Timothee

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by Timothee 15y ago
I'm not saying the price of the furniture should match the price of what's on it. That wouldn't make sense. But it seems common to justify extra costs in the electronics because it's a tool for the job so you want the best thing money can b
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by Timothee 15y ago
It's funny how we (typically) are just fine spending thousands of dollars for electronics but have a hard time doing it for furniture. (I'm doing it myself: I'm on the couch or the dining table when I work at home) This guy has well over $2
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by Timothee 15y ago
To be fair to Alexis, this was for BloombergTV so I think his emphasis on the creation of wealth (or lack thereof) and the economic impact of SOPA was appropriate. It's true indeed that this wouldn't be helpful for your Uncle Art.
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by Timothee 15y ago
Is that what "game mode" is? I had always thought it was just changing the preset of brightness/contrast/etc. but is it also trying to reduce latency? (I'm not a gamer)
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by Timothee 15y ago
It seems like an anachronism from the dot-com era when startup costs were much higher. I'm not even sure how that justified the situation then. Unless founders were to bring their own money. Do you mean that in the sense that it's now muc
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by Timothee 15y ago
I totally agree. I'm just imagining that one easy argument against that would be "well, we want to see them code, otherwise, how can we be sure?". To this, I answer that it may be true, but coding tests are no better in that regard, becau
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by Timothee 15y ago
Regarding the equity, it's interesting to see how prevalent "ideas are worthless, execution is everything" is, while, when a company hires their first engineers, they're typically not far off from being just an idea. Still, the typical equi
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by Timothee 15y ago
You make a good point about the way a code test can change the "atmosphere" of an interview. Showing what you've built and explaining how you did it is also probably much closer to how you would collaborate if you were hired. Some might say
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by Timothee 15y ago
Just for future reference about "For some reason I can't see a reply link under hir answer". I believe that the deeper a thread is, the longer it takes for a reply link to appear on a comment. This is to prevent endless flamewars, which imm
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by Timothee 15y ago
I'm growing overly tired of the success of Angry Birds, seeing it on Hipmunk.com, as a special Roku box, pushed on the Chrome Web Store, etc. so this is very welcome. Congratulations on the launch!
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by Timothee 15y ago
To add to Pewpewarrows' comment, I'll give you a couple of examples of things I do with QuickSilver. I can never remember the IP address of my work's VPN, so I created a text file on my desktop with the IP as its name. Whenever I need it, I
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by Timothee 15y ago
Besides the apparent mismatch between hours in a day and hours necessary for all that to happen in 1.5 weeks (well, it's technically possible), what surprised me was just even that 40 companies out of 50 were responsive enough to schedule
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by Timothee 15y ago
Defaulting to no is just common sense. It's a lot easier to undo a no than to undo a yes. Except that in that case, it wasn't no to the law but no to an amendment to the law. By saying no, they were actually agreeing to more things in the
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by Timothee 15y ago
It just made me wonder what the point of having these hearings was. I'll admit I'm not very familiar with the process. But it looked like it was the time to present why such and such amendments should be added, and then vote on it. If they
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by Timothee 15y ago
I've listened to the hearings a little bit today and in particular I heard the amendment about not removing the ability to target IP addresses. Listening to him, it just made sense: one address can be the front of multiple websites, one web
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by Timothee 15y ago
It's funny how every single time there are discussions of salary on HN, there will be wild differences in opinion. You're saying an entry level engineer is getting $110k while some comments later are saying $115k seems high for a senior eng
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by Timothee 15y ago
That might be true but I find 0.2%, thus $500k for a $250M valuation, still very low. $250M valuations are quite an achievement already and $500k, while it will pay off a mortgage, is not life-changing. (not talking out of experience here :
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by Timothee 15y ago
You can already have user-to-user connections through BlueTooth. One way is to use GameKit ( http://developer.apple.com/library/ios/#documentation/Networ... ) but I believe you can just go with a BlueTooth connection. Are you thinking about
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by Timothee 15y ago
It could be, I don't really know RapGenius. And I agree with your other comment: the growth graph doesn't match what I'd imagine for TurnTable.fm. I'd see a huge spike around May-June and a cliff after that.
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by Timothee 15y ago
But if they're that big and growing that much, they can't be that stealth… Unless the "stealth" part is the fact that they're a YC company. By that I mean that it could be a company/product that is well known but it's unknown that the compa
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by Timothee 15y ago
I would not be surprised at all if a lot of people added themselves without realizing this was linked to SOPA. I didn't even notice the text and jumped right to the pictures… I thought this was some kind of "hey, we work on the same stuff!
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by Timothee 15y ago
I recommend reading his explanation of why he did it the way he did (meaning DRM-free and based on trust), even though he's been advised not to. It's very earnest and has a feel of "listen, I created this. You're likely to like it. If you g
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by Timothee 15y ago
Part of my reasoning for not wanting to name the company and founders was this exact reason And I salute you for that. Don't get me wrong, I didn't mean to confront you or to expose the situation more than you wanted. (what I read is very
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by Timothee 15y ago
You might want to calm down on the unnecessary attacks. As I said in my original comment "I just want to point out to others that this is one side of the story", because some people wanted to have the names of the company and people involve
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by Timothee 15y ago
Why would it be sleazy? What if the investors got their money back and nothing more? Even if they got more based on preference, I don't see the problem. That TechCrunch article doesn't really present the event as a great exit, but more that
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by Timothee 15y ago
A comment below tickled my interest and I did some quick googling. From the information available on the web, it looks like your comment makes what happened look much worse than the reality. So I just want to point out to others that this i
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by Timothee 15y ago
…asked if they could define a particular TLA that was coming up frequently. Were you meta on purpose? For the other people that don't know (like me): TLA stands for "three letter acronym". I was really wondering if you were being recursiv
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by Timothee 15y ago
The part about "team player" doesn't make much sense to me. How do you decide if someone is an "average team player" or an "above average team player"? Hard overall, impossible from a LinkedIn profile. Unless of course, they base their deci
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by Timothee 15y ago
It was never in flavor unless the source is down, which it isn't.
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by Timothee 15y ago
About the lunch hour, one always needs to be careful of the rules of the company they work for regarding intellectual property. Working from a Starbucks shields you from using company equipment/network, but I'm sure in some cases, lunch tim

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