galistoca

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by galistoca 10y ago
I don't think this site will make me a company.
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by galistoca 10y ago
Just because something "exists" doesn't mean it's a good thing. Try to use silence instead of those ummms. You'll notice you'll get much more attention when you're talking. Silence introduces tension to co
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by galistoca 10y ago
1. A lot of successful companies started out with super ghetto technology--even the ones that are famous for being very high-tech in the current days. 2. Nobody knows what company will succeed, including the VCs and you and me. 3. It is arr
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by galistoca 10y ago
Not really a "platform". It's just charts and graphs from QZ.
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Ask HN: Submitting a “Show HN” during weekends, good or bad?
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by galistoca 10y ago
You're making a lot of assumptions. Just because someone doesn't code on a daily basis doesn't mean that person doesn't know about tech. If I were their LP, I would be worried if the VCs were coding. Lastly, being good a
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by galistoca 10y ago
Looking at it from another direction, maybe it's because that's why they're good at dealing with founders and LPs? The point is, everyone has biases, and probably one bias results in another. You can't just say "The
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by galistoca 10y ago
and what does using microsoft office, facebook, twitter, and medium have to do with not understanding bleeding-edge technology?
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by galistoca 10y ago
I deleted the personal attack statements, sorry about that.
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by galistoca 10y ago
Good to hear you agree.
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by galistoca 10y ago
Like sveng1826 mentioned, a lot of statements have absolutely no logical ground and they're just condescending remarks telling people what they should do. Of course it would be nice if companies focused on diversity, and I think large
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by galistoca 10y ago
Perfect example of https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ad_hominem
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by galistoca 10y ago
Startup's job is not to accommodate "young people's career choices". If you spend 25% of your time thinking about how to make your company more diverse when you're a 5 people company instead of thinking about your c
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by galistoca 10y ago
This is the most meta post I've ever seen in a while. Basically this guy is writing about why "this is the best time to become a writer" and uses an example of another guy who became successful because he wrote about "ho
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by galistoca 10y ago
"little looking". Yeah you looked. There's a huge difference between 0% and 1%. I'm saying it's a nice to have feature but that doesn't make you ditch one for another--it's just an incremental innovation.
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by galistoca 10y ago
If you trace this thread all the way back to its root, the guy said having tactile feedback will solve the problem of not being able to type without looking, and I said I have tried and it doesn't. Of course there are many ways tactile
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by galistoca 10y ago
You're just re-iterating your initial comment. I said it's bad to hire mediocre talent in any circumstances. You said something that doesn't make sense as a response to my comment.
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by galistoca 10y ago
Like you said, you still need look at the screen to see if you're typing in correctly. I am not sure if you read my original comment, but this is one thing I learned while experimenting that's obvious in hindsight. On your compute
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by galistoca 10y ago
What you say doesn't change anything significantly, which means it doesn't change the way we type on mobile phones--you still need to look at the screen. Also it's a bit of a stretch thinking because it works on a game contro
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by galistoca 10y ago
So what's your point? I commented because you said hiring average people is ok, but now you're saying average people don't want to work with hardworking brilliant people so it would be easier. Make up your mind man.
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by galistoca 10y ago
I'm guessing you downvoted me because you disagree with my point of view. I'll just tell you this: I have been thinking a lot about the stuff you talk about here and even prototyped a hardware device to try out the idea. I had the
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by galistoca 10y ago
That sounds like emulating for the sake of emulating. I'm sure even you would hate it if you actually saw it in production. Typing on keyboard is shitty as it is. By making it force touch, it will be much slower to finish a sentence. W
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by galistoca 10y ago
It is NOT worth hiring a few average people just for one brilliant person. First of all "brilliant" person is overrated, unless we're talking about hiring someone at a CTO level. One could be brilliant yet a perfect disaster
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by galistoca 10y ago
I don't know, to me it just sounds like a gimmicky way to get more people to apply. That's what recruiters do. They try to get as many people to apply as possible, and then filter the hell out of them. So just because a recruiter
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by galistoca 10y ago
It's interesting comment coming from the moderator. I know what you mean, but it is "Hacker News" after all. That's why when sometimes people see irrelevant posts they say "why the hell is this on the front page o
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by galistoca 10y ago
Wow that's a lot of code delegacy there: scala => scala.js => node.js => electron => desktop.
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by galistoca 10y ago
I think it's because HN has a single theme. Like you said there are many annoying cases on HN too. Let's say your chance of coming across one is 1%. On Reddit you have many of these communities, so the chance of coming across anno
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by galistoca 10y ago
If you are asking "where are these other ones" you probably need to do some market research. There are many many many others that are much more "exactly the same" as this than yours. You can start here: https:/&#x2
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by galistoca 10y ago
The reason this "LTV" notion doesn't work is because "Lifetime" doesn't mean anything if your own "lifetime" depends on customer lifetime. These companies calculate "LTV"s based on the assum
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by galistoca 10y ago
Have you ever thought about the possibility that NYT wrote about it because it's one of the most popular apps nowadays? Snapchat UI used to be super ghetto too. When you provide something that resonates with people, nothing else matter

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