AstroChimpHam

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by AstroChimpHam 11y ago
Those founders working their asses off that first year making 0 money and paying for servers and other expenses out of pocket as they slowly watch their bank accounts dwindle aren't doing themselves any monetary favors. Life's gre
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by AstroChimpHam 11y ago
Dustin Moscovitz makes this argument about what the only good reason is to start a company. ( http://startupclass.samaltman.com/courses/lec01/ ). IMO, it should apply to the first ~20 employees too.
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by AstroChimpHam 11y ago
There's this obsession now about how everything in tech needs to be worth it strictly monetarily without paying attention to anything else. Personally, I think that attitude is toxic. Teachers don't teach because of how much they&
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by AstroChimpHam 11y ago
On topic: the guy who made it literally has another repo called tinhat: https://github.com/rahvee/tinhat
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by AstroChimpHam 11y ago
He keeps talking about how this is going to prevent malicious employees from getting at your data or sharing it with the NSA. It's not. Facebook, Google, and every other website you use will still have unencrypted access to all of the
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by AstroChimpHam 11y ago
Constructor.io founder here. Swiftype does a great job of being pretty good at a lot of things. Constructor.io focuses on state-of-the-art in autocomplete. Looking at one of the websites Swiftype advertises powering like www.bulbamerica.com
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by AstroChimpHam 11y ago
It's 2015, and this is a search engine. Why is there no autocomplete? You guys should check out https://www.constructor.io
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by AstroChimpHam 11y ago
Thrilled this is finally out. I've always wanted to be able to turn all my posts from adventures into stories. Now I finally can!
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by AstroChimpHam 11y ago
Not really. The population is large enough that you're treating each potential hire as a random variable. Given the amount of possible good new hires the effect of passing on one actual good hire has negligible effect on the next poten
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by AstroChimpHam 11y ago
No. What I'm saying is people's decisions being one of the biggest determining factors of their fates is the null hypothesis. If you want to prove the alternative hypothesis-- that it's not generally poor people's decisi
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by AstroChimpHam 11y ago
Believing it's most poor people's fault they're poor is the null hypothesis. We generally believe people's decisions matter. It's especially the null hypothesis for me, because this is what I grew up seeing with my
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by AstroChimpHam 11y ago
I grew up poor among other poor people, and it never struck me that anyone was buying expensive stuff because they thought that's what would lead them to a better job or some such. They were buying expensive stuff because they wanted i
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by AstroChimpHam 11y ago
Is there a way to remove "withdrawn" applications from averages? There are a lot of decimal point errors there, which skew the average way up.
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by AstroChimpHam 11y ago
That's enough for lots of jobs. It's just not enough for all jobs, and the ones it's not enough for tend to get more publicity (and, with good reason, higher salaries).
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by AstroChimpHam 11y ago
No, it's not. It's not that working at Tesla is more important for everyone. It's that if you do work at Tesla in that employee's role (which was key because he's getting direct emails from Elon Musk), then that&#x2
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by AstroChimpHam 11y ago
So, don't work there. We're talking about really smart people that can get jobs wherever else if they don't like the culture at Tesla. All the replies on my comment share the same issue that for them seeing the birth of their
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by AstroChimpHam 11y ago
All the negative press and comments about this miss the point. The guy has very specific, very ambitious goals that he has a track record of achieving. He prioritizes those literally above everything and expects the same from key employees.
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by AstroChimpHam 11y ago
Two main ways come to mind: 1. Become interested in something esoteric in programming, then find people more knowledgable than you who are interested in the same thing. This always works for me when I get interested in something new. 2. Jus
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by AstroChimpHam 12y ago
If you don't trust your coworkers' ideas about what needs to be fixed right now, that's a separate issue.
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by AstroChimpHam 12y ago
If you're at a start-up and some unforeseen problem occurs that needs to get fixed right now, and you're the only person who can fix it: yes the start-up expects you to fix it before you can pick up little Suzie from soccer practi
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by AstroChimpHam 12y ago
Can we quantify a bit more? What numbers mean a "minor success?" What numbers define one that's big enough to be worthwhile? Also, I don't see buyouts discussed anywhere in the article. Lots of those minor success founde
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by AstroChimpHam 12y ago
In all situations, you really have to look after yourself. If someone ever asks you to work without pay, they're asking you to up your risk. Demand more equity. The greater the risk, the greater a return you should get, otherwise you&#
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by AstroChimpHam 12y ago
I've been both a founder and an early employee. As an early employee, I always received a salary, and knew I could leave any time I felt like it. My level of risk was low, and I was perfectly happy with my equity knowing I had a nice u
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by AstroChimpHam 12y ago
Why rent more servers when it's so much easier to spin them up as you need them in AWS and tear them down (and no longer pay for them) when you don't. If you're expecting unknown change in scale, it's so much easier to b
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by AstroChimpHam 12y ago
Is there a way to switch explicitly between Python and Bash mode? The "ls -l" example makes me pretty worried that this could mess up basic bash scripts that already work just by defining a variable like "ls" and forgett
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by AstroChimpHam 12y ago
A lot of the commenters are understanding this post as the author putting down unbreakable commandments and then demonstrating that there are exceptions to the rules, and thus the author is wrong, or bad at his job, or whatever. We programm
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by AstroChimpHam 12y ago
> Realistically, only bad things happen to the whistleblower. So when someone tries to discredit one, ask yourself — what could the whistleblower’s motive possibly be? They’re knowingly ruining their own lives. Whistle blowers become fol
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by AstroChimpHam 12y ago
It would be nice to have something that makes the hard-to-remember stuff in git more accessible. @qw3rtman, how often do you plan to work on this? I wouldn't use it yet, but I might if it were more built out (and had support for branch
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by AstroChimpHam 12y ago
Yup. It does all of the stuff I had trouble finding and figuring out by myself. I'm sure more annoying corner cases will come up later on (as they always do with alphabets and unicode), and I'll keep adding to it.
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Unicode Alphabet Detection for Python(github.com)
35 points by AstroChimpHam 12y ago|5 comments

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