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by imack 16y ago
I also go by the followers/follow > 1, but for N>500. If a friend of mine follows 100 people but only has 50 followers, I give them a pass. I'll flat out block someone if it's clearly a "social media expert" with follows close to
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by imack 16y ago
I'd suggest find something you want to make before the specific technology to use it. Think of something you want to make (web app, something for iphone, whatever) then figure out the best tools to make it. It will make the scope of "what
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by imack 16y ago
Thanks a lot for the feedback, I definitely get the sense that the forced comparison wasn't as great. I thought it was novel and had two big advantages: first, that it really mean you couldn't spam the voting mechanism to get your favorite
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by imack 16y ago
This makes sense given that MySQL is a property of Oracle now. SAP likely wants their own database in order to not be dependent.
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by imack 16y ago
I've often wondered how much influence one really gains doing the follow/unfollow method. I mean, I suspect most of these types are just "social media coaches" following other "social media coaches". I suspect most accounts that have roug
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by imack 16y ago
When I was wrapping up my Master's and various professors were trying to convince me to stay for a PhD (CS), I definitely sensed them having this point of view. I don't necessarily think that profs will see someone going to industry as a fa
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by imack 17y ago
You would see political gridlock over pension/social security programs cutting back on anything, health care becoming an entitlement program, a casual disregard for running up debts that future generations have to pay, and education costs d
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by imack 17y ago
Ditto Canada. In Vancouver after spending undergrad and master's at Waterloo.
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by imack 17y ago
I'd like to think that there isn't much overlap between hackers and pimps. Although this seems to be more akin to one of those "hot caddy" services than a sex-chat line.
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by imack 17y ago
For "c", I think it would be interesting to compare it against housing prices.
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by imack 17y ago
I don't think Vancouver is worse than Seattle in terms of "druggies and street crime", it's just more concentrated and visible. Given the warm climate and concentration of social services, it's a bit of a magnet for transients from all ove
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by imack 17y ago
As a Canadian citizen, part of me wants the "founders visa" to fail because it passing would remove a small advantage we have in a sea of disadvantages. RIM, for example, was not founded by someone born in Canada. I'm not exactly sure wha
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by imack 17y ago
My other favorite is looking for a technical person for whom they will "split the profits". Your local CraigsList "computer gigs" section will be filled with these. My favorite recent: "We are a couple of mompreneurs who are launching a b
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by imack 17y ago
I actually believe the two concepts are tied, and I get that sense from the article as well. A lot of people look for "passion" because it's something the believe they can detect and think it translates into more code and more hours worked
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by imack 17y ago
I've worked at a place where "passion" meant "ignore everything and only care about coding". It also meant "work more hours, just because". It was a software startup run by someone with a management consulting background (won't make that m
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by imack 17y ago
That was the part that really stuck with me too. The previous startup I worked for sold energy-use reduction software and had initial success selling to local governments who wanted to look "green" and help a local startup (outside the val
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by imack 17y ago
It actually sounds about right. It will include maillist messages as well as automated emails. Throw in the fact that mail will likely follow a power law distribution with a small number of users receiving the bulk of email and it seems p
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by imack 17y ago
To say nothing of the fact that laws are radically different in each jurisdiction. A correct answer for Palo Alto would say nothing about a legal situation in Toronto. While the site's term of use cover the "duty of care" stuff, I see a lo
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by imack 17y ago
While the fact that more people want to live in Vancouver than there are houses in Vancouver contributes to the cost, the city does place a premium on views of the north short mountains and it being a livable city to the detriment of increa
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by imack 17y ago
I chose Vancouver over moving back to the Valley. While I concede that it's no Silicon Valley, I enjoy my life outside of work so much more here than I did in Palo Alto. I'm also a Canadian citizen, so coming from Waterloo it was a lot ea
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by imack 17y ago
Has anyone on HN actually worked for a company that filters internet traffic? Would anyone on HN work at a company that filters http? I've always thought that if a company could effectively block internet traffic with a filter on a prox
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by imack 17y ago
I think half the people meeting with him giving him a "no-hire" should have been a big flag. One of the takeaways should be that if half you team doesn't want to hire someone, you should have the guts to tell the person they didn't get the
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by imack 17y ago
I thought the same until I was doing my time in silicon valley. I got made fun of pretty mercilessly at lunch meetings when I said "about". I figure Americans tend to say "Abowt". The only the that bothered me was that the British guy got
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by imack 17y ago
There are still private insurance companies that will cover things not normally covered by the provincial plans. Drugs would be another good example of something not universally covered (depending on drug). Drugs are, however, price contr
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by imack 17y ago
I vaguely remember in Malcolm Gladwell's most recent book that one of the best predictors of success in a business role on grads coming out of big name schools going to Wall Street was whether they were an athlete or not. That seems to jiv
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by imack 17y ago
A locally running version instance of issue tracking software. Use whatever you're comfortable with, but I go with JIRA; It costs $10 for a license for up to 10 people. It helps me keep track of side projects. For a long time I had troubl
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by imack 17y ago
"It approaches the problem of building a web framework in a unique way and doesn't even attempt to share terminology with Rails for things as basic as model-view-controller (Django uses the terms model-template-view instead). " I can't real
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by imack 17y ago
I'm 27 and used one at home for a long time. I really loved it and the only reason I stopped was that I got a hole in it. In general, it's not as comfortable as an Aeron, but it has a pretty high comfort to cost ratio. That being said, si
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by imack 17y ago
I was tossing around iPhone app ideas with some non-techie friends a while back. Everyone had a hyper-specific need for an app, but then I mentioned the Daily Show bit about the fart apps that was on a while ago and it seemed to have the m

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