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by davidhansen 15y ago
> Be having sex, and regularly. I know that hipsters and other socially capable people have invaded the technology industry in the last few years, but it should be noted that an entreaty to most technologists to "just have more sex" is
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by davidhansen 15y ago
This meme originates in the tech "hotspots" such as silicon valley, nyc, etc. Outside these insular communities, the job market for developers is not nearly as accomodative. If you live outside these areas, I am guessing you're comparing t
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by davidhansen 15y ago
But, what's always baffled me is the insistence on the Nouns as a central point of focus in our programs As opposed to what? LISP has lists, C has structs. These are both nouns, and they are represented as memory-backed data structures
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by davidhansen 15y ago
I don't know how old you are, but be prepared to battle this for much of your life. At 32, I would have hoped to excise the latent misogyny and distrust of former jocks that my adolescent experiences burned into me, but it has not abated.
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by davidhansen 15y ago
That's not the madness of the legislative process. You'll witness the madness play out when the legislators, having given the plebes their "voice", ignore every single one of them and proceed with graduating the bill to a full vote. Which
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by davidhansen 15y ago
The legislation covers blocking or redirection of DNS queries by zone. Last I checked, the HN hostname is inside the ycombinator.com DNS zone.
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by davidhansen 15y ago
Not just the independence aspect, but the hubris with which he complains about the most brilliant minds choosing to not work on, well, a social network site . It's 2011; we are traversing inflection points of development in solar energy, n
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by davidhansen 15y ago
We also use Java/Jetty with raw servlets, a custom DSL, and JDOM for the REST endpoints. As for performance, our customer-facing sites are quite a bit faster then a typical DB-coupled site because page objects are fetched from a local memor
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by davidhansen 15y ago
My guess would be the size of the collision space. Bank account numbers tend to be shorter, and depending on date of opening and institution, may have been sequentially assigned. It would be much more difficult to accidentally enter someo
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by davidhansen 15y ago
We primarily use Java on Jetty, utilizing Apache Wicket as a rendering engine, with custom( non-jquery/prototype )javascript. Our DBMS is PostgreSQL, but this is immaterial to the web applications, because they acquire their data and perfo
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by davidhansen 15y ago
Please correct me if I'm wrong about this, but last I knew, it is generally frowned upon for non-YC companies to use HN as a job-posting board ( with the single exception of the monthly "Hiring" threads )
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by davidhansen 15y ago
Not that I've seen. Most technical people I know are aware that they lack the requisite sales skills. What I have seen, however, is a moral judgement about the relative merits of what skills the founders bring to the table. Specifically
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by davidhansen 15y ago
I know each one of us has a circle of friends that they have cultivated to provide unconditional support so that when they need that its there. This is a fairly strange assumption. Not everyone makes friends easily.
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by davidhansen 15y ago
A little bit of a derailment from what this threat "ought to be" about, but... The reality of the situation right now in the startup world is that when people hear you are making x amount/month, you get 500 emails, but when the tables turn
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by davidhansen 15y ago
A rule generally accepted in the startup land is that you don't work on multiple ideas Interesting. I have not heard this before. As it stands, I have always worked on multiple projects for as long as I can remember. My current main co
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by davidhansen 15y ago
This may be easy to determine. There are people who consume resveratrol daily, over an entire lifetime. Imagine a controlled study comparing the health profiles of long-term alcoholics who consume similar amounts per day: Control group:
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by davidhansen 15y ago
Congratulations. As a side question, how did you go about getting TC to cover the launch?
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by davidhansen 15y ago
We're not based out of silicon valley, so I'm not sure if we qualify. That said: "Cofounder: set up shop in grandma's living room and lived on the couch. Me: quit my prior startup, endured business partner's rage, dumped girlfriend, moved
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E-commerce sales up 13% year over year(techcrunch.com)
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by davidhansen 15y ago
This does not address the issue of feature detection, but it's interesting nonetheless, inasmuch as well-trained human doctors are quite bad at probability, with the specific case of breast cancer diagnoses. The first 1/8th or so of Elieze
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by davidhansen 15y ago
We're currently running three different monitoring services: Pingdom - for global average responsiveness. Server Density - for server internals monitoring. Blamey & Stella - for public status reports. I highly recommend checking out Bla
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by davidhansen 15y ago
Yes. Here's a little bit about our experience with AngelList. We are quite profitable and are doing well growing from our existing cash flow. We are not seeking capital at this time. We have had profiles on AngelList for a while now, wit
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by davidhansen 15y ago
None that I know of. But if you find one, I advise you to bear in mind that in the United States, barter transactions are generally taxable: http://www.irs.gov/taxtopics/tc420.html
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by davidhansen 15y ago
This only one of the many task a radiologists must handle, including interaction with patient, which is the most important task. We are far away from replace that service with Ai. Well, yes, except that when an algorithm is doing all diag
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by davidhansen 15y ago
It's absolutely correct that technical ideas are worthless without effective implementation. That said, I strongly suspect that the current crop of startups, as a consequence of being overcapitalized by the current bubble, are also over-st
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by davidhansen 15y ago
We have built almost our entire warehouse/fulfillment infrastructure on a number of FitPC2 boxes, which also draw about 5-7W with solid-state disks.
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by davidhansen 15y ago
Excellent. We run an architecture somewhat similar to that described in the article, and a lot of the issues you raised we either dealt with up-front, or realized we needed to deal with them very soon after rolling it out. Regarding extra l
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by davidhansen 15y ago
My understanding of Amazon's internal SOA usage is that it is geared toward timeout-enforced service response guarantees to mitigate concerns about performance penalty. Specifically, a page render event triggers initiation of asynchronous
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by davidhansen 15y ago
I am not currently hiring. But when I am, I look for the following, in order: 1. Intelligence. This should be obvious. Smart people, even if they are not currently competent in a given technology, business domain, or platform, are capab
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by davidhansen 15y ago
This may not be a case of stupidity. It could very well be simple ignorance that a chicken pox vaccine exists. Until I saw this article, I was previously unaware that a vaccine for chicken pox was ever developed.

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