IceCreamYou

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Learning to Code is like Learning to Drive(isaacsukin.com)
2 points by IceCreamYou 14y ago|0 comments
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by IceCreamYou 14y ago
What you should do is what you want to do, and if you enjoy both topics, there is no reason to pigeonhole yourself into one of them. It is possible to be successful by focusing on breadth as well as depth, although the challenges are differ
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by IceCreamYou 14y ago
Actually, from talking to Dan and his co-founder Patrick, Airtime for Email is doing quite well, and I believe they've hired interns for the summer. I agree with the sentiment, but in this case it's misplaced.
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by IceCreamYou 14y ago
From experience, people like Dan often don't make "well engineered software that is maintainable for awhile." I know Dan personally and he's a great guy, but what makes Dan valuable is his intelligence, intuition, and ability to Get Things
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by IceCreamYou 14y ago
I know exactly what you're talking about. I say No a lot. It's not fun to say No, but I just try to be honest. When you get to have these conversations a lot you gain useful insights... there are a lot of ways to help people other than buil
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by IceCreamYou 14y ago
Nate, the thing is, you do know what you're doing. You'd be having no fun if you were just doing things you already knew how to accomplish. You are intentionally choosing to do things where you know you will have to learn in order to achiev
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by IceCreamYou 14y ago
My new background.
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by IceCreamYou 14y ago
Okay, so it was a sensational title. The point was more that we're in a bubble caused by a lack of engineering talent, and the point about obsolescence was just me trying to figure out what it would look like to solve that problem.
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Will the startup bubble make programming obsolete?(isaacsukin.com)
3 points by IceCreamYou 14y ago|3 comments
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by IceCreamYou 14y ago
This is pretty much the flavor of many unsolicited emails CS students get. Hence, Whartonite Seeks Code Monkey: http://whartoniteseekscodemonkey.tumblr.com/ However, a lot of the people I talk to are through referrals, and they tend to be
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by IceCreamYou 14y ago
Cases where you can get away with paying a technical contractor $300-500 are pretty limited, but they tend to be businesses with small ambition where just having a web presence is the important factor, not implementing any specialized funct
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You have an idea. You need a website. Now what?(isaacsukin.com)
10 points by IceCreamYou 14y ago|7 comments
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Software and Innovative Thinking(isaacsukin.com)
2 points by IceCreamYou 14y ago|0 comments
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by IceCreamYou 14y ago
I don't get how that graph is compatible with this one: http://www.wolframalpha.com/input/?i=gdp+per+capita+united+s...
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by IceCreamYou 14y ago
I like where your head is at, but most people aren't able to set this configuration up on their own. For something to replace email it all has to "just work."
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No, email really is broken (and here's how to fix it)(isaacsukin.com)
9 points by IceCreamYou 14y ago|2 comments
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by IceCreamYou 14y ago
Basically what you're saying is that Instagram actually does have the potential to make $1B. Care to ballpark some numbers as to what income your suggested methods of monetization would actually have to produce to make Instagram be actually
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by IceCreamYou 14y ago
The relevant question is not "what is Instagram worth" but rather "what should it be worth." That is, we already know that Facebook values Instagram at $1B; the question is whether that valuation makes sense.
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Instagram is not worth $1 billion to Facebook(isaacsukin.com)
1 points by IceCreamYou 14y ago|6 comments
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Circles are Wrong (let's build a better friend/follow)(isaacsukin.com)
1 points by IceCreamYou 15y ago|0 comments
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by IceCreamYou 15y ago
I've been playing a lot with canvas recently and building libraries to abstract away all the low-level stuff and just deal directly with the entities you actually care about working with. Exciting stuff. Cool to see what other people are do
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by IceCreamYou 15y ago
Also, it's not just the math -- it's the data. Successful investors spend large amounts of time every day poring over financial reports to find companies whose stated value is different than their actual value. That's not something really t
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by IceCreamYou 15y ago
I sort of tried doing this for the PennApps Hackathon in January: http://unstock.me/ It turned into a silly little linear game. We realized that intelligent investment in the stock market requires setting up advanced models that require m
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by IceCreamYou 15y ago
Well, first, consider this: why would anyone design a tool for the 10% when they know from their own research that its primary use is for the 90%? That's the situation with cars. They are overwhelmingly used in cities, not offroads or on
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by IceCreamYou 15y ago
No. One of my main points is that "efficiency" is not necessarily the right goal to strive for. Not to mention that I explained that there isn't a more efficient way to make the same journey without undue effort.
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by IceCreamYou 15y ago
On the contrary, part of my point is that cars are designed for city use, not road trips: "Cars are built for the city roads where they are overwhelmingly used, not for the once-a-year roadtrip to Florida." Ask the manufacturers; that's the
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by IceCreamYou 15y ago
I wrote up my response to this article here: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3516307 As a resident of Atlanta, I disagree with many of the assumptions this article makes.
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Cars Don't Kill Cities (Silly Assumptions Do)(isaacsukin.com)
7 points by IceCreamYou 15y ago|11 comments
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Making money from the fallout over SOPA and PIPA by questioning assumptions(isaacsukin.com)
1 points by IceCreamYou 15y ago|0 comments
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Codecademy for the stock market (a PennApps hack)(unstock.me)
1 points by IceCreamYou 15y ago|0 comments

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