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tomascot··on Ask HN: Successful one-person online businesses?
How do you get in a market like that? We tried but failed because the owners didnt like the fact that we where from "the city".
tomascot··on Days Since a Cryptocurrency Exchange Has Lost More Than $100M
Or add a noscript element.
tomascot··on Switzerland embraces digital currencies and crypto-entrepreneurs
Switzerland wants people to spend the money from cryptocurrencies there. There's a lot of money to attract.
tomascot··on Airbnb is putting AMP at the core of its digital strategy
Google is doing this with everything. In the end they will answer almost every query directly, except when you are looking for a site. Even then, they could try to identify what do you want from that site (if you use chrome or the site has google analytics) and show you the info you are lloking for.
tomascot··on Ask HN: Which stack do you use at your startup?
COBOL, C++ and Java?
tomascot··on PopcornNotify – Send simple emails and text messages from one API
This so much. Keeping your email out of the spam folder it's simply painful.
tomascot··on Ask HN: What are you working on?
You might have made your domain public with that email address...
tomascot··on Show HN: Link.fish – API to extract data from websites as JSON
What could cause that that you mention on point 2.

Are they "caching" responses or that offer is tailored to your user/cookie?

tomascot··on Boom has orders for 76 of its future supersonic passenger jets
At least they are honest.
tomascot··on Ask HN: Scammed. Now what?
Did they buy something? You can make PayPal reverse thr transaction. I was on the other side of this before, a scammer used a stolen account to pay me. PayPal reversed the transaction and I couldn't do anything. Really unfair considering that I wasn't the one phished.
tomascot··on Twitter Is Crawling with Bots and Lacks Incentive to Expel Them
I didn't read your source. But I'm sure that for those age gaps the number of accounts could be explained by underage kids lying about their age to be able to create an account.
tomascot··on How to track social shares for specific URL free?
With Facebook and g+ is free. G+ is easy because it's 0 99,99999% of the time.

For Twitter you have to pay to a third party service like gnip. It makes senses since twitter is still losing money.

tomascot··on Exceptionally Preserved Ancient Ships Discovered in the Black Sea
the poor man's cryogenic
tomascot··on Ask HN: If users tell you they want your product but
I don't know how are you going to implement your service. But by looking at your website it seems that you could do a lot by hand to test if it works, sort of "fake it til you build it"

I built a lot of things that didn't work and with time I learnt to first get customers and then build the product.

I usually buy time saying that we are customizing the product for the client's use case, which it's usually half true. Just be honest about dates.

tomascot··on Ask HN: If users tell you they want your product but
It depends. Do you have a fixed date to have the product ready? Is it custom?
tomascot··on Relicensing React, Jest, Flow, and Immutable.js
As I see it this shows that you can't trust Facebook. And that Mark still is the same dude that once said "They trust me. Dumb fucks".
tomascot··on Improbably Frequent Lottery Winners
Probably someone working on the place where you go to get the money.
tomascot··on Ask HN: What would you do with MySpace
What you propose in the last paragraph sounds like Reddit.
tomascot··on Ask HN: Is it me or HackerNews needs a better UI?
I like the "brutalism". The only thing i would add is a night mode.
tomascot··on Ask HN: What tech stack to choose in my first stint as a freelance developer?
People use what works for them. Besides it's a great framework and it's stable, great for boring businesses.
tomascot··on Google Cloud Platforms – Shameful
AWS even refunds you when you caused the trouble. Amazon in general has top notch support.
tomascot··on Ask HN: What are your favourite developer blogs?
You could check this repo for more sources: https://github.com/kilimchoi/engineering-blogs

That's what's left from a similar site to yours

tomascot··on Ask HN: What problem in your business is worth paying 10k/y for?
What do you use it for?
tomascot··on Show HN: Park your domain name with just 2 DNS records
Great idea.

What do you use to read the records?

tomascot··on Ask HN: What tech stack to choose in my first stint as a freelance developer?
There's Symfony and some other good frameworks around. PHP 7 was a god send.
tomascot··on JavaScript is Eating the World
I know.

I just wanted to share this because I find it amusing til the moment that client went with another company that had "patent pending tech" and AI, it was sad because I knew the other company was just a couple of guys loading data.

I guess the lesson is that sometimes it's hard for people with a technical background to sell because we usually don't "hype" our tech.

tomascot··on JavaScript is Eating the World
I had a client that asked me to rewrite our software in JS. He didnt know anything about programming but said he preferred JS.
tomascot··on Ask HN: Projects that don't make you money but you're doing it out of sheer joy?
OVH works pretty well and you can get a small VPS for less than USD5
tomascot··on Ask HN: Projects that don't make you money but you're doing it out of sheer joy?
Do you know where the gtfs file is located by default? I know a bus company in Argentina that has that info somewhere and Google.is using it in maps but I couldn't find the gtfs file.

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tomascot··on Ask HN: What is your advice to new HN user?
Comment like everybody is judging.
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