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It sounds like you've got quite a complicated process there, how did you find handling dependencies with Lambda? The docs include how to add npm dependencies but I couldn't find anything covering dependencies that the node modules might require. Does Lambda just magically figure it out?

"Finally the Flix/Netflix Roulette API will feature localization (finally), this will include all current regions Netflix is supported in and any future ones (its literally checking every second to see if a new country gets added)"

What is it you're trying to do? It might be worth taking a look at the storage provided by S3 and how you'd go about hosting a static website (if that's something you might need). Or set up a free micro EC2 instance. That will give you a linux box which you can play around with.

> 1) Some sites place rules on the password. A bank I used limited passwords to 6 characters! Can believe someone thought that was a good idea. That's true, but I haven't recently come across a service that I want to use on a regular basis which has that restriction. If I do need to sign up to a site which has a similar restriction it's normally something I'm going to use once so I use a garbage password and rely on their password reset mechanism if I need to use the service again.

2 is a good idea and I'll start doing that. It still keeps what you need to remember to a minimum while adding greater uniqueness to passwords.

And migueldeicaza commented on another post here:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8596226

I'm not from Xamarin but their latest blog post sounds positive: http://blog.xamarin.com/microsoft-and-xamarin-expand-global-...

I don't use a password manager tool because I don't feel I need to. I take a kind of algorithmic approach to generating unique passwords for each site I use. I have a root password which contains the usually required alphanumeric with an upper case letter and some special characters. The rest of the password is based on the site or service I'm logging into.

A really simple example would be:

cabbage123!face <- Facebook cabbage123!goog <- Google cabbage123!twit <- Twitter

I only have two things to remember - the root part of the password and the way to generate the last part. Obviously, just using the first four characters isn't the best idea, but you can change that part to whatever you want to - it's kind of your own secret key.

Yeah, I think you only fully understand something when you try to explain it to someone else.

Writing code, thinking about code, reading code.

As an addendum to what adrianhoward said, work with people who are better at coding than you are, then work with people who are worse at coding than you are. You will learns loads of things from both.

Thanks! It's been really interesting building something that has been so useful to me, and hopefully it will be useful to others too.

I'm working on Storytella[0] which is a writing app aimed at self-publishing authors. I'm trying to bring more developer-like tools to authors in a simple way, so there's an entity system (think, database) and entities can be inserted into body text using an IDE-style context menu.

[0] https://storytel.la/

Same. And I can think of a couple of reasons why I might have been rejected, which means I now have an area to focus on to develop the company (and the idea) further.

The reasons cited here are basically why I built Storytella[0]. Writing tools seem vastly inferior to developer tools when it comes to basic layout and document conversion. At the moment Storytella is aimed at novels for self-publishing authors so doesn't have much in the way of complex formatting - I want to update the Markdown syntax it uses to include some of the extensions available such as table formatting.

[0] https://storytel.la/

I've considered out sourcing web development in the past. At the time I was working on a freelance basis with a lot of work coming in, to the point of having to turn some away. If I was to do it again I would be looking for high quality front end code, ongoing support and high availability. High availability would be the more important thing to me.

Sounds like a worthwhile book to finish and publish!

There's a few things I forgot to mention.

You will have to do your own marketing. None of the self-publishing services will help you with that.

A Good Reads[0] account can help with that, but I haven't had much success with it myself. If you figure out a good marketing strategy please let me know :)

If you're outside of the US and are charging for the book then both Amazon and Smashwords require you to fill out US tax forms as they're both US based. Amazon have a wizard which will help walk you through this. It seemed really daunting when I did it (I had to phone a US tax office for an EIN number) but was actually quite straight forward.

If you've got any specific questions, let me know.

[0]: http://www.goodreads.com/

I've published a series of short stories through Amazon and I find their service to be very good. Quite straight forward to set up and get started. Smashwords[0] are also supposed to be quite good. They have similar terms to Amazon and will spread your book to other sites such as Apple, Kobobo[1] and a few others.

Things you may not have thought about:

1. Get a good quality cover image, pay for one if you have to,

2. Write an interesting and compelling blurb,

3. Have other people read your work before you publish, if you can afford to hire an editor.

1 and 2 are the first introduction to your book so need to catch the eye of the potential reader. 3 is vital, especially in longer works, as you will miss things.

What's the book about?

Oh and good luck!

[0]: http://www.smashwords.com/

[1]: http://store.kobobooks.com/

I'm building a couple of things.

Storytella (http://storytel.la/) is a tool for writers and self publishers. It makes it easy to manage novels you're working on, has an online editor, has an entity system (variable insertion in the text) and can save everything to a couple of different formats. I've been working on it for a while and have just got a payment process in place (thanks Stripe!).

Sunstone (http://sunstone.stoogoff.com/) is a map making tool aimed mainly at roleplayers. It's a bit restricted at the moment. I'm planning on adding different themes, more stamps, and a means to store different maps.