Hacker News: tzaman

New comment by tzaman in "How to Kickstart and Scale a Marketplace"

tzaman — Thu, 21 Nov 2019 09:19:00 +0000

One of the major worries that I've had when launching our marketplace was poaching; What if clients (the demand side) decide to hire developers (the supply side) outside of our platform? Of course, we had rules against that in terms of service, but hey, circumventing those is not a big risk.

But, luckily for us, the value that we provided to both parties (and still do) outweighed the risk of losing their accounts for violating TOS, so we very rarely see that.

Regarding chicken and egg problem, we manually found and pre-screened 10 people to provide supply in advance, so when the first client came, they'd have someone to hire. Earned $13 the third day after launch. Happiest day ever :)

Today we have 19 employees and are profitable (we've hit profitability the third year, we're now 7 years "old"). https://codeable.io

New comment by tzaman in "Show HN: Smallest Node.js Docker images"

tzaman — Thu, 15 Nov 2018 11:46:45 +0000

1. I push a hotfix to GitHub. 2. Jenkins (which is on Google Cloud) builds it, and it already has all the Docker steps cached from previous builds, so it's fast. 3. Jenkins pushes the image to Google Cloud repo, which is almost instantaneous 4. Kubernetes (also on Google Cloud) pulls the image and makes a new deployment

No big deal. :)

New comment by tzaman in "Show HN: Smallest Node.js Docker images"

tzaman — Wed, 14 Nov 2018 17:49:09 +0000

Honestly, the size doesn't matter.

I was once in the camp of small Docker images, but realized it's simply not worth the tradeoff, since there's only one upside to them, and that upside is fast transfer of images.

However, that argument becomes pointless when using a proper CI/CD stack. As a developer, you don't normally upload images yourself, but push changes to GitHub, then Jenkins/Travis/whatever takes over, builds the image, and pushes it into production/staging/whatever. Since CD tool of choice is usually also on the cloud, we don't have to worry about image size, nor to any of the CD vendors charge for data transfer.

I'd rather have bigger images (I base mine off Debian now, used to be Alpine) and not have to worry with lack of ported tools and libraries, than vice-versa.

Typekit is Adobe fonts

tzaman — Tue, 16 Oct 2018 09:04:32 +0000

Article URL: https://theblog.adobe.com/typekit-is-adobe-fonts/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18227833

Points: 1

# Comments: 0

New comment by tzaman in "Diamonds Suck (2006)"

tzaman — Wed, 30 May 2018 11:09:07 +0000

Must be cultural differences then - nobody around here (Central Europe) cares or asks about rings.

New comment by tzaman in "Diamonds Suck (2006)"

tzaman — Wed, 30 May 2018 11:02:54 +0000

So what is the point of one?

New comment by tzaman in "Diamonds Suck (2006)"

tzaman — Wed, 30 May 2018 11:01:35 +0000

Out of curiosity, what's all the fuss with engagement rings in the first place? When me and my wife got engaged, I gave her nothing (nor did she expect anything), just asked her to marry me and she agreed, we kissed and that was it.

We did, however, made wedding rings, which together were about $1300, but that's because they were made out of gold.

Why overcomplicate things? :)

New comment by tzaman in "Apple, Influence, and Ive"

tzaman — Wed, 09 May 2018 20:46:26 +0000

Ok, I'll bite - enlighten us.

New comment by tzaman in "Cancer Doctors Cite Risks of Drinking Alcohol"

tzaman — Thu, 09 Nov 2017 23:55:58 +0000

Slightly sarcastic, but on point: Doctors say a glass of red wine per day is good for your blood. But now, they also say it'll increase chances of getting cancer. So I guess I need to choose between these two. Too much of anything is a poison.

New comment by tzaman in "Capacitor plague – Wikipedia"

tzaman — Sun, 05 Nov 2017 22:46:54 +0000

A victim here. My 2007 MacBook Pro started to swell on the bottom after a couple of years, didn't think much of it, it was a tiny bump at first, but then it almost doubled in thickness so I replaced it with a cheap Chinese knockoff (was broke at the time due to starting a startup), and the same thing happened in about a year. Lesson learned.

New comment by tzaman in "[dead]"

tzaman — Mon, 30 Oct 2017 13:49:53 +0000

Same here, doesn't instill much confidence for a hosting company to have their homepage down.

New comment by tzaman in "Ask HN: Why are credit card chip readers so slow?"

tzaman — Mon, 26 Jun 2017 08:47:52 +0000

I use N26 as my personal bank, and I must say it's pretty much instantaneous - when I pay contactless, I can hear my phone notification before I get to put the card back in the wallet. I've tested the card across Europe while traveling and the speed at which I get push notifications is consistently fast.

New comment by tzaman in "New Surface Pro"

tzaman — Tue, 23 May 2017 13:09:25 +0000

Care to elaborate why? I'm somewhat of an apple-fanboy but Surface seems more and more appealing, and I'm leaning towards giving one a try.

New comment by tzaman in "Spellfucker"

tzaman — Fri, 28 Apr 2017 09:01:33 +0000

Aj dident nou der vr sou meni Slavik pipol araunt dis plejs. Veri hepi tu si felou Slavs komentink on Hekr Njuz

New comment by tzaman in "Bose headphones spy on listeners: lawsuit"

tzaman — Mon, 24 Apr 2017 09:37:37 +0000

Does this mean that anyone who's using Segment to collect data on their customer and sends it to a warehouse like Google Big Query is more likely to have a problem because the data is "shared" with two third parties? (pardon my ignorance, not good with this stuff)

New comment by tzaman in "StandardJS just turned 10.0.0"

tzaman — Thu, 06 Apr 2017 15:56:30 +0000

Thanks, I do in fact use AirBnB's config, just wondering whether there's anything I was missing.

New comment by tzaman in "StandardJS just turned 10.0.0"

tzaman — Wed, 05 Apr 2017 21:59:22 +0000

I've been always meaning to try this out but always just keep reusing the ESLint config, which is probably a bit out of date now. So the question is, could someone explain to me (and everyone who has these same thoughts) why is StandardJS worth a try?

New comment by tzaman in "Kubernetes 1.6: Multi-user, Multi-workloads at Scale"

tzaman — Tue, 28 Mar 2017 21:16:12 +0000

One thing that's still missing but would be quite valuable is a good egress approach/configuration. For example, we use an external PostgreSQL provider in which I can configure access IPs. Since K8s nodes (on GKE) get different IPs, I have to be very loose with CIDR selection, which I don't like.

New comment by tzaman in "Ask HN: Is S3 down?"

tzaman — Tue, 28 Feb 2017 18:58:38 +0000

It appears Docker Hub is hosted on S3 as well, none of the official images can be pulled.

New comment by tzaman in "Mem Fox on being detained by US immigration: 'In that moment I loathed America'"

tzaman — Tue, 28 Feb 2017 16:35:17 +0000

I have an employee from the US (I'm otherwise from Europe) and while visiting through the conversation/personal stories he explained the most interesting part of relationship between US authorities and citizens: You're less likely to be "harassed" if you lie to them, because they can turn pretty much anything you say against you and dig so deep to finally find an excuse to bully you, or charge you with something.

That is quite a sad state for the society to be in, being always afraid of the authorities, rather than knowing their primary goal is to protect and serve.