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neospice··on Ask HN: Freelancer? Seeking freelancer? (November 2024)
SEEKING FREELANCER | Toronto / North America Preferred | Remote | EST Required

Seeking strong full-stack developer with proven track record of building quality web-applications using react, typescript, vite, etc. Experience with Django and DRF is preferred.

Temporary contract to begin immediately with potential for extension. Please send applications to info@avante.io

neospice··on Haven: turn old Android phones into security cameras
This exists: https://www.wi-meter.ca/
neospice··on Show HN: Bloom – A free and open source 'Google'
I think it's clear after reading your exchange with OC that you're not planning to take on Google search with Bloom. However what I think the commenter you're replying to is suggesting is that by calling yourself an open source 'Google' you're giving people the false impression that you are focused on search because when people think of Google the first thing they think of is search.

Perhaps you might consider something like free and open source 'Google Suite' or 'Google Apps' instead?

neospice··on Ask HN: Develop productivity app first for Mac or Windows 10?
In a world where VSCode runs on electron is there even room for this discussion anymore?
neospice··on How Blockchain Works
How is "higher proof of work" defined in this context? Also, doesn't consensus of the majority of peers have any bearing on which is more authoritative? I.e. if all nodes except for your malicious node report a single chain, why would yours not be rejected?
neospice··on How Blockchain Works
Those seem like two separate problems to me. The oracle reliably reports to the blockchain while the blockchain ensures that the historical record is tamper-proof.
neospice··on How Blockchain Works
Please forgive my ignorance if I’m missing something obvious but in your PGP public key tampering example, wouldn’t this attack be ineffective against a blockchain that is stored in multiple peers. I.E your hashes wouldn’t match those of the peer copies of the blockchain?
neospice··on Putting This Blog on IPFS
I was wondering about how to get NGINX to play with IPFS. Now I have a better idea. Thanks for sharing!
neospice··on Security Begins at the Home Router
It seems obvious that this should be developed, but to take it a step further it would be great if consumers could purchase something that gave them access to these plugins without needing to know how to setup OpenWRT. This will be challenging because most ISPs provide the router and firmware for the majority of their customers.
neospice··on Is WebAssembly the Return of Java Applets and Flash?
It seems the trend was that it was nice for makers, not so much for users.
neospice··on Farewell, Google Maps
And WalMart.
neospice··on Google Cloud Platform – The Good, Bad, and Ugly
I haven't migrated off of Firebase but this is something I've thought a lot about as I've selected Firebase for many of my client projects.

As far as I can tell there is no open-source alternative with feature parity that makes it easy to migrate away from Firebase. I'd be curious to hear about how people have done this.

neospice··on Have the Tech Giants Grown Too Powerful?
As an entrepreneur, I feel that its not always the problem that they can't be beat at the product game- but that the product doesn't really matter.

Often people don't look at the product, but the marketing. E.G. It's not a problem that SquareSpaces has an awesome site-builder, but it is a problem that they can afford to use [Keanu Reaves](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WqnhN2Rzaqc) as their mascot.

neospice··on Ask HN: Pros and cons of working at a startup in 2018?
How long did it take you to receive your shares, if you don't mind me asking?
neospice··on How to Come Up with Profitable Business Ideas
Maybe you’re early. Can you PM me your MVP? This is a problem I will be encountering soon.
neospice··on Facebook’s Surveillance Machine
VR is still early but it's convincing. Have you tried a very good VIVE setup? I've only used it once but that's all it took for me to understand that VR is the future of immersive entertainment. Based on that experience it seems apparent to me that the only thing stopping it from becoming mainstream is the clunkiness you describe. However, we should all know that it's only a matter of time before that clunkiness is replaced by a better engineered form factor.
neospice··on DuckDuckGo moves beyond search to also protect you while browsing
Thanks for shedding some light! Your Social Networking ideas sound innovative indeed and it sucks that it couldn't pan out to be something viable.

Maybe it was ahead of its time.

neospice··on DuckDuckGo moves beyond search to also protect you while browsing
Please elaborate, I'm genuinely not aware of any of their previous endeavours nor who the ownership is.
neospice··on Ask HN: If you had a month of free time, what would you do?
I think a lot of people have setup their lives such that they don’t feel they need a break, or free time or an escape. They don’t put off those things that the rest of us do. Maybe the commenter you replied to falls into that category.
neospice··on Ask HN: How much do you make at Facebook/Amazon/Apple/Netflix/Google/Microsoft?
Just curious: That seems disproportionately low compared to US salaries. Is cost of living proportionately lower in Scotland?
neospice··on Intel Confronts Potential ‘PR Nightmare’ With Reported Chip Flaw
It's not you, it used to be shorter.
neospice··on Path to a free self-taught education in Computer Science
That is fascinating. I hope your co worker finds success in the future. Thanks for sharing.
neospice··on Path to a free self-taught education in Computer Science
If you don’t mind me asking, what does your co worker do for a living?
neospice··on What Needs to Happen Before Electric Cars Take Over the World
For reasons she just explained, like digging where there are already cables or lack of budgeting for even higher value utilities like water.
neospice··on Porsche will begin an app-based subscription service next month
What kinda down payment did you need?
neospice··on Is AI Riding a One-Trick Pony?
Thanks for explaining, this comment is much more useful than your original to someone not well versed in statistics like me.
neospice··on Ask HN: Sell my startup for $14M because I can't raise $2M?
Side question. It seems the conventional advice here is to take the money.

What if it was far less, say half that? How much is too little?

neospice··on Same day ACH: moving payments faster in the USA
RBC and TD now waive the e money transfer fee.
neospice··on Apple Scales Back Its Ambitions for a Self-Driving Car
> They have enough employees who are capable of doing both in parallel.

Number of employees isn't what determines whether it's deliverable or not. It's likely they're deferring a decision to design the rest of the car until they're certain that they can do autonomous

neospice··on Explaining React's license
Is SNAP pursuing litigation in retaliation to this?

If not, then would it have mattered if they used React?

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