doesn't help that most doctors, are clueless regarding healthy eating.
Could a $34 Smartphone device improve HIV diagnosis in Africa?
This is disgusting behavior on google's part. I'm down with a .google or a .coke - thats fine. but to claim a .dev, or a .music or whatever is something else entirely. I really wish such behavior wasn't allowed.

fuck google
as in you work at nordstrom?
Different problem domains. Collaborative annotation + canonical digital citations is an important use case that GitHub simply isn't aimed at.
s/saga/phenomenon/ just for you.
Yep, I submitted my email address. It's great stuff.

Would be amazing if you had a Cards Against Humanity template too. We have an info set we're looking to print for our own personal use, but I can't seem to find a good template gen and don't have the time to learn gimp commands.
> but it's concise and it works. When shooting for first impressions, it might be worth focusing on the 30 minute intro or some other document instead. I didn't touch TRPL until I had been sufficiently sold on the language from other venues to commit to learning it.

Thanks, this was literally my hypothesis for the intro, like qualifying a lead: give enough to get you interested, then either give you more or say good day, depending. Maybe this is just better as the intro itself, or many this draft is at the wrong level of abstraction, we'll see.
It was warmer 8000 years ago due to orbital effects. [1]

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Holocene_climatic_optimum
You'll still be paying for this, except it will be through federal taxes for corporate subsidies instead of a bill, so you won't know the real price. Usually things you pay for indirectly are much more expensive than they would be if you paid for them directly, so you'll probably be paying more in the end.
You do get a boost to your search-engine result page rankings if your domain name matches the search term, for example.

If your customers are searching for "find bee mortgages fast", then owning "findbeemortgagesfast.com" will be a valuable competitive advantage to your business.
The scariest part of the slow trend of global warming is that maybe big positive feedback mechanisms could be literally hidden under our feets, pretty much ignored till now. Things could go wrong very fast, in ways that not even experts could had predicted.
If you want to base your life around the results of single, small scale studies, that's your choice. But I've seen too many studies that seemed impressive, but when people set out to replicate the the study, they failed to get the same results. This is not rare, it happens frequently.
➜ ~ cat /usr/share/dict/words | grep "^porn"

pornerastic

pornocracy

pornocrat

pornograph

pornographer

pornographic

pornographically

pornographist

pornography

pornological
Looks more like a mop-up after a website infection incident.
It's the closest thing we have to a general purpose, cross platform application engine that pretty much runs anywhere with a GUI interface (for anything updated in the past 3-5 years).

Browsers are more easily available on every major, and most minor platforms than any GUI toolkit out there... Things like atom, brackets and similar make sense. They translate well between standalone app in an OS, or a platform app for the likes of ChromeOS, or as a SaaS app in a browser.

No, they aren't the fastest, lightest or best performing. They don't even have the smallest codebases... what they are is broadly available, with minimal variance and a lot of developers with most of the knowledge needed to maintain them.
Theoretically, in some kind of intranet office application that needed to access Windows or MS Office APIs. I'm having trouble coming up with a hypothetical example, but that's the sort of thing where it might make sense.
trying to equate arbitrary strings with web browser interoperability is confusing at best and malicious at worst. one of these issues is important, the other is not.

.dev is three arbitrary letters. sure, i'd like a .dev domain too, but that's purely vanity. if google wants to spend millions buying up vanity domains, good for them, it doesn't really hurt anybody, and certainly has nothing to do with the open web.

look how important potentially cool domains like .biz and .info turned out to be. domains are purely fashion. .io is popular right now for no reason other than fashion, if .dev gets locked up by google for their internal use, then it will never become fashionable and nothing of value has been lost. When the world needs more domain names, a new gTLD will come into fashion.
Update!
offending term we rank on "extra small teen porn" - offending page /sr/petite-extra-small. Robots updated (live tomorrow)! Asked Google to remove the URL.
> Is my conclusion that Apple should get a free pass for hamstringing their web evangelists? No. Get your Safari team a blog, Apple. Let them give a talk at a fucking conference.

https://www.webkit.org/blog/
Well perhaps then you can get riled up about a nonprofit regulatory organization bending its own rules to serve the interests of The Biggest Fucking Company Ever? Downplaying this because you don't care isn't what the comment section is for.

"I would have no problem if Google bought app.com, so why should I care if they buy .app?"

I'm not even sure you understand what TLDs are. Perhaps you should Google it?
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Google isn't having to strongarm anybody. ICANN outlined a process for creating new TLDs, and that process is essentially "if you give us enough money, you can have a gTLD all to yourself". If you have a problem with that (and you probably should, it's a pretty stupid process) you should get mad at ICANN.
> The answer of course is to petition the Internet Darling Google...

> Why? Who knows. Maybe because Android is “open”, whatever the hell that means. Maybe it is because Google is strongly pro-net-neutrality, and Apple has made their customary “no comment”. Maybe because Google employees have blogs. The world may never know.

What? Did this person even read PPK's rant? He was saying the group that could force Apple's hand on Pointer Events is Google, and then proceeds to give explicit reasoning for this. No need to speculate on invent a convenient strawman for the rest of your post. It has nothing to do with hand-wavey openness, it's that they are the developers of the other browser that makes up a huge chunk of the mobile web. If they supported PE, over time it would certainly put some pressure on Apple (though situations like WebSQL/IndexedDB indicate that the pressure might not be that effective).

The rest of this is nonsense. A closed TLD is not an attack on the open internet. Honestly, who on earth cares. You couldn't get a .dev address before, you won't be able to get one now. Personally I don't think they should have opened up TLDs in the first place, but, whatever.

Meanwhile, quotes like

> This is a methodical, coordinated, long-running and well-planned attack on the open web that comes from the highest levels of Google leadership

make this article more than a little bit of a joke.
That's a pretty lame rationalization.

My mom was a victim of some adware and she had no idea. She thought she was seeing google ads or something and only asked me for help because a bunch of stuff stopped working.

Just because something is profitable does not mean it adds value to the world.
Maybe not GitHub, but likely you still use Git in a centralized model. Yes, it is technically distributed, and I know that people use it in a truly distributed manner, but if you're cutting builds or working with a sufficiently large team, it becomes very difficult not to consider at least one repo the "gold master".
kinda sorta maybe
I guess people might be left with an incomplete image from that comment.
The positive CO2 feedback loop amplifies ice ages a lot.
Are there any reports of this phenomenon occurring in Alaska and Canada?
That's true and very admirable but not what I was objecting to. It's this line that I find objectionable:

"we paid more than $7 billion to developers"

No, the Marketplace enabled $7 billion in transactions between the customers and the developers, that would have been a more correct way to state it.
Ask HN: Can you help me debug dropjar?
I'm trying to figure what's the top upload speed I can get with DropJar.com my file sharing service after getting complaints from users upload is slower than we transfer, the servers have a 1Gb connection but my internet at home is limited to 1Mb upload.

If you have a fat pipe and can upload in higher speeds can you please try and see if you can get a full upload speed on my site ? and comment here on your findings.