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I guess that's probably where all the questions are, thank you. I admit I've never even notice its existence!

Though I am not a religious reader of the main HN page, I love to follow up on the questions in the Ask HN section. I am almost certain that in the not so distant past there were m…

Another one by the same author, which I heartily recommend, is "The Ideal Team Player". Read it many years ago, and I still use it as a basic framework when I interview candidates …

I usually take (half seriously) Machiavelli's view: luck does play a role, but it's not the biggest factor and the rest is up to you. So, focus on what you can control, and luck sh…

Thank you, great pointers!

I work as the team lead of a QA team and I wanted to create a small library for people in my team - and others', of course - to expand their knowledge outside the technical domain …

+1 on "Fluent Python" by Ramalho. I enjoyed and benefitted from the first edition so much that I'll get the second edition which is due to come out soon (Apr 29). I would say it ta…

For me it was "The Basic Laws of Human Stupidity" by C. Cipolla. A very short book that illustrates, in a subtly-humorous way, how stupid people are far more powerful than one woul…

Thanks for the confidence boost! It's always too easy to self-criticize.

In the beginning I actually thought about Django or Flask (my background is mainly in Python), which I wrongly dismissed because I thought the main part would have been JS - so I c…

I started off a template, which took away the need to think about web design. For React, I did follow quite a few tutorials - from how to route through pages, to hooks to unit test…

I wasn't aware of neither bubble.io nor webflow. Good to know they're there. Given what I've got in mind seems more to be an app rather than a website, I'd probably give a shot to …

Maybe not, as I'm actually leveraging existing APIs, so effectively it'll be a wrapper around those.

I'm not a web developer - more of a back-end one - but I had an idea for a side project that requires a dynamic web UI which I though was worth pursuing, so I've embarking on a jou…

I'd love to use Lob: they have a clean API, good support, they can send letters and postcards anywhere in the world... but they're based in the US, and the problem is that mail mig…

I think it's been released yesterday: https://github.com/mrc-ide/covid-sim

> People can have the same idea but execute and follow through with very different results. Or not execute at all as is my case ;) But I see what you're saying. Most of these, I su…

Regarding the example of Stackoverflow vs Mailchimp, it'll be definitely more on the Mailchimp side. As for the niche to pick, it's not yet clear to me what I can focus on - it loo…

You're right, had I discovered this earlier or in a few months' time, it wouldn't probably have made much difference. I admit I've never thought about _not_ being different from th…

I've got an idea which I've been thinking to develop as a side project... until I discovered (here on HN, by the way) it's already been implemented. What would you do to differenti…

Interesting book. Having read a bit about some critics about it - namely, that it was heavily based on the work of a colleague of the authors - may I also suggest the work of this …

Generalizing the topic, does anyone know if there is a map of subjects/branches in mathematics and books/blogs/etc giving examples of real-world applications? Personally, I know th…

Can't believe no one has yet mentioned the PASTA theorem - Poisson Arrivals See Time Averages ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arrival_theorem#Theorem_for_ar... ). It is one of the …