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by staunch 11y ago
It's great as a survival instinct.
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by staunch 11y ago
HN has grown so much since then. That might not seem like much of a response compared to what a top story gets now, but it was a big deal at the time. It was in the top 10 on the homepage for at least a couple days.
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by staunch 11y ago
Drew Houston said (in an interview) that he viewed HN's response to Dropbox as extremely positive. A few people made critical comments but thousands of people signed up and it was highly upvoted.
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by staunch 11y ago
It may be time for that hippocratic oath for engineers idea to become a reality. I'd take it and live by it.
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by staunch 11y ago
These are not the downtrodden masses. Immigrant does not mean poor. These are wealthy upper class people coming to the most logical place to create a successful technology company, because they can afford to do so. Poor people are usually s
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by staunch 11y ago
Maybe he can switch to weed? I helped a family member give up dangerous levels of drinking by helping him get a prescription. Then he gave up smoking weed entirely and now only drinks rarely. One successful example...
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by staunch 11y ago
Tim Cook has done a lot at Apple, but this ethical stand will likely be the most important thing he does in his life. It's a big fucking deal.
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by staunch 11y ago
Read job descriptions for the companies you're interested in. Learn as much as you can about the technology and terminology they use.
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by staunch 11y ago
The politics of poverty stop many more.
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by staunch 11y ago
I've worked for LA and NY companies (among others) and never seen anything like the elitism that exists in Silicon Valley. Silicon Valley is mostly funded by a few elite institutions, so it shouldn't be a surprise that they fund e
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by staunch 11y ago
On the positive side, no one can stop you from making lots of money using the internet. And if you have something that really takes off, those same investors will line up at your door.
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by staunch 11y ago
> candidates who have worked at a top company or studied at a top school go on to pass interviews at a 30% higher rate than programmers who don’t have these credentials (for a given level of performance on our credential-blind screen).
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by staunch 11y ago
My mother lives next to a busy Airbnb. The Airbnb guests regularly wake her up at 2AM by drunkenly pounding on her door. She complained to Airbnb. They don't care. My previous apartment building (in a tourist area) was full of Airbnb g
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by staunch 11y ago
Someone creates the user interface and someone creates each of the backend APIs that powers it. Prototyping the user interface can be done by any number of people any number of times, since the goal is to experiment with different ideas. Th
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by staunch 11y ago
If it was $50k or $100k, they might onto something. There's just not much any team can do on $20k, especially in Silicon Valley. So far, they've rejected every single startup except one, which they gave just $5k to. http:/&#
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by staunch 11y ago
You can probably still get a better deal on a Zojirushi (or similar) water boiler or rice cooker. You can definitely get a better deal on an electric kotatsu or other household gadgets. You can find anything you want in Osaka, which is a qu
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by staunch 11y ago
I believe they worked together very well actually, but my grandfather could apparently be far too harsh with his feedback. Asimov complained bitterly in his autobiography about this, but also gave him some grudging respect. I think my grand
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by staunch 11y ago
Neat to see on HN. My grandfather, Horace Leonard Gold (H.L. Gold), created Galaxy Magazine. It was kind of a hot little startup in 1950s N.Y. He had some very strong opinions about what made good scifi, liked to pay writers more than was s
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by staunch 11y ago
Where "culture" really means class. Lower class culture vs upper class culture. Poor people make non-poor people very uncomfortable. The bar scene in Good Will Hunting is such a good example.
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by staunch 11y ago
Tim Cook has the future of technology on his side. His opposition is tilting at windmills.
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by staunch 11y ago
Context does matter though. If you're talking about startups in Silicon Valley, it's completely correct to exclude normal small business and focus on technology-based startups aka "tech startups". They really are very di
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by staunch 11y ago
Probably the single best essay on startup advice that has ever been written: Jessica Livingston: Why Startups Need to Focus on Sales, Not Marketing http://blogs.wsj.com/accelerators/2014/06/03/jessica-liv
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by staunch 11y ago
A corporatocracy. It's not so surprising when you consider that corporations can span many countries. Apple doesn't need the U.S. nearly as much as the U.S. needs Apple.
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by staunch 11y ago
If it wasn't for Tim Cook...all the other tech giants are failing ethically.
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by staunch 11y ago
Google is really not a great company at this point. There is absolutely nothing special about Google that you should worry about missing out on. You will truly be happier elsewhere. Once you have a new job, everything will be fine again. W
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by staunch 11y ago
Name one person with more insight and experience that is also willing to speak publicly.
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by staunch 11y ago
I realized a while ago that most my interests fall into two categories. 1. Learning (e.g. studying programming, history, people) 2. Competing (e.g. FPS/RTS games, martial arts, archery).
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by staunch 11y ago
From http://www.paulgraham.com/submarine.html > Our startup spent its entire marketing budget on PR: at a time when we were assembling our own computers to save money, we were paying a PR firm $16,000 a month. And they
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by staunch 11y ago
From the HN guidelines https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html > Getting down voted for merely asking a question and trying to provoke actual thought? Please resist commenting about being downvoted. It never
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by staunch 11y ago
Most interviewers don't ask enough technical questions to have any idea what a candidate knows or doesn't know. If their one or two questions happen to be something the candidate knows well, they'll call them a genius. If

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