GFischer

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by GFischer 10y ago
Plane crashes have been going down not only in the U.S., but worldwide, which is commendable. A bit unfortunate for this to be posted a few days after the Chapecoense crash shook the world (noted in the postscript), but that was a regional
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by GFischer 10y ago
Thanks ! I'll try it out :)
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Ask HN: Apps or software to help with weight loss? What worked for you?
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by GFischer 10y ago
It sounds more like a problem with your family and THEIR expectations than with yourself. If you're able to make a product, you'll be ahead of 99% of people. Don't be afraid to put yourself and your product out there. If you
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by GFischer 10y ago
the person saying that is often not even trying, which is frustrating. It's like a helpless excuse to be lazy I suspect some of that might be due to Learned Helplessness. That is something that has to be worked on: https:/&#x2F
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by GFischer 10y ago
My own dystopian prediction (and extrapolating from trends) is that more and more of the population will enter the services economy: - in zero-sum activities like advertising - providing services for the mega-rich (there will always be dema
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by GFischer 10y ago
The way I was taught, it sucked to be a peasant in the medieval ages. They had to work for their masters AND the church, before working for themselves. Whatever little they kept could be bartered, I guess. But I definitely wouldn't cal
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by GFischer 10y ago
I had acute pain in my right hand last year - went to a doctor, wore a brace, now use wrist pads, and it went away. So I second the advice of seeing a doctor. The week with the brace was awful, but, as other posters mention, it's the p
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by GFischer 10y ago
Congratulations for starting and putting it out there :) First impression is that it looks good. I didn't like the too long, out of context and unattributed quote at the beginning though. It definitely threw me off (wasn't I here
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by GFischer 10y ago
Vienna's city center is car-free except for police and ambulances. It's a medieval city so it's much worse than Manhattan in regards to narrow streets and not having been designed for cars. It does have AMAZING transportation
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by GFischer 10y ago
Both Nava and healthcare.gov people replied, in under an hour. Looks like a win for the OP (or as much of a win it can get in this fucked-up situation).
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by GFischer 10y ago
Paul Graham (and Y Combinator I guess) believe that the difference is the goals. A startup is a company designed to grow fast. PG, 2012 http://www.paulgraham.com/growth.html http://www.forbes.com/sites&#x2
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by GFischer 10y ago
I was trying to disprove "We struggle to get people to move to Iowa because of the cold winters" , by showing a place with harsher winters and a lot more migrants. Maybe Canada is a much better example. People don't go to I
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by GFischer 10y ago
A mutual friend introduced us, he was really enthusiastic about building a project together (side project, not full startup for now). We have complimentary skills (he's more of a PM and business guy). I think I was the hard one to conv
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by GFischer 10y ago
Wow, awesome, that's a good success story for those that did't know their co-founders beforehand.
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by GFischer 10y ago
Seconded. I've hired a freelance through the university network (though, if others are like me, don't expect stellar rates :) ). You might want to ask at a local accelerator or meetups, plenty of people need a helping hand.
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by GFischer 10y ago
Nice, didn't know about that one. Edit: I looked at my website, and today was a particularly nasty day, my top referral was: "Secret.ɢoogle.com You are invited! Enter only with this ticket URL. Copy it. Vote for Trump!" Not
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by GFischer 10y ago
Why does it have to be remote? Try asking to be an intern at a local startup or small company? If you don't know any, ask at the local university. As many said, finding a remote job as a first gig is very hard. Heck, it's very har
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by GFischer 10y ago
I would use .io - that said, I'm using .tv for my own project (video related), and I understand the extreme pain of trying to come up with a good name that's not yet widespread and is available.
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by GFischer 10y ago
This is an actual, real job for actuaries and lawyers in insurance companies, and legislators which write civil codes. Examples: http://www.nytimes.com/2007/09/09/weekinreview/09marsh.html http:/&#
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by GFischer 10y ago
Really interesting article. I'm also a bit naive when it comes to geofencing (but, then again, I'm not engineering in a 50bn company). Waste of existing talent is unfortunately a way of life at large corporations :( .
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by GFischer 10y ago
People don't move to Iowa because it's Iowa. Compare to the northern European countries (Norway, Sweden, Finland), which have to hold back immigration, and have much harsher climate (Des Moines is much warmer than Oslo, for exampl
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by GFischer 10y ago
Android world isn't that much better. For example, the Sony M5 has a very unpredictable glitch - it did have a "workaround" (unlike this iPhone bug) but which significantly degraded usability - it was to to resort to 3G WCMDA
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by GFischer 10y ago
I'm not a fan of Cristina Kirchner's policies (to put it mildly), but this one sounds like it worked. Self-worth through jobs is an important point.
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by GFischer 10y ago
I didn't downvote you, but I believe it didn't come across that way (it's hard to gauge what you tried to convey across the Internet sometimes).
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by GFischer 10y ago
They did eventually fix it, see the newer racks: http://www.detritus.org/mike/gc/rearpatchpanels.jpg
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by GFischer 10y ago
I do too, and it doesn't hurt that usually good communication has equaled a very good product or service. Some companies which have particularly impressed me with their onboarding communications are Survata (a YC company, https:/
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by GFischer 10y ago
Depends on what your venture will be about, but there's a lot of books written specifically to help entrepreneurs. The best ones IMO are the ones by Steve Blank and Alex Osterwalder: - “Business Model Generation”, by Alexander Osterwa
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by GFischer 10y ago
If you have the time (probably not :) ), there was a really cool project that took names from GitHub and generated random names using Markov Chains... maybe use the same for the class names :) .
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by GFischer 10y ago
Interesting graph :) . To be honest, we have some "bargain basement death machines" on the road here in Uruguay... but they sure beat the alternative (unsafe motorbikes). In particular, the Chery QQ (cost in China about U$ 4000) i

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