timewarrior

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by timewarrior 8y ago
Till recently, best and the brightest meant physically fit and having a gumption and desire to achieve something better. So US did get the best and brightest till recently! In today's connected world and population explosion, there is
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by timewarrior 8y ago
Agreed! People who think Companies wont go this far, need to look no further than the wage suppression agreement between Adobe, Apple Inc., Google, Intel, Intuit, Pixar, Lucasfilm and eBay. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki&#x2
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by timewarrior 8y ago
It will take 2 years to get a temporary Green Card. Even after that it take 2+ years to get Permanent Green Card, and it depends on a third party creating and maintaining jobs. So starting now doesn't help in the immediate term :( And
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by timewarrior 8y ago
I agree with this. While most people blame Republicans, it's Democrats who have been the biggest enemies of High Skilled Immigrants. There were many situations in the past 8 years, where laws could be passed to benefit High skilled imm
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by timewarrior 8y ago
Yes. Couldn't agree more!
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by timewarrior 8y ago
I built a company and sold it to Dropbox. Building another company to cure Cancer using AI. Leadership positions at various big companies. Wrote a book about Entrepreneurship which is part of an Executive MBA program. Built the biggest soci
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by timewarrior 8y ago
If I want to use it as a write only table where I would like to get virtual indexes for values inside the JSONb column. Would you recommend using Postgres for this usecase?
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by timewarrior 8y ago
This is great to know. I usually am able to manage without transactions. So alerts should be pretty fast.
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by timewarrior 8y ago
I have extensive experience with MySQL. In fact I used to run a really big social network (70M+ users) based on MySQL db. Main reason we chose Postgres was that JSON fields have been around for a few years. We really like the Mongo feature-
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by timewarrior 8y ago
We recently started investing in Postgres because of support of JSON fields and nested indexes in those fields. Should we have chosen MySQL?
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by timewarrior 8y ago
I have lived in the Bay Area for 6+ years. Could have bought a house, but the prices seemed crazy in 2014 and look a lot more crazier now. And the prices keep on creeping up higher! All my friends have bought houses. Some of them have bough
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by timewarrior 8y ago
All the systems which work on radar have similar limitations. More details: https://www.wired.com/story/tesla-autopilot-why-crash-radar/
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by timewarrior 8y ago
I see many comments wondering why does Tesla not recognize stationary objects when it has a forward looking radar. The radar can't distinguish between overhead signs, trees and things on the side of road. It only track moving things, o
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by timewarrior 8y ago
Exactly. I used Cruise control for the longest time. However having used Autonomous features on Tesla and Mercedes, I can't use Cruise Control anymore. It's just too risky. Tesla Autonomous features have the brains of a 2 year old
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by timewarrior 8y ago
I own a Model X. I love the car in many ways. However, I also think the automation is stupider than a 2 year old. Would you trust a 2 year old to drive your car or to decide when to close your Garage door? I use the Auto-Steer, only when ro
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by timewarrior 9y ago
Yea. But if giving up 20% of SpaceX gives him 100% of Tesla, he might go for it. Hope it doesn't get to this!
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by timewarrior 9y ago
I think is it more likely that Elon will use his equity from SpaceX to take it private.
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by timewarrior 9y ago
Isn't this an oxymoron. Open borders completely, but against H1B program.
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Ask HN: Is Azure reliable? If not, what is the best place to create windows VMs?
2 points by timewarrior 9y ago|2 comments
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by timewarrior 9y ago
There are a few reasons why AirBnb is succeeding and many other gig economies are struggling. 1. AirBnb is a global market place. It’s much more difficult to build a global market place and its much easier to defend your moat once you are a
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by timewarrior 9y ago
I can't edit my previous comment anymore. The point 2 should have been: >> 2. Behind Silicon Valley on latest technology and product building practices by at least 2 years. I instead used the word "best" which doesn&#x2
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by timewarrior 9y ago
Nowhere did I say that Swiss startups are hopeless, either due to this reason or overall. This was a conclusion driven by nextstep and few others. And I think it was largely due to my mistake. I should have used "latest" where as
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by timewarrior 9y ago
Probably I used the wrong word. Maybe a better word is no definitive path after getting permanent residency. It depends on the whim and fancy of the local canton. Most countries have a definitive path after getting permanent residency.
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by timewarrior 9y ago
Maybe bleeding edge is a better word. They just try a lot more things and find out faster what is working and what isn't working. Most of them turn out to be useless but the ones that work give them an early start.
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by timewarrior 9y ago
Bigger a part of your business software is, faster the growth happens. Ebay like marketplaces still have a big physical world component present. Even if it isn't ebay, it might be some other company in Australia. Or maybe trademe becom
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by timewarrior 9y ago
No, this isn't satire. Please check my other comment: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16218591 There are always exceptions (like your containerization example), which can be attributed to serious tech players like
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by timewarrior 9y ago
Quite a few of these were produced out of Google and FB, so it makes sense they would be based out of MV/Meno Park. However most of the unicorns or near unicorns since 2010 have been based in SF. Dropbox, AirBnb, Uber, Lyft, Stripe, Ze
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by timewarrior 9y ago
Maybe choosing own network and use of own time wisely would help. Filter might be better vs ignore. If would rather be in a position where I can get potentially useful and useless information so that I can filter vs not having much informat
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by timewarrior 9y ago
Not just that. This happened when a Uber like model doesn't have any inherent global market place advantages. Most users in a city take a cab in their own city most of the time. If even having this in their favor, small players are fin
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by timewarrior 9y ago
Not all global mega corps need to salt the earth. To some extent disruption will have side effects. Some like Uber are deliberately evil and others like Apple, Salesforce etc might not. My original point was that people were attempting idea

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