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teapot01

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Created
April 17, 2013 (13y ago)
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Dev based in Australia
  1. Ask HN: What's Driving the Gap Between Job Listings and Actual Hiring?

    I'm not speaking from personal experience, but a number of connections in tech are telling me that there are plenty of Ads, but no one is hiring. Based in Australia, but I'd love to hear what's going in your region.

    2 points 2
  2. Novel Coronavirus situation reports (who.int)
    56 points 20
  3. Virological.org – Analysis and Interpretation of Viral Epidemiology (virological.org)
    2 points 0
  4. Ask HN: Is YouTube using a dark pattern to prevent background playlist play?

    I listen to youtube playlists in the background fairly regularly and I've noticed some interesting changes in the last couple of weeks. Initially it began with an auto pause, and a popup saying video paused, click to…

    15 points 4
  5. Ask HN: Is there a MOOC provider that deals in more advanced topics?

    I enjoy learning new things and expanding my area of expertise outside of the work that I do, usually I try to do this through reading, conference talks, and online courses. Lately though, I find that a lot of the MOOC…

    12 points 11
  6. A mystery trader just made over $200M betting on Volatility (businessinsider.com.au)
    5 points 5
  7. South Australia Currently Running on 100% Renewable Energy (twitter.com)
    3 points 1
  8. Zefrank.com has expired (zefrank.com)
    1 points 1
  9. ViaGoGo creates deceptive copies of events on Facebook to sell overprice tickets

    I was recently looking for tickets to a concert in Adelaide when I discovered that ViaGoGo is creating fake copies of events which they do not organise, and posting links to their platform for users to buy overpriced…

    1 points 1
  10. Techstars begins it's first Asia Pacific accelerator in Adelaide, Australia (techstars.com)
    2 points 0
  11. Ask HN: How much ownership do successive employees typically get?

    I'm interested in hearing about what the typical grants are for co-founder, employee 1,2,3,4,... I know at some level this will be driven as a value proposition, based on the value the employee brings, but what is the…

    2 points 1
  12. Queensland University Launches New Robotics MOOC (robotacademy.net.au)
    1 points 0
  13. Ask HN: How to Transition from Buildings Engineering to Software Development?

    I've been working for a large engineering consulting company for the past 4 years as a graduate and I'm looking to jump to software engineering or similar. I have degrees in Aerospace Engineering and Mathematical and…

    2 points 2
  14. Ask HN: What third-party sites are good/bad indicators for hiring?

    I've seen plenty of CVs include profiles for some or all of: - Github - StackOverflow - HackerRank - HackerNews - Personal Blogs (medium etc.) When hring how do you take into account any/all of the above and what…

    3 points 3
  15. Ask HN: Recommendations for a great introductory text on Abstract Algebra?
    2 points 2
  16. Show HN: Our Startup Wkend MVP: A chatbot for early stage startup founders (getstartfuel.co)
    2 points 0
  17. The entire state of South Australia (1.7M people) lost power last night (abc.net.au)
    5 points 4
  18. $7000 Facebook XSS vulnerability (polywilde.github.io)
    2 points 0
  19. Ask HN: If I can Hack it together using Google does that make it useless?

    By this I mean, when I am hacking away at an Idea I'm constantly hit by the thought that, "If I can do this by hacking away with google, then why can't someone else? Like say for instance the guys who wrote the…

    3 points 2
  20. Australia's Focus on Large Business Innovation Misses the Point (startupsmart.com.au)
    2 points 0
  21. Ask HN: What does a region/city need to encourage startups?

    What do you think the key drivers are that encourage start ups - particularly technology based to form and grow. I.E if you were developing a strategy to encourage a startup community in your city what would you do? I…

    4 points 4
  22. Ask HN: Conversion of Signups to a pre-launch page?

    What is the conventional wisdom on signups to a pre-launch page? I'm have the conundrum of needing users to signup to justify business getting involved. Should I achieve this with a pre-launch countdown and signup page?

    2 points 3
  23. Ask HN: Does Application Scale and/or Resilience as a service exist?

    I.E Does an application platform exist which gives application availability and scalability as a black box service - I'm thinking Heroku is an example but their platform is largely Infrastructure scaling, resiliency is…

    1 points 0
  24. Ask HN: Is UI/UX important for MVP launch?
    3 points 4
  25. Ask HN: What is best practice for one step web app deployment?

    I'm building a python/django based web app and I'm finding I have a lot of configs and setup to do in order to deploy, or reload the machines i'm deploying to. Currently I deploy app code to an app server, static files…

    1 points 0