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7,548karma·1,282submissions·January 21, 2016
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Seems more likely that someone in their PR team saw it and invited the him to answer, no? Interesting idea though. Consider me out-cyniced
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Yes, the execution when it comes to self promotion is very important. No association, but I really like this answer[0] from CloudSponge, saying why their product is best on a thread asking for alterna…
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Nice post! Especially adding ngrok for speeding up development. I've written a couple of similar tutorials about Telegram bots, so shameless self plug: Building a Telegram Bot with Python [0] is …
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This used to work for me but stopped a while ago on android (still seems to work on iPhones somehow). mbasic.facebook.com is a really nice fast and minimalist interface where messages still work and I…
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Hey everyone, author here. I put together this tutorial on building an AI powered serverless chatbot by plugging various existing services together. I've been playing around with Zappa/Lambd…
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If you paste the title into SciHub[0] you'll get the PDF [0] http://sci-hub.cc/
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PacktPub, and a number of other 'tail end' publishers have editors who scour the web looking for posts related to books they want to publish. They wanted "Flask by Example" so aske…
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Searching for "0k" is also a good currency-neutral proxy as most people post ranges such as $80k-$130k
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Definitely. I was in exactly the same position, and just started blogging about stuff as I built it. 'Experts' often don't explain the simple stuff as they assume everyone knows it alre…
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Don't know why you're down-voted. This is literally in the guidelines "Please don't post on HN to ask or tell us something (e.g. to ask us questions about Y Combinator, or to ask o…
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The article is pretty hyped and low on actual details. From what I can figure out, he used the same models that he used to predict stuff about Algae to predict the market. No information about what th…
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Not sure why this is titled "A Hacker News For Literature". The site is very clearly writing focused and the about page says "This is a community based on lobste.rs. First and foremost,…
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I'll submit this as feedback to our team :)
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I'm working with Hyperion Development[0] which has a wide variety of online bootcamps with 1:1 mentor support. We have courses targeting beginner, intermediate, and advanced. Currently we are ju…
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I wish I could be flattered that my book "Flask by Example" appears above the seminal "Two Scoops of Django" in the "Web Development" section[0], but instead I'm jus…
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To add to the other comments about using bittorrent, Academic Torrents [0] is trying to solve this problem. I don't think they're that popular yet, but they aim to address some of the issues…
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Hey HN! I'm putting together a collection of technical writing resources, including resources that help you become a better writer, and lists of places that pay for freelance technical articles. …