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I moved from firefox to opera

geekmeon How do I know if I'm good at programming?

I would like to quote what Professor paul hegarty says in Stanford's lectures "The most bug free code is the code that you never write"

geekmeon Benefits of named return values in Go

Yes it will work.

geekmeon Google Will Stop Reading Your Emails for Gmail Ads

I will never use a enterprise google product unless they have customer support. The customer support team should have humans and not robots.

geekmeon Ask HN: Passive income ideas for solo developers?

Thank you

geekmeon Ask HN: What was it like to quit your job and focus on your successful startup?

I started up twice. First was a e-commerce market place and the second one was into mobile app development. Both failed. I was running them for around 4 years. Now I am back to a full time Job. I never regretted my failures since I learnt a lot from them and now I am working on my 3rd side project hoping to succeed.

geekmeon Ask HN: Passive income ideas for solo developers?

I am iOS developer and it has become a pretty tough market to crack. Can you share some more thoughts on the MAc App store. Is it worth investing in Mac app development?. Thanks.

geekmeon Ask HN: How much ad revenue you make from your side project?

Are people willing to pay for quality content?

geekmeon Ask HN: How much ad revenue you make from your side project?

Many people have commented that their revenue has dropped due to Ad blockers. Can you suggest any alternate business model for side projects other than ads

geekmeon Ask HN: How much ad revenue you make from your side project?

Addictive game

geekmeon Please Make Google AMP Optional

The publishers should stop supporting AMP collectively. I own a couple of websites and I have not enabled AMP in either of them.

geekmeon Ask HN: What are we doing about Facebook, Google, and the closed internet?

I have been using https://www.zoho.com/ for email hosting and its good.

geekmeon Giphy plans to build a real business

They have a search API with a public key https://github.com/Giphy/GiphyAPI with limits. I used it in one of my apps. Pretty cool stuff.

geekmeon Ask HN: Starting a project today, which web framework would you use?

Go + MySQL + Angular JS

geekmeon Ask HN: How do I switch from being a passive consumer to an active producer?

The only thing in my mind everyday is to get out of my 9 to 5 job. This keeps motivating me. I have started a blog which teaches a programming language. I had a target of 2 blog posts per week. I have given up watching television totally and I work for 12 to 14 hours daily even on weekends. My urge to resign my job and start on my own keeps motivating me. Although I am not able to achieve my target of 2 blog posts a week, I am able to post 1 per week and I guess I will be able to post 2 per week with a little more dedication. One more thing that helped me is the pomodoro technique. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pomodoro_Technique. I would encourage you to start first. Whether its a youtube video video or a blog post stop making it perfect and publish it right now. Once its out in the hands of the public you will learn a lot from their feedback.

geekmeon A startup’s Firebase bill suddenly increased from $25 to $1750 per month

Surprise there is a support team!

geekmeon A startup’s Firebase bill suddenly increased from $25 to $1750 per month

This has been the case with every google product

geekmeon A startup’s Firebase bill suddenly increased from $25 to $1750 per month

I applied for a new credit card with a low credit limit and I am using this card for all my SAAS payments

geekmeon A startup’s Firebase bill suddenly increased from $25 to $1750 per month

Google is notorious when it comes to support.

geekmeon Not Hotdog App

Will it be released world wide