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by mikepk 12y ago
This article makes me sad. There is a mode of thought that "work" has to be the other. Work is not your time, but that thing you have to do. Work is another "four letter word" according to the author. This is partially a
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by mikepk 12y ago
Boston, MA - full time, internship, exploring possible remote Programmer, Developer, Hacker ============================= Smarterer - http://smarterer.com/ A Pluralsight company ( http://pluralsight.com/ ) Ma
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by mikepk 12y ago
Web Programmer, Developer, Hacker | Smarterer | Boston, MA | mikepk@smarterer.com | Full Time Smarterer (a Pluralsight company) - http://smarterer.com/ One of Entrepreneur Magazine's Brilliant 100 - http://w
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by mikepk 12y ago
No relation (I'm a co-founder). I'm guessing it's a case of convergent evolution. Our testing UI has been pretty similar since the beginning, 4 years ago (not sure if they existed then or not). Edit: I realized after typing t
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by mikepk 12y ago
Boston, MA - full time, internship, exploring possible remote Web Programmer, Developer, Hacker ================================= Smarterer - http://smarterer.com/ Make a difference. Change the world. Do something important
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by mikepk 12y ago
Boston, MA - full time, internship, exploring possible remote Web Programmer, Developer, Hacker ================================= Smarterer - http://smarterer.com/ Make a difference. Change the world. Have fun. Do something
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by mikepk 12y ago
Boston, MA - full time, internship Web Programmer, Developer, Hacker Smarterer - http://smarterer.com/ Make a difference. Change the world. Have fun. Do something important. Smarterer gives people unprecedented understandin
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by mikepk 13y ago
So far people seem to be rocking the test (except one person). More people taking it makes it more accurate. Scores so far (max 800): 720.790 752.193 717.623 745.300 739.371 694.710 706.695 163.612 724.569 784.664
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by mikepk 13y ago
Boston, MA - full time, internship - engineers Smarterer http://smarterer.com/ Make a difference, change the world, have fun, do something important. We're looking for creative hackers and programmers to join our dev t
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by mikepk 13y ago
Actually if the form does not have a method="POST" in it, then the form will be submitted as a get request (with url parameters). Think the search form on google.com, it does a GET with query string args. Forms do not necessarily
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by mikepk 13y ago
I have some experience in this area. My first startup: Grazr ( http://tcrn.ch/aUqiIb ), the back end was mostly Perl with some custom C modules. Grazr was started in 2005 when Perl was already out of fashion. So why did we ch
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by mikepk 14y ago
Boston, MA - full time, internship - programmers, developers, technologists Smarterer http://smarterer.com/ Make a difference, change the world, have fun, do something cool. We're looking for creative hackers and programmers to join our d
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by mikepk 14y ago
Smarterer Boston, MA - full-time and intern, devs You want a position in the core tech team of a startup, one of the first three or four brave souls. You want to work on all maner of tech challenges, whatever it takes to make awesome produc
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by mikepk 14y ago
Boston, MA (full-time, intern) Smarterer - http://smarterer.com ================================= Smarterer is a fun, crowd-sourced, online, testing platform for any knowledge skill (from nuclear physics to World of Warcraft). We have lot
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by mikepk 14y ago
The factors limiting our freedoms are not always financial constraints. I've known many people who were not rich who had a great deal of freedom to do what they wanted. Sure they couldn't buy a ferrari every week, but they were able to trav
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by mikepk 14y ago
My first startup played in this space too, Grazr ( http://techcrunch.com/2006/09/18/grazr-10-blasts-off-into-th... ). We were way ahead of our time too (at least that's what I tell myself :) ). We were mostly known for an opml display widge
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by mikepk 14y ago
I add to the list "actually doing stuff". I meet so many want-to-be-entrepreneurs saying they just need a tech co-founder, but other than thinking really hard, that's all they're currently doing to make the venture happen. Somehow it's al
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by mikepk 14y ago
Thanks, this is similar in spirit to my thinking. Honestly I expected more of the 'learn to code' kind of sentiment that I got over twitter. :)
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by mikepk 14y ago
Response via twitter "@codemokeyism @mikepk Learn writing code"
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Ask HN: What advice would you give a non-tech person seeking a tech co-founder?
3 points by mikepk 14y ago|7 comments
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by mikepk 14y ago
First I want to say that, in many (most) cases, when people ask me what python web framework they should use, I wholeheartedly recommend Django. Unless... the person is a weirdo, like me. In most cases people are looking to prove some idea
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by mikepk 15y ago
Boston, MA Smarterer ( http://smarterer.com ) Smarterer is measuring the world's skills. FULL-TIME Hiring web developers, both front end and full stack devs. We're interested in (but not limited to) python devs. Lots of interesting scaling,
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by mikepk 15y ago
Heh, I was intentionally not using any of the explanatory metaphors. :) Trust me, in the many years we were at it I tried lots and lots of non-jargony, more-concrete, ways to get the concept across. I never found the one that seemed to cl
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by mikepk 15y ago
As someone who started an RSS-based company (that's now defunct) I think the issue isn't just a lack of a default client, it's a lack of a tangible conceptual model for people. I spent years explaining the RSS concept, testing lots of diffe
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by mikepk 15y ago
The current model of RSS consumption is still broken. For the vast majority of news sources, you really care about headlines and recency rather than read/unread counts. I had a rambling blog post about it a few years ago: http://bit.ly/rkl
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by mikepk 15y ago
I worked with them for a few months doing a contract job and I can say that it really is a great place to work. If I wasn't so obsessed with starting my own company, I totally could have seen myself working there longer term. I think they h
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by mikepk 15y ago
I'm surprised no one linked to this, it being HN and all: http://www.paulgraham.com/equity.html
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by mikepk 15y ago
Boston, MA - Technologists / Python enthusiasts / "full stack" devs Smarterer ( http://smarterer.com ) is looking for people to join our core technology team. http://smarterer.com/blog/jobs/software-developer/ We're addressing a very real
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by mikepk 15y ago
This is the animated TED talk that I referenced before on motivations. I'm sure you've seen this before, but still interesting in this context: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u6XAPnuFjJc
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by mikepk 15y ago
For the people that are saying that the "10x more productive" programmer is a myth, I assure you these people exist, but you're likely not one of them (nor am I). The most impressive hacker I've ever known worked with me in the advanced res

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