VeilEm

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by VeilEm 11y ago
Sure, I'm not saying YC is bad, it's immensely helpful in many ways. I'm just sharing some lessons that were very expensive and painful to learn.
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by VeilEm 11y ago
The products were already useful, there just wasn't a viable enough market for them. It's hard to know that this is a problem when you have 5% growth for a few months and think you've gotten something that works only to see i
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by VeilEm 11y ago
As a 3 time early employee of a YC funded startup I'm going to go ahead and say that the first customers benefit is as much a problem as a benefit because it presents the illusion of having a viable business. A lot of early customers o
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by VeilEm 11y ago
On HN every day brings some new event that completely changes everything forever and deserves all our attention and capacity for outrage. Don't you ever find this exhausting?
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by VeilEm 11y ago
Doesn't seem to work on enterprise github yet. :(
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by VeilEm 11y ago
It's analogous to building a 30+ person company around MS Office clip art circa 1995 or Print Shop banner designs circa 1985, only now the company is valued at $300m with $50m funding. For gif search. Because I need those memes and I n
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by VeilEm 11y ago
Would it be possible to create a nuclear power plant detector by trying to detect neutrinos?
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by VeilEm 11y ago
It's not insignficant. For one, the app icon looks completely different now. I had thought for a moment that I had uninstalled uber inadvertently before remembering their brand redesign in the tech press. For those not following the te
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by VeilEm 11y ago
> we couldn’t be happier to announce The tone of the announcement is in bad taste given the bad news for their customers.
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by VeilEm 11y ago
Good recruiters are essential for building a good team. I have been happy to know many of the great recruiters I have had the pleasure to be on the same team on. Hiring is a complex topic involving marketing the company, searching for candi
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by VeilEm 11y ago
I like "black swan"
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by VeilEm 11y ago
Given how hard hiring has been, I doubt it. The current talent shortage could absorb a huge number of engineers. A lot of startups are well funded for many years anyway. People are predicting doom and gloom but I really don't see it. H
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by VeilEm 11y ago
Any kind of JavaScript, iOS or Android engineer getting laid of will get a job within a month if they want. Competent backend developers, devops, ML engineers also will have no problems finding a job. I recently went through a job search in
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by VeilEm 11y ago
Eyes don't process information, they're a sensor. In an animal its brain, a multi-celled organ, processes the information.
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by VeilEm 11y ago
Oh I misread. That's a really good point and it's too late to edit my comment. Thank you.
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by VeilEm 11y ago
Makes a point of Meteor's age and then proceeds to say that they're using 0.10 node with a bit about not upgrading anytime soon. Seems legit.
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by VeilEm 11y ago
> The underlying question is: When we say in general relativity that particles can't travel faster than light, what is that speed measured relative to? It's based on the observation of two points of references moving a differen
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by VeilEm 11y ago
This didn't mention the expansion of space at all. The universe may be infinite in size but we'll never see the light of stars that exist so far from us that they are beyond the distance at which space expands faster than light ca
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by VeilEm 11y ago
SAT testing takes place while in high school, so test taking starts at age 15, but it's probably mostly 16 and 17 year olds who take the test I'd think.
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by VeilEm 11y ago
> which is intended for their Mars project Space X is a for profit company right? What's the profit incentive of going to Mars? A marketing ploy? Does SpaceX not have any investors besides Elon Musk to answer to about spending?
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by VeilEm 11y ago
> 1. Modify the license for django to stipulate that companies using the software must display a highly visible 'powered by the free version of Django' badge on their website. 2. Allow that notice to be removed for x per year.
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by VeilEm 11y ago
Reality is a lagging indicator. All this schadenfreude on HN, so much eager anticipation for bad things, why do you people read this site? There is real malicious intent among a lot of commentators. A lot of posts recently have been FUD and
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by VeilEm 11y ago
A monolithic PNG wouldn't have annoying animated ads or videos that push down content, they wouldn't pop over. They wouldn't be serving malware since it would come from wired. I would miss the ability to select text, but I wo
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by VeilEm 11y ago
How are they going to detect ad blocking? They're going to have to spend a long time fighting anti-ad block detection. You can't trust the client. Ads are displayed in the client. It would take hardware level ad serving to make ad
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by VeilEm 11y ago
> because it's just not worth encrypting That seems unlikely to be the reason but I don't know much about how satellites are programmed. On the terrestrial plane a $5 raspberry pi with free software can encrypt and decrypt secu
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by VeilEm 11y ago
I realize N Korea is pretty isolated, but China shares technology with the country right? Do engineers in N Korea go to school in China?
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by VeilEm 11y ago
I ended up deleting my LinkedIn account with hundreds of connections and recreating it with an email I use for spam. I haven't worried about linkedin emails since. Another recommendation I have: when you go on the job hunt, create an e
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by VeilEm 11y ago
Did they pay Randall Munroe to use his comics? Just curious.
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by VeilEm 11y ago
> They got a handle on security when Linux list a fire under their ass. I have my doubts that all 0.02% or whatever of PC users who are dedicated to using Linux as their desktop OS influenced Microsoft to do anything but if you have data
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by VeilEm 11y ago
Something along the lines of a hyper loop is the kind of shower thought anyone would have while they're stuck in traffic. "What if we just made super fast tunnels to get us places so I don't have to sit here and deal with thi

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