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by agitator 9y ago
I've seen a few posts on HN that don't have all of the normal operations one can make on your average post. They are usually for YC startup job posts. So in some aspect, YC is making money by targeting job advertising for their st
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How management expecations vary between cultures(hbr.org)
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I think a lot of people here are focused on tech startups, but I think what is really apparent is the domination of large corporations in many other aspects of our economy. So many mom/pop restaurants are being pushed out by corporatio
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by agitator 9y ago
I take the most practical approach possible, because it allows me to get to my goals as fast as possible. Usually, I want to learn something because I want to do something with that knowledge. So as an example, if I wanted to develop an app
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Uber is a money machine right now. For many people all over the world, it's the go-to for taxi services and food deliveries. It would be stupid for them not to invest in self-driving cars. It's something that affects the core of t
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by agitator 9y ago
I didn't mean to imply that I solely evaluate capabilities based on a mind numbing problem. I think it's important to balance questions: CS coding questions that they should know (based on education or previous projects), and ques
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by agitator 9y ago
I would find it mind blowing that whilst sitting on the toilet, I have all of the worlds knowledge, and the ability to communicate with people anywhere in the world, in the palm of my hand.
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by agitator 9y ago
You are interviewing at companies that so many people in the field from around the world apply to. So it's really damn challenging to even get an interview lined up. It's up to you, often you can have more fun, and play a bigger r
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by agitator 9y ago
Well, if you look at the human brain, it's just a larger cortex on top of the primitive brain stem. So I think, simply looking at our brain architecture, we are will always be impacted by the emotional low level impulses that were the
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by agitator 9y ago
I like seeing personal projects that solve interesting problems, and that show that the person really considered the use cases and application of their project (UX design, functionality, etc.). There are good engineers, and then there are e
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by agitator 9y ago
Yeah totally, 95% percent of what we do as humans is superficial garbage. Just a bunch of apes thumping their chests. "Look I made a thing!" But does it really matter? Probably not. I think having your mindset, you can make a bigg
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by agitator 9y ago
Dude, talk to your wife about it. I feel like I wouldn't get through 50% of the stress in life without having someone who cares about me more than I do to bounce ideas and thoughts off of.
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Ask HN: What kind of Git workflow does your startup follow?
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This is a good point. But same goes for other sensors in cars. I always wondered how annoying AF ultra-sonic sensors are for dogs. It looks like most ultrasonic sensors are out of range for dogs, but the ultrasonics for sure mess with bats.
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by agitator 9y ago
... Well, you know if they are fat or not. So you can market to people that now want to get fit, with their new found realization that they are fat, or people who want swim suits now knowing that they are fit.
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It wouldn't all be so bad if the transportation infrastructure in the bay area wasn't such a joke. When I first moved here I was surprised that a region known for it's innovation, had roads and public transportation systems t
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by agitator 9y ago
Also, a large portion of the voters are home owners in those districts.
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I did read the article and it lists multiple inefficiencies. And I didn't claim that the article was about halting factory beef farming, so I'm not sure where you got that from. There is one line in there about Americans meeting t
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by agitator 10y ago
Genetically Engineer the plants to grow in those conditions, boom.
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Yes, and the high demand for animal based proteins has been a large cause of deforestation. Also, beef and other livestock produce a large portion of green house gas emissions.
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Animals are an extremely inefficient way of producing food: http://www.news.cornell.edu/stories/1997/08/us-could-feed-80...
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Or you could take the Impossible Foods approach and use plant based methods to replicate the components of meat.
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Actually, most science points to the contrary.
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It sounds like you believe that what you do on the internet is private and that everyone will just agree to leave it at that. Global diplomacy is a competition, and if you aren't doing everything you can, and keeping pace with technolo
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by agitator 10y ago
Yeah the company has a big purpose, but it's ridiculous to ignore something like this. Do you think a majority of the factory employees or even engineering employees, for that matter, care about the "big goal"? I assure you t
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by agitator 10y ago
I think https://founderkit.com is a better comparison to what you are providing than product hunt. I agree Product Hunt seems to target consumers more, whereas Siftery and Founterkit are providing a service to businesses and fou