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by 12s12m 9y ago
Great to see such initiative by Basecamp. This is good for devs around the world. GitLab sits on the other extreme with their "open salaries": https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10924957
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by 12s12m 9y ago
For a person who is initially starting with Linux. I'd suggest you to get familiar with the terminal. I'd also ask what your primary use case is. If you are a software developer vs code is a great editor to download.
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by 12s12m 9y ago
1. Gnome Terminal 2. Neovim 3. Google Chrome 4. Pymodoro (https://github.com/dattanchu/pymodoro) 5. Git
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by 12s12m 9y ago
A few I can think of: 1. Want to resize your server? you can do it. 2. Want to create a new server and move some kind of elastic IP to point to this new server? you can do it with most cloud providers 3. Want to backup the whole disk, ver
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by 12s12m 9y ago
What exactly do you mean by a "task". Just remind you by sending you an email? or actually running a command on your computer?
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by 12s12m 9y ago
One things that has helped me in the past is going anonymous and creating a project and just shipping features without thinking a lot about architecture and code quality. Making sure that I made progress every day.
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by 12s12m 9y ago
I would say most of us are entreprenuerially-minded, because it rubs off eventually.
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by 12s12m 9y ago
I have given up my free time which I used to spend enjoying movies, television etc,. I don't get that much time to do that. Most of my time is consumed in the startup that I am building, my kids and a bit of contracting work. But, I am
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by 12s12m 9y ago
Everyone has different definitions about "success" and "being happy". I can tell you as a father of 2 kids, that having kids has been one of the greatest things that has happened to me. I am really happy when they are ar
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Ask HN: Do you suggest static site generators to your customers?
69 points by 12s12m 9y ago|50 comments
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by 12s12m 9y ago
I don't think GitHub Pages or S3 can support authentication using auth0 for static pages. This could be an interesting service, which allows you to put your website behind authentication from auth0. What use cases would need this kind
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by 12s12m 9y ago
There are a lot of options available for forms in a static site. A few from a quick google search are: https://www.jotform.com/ , https://liveformhq.com/ , https://www.google.com/forms/a
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by 12s12m 9y ago
Yeah, The first app that I am building has a lot of competitors. So, it is not really a question of whether the market is there. I definitely need the confidence If my startups are going to be successful :)
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by 12s12m 9y ago
I saw the link to it from your profile. Interesting concept. There are variations of this available: https://fieldbook.com/ , Airtable, etc. I'll send you an email :)
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by 12s12m 9y ago
There is auth0 ( https://auth0.com/ ) for authentication, and many hosts which support basic auth. What kind of use cases are you thinking when you say access control?
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by 12s12m 9y ago
You can use the Like button on static websites. Or did you mean something else?
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by 12s12m 9y ago
Thanks for the links. The blog posts have a lot of useful information :)
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Ask HN: What are the *dynamic* needs for a static site these days?
16 points by 12s12m 9y ago|20 comments
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by 12s12m 9y ago
Why are you even thinking about it? Do you want to have the ability to downvote? In that case you should probably have a higher karma. Instead try to participate in useful conversations so that you may learn something from it. Karma just fo
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by 12s12m 9y ago
It really depends on your app. I would say the most important metric is the number of customers willing to pay for your product happily.
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by 12s12m 9y ago
Do you have a VPS where you host them? Why not use Github Pages?
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by 12s12m 9y ago
Do you use their free plan or the paid one? Everyone seems to love Netlify for building static sites :)
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by 12s12m 9y ago
Nice, middleman is a well designed SSG :) Are these all your personal sites, or do you maintain websites for customers?
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by 12s12m 9y ago
What are the friction points in your workflow?
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by 12s12m 9y ago
What are the friction points in your workflow. Updating SSL manually seems like a tedious thing to do.
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by 12s12m 9y ago
I have been watching staystatic for a very long time :) Your commitment is really awesome.
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Ask HN: Which static site generator is your current favorite and why?
6 points by 12s12m 9y ago|5 comments
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by 12s12m 9y ago
square space really looks great. Their pricing too seems very affordable.
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by 12s12m 9y ago
Many people actually change their phone numbers. Especially in India, a lot of young guys change their number to the provider which has a better plan at the moment.
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Ask HN: What is your process for creating a new static website and deploying it?
11 points by 12s12m 9y ago|18 comments

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