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Cratejoy (YC S13) is hiring a front end developer in Austin, TX(jobs.lever.co)
1 points by aelaguiz 13y ago
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by aelaguiz 13y ago
A CTR of 0.4% is absolutely abysmal for a newsfeed ad and the fact that the author thinks that it is "quite high for an ad like this" makes me think he has no idea what he's talking about.
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by aelaguiz 13y ago
Congrats Vlad, Bryant & Sergie. Killer product, great raise.
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by aelaguiz 13y ago
Congrats Sam. I love your thoughtful writing style and think you're the natural choice for the job.
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by aelaguiz 13y ago
The thing that makes me happy is sitting in a room with a few people I really like and building something I'm interested in. We already all live in nice houses and have the computers we want. We can eat wherever we'd like. If I wa
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by aelaguiz 13y ago
Totally true. I'd add though that there definitely is a level of initial respect you get as a YC company. It doesn't help close the deal, but it will generally keep you out of associate land.
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by aelaguiz 13y ago
I sometimes wonder if people like this wake up one day and realize they tossed one of the most important opportunities of their lives because they are stubborn. Probably not.
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by aelaguiz 13y ago
Just under 2 years, it was a nightmare. I gained weight and became depressed. I left and will never sell a company like that again. If there's an earn out it'll be 1 year, otherwise I won't do it.
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by aelaguiz 13y ago
Yeah that doesn't matter to me. Maybe others experience wealth differently but it made substantially no difference to my day to day happiness (once the newness of the money had worn off) - but working on a project I feel strongly about
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by aelaguiz 13y ago
Yeah I didn't say people past their 20s don't aim high. I said your 20s is a great time to aim high.
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by aelaguiz 13y ago
Love it!
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by aelaguiz 13y ago
As a YC founder I know exactly what I signed up for. YC is in the business of placing a series of low risk bets twice annually and then sorting through those bets looking for likely winners, doubling down and helping when possible It doesn&
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by aelaguiz 13y ago
It wasn't a MITM. Although I've done that too, ARP flood the router and redirect the traffic through myself. Only works on sites where they didn't peer validate the SSL cert. These were just packet dumps, wasn't associat
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by aelaguiz 13y ago
As recent as 2010 we were finding major flaws in online poker security, here are a couple of videos I did of us sniffing hole cards out of the air because sites were lying about their use of SSL. They were using xOR encryption. Insane. htt
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by aelaguiz 13y ago
It isn't, at all. It's not some popularity contest. The best companies do in fact tend to have YC partners invested in them. It's just because they are..the best companies. The only reason it's bad is because there are l
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by aelaguiz 13y ago
Kudos. This was an issue in my batch. If you didn't have YC partner money you weren't necessarily a black sheep, but you definitely weren't awesome.
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by aelaguiz 13y ago
Used it out a few weeks ago on our beta landing page, very cool. It was fast and easy to use. I will be using this on our website updates going forward!
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by aelaguiz 13y ago
Having a bad name is seriously hard to overcome in an early stage startup. Instead of discussing your product, idea or market, every conversation starts with justifying the name. It's hell to raise money in that sort of environment.
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by aelaguiz 13y ago
I see problems like this as "points-in-time". There will eventually be a technology based solution to these sorts of things. Early warning systems, collision detection, even just pervasiveness of go-pro cameras as the price poin
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by aelaguiz 13y ago
I've thought the same thing before. In fact one of my favorite founders literally used to be a rock star (Nate @ zingcheckout.com). As far as rockstars go we're fairly boring. Mostly we sit quietly.
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by aelaguiz 13y ago
Thanks for this. I've been using PIL forever, didn't know there was a live fork.
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by aelaguiz 13y ago
It always shocks me how long technology hangs around. It's easy to forget how many critical systems are powered by VB3 or Cobol.
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by aelaguiz 13y ago
The screenshots of IDA with Delphi in it really bring me back. Ahh reverse engineering, life was so simple then. Whoever wrote this was definitely older. Nobody under 35 knows Delphi ;)
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by aelaguiz 13y ago
Nice work Harry & Leore
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by aelaguiz 13y ago
Yeah, totally. Maybe there is no answer other than to fix the organization that made it so hard to get rid of bad engineers in the first place ;) Or quit (I chose quit).
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by aelaguiz 13y ago
It's only hard at bad companies. This was an extraordinarily bad company.
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by aelaguiz 13y ago
This is evil but I predict massive success for this product. I actually wonder if companies could start choosing other products they use (such as their CRM) based on how well they integrate with peak. I remember when I was CTO @ Zynga it wa
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Alleged UK hacker charged with breaking into military and NASA databases(theverge.com)
1 points by aelaguiz 13y ago|0 comments
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Resourceful ways I use TaskRabbit in my startup(aelag.com)
2 points by aelaguiz 13y ago|0 comments
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Why We Live 40 Years Longer Today Than We Did in 1880(theatlantic.com)
1 points by aelaguiz 13y ago|1 comments

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