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Ask HN: Extramarket job hunting
3 points by fivedogit 11y ago|2 comments
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by fivedogit 11y ago
A YC founder once told me: "YC doesn't make a company and definitely won't fix a company... they invest in companies that are already working. That's their secret." Granted, these companies aren't soaring
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by fivedogit 11y ago
I was in Owensboro KY today for a funeral and the experience was bizarre. Beforehand, I was WiFi tethering into my office, trying to commit some code. All of a sudden, it went down. I'm a cheapass on Straight talk, so that was my first
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Historically huge Internet outage darkens much of the Midwest and Southeast(tennessean.com)
2 points by fivedogit 11y ago|1 comments
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by fivedogit 11y ago
All arguments aside, there's one fundamental way to answer whether companies' talent shortage complaints are "phony" or not: pay. If there really were a shortage, pay would be rising dramatically. Average engineers would
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by fivedogit 11y ago
The first thing that came to mind when I read this headline was Valve's famous structureless work environment. If there's no structure, who handles all the grunt work noboday wants to do... like security? Even if somebody is expli
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by fivedogit 11y ago
But sunlight reflecting off a random planet (including ours) is not useful. Sure, you can detect it, but it doesn't say anything about whether the planet has intelligent life or not. It would just be noise in the cosmos, no signal. I&#
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by fivedogit 11y ago
The earth is getting louder. 150 years ago, we'd have had almost zero light pollution. Nowadays you can't even see stars when you go outside. Not only are there more lights, we are getting more efficient at producing energy to pow
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by fivedogit 11y ago
This is great. It's the natural evolution of going earlier and earlier into lifecycle of a startup (or even idea). As a next move, I'd like to see them go "pre-team" and put talented individuals with complimentary skill
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by fivedogit 11y ago
For the love of God, someone create a World of Warcraft where the quests are educational. Instead of "go kill 8 green dragons" the questiver says "Mata a 8 dragones verdes". The immersion and addiction to progression (i.
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by fivedogit 11y ago
For me recently, it's constant because I'm working with Spring Boot and ExtJS for the first time. So I'd say how often you're doing web searches is a function of your familiarity with the techs you're using.
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by fivedogit 11y ago
"Please lead with the location of the position..."
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by fivedogit 11y ago
Obviously this is just one vague, anonymous data point, but I deleted (not just deactivated) my FB account and I feel like a weight has been lifted from me. I don't have to look at a falsely curated feed of how great everyone else is d
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by fivedogit 11y ago
Smart analysis. I object to your classification of Twitter, though. I was originally a Twitter skeptic, but the truth is, they've built a central hub where Snoop Dogg, the Pope, POTUS and @pmarca all converse. Very powerful. They need
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by fivedogit 11y ago
That sounds like a guy who regrets some investment decisions, wants to sell, but can't.
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by fivedogit 11y ago
Upvote for the term "tech crunch"
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by fivedogit 11y ago
> A large number of small and new VC funds will get wiped out. This time, the difference is, its the professional players that get hit (VC's, institutional investors, hedge funds etc). This is what I'm getting at. Is that exten
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Ask HN: If we are in a VC bubble, how would the bust play out?
52 points by fivedogit 11y ago|66 comments
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by fivedogit 11y ago
My first thought, here, was "Well what about the speed of light? Wouldn't that cause satellite internet service to suck, just like it does now? And isn't that why news correspondents are always delayed?" But then I did t
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Who are the best “quiet” angels and VCs?
6 points by fivedogit 11y ago|2 comments
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by fivedogit 11y ago
Valve... pressure... I see what you did there.
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by fivedogit 12y ago
Wrong. Tesla is a distribution company. Cars and batteries are commodities, more or less. Corporations are now extremely efficient at copying and commoditizing their competitors' innovations - just look at how fast the android ecosys
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by fivedogit 12y ago
Found a mistake near the bottom: Justin.tv is either dead or acquired, however you want to interpret the change into Twitch.
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by fivedogit 12y ago
Some of these Google/Amazon/Apple "Introducing Product X..." stories are starting to strike me as intellectually devoid, creeping into "free advertising" territory. This particular story is about a Google servi
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by fivedogit 12y ago
Media outlets have resorted to insane headlines you won't believe are exaggerated for the same reason that record companies (and their pop stars like Lady Gaga, Nikki Minaj and Katy Perry) are constantly trying to out-costume and out
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by fivedogit 12y ago
Slightly OT: CDNs basically perform a MITM to do what they do. The destination site's certificate (www.destination.com) is deployed throughout the CDN's servers and when DNS lookups are performed, the end user is directed to the
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by fivedogit 12y ago
Haha. It's like stabbing someone 44 times and getting 44 counts of attempted murder.
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by fivedogit 12y ago
I just went through a long period of job hunting (thankfully now employed) and this post rings 100% true, especially the part about being rejected for inexplicable reasons. The "gotcha" question about Fourier transforms that you l
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by fivedogit 12y ago
Well you're right that it's not a silver bullet, but it does have some benefit. At least I know no software running within or on top of the OS is reading/stealing my info.
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by fivedogit 12y ago
This is why I do absolutely nothing on a new phone until it's been unlocked, rooted, wiped and Cyanogenmod-ed.

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