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New comment by 1morewebdev in "How to Correctly Detect Credit Card Type"

1morewebdev — Tue, 01 Apr 2014 17:57:19 +0000

Is that someone's real data or just some example data? You don't want it to be misused / abused.

New comment by 1morewebdev in "Coming Soon to Hacker News: Pending Comments"

1morewebdev — Sat, 22 Mar 2014 22:02:46 +0000

Good to see someone point out a flaw on basing the success of the site on the dependability of the 1k+ group. They need not all be benevolent dictators (or even interested) in spirit.

New comment by 1morewebdev in "Ask HN: How do you earn your money?"

1morewebdev — Sat, 22 Mar 2014 20:21:59 +0000

Do you realise that although you "lost 2-4 years of your career" you created a few dozen higher quality lives?

I think you have achieved a major life goal already that most in Silicon Valley do not. I don't know if HN is the place to praise such deeds, but you did your small part in hacking the world to make it better. Kudos to you, don't ever let it feel as a wasted effort. That's so wrong a way to think.

There are people who want to help others and their repeated attempts fail. You just went and did something that's working for 7 years.

That's a pretty successful startup in my book. It can't go viral for obvious reasons, but it's mature and stable. And you did it without HN :-)

New comment by 1morewebdev in "Ask HN: How do you earn your money?"

1morewebdev — Sat, 22 Mar 2014 20:15:26 +0000

> The other type is startups that sell something (product / service, one time or subscription), in this case you can have revenue from day 1, so I would recommend this route,

This is good advice. A few years delayed, but slow, steady, stable growth or your mental self as well as your brand and of your team is a pretty good platform to launch something bigger.

New comment by 1morewebdev in "Ask HN: How do you earn your money?"

1morewebdev — Sat, 22 Mar 2014 20:08:07 +0000

This is very helpful. For something as important as how to make money, a long answer and detailed one like this is welcome. I'm currently at a technical skill level between "freelancer" and "consultant" (loosely speaking, that is). This is useful advice. Thanks.

New comment by 1morewebdev in "Clef – stop using passwords"

1morewebdev — Wed, 12 Feb 2014 22:18:14 +0000

Wasn't there news recently about popular games picking up stuff from the phone that they are not supposed to?

If I keep my passwords / certs on my phone, anything that hacks my phone gets access to those, no?

New comment by 1morewebdev in "China's Jade Rabbit lunar rover dies on moon"

1morewebdev — Wed, 12 Feb 2014 21:54:13 +0000

I expect the latter, they aren't known to give up big dreams so easily. Consider for instance that India and Russia have had numerous failed launches for various rockets and / or space probes and both countries continue to try again and eventually succeed. Why would China not try again? I pray they do. Chinese or American or Russian or Indian, I want to see a minimal human habitat on the moon in my lifetime. Our species deserves that much, for all the work done so far.

New comment by 1morewebdev in "China's Jade Rabbit lunar rover dies on moon"

1morewebdev — Wed, 12 Feb 2014 21:49:27 +0000

Suppose China were to send another Rover up in the next 5 years, and it found this one. In theory, could this one be repaired? Or will the "electronics self-destruct" be thorough by then?

New comment by 1morewebdev in "State of Illinois Bans Arial Font (1999)"

1morewebdev — Tue, 11 Feb 2014 22:43:41 +0000

for the busy: 1999