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by kcorbitt 9y ago
Hey HN! I'm a software developer at YC and the author of this post. This post is actually a bit of an experiment. We're trying to find better ways to get prospective startup founders (which includes many of us in the HN community)
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Startup Ideas(blog.ycombinator.com)
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...Google's IPO was late 2004.
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Hey, I work for YC and would love to talk to you about this -- feel free to reach out to kyle@ycombinator.com.
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I agree with everything that the article writes. That said, if you work in SF and are looking for a concrete way to improve your commute today without adding another car to the road, consider purchasing an electric bike or scooter. I'v
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I disagree with the assertion that discount stores are dependent on economic stagnation. I live in a dense urban area well served by traditional retailers, and have a great job that allows me to shop wherever I want. And yet, half my shoppi
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There's a Dollar Tree (competitor to Dollar General with a similar business model) in South San Francisco that I shop at sometimes for cleaning supplies/paper goods/party items. I wouldn't trust most of their food offeri
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by kcorbitt 9y ago
That's kind of ironic, considering that solar plants can keep an effectively unlimited number of "days of fuel" on hand.
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This is the right answer. If you'll be working on similar things/running the same code as the other developers, just get a Mac (can be old/refurbished to save money). You'll save a ton of headache over trying to figure o
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by kcorbitt 9y ago
We're always looking for more ways to help more startups, sometimes within the framework of our original incubation program and sometimes without it. If YC lives up to its potential, I suspect the startups that actually end up going th
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by kcorbitt 9y ago
Sam was not one of YC's original founders, which is the group that wrote this document.
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...that's extremely unlikely. Independence doesn't have anywhere close to 90% support in reality, it's just that the pro-Spain faction didn't turn out to vote.
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In a divorce, you don't require that all parties agree that divorcing is the right decision. If a single party wants to dissolve the relationship, that is sufficient. There's more nuance when we're talking about entire states
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by kcorbitt 9y ago
It sounds like you're talking about electron-style desktop apps, not React Native? They're quite different in architecture and performance.
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At Google every significant feature in our codebase was behind a feature flag. Pro is that you can roll out features slowly and do a statistical analysis of their impact on user behavior in a well-controlled way. Also, you can turn off a br
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Out of curiousity, how are you able to detect React Native apps so you can avoid them? Facebook introduced React Native to their main app months before anyone noticed. Airbnb also was using it for a while before they publicly announced the
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by kcorbitt 9y ago
Eh. If you were to measure the percentage of personal communication that users of this forum conduct over email as opposed to other mediums (Whatsapp, FB Messenger, iMessage, etc.), I bet you'd find it indexes way higher than the gener
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by kcorbitt 9y ago
Would you be interested in a service that aggregated startup/product ideas from people with deep industry experience but a lack of technical skills? It's something I've been thinking should exist.
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I guess it depends on what your cutoff is for "good". I can say from firsthand experience that senior developers at Facebook or Google are hitting those numbers pretty easily.
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150 CAD at current exchange rates is 123 USD. That puts the 2-3x range at 246-369 USD. That's actually a bit low for a good senior developer in the current Bay Area market.
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> The question of whether or not The State should prevent you from employing force or fraud against another person is itself subject to debate I mean, if you deny the government's role in enforcing contracts and property rights, the
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Agree with everything you say. Personally, I hope that self-driving cars are introduced alongside a road-use tax that moves the true cost of road construction and maintenance (and the opportunity cost of all the last currently dedicated to
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by kcorbitt 9y ago
You can reach financial independence in your 30s if you work for a big tech company for 10 years and watch your spending. I think that's what your parent comment was referring to.
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At your stage, just find anything that motivates you to continue working, and the knowledge will naturally come. A personal project that scratches an itch for you like you mentioned is a great option. Don't worry too much about doing t
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by kcorbitt 9y ago
It looks like unlimited private repositories, Gitlab Pages and even some CI minutes (2000/month) will continue to be available in the free plan. Gitlab continues to provide such phenomenal value to free users that I struggle to find a
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> with most colleagues and acquaintances doing the bare minimum to get by. The best way to level your skills up fast as a junior developer is to work somewhere where most of your coworkers are skilled and passionate. It sounds like you&#
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Well, that doesn't mean it's wrong. I'm far less likely to introduce bugs when "just hacking" on a Flow-typed JS project than I am when carefully (and tediously) trying to refactor an untyped one.
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> Doing a PhD in the UK helps, in and out before the funding dries up in 3-4 years is expected along with no class requirements and no masters needed (can go in straight from Bachelors). This is a key point. My wife's university in
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Unfortunately, if you live somewhere where it gets legitimately hot outside or your commute involves a substantial hill, sweating is non-optional. I work in San Francisco so the weather is good for biking, but my apartment is at the top of
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It is extremely fast. I think you'll be very pleasantly surprised by the runtime speed of OCaml if you're coming from interpreted languages, and by the build/tooling speed if you're coming from compiled languages. It rea

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