kakkan | 4 years ago | on: Marginalia Search: 1 Year
Would you recommend more resources to learn about his work?
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kakkan | 4 years ago | on: Number of journalists in jail reaches global high
I think this is a misleading title. Journalism as a profession shot up the last couple of years due to internet and media so the count should be normalized. What ratio of journalists are persecuted compared to total number of journalists out there?
kakkan | 4 years ago | on: Show HN: Made a website to create and explore tech learning roadmaps
TLDR: There are over 50 career roadmaps right now. It's built with golang and nextjs. You can see the github repository over here https://github.com/guyandtheworld/reallyconfused and the whole website is hosted over here https://reallyconfused.co/
Full Story: Five years ago as I was learning to code, I was frustrated about not knowing the whole journey. Recently I decided to revisit this problem and to solve this, I decided to build a web app where you can create and share learning roadmaps, and beginners can explore roadmaps based on careers and programming languages. The aim of this project is not to give a single roadmap to anyone as a prescription that promises a career if you do X, Y and Z, but merely an exploratory platform that can be used as a source of inspiration if you get stuck because no tech career path is the same. I managed to get over 50 learning roadmaps on a variety of careers and programming languages. It's built with golang and nextjs and use postgres as a database. I'd love your feedback and your criticism!
Best Regards.
kakkan | 4 years ago | on: Tracking Covid-19 variant B.1.1.529
Can someone ELI5 how bad this variant is?
kakkan | 4 years ago | on: Show HN: Mostly inaccurate but dead honest 33 years of one man's life
Sounds right to me.
kakkan | 4 years ago | on: Ask HN: What you up to? (Who doesn't want to be hired?)
Happy Birthday!
kakkan | 4 years ago | on: Ask HN: How do you tackle your own negativity?
How do you find the temporal bone? Would you have a reference video so that I could try it out? Temporal bone massage returned some vague results.
kakkan | 4 years ago | on: 94% of the universe’s galaxies are permanently beyond our reach
if the universe is expanding faster than the speed of light why can't we harness that power and travel that fast?
kakkan | 4 years ago | on: I started SaaS companies in 2013 and 2021 – how things have changed
Thanks for sharing. That's the goal, anyway. :)
kakkan | 4 years ago | on: I started SaaS companies in 2013 and 2021 – how things have changed
By deep tech, I mean getting to solve complex challenges through technology. It could be solving problems using machine learning, or a hardware product that's genuinely useful. I believe we're going to see a rise in hardware technology soon. After being in the phase of building a product to get upvotes on ProductHunt, I was trying to capture the essence of being an inventor by following a prescribed recipe, which wasn't satisfying. I ended up moving to a more business role and it's much better this way but we're barely building anything.
I'd like to play a role of an inventor and a builder of crazy technologies. Imagine https://www.noya.co/ or https://frame.work/. My only concern is that not being from a research background or a first world country could hinder my chance of doing that. Hope that made sense.
kakkan | 4 years ago | on: I started SaaS companies in 2013 and 2021 – how things have changed
I relate with your sentiment. I'm from a product background, not a research one. What do you think is the best way to eventually transition into deep tech companies over the next five years?
kakkan | 4 years ago | on: Ask HN: What were the tech trends thought to be revolutionary but died out?
How do you think NFTs will die out?
kakkan | 4 years ago | on: Ask HN: What were the tech trends thought to be revolutionary but died out?
This is really cool, why did this die out?
kakkan | 4 years ago | on: Dating in Delhi when you're poor
Even though the article captures a good amount of truth about the lifestyle, the dinner pricing might need a bit of context. The top 5% of the restaurants might cost more than a hundred bucks for two people but that should be expected from the high-end four star and five star restaurants. I'm an Indian engineer who earns in USD, and even if I'm picky, my per meal is always between $3 - $5. Even if I'm going for keto or specialised meals, it never goes beyond $10.
kakkan | 4 years ago | on: Show HN: Obsidian for Mobile – Plain-text knowledge base on the go
I'm trying to do the same. All my notes are backed up to a private repository, would be pretty kick-ass to get it synced with my iphone. Let me know if you find it out!
kakkan | 4 years ago | on: Using a magnetic string to fish for a lost iPhone 12 in a Berlin canal
Time to roll back this innovation and release the new iphone with 2x volume so that it'd float.
kakkan | 4 years ago | on: I Launched my Product on Reddit to get 1,500 Sign-ups and 300k Page-views
Thank you! I used https://unicornplatform.com/ for building it.
kakkan | 4 years ago | on: I Launched my Product on Reddit to get 1,500 Sign-ups and 300k Page-views
From my observations, there are communities which has strict moderation policies, but sometimes they do allow posts if the incentives are right. That's why I mention writing an essay instead of posting a link. I feel like if it's a well known pain-point and the community is aware about it, and you outline why your motivation for solving it, it will resonate. Instead of promotion, you're posting your story.
Again, this strategy could fail too, but I've always noticed if you take one topic, there are multiple subreddits that address it, so you'll have luck in at least one of them. What market is your product targeting?
kakkan | 4 years ago | on: Ask HN: How much do you contemplate per week?
That's super fascinating. Does praying enrich your life? Do you think it's something you could replace with meditation?
kakkan | 4 years ago | on: Co-founder of Neuralink leaves the company
You can always choose to not use a phone or the internet? The difference is that life becomes hard when you wanna opt out of a mainstream technology that we fully do not understand.
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