byoung2

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by byoung2 12y ago
Stuff like Function.prototype.bind can be easily found By Googling. You want candidates who can adapt to the unknown. That is true, but it is a warning sign that someone with 10 years of working with Javascript has never had to use those
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by byoung2 12y ago
In my experience it's rare to see someone with solid technical skills that doesn't have passable interpersonal skills too. I've worked with some developers who are brilliant technically, but are not people you would hang ou
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by byoung2 12y ago
Of course I would never eliminate anyone on the basis of not being able to explain a specific function. That said, there are some questions you can ask that if the client can't answer correctly usually further questions only confirm my
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by byoung2 12y ago
To find the last new hire, 95% were weeded out just based on resume for lack of experience, or non-relevant experience. Of the remaining 5% who made it to a phone screen, 80% were weeded out because they could not convince me that their kno
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by byoung2 12y ago
I have had spreaducation.com (and .info, .net, .org) for about 8 years now. I had an idea back in 2007 for an adaptive learning platform creator. Basically a WordPress for MOOCs that would let you tag content like html, videos, audio, text,
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by byoung2 12y ago
Determination, calculated risk-taking, a lot of hard work, a relentless pursuit of greatness, and luck. Read the bios of anyone on the Forbes billionaire list, or any top athlete, etc, and you'll see the same traits. For example, Micha
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by byoung2 12y ago
https://open.bufferapp.com/buffer-open-equity-formula/
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by byoung2 12y ago
I guess what I'm saying is YC would do well to consider funding people with good ideas as much as the ideas themselves. That's a good point. YC does claim to look at people first and then ideas, and really the idea is just evide
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by byoung2 12y ago
I think there is a sweet spot that you have to hit where you have the focus to start on a solution to a small part of a big problem, but still show investors that there is a clear path to eventually tackle more and more of the bigger proble
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by byoung2 12y ago
We applied for W15, not this round, but our video was watched in full 4 times from SF, Mountain View, and NYC. Our demo was accessed 8 times from the same cities, and one message was sent through the demo account (it is a messaging platform
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by byoung2 12y ago
https://www.amazon.com/gp/video/settings?ie=UTF8&ref_=ya_man... You can select Adobe Flash Player instead, and avoid Silverlight entirely
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by byoung2 12y ago
Sounds like a Fantastic Four viral campaign (Victor von Doom).
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by byoung2 12y ago
It also may not be possible to live there permanently and work because of visa and residency restrictions. I wanted to move to the Philippines a few years back (my wife is from Manila), but in researching I found it would be difficult to li
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by byoung2 12y ago
It is confusing two separate ideas. One is that it is ok to work while on a tourist visa, the other is that doing multiple visa runs (regardless of whether you work) is not ok. The out-in problem is true of many countries and has nothing to
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by byoung2 12y ago
http://asiancorrespondent.com/125980/thai-immigration-offici...
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by byoung2 12y ago
Any IT department I've worked with would just throw the mouse away...not worth diagnosing a cheap item like a mouse
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by byoung2 12y ago
10 years ago, every company I worked for had a sysadmin, but in the last 5 years, I've seen the trend move toward cloud services like AWS and developers doing light sysadmin duty as well. My company is up to 35 people now, with 10 devs
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by byoung2 12y ago
Going native has the advantage of giving (potentially) the best performance on each platform. Things like infinite scroll, animation seem to be smoother using native code. The downside is having to know how to code in two languages and havi
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by byoung2 12y ago
Clickable: https://github.com/Swimlane/angular-model-factory
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by byoung2 12y ago
I find myself asking the same question as a resident of Los Angeles, where the cost of living is high, so salary is high. If I moved to San Antonio or Atlanta I could live a better lifestyle on a fraction of the salary and still take advant
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by byoung2 12y ago
I enjoyed teaching as a Kaplan instructor (GRE, GMAT, LSAT, SAT). Test prep feels like hacking standardized tests, and it was great seeing my students do well. I'd probably do something along those lines, or motivational speaking. It w
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by byoung2 12y ago
Literally hours ago I was looking through Google Maps documentation for a way to plot a route with waypoints that I needed in a specific order (I'm plotting shipment updates in the order they occur, which may not be in the most efficie
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by byoung2 12y ago
I would if I could structure the 30 hours myself. For example, I would rather have 2.5 12-hour days or 3 10-hour days than 5 6-hour days.
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by byoung2 12y ago
Cost is the main one, with flexibility of selecting your own hardware being second. If you are just getting started, and you want to keep costs low or you don't have enough demand to justify buying hardware or building data centers, th
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by byoung2 12y ago
The cost of starting a startup is also much lower now than a decade ago, and a decade from now it will likely be even lower. In a future with more, but smaller startups, investors might not even be necessary if savings, bootstrapping, crowd
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by byoung2 12y ago
It's actually in the ajax response that comes back: https://translate.google.com/translate_a/single?client=t&sl=... [[["статье Object.prototype","verboten"],[,,"stat'ye Object.pr
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by byoung2 12y ago
Duplicate post from 2 years ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5039904
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by byoung2 12y ago
In the grandfather post it was suggested that it was a founder who was self taught. If I am the founder and I am self-taught, I have to build what I can into the early version and when I have enough money hire someone to build it better. Th
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by byoung2 12y ago
There's no need for a self-taught person to be caught short in an interview on not knowing what a linked list is, or the basics of algorithmic complexity. This site has a nice summary: http://bigocheatsheet.com/
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by byoung2 12y ago
But if you ever hope to scale up to support massive numbers of users without using up massive amounts of extraneous servers When the time comes that a self-taught engineer is scaling to these massive numbers, there should be money in the

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