kirinan

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by kirinan 13y ago
Its nothing about overly ambitious, its about what you said: a stable work-life balance. Start up culture has lead us to believe that if you don't work 100 hour weeks, you don't want it bad enough or you don't care; that's patently false. I
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by kirinan 13y ago
This resonates with me. Im a software engineer, with a young child (< 1 yr), and am pretty young myself (23). I've been working full time since I was 18 (juggling college and full time work), and got married fairly young (20). Because I
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by kirinan 13y ago
This is actually folly: both vimscript and lisp are both turing complete language (read can both make a computer do everything a computer is capable of doing), so even know LISP might have nicer syntax/cooler paradigm, what have you: it doe
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by kirinan 13y ago
I assume you mean Redmond to Seattle (if not please ignore). I currently live in Queen Anne and can pretty much walk everywhere I need to go, and hardly use my car at all. The times that I need my car is when I am driving out of town or don
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by kirinan 13y ago
I don't know if you guys allow remote workers (Seattle guy here), but that would be a good start to getting more workers. However, I think you guys are in the stage where a lot of people call it quits, say its hard and just give up. They do
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by kirinan 13y ago
Sign that you will have a successful career and will get things done: you didn't listen or care what the list was. Seriously, these lists mean nothing. This list is some guy sitting behind a computer who may or may not even be a good develo
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by kirinan 13y ago
OMG You can't say that. There now that is done, this needs to happen. Being professional means accepting the things you can't changing, and changing the things that you can. Being professional is about being a real profession, getting paid
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by kirinan 14y ago
Does Twitter want to scare off every developer? I mean its kind of absurd to just shut down a newly launched service on the same day that it launches. It may violate their policy, fine, change your policy or be friendly with developers to r
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by kirinan 14y ago
I know everyone hates windows here, but people should probably realize that its a legit ecosystem. Everyone says "Oh it only has 4% market share, it has bad adoption". 4% of the PC market is 120m PCs. Think about that for a second: even if
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by kirinan 14y ago
Sure; I'd rather lose the landgrab, get 10% of the market so I can then steal it back with a more quality product in the end. It depends on your goals, if you goal is make a sustainable business that will be around for a long time, its best
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by kirinan 14y ago
I find this too. Just recently had a kid, and when I get home I want to spend time with him/wife, so I know I wont get to work at home/won't want to. It allows me to go hard for 8-9 hours, get home and not spend a day. It also lets me rethi
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by kirinan 14y ago
I agree, which will be much to the chagrin of the community. I spend less time working, and more time thinking. I find that I am able to get more things done in a shorter amount of time if I have fully thought through exactly what I am doin
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by kirinan 14y ago
Im actually going to compete this year. Usually I sign up, get busy, then ignore the challenge, however I want to see how I match up with the rest of the world when it comes to solving hard problems in a set amount of time using good data s
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by kirinan 14y ago
Honestly if you are starting a startup to get rich, just quit and get a real job because you'll get richer quicker. Unless you are a consultant (and thats not really a startup), you will most likely not end up rich, and stats show this. You
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by kirinan 14y ago
Cool! I should rtfm once in awhile before I post! I just didn't want anyone to start a project only to have it removed for ToS violations! This is really cool, and excited to see what people build with it.
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by kirinan 14y ago
This is awesome! Although, I think you should add that selling digital content in your app via this will cause your app to violate ToC's for Android and iOS as they already have in payment schemes for digital content. However, for physical
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by kirinan 14y ago
Computer Science is a very interesting degree. Having done the program myself, you learn math you will never use* and ton of other things that can be counted as useless, however I am better for it. Calculus taught me less about how to do Ca
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by kirinan 14y ago
Renews faith in humanity. This belongs on HN, because it really does point out the humanity that we all want to touch with our development. These are real people, with real issues, with real emotions, and each one of them may be a user of o
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by kirinan 14y ago
I attended online college to get my degree in Computer science, for at least half of my undergrad, and I can say that it is just as challenging as attending the reals classes at a brick and mortar university. The challenges were different,
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by kirinan 14y ago
constructive comment. On a more meaningful comment to yours, its not the millions they lose not selling it to those game developers, its the millions that they lose because games are being developed for their system, which is very much a bi
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by kirinan 14y ago
I applied, it will be interesting to see what kind of jobs you have in mind. Although one way to improve is to be able to tell you where I would be willing to relocate. Id love Seattle for instance, but wouldn't consider a job in Colorado o
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by kirinan 14y ago
It will be interesting to see where the energy market will be in the next ten years. I do believe that at some point people will need new forms of energy since the forms we currently have are too expensive (or getting to expensive) for the
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by kirinan 14y ago
Hmm, Yeah. You have me pegged there, I don't have any apps on the app store, or any web applications I can pull up and demo to customers. I have a new goal to work towards now, even if it is something simple. I will also make documents abou
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by kirinan 14y ago
I do have a github with a few apps that Ive messed around (Im a mobile and web guy). Thats very insightful, I never thought about the ROI thing. I guess I need to learn how to convince people Im worth the price. Tons of people in my area un
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by kirinan 14y ago
Patio, Quick question. I have had some trouble getting my first consulting gig. Its not the meeting per se that gets them, I can get meetings with people. They say I lack experience. Should I do pro bono work, or should I lower my prices (I
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by kirinan 14y ago
My favorite resource for this is : https://www.owasp.org/index.php/Main_Page It has the major security flaws, how they secure them, and how the attack is done. However, I think the best way to secure a website is to keep one thing in mind
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by kirinan 14y ago
Good points all around. People tend to have an idea that they are the next Gates/Zuckerberg/Jobs, but in reality these people had college educated colleagues that helped them build their dreams. College is about education, and just that: yo
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by kirinan 14y ago
Some big data is machine learning, a lot however is running analytics via software like Hadoop (map reduce) to gleam results from the data. Examples of both would be calculating shipping times based on previous shipping times. If you had en
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by kirinan 14y ago
These are the most annoying kind ads. Not only do I have to make sure my sound is off (if they implement it like that), they often times are REALLY loud and annoying. I make it a habit to ignore any company that has these kinds of ad offeri

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