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by jppope 6y ago
Here's my $0.02. Kleiner Perkins invested in Juicero and the exit strategy on that one was the public markets... which is WAY worse than having the Catholic church come in a do an acquisition. I say you go for it!
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by jppope 6y ago
Venture Capital has a sweet spot where they focus on Capital-intense (obvious) products, preferably software. (Check out this video: https://youtu.be/vErPgQF3N38 ) Many National Defense projects won't work for VC for a
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by jppope 6y ago
Apple's prices are starting to get out of control.
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by jppope 6y ago
Y/C does the seed rounds and I think they started doing series A - not really a VC, but I get your point.
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by jppope 6y ago
I mean I would agree with the author but then we'd both be wrong... Transportation costs are not modest when opportunity-cost for time is factored in (i.e. a $150K Software engineer doing a 1hr daily commute loses ~20K in time, that&#x
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by jppope 6y ago
100% guarantee a new billionaire will come out of these early "Robinhood Days"
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by jppope 6y ago
Family, friends, former coworkers/ bosses, local business networking groups, meetup groups (especially the non-tech ones), volunteering, sports clubs, IRC/ slack channels in your stack, hackernews, etc. Chances are if there is per
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by jppope 6y ago
1. Go find someone that has the authority to pay you money to build something. 2. if you think someone else might want that thing build that thing for person 1 and get paid while building it. 3. After you finish v1 for person 1, go find ano
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by jppope 6y ago
We have a lot of weird titles in our industry. tbh none of them make a heck of a whole lot of sense. A "developer" is a person who builds residential buildings, "engineers" have to get certifications and they are liable
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by jppope 6y ago
https://jonpauluritis.com , https://hillelwayne.com , https://meowni.ca/ , https://www.gwern.net/ , https://patrickcollison.com/ , https://danluu.com/ ,
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by jppope 6y ago
Its very interesting to me the level of skepticism that is being shown towards Deno. Whether or not you agree with the approach, you have to agree with the underlying problems that Deno is trying to solve. Furthermore I agree with the artic
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by jppope 6y ago
agreed
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by jppope 6y ago
Ginkgo bioworks, Oxidize, WASM (& Deno), Serverless via Isolates (e.g. Cloudflare workers), Neurolink, OpenAI
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by jppope 6y ago
they updated to SF sometime in the last 3 years. My info was based on what they had previously said. https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/employee-benefits-basecamp-co...
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by jppope 6y ago
Pretty sure Basecamp pegs their salaries on Chicago rates...
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by jppope 6y ago
thanks!
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Show HN: Using GitHub as a CMS with Cloudflare Workers Sites
16 points by jppope 6y ago|2 comments
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Make a Simple CMS Using GitHub Actions, Cloudflare, and Metalsmith(css-tricks.com)
1 points by jppope 6y ago|0 comments
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by jppope 6y ago
Soooooo yea. I'm excited. (I've been using deno for ~6 months but I'm happy we hit 1.0!!!)
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by jppope 6y ago
More than likely programming as a whole will get better because of this... Do you trust this thing? Better off developing it yourself, or working with something you trust then.
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by jppope 6y ago
thank you so much for getting rid of all the garbage that is chronically clogging HN. great work!
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by jppope 6y ago
thanks for the reference. I'll taking a peek.
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by jppope 7y ago
The good news is that Mickey Mouse is about to be in the in the public domain. You can do whatever you want at that point.
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by jppope 7y ago
Why is it that the smartest people in various fields constantly need reference materials, but medical doctors never look anything up?
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by jppope 7y ago
part of the way investors create valuation for companies is based on employees. Thats why its not a wild west of software contractors everywhere.
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by jppope 7y ago
https://www.beachbody.com/
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by jppope 7y ago
Here's my $0.02 but most people won't like it. 1) Start by doing an extra 5-10 hours of work for your job. The good news is if you were already doing 60+ hours this is probably unnecessary. I don't have a reference to the stu
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Ask HN: Now that you have an extra 60 min a day what are you doing with it?
1 points by jppope 7y ago|5 comments
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by jppope 7y ago
?uestlove's theory of time management: "People can really only do 3-4 real things a day, maybe as many as 6 if you're going overboard, but 3-4 real things" The concept is simple. Pick your 3-4 most important real things
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by jppope 7y ago
Here's a handful a little off the beaten path (except @levie): @levie @sivers @adamwathan @isosteph @djpardis @hyper_yolo @bmacaitis @nlpmattg @codinghorror @wrathofgnon (not tech but follow anyway) @bcantrill @macstrelioff @marcelcutt

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