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by boxcardavin 10y ago
This is a fantastic example and great advice for someone who has accumulated skills but doesn't feel like being an 'expert' in their field.
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by boxcardavin 10y ago
In undergrad astro my long-term project was searching for eclipsing binary stars, which are paired stars that are aligned with us just right so that they eclipse each other as they orbit. We looked one by one at known variable stars that ar
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by boxcardavin 10y ago
Thank you for your post.
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by boxcardavin 10y ago
Bah, thanks. We're developing a new version of the hardware for permanent installations, it has probably been our biggest challenge as end-users definitely expect consumer grade hardware while the number of units we build is very low s
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by boxcardavin 10y ago
Oh yes, I love our Pelican's, we use them for our printers as well. The problem was the first few iterations of our printer were fragile once outside the protective cocoon of the pelican and in the hands of live-event people. As a resu
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by boxcardavin 10y ago
I think we're going to apply for Stripes Bring Your Own Team where they hire functional teams. Haven't decided to disband yet, we based it on time and revenue requirements for ourselves.
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by boxcardavin 10y ago
Yep, it is pretty cool but the decision-makers at most of our client companies are slow to approve budgets for Snapchat. It has been fun to work on, it's our first big push into hardware so I've had a ball. We'd like to push
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Ask HN: How do I write a resume after five years of a startup?
245 points by boxcardavin 10y ago|127 comments
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by boxcardavin 10y ago
A bizarre story that should be a reminder to everyone that your gut will often point in the direction of a problem. Also, the article is written as a reminder, a warning, to not overuse commas when I type.
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by boxcardavin 10y ago
This speaks to my heart.
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by boxcardavin 10y ago
I've got 500 miles on my board and it has never been a problem, just something to be aware of. Adding mechanical brakes would involve one or two servos, two sets of brake disks and pads, and a few dozen more parts. That's a lot of
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by boxcardavin 10y ago
The whole deck (top) of the board is grip tape which is a glue paper covered in sand, so almost nothing will stick to the pebbled surface. A company makes an aluminum mount but skateboards rattle like mad and like to destroy mounted electro
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by boxcardavin 10y ago
Forgot to mention, this happened to be the other UW, University of Washington.
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by boxcardavin 10y ago
This is more common with undergrad degrees, I studied physics at the UW where my friend and lab partner died during finals week of his second to last quarter. I suspect that it is usually done quietly for the benefit of friends and family,
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by boxcardavin 11y ago
And yes, it was quite a hacky hack to make it work!
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by boxcardavin 11y ago
'Social Printers' a kinda a thing these days with Instaprint and others, but I think this is more equivalent to a photobooth or putting a bunch of disposable cameras on the tables at a wedding.
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by boxcardavin 11y ago
We built this printer to take Snapchat screenshots sent to us and print them out at events. It got a little nutty when we decided to put the hardware into a tiny box and 3M-tape it to walls. The faceplate of the printer is the actual Snapco
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Show HN: Snap2print – Snapchat sticker printer for events(snap2print.me)
1 points by boxcardavin 11y ago|4 comments
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by boxcardavin 11y ago
Hey, now it's goin pretty good!
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by boxcardavin 11y ago
Haha, yep. Textingway - Twitter 2007
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by boxcardavin 11y ago
Shameless/shameful plug, we were (a bust) on PH today https://www.producthunt.com/tech/textingway
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by boxcardavin 11y ago
Cool, I'll take a look. This might sound silly, but what do you think is interesting about it? We FEEL like it's good for something but we're trying to discover what that is. Don't tell PG I said that...
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by boxcardavin 11y ago
Will do. http://textingway.com/BDMEM2S
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Show HN: Textingway – Create and post to a blog with one text message(textingway.com)
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by boxcardavin 11y ago
Was there any followup to this in the years before his death? Mr. Wilson doesn't sound like the life of the party.
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by boxcardavin 11y ago
Advantage over Bootstrap in 5 seconds?
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by boxcardavin 11y ago
In addition to power being cheap (as others have mentioned), the humans would experience 'downtime' when moving between stops. Downtime for humans costs a lot of money.
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by boxcardavin 11y ago
You're losing a lot (if not all) of the efficiencies of growing outside urban centers. The efficient distribution and consumption of irrigation water and fertilizer is more of a cost ($ & CO2) than the final transportation of food
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by boxcardavin 11y ago
Nothing groundbreaking here, just reframing (yet again) how to think about success so that founders focus hard on growth rate. Good stuff. Sometimes I wonder if PG is targeting/excluding audiences by speaking in a mathy way. "If h
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by boxcardavin 11y ago
This type of comment may be keeping them away.

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