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by troquerre 6y ago
What country blocks Reddit?
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by troquerre 6y ago
I wouldn’t use it for big commercial projects because the ecosystem isn’t very big (ie I wouldn’t build a b2b saas app with it) but for small projects and side projects it’s great.
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China’s TikTok bootstrapped its flywheel(tieshunroquerre.com)
1 points by troquerre 6y ago|0 comments
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by troquerre 6y ago
How did Roblox solve the chicken and egg problem of getting developers to build games on their platform and getting kids to play them — did they launch with their own games first?
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by troquerre 6y ago
Are there any open source alternatives to retool? We’re uncomfortable using a third party tool for our internal operational workflows without more visibility into the source
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by troquerre 6y ago
Compliance seems to be an increasing concern for tech companies. I think Sym is making a smart play here.
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by troquerre 6y ago
Digital gold is a better analogy for BTC than digital cash. As a value reserve BTC has a lot of desirable properties over gold (try moving $10m of gold around...). The fact that it's fairly easy to spend BTC is an additional positive p
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by troquerre 6y ago
Namebase | Full stack engineer and Backend engineer (Node.js) | REMOTE | https://namebase.io Namebase is on a mission to enable freedom, security, and ownership on the Internet. We’re doing this by making Handshake — a new decen
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by troquerre 6y ago
Try resolving welcome.nb/
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by troquerre 6y ago
Traditionally two of the issues with federation have been sharing namespaces and sharing logins. Once you need a single source of truth, the federation breaks and you need to rely on a central authority. There are some new decentralized pro
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by troquerre 6y ago
Agreed we should have names at the root level. There's a new DNS protocol that enables this called Handshake. It's an alternative root zone where anyone can register a root TLD through an open vickrey auction (unlike ICANN which o
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by troquerre 6y ago
The summer job at Teespring was an internship — iirc around minimum wage. After my internship I became a fulltime employee and they put me on a normal salary which made SF more affordable.
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by troquerre 6y ago
Not at all! I expected disparaging comments and I’ve been pleasantly surprised with how encouraging many of the comments are. Thank you for your kind words as well :)
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by troquerre 6y ago
You’re right that’s an interesting contrast. Can you share why you ended up leaving? I’m curious about your perspective. I started coding when I was 13 and started wanting to build companies around the same time so I think that focus of des
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by troquerre 6y ago
Author here. I appreciate you sharing this message and I completely agree — I think it's really important to separate happiness from being dependent on success. So much of success comes from luck and timing that basing happiness off it
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by troquerre 6y ago
Yeah it was around 13/14 that I found YC. I think it was through a programming humor subreddit haha.
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by troquerre 6y ago
The amazing thing is that Silicon Valley doesn't take advantage of young founders in this way (at least much less than in the East Coast/other environments I've seen). YC did a lot to change the culture of VC in Silicon Valle
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by troquerre 6y ago
There will always be characteristics that are advantageous, but what's beautiful about SV is that it's possible to succeed without those advantages. I'm not sure I've seen that anywhere else — at least not at the scale
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by troquerre 6y ago
I sent a cold email to Walker Williams who was the CEO of Teespring at the time. I created a functional clone of Teespring and shared the demo with him which got me the job.
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by troquerre 6y ago
VC as a category is not meant for stable returns — the goal is to find breakout successes with power law returns that return the entire fund. VC LPs (like the Yale college endowment) allocate only a small portion of their AUM into VCs knowi
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by troquerre 6y ago
> This seems like sheer dumb luck. For every one of him (or you, if you're reading this) there's a lot of people who thrash and struggle. I went through 80+ job applications before I got one offer last search, and that's l
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by troquerre 6y ago
I’m half Chinese half white. I’m impressed you could tell from photos!
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by troquerre 6y ago
I was a high school dropout when I applied to YC — I got into MIT only after going through YC, so it’s the other way around. Going through YC definitely helped me get to MIT. There’s a meta lesson in that success begets success which is obs
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by troquerre 6y ago
Author here. I completely agree that privilege opens doors not available to others. But my intention was that it’s possible to break into Silicon Valley and succeed (to the extent you can consider going through YC success...) even without p
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What I Learned Going Through YC as a 17 Year Old(tieshunroquerre.com)
143 points by troquerre 6y ago|142 comments
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by troquerre 6y ago
The problem is that the root issue of ICANN corruption hasn’t gone away. So there will be more problems in the future, you can count on it. There are initiatives like https://handshake.org that are trying to do away with ICANN e
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by troquerre 6y ago
The amazing thing is the ICANN tried to frame the decision to shelve the .org sale as a decision that they initiated, when it was only after numerous organizations like the EFF and even the California Attorney General steppes in that they d
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by troquerre 6y ago
This is why projects like Handshake exist[1]. It’s a DNS protocol that aims to replace CAs and decentralize the governance of TLDs as well. [1] https://handshake.org
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by troquerre 6y ago
Here’s another good article on how to set up DANE/TLS using Handshake as your root of trust instead of CAs https://medium.com/@ca98am79/how-to-view-dane-tlsa-websites-... The use-case above is what I’m most excite
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by troquerre 6y ago
NextDNS is great. I've been using it for the last few months to access Handshake sites[1] and there have been no issues, and it's important that there are more resolvers than just Cloudflare and Google on the market. [1] You need

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