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hugocaracollon Ask HN: How do I find meaningful work?

The change from software-only to hardware can have a great impact. That's a very interesting observation of yours.

hugocaracollon Ask HN: What is the most mind blowing book you've ever read?

Funny you say that. I'm going to buy Walden today :)

hugocaracollon Ask HN: What accomplishment are you most proud of?

That's an accomplishment reserved only for the enlightened ones. Maybe you're onto something :)

hugocaracollon Ask HN: What accomplishment are you most proud of?

I think those are the real accomplishments.

hugocaracollon Ask HN: What accomplishment are you most proud of?

Great work! You should add some sort of social sharing widget.

hugocaracollon How to Become the MacGuyver of Website Speed

MacGuyver or MacGyver?

hugocaracollon Ask HN: What are you building?

Very cool!!!

hugocaracollon Ask HN: Things that suck?

About the pseudo credit card, in Portugal (where I'm from) we have a system called mbnet [1] where any portuguese bank account owner may create a temporary credit card. I usually use it for buying things online. This card has some security restrictions: you can specify if it's going to be used for 1 or more transactions and the top amount of the transaction. It works pretty well.

[1] https://www.mbnet.pt/

hugocaracollon Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (July 2014)

Location: Portugal Remote: yes Willing to relocate: yes Technologies: Python, PHP, Java, Android, C#, MS SQL, VB6 Resume: https://www.linkedin.com/in/hugocaracol Email: hugonsantos at gmail Website: http://hugocaracol.github.io/ Github: https://github.com/hugocaracol

hugocaracollon Show HN: I wrote a book about adventure. Here it is for free.

Congratulations on releasing the book. Thank you.

hugocaracollon Career outside the Matrix

The Matrix shows the path most HN readers already know.

hugocaracollon Show HN: My first iOS App on the App Store

There are two types of "counter" that would fix my needs: a counter like (1, 2, 3.. and its datetime) and another one with just datetime info. With the former you can count the regular stuff like the number of times you do something and at what time. The latter can tell you at what time you do specific actions, like waking up. This is a powerful thing as long as the user wants to look critically at the gathered data.

Unfortunately I don't have an iPhone or any of the i-family gadgets.

hugocaracollon Show HN: My first iOS App on the App Store

Congratulations on the lauch to app store. I had the same idea; count no. of coffees, no. of cigarettes, no. of people, etc. A way to keep accountability about something.

hugocaracollon Portuguese government set on increasing use of open source

Maybe now it's the time to stop buying software when there are plenty of other open-source options to take into account. It is a step forward indeed but they will have to invest more in skilled people to support these choices.

hugocaracollon Why being a specialist is better than being a generalist for getting a job

I like your speech. I mean, I totally agree with you. Unfortunately only a minor portion of job offers asks for generalists. Most companies don't understand the potential of a trait such as curiosity that is found in a generalist personality.

hugocaracollon Ask HN: Features you miss

- Gmail's compose is different now. While you compose a message you can, check email. That's cool.

- I acknowledge that OCR functionality is very important and many products miss it.

Thnak you samir

hugocaracollon Ask HN: Features you miss

Could you name a few apps please?