joshuakcockrell

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by joshuakcockrell 3y ago
We picked Kotlin libraries that supported KMM. So we used Apollo Kotlin, and our network requests were handled by that library's KMM translation. So there was a layer of abstraction we accepted. We never wrote raw `HttpURLConnection` c
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by joshuakcockrell 3y ago
I've been using Kotlin Multiplatform Mobile (KMM) heavily for the past 2 years on my current YC startup. I'm in the process of removing the entire thing. KMM is an alternative to cross platform mobile libraries like Flutter, React
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by joshuakcockrell 4y ago
I’m currently building this at envelopemoney.com
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by joshuakcockrell 6y ago
I make all the beats for my YouTube vlogs. I post the songs for others to use royalty free. Some have several thousand plays. https://youtu.be/JhQpXwXUWok
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by joshuakcockrell 6y ago
I got married ~3 years ago after several years of dating around. This book really helped me understand the psychology of finding a partner and getting married Love Factually - Duana Welch, PhD It talks a lot about playing hard to get. The b
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by joshuakcockrell 7y ago
> open my laptop You open up your laptop and type in your name and hit enter. You get an error message though, saying that you need to install Adobe Flash Player first. > burn my laptop You decide not to bother with installing Flash
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by joshuakcockrell 7y ago
Honest question: Why don't large scale acqui-hires happen in these situations? Often hiring is one of the top challenges for these companies. They go through 100s of resumes and interview dozens just for each role. Times that by 300+ p
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by joshuakcockrell 8y ago
One problem with this is that later round investors usually want their investment to go into growing the business, instead of paying off employees. So the incentives aren’t aligned here to allow employees to sell their stock while the start
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by joshuakcockrell 8y ago
It would be the equivalent of controlled burns to prevent larger forest fires. That would be very interesting to see applied to earthquakes.
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by joshuakcockrell 8y ago
Back in 2011 I was a game tester on Hasbro Family Game Night 4. Definitely not an official spokesman here. It was so bad that we opted out of even having public reviews for the game from the large review sites. Morale went way up once we re
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by joshuakcockrell 8y ago
One of the best introductions to the field is going through overthewire’s bandit vulnerability games. https://overthewire.org/wargames/bandit/ They have 30+ levels where you ssh into a server and attempt to find s
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by joshuakcockrell 8y ago
> We want to feel that we’re making the world better, even if it’s as small a matter as helping a shopper find the right product at the grocery store. My question for HN is do you feel that the content you are working on makes a differen
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by joshuakcockrell 8y ago
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Vector Icon Speedruns(bjango.com)
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by joshuakcockrell 8y ago
Apple's own website lists a wireless charger for sale from Belkin: https://www.apple.com/shop/product/HLZ42/belkin-boost-up-spe... So, although I've never used one myself, clearly these chargers are
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Uber Ditches Controversial Circuitboard Logo(fastcompany.com)
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by joshuakcockrell 8y ago
With FDA clearance you're allowed to brand and advertise your product as a "medical device". Also, without FDA approval, you have to be very careful about certain terms you use to describe your product's features. For ex
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by joshuakcockrell 8y ago
With FDA clearance you're allowed to brand and advertise your product as a "medical device". Also, without FDA approval, you have to be very careful about certain terms you use to describe your product's features. For ex
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by joshuakcockrell 8y ago
> -Im not really a fan of the name, which is a problem that stands out when your product is about good names. "Namegine" parses strangely, I think my brain's looking for another "n" to complete the word "eng
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by joshuakcockrell 8y ago
Yeah, it's exactly like taking the same test multiple times! I recommend it :) In my experience, this only happens in the same season if it's the recruiter's idea. Google did this with me one time. The recruiter knew I just g
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by joshuakcockrell 8y ago
> going through 200+ rejections is just soul wrenching Yeah I've been through this many rejections total, and some of them have been pretty tough emotionally, but it only takes 25-50 before landing another really cool job I've
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by joshuakcockrell 8y ago
> I am interested in how you've managed to apply to multiple roles at the same company? is this across 3 internship seasons? A lot of companies will list the same roles across different teams. Applying to (or interviewing with) all
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by joshuakcockrell 8y ago
> But each failure kind of brings me down, and makes me think that I'm a bad engineer First off, you are not a bad engineer for failing a technical interview. Over the past 3 years, I've applied for hundreds of roles across doz
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by joshuakcockrell 8y ago
These scooters are getting stolen left and right in San Francisco. I read the HN article last week about charging these (where they pay you to collect scooters and you charge them over night), so I recently signed up to become a charger for
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by joshuakcockrell 8y ago
Here's the exact spot on that road that matches the picture in the article https://goo.gl/maps/pj3X4gAuG672
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by joshuakcockrell 8y ago
Surprising how many of these look like they were taken from the set of Star Wars. This one looks like R2-D2 with giant Coca-Cola sticker slapped across the front. http://www.theoldrobots.com/cobol.html
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by joshuakcockrell 9y ago
Mormons stopped practicing polygamy in 1890.
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by joshuakcockrell 9y ago
> How do you guard against just memorizing the questions? I don't think you need to worry about this. A simple search for "binary search" shows 20 different questions. If you can't do the 1st bst problem and you look
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by joshuakcockrell 9y ago
I've worked at Microsoft, Adobe, and Twitter over the past few years. I've also received offers from (or interviewed with) Google, FB, Dropbox, Uber, etc. I would recommend: https://www.pramp.com - 1 hr online intervie
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by joshuakcockrell 9y ago
I remember downloading open source projects that I found online and combing through their source code to find out how they did something. Back in the mid 2000's I was working on a video game and I would spend hours looking through the

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