andkon

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by andkon 12y ago
just do it. bonus: you hating your job will help you to take the leap.
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by andkon 12y ago
It's called the glass cliff: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glass_cliff She takes over after years of neglect at a time of even more substantial crisis, and yet gets and will take far more of the blame than her very
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by andkon 12y ago
All I can say is lolllll. Is it possible to flip it around? To not accept commits unless your prose is really unnecessarily wordy and opaque?
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by andkon 12y ago
You're sure you'd spend your last days being completely unlike you? Then maybe you aren't living that honest a life.
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by andkon 12y ago
I've been using something similar on iOS called Noisli and I'm addicted. If I had Android I'd totally download it. Out of curiosity, how is working with the audio APIs on Android?
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by andkon 12y ago
"Look at all the cool things we build and bring to Burning Man - no way we're ruining it!" is pretty much the exact same argument as "gentrification has resulted in far better brunch options in this area, no way we'
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by andkon 12y ago
God, I forgot about buying palettes. Later on when I started playing Xball it got scary how fast a team could go through one.
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by andkon 12y ago
They started to, eventually. I think there's a 10 balls per second cap at the lower divisions of one of the bigger US leagues. But in most of the leagues I was in, there were no ramping modes - you'd just shoot as fast as you coul
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by andkon 12y ago
What a sport, but lately it's been kind of a tragic story. I started playing around 2003, and played competitively in Canada through to what basically became the sport's peak. In 2007 we were playing division 1 in a league with Im
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by andkon 12y ago
Usually 10 hours a night. It's super annoyingly long, but that's exactly how long I seem to need. It builds up some sort of reserve of energy so I can do all nighters when necessary, but if I go too long without 10 hours I will be
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by andkon 12y ago
I was deeply unhappy with working for other people and it only got less tolerable every day. Running off the cliff was the only way through; at the time it made no sense (I had little saved and no backup plan and no funding).
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by andkon 12y ago
I haven't had to sign one for a hackathon before, but meh. It's probably just so whoever's running it can have something to show off afterwards - including in articles and etc. that could be beneficial for you if you wanna ge
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by andkon 12y ago
The social network for sex toys.
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by andkon 12y ago
Especially because I'm pretty sure he is/was a software engineer, who happened to ride the crest of two real estate bubbles.
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by andkon 12y ago
I really really like it. I see the value and have signed up and added to my homescreen. Truly a great interface compared to typing out numbers. Also I really want to turn this into an iOS app! There's some cool stuff you can do with it
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by andkon 12y ago
It seems like you need to finish school. I'm not sure what access to student loans and etc. you've got in Uruguay, but there's got to be a way for you to either go to school full-time and finish it quick, or for you to find a
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by andkon 12y ago
Not to be a dick, but that's not really a thesis: there's nothing in need of being proven or disproven. We all know that technology can make things easier for people, and that some industries don't use it much. Think a little
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by andkon 12y ago
Thank you for putting a name to that! A search for 'Mastermind group' got me a few things to tweak for next time. Part of the focus of our group is geographical - we're all in Toronto, and Toronto startups have some specific
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by andkon 12y ago
OP here - I wanted to thank y'all for the great advice so far, and I wanted to share one thing that has helped me a lot: founder's breakfasts. We get together once every two weeks and hold one another accountable. I bring donuts.
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by andkon 12y ago
I also had to learn to code to get my startup off the ground; it took a while and was painful, no doubt about that. Eventually I realized that coding is a process that I could enjoy if I let myself. Same with all the other things I do day t
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by andkon 12y ago
That's a wonderful way of looking at it. I'm gonna strive to remember that timeframe. Good luck to you too.
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Ask HN: single founders – how do you do it?
31 points by andkon 12y ago|13 comments
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by andkon 12y ago
Totally agreed. Another benefit (or set of benefits): when you've got 5 CLI tabs open already, and you're trying to remember where your curl response went, it's nice to know Postman has (a) history of recent requests in a rea
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What I built when I stopped experiencing fun(medium.com)
3 points by andkon 13y ago|0 comments
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by andkon 13y ago
Has anyone got a way to do this for API calls? I'd love to be able to get some json back at the end of a call that shows how many queries/how long they took.
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by andkon 13y ago
Get them to read the right stuff. If they actually take the time to go through the canon of modern PM work (starting with Lean Startup), they'll probably start seeing sense. As a formerly non-technical person, it's worth pointing
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by andkon 13y ago
Usually when I get that, it's because I'm trying to make something perfect. To handle all the edge cases, to make something bulletproof. And then I take a deep breath and remember that the sooner I make a shitty version, the soone
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by andkon 13y ago
Agreed. So absurdly great. But also, it's oddly (to me anyway) polarizing. Which has its benefits: it's a real quick and easy way to figure out who in tech is insufferable: they don't find it funny? Then they probably are the
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by andkon 13y ago
That's interesting. Maybe it's 'cause I've just watched the first episode of Silicon Valley but, for most people, even if you're not doing something obviously good for the world, there's huge internal pressure
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by andkon 13y ago
Oh man, this resonates. I think in any organization you need a certain balance of those two personalities - but the philosophy degree sure makes the questioning/skeptical folks more my type. And until I started my own company, I moved

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