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by fivedogit 12y ago
I landed 2 solutions (sales) engineering jobs in NYC with the help of 2 different 3rd party recruiters and they were excellent. No hoops, no extra BS. They really helped me zero in on the positions that fit with my goals and experience, so
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by fivedogit 12y ago
I like the metaphor and style, but I think he left some good parts out. Such as (and yes I was asked these): - The ridiculously broad yes or no honor question (e.g. "So are you familiar with data structures and design patterns?”) - The
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by fivedogit 12y ago
I wonder if this is an automated pricing battle, similar to the $23.7 million dollar book about bugs on Amazon. http://www.cnn.com/2011/TECH/web/04/25/amazon.price.algorith...
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by fivedogit 12y ago
We're our own worst enemies. Software developers have this sort of circular firing squad where nobody wants to be the first to keep their source closed and try to charge for it. Because then you're just "greedy" and not
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by fivedogit 12y ago
OP here. Personally, I came to believe that the expected payout of entrepreneurship is not anywhere near break even. Just like a roulette wheel is expected to pay out .97 for every dollar over that long haul (.03 house cut), accounting for
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Ask HN: You were and entrepreneur and now you're not. Why?
6 points by fivedogit 12y ago|6 comments
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by fivedogit 12y ago
I was just about to post this link as well. Glad someone else had the same thought. Cracked, while an absurd humor site on the surface, is one of the most reliable resources of new-perspective intellectual stimulation on the web, IMO.
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by fivedogit 12y ago
This post is really surprising to me. I've always thought of Mr. Feld as the giving, caring mentor type -- the near-lone exception to the rule in VC land. I've even heard him speak twice (in Nowheresville, USA) and he was very pol
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by fivedogit 12y ago
Akamai has several different networks, one for streaming media, one for regular http, and one for https. They also have an S3-like storage system and a DNS service. Some customers are configured with several of these offerings at once, so i
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Everything you ever wanted to know about hexagonal grids(redblobgames.com)
462 points by fivedogit 12y ago|39 comments
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Founder of Fark.com Is Running for Governor of KY(techdirt.com)
1 points by fivedogit 12y ago|0 comments
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by fivedogit 12y ago
I appreciate the thoughtful response and I don't really disagree with you on any of this. In fact, if I were interviewing for positions, I'm not sure I'd handle it any other way -- it's human nature to choose the "s
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by fivedogit 12y ago
This same URL was submitted an hour earlier and got 4 upvotes. This one has 222 as I write this. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8923016 Timing is everything, I guess.
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by fivedogit 12y ago
Note: I originally posted this reply about 2 hours ago and then deleted it. But actually, I think it's worth leaving up. I really respect Joel Spolsky's accomplishments (I've mentioned him recently in my own comments), but
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by fivedogit 12y ago
This is called punctuated equilibrium. Evolution happens in fits and starts after periods of relative non-change. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Punctuated_equilibrium
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by fivedogit 12y ago
Yes and it's going mainstream. Starting a company is so cheap and fast now that it doesn't even take a team of 2 or 3 anymore. A single person can do it. There are so many benefits to solo-founding, it's not even funny. Witho
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by fivedogit 12y ago
This is true. I think what we saw was an accelerator bandwagon. It was truly a revolutionary mechanism in the VC world and everybody under the sun wanted in on the action... but there were too many and hardly any of them could replicate the
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by fivedogit 12y ago
I accept your challenge. My latest project is a chrome extension for Hacker News. Let me know what you think. http://hackbook.club http://github.com/fivedogit/hackbook-chromex http://github.com&#
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by fivedogit 12y ago
Here we go again on the immigration thing. Very disappointing. It's as simple as this: If you increase supply to meet a demand, then prices will go down. That benefits businesses and, in turn, VCs. Two things, specifically, irritate me
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by fivedogit 12y ago
This is not surprising and this hit-job of an article implies it has something to do with the quality of Lollipop rather than the real reason: When Google first released Android, it was a major underdog to iOS. As part of the negotiations t
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by fivedogit 12y ago
Wow. Glowing praise!
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by fivedogit 12y ago
Joel Spolsky comes to mind. Fog Creek, StackExchange and Trello. I'd be interested in this list, too. Seems like a lot of adoration is heaped on people who have one big score and then can't (or don't try to) replicate it. To
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Show HN: Hackbook – Follow HN users, get notifications and view deleted comments(hackbook.club)
17 points by fivedogit 12y ago|4 comments
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by fivedogit 12y ago
I really like this idea. There is no "right" way to start a business and, in fact, there are many right ways. It all depends on what you're starting and what you need to get to the end goal. More importantly, I'm hoping
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by fivedogit 12y ago
IMO, life is not about having a rigid "plan" and executing towards it, it's about having a general direction, being flexible and making the most of the opportunities that come your way. Not only is the latter easier to naviga
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by fivedogit 12y ago
I was once turned down for a coding job based on stylistic complaints with my code, one of which was that I used snake_casing instead of the (apparently preferred) camelCasing in Java. Since then I've resolved myself to the fact that i
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by fivedogit 12y ago
I've tried the TV method but never really felt like it worked. In contrast, after a session or two with Rosetta Stone, I'd walk away with some basic Spanish or Arabic kicking around in my head. It's really pretty amazing, but
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by fivedogit 12y ago
Unfortunately, the game would need to be new, at least in terms of the story/quest content. Think about how Rosetta Stone works. The clue is "gato" and you click the picture of a dog from 4 choices. The program gives you a bi
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by fivedogit 12y ago
I've said this before on HN, but it's worth repeating. I want a Warcraft-style MMO that immerses me in a foreign language. Instead of "Go kill 8 dragons" the questgiver tells me to "Mata a 8 dragones verdes" an
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by fivedogit 12y ago
I find the desire that anyone would be this obsessively preoccupied with the desire to live either forever or an extraordinarily long time unsettling, but what I don't get is why stop at 120 years? The scientific signs pointing to the

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