ixmatus

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by ixmatus 13y ago
Thanks for the input, I also corrected attribution of the script, thanks for pointing that out :)
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by ixmatus 13y ago
Huh, could you elaborate? I found the script written by someone else but decided to run it through a beautifier; you're right that no indentation makes it difficult to understand.
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by ixmatus 13y ago
There is no offense, I just think it's important to characterize accurately and you can only do that with good data - I'm providing one (I think) good data point on the accelerator / incubator experience that I've had. I
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by ixmatus 13y ago
Your interpretation, I think, is off. The mentors I met ranged from intellectually superior, experientially superior (billion dollar companies under their belt, > 1 company), financially superior, operationally superior (in ability to sp
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by ixmatus 13y ago
Early stage, more than just meetings distract you. Hiring developers so you can expand is distracting, fundraising and being in the loop with your CEO is distracting, family and friends are distracting, coffee with brilliant and experienced
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by ixmatus 13y ago
You tend to agree from experience? As in you've been through YC, Techstars, 500, etc...?
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by ixmatus 13y ago
You're casting a really wide net, which is not accurate. I will only speak to my own experience, but Techstars is not what you're talking about and of the friends that went through YC and 500, they seem to say similar things (that
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by ixmatus 13y ago
I would exclude Techstars too, I went through the Austin program and it was also one of the best things I ever did. I learned so much. TS does have a slightly different focus than YC - first month they tell you to not build a whole lot of s
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by ixmatus 13y ago
Definitely one of the better articles I've read on productivity that can be applied in many more areas than just programming. I've found my own sense of entitlement and superiority inflated then promptly deflated by smarter and mo
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by ixmatus 13y ago
It's been slower for me, personally. I write half the tests in Haskell than I had to in Python which means less updating of tests as requirements change. It won't feel slow to you until you've written productive (beyond begin
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by ixmatus 13y ago
Not only true but faster because less time spent debugging.
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by ixmatus 13y ago
Not until I see a security audit will I believe any exchange is secure. I believed Mt. Gox had "resolved" the basic issue of password hashing back when they were compromised until I found out they were using a home-grown "run
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by ixmatus 13y ago
That size of an emergency fund is worth having not just for dips in work but also for relocation costs (if he ever wants to move), breaks from work to focus on new skills / further education, or even big emergencies. All of these thing
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by ixmatus 13y ago
It's called an emergency fund for a reason - as a freelancer / consultant you should be putting away even more than the average worker because your income may swing like that. For you, I would keep 6 months of living expenses in a
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by ixmatus 13y ago
Stop leaving money in the exchange (they aren't a bank)! That's what your wallet is for!
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by ixmatus 13y ago
You should study Haskell types. Debugging anything in Haskell without a basic understanding of the type system is daunting . Additionally, Yesod relies heavily on quasiquoting and template haskell which can lead to some very cryptic code a
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by ixmatus 13y ago
C-b [ + C-r <string> is pretty awesome when you know what you're looking for in the search history... Though I definitely use wheel scrolling when I don't remember exactly what I'm looking for or looking at log output.
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by ixmatus 13y ago
It is reliable ! Growing pains happen. Downtime happens. Expecting five nines from a little startup, even when it's out of beta, is silly! I've built three companies now and it is really hard ! Balancing up-time, product develop
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by ixmatus 13y ago
This criticism is silly - they are a startup and you should know what you were getting yourself into. Plus, credit cards in the event it's down? I myself never experienced downtime and they've only gotten more reliable, better cus
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by ixmatus 13y ago
Frost's UI/UX is no where near Simple's, IMHO. My girlfriend was using Frost for a long time, saw me using Simple, and wanted to switch over immediately - super happy since. Since then every mobile banking app I've had t
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by ixmatus 13y ago
It's not my company - I'm just a fan of them. I believe they use HBase and Postgres underneath.
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Time series database as a service(tempo-db.com)
7 points by ixmatus 13y ago|2 comments
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by ixmatus 13y ago
Convertible or priced (we did a convertible note). The 100k is optional. It was for us at least.
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by ixmatus 13y ago
Right, but the burden is on the programmer to ensure those types. If the stream composition is of simple things, like: cat some.txt | sort | uniq > yay.txt Then it isn't a problem - it's obvious and simple, but I think
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by ixmatus 13y ago
I don't know node very well and only Javascript minimally but I understand what streaming I/O is and have used generators / iteratees for a long time in many languages. I understand the benefits and that's why Pipes in H
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by ixmatus 13y ago
Isn't it more accurately a byte stream (I don't know, which is why I'm asking)?
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by ixmatus 13y ago
Forgive me for being "That Guy" but I really think Javascript is ill-suited for this paradigm! Streams, honestly, are hard to keep straight when the program gets big without a stronger type system. IMHO. Some really sharp people h
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by ixmatus 13y ago
Haskell has been used to model financial contracts by a few firms with an eye towards type-level correctness guaranteed by the compiler (that you cannot get with "mundane" type systems found in C++ / C / Java / etc.
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by ixmatus 13y ago
You'll find that with more than just PHP :( I'm seeing it with Ruby and JS / Node too. Some developers are reasonable and great people but there's a subsection that think {Ruby, Python, PHP, JS} are the bees knees. I use
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by ixmatus 13y ago
Awesome, I definitely like this concept a lot and the other commenter's reply about a mailing list would go very well with this concept.

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