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by GFischer 10y ago
Even lecturers realize it's a total disaster, but there's a lot of inertia to overcome. Online MOOCs work so much better, but they don't have the social aspect and the live guidance factor.
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by GFischer 10y ago
Don't go to Odesk. There's plenty of advice on how to freelance here on Hacker News. I've actually been on both sides of the table - as a freelancer I never got work through Odesk, I was actually hired through Hacker News onc
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by GFischer 10y ago
I work in the industry, and I disagree. If we want to be more exact, most of the airline volume is through Global Distribution Systems (GDSs). I'd say that truly "direct" sales are in a minority. But sales through aggregators
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by GFischer 10y ago
Kind of related: http://www.espn.com/nba/story/_/page/presents18969358/tinder... "Indeed, various apps have done for sex in the NBA what Amazon has done for books. One no longer needs to leave
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by GFischer 10y ago
Good find :) .
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by GFischer 10y ago
It seems that this might be a new push by their PR firm (which is very good I guess, the article is very flattering and small-guy vs union side and all the right buttons) http://gothamgr.com/media-coverage/
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by GFischer 10y ago
Theory says you'll be run over by the next VC-funded Facebook in your market, and will have to subsist by being a niche business (better service or catering to certain segments). So, either the next Facebook or lifestyle. Of course, re
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by GFischer 10y ago
I built a website for a realtor, and she specifically wanted that functionality. It really pisses me off that in this day and age they think they can be "gatekeepers" of the information. And they provide an extremely shitty servic
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by GFischer 10y ago
I'm happy to see them too - the last batches had a lot of more mature companies and almost no "seed stage" startups. I think I read in a comment that they're no longer accepting teams without ideas and that the experimen
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by GFischer 10y ago
My father met a top exec (later president) of Toyota in the 80s, he came to my house and met our dog. Some time later we saw him writing on a little black notebook. A decade later, the exec invited my father, and during the dinner conversat
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by GFischer 10y ago
My wife has some hearing problems and pays for an automatic speech to text in her voice messages. There are some hilarious errors but it's surprisingly readable. So it's necessary for some people. I definitely wouldn't mind s
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by GFischer 10y ago
Both Android phones and high-end TVs are good examples of what Scott Adams calls "Confusopoly" :) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Confusopoly heck, mobile phones are the canonical example.
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by GFischer 10y ago
Wow, it has really changed. Thanks for recommending.
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by GFischer 10y ago
The article assumes that there won't be a spike in oil prices (we don't know). It's also strongly underestimating China, which is the main producer and consumer of electric cars (also, if they decide to do something about pol
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by GFischer 10y ago
It did come across as xenophobic, and as a remote developer I found it a bit insulting, although I understand where you come from. Yes, you have to weigh the risks and rewards, and if having your app source code disseminated would break you
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by GFischer 10y ago
What stops your current employees from stealing code or intellectual property? As long as the OP has decent hiring practices, he shouldn't be any more afraid than hiring an American. I've been on both sides of the table (both hire
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by GFischer 10y ago
Not necessarily. Most of South America is very close or in the same timezone as the East Coast of the U.S. There is a time difference with the West Coast though. I currently work for a Dallas-based company and I work the same hours as their
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by GFischer 10y ago
What kind of insurance? I've worked in property and casualty insurance for 10 years, and although I wasn't entirely sold on some of their practices, on the whole I do think they provided an important and needed service - with way
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by GFischer 10y ago
Is any EU country paying remotely close to the UK for programmers? I'm not in the EU, but one of my brothers in law ended up moving to the U.S. from Austria in part because the pay difference was humongous (and of course the scene is c
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by GFischer 10y ago
The U.S. uses import caps instead of import taxes to protect the local farmers and ranchers. My country and Argentina and Australia would sell them all the meat they could otherwise. Europe does the same. So yes, farmers and ranchers are pr
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by GFischer 10y ago
Dropbox is an example where their core business is very data-intensive and AWS costs can be considerable. I'm thinking of services, say the automated robo-built sadwiches, or the Easy 401 service, or the luxury shoes startup (all real
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by GFischer 10y ago
I disagree. Depends on the service's business model obviously, but there are services where the convenience will more than offset the extra costs. Once the company grows big enough, yes, then it might make sense to go off AWS (or not -
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by GFischer 10y ago
When the money is good enough :) . That is, usually not for startups, yes for established companies with money.
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by GFischer 10y ago
I think it's certainly less confusing to put a physical barrier. I could see myself waiting for the light to turn green :) . And it shouldn't cost more than 10.000 euros (a couple of years of maintenance of the traffic light). I d
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by GFischer 10y ago
I think it's a (very real) problem of mental "energy" more than actual time. What you mention of McDonalds has been studied: https://arstechnica.com/science/2016/12/junk-food-cravings-a... And
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by GFischer 10y ago
It can go the other way too. Here in Uruguay the local ("free") state university was for a long time the only place to get an engineering degree. They somehow decided that they needed to set insanely hard exams, so that 97% of the
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by GFischer 10y ago
He did summarize most of those in his books: https://www.joelonsoftware.com/buy-the-books/
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by GFischer 10y ago
Looks great! Congratulations on shipping :) Using cats was a good idea, definitely.
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by GFischer 10y ago
There's an interview (just getting to that stage is extremely hard). I think that over 50% of those interviewed make it. See the sibling comment for the application process. Read up on successful applications (google "my yc applic
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by GFischer 10y ago
Hadn't heard of n-gate, pretty funny :)

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