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koverdaon Ask HN: Quitting Job to Launch a Startup

https://www.amazon.com/Disciplined-Entrepreneurship-Steps-Su...

Give this a read. Literally a step by step to get a successful company off the ground.

koverdaon Microfluidics device helps diagnose sepsis in minutes

That's huge. Sepsis kills so many people each year (something like 6m per year), and detected early it can be addressed.

For US stats, it's like 200,000 people dead per year from sepsis, and $24B expenditure to treat it. Absolutely massive.

https://www.nigms.nih.gov/education/pages/factsheet_sepsis.a...

koverdaon Google pays $11M to job-seekers who alleged age discrimination

You can always find an excuse.

koverdaon Evernote Blows Up the ‘Fail Fast’ Gospel

I find Google docs to be so clunky and slow.

koverdaon A Growing Problem in Real Estate: Too Many Too Big Houses

How do you not have space for a workshop and an office in 4000 sqft?

koverdaon When Boris Yeltsin Went Grocery Shopping in Clear Lake

People were paid for work and you'd buy groceries with money.

koverdaon Apple tried to buy Tesla for more than it’s currently worth in 2013, report says

Not any more of a threat than regular bicycles pose to regular cars.

koverdaon Millennials and Gen Z Increasingly Pessimistic About Their Lives, Survey Finds

Why not try and get a job at a small startup? You'll likely be able to flex a lot more of these skills.

koverdaon The rise of the sober bar

Try flavored seltzer (like la Croix). That's what we do as our beer substitute. It's cold, fizzy, and refreshing with no sugar.

koverdaon iFixit Pixel 3a XL teardown [video]

No, I believe that it doesn't.

Here's a link to the relevant section of the article: https://www.ifixit.com/Teardown/Google+Pixel+3a+Teardown/123...

koverdaon Abandoning the fiduciary rule was a mistake

I really don't think it's the ol' "boss is an idiot" thing.

koverdaon Fat, Not Meat, May Have Led to Bigger Hominin Brains

Wouldn't other animals with strong bites be capable of crushing bones to eat the marrow inside? The theory is big on assumptions, but I guess that's how it goes when you're trying to figure out what happened millions of years ago.

koverdaon Why Microsoft's new Edge browser could be a true Google Chrome rival

The issue with beating chrome isn't feature parity, but overcoming the massive lock-in.

koverdaon Ask HN: Zero in Programming – What do I need to learn to build websites/apps?

Hey Totaldude,

I taught myself programming over the course of a couple of years, having started from pretty much zero. Now I am working part time as a developer for a startup, and run a business of my own - having built not just the website and app for my business, but also developed the hardware and firmware!

Below are the classes that I took to get started along with a bit of a storyline:

http://learnpythonthehardway.org/ - I started this a while ago and never finished because I got distracted. It's kind of bare bones, but will get your wheels spinning.

https://www.edx.org/course/introduction-computer-science-har... - I started and got all the way through the last problem set. This course is EXCELLENT: wonderful lectures, challenging assignments, expansive community (facebook group, reddit.com/r/cs50, stackoverflow, etc). If there was only one class to pick from this list, CS50 would be it.

After CS50, I wanted to get good at a specific language and decided to learn Python. It is a very flexible and powerful language. It's very clean syntactically making it easier to learn. You can use if for data science, for little scripts, for web development, for pretty much anything.

https://www.edx.org/course/introduction-computer-science-mit... - i started this late (not self paced like the CS50), and played catch-up a good amount of the time. A solid class, mostly did it because I wanted to get good at Python. I got most of the way though this course as well.

https://www.edx.org/course/introduction-computational-thinki... - I started this class next because I wanted to use Python to crunch numbers, and eventually get into machine learning. I made it just a few weeks into this course before getting distracted with my own projects.

It's not just about learning a programming language, but learning to program. With two hours a day, you can churn through the CS50 course in a couple of months, during which you'll build a website & webapp. It'll definitely be a challenge (it took me a couple of tries to make it all the way through), but it's an amazing course - make sure to take advantage of the huge community.

koverdaon How badly are we being ripped off on eyewear? Former industry execs tell all

Where did you buy the high end frames online?

koverdaon Are Mail-Order Meal Kits Doomed?

My wife & I used to use some of these services, but switched over to the following process:

1. cookinglightdiet.com for recipe ideas & meal planning. They are typically quick, simple, and healthy recipes. Costs $4 / mo

2. Generate shopping list on that site.

3. Populate my shopping cart on the grocery store's site - we go to Ralph's typically. Pick a time to get the groceries. That service of theirs is called Clicklist.

4. Pick up groceries at the designated time ($8 fee).

Picking meals is easy, generating the shopping list & filling the cart takes a little bit of time, picking the groceries up takes minutes (way better than spending an hour and a half searching for ingredients yourself). It's like normal grocery shopping some of the perks & convenience of meal kit services. Credit to my wife for coming up with all of this.

koverdaon Outrage culture is out of control

How are you profiting and from what movement?

koverdaon Segment Is Now Free for Early-Stage Startups

Same thing happened at a company I work at. We got a quote back from Segment, the price was ludicrous, so we rolled our own in a week or so. Increased our Azure bill a bit (500/mo), but still soooooo much cheaper than Segment.

koverdaon Modern, native app for crowdfunding real estate

what's the advantage of this over fundrise, etc?

koverdaon The Machine Stops

The big difference is the loss of non verbal communication such as body language, pauses, etc. I agree with the author that there’s an important element of presence in your current surroundings that is lost with the proliferation of smartphones.

koverdaon Ask HN: What books changed the way you think about almost everything?

Absolutely loved this book. Very thought provoking.

koverdaon Americans got 26.3B robocalls last year, up 46 percent from 2017

T-Mobile has automatic spam block, it's reduced the number of spam calls for me drastically. Super easy to turn on, just dial #662#

koverdaon Maze Design (2005)

Keep us updated.

koverdaon Airbnb and security camera disclosure

Could you link to this Miami AirBnB? Sounds interesting.

koverdaon 'Talent Wants Transit': Companies Near Transportation Gaining the Upper Hand

Don't schools get funded by local property taxes? More development (the hundreds of apartment blocks) = more property taxes = more funding for the school.s

koverdaon Ask HN: Have you built a house?

> I am thinking of doing anything.

Great. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Entropy

koverdaon Ask HN: Have you built a house?

A friend of my old roommate built his own house: https://www.instagram.com/explore/tags/brianandhannahbuildah...

Might be worth it to reach out to him. He's a woodworker, so it's not exactly a massive concrete house.

koverdaon Las Vegas vertical farm aims to produce over a million pounds of produce a year

There are already state licensed cannabis growers in Las Vegas.

koverdaon New Logo and Identity for Library of Congress

I thought those were a joke, custom made, but then I went back and looked at the lock-up suggestions, and indeed those are the suggested ones by the designer.

koverdaon Paradise Lost: How Tourists Are Destroying the Places They Love

There are so many different cultures much closer to people. If the motivation for travel was to learn about other cultures, go to a different part of town, eat at their restaurants, go to their bars, make some friends, and learn. There are Islamic families in the US as well as the Middle East.