Toph

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Quick virtualenv fix on Mountain Lion(gist.github.com)
1 points by Toph 14y ago|0 comments
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by Toph 14y ago
1. I would have highly recommended you work on whatever project on the side BEFORE moving to Silicon Valley. Get feedback, build a prototype, launch, fix bugs, etc, and go somewhere with it. 2. THEN I would have recommended moving at that p
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by Toph 14y ago
There are a few companies that have internal reward systems like this that I've come across in the past. Usually bigger size companies. You'll have to try and validate this with target customers to see if there is enough of a need for this
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by Toph 14y ago
No internet doesn't prevent software to be written or hardware to be made. That's where I'd be and where I'm going.
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by Toph 14y ago
I was excited till I saw the video too although I think his "tone" or way of speaking and quirks bugged me more than lack of a prototype and cool music. I know that's a pretty shitty thing to say but its true (at least for me). Ironically h
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by Toph 14y ago
1. Clean up the code as much as you can and document everything if you haven't already. 2. Explain your feelings and situation to the team, help them understand. Tell them you did the above and help them try to hire someone new. 3. Irregard
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by Toph 14y ago
It was always base on if we felt there was something that would either help the company, help the engineer themselves, or of value in some other way. No set limits but usually no more than a couple conferences per year either way.
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by Toph 14y ago
I feel Exec is a niche of what TaskRabbit is aiming to do
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by Toph 14y ago
I've also seen many people who learn things incorrectly and do harm to themselves from reading this site and others as well. It goes both ways and totally up to interpretation. As I once crossed a book in a bookstore which a cover which rea
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by Toph 14y ago
This isn't a pic of my actual desk (pulled from Google Images) but its the exact same desk I have, minus the drawer (was too lazy to take a pic): http://farm5.staticflickr.com/4118/5221683438_8716ac1be8_z.j... Been using it for the last 6
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by Toph 14y ago
1. Actually understands the full extent of the business side. You wouldn't partner with a coder who can't code and is learning on the job so why would a technical founder want to partner with a non-technical "business" cofounder who doesn't
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by Toph 14y ago
Agree they should learn. Disagree that's why they're called "engineers". Plenty of engineers in various fields don't code.
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by Toph 14y ago
I thought of an idea similar to this a few years back but a VERY different implementation. Unfortunately the project was finished (in code) but never launched due to limitations of other platforms at the time to support the overall way the
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by Toph 14y ago
Someone asked this earlier today and I responded here: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4187539
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by Toph 14y ago
As you can imagine, this is HIGHLY subjective. What is interesting to you may not be interesting to me and vice versa. From your Facebook example, aside from the fact that it had "huge" growth potential, I can't decipher reasons for why YOU
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by Toph 14y ago
Although my son is too young for me to personally comment on how this works, I've read comments on here some time back about other parents teaching their kids python through http://inventwithpython.com/ I think its worth exploring althoug
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by Toph 14y ago
There is a google chrome extension that fixes this called Hacker News Collapsible Comments
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by Toph 14y ago
$5k is pretty reasonable in my experience
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by Toph 14y ago
I love RSS... But I hate the sheer volume of noise and repetitive shit that gets rehashed over and over again across numerous feeds. I subscribe to a large variety of topics too, not just startups and technical news. It happens in every gro
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by Toph 14y ago
Majority of the stuff I work on are generally for personal use or solving a personal annoyance/pain point. A good chunk of them ends up being launched as good side businesses as a byproduct but they weren't done with the intention of such.
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Google IO 2012 Keynote Day 1 [video](youtube.com)
2 points by Toph 14y ago|0 comments
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by Toph 14y ago
Working on my own stuff
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Ask HN: Facebook News Feed Client (for Mac) Aggregator
1 points by Toph 14y ago|0 comments
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by Toph 14y ago
Sorry, did I miss something. What is the first rule?
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by Toph 14y ago
Then I'm not sure if you should claim to be a growth hacker. My impressions of the term is someone who is proficient at both coding and marketing...
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Ask HN: Which Usenet Service Do You Use?
7 points by Toph 14y ago|7 comments
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by Toph 14y ago
I use both. Rather than rely on one or the other, they each have their own uses for specific things. Sometimes they overlap and sometimes they don't. Reasoning varies a lot. I should note that I don't think of organic traffic as purely SEO.
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by Toph 14y ago
A growth hacker means you can hack. Why not take on the coding jobs?
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by Toph 14y ago
Unless things have changed, Craigslist doesn't charge for rental listings. They charge for job listings.
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by Toph 14y ago
This is the semi-wrong approach. Going to blogs is good. Going to any blog is bad. You need to find targeted blogs in your niche. Unless your product is specifically for the tech crowd.

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