zanewill9

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US government makes it legal to reverse engineer code(preemptive.com)
10 points by zanewill9 10y ago|4 comments
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by zanewill9 10y ago
Alexa's done an admiral job of showing us what's possible. Still impressed how good it is (and how good it could become)
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Doomed-I-corns: Unicorns Seemingly Reach a Tipping Point(techcrunch.com)
3 points by zanewill9 11y ago|0 comments
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by zanewill9 11y ago
Sorry - good point. My question is SV-centric, but broader viewpoints would be useful as well.
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Ask HN: Usually engineering jobs are plentiful – is this a time to stay put?
28 points by zanewill9 11y ago|16 comments
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Confessions of a Serial Conference Attender(linkedin.com)
2 points by zanewill9 11y ago|1 comments
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by zanewill9 11y ago
The one year stock graphs for LNKD and TWTR now look remarkably similar (or at least they will tomorrow when the price is no longer "after market"). That seems surprising to me, all things considered I actually believe LNKD is a c
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by zanewill9 11y ago
This is probably a leftover opinion from just a few years ago using AWS. At that time, the pricing model increased shockingly fast with AWS. I know a few startups that were caught off-guard. AWS is far more competitive now and relatively in
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by zanewill9 11y ago
Although there's a strong "email sucks" sentiment in the world, I believe the truth is that email is a complex system that has actually already evolved quite well. Gmail is quite an adept tool. The inherent issue is volume -
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by zanewill9 11y ago
In my experience, people/companies will pay and in fact, want to, once they rely on a service enough. People generally get that payment gives them some semblance of rights (whereas consuming for free does not). If you're running a
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by zanewill9 11y ago
Inspiring.
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by zanewill9 11y ago
This was a fascinating (and daring) experiment. Sad it ended up like this.
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by zanewill9 11y ago
Beautiful beautiful program. Some of the preset scenarios are great (i.e. galaxy's colliding, Jupiters moons) (also, often on sale on Steam)
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by zanewill9 11y ago
This is a dangerous trend (especially since I've noticed other articles questioning a University education altogether). I was first alerted to it by (of all places) The magic-the-gathering professor: https://www.youtube.com&
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by zanewill9 11y ago
"like food-to-code machines" Great phrase - I'll be using that !
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Blue Origin launches and lands recovered rocket(techcrunch.com)
4 points by zanewill9 11y ago|0 comments
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by zanewill9 11y ago
I see a strong conflation of "older" with "lots of personal responsibilities" that affect job performance. It's clearly true that 30 year olds are more likely to have kids then 20 year olds, but it seems 40 and 50 y
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by zanewill9 11y ago
Excellent post. We like to think sometimes the underdog wins but sadly, success is typically given to those that were born with it. The unfortunate part to me is the credit they were given as if they were amazing, not born lucky.
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by zanewill9 11y ago
Angel list is a good place to start. Look for angels that you have connections to (or connections of connections). Don't ask for money - ask for advice. You'll learn a lot and if you are ready, you might start to get offers.