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Re: Ask HN: What did you work on in 2017?

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Post by eikenberry »

jimnotgym wrote: post #156
sylvainkalache wrote: post #152

Holberton School - https://www.holbertonschool.com/ a two-year alternative to college to become a Software Engineer. The school is free to students until they find a job, then they contribute with a % of their salary. After only 9 months, many students find internships and jobs at companies like NASA, Apple, LinkedIn, Tesla, Dropbox... It's a life-changing experience for many of our students, and it also changes the…

% of their salary for how long after they have graduated?

"That is why there is no upfront cost to attend Holberton School. Once our graduates find a job, we only charge 17% of your internship earnings and 17% of your salary over 3 years."

https://www.holbertonschool.com/education#tuition

Re: Ask HN: What did you work on in 2017?

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Post by nasso »

jimnotgym wrote: post #156
sylvainkalache wrote: post #152

Holberton School - https://www.holbertonschool.com/ a two-year alternative to college to become a Software Engineer. The school is free to students until they find a job, then they contribute with a % of their salary. After only 9 months, many students find internships and jobs at companies like NASA, Apple, LinkedIn, Tesla, Dropbox... It's a life-changing experience for many of our students, and it also changes the…

% of their salary for how long after they have graduated?

17% for three years according to their website.

Re: Ask HN: What did you work on in 2017?

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Post by jstanley »

Worked on SMS Privacy (which I actually started towards the end of 2016) offering anonymous SMS connectivity paid in bitcoin: https://smsprivacy.org/

And a small project but a good one: the world's most secure encrypted pastebin (maybe), using ipfs: https://hardbin.com/

Also quit my job and now full-time supported by my own projects.

Re: Ask HN: What did you work on in 2017?

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Post by jimnotgym »

1) Finally go the sign off on our new server infrastructure

2) Waste a lot of time trying to get an ePOS solution from our ERP supplier, whilst also looking at alternative ERP suppiers!

3) Got our eCommerce doing double digit growth

4) Developed lots of quirky adhoc tools for keeping addresses tidy in CRM that need writing properly

5) Got better at Python

I am now really in need of a new job, something in business/IT consulting. I want to be my own boss, but don't have the resources to start my own business right now. Tired and unfulfilled

Re: Ask HN: What did you work on in 2017?

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Post by llamataboot »

My own projects:

- Ask The Caterpillar: a chatbot that gives harm reduction information about substances/drugs

https://www.askthecaterpillar.com/home.html

- Some API wrappers and Slack add-ons, one that just lets me control Sonos from Slack.

- I taught myself Elm and wrote a little app that lets you use the Spotify magic algorithm for finding similar tracks

--

At work:

Learned a lot more about building a clean API, and some stuff about React on the front end

Re: Ask HN: What did you work on in 2017?

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Post by chirau »

RomanPushkin wrote: post #39

I was working on LibreTaxi https://github.com/ro31337/libretaxi it's ride sharing app that works thru Telegram (currently). Surprisingly, it worked really well, there are 100-500 rides in some cities every day

I was excited about this project when i first saw it here but i have to say the setup instructions are very confusing. It would be nice if the documentation had step by step installation and first boot instructions. Many months after cloning the repo, i have never managed to set it up.

The instructions are all over the place. The NodeJS instructions say you can run npm -i after installing node. Then you get to Getting Started and it seems like a detached process altogether. The getting started section should start from either installing the dependencies or cloning the repo. Right now it just starts with renaming some file.

Good work, though, at least from what i can see on the site once it actually does run it is a beautiful thing.

Re: Ask HN: What did you work on in 2017?

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Post by dividuum »

I've worked almost exclusively on https://info-beamer.com, a digital signage service for the Raspberry Pi. It all started as a for fun project while freelancing and turned into a profitable business. All while still being a lot of fun to work on. Unlike other Pi based solutions, info-beamer isn't using a sluggish browser but uses Lua/C at its core to use all the hardware acceleration features while still being pretty simple to program (see https://info-beamer.com/doc/info-beamer). The challenge is always to make all those feature easily available through a web interface. I'm currently improving that a lot by enabling users to create more complicated output without any programming knowledge. Getting to know Vue.js has helped a lot with that.

Re: Ask HN: What did you work on in 2017?

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Post by jacobwg »

davidmr wrote: post #129
jacobwg wrote: post #102

Earlier quoted context omitted.

It’s definitely a factor to be aware of. We are legally not allowed to be exposed to image content, as developers, but personally I do have some exposure to text content as part of my role. Thorn has an excellent support / wellness system, with professional counselors, in place though for proactively staying healthy and processing what exposure we do experience.

I’m very glad they have such a good support network. A close friend of mine got a job out of law school prosecuting child sex crimes, and there was absolutely no support. After a year, he couldn’t take it any more and left public service altogether. Even a decade later, you can tell he’s still bothered by it. I have an incredible amount of respect for people who can do that work; I’m absolutely certain that I don’t h…

Definitely, I think support is crucial. I work around people who have victim ID experience (reviewing abuse material with the goal of locating children) and strongly share your respect. It’s so impactful in the lives of the victims, but you are exposed to a very dark side of humanity and are unlikely to know the eventual outcomes of the children’s lives.

Re: Ask HN: What did you work on in 2017?

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Post by jklepatch »

This year has been the year of blockchain for me. I have worked on several blockchain projects.

Documentation for blockchain tech is not that great, so I created a screencast for ethereum / blockchain devs:

Utube channel: https://m.youtube.com/channel/UCZM8XQjNOyG2ElPpEUtNasA

Website: http://eattheblocks.com

Looking forward to keep posting one new video a week. Hopefully it will help more devs to come in this industry :)

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