Hacker News: issa

New comment by issa in "Elon Musk's Demolition Crew"

issa — Fri, 07 Feb 2025 03:07:44 +0000

It has been a decades long journey getting here. There are so many contributing factors it is hard to even know where to begin. The most important thing to remember is that about half the country is very unhappy with the way things are going.

New comment by issa in "Ask HN: How to build site with payment, subscriptions, user login, registration"

issa — Wed, 07 Aug 2024 16:59:42 +0000

I think the best advice is use something you are comfortable with. But the second best advice is hopefully that isn't WordPress. Yes, you can do it in WP, but you would have so many more options if you picked something like Angular or React as your frontend. Then outsource auth and payments (auth0 and Stripe, for example) and that will take you pretty far. Good luck!

New comment by issa in "Houston-area residents enter sixth day without power, air conditioning"

issa — Sat, 13 Jul 2024 20:49:51 +0000

My wife is from Germany and one of the weirdest things for her in moving to the US is that the power goes out.

New comment by issa in "Ask HN: Freelancer's Dilemma – Client Won't Pay Despite Clear Agreement"

issa — Fri, 12 Jul 2024 15:19:49 +0000

Back in my freelance days I had a client who refused to pay. I took him to small claims court and won. Actually collected the money.

- small claims court is very easy and relatively quick. no need for a lawyer.

- there is a cap on the amount, so I won $10k, not the full amount owed. But close enough and much better than $0.

- make every reasonable attempt to resolve this prior to filing but, as stated throughout this thread, do not stress yourself out. This should be a fire-and-forget process. Consider the money lost, and if you win, it's just bonus.

New comment by issa in "California approves final high-speed rail link connecting San Francisco to LA"

issa — Mon, 01 Jul 2024 03:48:48 +0000

This doesn't seem like that cynical of a take at all. The US is terrible at infrastructure projects. I feel like you would never go wrong betting against them. Or at least betting that they take 10x the time and cost than predicted.

Ask HN: Can Google Help?

issa — Thu, 02 May 2024 01:21:29 +0000

My newsletter site recently started an affiliate program. We quickly got picked up by a few nefarious Facebook groups that specialize in scamming affiliate programs. They blasted out our link and we spent a few fun days banning them and getting them out of our system. Annoying, but not the end of the world.

We thought that was the end of it, but almost a month later, our domain reputation plummeted from "high" to "low". We submitted our case to google via the gsuite contact form, but nothing has changed. Our emails land in spam with a giant red "this site is a scam" warning.

We cannot be the first people this has happened to. Does anyone have any advice, or happen to know the right people at Google that can whitelist us?

Thanks!

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40231735

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New comment by issa in "Our Generation Ships Will Sink (2015)"

issa — Mon, 15 Jan 2024 00:18:33 +0000

Exactly. If growing up on a spaceship was all you ever knew, it wouldn't seem like a problem. It only seems like a problem to people who grew up with a lot of choices on Earth. Most people on our planet don't have a lot of choices in how they live their life.

New comment by issa in "Our Generation Ships Will Sink (2015)"

issa — Sun, 14 Jan 2024 00:15:49 +0000

I just think it is a case of thinking small. A few key advances and all the problems are solved. For example:

- Increased lifespan making the trip possible in 1 generation - A hollowed out asteroid or other extremely large biosphere. It is not hard to imagine something large enough to overcome the ecological problems - Virtual reality (the holodeck) if you're still worried about social issues in a large space. BTW, most teens today would be happy to stay in a closed room, as long as they had a phone. (I exaggerate, but only a little)

All of these things are reasonable extrapolations of existing tech. In 200 years, I'm sure a whole lot more will be possible.

New comment by issa in "Our Generation Ships Will Sink (2015)"

issa — Sat, 13 Jan 2024 21:03:17 +0000

Tons of respect for KSR but this reads like a treatise on why airplanes will never work. https://bigthink.com/pessimists-archive/air-space-flight-imp...

New comment by issa in "Ask HN: If you were to build a web app today what tech stack would you choose?"

issa — Sun, 29 Oct 2023 15:38:51 +0000

Never underestimate the value of tried and true solutions!

New comment by issa in "Ask HN: I spent months building an app and now I don't know how to get users"

issa — Wed, 27 Sep 2023 16:49:04 +0000

This is a really hard lesson to learn and it takes most people (myself included) many tries to learn it. From reading your post, it is super clear that you understand the lesson-- validate your idea early. But understanding the lesson and actually learning it are worlds apart.

You have put a lot of time into this project, and it is not going to go anywhere. This is a tough realization. One that you naturally want to argue against. It's easy to be stubborn. But the more time and effort you put into this, the more time and effort you are wasting.

The positives: you have built a foundation and undoubtedly learned some things along the way. Take that knowledge and pivot to something that people want/need. Good luck!

New comment by issa in "Direct Solar Power: Off-Grid Without Batteries"

issa — Wed, 13 Sep 2023 23:30:28 +0000

in the spirit of the article, hopefully you can plug it in at home to your direct solar!

New comment by issa in "Direct Solar Power: Off-Grid Without Batteries"

issa — Wed, 13 Sep 2023 21:51:48 +0000

Exactly. 10 electric cars with 20 mile pure-electric range will have a larger impact than 1 electric car with 200 miles.

New comment by issa in "Direct Solar Power: Off-Grid Without Batteries"

issa — Wed, 13 Sep 2023 21:50:41 +0000

I'm not sure your comment makes sense in the context of the article and my reply. The whole point is that batteries are expensive.

New comment by issa in "Direct Solar Power: Off-Grid Without Batteries"

issa — Wed, 13 Sep 2023 20:51:46 +0000

I feel like this is one area that requires a less extreme approach. It feels silly to forego batteries completely, but equally silly to put 100kW of batteries in a car. Most car trips for most people are going to be well under 50 miles.

New comment by issa in "Squad Solar City Car"

issa — Fri, 05 May 2023 16:28:29 +0000

In the US, I think it is more likely that we will regulate automobile speed than guns. I thought there might be a joke here, but sadly, this is just true.

New comment by issa in "Ask HN: Paychecks from a failed startup?"

issa — Tue, 02 May 2023 21:21:20 +0000

It's really hard to "accidentally" not make payroll. This shouldn't be something that sneaks up on you. If you feel the founder deserves the benefit of the doubt, I would suggest reaching out to them first before doing anything else. But if that doesn't work it's really just a question of what you want out of the situation. You will probably never see the money regardless (lawyer/court costs, squeezing blood from a stone, etc) but it might be worth it to you to make the (very valid) point anyway.

New comment by issa in "Two types of software engineers"

issa — Sun, 09 Apr 2023 17:24:05 +0000

I think most engineers need to be both. In most situations at least, you are deciding on engineering time vs non-engineering time. Meaning, if I can build something in a day that "gets the job done" with some usage constraints, or I can spend a week to build something that removes all constraints, then I need to calculate the trade-off. Could something more useful be built with that extra time? At least in start-up world, I find myself calculating that trade-off a lot.

New comment by issa in "The ‘next Ozempic’ became a social media sensation. Then everything changed"

issa — Sat, 25 Feb 2023 21:03:16 +0000

Can it be done while making $5000 per week online?

New comment by issa in "Ask HN: Feeling Hopeless and Lost at 23"

issa — Sun, 05 Feb 2023 15:33:09 +0000

This is an interesting perspective. My takeaway from the OP was not "depressed" in a clinical way--and I certainly could be wrong there. But I thought it was more a case of being young, overly focused on university, and needing to get out and live a bit. If it IS clinical depression, then your advice is excellent.