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631.
by hugs 12y ago
As a (Southern) Californian who moved to Chicago many years ago, I feel the same away about missing the mountains. (For trail running, not biking, though). If I ever move back to CA, it'll be to Marin County so I can be near all those
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by hugs 12y ago
Are naked domains generally considered "something you shouldn't do" these days?
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Inventables targets makers, startups with unveiling of the X-Carve(chicagotribune.com)
1 points by hugs 12y ago|0 comments
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Why We're Missing Our Best Chance for Gender Parity(devmynd.com)
17 points by hugs 12y ago|7 comments
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by hugs 12y ago
In general, don't worry (too much) about tests in the beginning of a project until it's likely you'll have more than one user (aka yourself) and/or paying customers. If you have neither users nor customers, don't fe
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by hugs 12y ago
Please write a post about financial security as a pre-req to doing a startup. I advise having at least a year's worth of living expenses saved. Because you don't want to be worried at all in the beginning about how you're go
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by hugs 12y ago
Here are a few of the problems people had that Apple and Microsoft solved: 1) Maintaining a general ledger for your business (and all the calculations) by hand & on paper was tedious and labor intensive. VisiCalc was the first "kil
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by hugs 12y ago
Yup, that's a fine suggestion, too. I used to do all my prototyping with Lego Technic pieces... Years later, when I needed parts that Lego didn't make (like for connecting servos or Arduino), I used Lego dimensions to create my ow
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by hugs 12y ago
There are three parts to learn -- the electronics (handled by an Arduino and a few servos), the mechanics (for this design, it's not too complicated -- you could make do with popsicle sticks and some screws if you had to), and the soft
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by hugs 12y ago
1) Stop reading HN. 2) Work your ass off for the next 3 days. You can do it. And for the next 3 days, have as many lunch and dinners with your team as you can -- meals with your team during a crunch time are a great morale booster. Also, do
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by hugs 12y ago
There is another option: work for a salary, live frugally, and stockpile savings. Then later (maybe 5-10 years later), work on the tech you really want to work on that has no obvious & immediate business need. The upside is that because
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by hugs 12y ago
I can think of one -- As a birthday present a while back, my kids received a board game called Forbidden Island -- where all the players have to work together to escape the island. During the game, the island is sinking and if they don&#x27
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by hugs 12y ago
:-) I could have also mentioned that this particular co-worker had influence over recruiting and office policies...
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by hugs 12y ago
Of course a 90 minute commute is a horrible idea. So why would they have to drive? Why couldn't they work from home? If code is checked into GitHub and deployed to cloud servers, why are we requiring new hires to work in the SF office
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by hugs 12y ago
Sorry, I should have connected the dots to the parent comment. It means he wasn't interested in recruiting new hires from San Jose or anywhere else that wasn't a short commute into the city... unless of course, they agreed to move
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by hugs 12y ago
I once had a co-worker (who lives inside the San Francisco city limits) say: "San Jose? Why would I ever drive that far south?! As for as I'm concerned, San Jose is Southern California." He was serious.
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How to Game Silicon Valley’s System(wired.com)
68 points by hugs 12y ago|35 comments
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An Update on Indie.vc(bryce.vc)
4 points by hugs 12y ago|0 comments
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by hugs 12y ago
To further prove your point, the company was actually started in 1999.
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by hugs 12y ago
The conventional wisdom is that, in general, VCs join the boards of the companies they invest heavily in. Which means they'll have to travel to attend a monthly board meeting. And it's easier to only invest in companies where they
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by hugs 12y ago
As they say: It's not how much you make, it's how much you keep.
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by hugs 12y ago
Someone once told me: "3D printers are not for making what you can buy at Walmart. They're for making what you can't buy at Walmart."
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by hugs 12y ago
When I need to make 10,000 cheap and fast, yes, I'll most likely be making a pilgrimage to Shenzen. Totally agree with your point. But not every startup (especially low-volume, high-price, high-touch b2b) needs to focus at the start on
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by hugs 12y ago
Yes. Of course, I wish YC would take my advice, too! ;)
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by hugs 12y ago
I make robots in Chicago and sell them on Tindie. My top two competitors are in Finland and Japan. Yes, I hear Shenzhen is crazy awesome, but try not to let location dominate your world view of what is easy or difficult. Making a good hardw
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The Inner Ring (1944)(lewissociety.org)
42 points by hugs 12y ago|6 comments
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by hugs 12y ago
This article reminds me why I don't like working in a busy office. For me, it's very hard to get into divergent thinking mode with other people around.
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by hugs 12y ago
> consider a hobbyist front end to Digi-Key and Mouser Adafruit and SparkFun are that. SparkFun even explicitly mentions the Digikey part for boring stuff like capacitors. ( https://www.sparkfun.com/products/8375 )
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by hugs 12y ago
I'm glad he specifically mentioned the cost of housing. This is the main reason I've moved away from the Bay Area and currently live in Chicago (Oak Park, just west of the city). ($300-400K gets you a nice 3BR/2Bath single-fa
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by hugs 12y ago
My guess is that Intel doesn't want a generation of hackers (some of which will go on to create "The Next Big Thing") getting used to using competitors' chips... e.g. Arduino (Atmel), Raspberry Pi (Broadcom), and BeagleB

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