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Yes those were fine.

I tried to use Headless Chrome on Cloud Functions for a project I'm working on, but even on the fastest instances loading pages was sometimes really slow (pages timing out after waiting for 60s).

It seems sometimes JS execution was taking a long time, so I guess that was preventing requests from being made. In a single CPU cloud function you have network requests, JavaScript execution, rendering, and the Node process controlling the browser all competing for resources.

That being said, it was super simple to get started!

You could offer the owner a fixed payment in return for the rights to future ad revenue from that video.

This assumes the owner is less confident that the video will be popular than you are.

My approach is similar. I keep plain text notes on my phone where each line is something like "16 haircut" or "12o" (eating out). I have a Node script that I currently run manually, but the problem is that I only run it every couple of months... Using a bot keep track of things is a great idea!

Currently I group everything by month, but using a bot would also allow that to be more granular.

One thing I try to focus on is simplicity of the categories. Instead of spending £5 on toiletries and £3 on fruit I just have on "everyday items" category that I use for everything that I buy at the supermarket. So after every purchase I make I only spend about 5s writing it down, rather than trying to do any splitting calculations in my head.

Here are the result: http://www.mattzeunert.com/money.html

Hi Sarah, thanks for answering questions. It's great to see pricing upfront!

Could help me clarify my principal residence? I was actually looking to buy insurance a few weeks back, but not knowing the answer to this questions stopped me and I didn't hear back from the insurance company when I asked them.

"Your principal residence where you receive regular mail"

I used to live in country A, where I have a forwarding address for most of my mail. But I don't live or have health insurance there.

I'm currently in country B but will leave soon and travel to various other countries. I want to buy health insurance for after leaving country B.

What should be my principal residence?

People could submit their phone number anywhere that collects leads (be it dentists, charities, or SaaS companies), wait for a call, and then press the button to get the money.

I think it applies only to foreigners. http://lawandborder.com/temporary-residence-registration-for...

Normally the hotel does it for you.

After getting an apartment here I didn't register for about a month. I had to spend some time at the registry office to get a warning. They said if it happens again there'll be a fine, and if it happens a third time you presumably have to leave the country.

On your arrival/departure form it also says:

"Aliens who do not lodge at hotels, guesthouses or inns shall, within 24 hours (72 hours in rural areas) of entry, go through accomodation registration at local police station.

Capturing the callstack with `Error().stack` is expensive and it's done for every DOM manipulation.

The idea is that you'll only enable the extension when you're mystified by a DOM change, so if the page loads half as fast it's not a big deal.

My last three Show HN submissions:

3 points -> 10 views

1 point -> 25 views

1 point -> 24 views

None of them made it to the Show HN frontpage.

“Ultimately you want consumer spending and standard of living to grow in lock step but it does not[2].”

This is often said, but even after reading the linked article it’s not clear why that’s desirable.

Why not for example keep growing exports instead of domestic consumption?

GiveDirectly and Animal Charity Evaluators (ACE).

For GiveDirectly or other charities recommended by GiveWell there seems to be a reasonable amount of evidence that they actually create a meaningful benefit for the people participating in their programs. And where that isn't that case at least they try to generate new evidence about what works and what doesn't.

ACE is different in that there's a lot of justified criticism of their methodology and accusations of overinterpreting the data they have. But I hope that given resources and time they can improve on that.

I use GitHub Desktop and am really happy with it. It works for non-GitHub repos too

Diggers being left buried in London seems to be an urban legend. http://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/2014/06/06/london-urban-lege...

I've struggled to find a good public library here. I've been able to find every book I was looking for at the British Library, but you have to request each book and can only read it there.

Having said that, the books I was reading there were mostly general programming books. I don't know if they have more specific technical books.

The British Library also has some scary note on their website about how you need to demonstrate why you need access. But that's not worth worrying about. I just went there and signed up, nobody asked me to justify why I want to read books there.

Maybe I'm being overly literal, but do some people just receive offer letters without going through an interview process?

Sure, I get lots of recruiter emails, but almost all of them are sent identically to 100 other people as well.

Most emails I get come from external recruitment firms, only sometimes does someone at a company reach out to me directly. But even then it's only an invitation to apply, it doesn't mean I'm actually especially likely to get the job.

But if two systems are identical, wouldn't it be likely that both would break at the same time?

One thing I find off-putting is when the project is the first stage of the interview process. It means the applicant has to invest a large amount of time upfront, while it's easy for the company to send the test over.

I prefer at least having a phone interview upfront, which suggests that the company is willing to put in some effort.

I've been using https://calltospeakers.com/ to find conferences that are looking for talk submissions.

My guess is that Fogbugz is a cash cow without much new development effort. The focus of FogCreek's founders is on StackExchange and Trello now.

Not sure if there's a formal definition, but this page distinguishes between a scare and a hoax:

"Though city prosecutors eventually concluded there was no ill intent involved in the placing of the ads, the city continues to refer to the event as a "bomb hoax" rather than a "scare." - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2007_Boston_bomb_scare

I tweet mostly about new things I learn, interesting designs I see, etc.

This has the added benefit of being able to look stuff up if I forget about it.

Thanks for sharing!

Just to make sure I understand correctly: was it the timing during a match that made the difference? Because you knew they were online and able to respond?

Is there any advantage in having GOOG stock when you work at Google, rather than selling half of your GOOG stock and buying FB?

I think the expected return would be the same, but it would be less extreme (less likely to be 10x, less likely to be .1x, more likely somewhere in-between).

File size could be a criterion for front-end libs.

In addition to the benefits you get as the contractor, agencies also don't want to hire sole traders as it could be argued they are actually employees. This would mean it's the agency's responsibility to withhold taxes, and the contractor would have rights to things like holiday and sick pay.

I really like the idea of adding a Slack channel to the problem statement. I always have questions, and channeling them through a recruiter via email is a pain.

A lot of take home problems are very unrealistic, so it's difficult to make the trade-offs that you'd normally make when trying to ship software. Being able to ask someone on the team what their intentions are would be super helpful.

My pet peeve is front-end tests that ask you to write maintainable code, but you're not allowed to use any libraries. So instead you have to create your own tiny MVC/templating/helper libraries just for the project - but obviously they won't be as good as something you've spent more than 4 hours on.

I was lucky to get a 3-day a week contract, but still had to do my freelance work in the evening/weekend for a bit.

In my experience (in the UK) you start by submitting your CV to loads of recruiters saying you are looking for contract roles. If they think they can make money from you they'll give you a call and ask for your rate etc.

I'm not the OP, but I just do plain front-end development. Contract length can vary, sometimes it's one week in a digital agency, sometimes it's a few months in a large company. You can also find contracts that are 12months, and they can be extended after that.

I was freelancing when I started out, so I had some income but was also available for full-time contract work during the day.

So this means 1.5M was the post-money valuation, correct?

I think the idea is that new users will find the question and think that the type of question is still welcome on StackOverflow.

There used to be a question about popular programming blogs. To me it looked like a good and popular question, so I asked a similar one - which was then closed, because by then the consensus among the mods had moved on to discourage that kind of question.