It seems surprising that a lot of people from the developed world have so much to complain, not that I am insinuating their complains but I am looking at just how hard it is to live in a country like mine (Nigeria), despite the horrendous living conditions we are very much resilient in facing day to day life challenges and depression is uncommon among us especially the youths.
I am building a platform to enable anyone choose a real star in the universe and have it named it after them forever, it all started when I dreamt of having a ceremony to name a star after me, I got a big bang out of that dream and promised myself to have the coolest star named after me and have it stick forever. My intention is to somehow make it into kind of a galactic social network where you can explore stars and their owners and socialize. I have now data of about 500 million stars (sourced from ESA's GAIA space data) to start with, and more will be added later, I am hoping to be less busy in order to finish and launch it.
We are ever grateful to Taylor otwel and the team for developing and maintaining Laravel, ever wonder why most of us African web developers use Laravel as a web framework? Because it works and fast without much need for fancy tweaks (here a decent internet is still a luxury in most parts of the continent), Laravel allows you to spring up a decent web app fast without much hassle, you can easily set it up in the cloud and it will be up and running with need for maintenance and site reliability issues. More grease to your elbows Taylor and the rest of the Laravel team.
While let's encrypt is great I keep getting worried let not what happened to the team managing openssl resulting to heartblead bug happen to the let's encrypt team it would be a disaster
I am just thinking why can't CERN make their own worplace equivalent platform for their people considering the fact that they help create the internet itself.
As a patriotic Nigerian I feel insulted by your comment, it is like justifying theft because the victim may likely waste the stolen stuff, so he doesn't deserve them.
I think carbon capture is the way, I will soon do a show hn of our little company called carbonHarvester, we have as per as I know the cheapest technology of capturing the CO2 out of thin air, our aim is to enable anyone using an air conditioner to harvest CO2 from thin air with a little additional energy bill, and we can regenerate the captured CO2 cheaply.
I read a paper on the implementation of oil trade based on an independent crypto currency backed by Oil exporting countries, the author laid all out and how the US will never allow that to happen, sorry I lost the page source.
Well I am in the camp of "ideas and even execution are worthless" now, what really matters is strong focus, I have executed 3 ideas from November of last year but after building them to what I feel like is a finished mvp, I always feel strong irresistible desire to build something else that I think is the coolest thing only to throw it after finishing, this is really my problem now.
I heard that the site builtwith is still being run by the single founder, maybe he has recruited help by now, but if he still run it all alone then it is most successful one person business I have heard of in 2019.
When I was a little boy, I heard a myth about argument between the US and Japan, The US said, we can remotely bomb any place that has a Television, and Japan replied, we can remotely bomb any place that has a Transistor Radio.
I totally believed that back then.
Haha, I thought I am the only one who joined the startup school this year mostly for the AWS credit, honestly the credits helps, being from African developing country, AWS charges are a bit expensive for us to expirament with and build a startup. I am glad we are not alone in the AWS credits wagon.