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by go1979 11y ago
After the Glass fiasco, I'll be thinking twice before buying/taking Google's variant of FUD seriously. That was a waste of over 1.5K for me. Too bad there is no accountability (oh wait ... all the Google fans would just say I
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by go1979 11y ago
I was greeted with a "can't play this video in your country" error (in Canada). The irony ...
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by go1979 11y ago
Naive question ... is the key difference between the Arduino,RPi,etc. and your vanilla laptop or PC with respect to physical computing that the first class of devices has a ADC and pins for hooking up sensors? Does that first class of devic
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by go1979 11y ago
Canadian real estate prices are a case in point. Crazy/greedy real estate brokers egg buyers on to take ever larger mortgages at current low rates. Buying a starter home should not take 30 years to pay off for the average buyer.
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by go1979 12y ago
I'm not an expert ... I dabbled a bit in Angular and found it really confusing and hard to debug. React worked mostly as expected. There were some gotchas but I managed to get through them in a few days. I just wish we had a non-prolif
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by go1979 12y ago
Agreed on the "lack of declared types" thing. While I'm exceptionally fast writing new Python code, reading other people's Python code is a different story - particularly, if they are new to Python. While there are a lot
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by go1979 12y ago
I regret the PhD. To be precise, grad school won't just not make you richer, it will make you poorer. Forgetting about the money bit (ha!), lets talk pure knowledge. I learned a lot more on the job than I did in school. In my specific
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by go1979 12y ago
What does YC think of founders who are working on a project on the side (of their job), wanting to turn it into a startup? I presume there are lots of people who have day jobs to pay the bills before they can get some initial funding.
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Ask HN: Is technical recruiting broken?
8 points by go1979 12y ago|10 comments
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by go1979 12y ago
Was your degree in CS? Curious how thing turned out for you in industry? Did you ever teach courses on the side? Did you ever consider or dip your foot into entrepreneurship?
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by go1979 12y ago
I'm a bit confused about the sign up. Do you just login at 1pm PT and everyone (lol) gets in?
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by go1979 12y ago
I see some good advice on this thread so a followup question. I'm about to quit my job with the aim of starting up my own company. I don't have a lot of non-tech contacts - i.e. potential customers and angel investors. That is my
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by go1979 12y ago
Totally agree on your comment on agile. It is a blight on our profession. I was having beers with an old friend from undergrad yesterday - our career paths have taken us very different places. What's common is that both of our employer
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by go1979 12y ago
I like his office setup. Dual monitors, raised base for monitors, plexo? lamp, white board, real keyboard.
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by go1979 12y ago
I'm a fan of weave. Is remote a possibility? North America - east coast - short hop across the pond, not so bad tz difference, etc.