sontek

15 ms·

121.
by sontek 6y ago
Spanish is going quite well in year two. Year one was basically worthless. I didn’t really know how to learn the language and made a ton of mistakes. First, I spent the first few months studying grammar rules and learning words but didn’t d
122.
by sontek 6y ago
I miss it too. I've been a remote worker for most of my career (2005-2020) with a 4 year stop in silicon valley where I worked in an office. Those 4 years truly showed what I was missing and in 2019 I decided I was going start my own
123.
by sontek 6y ago
At least for me, when I hear "10x" engineer I think of the ones who treat the craft as a craft. There is no "shallow" or "narrow" in them. The possess the important skills in software development: -
124.
by sontek 6y ago
This is amazing. I just started teaching my nine year old how to code python (hes been doing scratch/block coding for a few years). I was complaining how when I got started qbasic was perfect and there is a huge barrier to entry these
125.
by sontek 6y ago
I'm only 35 but I've continued to pick up skills throughout my life and I've only increased it as I got older: - Started learning masonry and general handyman work in 2018 (33 years old) - Started learning Spanish i
126.
by sontek 6y ago
My co-founder just left our company after 4 years because we basically had to pivot and restart with a new product that fit with COVID (we are in the events space). Looking back at everything that lead up to him having to leave, I've c
127.
by sontek 6y ago
This will actually be nice for me! I live up in the mountains of Puerto Rico with microwave internet, so not the greatest. Currently I can only watch partnered streamers because Twitch only allows transcoding for partners. So if they ar
128.
by sontek 6y ago
I think the big one everyone forgets about is hubspot. Works just as good as the ones in the list but its integrated with a platform a lot of us already use. We love having all our chats tied to our CRM by default :)
129.
by sontek 6y ago
We LOVE it... it’s been solid for the four years we’ve been on it. But we can’t stay on a dead product so we know we gotta make a migration plan
130.
by sontek 6y ago
We are still on RethinkDB but know we have to get off it eventually :(
131.
by sontek 6y ago
I spent 2 years working on the infrastructure for a large silicon valley company to make it so we could do geo located data while maintaining a good experience for the user and when I left we had never completed the project. 1. If you want
132.
by sontek 6y ago
I think that happened for awhile in the early 2000s. I know we purchased a lot of UI component libraries back in the day. But I think we all had a enough of those component development companies go out of business or deprecate the version
133.
by sontek 6y ago
What was the point of using Twilio's API if you were using WebRTC already? Wouldn't it have already worked without twilio? I love the idea of the random mixing! I have the same thing happen where once I find a group I just stay
134.
by sontek 6y ago
As someone who lives in the mountains of Puerto Rico and has to rely on "unlimited" cell phone coverage that data caps me and satellite internet that also has data caps.... I can't wait until starlink is up and running and w
135.
by sontek 6y ago
We haven't tried cockroach yet because we are still on RethinkDB and are scarred by the experience of them going out of business. I hope someday I'll be comfortable enough to experiment and use something other than postgres.
136.
by sontek 6y ago
This is missing too many hand drawn stuff and memes. This isn't the jepsen I remember :P
137.
by sontek 7y ago
Python RapidJSON: https://github.com/python-rapidjson/python-rapidjson Is pretty amazing. Its the first library we add to most of our projects. I wonder if it would make sense to port it to using cffi so that pypy c
138.
by sontek 7y ago
Nice! I'm excited! I've been working on a heavy NLP project with spanish and been having some issues and so this will be nice to test out and see if it helps! I love spaCy and how its improving all the time
139.
by sontek 7y ago
I wouldn't publicly shame companies that might be regulated by slowing moving policies. Anyone who collects payments (any start-up that wants to stay around for long) is required to follow some form of PCI which currently still has rea
140.
by sontek 7y ago
Work at a business and look for problems within it that aren’t being solved. This can be inefficient processes that could be solved with software or replacing vendors you’re unhappy about with a better solution. You won’t be able to find a
141.
by sontek 8y ago
LiveJournal!
142.
by sontek 8y ago
Obsolete means to no longer be produced or used... These things are not obsolete. They aren't cool / widely used but definitely not obsolete if half the worlds financial systems still run on them.
143.
by sontek 8y ago
What would the opportunity cost? What does silicon valley have that philly doesn't?
144.
by sontek 8y ago
I started my company fully remote but doing payroll in multiple countries is a pain. Have you solved this? I'm limiting my employees to the areas I've already registered with the proper authorities and not hiring in any other
145.
by sontek 8y ago
Definitely not true. I think every developer understands that porn is pushing the limits of technology. If I saw someone coming from any of the big sites I'd definitely be interested in what they worked on. Every hiring manager I kno
146.
by sontek 8y ago
Yes! My wife is angry because most of our photos were on my account.
147.
by sontek 8y ago
* Weather We eliminated any area that got below 50 degrees at any time. My wife and I had no interest in being cold! * School Quality We have two children so school quality was very important to us. We used sites like: https://w
148.
by sontek 8y ago
A lot of founders are first time founders. They barely know how to run a company let alone shut one down. I think it is fine for investors to invest in great inexperienced people. Maybe it would make sense for the investors to mentor them
149.
by sontek 8y ago
I think the names and URLs are not matched up correctly. But other than that, yes.
150.
by sontek 8y ago
I don't play games and have both a Linux desktop and an iMac. When you are doing a lot of distributed systems and large datasets the beefier machines help a lot. I also have two laptops obviously but my main workhorses are the desktop

More ›