mind_heist

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by mind_heist 11y ago
Hi I m meeting the co-founder of my startup company for the first time. What interesting questions should I ask him ? Please leave out the stocks/salary and the regular employment based questions. I have already joined the team & t
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Ask HN: Meeting the founder of my company for the First time.Questions to ask him?
2 points by mind_heist 11y ago|8 comments
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This Guy’s Giant Lego Collection Proves Everything Is Awesome(houzz.com)
1 points by mind_heist 11y ago|0 comments
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China's version of Y Combinator?(wsj.com)
3 points by mind_heist 11y ago|0 comments
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by mind_heist 12y ago
wow ! this one is cool ! From looking at the Repo - I see that you have used pygame in your project. So , how did it help in implementing the Emulator ?
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by mind_heist 12y ago
Well - While a bunch of folks here are telling this could be a red flag (and rethink / walk away ), I just want to present the other side of the story. (1) Managers/Companies also have deadlines when it comes to hiring a candidate
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by mind_heist 12y ago
There is some thing else I would like to point out as well , IBM folks on this thread can answer the question. This is regarding the "user modeling service" of Watson. I spoke to a couple of IBM folks and asked what are some of th
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by mind_heist 12y ago
Well - I haven't tried the Speech Service myself . But as dev, we notices pretty high error rates with the 'user modeling service' as well.
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by mind_heist 12y ago
Hmm .. OK . are there external facing portals to file bugs against the services ?
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by mind_heist 12y ago
You should give it a try . I have a 30-day trial account and spun up a couple of services. Well the UI is cool , and there are a lot of templates ( boiler plates ) that you could use to get you app up and running. But you might struggle wit
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by mind_heist 12y ago
Hmm ... I along with a couple of my friends spent the last two days at the DeveloperWeek hackathon trying to explore Watson's capabilites. IBM's PaaS solution is called BlueMix and all of Watson's capabilities are available a
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by mind_heist 12y ago
You mentioned that they got rid of a lot of profile information ( for all we know, that person might simply be interested in having you Memento'ed ) (ie) Just delete all you stuff ( mails , foursquare checkins , instagram pics , facebo
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by mind_heist 12y ago
dutchbrit - Just before things blow up ; it might be useful to recollect what other services use the same username / password ( and fix them all as well ). Mails / Banking / Wealth Management ( like personal capital , wealth
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by mind_heist 12y ago
I think , he is now a potential subject for a larger "identity theft" - depending on how meticulous he has been with respect to passwords for other services. The password could have probably been used for Dropbox , Evernote , and
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by mind_heist 12y ago
Hmm .. I dont fully understand what diluted percentage is actually ? Looking it up ...
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by mind_heist 12y ago
Thank you ! I suppose going on-site to the company sort of solves most of these issues. But how would you go about finding the following ? "Like maybe they robbed a previous company blind, then invested their ill-gotten gains in the fi
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by mind_heist 12y ago
Hmm..thanks .. quick follow up... So would a company at any stage be able to answer this ? Do they decide things only after getting seed / Series A ? ..or are these things decided upfront ?
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Ask HN: What questions should I ask a founder before joining a 10 people startup
6 points by mind_heist 12y ago|16 comments
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by mind_heist 12y ago
This is really cool ! do you have you code on Git or somewhere ? I tried building a small game with pygame .. and wasn't too bad.
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by mind_heist 12y ago
Your game is awesome ! I just took part in a GAME Jam this weekend and it was my first time attempting a serious game. I had written some mock side scrollers in pygame before. your art work looks amazingggg ! Few quick questions ... Do you
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by mind_heist 12y ago
Hmm .. I read through this article and Captain Crunch says Australia is a Hackers Haven ? Why is it so ? ... I remember seeing something very similar in the documentary about Julian Assange too , about underground hacker scenes in Australia
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Captain Crunch Interviewed in 1995(barbalet.net)
2 points by mind_heist 12y ago|1 comments
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When India's Flipkart turned into 'flopkart'(bbc.com)
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THE TOP 10 BEST PLACES TO WORK REMOTELY(fastcompany.com)
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Take Your Best Selfie Ever with Instagram's Hyperlapse(readwrite.com)
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Defiant Julian Assange says he's 'pretty hard to kill' [video](cbc.ca)
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Peter Thiel's Zero to One Might Be the Best Business Book I've Read(m.theatlantic.com)
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How can poor countries afford space programmes?(economist.com)
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Photos: Ebola, the Invisible Threat(blogs.wsj.com)
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How Netflix, reddit–and even Comcast–pledged support for net neutrality today(arstechnica.com)
1 points by mind_heist 12y ago|0 comments

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