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by larrykubin 10y ago
I live in Seattle. I get really depressed from December-February due to the lack of sunshine, and I've found it to be a more difficult place socially compared to other cities I've lived and worked in. To the point where I have fre
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by larrykubin 10y ago
Maybe they are starting a new service to spin up engineers on demand as part of AWS.
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Whew, I actually started to build my app on top of the Dropbox API a couple months ago, but switched it up to Google Drive since their API seemed more powerful and up to date. At the time, API v2 seemed to still be in flux, so I started wit
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by larrykubin 10y ago
Reminds me of the canvassers on the street whose line is always "do you have a second for the environment?", "do you believe in equal rights?", "would you like to prevent puppies from dying?", etc.
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by larrykubin 10y ago
Do you mind sharing some of the existing data sources / API's you are using?
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by larrykubin 10y ago
Thanks so much, I love your product and am developing on it right now. When Parse got shut down, I got a bit nervous, but the Firebase updates give me reassurance that it is here to stay.
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by larrykubin 11y ago
I made something like this for an Android class project a couple months ago. Is this similar to what you had in mind? I never ended up polishing it up for release: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pB_lGaKHODY
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by larrykubin 11y ago
I live in Seattle, but have worked remotely on a startup based in SF. There is definitely a cultural difference. Many of the SF folks I know seem to be ashamed to work for a big company and not "doing their own thing". These peopl
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by larrykubin 11y ago
"I have been wanting to try building a complex webapp that uses nothing but a backend, CSS, HTML5 for a really, really, really, long while" Coincidentally, I am going in the opposite direction after having written many Python&#x2F
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by larrykubin 11y ago
I was on reddit pretty early on when it was mostly programming links and PG essays. There was a submission announcing "Startup News" and I clicked it and signed up. I searched to find the original announcement, this may be the fir
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Microsoft to spend $75 mln to boost computer science in schools(usatoday.com)
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I am volunteering to teach in Seattle through the TEALS program (started by a Microsoft employee) for a couple of hours a week: https://www.tealsk12.org/ We had a few summer training sessions to learn how to be effective te
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by larrykubin 11y ago
A lot of people are moving to Austin, Portland, Seattle, and Denver/Boulder. No state income tax in Austin or Seattle, no sales tax in Portland. Home prices are rising in all of these areas, but are a bargain compared to the Bay Area
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I have a tech job too and don't feel like the rent in SF or Palo Alto fits in my budget.
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Most definitely, it helps to know people in person rather than applying through a job posting though.
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Back before the crash, I was working at home writing webapps in Python, JavaScript, and SQL. These days, I am still working at home....writing webapps in Python, JavaScript and SQL, just on different projects. One of my friends worked at an
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by larrykubin 11y ago
Wow, I guess I showed up pretty early. I still remember going to Startup School in 2007 and being so excited and inspired that I quit my job a few months later. Note: I probably should have stopped following startup news after the first yea
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by larrykubin 11y ago
How are you liking Bend? I remember reading some of your comments on HN a few years ago since we were living in Portland. In Seattle now and own a place, but are thinking someday we might sell it and move to Bend. We've always found ce
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by larrykubin 11y ago
I am personally excited about Redfin and Socrata. Redfin made is super easy for us to find and purchase a house. We went from knowing nothing and not having a realtor to closing on a house in 30 days. Socrata is working to open government d
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lanyrd.com for conferences
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This is so well done, I'm kind of sad that it isn't getting more attention. I love the concept. My one bit of feedback is that the SQL query text area should have a button to execute the query, rather than clearing the results tab
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by larrykubin 12y ago
No one cares. I took 5 extra semesters myself and am doing just fine.
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caching and database indexing
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I'm not sure how it is now, but I lived in Austin 1998-2011, often volunteered at Interactive, and stayed through the music festival. Most of the people I met there were either: 1) Marketing and throwing parties to promote their own st
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It was the first technology I learned for database driven web development in 2003 and I got plenty done with it at the time. It really made it easy to get started since it was simple to write and understand. But when I changed positions and
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by larrykubin 12y ago
I attended a talk in Seattle earlier this year about distributions like this. Here are the slides with some details on how it might work: http://www.element8angels.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/04/Str...
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by larrykubin 12y ago
If you want to invest in some larger publicly traded companies, there is a new cybersecurity ETF, ticker symbol HACK. You could buy some shares of the ETF or shares of some of the individual holdings. A list of holdings can be found here:
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by larrykubin 12y ago
I successfully freelanced for years. I think one key for me was living in Austin, where there is no state income tax and the rent and food costs are low. It doesn't take many hours of consulting work to be able to live comfortably ther
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by larrykubin 12y ago
I personally find Python code easier to read and maintain, and I have an easier time keeping up with changes in new versions. I was pretty familiar with Rails 2, but feel like there are frequently big changes between releases that I can&#x2
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There's a good thread on this on Quora: http://www.quora.com/What-do-people-in-Silicon-Valley-plan-t... Founder of Wikipedia, Whatsapp, Craigslist, Pandora, Zipcar, etc. responded

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