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wise_young_man··on China bans for-profit school tutoring in sweeping overhaul
TAL, mentioned in the article, is listed in the US stock market, NYSE specifically.
wise_young_man··on TikTok owner ByteDance sees its earnings double in 2020
Can this conspiracy stuff stop already? He lost and please move on. We are all tired of this.
wise_young_man··on Stripe migrates Stripe Subscriptions users to more expensive Stripe Billing
Next year is just months away.
wise_young_man··on Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (November 2020)
Location: Oklahoma City, OK USA

Remote: Yes

Willing to relocate: No, but can travel occasionally

Technologies: PHP, Laravel, Vue.js, MySQL, JavaScript, Sass, Redis, Meilisearch, NativeScript (iOS + Android), Serverless, DevOps, Rest API design + integrations

Résumé/CV: http://derekmyers.com/resume.pdf

Email: derek@codedapps.com

GitHub: https://github.com/dmyers

LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/dmyers5/

Hi, I'm a senior developer with a wide range of experience in scaling different software stacks, but primarily have specialized in backend with PHP with Laravel and have open source contributions to the framework and have extensive knowledge of the core.

My most recent project I've built myself is https://namepromo.com which is a cross platform service for desktop and mobile web and native mobile (iOS, and Android app stores) and has over 10,000 registered users and I manage a cluster of dedicated servers for the high bandwidth environment.

I'm looking for a new opportunity to work with a team and ship product features with interest in leading the engineering if needed.

wise_young_man··on Amazon Price-Tracker with Alerts
This is exactly why I built NamePromo [1], which tracks product stock changes and sends you alerts across many channels (email, sms, mobile push (iOS/Android), our FB & Twitter profiles, and Discord).

We also take requests for any store listing URL and even if we don't support it right now such as Nike for example we will prioritize it and get it added to our queue to support tracking it.

The interesting thing about your point that Amazon and other merchants that have a "notify me" button is that they don't really work for users. However most of their methods are to process new inventory, their notification process is disconnected somehow and delayed for some reason. From the community I've been working to build as well, they all say the platform is much faster than the stores' versions.

[1]: https://namepromo.com

wise_young_man··on Break Up Google
Honestly I’m wondering what innovations they’ve had in the last 5 years. I’ve been around long enough to see their decay in that area. YouTube you mentioned was an acquisition. Android was created in 2008. Maps in 2005. What’s really new with Google besides a ton of failed ideas like Reader, G+, and messenger apps?
wise_young_man··on Break Up Google
How would breaking it up affect that in the slightest? Also being an unpaid user doesn’t mean your data you generate is valueless.
wise_young_man··on Cloudflare TV
Why is it one cannot still register a new domain using Cloudflare? As someone who worked at a registrar before and managed ICANN compliance and registry connections, this isn’t a hard problem at all.

As a long time user, customer and promoter, this is puzzling to me to see change in direction and lack of product focus on what brought initial interest (DNS) to Cloudflare in the tech world first with the VPN stuff and now this TV stuff.

wise_young_man··on Show HN: Print a WiFi Login Card
They added support built into the camera app starting with iOS 11 (released in 2018).

https://9to5mac.com/2018/05/16/how-to-qr-codes-ios-11-iphone...

wise_young_man··on Google to Slow Hiring for Rest of 2020
It’s possible they would have just built yet another chat app for Google to shutdown. I’m not sure what Google even does anymore innovation wise with all their wealth and resources.
wise_young_man··on Ask HN: Why is CA not closing it’s borders?
Just so you know, Trump said that they only learned about it in January in today’s press briefing during the Q/A. There was a big lag time between actually focusing on testing and there’s no doubt that they dragged their feet and were more concerned with the stock market than those who would be affected.
wise_young_man··on So you wanna buy a used IP address block?
They are actually free per that link.

> You can have one Elastic IP (EIP) address associated with a running instance at no charge.

wise_young_man··on Show HN: Autocode – Automatically generate API code for SaaS apps
None of those use cases apply for authentication though right? Or are people using emojis for logins now? Even if they were, standard browser form input I’m sure would handle them fine natively.
wise_young_man··on Is Anyone Listening to You on Alexa? A Global Team Reviews Audio
Seems like a false equivalence. First, a corporation is not the same as the government. Second, the government wiretapping your house is a violation of your constitutional rights, whereas you freely choosing to add a smart device into your home is not.
wise_young_man··on DigitalOcean launches its container service
I made something similar and turned it into a service [1] focused on WordPress, but unfortunately there hasn't been much interest from people as I thought there would be, though that could be due to my lack of marketing.

My goal was the same, to make hosting more portable with features like snapshotting and restoration of WP sites across servers and to even eventually expand beyond just servers, to bring in domain registrars and cloud storage to be able to move things around easier. For example: you have a site hosted on AWS EC2 with DNS at Namecheap and nightly backups at Dropbox and let's say the AWS Virginia region goes down. You create a new server in Digital Ocean and restore the snapshot from Dropbox and the linked DNS at Namecheap is auto updated.

The more I thought about this though, I began to realize that maybe these features wouldn't be useful to the audience I wanted to target, which was people who wanted to grow from shared hosting and have something reliable and less noisy neighbors, but still more affordable than managed WP hosts and lastly more control (bring your cloud/server provider).

