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by S4M 11y ago
Hey nextos, I'd love to hear about your work, but your profile doesn't contain your email. Mine does, can you drop me a note?
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by S4M 11y ago
Concerning web pages, HN seems to be split into two sides: one side wants to use the newest shiny stuff to make shiny apps while the other wants to have simple pages that are loading fast. The OP blatantly seems on the first side, and I am
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by S4M 11y ago
I'm wondering if there is a practical use of such a graphic language. I am thinking of printing the pictures associated with the code, put them somewhere, and other people could take some photos of those pictures with their smartphones
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by S4M 11y ago
Can you put a vague description of what you're doing so we can get an idea of what job can command this level of compensation?
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The Start-up from Hell(jacquesmattheij.com)
3 points by S4M 11y ago|1 comments
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Silicon Valley's Unchecked Arrogance(medium.com)
10 points by S4M 11y ago|3 comments
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by S4M 11y ago
Yep, it works, thanks for pointing it!
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by S4M 11y ago
Ha got it, thanks! But what's e then?
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by S4M 11y ago
Can't build it on Debian, getting: /usr/include/features.h:374:25: fatal error: sys/cdefs.h: No such file or directory # include <sys/cdefs.h> (I installed uuidcdef, for what it's wo
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by S4M 11y ago
> Most developers haven't even heard about Mongo/Angular/Backbone yet, heck, I even have to explain tree times that JavaScript is NOT Java. Yes, but those developers are not doing front end web development for a living.
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by S4M 11y ago
Now I see why VC funded startups don't like to hire remote workers.
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by S4M 11y ago
Yep, it's a very ambitious project, but the scrolling is utterly broken for me (firefox 43.0 on Debian), and seeing from other comments, I'm not the only one. Wonder how someone can possibly ship a website where the scrolling is s
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by S4M 11y ago
It's perfectly fine that the FBI or the police can open a physical lock with a warrant. The warrant is supposed to be delivered by someone representing the Justice department, which is (theoretically) independent from the police. What
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by S4M 11y ago
Thank you Jacques for writing how something that would be completely unacceptable in the physical world is deemed perfectly fine online. It has always bothered me. Take for example how the FBI wants to have automatic access to the data in a
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by S4M 11y ago
To me it proves how little progress has been made in term of UI in the last 20 years.
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by S4M 11y ago
I have the feeling is that the algorithm involves different pictures that superficially look the same but represent different things, and the code decides which picture to show according to the coordinates of the mouse, and them rescale it.
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by S4M 11y ago
Can I have an email as well, Mr Jacques (in my profile)? Thanks!
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by S4M 11y ago
You should check HomeJoy. They were a cleaning company (they subcontracted cleaners) that went through YC, had a huge growth and raised about $40M, but went on to fail. Look for them in HN search, it has been discussed a lot.
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by S4M 11y ago
Would you consider remote contractors? I (think I) am a decent full stack guy, and used to be a Quant (mentioning that because you said in the comments that your startup is in finance). Now I do contracts to fund my own startup. My email is
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by S4M 11y ago
They are using tablets on the pictures. Surely those have calculators.
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by S4M 11y ago
Yes, one thing I believe is bad is to mix professional and private life, but he seems fine with it. Well I'm probably not a good fit for Facebook, which is fine.
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by S4M 11y ago
I am a big believer that companies underestimate people's ability to learn, but what you describe works well if the company is stable and has little growth - a perfectly fine situation to be in - but I think the majority of startups do
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by S4M 11y ago
How do you deal with the risk due to FX rate? Your salary is probably constant in dollars but not in euros the currency you use.
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by S4M 11y ago
Not a company, although they are spanning one out of it, but the team behind Julia (the programming language) started from different locations and didn't meet each other before a year (can't find the article about it right now, so
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by S4M 11y ago
And at the same time they managed to ship Watson.
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by S4M 11y ago
What companies have 200k employees to build CRUD operations?
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by S4M 11y ago
Seems both are complimentary. Hackathons are for prototyping, building stable maintainable applications is for the long term.
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by S4M 11y ago
True but you don't want to answer that in an interview.
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by S4M 11y ago
I can somewhat make sense of that code, but the code of function ch-hof is a bit hard to read - and the function name is not helping. I guess he's trying to see if the king is under check, and if so by which piece(s). Also I notice cod
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by S4M 11y ago
It's obvious that on your best day you solved a problem. The question is: which problem did you solve?

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