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

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Post by smaddox »

KajMagnus wrote: post #526

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Awesome concept on usability testing exchange! This reminds me of the interviewing.io model, which I also highly regarded.

I think this sort of karma-enforced-sharing model could work in a lot a fields, but the big disadvantage I anticipate is not having any experts in the mix. Do you have any ideas for how to minimize this disadvantage?

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

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Post by jorgec »

songzme wrote: post #320

I quit my job as a software engineer at Google early this year to teach people how to code. I started paying people $15/hr to learn so they can make ends meet while learning instead of working at Walmart. I thought about all the missing pieces in my engineering growth and created a curriculum that welcomes students from 0 engineering background and plugs in all the holes that were black boxed to me in my engineering…

My experience (in short): i quit my job as a project in chief and for x and y reason, i started managing a IT school. My school had 7 years and im tell you:

a) online videos are not competition. Trust me, Udemy and Youtube aren't real training. b) i tried to train particular however most of the 90% of my customers are business and the government. The focus of the business was particular: train people that could land a nice job... but people are so damn lazy, most are seasoned living in the mud!. I feel disappointed, so damn disappointed with the people.

c) the price is low, i charge around $23USD and i live in a third country (a "banana" country), the State covers me with 1/3 of this value. And i consider that the price is low.

If you want help then PM.

My advice: put a real website, just skip facebook.

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

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Post by jorgec »

My 2017: a) My business https://escuelainformatica.cl . This small IT School has 7 years. I am the owner and the trainer.

b) My second business http://acaciapointservice.com/ I started 6 months ago. I am developing a SCADA system in PHP and C# and i am finishing it. I am coded 200k lines of code alone! ;-). For the 2018, i want to develop an ERP for SMB (dual license, gplv2 and commercial).

During the 2017, i got sick, i had some legal troubles (certification) but i survived and earned money.

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

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Post by _up »

There a lot of Stock Sites for After Effect Templates but nobody renders in the Cloud and is geared to the Instagram or Youtube Crowd. I don't want to offer an online Videomaker. But a solution that allows artists to improve their Videos with professional Titles, Lower Thirds, Intros and Transitions. I am almost finished. And launching soon.

Interested? You can leave your Email or take a short Survey here: https://goo.gl/forms/wyaDctXiybuj8YIE3

I’ll notify you when it’s ready.

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

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Post by mattbgates »

First things first: for my relationship which I had been working on, I finally got married to the woman I've been with for 7 years now.

My business, NoteToServices ( https://notetoservices.com ) became official this year, though it was registered 2 years ago, I could actually make it legit.

For my side projects, I was happy to release two web apps which I did a Show HN for one of them: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16041245

Call Me Private ( https://callmeprivate.com ) and Text Me Private ( https://textmeprivate.com ) are two services that allow you to purchase virtual numbers to mask your own phone number for more privacy.

I also created a website called ScamShare which allows people to share the latest email and phone scams they've received, explain their situation, or just generally get the word out there about these scams and scammers to fight the good fight! https://scamshare.com

Had some trouble with my turning-5 years old website, Confessions of the Professions ( http://www.confessionsoftheprofessions.com ), earlier in the year, which were theme-related, so I've been in the works of finding a theme that really stuck with me and lately I've admired Medium.com, who also admitted that they've indefinitely removed custom domains, but I really wanted something similar, for its aesthetic beauty and simplicity, so I managed to update a theme to my needs.

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

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Post by songzme »

drdeadringer wrote: post #535
songzme wrote: post #320

I quit my job as a software engineer at Google early this year to teach people how to code. I started paying people $15/hr to learn so they can make ends meet while learning instead of working at Walmart. I thought about all the missing pieces in my engineering growth and created a curriculum that welcomes students from 0 engineering background and plugs in all the holes that were black boxed to me in my engineering…

> all the holes that were black boxed to me in my engineering growth What were the holes that black-boxed you in your engineering growth?

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. This was always done for me, I've never had to create and manage my own certificates.

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

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Post by flagZ »

I set up my own consulting company and, when not working for clients, I am trying to work on some of the common issues I found in businesses I worked in.

I just launched a simple tool: http://stackbiller.com - it's a tool to keep track of all the SAAS subscriptions a company may have. It's a small tool but hopefully will be useful.

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

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Post by exikyut »

jd3 wrote: post #488
exikyut wrote: post #391

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oooooooo. I really really like this webpage :) full of interesting things. The click-to-change background FTW. (Is... are some of the bitmaps from DESQView/X?) Thanks so much for the Apple fonts, I've been meaning to poke the Alto source for ages!! Hmm. This idea I've had for a while may interest you, and you may have more success with it than I have: I want to get the fonts off a Psion MC400. https://sites.google.co…

No, but I just extracted the deskview patterns and added them to the site! Thanks for the info. http://cs.gettysburg.edu/~duncjo01/archive/patterns/OEM/DVX/ hmm, I'll ask around about the Psion MC400

Wow, that was fast! I had no idea they were XPMs, but that makes sense. (I think my favorites are SHADES{1,2}.)

I'll keep an eye out for interesting things happening with the MC400 in the future :) FWIW a ROM dump would probably let MAME start headscratching their way through it, and I'd love to plau with the UI (it looks really unique), but dumping just the fonts is a very workable start.

(I forgot to mention that that webpage has the images fractionally enlarged for some reason, making them blurry - opening them in a new tab makes them pixel-perfect.)

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Post by nicwilson »

hprotagonist wrote: post #525
nicwilson wrote: post #373

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links/info for 2&3 please! Sounds really interesting.

2. https://github.com/gvoysey/tetrad (in development) 3. code forthcoming after publication :) mostly, this is work done at BU and it’s spinoffs.

Thanks!
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