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I'm looking into using pass / keepass, any particular reason you are switching over to pass?

How would availability of the data compare? Will the stored files be available at all times & under high loads?

Cool! May I ask how do you hook it up with opening / closing lid, sticking usb drive etc?

I personally curl a slack webhook that sends me a message.

If the task is already running, ctrl + z and run bg. Then i run `wait <pid> && slack 'job done' `

Adding on to this, how do you guys version control your notebooks?

300 rides x average of approx. $15 per ride = $4500.

Cars here require a certificate of entitlement that cost around $100k and only last for 10 years if im not mistaken. So if he continued taking 300 rides every year for 10 years it would still be half as expensive.

This might very well backfire on them. The buyers will want to buy at the lower price and the seller would want the higher price. Both parties end up being unhappy even if the end price was within the given band.

Advertising in my experience as an end user has been very ineffective.

The ads that I see on Facebook are very obviously based on my browsing history/cookies - I look at a mechanical keyboard on Lazada and decide to not buy it. Next I go to Facebook and get ads about a keyboard on Lazada - no discounts, exact same model. It could've shown me similar keyboards, gave me a lower price, or anything that adds value than just showing me the exact same thing I just decided not to buy.

Advertising for the sake of letting people know something exists is not particularly valuable to the end user, and most of the time they are not even able to predict correctly what people are interested in.

Has anyone actually bought something because of an advertisement?

I'm actually thinking of doing this starting this weekend (mostly for fun). Any tips you care to share?

IPFS, in particular, plan to have native browser support via a Javascript dependency. There was also PeerCDN (and bunch of similar clones), but they all don't tend to stick around for long or get widely used even though the setup is supposedly one line.

I feel like digital wallets would definitely solve this but there is never enough demand from consumers or merchants to give them sufficient traction. Maybe it's just a really slow shift since the benefits are marginal for most people.

Google Wallet recently added integration to bank accounts though so at least there are some progress in that aspect.

I agree with you. My observation is that most graduates out of college are able to formulate strategies to high level problems, rapidly create working solutions and generally be productive.

What sets us apart from the senior developers as pointed out by the CTO of my company seems to be experience in writing good, scalable code. More often than not this means adhering to best practices, linting and testing extensively and many other things that in general come with experience.

pass looks really awesome. How do you backup your GPG keys for pass though?

In case it was really a question: this passes `../css/styles.css` into the css loader then the style loader when `require`-ing. Normally this is setup in a webpack.config so you can just do `require('../css/styles.css')` normally

Why is ArchLinux better than Linux in your opinion?

Awesome! I was just thinking the problem with finding startup problems might be a good one to solve aha!

I think that problems will obviously need to resonate with enough people for a startup to even exist.

As a recent graduate, honestly I have not experienced many of the industry pain points, and am limited to the really general food delivery, dating apps, edtech tools.

I did work on certain problems before. A group of us worked on a few versions of an MVP for an in-class active learning backchannel that many students & professors thought they needed. It was a complete disaster that ended with both sides realizing it was not a pain enough problem for them.

I also worked on a dating app that tried to solve a problem in my high school days. It allowed someone to anonymously send 'smooches' to their crushes, who would ideally see the email and sign up to do the same to their own crushes, alerting them of a match if they sent one to a person who sent to them. It was fun but didn't really get a lot of attention and traction.

Right now in a bit of an idea drought and don't know what to work on concretely.

Unprecedented applications mostly enabled by new / disruptive technology. Things that do scratch my itch (even though most of them don't resonate with others)

Right now I'm working on Ethereum dApps as I have a strong feeling that the world will gravitate towards p2p / distributed tech and Ethereum is arguably one of the key technologies that will bring us there

I love this article. I'm very much inspired by what is written here, but for the most part can't find an 'itch' to scratch.

Right now I'm just building stuff I consider is cool / fun and see how it goes from there.

That's good advice! But I've been trying to do this and I might be too content with my life cause I can't find these frustrating problems / 'itches'.

Lots of people talk about this, but do they really occur that often? I don't seem to encounter many such situations that can be solved much better than current offerings. As a fresh graduate there is a lack of domain experience as well for me to understand (or know at all) the pain points in various industries.

Perhaps I'm just not thinking out of the box enough.

Just wrote out a boilerplate for side projects https://github.com/zweicoder/react-redux-express-boilerplate

Normally I host it on DigitalOcean