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by blickentwapft 6y ago
This is a massive generalization, made far too early in the lifecycle of a new platform. Don’t take this advice. Similar criticisms could have been aimed at developing iPhone apps, which have spawned many multi billion dollar companies.
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by blickentwapft 6y ago
What will you do for income when you’re too old to get a job in IT?
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by blickentwapft 6y ago
I’m pretty technical but the one thing I’ve sworn off is DIY email servers. It’s not worth the pain.
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by blickentwapft 6y ago
You got it. From a brand new account no less.
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by blickentwapft 6y ago
How does this stuff get in the front page? Look, I’m all up for challenging PG’s essays and I think he has no problem with that, but this post is flat out garbage in every way.
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by blickentwapft 6y ago
Better start printing thousands of T-shirts saying JOURNALIST.
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by blickentwapft 6y ago
Isn’t YC just a numbers game? Back enough companies and hopefully some will be winners.
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by blickentwapft 6y ago
I saw a fascinating documentary that said the entire surface of Venus is only about 500 million years old. Which implies that the entire surface was molten at the same time and has only recently cooled. 500 million years being “recent”.
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by blickentwapft 6y ago
You don’t need a cofounder. You don’t need a VC/funding. You don’t need to over identify self with business.
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by blickentwapft 6y ago
Antidepressants.
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by blickentwapft 6y ago
I kind of assumed all my cloud computing resources were already private and confidential. Not so?
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Ask HN: Feels like the Klondike has all the gold been dug out of tech?
1 points by blickentwapft 6y ago|0 comments
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by blickentwapft 6y ago
Meh. It’s probably just 2 years mistyped. Shouldn’t be on front page HN.
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by blickentwapft 6y ago
Oh ok that’s encouraging. It does use an fpga for graphics. That’s kinda surprising I would have thought there’d be a suitable graphics chip off the shelf.
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by blickentwapft 6y ago
Retro machines always feel less authentic to me when they use an fpga for the CPU instead of an actual retro CPU or descendant of. Just opinion of course. Retro is whatever it means to you.
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by blickentwapft 6y ago
Just read the libraries source code, examine the methods and see what they doZ
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by blickentwapft 6y ago
It’s strange. In the tech industry, whenever you express any self doubt, people read that as you saying you have impostor syndrome. Why is that?
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by blickentwapft 6y ago
Run your own machines. You don’t have to use cloud services.
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by blickentwapft 6y ago
Build tools that work
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by blickentwapft 6y ago
I just saw, after over 18 months of off and on development, that some other company has exactly implemented my idea, minus one key feature. They did a really great comprehensive job. After wailing and licking my wounds for a day I decided t
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by blickentwapft 6y ago
Silicon Valley normalises these sort of lies as ethical. It’s not lying, it’s “hustle”. There’s ways to present that aren’t outright deceptive. It’s a strange blog post because it’s not an admission to be proud of.
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by blickentwapft 6y ago
Intolerance for long form writing is relatively new and an outcome of the Internet shortening attention spans. I used to do some long form writing and I still remember feeling offended when I first got “too long didn’t read” comments.
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by blickentwapft 6y ago
If you are a developer, what is the last significant thing you learned, and when did you learn it?
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by blickentwapft 6y ago
MicroPython seems to have done a fairly good job of deciding what’s important in a python subset.
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Ask HN: Is it legal to crawl/index YouTube? Does Google try to stop it?
3 points by blickentwapft 6y ago|4 comments
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by blickentwapft 6y ago
This really hit the mark.
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by blickentwapft 6y ago
Dave Lebling invented the first person shooter? The irony is beyond belief. For those who don’t know Dave was a key player in Infocom text adventures, the antithesis of graphic games.
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by blickentwapft 6y ago
Email is an exceedingly hard thing to change. Nothing much succeeds in actually changing the way it works. What does work is developing communication systems unrelated to email ie slack. My prediction is that Hey will fail but will pivot i
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by blickentwapft 6y ago
Previous: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23542937
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by blickentwapft 6y ago
True

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