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purans

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Co-Founder/CTO @Phil, Inc. - Smarter Prescriptions (https://phil.us)
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purans··on Show HN: Buy Me A Coffee – A free, fast and friendly way to receive donations
Good one!
purans··on Ask HN: What's your biggest struggle with Microservices?
Each services need to communicate with each other. And, 100 things can go wrong in that and lot of effort and fail-safe mechanisms has to be put in order for it to scale. Having said that there are lots of solutions out there but does require good amount of understanding and work
purans··on Ask HN: Who is hiring? (July 2017)
https://phil.us - Phil is a San Francisco-based health-tech startup with the mission of reinventing the $400B prescription medication space. In the last 18 months we went from prototype to figuring out product-market fit, to establishing our high-margin unit economics and raising over $12M in two rounds of venture financing. Our asset-light business model has helped us expand from the state of CA to cover 92% of US population in the last six months. Now looking to grow our small and close-knit team in sunny downtown SF.

ONSITE: Hiring 1 Front-End Engineer and 1 QA Engineer. Please email your resume to careers@phil.us Job Links - https://angel.co/philprescriptions/jobs/198556-front-end-eng... https://angel.co/philprescriptions/jobs/253165-qa-engineer

purans··on Ask HN: Which Go web framework should i use in 2016?
First question I would ask is do you really need a web framework? With Go, the way language is built or designed - you don't need crazy frameworks. Having said that I do use gorilla package a lot to re-use some of the common middlewares and packages which wouldn't make sense to re-write. But, for API endpoints and all that I am directly using Go.
purans··on Show HN: Brooce, a language-agnostic job queue written in Go
Nice! Lately I have started doing Go and was wondering about it. I am going to try it.
purans··on Ask HN: Can you recommend advanced books on CSS?
CSS Mastery is a good one - https://www.amazon.com/CSS-Mastery-Advanced-Standards-Soluti...
purans··on Ask HN: What software will you build if your financial needs were full covered?
Would do farming, at the end world needs to eat
purans··on Facebook is closing Parse
Looks like time to revive my PubKit - https://github.com/narup/PubKit
purans··on Show HN: Open Hunt – an open and community-run alternative to Product Hunt
+100
purans··on Why has WhatsApp accessed my contacts 23,709 times?
Because it's owned by facebook :) I am sure they need to know your contact to serve you ads!
purans··on Show HN: StubOnWeb – Stub HTTP server to test API integrations
Good one!
purans··on Ask HN: Would you want to know more about teenagers?
Thanks
purans··on Ask HN: Would you want to know more about teenagers?
I was wondering what's the most common and frequently bought product in your age group?
purans··on Ask HN: Why use Docker and what are the business cases for using it?
For my project, I wanted to have an automated and easy code to deployment setup, so here's what I have it working Bitbucket -> Private Docker Repository -> Tutum (https://www.tutum.co/) - Live app

It's working pretty well. Once you check in your code, docker repository hooked to bitbucket will build the docker image and then you can start deployment from Tutum with one click.

purans··on Ask HN: What's the best way to integrate a social layer to my app?
Maybe a concept of badges that you unlock at various stages of your quitting process might make it interesting and once user completes the process can share that final stage!! So, in a nutshell, basic forum to post messages and a way to get motivation for the user should work!
purans··on Ask HN: Does anyone feel Product Hunt drifted away?
I totally agree, trying to be a very closed community never helps!! Now, they even shut down submission for users with no recommendation from one of their elite members!!
purans··on Ask HN: Is this interview style common?
Good for you that you don't have to work with him now!! NO it's not common.
purans··on Ask HN: What projects are you working on?
Trying to build this.. https://github.com/narup/PubKit - Lightweight messaging, data store and push notification platform for mobile apps
purans··on Ask HN: Is it worth doing an MS in a university from US?
If you need H1B visa to work after masters degree, it's getting more tricky nowadays! With limited number of visas lot of people are finding it harder to get H1B even after US masters degree
purans··on Tell HN: LinkedIn's API will be restricted next week
That's why I hate working with these so-called APIs, they release it then cut it down or stop it. Never rely on these APIs to build anything significant
purans··on Ask HN: Anyone interested in helping me on my open source project?
Thanks
purans··on Ask HN: Is my code any good?
We use https://github.com/kif-framework/KIF for automation! But you know the deal on how comprehensively you can do automation test!
purans··on Ask HN: How much money are you making as an indie mobile app developer?
ZERO! Not allowed to make money from my apps on H1B visa status :)
purans··on Show HN: Get a personal site on your own domain name in just a few minutes
I recommend using the white background for your own website. Looks darker with black text!
purans··on Getting initial traction
If they select your product! ProductHunt is still very closed community according to me. And, I think they seem very biased towards their selected members
purans··on Ask HN: Long time iOS developers, are you using storyboards?
I generally use storyboard for few initial view controllers. After that, I either use separate nibs or code it. Storyboard can become messy and hard to navigate around if you put lot of views in it. Even though, you can zoom in and out, still it's messy. Also, it really depends on what you are trying to do. There will be scenarios where using nib or storyboard won't just cut it.
purans··on Show HN: Share text and links between all your devices
Always wanted this. Wanted to build myself but never happened. Good job!
purans··on Ask HN: Which (small, indep) programming blogs do you follow?
http://objc.io if you are into mobile development
purans··on Show HN: Shift – Photo filters designed by you
That's pretty cool. Waiting for android
purans··on Ask HN: Settling on an Idea
I would suggest pick something that is along your interest line. For example, I love movies so i started making a movie app with social touch. Though, whether it will be huge or not depends on how efficiently you execute with bit of luck and understanding you will get as you work on it.
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