[1]: http://pagefog.com

wise_young_man··on Beleaguered Didi Is Said to Lose $585M in Just Six Months
Amazon?
wise_young_man··on Ask HN: Freelancer? Seeking freelancer? (April 2017)
SEEKING WORK - Remote (from Oklahoma City)

Technologies:

* Backend: PHP/Laravel, Node.js/Express.js, Ruby/Rails/Padrino, REST/OAuth/XMLRPC/Web Services, WordPress

* Frontend: HTML5, JavaScript/jQuery/Backbone.js/Vue.js, CSS/Sass/Less, Gulp, Web Sockets

* Database: MySQL/Postgres/Mongo

* Caching: Redis/Memcache

* Cloud: AWS (ElasticBeanstalk, RDS, EC2, S3, ElastiCache, ELB, SQS, CloudFront and Route53), Digital Ocean

* Servers: Linux (CentOS, Ubuntu), Vagrant/Chef/Docker, Apache/Nginx

* Services: ElasticSearch, Varnish

Résumé/CV: http://derekmyers.com/resume.pdf

Email: <See Resume/Profile>

GitHub: http://github.com/dmyers

I've been a software developer for over 10 years now and my experience is largely full stack, but I am stronger in the backend building application and database architecture, API integrations, and scaling systems.

wise_young_man··on Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (April 2017)
Location: Oklahoma City

Remote: Yes

Willing to relocate: No, but can travel occasionally

Technologies:

* Backend: PHP/Laravel, Node.js/Express.js, Ruby/Rails/Padrino, REST/OAuth/XMLRPC/Web Services, WordPress

* Frontend: HTML5, JavaScript/jQuery/Backbone.js/Vue.js, CSS/Sass/Less, Gulp, Web Sockets

* Database: MySQL/Postgres/Mongo

* Caching: Redis/Memcache

* Cloud: AWS (ElasticBeanstalk, RDS, EC2, S3, ElastiCache, ELB, SQS, CloudFront and Route53), Digital Ocean

* Servers: Linux (CentOS, Ubuntu), Vagrant/Chef/Docker, Apache/Nginx

* Services: ElasticSearch, Varnish

* Mobile: iOS/Swift

Résumé/CV: http://derekmyers.com/resume.pdf

Email: <See Resume/Profile>

GitHub: http://github.com/dmyers

I've been a software developer for over 10 years now and my experience is largely full stack, but I am stronger in the backend building application and database architecture, API integrations, and scaling systems.

wise_young_man··on Ask HN: What do people use for cheap, low-traffic WordPress hosting these days?
I've been building a startup to address this need in the cloud hosting space that I'm calling Pagefog[1]. I'm very close to release soon. Would you be interested in talking to me about your needs and seeing if it could be a good fit?

My goal is to make an easier service for managed WP hosting on your own cloud servers whether you use AWS, Digital Ocean, or a VM in your datacenter. Everything that is built out is setup for performance and tuned for WordPress. There are some unique feature like auto-setup of SSL certs with LetsEncrypt as well.

[1]: http://pagefog.com

wise_young_man··on SlimFAQ – Simple FAQ's for your app or website
This is a really neat service. We've been working in the same area at UserDeck [1], but focused around an inline embedded widget. It's hard to tell your integration strategy if it is a subdomain hosting a la Zendesk or if it is mostly focused on the overlay with Intercom which is really slick too btw.

1: http://userdeck.com/guides

wise_young_man··on The Daily Mail Stole My Visualization Twice
You don't actually need to register in order to be protected by copyright laws. The benefit to registering is that it is needed in order to sue. [1]

1: http://thompsonhall.com/does-a-copyright-have-to-be-register...

wise_young_man··on Upload files to your repositories
It's not exactly like Dropbox though, you still have to commit (with a message) similar to how editing a file works.
wise_young_man··on VeryNginx – OpenResty-Based Nginx with WAF, Control Panel, and Dashboards
It looks like English is at the bottom of the README.

https://github.com/alexazhou/VeryNginx#installation

wise_young_man··on Introducing the Open API Initiative
I'm less familiar with JSON API, but at first glance it looks like a standard around JSON response bodies for APIs.

Swagger's standard API definition is external of your actual API responses and is used primarily for API docs and can be used for auto generating API client libraries/SDKs.

Here's an example:

https://github.com/OAI/OpenAPI-Specification/blob/master/exa...

wise_young_man··on AWS mistakes to avoid
Oh okay I was just curious. I completely agree. The AWS bill at my startup went up quite a bit after the free trial ended since there are many variables that are included with each service such as how many requests/mo, tiered bandwidth, etc. The AWS calculator is nice and so is the billing estimator, but it's still quite confusing.
wise_young_man··on AWS mistakes to avoid
Were you comparing bandwidth/data transfer in your numbers for EC2, S3 or CloudFront?
wise_young_man··on AWS mistakes to avoid
One of the things that I thought would be neat is an open source CloudFormation that could work for multiple cloud vendors, possibly using a driver pattern.

Also, you might want to update your HN profile with contact info.

wise_young_man··on I analyzed 250 SaaS pricing pages
There's an open source project called Slate [1] which is basically a static site generator for API docs you might consider which looks like Stripe's API docs.

[1]: https://github.com/tripit/slate

wise_young_man··on Gmail, We Need to Talk
The article claims that Schema has not caught on, but in fact you have to be approved [1] to be able to have Gmail pick them up in emails you send and it's not really an open standard like it should be.

Moz has a great article which covers it pretty well. Basically you have to send 100 emails per day for some length of time.

Since you can't just add them to your email and expect them to work, I think that is why it hasn't caught on. I'd really love if it did though.

1: https://developers.google.com/gmail/markup/registering-with-...

2: https://moz.com/blog/markup-for-emails

wise_young_man··on Apple's 30%
Plus the fact that if there was no App store Apple wouldn't have as high of hardware sales so it has intrinsic value just being there.
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