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by mchannon 9y ago
It's like its own little ecosystem. There are two built-in games and more will be added. Whether it's novelty, morbid curiosity, or some mixture of the two, it's been well demonstrated that people will look at things if ther
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by mchannon 9y ago
As the author of the post, I can confirm it is legitimate (poop emoji dot st). I was hoping HN would allow it to come through as emoji instead of punycode, but tripped some kind of inapplicable server error. It (an emoji domain) does pose
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React Native, Nativescript- trailer park approach to mobile software development(xn--ls8h.st)
2 points by mchannon 9y ago|4 comments
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by mchannon 9y ago
My experience: Joined a startup, raring to go, and they needed to get me a top-end MacBook Pro (16GB instead of 8GB as I recall). Apple stores in SF refused to stock the top-end, pointing me to their build-to-order options at the store. +
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Show HN: Million Dollar App – Buy pixels on your iPhone, with a dark, sad twist(milliondollarapp.com)
3 points by mchannon 9y ago|5 comments
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by mchannon 9y ago
Wouldn't jump to that conclusion, given that this number is a median, not a mean. The minimum full-time salary could also be $28,446 and yield the same median number, depending on how Amazon pays their bottom rung.
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by mchannon 9y ago
Speaking from experience, small companies can fall for this too. Companies that completely isolate the existing employees from candidates are just asking for trouble. A single-digit percentage of recruiters will now make a point of photog
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by mchannon 9y ago
It's hard to suss out attitude, incuriosity, and/or inflexibility in the timeframe of an interview track. There's only so far those will hold a candidate back before they simply don't complete the interview of their own
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by mchannon 9y ago
The main radioactive waste from rare earth mining is indeed Thorium. It is not a pretty easy to handle material. Check out https://projects.newyorker.com/story/radioactive-nyc/ to learn how Thorium from rare ear
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by mchannon 9y ago
Not all rare earths are created equal, and the more common ones are so commonplace and cheap that it'd be ludicrous to mine them undersea (even undersea gold mining has yet to have an impact on the world market for gold). Further, it&#
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by mchannon 9y ago
They'll be trying to decide if they can make a deal work with you. Be honest, be prepared to decline to provide proprietary information (some are fishing for this to build clones of you), and treat the call like a prelude to either cas
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by mchannon 9y ago
You will likely go through life with many jobs. You will only ever have one father. Lots of people would kill for the opportunity to have worked alongside their father for years, even exploited. It's special. I think you have to dec
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by mchannon 9y ago
A generation ago these kids would've gotten busted for smoking old-fashioned cigarettes ("Smokin' in the boys room"). Two generations ago it was legal to buy (at some states at age 16) and legal to possess and use, exce
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by mchannon 9y ago
Since you're working on what could converge into one product suite, have you considered offering a formal partnership instead of a strict hourly arrangement? They might be able to bring a steadier stream of work to you, and help provi
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by mchannon 9y ago
Lots of good advice here. Assuming it was actually recent (as in a couple of months or less), consider actually registering the copyright on the webpage with the US govt. If your work ends up enabling a wildly successful funding event, yo
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by mchannon 9y ago
Wow. What I can suggest is that perhaps you have misperceived the purpose and nature of equity. When your venture was 0 months old, it needed a CEO to get it funding. Even if he played golf the whole time and lent only his name to the ven
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by mchannon 9y ago
You're taking something simple and making it very complicated. The reason clouds form is not because there's more water up there, but because temperatures and pressures are lower and the air can't hold on to the water anymore
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by mchannon 9y ago
google.com/scholar doesn’t work for you?
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by mchannon 9y ago
No one’s mentioned powerline Ethernet. Assuming you have electrical outlets in both places, and they’re on the same phase, you can get a Netgear or similar pair of adapters for ~$80.
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by mchannon 9y ago
In a word, yes. Many of us (including me) find this matter interesting, but HN is designed to allow a tiny minority to flag content. Whether that's wise or not is another topic. It's always been HN's design. You can't
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by mchannon 9y ago
Coal (at least most of the time) comes from decaying plants. Before the plants decayed, they pulled up all manner of minerals from soil. Rare earths behave similarly to iron, so if a plant can uptake iron from its soil (it can) then so can
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by mchannon 9y ago
Amazing how nobody who reports on this puts forward any numbers. This Appalachian coal is said to have over 300ppm of rare earth oxides in it. That means for every ton of coal, we're talking about 300g of material. Compare conventiona
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by mchannon 9y ago
The evaluation and interview processes tend to be far more one-sided the other way. It's not a matter of which 3 of 100 employers you want to work for, but which 3 of 100 employers will even consider interviewing you at the compensati
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by mchannon 9y ago
Whether a government should or not is an argument that will probably not be settled anytime soon- not a whole lot of data yet to bolster either side. But Estonia, through e-Residency and other initiatives, is largely trying exactly that. T
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by mchannon 9y ago
This article (and most of this discussion) completely misses the elephant in the room. The reason food crops are less nutritious has nothing to do with their soil and everything to do with their food: CO2. It's widely held and widely a
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by mchannon 9y ago
https://trollingeffects.org
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by mchannon 9y ago
Probably not. US Patents are the cheapest patents to get. If, say, a German company infringed on a US Patent by selling to a customer in France, that would be completely legal, unless the US Patentholder also had a French patent, which is
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by mchannon 9y ago
Never forget Guy Kawasaki's method (paraphrased here) for how to value a startup. For every engineer, add $1 million. For every MBA, subtract $250k. What's -$250k in startup valuation worth in terms of shares? My offer to cofound
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by mchannon 9y ago
He is not a cofounder, he is (potentially) employee #1. Cofounders don't get brought on to do sales. Employees do. Treat him like a good salesman- give all kinds of incentive payments (commissions, bonuses) contingent on sales perform
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by mchannon 9y ago
Here's a wacky idea: say no. Don't offer a perpetual license. Alternatively, you can price it so high that a 1% money market account earns exactly X in interest in perpetuity. With a perpetual, you lose autonomy. You will be for

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