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by jayp 15y ago
Slide 38 says: "No custom statuses. This one decision defines Sifter." What does "No custom statuses" mean? Can you please elaborate? PS: Thanks for sharing. Great slide deck.
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by jayp 15y ago
This behavior is unconscionable when there is such an obviously trivial technical solution to this problem. Here is my quick and dirty technical solution. (1) Place a restriction: only allow users who have uploaded a given file to download
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by jayp 16y ago
I never saw a link to Sebastian's blog in your original article. So, yes, maybe I missed it. However, it was not "inspired". It was a verbatim copy without any indication of it being so. I am glad you edited the article to explicitly give
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by jayp 16y ago
Part of your blog is a verbatim duplicate of http://www.sebastianmarshall.com/we-dont-get-out-of-bed-for-... For someone who values original ideas highly, this is a theft of the highest order. Wouldn't you agree?
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by jayp 16y ago
As you said, they are likely to be only cut off if they meet "success". If that happens, they will have leverage. Any way, at this point, they must have their blinders on. If they got preoccupied with figuring out solutions to tentative ris
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by jayp 16y ago
And yeah, these are paid. One of the positions we are looking for is a Cloud Operations Engineer Intern. This position comes with loads of responsibilities. So please pass on the word to any students looking for impactful work this summer.
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by jayp 16y ago
Please feel free to ask me any questions that you may have.
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by jayp 16y ago
Why only 500? Why not 5000? Or even 50,000 accelerators? After all, as the author simply claims that, "it depends" if 500 accelerators can actually succeed. And if we are going bet, let's bet high. No point playing Roulette and betting on b
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by jayp 16y ago
I am glad you found the comments helpful. I think your response here helps develop the position more clearly. Nevertheless, I think you bring out a good point yourself, "HN is a more technical crowd", and as such, another reason for a poor
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by jayp 16y ago
Sure, every startup needs users. However, Carwoo is a marketplace (for buying and selling cars), which differentiates it from other consumer-facing web startups. A web-based marketplace is scalable only if it reaches a critical mass. Withou
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by jayp 16y ago
Many reasons you got only luke warm response: (1) Comments were disabled in the original post (for reference, see original post here: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1945582. ) Disabling comments for job posts is not ideal in an open c
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by jayp 16y ago
rtm and trevor blackwell have other fulltime commitments.
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by jayp 16y ago
I think the euphemism is the other way around to: (1) remain legal, and (b) not sound discriminatory.
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by jayp 16y ago
Thought I had put the location. Fixed. Thanks.
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by jayp 16y ago
Pattern Insight http://patterninsight.com/about/careers.php Current Openings: "Software Engineer (Systems)", "Software Engineer (Applications)", "Lead QA Engineer", "Technical Sales and Support Lead" All openings based out of Mountain Vie
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by jayp 16y ago
if you don't mind, why are you limiting to US citizens?
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by jayp 16y ago
I do. At many/most well-known US research universities, a tenure-track position in Engineering (and possibly, Sciences too) is up for evaluation after six years from start of hire. The exact term may vary from institute to institute, but is
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by jayp 16y ago
Cliff vesting is deferred compensation . Your concern about an ethical paradox is invalid.
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by jayp 16y ago
What does "our hackday" mean?
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by jayp 17y ago
no. by end of 2010 (tentative).
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by jayp 17y ago
Bahrain may have similar legal foundations as Qatar, but those are definitely two different countries. Someone standing up on a pedestal should probably know that.
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by jayp 17y ago
But this time it is mandatory.
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by jayp 18y ago
I went to grad school first. Now, time for a startup. ;-) Actually, my parents have been very supportive of whatever I want to do. I think yours will be too -- just speak from your heart. Try to convince them how you feel about things. Most
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by jayp 18y ago
100% effective uptime, with 99.9..% actual downtime.
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by jayp 18y ago
s/down/up/
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by jayp 18y ago
WTF, why am I getting moderated down? To be clear: I was referring to the "fact" that real estate prices are not being affected in Ahmedabad due to a car plant being built in a location about 50km away from the city. That is simply not true
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by jayp 18y ago
your claim about real estate prices is surely in jest.
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by jayp 18y ago
Here is a list of papers from the "Advanced Distributed Systems" course at UIUC: http://www.cs.uiuc.edu/class/sp09/cs525/sched.htm Full disclosure: my advisor teaches this class.
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by jayp 18y ago
Speaking only for myself, I anticipate the greatest of times ahead.
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by jayp 18y ago
1. He didn't mention that to the judge. 2. That is not an admission of anything tangible.

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