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dome82

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Software developer. Living in Norway and born in Italy. Twitter: @domenicosolazzo Email: solazzo.domenico AT gmail DOT com :)
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dome82··on Ask HN: Career advice needed – How do you plan your long run?
What do you love to do? Do you love coding? Do you love design? Would you love to open your own business?

Whatever you really like to do, learn more about that craft but also learn new skills. We are in a world that is moving so fast and you want to try new things continuously.

It works also if you don't really love to do any particular thing right now. Trying new things will let you explore and find something that you would enjoy doing it for the next 5-10-15 years.

Don't be in a rush to set your goals in stones. Stay patient and optimistic. Life is long.

This is just my opinion. How I would do it if I was in your position. You do you in the best way you can :)

dome82··on Tell HN: Happy New Year
Happy new year!!!!!
dome82··on Ask HN: I want to build SaaS app but I don't know front-end development
Maybe, you could try to build your first version of the idea with Bubble (https://bubble.is/).

You can go quite far just using this tool, Zapier and Blockspring (https://www.blockspring.com/) together.

dome82··on Ask HN: What are your favorite books?
- Meditations by Marcus Aurelius

- A Guide to the Good Life: The Ancient Art of Stoic Joy by Irvine

dome82··on Apply HN: paralleltext.io – Learn languages by reading
I really like the idea!

It would be nice to have features like the one in ReadLang where I can click on multiple words and get them translated. I like the part where I can listen the sentences.

Are you going to apply this to any article on the web? What will be the business model of your service?

Good luck!!

(P.S: In Norway, we have a similar site that translate the news. Here it is an example and hope it can be useful to you: http://www.klartale.no/kultur/kunne-aldri-v%C3%A6rt-forfatte...)

dome82··on Ask HN: What are you working on and why is it awesome? Please include URL
Nice project. How different is from Pacifica(https://www.thinkpacifica.com/)?
dome82··on Ask HN: Best front-end framework to use with React to make a web app?
I was learning both at the same time but I felt that the architecture using Redux was cleaner and easier to understand.
dome82··on Ask HN: Best front-end framework to use with React to make a web app?
I use Redux with React. Quite happy with that.

Here you can find the FullStack Redux Tutorial: http://goo.gl/QYLB3s

It is a great starting point if you want to learn more about Redux :)

dome82··on I am Sam Altman, President of Y Combinator – AMA
About point 1.: What about Nordic countries like Norway or Sweden? :) About point 2.: Hope it is something related to genomics, renewable energies and cancer research
dome82··on Ask HN: What are your favorite tools for getting work done?
I like Quip and I wish they had a Presentation tool also. Which tool do you use for Presentations?
dome82··on Ask HN: Staying focused on your project
I am trying to use OKR in my projects. They help me to stay focused in what I need to do and see progresses every quarter. I am using WeekDone for tracking them.

Moreover, using Todoist for keeping track of my todo's, Quip for my documents and Trello as my default board.

Agree that taking breaks from technology and staying offline is very helpful to keep me focused.

dome82··on Ask HN: I Have Cancer. What Should I Do?
I wish you to get well soon. Stay strong.
dome82··on Ask HN: Quotes that made a difference in your life?
“Everything we hear is an opinion, not a fact. Everything we see is a perspective, not the truth.”

“If you are distressed by anything external, the pain is not due to the thing itself, but to your estimate of it; and this you have the power to revoke at any moment.”

“Do not act as if you were going to live ten thousand years. Death hangs over you. While you live, while it is in your power, be good.”

- Marcus Aurelius -

dome82··on Show HN: Practice makes perfect. An alternative way to learn Swift
I will take a look to the .xcodeproj and write more about the path that I follow while writing these projects :)
dome82··on Ask HN: How does a beginner best spend one week of learning machine learning?
Here you can find some interesting podcast about ML and Data Science: http://goo.gl/KF4NGE

Enjoy :)

dome82··on Ask HN: What books have changed your mind?
Same here!
dome82··on Ask HN: What are the books that changed the perspective of your life?
The Ancient Art of Stoic Joy

Meditations by Marcus Aurelius

dome82··on Ask HN: Which book are you reading these days?
The Ancient Art of Stoic Joy (4th time)

Meditations (4th time)

Becoming Steve Jobs

The Hook Model

dome82··on Segment is giving away free Watsi gift cards
Thank you Watsi for what you are doing and thank you Segment for this great donation!
dome82··on Ask HN: What can you do as a software engineer who has lost their passion?
Maybe it is related to your passion, maybe not.

Try to enjoy what you have, how lucky you are to be where you are with your skills. Some people can just dream of those.

Sometimes, it seems that we lose our passion but we just need to stop, refresh our mind and start enjoying small things in life. The excitement and passion will be back..at least, that's what happened to me.

Take it easy and stay positive :)

dome82··on The Meditations by Marcus Aurelius
My first book about Stoicism and I loved it. Read it multiple times afterwards!!
dome82··on Ask HN: How long it took you to get your dream job. Why that long?
I agree! Maybe, it is because of our tendency as humans to hedonic adaptation (http://goo.gl/4EnTXL)
dome82··on Show HN: GameDev News- It's like DN or HN for people who make games
Great! I really like and i was looking for something like that lately!
dome82··on Ask HN: How can I enjoy my job?
The power of Negative Visualization :)
dome82··on Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy
Epictetus: http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/epictetus/

Marcus Aurelius: http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/marcus-aurelius/

Stoicism: http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/stoicism/

Seneca: http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/seneca/

dome82··on YC Demo Day Session 4
There is a development environment at $0.06/hour.

Anyway, I agree. I think the pricing is a bit too high for bootstrapped health startup.

dome82··on Seneca: On the Shortness of Life
I agree with you. I re-read it multiple times and doing it again in these days. The content has been so helpful in critical situations in my life like the death of my father. I should probably buy the Audible version too...

Another great book that I would like to suggest is Meditations by Marcus Aurelius.

dome82··on Ask HN: What do you after bad day?
Be kind. Smile. Be grateful for the life I have. Make a donation on Watsi.

Life can be beautiful, even in dark days.

Stay positive!

dome82··on Ask HN: Which platforms to use to build a personal website?
Tumblr.
dome82··on What book have you reread the most?
A Guide to the Good Life: The Ancient Art of Stoic Joy by William B. Irvine
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