DustinCalim

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   by DustinCalim 12y ago

   This post makes me sad, but reminds me just how big of a technical gap there is between the valley, the early adopters across the country, the rest of the population in the middle, and then the older/lagging adopter generations at the
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   by DustinCalim 12y ago

   Palo Alto, CA. 1. Growth Hacker/Metrics Seeking a creative, hands-on Growth Hacker with scaling experience in a start-up environment. Aarrr! 2. Senior Rails Engineer You are a performance-oriented senior back-end Rails engineer with ex
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   by DustinCalim 12y ago

   Imagine if political disputes were settled this way instead of real war
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   by DustinCalim 13y ago

   How about dark everything? I give you Hacker Vision: https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/hacker-vision/fomm...
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   by DustinCalim 13y ago

   This.
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   by DustinCalim 13y ago

   Be here now.
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   by DustinCalim 13y ago

   This. I can see many governments banning Bitcoin before it rises to it's full potential and then the governments accepting it.
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   by DustinCalim 13y ago

   Yes, Bitcoin dropped 40% today- but keep in mind that on any average day it swings 20%. If you invest because you believe in the underlying technology, you'll have to ride out the volatility waves until it matures(or dies). But, it&#x2
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   by DustinCalim 13y ago

   I understand it as buying on Mt Gox is a premium over the other exchanges because of safety. BTC-e is based in Bulgaria, won't release their company information, and could close doors at any time and disappear with everyones BTC- so it
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    by DustinCalim 13y ago

    I like your phone analogy, it rings true
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    by DustinCalim 13y ago

    I'd say that's on par or better than most corporations...
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    by DustinCalim 13y ago

    You can mine litecoins and sell them for bitcoins... I hear there's a ASIC LTC miner around the corner...
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    by DustinCalim 13y ago

    If it weren't for the early miners, who believed in the currency enough to invest time and money in machines to mine them, I don't think there would be Bitcoin wealth to distribute... If this is your belief, there are plenty of Al
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    by DustinCalim 13y ago

    Maybe they're the same particle... sort of like the single electron theory(since all electrons have the same mass/charge): http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/One-electron_universe
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    by DustinCalim 13y ago

    Are you going to open source it?
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    by DustinCalim 13y ago

    > All companies that grow really big do so in only one way: people recommend the product or service to other people. Yeah, I recommend all my friends to get Exxon gas and buy GE lightbulbs... There are some things essential to us(inelast
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    by DustinCalim 13y ago

    I have an early-stage startup and I have a huge workload right now and I could use some help with the Rails/database side of things so I can focus on everything else. This is not a useless instagram-like app that adds no value- this is
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    by DustinCalim 13y ago

    The comments here are very typical HN... Too much semantics and nit-picking - and I think a lot of people missed the point the site was trying to make. Maybe that means the site failed by being too distracting...\
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    by DustinCalim 13y ago

    I'd like to see HN stats on this vs your average 12-35yr old American.
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    by DustinCalim 13y ago

    So this is supposed to be a laptop accessory for your smartphone?
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    by DustinCalim 13y ago

    There is a book called "Finite and Infinite Games" that you should read. http://www.amazon.com/Finite-Infinite-Games-James-Carse/dp/1... It's really metaphor for life.
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    by DustinCalim 13y ago

    What kind of price can you put on vision? -What you're likely to hear from the salesman
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    by DustinCalim 13y ago

    I'm sorry but roughly 200 years of data is not nearly enough to begin to predict any sort of cycles the 4.5 billion year old Sun has. The article mentions 11 year cycles between polar changes... since it hasn't happened this year,
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    by DustinCalim 13y ago

    Rise of the Chromebook indeed. I think we will be seeing A LOT of these being used by software engineers. For $250, you get a very capable Haswell-equipped notebook with 8 hours of battery life and can easily accept a Ubuntu installation (C
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    by DustinCalim 13y ago

    Looking for a senior rails developer with high traffic/scaling experience to work on a new project. Drop me a line if you actually want to work on something big and make a difference. This is the one that will change your life.
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    by DustinCalim 13y ago

    > Question is though, what about support. They sell you that too.
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    by DustinCalim 13y ago

    Unfortunately, there are more desperate people than cell phones. You should visit India sometime.
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    by DustinCalim 13y ago

    I fail to see how this is a "dark pattern". Apple is a company that stays in business by selling you things; they are not your friend that builds great products and services and gives them to you for free. Of course they will crea
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    by DustinCalim 13y ago

    That site is so performance-oriented it took me 2 minutes to find the link to the book.
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    by DustinCalim 13y ago

    Palo Alto, CA. You- Senior rails dev w/ database experience. Must have gone to University. Preference if you have worked at a startup before. You enjoy small teams and working on something really exciting. (our team will always remai