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by smaps 2y ago
I just started working full time on my mortgage loan officer SaaS tool again. I had started building it when I worked for a mortgage company in 2017 because I was annoyed at having to enter the same data on 6 websites 20-30 times a week.
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by smaps 3y ago
Cloud storage is expensive, I’m willing to bet that’s a lot of money saved at their scale.
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by smaps 3y ago
Can you explain why you think it’s an awful language? It definitely used to be lacking in features, but the improvements in the recent versions have been great.
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by smaps 4y ago
If you've been working as a developer for 5 years no one will care about your grades in undergrad, and a Masters in Comp Sci is unlikely to be worth the opportunity cost. I would suggest starting to look for developer jobs at smaller c
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by smaps 5y ago
Without those cpanel hosts I wouldn't be a web developer today. It was so easy for me to start messing around and teaching myself to code using them.
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by smaps 5y ago
What's the reasoning behind your opinion?
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by smaps 6y ago
Lightning Estimates | Full Stack Developer | Remote (US only) | Full/Part Time Lightning Estimates is a SaaS tool for mortgage loan officers that saves them time and effort in creating accurate estimates for customers. I've been
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50 points by smaps 6y ago|87 comments
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by smaps 6y ago
> Personally I think we are watching the slow death of the USA. May be from France I am not getting all the subtle details about the situation on the ground but the country seems to be completely divided. I live in Washington DC and comp
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by smaps 6y ago
Seems like HN might be blocked as referrer here... clicked on the link and got a 404. If I go to the link directly it loads.
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by smaps 6y ago
Check out https://reflect.run/ as a replacement for Cypress. I started using it recently to do E2E testing at work in our staging environment to run a suite of tests before we move anything to production. So far it's
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by smaps 6y ago
A tool for mortgage loan officers (or anyone who actually runs the numbers) to automate creating accurate estimates. It started out as just a tool to save myself time that I built more onto over time. It makes money, and my "worst cas
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by smaps 6y ago
> The psychological toll of not feeling like you’re “all-in” I'm bootstrapping my own SaaS solo and this one hit real close to home. I've been at it for a couple of years, and as of Feb this year it became a nights/weeken
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by smaps 7y ago
I'll second it as an awesome place to work!
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by smaps 7y ago
The hassle is because of the implication that is super easy to run a self hosted solution. It's a decently complex task that your average person couldn't come close to doing, and many here would still take a bit of time to grok i
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by smaps 8y ago
I think he missed the sarcasm tag...
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by smaps 8y ago
Not every young developer is a student. If Github had offered free private repos a couple of years ago I'd probably be using it instead of Gitlab.
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by smaps 8y ago
I had a bit of interest on this when I first read about it, but was a bit skeptical then... I wouldn't touch this at all now with no guarantee that the deposits are insured.
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by smaps 8y ago
If you go over to /r/fitness there are some active and well informed people, so I'd have to disagree with you.
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by smaps 8y ago
No discussion is a big negative for me
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by smaps 8y ago
This a repost of https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17635063
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by smaps 9y ago
Agreed, because it's only a $36,000 Bitcoin puzzle as of right now.
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by smaps 9y ago
"bcash" as you call it really is more like the original Bitcoin than bcore. The whole chain split and scaling debate shouldn't have existed, the 1mb limit was only put in place as a temporary measure to stop spam early on in
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by smaps 9y ago
>The worst proposal, increasing blocksize, is not currently being considered because of its impact on centralization. Hard drive space is cheap! Increasing blocksize isn't going to cause centralization, it's the easiest and mo
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by smaps 9y ago
Any potential for time changes in the future? I'm on EST and being in a class M-F 12p-9p is a bit harsh.
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by smaps 9y ago
Agreed on PIA being good with no major issues here either
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by smaps 9y ago
>I find the recent popularity of cryptocurrencies very interesting as I spent a lot of time in 2007-2008 studying and researching Bitcoin from the academic perspective of economics (My undergraduate degree). >In 2008 I downloaded a BT
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by smaps 9y ago
That is one of my favorite books!
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by smaps 9y ago
I too am curious about this calibration and think that's a good book to use for it.
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by smaps 10y ago
Axciom does all of the data buying and creating models to figure out what people like. Source - Used to work with Axciom data myself

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