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by nkantar 11y ago
Perhaps I'm just new to YC goings-on, but it seems the pace of adding new partners has increased quite a bit lately. The batch size has also grown, though seemingly somewhat slower. I wonder how this growth affects the value accepted c
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by nkantar 11y ago
Interesting — I had no idea of those "side effects". Thanks for the links!
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by nkantar 11y ago
All of those make sense, but they seem to focus mostly on the most skilled of both groups. I don't have any useful numbers, but that seems to leave many novice sysadmins vulnerable to script kiddies simply due to not being around right
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by nkantar 11y ago
> If there's something I'm missing here I'd love to hear it, cause frankly I feel like I'm just stating the obvious here... Likewise — I'm very much a n00b sysadmin, but I'm having a tough time understanding
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by nkantar 11y ago
I've been asked by some very mildly technical designers to write up how to use Jekyll (especially with GitHub Pages), so until I get around to doing that, I'm gonna' send them to your post as a "here's basically wha
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by nkantar 11y ago
I suppose I chose dependency on Ruby over dependency on client-side JS, though they're not mutually exclusive anyway. It's a neat concept, for sure, and incredibly similar to something I once wanted to implement for photo gallerie
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by nkantar 11y ago
> The overwhelming majority of users have javascript enabled. I find that it's often developers who don't , making it a questionable tradeoff (in my mind) for a blog written by one. For this very reason I choose to use absolut
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by nkantar 11y ago
I don't know that all business professionals can be catered to by the same service. I wonder if some (e.g., recruiters) have needs nearly diametrically opposed to others (e.g., developers). Or maybe it's just a matter of getting t
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by nkantar 11y ago
> The problem is LinkedIn gets its money from recruiters who signed up for premium accounts so they cater to them. I never thought about it that way, but it makes perfect sense. I deleted my account sometime last year (I think), and I de
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by nkantar 11y ago
What if you were compensated for your time? My three favorite evaluation processes so far (from the POV of the interviewee): 1. Quick phone screen with someone technically competent enough to call me on my BS if it were painfully obvious, f
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by nkantar 12y ago
> I spent a lot of time working for the Sierra Club and lobbying in Sacramento for a bill to protect San Francisco Bay from developers. I imagine he meant a different kind of developers than those who are taking (or have taken) over the
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by nkantar 12y ago
> I really, really enjoy my sleep :). This is certainly very practical advice, but it requires that I'm disciplined enough to go to sleep earlier the preceding night. That's difficult but certainly possible. I think most people
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by nkantar 12y ago
I've been dealing with something related, and I asked for feedback here recently: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9042523
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by nkantar 12y ago
Next up: a one-tap mobile app that deploys an instances of this based on current or specified coordinates.
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Ask HN: How do you deal with an extensive list of pet projects?
25 points by nkantar 12y ago|16 comments
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by nkantar 12y ago
> Not sure after three days without a shower my main concern would be how my hair looks Yeah, the condition of my hair isn't what prompts me to shower daily. If my skin could magically be clean and pleasant (to both myself and other
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by nkantar 12y ago
Is anyone actually using this (or something like it)? If so, I'm curious about the details like context and experience.
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by nkantar 12y ago
And just today I decided to start following the show again...
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by nkantar 12y ago
Disconnecting numerous times throughout a long flight (e.g., LAX–LHR) is not only massively inconvenient and also repeatedly ineffective. By the time I've yanked the cord out, I've already been deafened (and scared shitless) by th
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by nkantar 12y ago
This accomplished two things: 1. I now know a few things I've wondered for a long time. 2. I have just been reminded of how little I really know, even about devices I use for most of my waking hours.
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by nkantar 12y ago
It's a built-in feature called Reachability. I've tried it and it feels like a bandage at best. I imagine getting accustomed to it would probably help, but it slows things down quite a bit. (And the phone is still quite wide, whic
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by nkantar 12y ago
You could just squint. A very small problem compared to all the benefits of a more compact device.
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by nkantar 12y ago
Yeah, I'd love to see this. I'd even consider holding out with my 5S until whatever comes in 2016 if I could have an equally performant device in a smaller package.
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by nkantar 12y ago
This would be interesting. After directly comparing my coworkers' 6 and 6+ this week, I remarked that I might opt for the 6+, since one-handed use is effectively out for me even with the 6. Relatively small hands be damned...
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by nkantar 12y ago
This is exactly what I've been saying since the release of the 6/6+. Though I might even go so far as to say I miss the old 3.5" screen.
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by nkantar 12y ago
I think that would impact the viability of open-source software in a way that would change the whole world for the worse. By a lot . No one sane would put a pet project out in the open, and we'd all have far fewer kernels from which g
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by nkantar 12y ago
Really? I feel like mine take over an hour and I never notice them. I think that used to be a setting, but I can't seem to find it now. (OS X, might be different on other platforms?)
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by nkantar 12y ago
Please tell me "Charlie" refers to something hilarious, much like "ein Berliner" meant "a donut", more/less. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5mu02xUgE4k (Don't mean to take away from
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by nkantar 12y ago
I wonder (genuinely, no trolling) if the mentality has changed with the startup explosion. In other words, would large companies in general be as keen on signing away rights to pet projects by their best and brightest today as they seem to
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by nkantar 12y ago
Could you somehow whitelist all domains and go from there? Not on a computer right now to try it out for myself, but it sounds like an interesting approach.

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