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by sown 14y ago
This is a good insight. Thank you. 'though I can't think of anything a community would want...
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by sown 14y ago
How does one come up with something to sell? I don't know anything about PM so I could never write something like that.
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by sown 14y ago
I imagine that our descendants will have a certain kind empathetic pity on us for not knowing this for certain in the same way we look back on people not knowing what atoms were.
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by sown 14y ago
what are your favorite biz dev skills?
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Ask HN: How does a programmer also help out with BizDev?
2 points by sown 14y ago|3 comments
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by sown 14y ago
I think you file a police report and tell them that you have the IP address. They can subpoena necessary information.
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by sown 14y ago
Ever since my favorite Youtube Channel, SFDebris, moved to another video site after having been wrongfully flagged twice for copyright violation, I've been hoping that 'fair use' would be included.
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by sown 14y ago
It sounds like education could be even more disrupted there than here?
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by sown 14y ago
He was wrong a couple of sentences but I think what OP is getting at is that the government has not and will not engage in a systematic apparatus of prejudice like Jim Crow laws, the radio-active half life of which stay with us for a long t
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by sown 14y ago
I find it curious that the biggest arguments against his story are not addressing the author's central point.
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11th-hour donation saves Hacker Dojo (mv-voice.com)
2 points by sown 14y ago|0 comments
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by sown 14y ago
I think part of the problem with those demos is that perhaps the robot detects humans in the room and I keep reading from their press releases that they do indeed slow down when humans are near and stop entirely when very close.
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by sown 14y ago
Reading the first couple of questions makes me think about how people of the late, late 18th century thought similarly about air ships and how air power would turn out to be. H.G. Wells wrote a book called "Clipper In The Clouds" and it als
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by sown 14y ago
If the system protects the rights of an alleged criminal it should protect your rights.
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by sown 14y ago
> More people should learn how to freelance. If a job's going to force you to do it, seize the opportunity to do it right. OK, will do. :) This job, though, is for employee #5 at a place for an ambitious startup and with people I've hea
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by sown 14y ago
> I wish it were more common. Me, too, cause I suck at technical interviews. I have a portfolio of code, i've been at this for a while, I read the whitepaper and was able to talk about it intelligently, what more do they want?
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by sown 14y ago
So I guess my next step is to try very hard for the next two weeks? :)
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by sown 14y ago
Thanks for this tip. It's very helpful.
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by sown 14y ago
> Are they technical founders or business based? Both. I trust the technical guy I talked to. We'll see.
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by sown 14y ago
They seem like OK guys. It's for a very early employee at a startup, though; Don't know if that's common.
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Ask HN: Two-week contract to hire. Is this normal?
4 points by sown 14y ago|16 comments
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Rethink Robotics (nee Heartland Robotics) 'Baxter' robot revealed(technologyreview.com)
6 points by sown 14y ago|0 comments
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by sown 14y ago
As a alleged kernel engineer I wonder what this means for me. For now, I see it means that one person out of a dozen gets to write the device driver -- if that --and the rest of us get to do patch slavery. heh. :) as far as linux, it is kin
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by sown 14y ago
Are VCs that harsh in reality?
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by sown 14y ago
Well, now that I think about it, maybe, but I have no idea how to approach it and I think a year of sown-level of insight is probably worth about a week's worth of insight from someone who's way smarter than me. I don't know how to deal wit
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by sown 14y ago
I have to go meet people first, but this seems like good advice. :)
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by sown 14y ago
Heh, I'm not really sure.
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by sown 14y ago
Perhaps but I think I would want to keep something like that close to my heart, not because I'm paranoid but because I really want to learn the code behind it so I know what's going on. Besides, it's using technology I'm not used to and I n
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Ask HN: I can't think of anything that I could make that people would want.
9 points by sown 14y ago|21 comments
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by sown 14y ago
I wish I could create things that people might actually want but I can't think of anything that I could make that people would want.

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