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   by rfnslyr 13y ago

   Thanks for the advice. I'm starting September after I finish this internship at a bank which will hopefully fund the next or so year of mine.
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   by rfnslyr 13y ago

   Starting Stormpulse turns up nothing for me in Google. Could you link me? I'm super interested.
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   by rfnslyr 13y ago

   Elon Musk wants to cover the country with charging stations that are free to use so that you can travel forever, for free. No more gas refills. Nine stations now provide free electricity for Model S owners, and the company has said it wants
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   by rfnslyr 13y ago

   With Tesla you'll help rich people use less gas. With Tesla, you slowly eliminate gas and help the environment. Imagine in 20 years a world where Tesla cars are the norm, all electric, travelling forever, no payment for gas, free cha
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   by rfnslyr 13y ago

   I made money through a lot of sketchy black hat SEO endeavors. Things like content farms, making specific product pages from Amazon categories and working off referrals. Affiliate marketing. Legitimate SEO work. All of that shit crashed. It
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   by rfnslyr 13y ago

   Godspeed!
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   by rfnslyr 13y ago

   Ah yeah, it's definitely not worth it then.
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   by rfnslyr 13y ago

   It's just you hit the nail on the head and perfectly described my situation. Right now I'm working on a mobile labour job marketplace with a low barrier of entry. Jobs like snow removal, cutting grass, simple errands. House owners
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   by rfnslyr 13y ago

   I probably should have clarified in my post. I'm not sitting here crying that I'm not funded to the moon. I'm just simply wondering how it works and why so many seemingly mediocre startups get so much funding.
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    by rfnslyr 13y ago

    Not at all. The more projects you have attached to your name, the more you are worth. If you spend two years writing apps that don't go anywhere, but you finish them, and you can preview them, and you throw them on your portofolio and
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    by rfnslyr 13y ago

    I'm not sure I understand what you mean.
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    by rfnslyr 13y ago

    Or go talk them and not guess what their day is like or whether your code solves their problems. Yes that too, but in a broader sense. And I would not discuss a potential program in the abstract, but get feedback on something concrete.
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    by rfnslyr 13y ago

    Now, let's contrast this to a hypothetical guy. Guy has big dreams. Guy probably has not shipped a product. If Guy has shipped a product, Guy got 20 people to look at it once, but no one still uses it. Guy lives in the Midwest. Guy gr
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    by rfnslyr 13y ago

    You need to put yourself in your target markets shoes. You have to close your eyes, visualize their day, visualize their life, and see how it ties into your application and whether your application truly solves their problem. I have maybe 5
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    by rfnslyr 13y ago

    It beats coding in my basement covering backend and frontend simultaneously. I'd kill to have a good small team of a designer, backend developer, and front end developer. That would be ideal.
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    by rfnslyr 13y ago

    > So my advice would be to pick an idea you're passionate about, keep working on it relentlessly, and cut down on reading tech news. Exactly this. There is no better advice.
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    by rfnslyr 13y ago

    It feels to me that a lot of these ideas are hackish and serve only the purpose of getting funded, an easy money scheme. There are genuinely unoriginal ideas. An image host. Like hundreds of other image hosts don't exist? Why did you g
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    by rfnslyr 13y ago

    I suffered from the whole "not being up to date all the time" syndrome. I would always read, I'd read everything about everything. New technologies, frameworks, startups, ideas, languages, everything. I'd read so much, I
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    Ask HN: Is it really this easy?

    57 points by rfnslyr 13y ago|67 comments
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    by rfnslyr 13y ago

    This is as close as you can get to "deleting" your Facebook account: http://www.facebook.com/help/224562897555674 Obviously your data is still stored somewhere on FB servers. I refuse to believe they simply d
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    Ask HN: Site that has video walkthroughs of code examples

    1 points by rfnslyr 13y ago|0 comments
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    by rfnslyr 13y ago

    You're still giving the US the benefit of the doubt post 9/11? Brave.
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    by rfnslyr 13y ago

    That's what I was thinking.
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    Ask HN: Legendary HN threads?

    5 points by rfnslyr 13y ago|3 comments
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    by rfnslyr 13y ago

    Yeah I'm going to need a technical rundown before I believe some random slide.
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    by rfnslyr 13y ago

    Can anyone explain this? http://tctechcrunch2011.files.wordpress.com/2013/06/scaled-s... Is that real or just BS?
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    by rfnslyr 13y ago

    Eh, I know a lot of CS/tech grads who don't really do anything, aren't passionate about their field, and don't glance at their work for a second time. They just want to be done with it. I'd hire the person who is be
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    by rfnslyr 13y ago

    >But no. Free software is not business-oriented. He's a nut because of his privacy advocation; he must have something to hide. Let's just ignore him, and start startups and get everyone to accept our vendor lock-in and remain b
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    by rfnslyr 13y ago

    There was a lot of pressure to attended college immediately after I finished high school. I was not in the right frame of mind and it was never my goal to attend school. I knew since before high school what I wanted to do. I thought I could
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    by rfnslyr 13y ago

    I think it might be a joke. We're going to need more evidence.