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by akbar501 12y ago
Absolutely. As another story to back this up, I moved to India when I was bootstrapping my first business. I got down to $2/day for food, and found free rent. This low personal burn rate massively extended the amount of runway availabl
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by akbar501 12y ago
Yes, the in person course is only for Stanford undergrads: http://e145.stanford.edu/ Every who is not enrolled at Stanford can access the same material here: http://startupclass.samaltman.com/ EDIT: Correct
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by akbar501 12y ago
Quote from: http://e145.stanford.edu > All undergraduate students at Stanford University of any major are encouraged to join us (no graduate students please) So, enrolment appears to be open to any Stanford undergrad.
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by akbar501 12y ago
The first step would be to understand his/her priorities. Talk to your boss, make a two second statement like "I'm excited about Angular.js and I think it can help improve our business. However, rather than just pitching a te
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by akbar501 12y ago
1. Should you get an MBA? I think there are 2 situations where an MBA could be helpful. First, if you plan to move into management, then an MBA is helpful. Second, if you plan to start a company, an MBA is helpful. The advantage of an MBA i
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by akbar501 12y ago
If you have a payload that does not require encryption, but does require authentication, then Hawk (from WalMart) is an option. https://github.com/hapijs/hapi-auth-hawk https://github.com/hueniverse&#x2
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The JWT is signed. You can optionally encrypt the data in the token. However, the data in the main request is not encrypted, unless you're doing so via another means.
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The client must send authentication credentials to the server. For example, a username/password that's provided by a user. There's nothing initially stored on the client that allows it to authenticate without user input. Of c
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by akbar501 12y ago
> the reasons for such effectiveness are ... "entertaining content keeping kids focused" I'd be interested to see studies emerge on the value of entertainment in educational content as the child ages. In my direct experien
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by akbar501 12y ago
A child needs to learn fundamentals that they can later build upon to develop their own thoughts, ideas, and conclusions. I strongly believe that the point of education is to provide children with the thinking ability to come to their own c
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by akbar501 12y ago
Who gets to decide which news sources the kids are exposed to? Should they get one with a liberal slant? Conservative? Libertarian? Also, teaching kids to read the news somehow implies that an adult needs the news. Many (not all) of the int
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by akbar501 12y ago
The article you linked to provides security for etcd. However, what is the standard approach for securing Docker container to container communication across hosts. For example from an app server to a DB server. Is IPSec setup within CoreOS
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by akbar501 12y ago
Good points. > there is a very large amount of money available for pre-vetted deals This is part of the point I was making. Which is that there is an obvious opportunity for a company to come along and commercialize this demand. I'm
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by akbar501 12y ago
> It's crazy that this is even an issue. Agreed. "Investors fighting over YC companies" also shows that there is insufficient high-quality deal flow (real or perceived). Stated another way, there is a supply/demand im
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Apple says its systems not to blame for celebrity photo breach(reuters.com)
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by akbar501 12y ago
Just purchased the audio book. Thanks for putting out an audio book. I really wish all books were in audio form. There's so much free time where audio is possible but reading is not (driving, walking, running...).
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by akbar501 12y ago
Some very basic security: 1. Change SSH port 2. Block all password logins 3. Disable root login (namely, a non-root user must login via a key, then su or sudo to root) 4. Lock down everything with IPTables 5. Allow only encrypted connection
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by akbar501 12y ago
Also worth noting that you should run a firewall as part of the basic configuration. AWS includes this via the Security Groups, but with DO you'll need to use iptables or ifw.
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by akbar501 12y ago
PostgresXL ( http://www.postgres-xl.org ) is one alternative solution.
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Successful founders don’t drop out(venturebeat.com)
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They are similar and have some overlap. However, the overlap is not 100%, so it's good practice to use both jshint and jscs together. jshint is a static code analysis tool to identify and flag errors/potential errors in JS code. j
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by akbar501 12y ago
One gotcha about naming otherwise anonymous functions is that the function name is often removed during minification. So, if you have code or logging that assumes all functions have names, then the code may break or degrade when built and d
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by akbar501 12y ago
> automated style checking is the only way to go Absolutely. We've found automated style checking also improves quality and efficiency. Even the "pedantic jerk" can miss small style issues that are easily caught by tooling
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> Why isn't there something that can grab data from anywhere in any common format and import it into a relational database IME, the issue is not tooling so much as dirty data. Even if a tool is a perfect solution, the data is (in th
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by akbar501 12y ago
TAM is Total Addressable Market. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Total_addressable_market
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This reminds me of a product from the 90's where it let you leave post-it style notes on any website. You could then turn the nodes on/off for any given site. Anyway, that was a great product, so I'm glad to see that you&#x27
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> YC's goal is to help startups take first baby steps and raise money on a larger scale. I thought YC companies have moved up in maturity over the years. More specifically, I thought current YC batches have more companies that have
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> The dominant industry here will always be Hollywood Hollywood is the #6 industry in LA by output. #1 is real estate. In terms of employment, the government is the largest employer, followed by universities (UCLA/USC), medical (Ced
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by akbar501 12y ago
> The query language breaks down almost immediarely. Agreed. We dropped an ORM completely and use SQL in functions (aka stored procedures). For models we use plain JS objects and for validation we use Joi ( https://github.com&
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by akbar501 12y ago
> There are businesses that should raise VC and those that should not. Well said. Raising capital is something that should be considered in the context of the current business. From a wealth creation perspective, selling a business for $

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