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by bsirkia 13y ago
There's a major black market at my college (top 10 liberal arts) for Ritalin and Adderall. At least half the students I know have, at some point, taken it as a study tool. It's super frustrating for the kids of have ADHD, because
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by bsirkia 13y ago
As with anything, it always depends on the context. If I'm introducing someone to an investor I barely know, I'll make sure they opt in. If I'm introducing them to an investor I see every day and know they trust me, I'll
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by bsirkia 13y ago
Awesome! (psyched about bugfix #21439, that was confusing when it happened to me). Thanks for crushing it guys!
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by bsirkia 13y ago
I agree, all the metrics comparing best cities doesn't mean much if you don't know a single person in those communities. What do you think of the advice to live in-proximity (an hour or so of driving away) of the city with your bi
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by bsirkia 13y ago
Ok great, I think I understand that...but a full blog post would definitely clear it up (also I've finally figured out you're obviously at Shutterstock so can just ask direct questions). Who decides what each team is going to be w
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by bsirkia 13y ago
That's basically the question I'm getting at below and am wondering about, how does that 6 person team structure scale when you get to be a 500-1000 person company.
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by bsirkia 13y ago
Right that's true, it does come down to the manager's level of expertise. I guess my point is that you need someone with a solid understanding of code to review their output, not just a manager evaluating "does it work",
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by bsirkia 13y ago
Oh wow. How many teams do you think are at Shutterstock? And then how many teams can one manager manage basically? (just trying to get a feel for how the "middle management" starts to come up when the organization grows).
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by bsirkia 13y ago
I wonder what size exactly a "small" team is, especially if they contain "software engineers, Q.A. testers, user-experience developers and product owners." Somewhere around 25?
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by bsirkia 13y ago
The issue here is that "does it work" isn't a good enough metric for code quality. If two engineers deliver code that accomplishes the same task, one might have made it readable, testable, scalable, etc. and the other just ja
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by bsirkia 13y ago
Am I right in assuming that Coinbase could pivot to or add support for other digital currencies like Namecoin or Litecoin? It seems a much safer bet to build a platform around trading/storing/accepting any digital currency, rather
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by bsirkia 13y ago
That's something I'm really interested in, basically figuring out your own productivity curve. If you work 8 hours a day productively, if you want to maximimize your weekly productive should you work both weekend days?
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by bsirkia 13y ago
Thanks for all the replies, not psyched about the negative comment score :(
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by bsirkia 13y ago
I would argue that you can be productive for more than 8 hours a day, so the programmer I want (obviously) is one that works nights and weekends but gets shit done the whole time. Do you think that if you worked nights and weekends (say ano
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by bsirkia 13y ago
What do you think is keeping people from moving to North Dakota? I actually don't totally know the answer, are the travel expenses just too high?
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by bsirkia 13y ago
The idea of relocation assistance has always been something that interested me. I often split time between Vermont and NYC, and don't totally get why there aren't more programs to help people living in a rough, low-income housing
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by bsirkia 13y ago
Ok awesome, thanks for laying that out for me.
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by bsirkia 13y ago
Can you talk a bit more about the dilution an employee should expect if the company completes more funding? That could have a serious impact on your shares. Who usually gets diluted first? Founders? Previous investors? Employees? If you&#x2
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by bsirkia 13y ago
I'm generally really curious what people are using for prototyping. I've used Axure a lot, done a few things in Keynote, and recently have just been banging out a rough prototype with Python + Django + Bootstrap. Why do you choose
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by bsirkia 13y ago
That's probably the most successful use of slides in a post I've ever seen, usually when people add a deck in their write-up it makes the experience awful, so kudos. Do you predict that major sites are going get re-written as sing
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by bsirkia 13y ago
Good luck!
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by bsirkia 13y ago
Very cool. I think it would have been better to have the name of the tech//person/place on the thumbnail on hover, I would like just be able to hover across all the thumbnails and see some info about each one.
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by bsirkia 13y ago
Awesome, having one place for all the app services I use for all the apps I'm working on would make this exponentially more useful for me, good luck!
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by bsirkia 13y ago
Love the concept and how you guys are doing it. My first impression is that I don't think the contributor cards should be the dominant element on the landing page, it's tertiary info compared to the library on the left nav. I did
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by bsirkia 13y ago
So far it looks great, I think you did a great job of picking the right services to integrate with. Really clean UI, and the big "email me directions" button is a great way to help people figure out somewhat complex integration. I
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by bsirkia 13y ago
How is it that he was able to get out of jail and head straight to a multimillion dollar mansion? Was he not sued for everything he was worth? It doesn't really seem fair if crime does pay and you just have to do a few years in jail. I
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by bsirkia 13y ago
a) $100 is steep, but $25 on Android seems percentage-wise much higher, considering you can get Android devices for so little (you can probably get an old device for less than $25 on classifieds). I don't think the device-to-developme
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by bsirkia 13y ago
Interesting take. I'm curious how you respond to the counterpoints I usually hear to this argument: 1) Apple is creating a quality filter for $99, one that seems to be successful comparing the aggregate quality of apps on iOS vs. Andro
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by bsirkia 13y ago
definitely, I'm at brian@rocketlistings.com, looking forward to hearing from you.

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