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by synnik 15y ago
While I'm the first one to point out that Western medical doctors do not know everything, this is going too far in the opposite direction. Crowdsourcing your health without any credentials behind the answers? Sounds really sketchy to me...
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by synnik 15y ago
Looks fine, but as a potential customer, my main question is not answered: Why should I stop using SugarSync in favor of you?
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by synnik 15y ago
Solar composting outhouses? Just like already exist in some campgrounds? Is this really a problem that needs a new solution?
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by synnik 15y ago
Also, be aware that it is OK to bomb an interview. The point of interviewing is to find a match. If you and the company do not have a cultural fit, it is better to find out and both go your own ways. So I recommend above all to simply be yo
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by synnik 15y ago
But who are you targeting as your audience? Just HN? Really?? The comments clearly show that even a portion of HN is offended. And doesn't every single startup want the largest audience possible? It seems horribly short-sighted to make deci
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by synnik 15y ago
I think you are being unrealistic about acquisition. I hear way too many discussions on HN about monetizing your products, and people looking for their big exit/payday. People are not going to give up their exit plan because of an idealisti
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by synnik 15y ago
Oh, be serious. I still use my @hotmail.com account extensively. I've had it since before MS bought it, so I think it is more a sign of my longevity online than anything else. Most professional software engineers that I know feel the same w
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by synnik 15y ago
The difference is the impact it will have on our society. Isolated cases of illegal actions, to support the greater good, do have their place. But praising it to the world is going to play on others' emotions, encouraging them to do the sam
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by synnik 15y ago
When did I ever say anything about standing by?
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by synnik 15y ago
I am not chiding him for acting. I am chiding people for praising his actions.
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by synnik 15y ago
Report the incident to people with authority to act on it. Law Enforcement, his ISP, his data provider... anyone really, who has a legal right to stop the behavior.
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by synnik 15y ago
Responding to one illegal action with another illegal action is not exactly praiseworthy in my book.
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by synnik 15y ago
Agreed. My startup is very atypical for HN (Renewable energy, so we do multi-million dollar research projects, deploy equipment that costs from 2-100 million, and our seed round is looking like we are going to close at about 150 million dol
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by synnik 15y ago
I'll buy that IF you can tell me what innovations in 1961 were affecting the general public, and who was driving them. I rather suspect cultural memory is short-term.
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by synnik 15y ago
You also inadvertently prove a more subtle point of internships. Employees who offer the greatest value are ones who are engaged with the company and want to be part of it. If someone doesn't think enough of us to want to go through the tro
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by synnik 15y ago
"There is no good way to put comments into GUI." Maybe he hasn't seen any, but this seems a harsh conclusion. Whoever wrote the GUI could track history of changes, make comments required, and show it in the GUI. There is a vast difference b
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by synnik 15y ago
11. Learn how the entire stack works. I see way too many people coding around problems that could be solved at the server level, the network layer, etc.
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by synnik 15y ago
Wow. We hire almost every intern that works for us, unless they suck. Internships are also normally done pre-graduation from college. It is not a job, it is in exchange for college credit. We hire the day they graduate. But it is also up to
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by synnik 15y ago
It is not "my method". Just an explanation of why the law seems intuitive to me. I expected everyone to extrapolate out from my examples for other ending points, and which point, yes, the % for the digit of "1" would drop, and approach that
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by synnik 15y ago
Why is this not common sense? For the numbers 1-19, more than half of them start with 1. For the numbers 1-199, more than half of them start with one. Change the examples to 1-299, 1-399, etc, and you'll get percentages of all digits match
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by synnik 15y ago
But suburbs are also taking themselves back. Many suburbs have been working to bring the jobs (and taxes) back into themselves. They also have their own utilities and water supplies, and clearly the shopping is there. The biggest gap is foo
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by synnik 15y ago
Because the bottleneck is not the trains, it is the rails. The tracks themselves are privately owned by freight railroads. To truly make high-speed rail will require a new era of track building.
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by synnik 15y ago
... and that is exactly how funding would have to work -- tied to an ongoing organization's operations. Academia has their endowments and perma-fundraising. Religions have donations and tithing. This effort would need an analogous long term
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by synnik 15y ago
The problem I see with this complaint is what "End of Life" means in corporate IT. What it boils down to in practical terms is that the vendor no longer is available for support calls. We continue to run many EOL apps because of these kinds
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by synnik 15y ago
1) Give them your email. 2) They tell you, "Want an invite? Invite more friends!" Even for a legitimate product, this approach makes it feel like a scam.
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by synnik 15y ago
In short, the founder of the business has developed new hydro-kinetic generators that have higher efficiencies than the existing technologies. So they can generate power from a slower-moving river. The generators can be placed in standalone
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by synnik 15y ago
Just in the last week, I started informally helping a renewable energy startup, as they move from testing their new generators into seeking funding to deploy them across South America. We've got one built, being put in place in the Amazon r
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by synnik 15y ago
I am a software developer in the energy industry. So whether or not that is Computer Science is up for debate. I do need to have my skills up on the technology in use, and I most definitely need to have a solid understanding of technology.
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by synnik 15y ago
It is always dangerous to assume what answers are desired by an interviewer. Interviews are not just to get the job - it is to determine whether or not you would even want the job in the first place. So in this particular case, I would answ
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by synnik 15y ago
When one person drives the platform strategy, and it is opinion-driven, then conflict like this is inevitable. You either agree or you don't, and if DHH changes his mind, you might changes yours, too. I don't think it is a statement on the

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