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nt2h9uh238h··on Ask HN: Should I move to San Francisco?
Yes
nt2h9uh238h··on TSMC eyes Germany as possible location for first Europe chip plant
Germany is hands-off the best country to invest in all of Europe.
nt2h9uh238h··on Ask HN: Recruiters want people who do side projects, yet contracts forbid them?
They want people who do side projects, but stop them when you work for the firm.
nt2h9uh238h··on Ask HN: I quit my job and my employer won’t take their equipment back
Just send it to them, anyway :)
nt2h9uh238h··on LOL just got kicked out of @ycombinator
So you got accepted. Then tell everybody in YC that they're shitty. Then you get kicked and wonder why.
nt2h9uh238h··on John Carmack on JPEG
This sounds exactly like Cloudflare could add this as a 1-click feature to save 50% bandwidth.
nt2h9uh238h··on Ask HN: Favorite purchases of last two years?
Apple AirPods.
nt2h9uh238h··on Working at a startup is overrated, both financially and emotionally
Startups are the most efficient organisations in the economy. Because you have to get shit done and can't fuck around. A lot of people love to fuck around and do "fake work". Only output and impact matter. Hard work is "hard", and at startups you can't hide "not working". It sounds pedantic but that's quite the reality, a lot of people just don't know what "work" feels like, and don't want to do it.
nt2h9uh238h··on Flat Data
I'm actually very excited about it. Could start a new era of how we develop and work with data.
nt2h9uh238h··on Launch HN: Ditto (YC W20) – Keep product text in sync from design to production
Congrats on the launch, love the demo!
nt2h9uh238h··on Babel is used by millions, so why are we running out of money?
#5: introduce a subscription fee for 'premium' tier or hosting. That works best by far in my opinion.
nt2h9uh238h··on Babel is used by millions, so why are we running out of money?
VueJS and Nuxt are also massively underfunded and are likely some of the highest-impact projects you can fund: https://vuejs.org/support-vuejs/
nt2h9uh238h··on All-new iMac features the M1 chip
For cameras, the resolution is only one of a ton of relevant factors for quality. What's most important is the sensor quality.
nt2h9uh238h··on Zorin OS 16
and: please kick sourceforge.net, that download page is incredibly ugly and destroys the "quality aura" you built up on your own website.
nt2h9uh238h··on Zorin OS 16
Design is still massively under-appreciated. Airbnb, Airtable and Coinbase and Stripe massively succeeded, because of Design. And Zorin OS 16 is on the right track, but still: hire an excellent Designer to review the entire system again. Check margins, Branding, consistency of the entire system, and more.

Design makes all the difference and creates real business (and user experience) value.

nt2h9uh238h··on Standard Notes is a safe place for your notes, thoughts, and life's work
Trying to give feedback (heavy user of evernote, notion)

Hate: - huge lack of basic hotkeys: CMD+N for new notes - no styling / formatting at all in the free version, which is a huge bummer. - CMD+, doesn't show the "preferences window" I expected - Markdown styling

Love - extremely fast (evernote and notion became exremely slow to the point I'm close to dropping both) -

nt2h9uh238h··on Ask HN: I built it, nobody came, now what?
Talk to and show it to customers. You'll quickly see if they like it or not.
nt2h9uh238h··on Charts.css
1. Is this substantially faster than JS? (canvas / .svg). Please test this exhaustively. Render time and script evaluation for JS charts is still a huge JS problem.

2. Can this be made interactive, e.g. on mouse-over show exact numbers? Without interactivity, it is still kinda lame

nt2h9uh238h··on Ask HN: What are some “10x” software product innovations you have experienced?
Hire engineers to fix the root cause instead of hiring "employees to do job X". Engineers can automate almost anyone away by fixing the root cause. Lemonade is doing a great job at this.
nt2h9uh238h··on Google Play service fee reduced to 15% for the first $1M/year
Love it
nt2h9uh238h··on Pipe – Instant access to your annual cash flow
How do they make Money?
nt2h9uh238h··on Show HN: Can’t afford Bloomberg Terminal? No prob, I built the next best thing
Check out AlleAktien Quantitativ (attn: it's German but it's 100% free) and they'll translate it to other languages, soon: https://www.alleaktien.de/quantitativ/
nt2h9uh238h··on Listen to radio stations from around the world
Please use SSL / HTTPS
nt2h9uh238h··on Google is now a Visionary Sponsor of the Python Software Foundation
I'm very confident open-source projects (also like VueJS, Nuxt, and many NPM packages) are some of the highest-impact donations and philantrophy anyone could make.
nt2h9uh238h··on Netflix's Annual Reports (10-Ks) used to be a work of art. What happened?
There is no legal address, phone, email and no imprint on your page, that looks highly fishy. Would fix that. Privacy policy is missing as well :0
nt2h9uh238h··on Apple's MacBook revival plan: Bring back old features
MacBook Pro wish 2021: rounded-edges end-to-end screen, that's the future, like the iPhone and iPad have.
nt2h9uh238h··on Apple's MacBook revival plan: Bring back old features
Touch bar is great, but should be an ADD-ON above the function keys, not replacing them.
nt2h9uh238h··on Ask HN: Do we need a Google Customers Union? Could it work?
Your company is user hostile you users are thinking about creating a union - because nobody else is caring about their interest. Caring about users should be any firms #1 priority, lol.
nt2h9uh238h··on Wikipedia is 20
Wikipedia is especially great for elderly as contributors IMHO: lots of experience, knowledge and time. Often they even are bored or lack a "sense of purpose" and community (social connections are the rarer the older we get). Wikipedia adds all that. If Wikipedia would tech-ipo as the likes of WeWork, it would probably be "The Purpose Company". Thank you.

I'm from Germany (2nd biggest Wikipedia) and proud to say 50%+ of my school and university education would not have been possible with excellent articles in BOTH english and german language. Often the english one was great, but the german one better (think WWII topics, german cars, ...) and vice versa (most of the cases hehe). And: it might be a good pointer for learning a language as well, reading about stuff you deeply care about.

nt2h9uh238h··on Can a software engineer on H1B make money from GitHub Sponsors?
yes, a 100% they can. look at the payouts of nodeJS or Nuxt or VueJS developers - and rightly so. Top contributors who fix a lot of bugs get payouts of 10,000+ USD every month.
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