Ask HN: How is your company training you to become a better developer/engineer?
17 by flavianh | 20 comments on Hacker News. I’m interested in how companies create 10x engineers. To deepen the discussion, you can cover for example: - What skills - Training frequency - How is your next set of skills decided? Is it personalized? Are you involved in the discussion? - What are the biggest obstacles to your training?
Show HN: Recycle your old Spotify playlists into new ones
22 by dr00bot | 3 comments on Hacker News. I wanted a way to quickly generate new Spotify playlists from my library based on some simple user inputs. There are probably a bunch of songs floating around in old playlists that you will never listen to again so the Spotify Playlist Recycling Plant is an attempt to resurrect these forgotten gems! At the heart of this tool is a simple custom algorithm that uses Spotify's 5000+ unique genres to find similar artists. It works well for my purposes but everybody uses Spotify differently so I'd love some feedback :) Built using React and the Spotify Web API.
Ask HN: What are 100K dollar ideas but not million dollar ideas?
10 by abrocks | 4 comments on Hacker News. Forget about billion dollar ideas, I am not even interested in working on million dollar ideas. There are multiple ideas or projects which are left because they don't have potential to scale. They are very specific to a niche set of customers or teams. Many people wanted to work on the solution but dropped off as they had bigger fishes to fry or knew the idea wouldn't scale. But the idea would scale up to a certain limit. e.g. https://ift.tt/KkMHAV5 I believe that every village needs to solve their own problem and and may be in a different way(based upon the resources they have) as the external help may not arrive. The solution also need not go to cities as it is very specific to the village. This man got a project working after passing the initial inertia. His company may not scale beyond a certain limit but I guess that's okay. What do you think would be those kind of ideas?