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25 years ago there were know-it-alls expressing sentiments like yours.

“The internet is a fad”

It is just nerdy men in their basements.

This is what we in the Enterprise Software business call inbound marketing. LOL

This pretty much guarantees a phone call from your VP Engineering tag-teaming with the CFO.

I am still a fan of the "proper grammar" we learned in school.

As to the issue of dropped punctuation and other grammar atrocities, thank SMS -- old school text messages.

Then came Twitter, and in the beginning they had a SMS-to-Twitter function (or something like it).

Last, shrinking devices and crappy typing experiences. T9 was amazing but inferior to a real keyboard. Today, all thumb-typing virtual keyboards are also crappy compared to a physical one. But lets be honest, who wants to carry around a full-sized keyboard just to community digitally with perfect Chicago-style [1] grammar?

[1] - https://www.chicagomanualofstyle.org/home.html

hmmm.. It is always interesting to learn other's behavior. I hit the top links often. Maybe that just shows how often I'm here on HN :-) Gotta feed the dopamine monster

Neat idea. Do you have a video demo somewhere?

Great question -- I suppose it should link directly to the openstack sub-projects that are analogous to the AWS offering.

So, open-nebula for EC2, right?

I see this question pop up a lot here and other communities, so I started curating a list of alternatives here:

https://www.curabase.com/org/curabase/alternatives-to-aws

DISCLAIMER: The linked site is a side project of mine. I will revisit this post and add the ones I missed.

I like the idea of doing something a little nutty just so you have something interesting to write about.

Very niche, but hey -- this is HN.

That is a bit uncharitable to call users stupid in this context. From the story it seems that there is not even a warning before the rug is completely pull out and burned.

Yeah, I'll believe it when I see it. There are some legit upstarts working on their own indexes, but let's not kid ourselves.

Anyone going head-on against google will lose.

I think the strategy will be many, many smaller search engines, focused on niches. Curated by their care-takers who wear their expertise and biases in a transparent way.

I'm quite opinionated here because this is my focus in 2021

The IntelliJ line of projects are fantastic for this.

I can make the jumps around in multiple files and libraries to follow the flow.

I can easily setup debugging, set breakpoints, and watch what values poorly named variables carry.

It spots unused imports and variables in the code as well, which makes it easier to clean out cruft.

I have heard good things about Visual Studio Code as well, but IntelliJ gets my money every time.

Only if we can rock the old modems. I know there were some BBS....

....just went down the rabbit hole.

There is lots of bbs stuff out there. Here is one such example: https://github.com/NuSkooler/enigma-bbs

I've had this conversation a few times in the week or so. Usenet still exists, but to what extent I have no idea. It might be worth to try out Giganews or any number of other providers.

Article here: https://imgur.com/a/acJN0Ju

Is this guy writing an angry Yelp review that got cross-posted on BI?

Every place is what you make of it, and judging from the sound of it -- this guy has made little of it.

Instead he blames everything and everyone else because it does not match his value system, his climate tolerance, and his allergies.

On your horse, man. The road that brought you here can take in you in a happier direction.

I’m currently evaluating indie hackers and product hunt to see if it is a fit.

1 - https://indiehackers.com

2- https://producthunt.com

I have resurrected an old side project that once hit the front page of HN and did Ok on Product Hunt.

I burned out because what started as a selfish dog-fooding utility became this vision less beast filled with feature requests from strangers.

The reboot is now tightly scoped to what I want and only what I want. Once done I slap a price on it and call it feature complete.

I had the same process -- I mis-clicked and saw that it has been appeared on HN a number of times since ~2013.

I am glad to see the community continually re-discover this site now and again.

If that machine is under MDM (mobile device management) then you should consider even your encrypted disk at risk of prying eyes.

That said, portable apps running off the encrypted disk might also help. Browser, email, etc.

Hah. I use “building a rocket ship just to cross the street”

Lol -- I agree it is not an original idea. This is a completely selfish endeavor. I build it for myself and pretty much no one else. I do have some users right now but not enough to consider it a business.

Yes it does sound right.

Do you ship untested software?

Currently grinding on Curabase (https://www.curabase.com), my tool for shared team bookmarks.

I built it to scratch my own itch. (Apparently I'm the only one with that itch. LOL)

I actually hit the front page of HN here a few years ago with it. Maybe it is time for a second go.

2021 will be the year I monetize it and hope to make it pay for its own hosting.

Austin has had a growing homeless problem, but nothing like SF or NYC. Still, lots of drug use, petty theft, and loitering in the inner city and university areas.

However, it is Texas, and there is lots of room to spread out. If you never find yourself in the city center then you will not see it.

Recruiter. It was money well spent.

I was very green in my hiring role and honest with the recruiter. They were patient and really mentored me through the process.

Pro-tip: find a mature recruiter with experience who will help you on this end.

They are out there -- I've met a few of them. But you will need to seek the ones where the big time difference is a non-issue.

Many companies are still easing into the remote-only across a couple of time zones.

I am confident 2021 we will see more companies willing to take on EU based work.

Maybe East-coast dominant companies are easier. I don't like the 9 hour difference between Stockholm and California as it really puts one party out of sync with daylight working hours.

Now that the king of rage bait is gone will we will see engagement and revenue drop?

Or has that slack been taken up by Bitcoin?

Actually coding something is the last resort.

Very well said.

Convenience > Privacy, which is an interesting conundrum.

This makes privacy a feature more than a USP (unique selling proposition). I predict that some "privacy" focused products and search engines will need to pivot to something more than just "we don't steal your data."

Lol. Circle-K indeed.

I also had some craziness on LinkedIn earlier. I’m not saying it is related, just correlated maybe.

Please enlighten us. Porn networks do not count.