Some code I wrote went to space and ran without breaking anything. That might be cheating though, since most of it was written in 2015
Ask HN: What was your greatest accomplishment in 2016?
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Re: Ask HN: What was your greatest accomplishment in 2016?
#172I finally wrote a book. This book is about how to break into consulting, and it's addressed specifically to programmers. I feel like people were always asking me about how to break into consulting so I just sat down and knocked out a book over the course of four to six weeks. Details and an exclusive discount for the HN community is available in my profile. Also, I learned conversational Swedish and traveled to Stock…
Just picked up the book. A friend and I are looking to start our own software dev agency in 2017, which will probably be closer to consulting work in the beginning. I look forward to giving your book a read.
Re: Ask HN: What was your greatest accomplishment in 2016?
#173I regained my intellectual curiosity.
Since then I've taken up personal projects again (like a set of interactive economic model solvers for students), and really gotten to love the process of learning again.
I've also finally truly figured out what field I want to get in to, while it won't be easy to break in to quantitative in finance it at least gives me a direction to take my studies and an end goal of where I'm aiming to be soon.
Re: Ask HN: What was your greatest accomplishment in 2016?
#174I realised searchcode server https://searchcode.com/product/ and started to make some sales.
What did I learn? You would not believe what people commit to their source control. Gigabyte text files, millions of files in a single directory, files with the immutable bit set etc... Some of the most bizarre things I would have never encountered.
My defensive programming skills when file processing have improved greatly as a result.
Re: Ask HN: What was your greatest accomplishment in 2016?
#175Being part of a team that built the 1st open hardware satellite that also happens to be the 1st satellite made in Greece (https://upsat.gr)
I learned that through hard and passionate work we managed to create something that seemed impossible to do in a country like Greece. Seems like it's not.
Now with a March 16th launch date we will be launching on ISS.
Re: Ask HN: What was your greatest accomplishment in 2016?
#176Survived another year of struggle to stay on top of ordinary life.
Re: Ask HN: What was your greatest accomplishment in 2016?
#177I wrote a step-by-step tutorial on SaltStack. In the process, I worked through my psychological hang-ups with writing. For as long as I can remember, writing has always made me feel just this terrible anxiety. It made me want to dig my nails into my skin. Throughout high school and university, had come to view writing as this mysterious process. From literary essays to hypothetical military campaign net assessments t…
Where is the tutorial? I have a client in the Bay Area looking for SaltStack training. Do you like to train?
Re: Ask HN: What was your greatest accomplishment in 2016?
#178Finally followed my dreams of leaving my home state. So I quit my corporate job that I hated, left Louisiana and moved to California taking a epic road trip across country in the process, then arrived and got more or less the job of my dreams a couple months later. Been a pretty interesting ride so far out here.
Go for it!
Re: Ask HN: What was your greatest accomplishment in 2016?
#179I've partnered with GitLab and developed courses on Git and on GitLab CI. In successfully developing the CI course on short notice, I've learned I'm usually operating way below my potential. I need to push myself more. Don't get comfortable.
Re: Ask HN: What was your greatest accomplishment in 2016?
#180Earlier quoted context omitted.
what product(s) do you sell online? what e-commerce store do you use?
Vast majority Amazon, some on ebay but it's much harder to handle and sales are lower anyway so haven't been devoting a lot of time to it. Many different products, really whatever sells fast enough with a large enough margin. I've sold things for less than $5 and things for over $1000: generally the cheaper the more it sells. What margin I want depends on how fast it sells, competition, and some other things, don't h…
1. how do you decide what to sell?
2. how do you write product descriptions and copy that will attract buyers especially on amazon?