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by alnayyir 16y ago
You do not mass email people with a BCC to find a cofounder. You find someone you like individually and write a response to them based on the strengths in them that you saw. Finding a co-founder should be treated with as much care as dating
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by alnayyir 16y ago
The founder mass emailed a bunch of people whose emails he scraped from various popular blogs and HN hackers lists looking for a co-founder and started a reply-all mess. Didn't even have the decency to BCC. Pretty much shitcanned in my book
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by alnayyir 16y ago
Because it's pretty obviously an advertisement with no real insight. Still entertaining though.
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by alnayyir 16y ago
I don't mean to cherrypick, but Reddit's database situation is highly abnormal and not desirable. They hacked up a spitshined Postgres-driven KV Store that is little more than cpickle->textarea plus an index. Their database infrastruct
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by alnayyir 16y ago
Read the code to etherpad now that it's freely available.
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by alnayyir 16y ago
I'm in NYC, and I only know a Java dev in MN. I work for a startup in Mountain View (a fairly well known one?) and I still haven't ever worked for a company that exceeded a 5 on the Joel Test. That particular fact is why I'm considering lea
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by alnayyir 16y ago
Ugh, does anyone have a transcript of this? These atrocious videos are a waste of time. Just write a rant already.
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by alnayyir 16y ago
He was making a sarcastic memetic reference. Your question isn't very answerable. Ask a more specific or meaningful question.
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by alnayyir 16y ago
Stop spamming, if we don't respond, there's a reason for it. You posted this 9 hours ago. Please read the guidelines in future: http://ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html If you want people to test something, go somewhere that has a highe
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by alnayyir 16y ago
I didn't say I understood it. :)
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by alnayyir 16y ago
Sorry, attempt at pedagogy. I'll suppress it next time.
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by alnayyir 16y ago
You've been irrational and angry the whole time (not that telling you will change anything) I'll side with how the community is voting on this one. Your behavior isn't appropriate, and it's obvious that you haven't spent any time learning t
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by alnayyir 16y ago
>So what you're saying is basically anyone who is not a programmer is a lazy idiot and has no place in this world False >Wow, I understand now why you sleep with a book I didn't say that I did. I'm going to assume from here that you
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by alnayyir 16y ago
>Well, I think that the idea is the most important part of any project. You haven't been here long, I take it. Generally speaking, anyone with any measurable experience in startups and business will tell you that execution is what count
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by alnayyir 16y ago
I don't need an idea person, I need a designer who sleeps with the CSS3 standard next to their pillow for most of my projects. Could you share with those looking at this post what you can offer other than this idea?
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by alnayyir 16y ago
Infinite fire, too touchy/important to be worth chancing it. Get someone well reviewed/recommended with data portability built into the contract.
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Nasreddin and the Schoolteacher
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by alnayyir 16y ago
Not anywhere in any non-trivial population of people will you ever see anything of serious depth and novelty (aka, not some kind of cargo cult "classic") get nearly as much recognition as LOLcat/Hello World type material. This is one of my
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by alnayyir 16y ago
I take it you mean Mach-O? Mach-O is mach microkernel object format. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mach-O In general, BSD assembler tends to be pretty stack heavy for cultural/engineering reasons. I don't think it ultimately matters all th
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by alnayyir 16y ago
This content is inappropriate to hackerne.ws being celebrity drama and not startup, business, or tech/programming news. (Or intellectually inspiring for that matter) Try to make your future submissions more relevant to the tone and focus on
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by alnayyir 16y ago
http://hackerne.ws/item?id=1661890
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by alnayyir 16y ago
The point is that you're taking the time to master something in your free time because you enjoy it. StarCraft 2 just happens to be something relatable to the author. You're fixating on the individual pebbles when you're supposed to see the
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by alnayyir 16y ago
I think the greater point here is that you should hire people who have a real passion and knack for something in their life that isn't necessarily what you're hiring them for. Given the choice between two mostly equal candidates, I'd choose
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by alnayyir 16y ago
Yeah, I won a game earlier tonight because I kept a scout in his base, which he didn't notice, and was able to respond immediately to his tactics, allowing me to use minimal forces to great effect. Although I won, technically my play was sl
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by alnayyir 16y ago
I'm gold ranked, but I think the time the person spends honing their craft is important too. You want to look at what kind of code projects (if you're hiring a programmer) they have in their portfolio that they made of their own accord.
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by alnayyir 16y ago
Why is this anti-science, irrelevant to business and technology trash on here? Not more than 3 hours ago I scolded a friend for posting political material on here and then I come home to find this?
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by alnayyir 16y ago
That's a little bit too Gladwellian for me to hazard, but still a possibility.
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by alnayyir 16y ago
Glad to have you on the east coast!
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by alnayyir 16y ago
Try to avoid negativity that doesn't contribute to the on-going conversation. (Etiquette here: http://ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html ) Instead you could've said something to the effect of, "I'm excited about the C/C++ development kit
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by alnayyir 16y ago
Points free ftw.

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