cenhyperion

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by cenhyperion 12y ago
16 year old here, I've got a few thoughts on this from being in the middle of it. Background: I live in a moderately sized urban center (Austin). First, some anecdotal data: roughly half my friends have no plans to even get a license b
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by cenhyperion 12y ago
Employed 16 year old here who has intentionally chosen not to buy a car. My job is three miles away, it's healthier to walk, and my other work is all remote. I'm using the money I could have spent buying/maintaining a car to
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by cenhyperion 12y ago
My main question would be salary. You really can't reasonably expect your employer to pay you the same salary as someone working more than twice the hours. Are you comfortable making less than half the salary of a programmer working 40
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by cenhyperion 12y ago
Can vet zach as an incredibly talented dev.
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by cenhyperion 12y ago
Mattermark wasn't founded by a guy, it was founded by Danielle Morrill, who also founded YC-backed referly
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by cenhyperion 12y ago
I'd gladly work an 11 hour day at a company that provided food if two of those hours were meals (lunch and dinner) and another hour was time spent in the gym/playing games. That's 8 hours of work, and three hours of free recr
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by cenhyperion 12y ago
I hate to see DRM in HTML, but I'd much rather have DRM HTML5 video from netflix than Silverlight or Flash. For a company like Netflix it isn't non-DRM HTML5 vs DRM HTML5, it's DRM HTML5 or Flash/Silverlight/other p
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by cenhyperion 12y ago
> Move to NYC or SF Factor in cost of living and you're really not making much more.
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by cenhyperion 12y ago
Average at Goldman Sachs is $400k iirc.
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by cenhyperion 12y ago
Sorry, this was overly harsh on my part.
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by cenhyperion 12y ago
Of course if you'd looked at the web page you'd see that you can do exactly the same here. https://github.com/brunophilipe/Cakebrew/releases/tag/v1.0.2
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by cenhyperion 12y ago
I know ".ngo" is planning on being released at some point this year and will (supposedly) only be available to registered NGOs
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by cenhyperion 13y ago
"The intelligence was as clear as any intelligence I've ever seen and I've been in this business a long time. ... When you had intelligence assessments that said Saddam Hussein has reconstituted his biological and chemical we
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by cenhyperion 13y ago
Other side: why does everything need to be watered down, emotionless, PR speak?
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by cenhyperion 13y ago
>If founders from elsewhere want to pay taxes and create jobs in the US, we should let them. Spot on. >This is just a start. We are also in need of broad-based immigration reform, and I believe more immigrants will help our country. T
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by cenhyperion 13y ago
Does this have to do with the size of the country? 2 day shipments have to be easier to do within Italy than the continental United States.
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by cenhyperion 13y ago
I stopped pirating music the day I got spotify premium, if that's worth anything to this discussion.
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by cenhyperion 13y ago
I can back Krish up as a talented dev.
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by cenhyperion 13y ago
Net neutrality is dead. The FCC has failed us.
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by cenhyperion 13y ago
You're aware Jan, the CEO and other founder, is a Ukrainian immigrant, right?
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by cenhyperion 13y ago
> 2) NetFlix, Amazon Prime et al will become really popular as a result of all the customers saying "FU ComcastWarner" Not when they're direct competitors to Comcast, Comcast is the only ISP for most people, and Comcast ca
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by cenhyperion 13y ago
How could this not be considered a monopoly over the majority of the US?
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by cenhyperion 13y ago
It makes it all at once, and that's the issue.
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by cenhyperion 13y ago
For code projects that are between me and a couple of other devs, none of whom are infrastructure security experts, I trust a company like Github a lot more than one of us trying to hack something together on a server.
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by cenhyperion 13y ago
I've found #web to be slightly toxic.
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by cenhyperion 13y ago
> Technology improves over time Not so much in battery tech. It's really holding back a lot of hardware innovation on computers and also holding back the viability of EVs for many consumers.
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by cenhyperion 13y ago
Nope, not just you. I consider it digital hoarding in a lot of ways. I keep a lot of emails around as they're actually useful to reference at later times and easily searched and archived. But IM, Twitter, IRC, Facebook, SMS, etc I trea
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by cenhyperion 13y ago
>especially with a (less than insane) commute Worth noting that this is quickly going away. Traffic is projected to get far, far worse over the next few years at current growth rates and public transit is still very disappointing in comp
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by cenhyperion 13y ago
> When I feel that the oncoming vehicle's lights are too bright, they get my high beams, which stay on them, despite their frantic high beam flashing. If more people did this, perhaps these people would switch back to their OEM ligh
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by cenhyperion 13y ago
I'm also interested in what the infrastructure of HN looks like. One of the tweets via @HNStatus seemed to imply that the site runs off of one application server.

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