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by SeoxyS 12y ago
The trick I've used to get Star Alliance Gold really fast is to hop up using status match challenges. Find any non-Star-Alliance airline where you can get silver status easily; and email premiermatch@united.com. They'll probably
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by SeoxyS 12y ago
Can you elaborate as to what you think happened to LightTable? What is this "curse of Lisp" that you speak of?
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by SeoxyS 12y ago
I once tried an insane thing: building the Y-Combinator in C, and wrote a blog post about it. http://kswizz.com/post/50429268286/fibonacci-the-y-combinato... It was a fun thought exercise. Not something I'd u
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by SeoxyS 12y ago
Yeah I am. This stream is also super low quality… what is going on?
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by SeoxyS 12y ago
+1. Tim Pope is the best. Neovim looks like it's shaping up to be the best, too.
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by SeoxyS 12y ago
The criteria are outline on: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/O_visa http://www.uscis.gov/working-united-states/temporary-workers...
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by SeoxyS 12y ago
You could always try for the O-1 visa. When everything else failed me, that's the route I went. I've now obtained an O-1 twice. It costs more, and the requirements are more stringent; but if you are able to get it, it's extre
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by SeoxyS 12y ago
Firing someone is 10 times harder than hiring them. I've seen startups almost die due to putting off firing people until the very last minute. If it's not a fit, it's inevitable and will happen eventually, but in 6 months whe
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by SeoxyS 12y ago
The average taxi driver wouldn't make it as an Uber driver, only the superior drivers can sustain a 4.6+ rating. Uber is extremely draconian when it comes to driver quality. Any driver whose average dips below 4.6 is out. Period. That
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by SeoxyS 12y ago
Taxis in america (especially San Francisco, where Uber is from) are horrible and downright dangerous. Even the shittiest Uber drivers are better than the average taxi driver. And even if you wanted to hail a cab, your best bet is to try t
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by SeoxyS 12y ago
Some terminal emulators are pretty weird about sending the Alt key. If you open vim, in insert mode, and type <C-v><Alt-s>, it'll show you what is keys are actually being sent. If it's not what you expect, try remapp
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by SeoxyS 12y ago
How does this compare to using ZeroMQ inproc sockets?
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by SeoxyS 12y ago
Self-interest. In order to preserve the continued success of the Alcor company. In order for people to continue buying cryogenic services, the company would have to be able to demonstrate that it's actually doing what it claims to do (
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by SeoxyS 12y ago
Letting people opt out or opt in would destroy the entire point of a jury. It'd turn what needs to be a representative random sample of the population into selection bias. I think that a better solution would be for small companies, in
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by SeoxyS 12y ago
> The defense lawyer has now fallen in love with you… Uhhhhh. There wasn't a single thing that sided me with the plaintiff. Not sure if that's a good or bad thing.
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by SeoxyS 12y ago
I'm surprised by how few people said office politics. That's by far the problem that has the most potential to instantly kill my entire productivity and interest for an entire day. The second I have to ask myself "why am I de
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by SeoxyS 12y ago
I've found docker to be a revolutionary abstraction. By itself, it's not a silver bullet. But combined with the right tools, it completely shifts how you think about devops. I recommend looking into: Quay for private image hosting
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by SeoxyS 12y ago
I've been using a web "framework" I wrote for a few years now. It now powers various projects, from the Chartboost Store backend, to the entire the entire backend codebase for my new startup, FreshPay. https://gith
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by SeoxyS 12y ago
Sounds like you were bit by rebasing, rather than by git itself. Yes, the API is large and complex. But git itself is easy to learn, and extremely powerful. Whatever situation you might have gotten yourself into, git probably has a good way
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by SeoxyS 12y ago
In Bern, there's a "pool" I used to love going to. It's got normal pools, but there's also the opportunity to jump into the river, where the currents will easily carry you half a mile in no time. http://w
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by SeoxyS 12y ago
Yes, on paper the requirements are pretty much the same. But, O1s and EB-1s are processed by different offices within the USCIS. I've found that whomever processes the EB-1s tends to be much more strict than for O-1s. I've had a
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by SeoxyS 12y ago
The O1 is employer-sponsored. You need a sponsor. The filing fees will run up about 2k including expedited processing (which is usually worth it). You're gonna have to go through a quite thorough process of building up a detailed dossi
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by SeoxyS 12y ago
The O1A visa is definitely the right visa for startup founders. I think that with a little hair-twisting and a good attorney, the current criteria for the visa can be twisted to cover most startup founders who have some kind of a track reco
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by SeoxyS 12y ago
That may be true, but remember; founders are much important to YC's bottom line than the employees that those founders who become successful may or may not hire later.
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by SeoxyS 12y ago
Where did you hear that Apple writes iOS apps without xibs or storyboards? I'm in the same camp myself (I think xibs are a ticking timebomb), and having some supporting evidence showing Apple itself does the same would make my argument
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by SeoxyS 12y ago
Yes, I'm pretty sure I was at 3x median income when I worked at what became a larger startup. Now I'm back to making barely enough to cover my ridiculous rent while getting a new company off the ground.
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by SeoxyS 12y ago
I agree. I was very confused at first, and almost did not click on the link because I don't see the need for whatever a democracy "OS" could be. However, this seems like a really neat organization management solution. Voting
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by SeoxyS 12y ago
You're right, I agree. It's a combination of indulgence, narcissism, and stupidity; different people may fall more into some of these than others. And luckily for us, we have a lot of smart people who think different, so I don&#x2
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by SeoxyS 12y ago
This is probably one of my absolute favorite comments I've read on Hacker News. I think the scary part is that we have some mild but very real examples of these two dystopian visions in the world today. There are many Orwellian-ish reg
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by SeoxyS 12y ago
How so? I agree that as soon as you add a round of funding, the math gets wonky. For example, I'm trying to model what a ~5% ownership looks like, and as soon as I add a round of funding that creates 10% dilution with no liquidation pr

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