20yrs_no_equity

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by 20yrs_no_equity 10y ago
I've spent my career at early stage companies, sometimes as CEO sometimes as CTO and many times as an engineer. It may be right that you become trained to be a Startup CEO by being a Startup CEO, because there are some things that you
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by 20yrs_no_equity 10y ago
This is based on a survey of Management Consultants. For those who have not worked with Management Consultants, or seen the Showtime series "House of Lies", these are not the guys you want to be your CEO. (The TV show is fictiona
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by 20yrs_no_equity 10y ago
This is a line too far for me. I will not comply. I think we should all insist that we build systems where the encryption is open source, out of our control and we never have access to the keys. It's time to get rid of passwords too.
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by 20yrs_no_equity 10y ago
You can dispute a charge on a debit card the same as on a credit card. Just say the merchandise was not what you ordered and you attempted to return it and they wouldn't take it back. Include in your dispute the email from them saying
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by 20yrs_no_equity 10y ago
And with wikileaks they have a convenient way to release that info while on the surface maintaining a friendly relationship with the USA. Not sure what you mean about Malcolm X though. What are the chickens here?
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by 20yrs_no_equity 10y ago
Since you're charging, by definition you're not mobile. Easy: http://appleinsider.com/articles/16/09/08/belkin-announces-s...
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by 20yrs_no_equity 10y ago
I once had a twitter handle that whose gender wasn't obvious, leading to people thinking I'm a guy. I used that handle to defend the creator of redis when he was being wrongly convicted of being sexist. As a result, I did get a g
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by 20yrs_no_equity 10y ago
Audio can go both ways over lightening.
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by 20yrs_no_equity 10y ago
The funny thing is, when I was 20, and working for startups, I saw so many startups shoot themselves in the foot with the idea that "we need to hire a grey hair, or the investors won't take us seriously". And then they would
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by 20yrs_no_equity 10y ago
Apple keeps gatekeeper and another process up to date, effectively scanning for this kind of stuff is built into the OS.
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by 20yrs_no_equity 10y ago
I've been interviewing a lot of people over the past 5 years, some are good some are bad, but I've seen no correlation between age and complacency in software developers.
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by 20yrs_no_equity 10y ago
I'm an excellent manager[1]. Alas, what I see is that startups start out with a CTO (the guy who actually built the thing) and there aren't a lot of manager jobs advertised. The few that were, I got discriminated against because o
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by 20yrs_no_equity 10y ago
The only way I'm not like the "Us" in silicon valley (if we're talking about 20-30 year olds as represented on HN) is that I have more current skills (takes time to learn languages, knowing 5 currently popular languages
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by 20yrs_no_equity 10y ago
And of course the funny thing is, I'm an "old fart", I have been levelling up for the past 20 years. I put the first Elixir app into production before Elixir hit 1.0- I'm staying current. I work long hours, for startup
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by 20yrs_no_equity 10y ago
Apple jumped the shark in 2001 with the iPod. People have been saying that for decades. There is no use case for the headphone jack that can't be better handled by the lightening connector or bluetooth. Seriously. Want to integrate
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by 20yrs_no_equity 10y ago
I'm a longtime Apple watcher. Apple is pretty predictable in some things-- and they have a rhythm. If they had minor Mac introductions they would have just appeared on the store a week ago (they wait until event time to decide what ma
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by 20yrs_no_equity 10y ago
It's not. There was a black woman at WWDC who gave a great presentation just a few months ago. Apple has had female presenters at a large number of their events, as far back as the 2001 time frame. Don't believe the BS Spin Tech
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by 20yrs_no_equity 10y ago
You're being silly. They have spent the past decade making iWorks better, and in fact, the whole app was revamped from the ground up about 2 years ago, to bring perfect compatibility across platforms from mac to ios. It's a far be
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by 20yrs_no_equity 10y ago
I worked on Microsoft Works back when Apple Works was kicking their butt. Eventually that got cancelled in favor of just "Office". Apple's works apps are vastly better than microsofts. Yes, Microsofts do have 30+ years of f
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by 20yrs_no_equity 10y ago
What are "DK2/CC"? I've not heard of them.
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by 20yrs_no_equity 10y ago
I'm one of those people who hits multiple diversity/minority characteristics for various reasons, which means in any group where we are all minorities, I'm the minority of that group for one reason or another. All groups of p
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by 20yrs_no_equity 10y ago
Your argument is kinda like pouring brown paint into a can of white paint, pointing to its tan color and then saying that white paint is a fantasy. Yes there are various degrees of purity in capitalism across the world and one of the intere
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by 20yrs_no_equity 10y ago
Any potential profit must be balanced against the highly political question of whether the fix (assuming one was needed) would get thru the FDA, and at what cost, how many bribes, or more politically correctly put, campaign contributions wo
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by 20yrs_no_equity 10y ago
It's worth noting that the "generic" got pulled, but there have subsequently been several attempts to bring competitive products to the market to compete with api-pens. It's not like they have a natural monopoly. The th
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by 20yrs_no_equity 10y ago
I love BSD and would like to use it, but we're kinda in a Linux world. Question: If I am building a custom hardware device (and we will be in the future, I believe) can we run OpenBSD on it using the ARM port, but also invoke binaries
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by 20yrs_no_equity 10y ago
But not the point of startups. Also, not what's better for founders. You're better off with a %50 chance of being worth $200M after 7 years than a %1 chance of being worth $1B after 3. VCs place many bets, you only get to place on
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by 20yrs_no_equity 10y ago
I'm very fascinated by the phrase "disgruntled former employee". Obviously she's disgruntled, that simply means one is unhappy. But the implication is that because one is unhappy with their employment experience, one s
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by 20yrs_no_equity 10y ago
I once caught someone lying on a resume, but only because they mentioned a former employer that was also my former employer and while they worked there, they didn't work on the project they claimed (which I had worked on, it was a smal
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by 20yrs_no_equity 10y ago
It has happened yet. You know what William Gibson says- the future is already here, it's just not evenly distributed yet. There are several X that are the new "silicon valley". you just don't recognize them because your
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by 20yrs_no_equity 10y ago
Wow, having been in Kansas City and the bay area recently, the bay area has a very low potential for high quality of life. Seattle has a very high potential, higher than Kansas City, but Kansas City beats the bay area. The bay area is way

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