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Beyond learning a lot of stuff that I don't think I would of been introduced to and/or thought about looking for, it has given me 8.5 years of my favorite side-project to date with http://hackernewsletter.com . With it I've met a ton of folks and the best company to work for that I could of asked for.
In that time - when android was young - I made a little app for generating passwords. I put it in the play store as an purchasable app without any marketing what so ever. It got no downloads so I stated that in another HN thread and some HN stranger bought the app and gave it a 5-star review, just to help me out! That made me really happy and grateful, I won't forget that, thank you, HN folks!
I put my name in a co-founder wish-list doc from HN [1] in 2010. Many folks have reached out, some were pitching their ideas and others just wanted to get in touch. One guy, Ev, said that he was going to write a new email server. I thought it was a bit funny (who wants a new email server in 2010?) but pretty cool at the same time so I decided to join. That's how I ended up as a founding engineer at Mailgun (YC W11) a…
Do you think it still has the same usefulness? It looks quite chaotic to shift through ~8 years of unmaintained information. Back then I can imagine you could basically contact everyone on the list and see what happened?
A reading list that I'll never be able to get through. Is there a service that turns reading lists to mp3s?
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Hi, I just signed up for your website and everything looks really good but on your design dashboard I am getting your browser is currently not supported. I am using Firefox 59.0b10. It seems like Firefox is not at all supported. I should not have to switch browser. BTW, Great work!
On the other hand, the homepage looks great in Firefox with NoScript enabled. It's nice to be able read about what a product does without enabling a bunch of scripts first. It seems a lot of sites these days make their landing pages using SPA frameworks.
Nothing but grief. I post my opinion here, and I get shadow banned. Every-time. As a developer -contract or fulltime- for the last 30 years, you would think people would listen.
> Nothing but grief. I post my opinion here, and I get shadow banned. Every-time. Your assertion is that it happens to you regularly. Have you considered that it's actually you, and maybe there is a way to express your opinion clearly without getting shadow banned? > As a developer -contract or fulltime- for the last 30 years, you would think people would listen. As an intelligent person, one would think you might le…
Since he was already shadow banned for this exact comment and it's his very first with this account I don't think it's on him.
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Dropbox had about 60 if I remember right (109 now) - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8863 .
Wow, those comments are awesome. "For a Linux user, you can already build such a system yourself quite trivially by getting an FTP account, mounting it locally with curlftpfs, and then using SVN or CVS on the mounted filesystem. From Windows or Mac, this FTP account could be accessed through built-in software." I wonder how many other ten-figure business models can be developed from comments that begin "For any Linux…
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> Nothing but grief. I post my opinion here, and I get shadow banned. Every-time. Your assertion is that it happens to you regularly. Have you considered that it's actually you, and maybe there is a way to express your opinion clearly without getting shadow banned? > As a developer -contract or fulltime- for the last 30 years, you would think people would listen. As an intelligent person, one would think you might le…
>Your assertion is that it happens to you regularly. Have you considered that it's actually you, and maybe there is a way to express your opinion clearly without getting shadow banned? Since he was already shadow banned for this exact comment and it's his very first with this account I don't think it's on him.
One of us is mis-understanding things.
You seem to be saying that the account "Cytronex" is shadow-banned, but it isn't, so I'm not sure what you're saying. This comment[0] has been downvoted, and that makes the comment display in a light grey, but that's not the same as shadow-banning.