Bjorkbat

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by Bjorkbat 10y ago
That's why I put all that other stuff in there. The problem is that in more industrialized economies novices quickly figure out that their skills aren't really worth much and that they'll have to get much, much better in ord
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When I see the word "training", I take it to mean that the people taking part learn just enough to get started, but not really enough to make something of quality. That part requires more self-sacrifice, more learning, and some p
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by Bjorkbat 10y ago
Good for them. Maybe with 2 million additional Android developers in the global marketplace the Google Play store won't look like a giant malware-riddled dumpster-fire with a small number of actually good apps somehow percolating to t
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by Bjorkbat 10y ago
People still pay $1000+ for someone to make an Android app of questionable quality for them. A one time fee of $100 is nothing by comparison.
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by Bjorkbat 10y ago
Dogescript. I mean, it compiles into Javascript. It didn't take long before I realized that I could write an entire Node-based web app entirely in DS. Much users. Very rich.
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by Bjorkbat 10y ago
That's an interesting way to look at it. I would argue that Google+ didn't work out because Google was trying to play catch-up in a field that it just lacked knowledge in (social networks). Whereas with machine learning, they&#x27
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by Bjorkbat 10y ago
They can use dogescript. In dogescript it's a much loop. https://github.com/dogescript/dogescript/blob/master/LANGUAG...
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by Bjorkbat 10y ago
Yeah, maybe I was too harsh with the magic internet money thing. I still have fresh memories of when Bitcoin went past the $1000 mark before cooling down again. Just strikes me that the people genuinely wanting to use Bitcoin as an actual
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by Bjorkbat 10y ago
I'm vaguely familiar with the co-op model through organic co-op grocery stores. I actually like the notion of grocery stores being run this way, but members participate in a grocery co-op primarily so they can get less expensive organi
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by Bjorkbat 10y ago
An interesting concept, but I'm not buying the hype. At the end of the day a bunch of people bought shares in a company (or did they? Legality is weird) with the special condition that in addition to owning a share of said company the
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by Bjorkbat 10y ago
You could argue that it was the cities that gave these states such pioneering policies. Urban California is a pretty liberal place, but rural California really isn't. Granted, I have my doubts it would be as conservative as the Deep S
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by Bjorkbat 10y ago
Ah, gotcha. Just wanted to clarify.
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I'm mildly confused by your comment. It seems that you're implying that the Super Tucano is a personal airplane. Just checking to make sure that you know it's actually a warplane, and that countries are buying it because it&
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by Bjorkbat 11y ago
But that's the thing, it's a little bit questionable for Amazon to be a competitor. They started out as a partner that offered a retail platform for Rain Design, only to turn around and come up with a cheaper product. Even thoug
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by Bjorkbat 11y ago
Meanwhile I live in Downtown Albuquerque for $770 a month plus < $100 a month for utilities. Maybe not as developed as downtown San Francisco (far from it actually), but there's still more breweries, music venues, coffee shops, and
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by Bjorkbat 11y ago
At the same time I'm pretty sure they also commented that self-driving cars might be 30 years away during an event at SXSW this year.
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by Bjorkbat 11y ago
It's worth pointing out that they came to this conclusion by looking at job postings. If a company is large enough to have some HR person creating job postings, then they're going to come from this mindset that education acts as a
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by Bjorkbat 11y ago
Well, that's just it, you listed 6 dependencies required to setup a mail server. Then there's the time and effort required to keep everything running. When it comes to side-projects, mail servers fall into that area where they&#x
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by Bjorkbat 11y ago
The on-demand apocalypse? Well, knowing Techcrunch they're probably overreacting, but this is a prediction I can get behind. Maybe now VCs can invest in companies that don't rely on questionable labor tactics in order to deceive t
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by Bjorkbat 11y ago
Pretty impressive, considering that there are presently only 1.6 million apps to choose from on the Google Play Store and 1.5 million on the App Store. ;)
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by Bjorkbat 11y ago
This is by far probably the biggest motivating factor for me to buy one of these latest gen VR headsets. Everyone else seems largely preoccupied with trying to get into VR filmmaking or slapping VR onto just any old game, but this really u
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by Bjorkbat 11y ago
I'm a little confused about the guy who has a startup selling glow-in-the-dark decorations and party accessories. Is he living in the Bay Area because of his startup? Or was it job first, glow-in-the-dark startup later? Pretty sure mo
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by Bjorkbat 11y ago
On the food portion, those that move to New Mexico often enjoy our food more. Conversely, once they move out of New Mexico they seem to deeply miss our food.
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by Bjorkbat 11y ago
Heh, I always get a bit of a giggle when I read sentences like this that end with a ":)" or similar emoji. I have this weird mental image of your desk being being suspended above a tank of sea bass with lasers, and unless you tell
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by Bjorkbat 11y ago
So, tl;dr version: The dark ages of the tech industry are finally over. Everyone, rejoice, it's a brand new day. Stop working on your social network. Stop trying to simultaneously pick the lowest hanging fruit while going after the b
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That's why I made sure to include that there are people in the bottom half of that pyramid who I think will get to the top half, because eventually I believe they'll move either to the top half of the pyramid, or outside of the py
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by Bjorkbat 11y ago
Honestly, I'm pretty okay with this. The city where I live (which I imagine is indicative of other cities as well) the local population of freelancers and small studios forms a pyramid. The top half of the pyramid is made up of really
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by Bjorkbat 11y ago
Don't worry, I myself have made that leap and my pants are still attached to my body.
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by Bjorkbat 11y ago
I wasn't in the exact same boat as you, but I did take a CTO role without much experience under my belt. I'm actually only a year older than you. And yeah, we failed, like most startups do, and I had to quickly scuttle to find an
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by Bjorkbat 11y ago
So, core technology is an AI system that, given a project, will automatically determine how long it will take and what sort of work will be required? Great, I'll buy a license and tell my buddies here in New Mexico about it so we can c

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