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I released my first ever big project this year. Learn Anything ( https://learn-anything.xyz ). It's pretty amazing to see how fast it evolved and how much there is still to do. Can't wait to see what will happen to it in 2018 and what we will be able to do with it.
Trying to be the world's first person to be cured from autism. I believe my autism is caused by the shape of my forehead, which puts too much pressure on my muscles. Evidence is here: https://corticalchauvinism.com/2017/11/13/yuval-levental-cra... Also, I have prepared for a potential surgery by getting botox injections in my forehead muscle. So far, my focus at work has dramatically improved: https://corticalchauvin…
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Annoying that somebody rolled on you for that.
Yea it's pretty lame seeing as how the video was posted under a pseudonym, meaning that person did some serious digging and clearly had an agenda (I'm 95% sure who it was). It's all good though, I had been wanting to leave for a long time but had kept putting it off for the "right moment". I'm glad that that decision was made for me because now there's nothing to regret.
I spent most of the year working my ass off consulting for one of America's most hated companies building an utterly pointless system. My only consolation is knowing that I wasted a ton of their money since there's no chance it will pay any returns.
Oh man, I don't think I've ever laughed this much on anything I've read on HN. Thanks for making my day. :)
2. Started to learned about Bitcoin and cryptocurrency, and came to the realisation that it is like gambling in the wild west.
I've been building LiveFeeds ( https://www.livefeeds.io/ ), a platform for helping online retailers keep their affiliate data feeds and ad networks up to date. Currently, many affiliates work from data feeds that are only published once or twice a day, leaving them out of sync on prices and stock levels for many hours every day.
Ok so - I am your target customer exactly. My team is responsible for generating product feed files to give to agencies and engines. The process is extremely painful and usually ends up wasting the time of up to 10 people in the company for what should be some automated process. And here’s the thing - because it’s revenue generating, finding the budget to pay for your service is super duper easy. So with that in mind…
We're not in production yet, so we're still testing with some friendly merchants, but the largest dataset we've encountered is 1.3M rows (approx 900MiB of CSV). That's for a mobile phone retailer, and it's essentially the cross product of all the variables in their deals. To answer your other question, for that reason a longer-term goal is to introduce a format for aggregating multiple product options. That requires buy-in, though.
> What platforms do you integrate with? This wasn’t obvious to me after quickly scanning the site
After talking to some of our potential customers, most of them seem to be lacking in very technical staff. One of the larger ones has a brand new GBP 20M web site that they have no internal control over. For that reason, we've developed a couple of solutions that can be implemented in the web layer instead of the inventory layer. We'd be happy to work with any merchant who wants us to integrate with their e-commerce backend, though; in fact, it makes things a lot easier for us.
> Do you let me dedupe, aggregate, or create new data attributes in your platform?
We don't do deduping yet (no one has asked for it so far), but we allow you to create new data attributes in your product schema. The primary motivation for this is to generate product IDs for feeds that don't have an explicit ID column, but do have one in, say, the product URL. We'll be extending it as use cases come along, for things like extracting attributes from product titles or descriptions, and fixing up data to meet the requirements of particular ad networks.
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Here are a few off the top of my head. 1. Servers. I've always 'pushed to heroku' without really knowing how servers worked. 2. Git. I've always just used gitlab or other git hosting services without knowing how to build it. 3. File hosting. I've always just uploaded files without knowing how files are processed / stored. 4. Email. SMTP is like a big unknown, I've never really cared about how emails worked. 5. SSL. T…
i admire what you're doing but I wonder why spend any significant amount of time on most if not all points on this list? if the goal is "couch -> working developer" then I don't think they're relevant to getting ramped up and working as a programmer/dec/swe who can deliver value. the black boxes you talk about might be better off taught in a lazy fashion so to speak. a lot of these seem devopsy. I've definitely delve…
An automated system to drown the competition on Google and review sites... Hey, no one else offered me money for something else, so...
My friends have been streaming on twitch so I've been writing a bot for them to play overlays/games with their viewers, let viewers earn points, queue up music, etc. Along the way I brushed up on some es6 concepts, learned React, and was reminded of writing eggdrop bot scripts back in the day :P Everything is public on github and is somewhat-generic/reusable by others. Hope to complete documentation and make it 100%…
Left $150k software engineering job (well got fired for making video called "9 Ways to cope with having a boring 9-5 job" which somebody found and sent to HR) to make videos about stuff I think is interesting ( https://www.youtube.com/c/JDiculous1 https://www.facebook.com/HonestLogic ), with a slant towards addressing wage slavery, basic income, student loans, capitalism, etc. Still in the early stages, but I'll be h…
Can you link to the vid that got you fired?