carterklein13

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by carterklein13 2y ago
Do NOT show this to most managers
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by carterklein13 2y ago
You actually just kind of gave an example of what I meant! Developers are the consumers in this case, and they'll almost always opt to use AWS and Azure versus hosting their own infra. It's easier, faster, usually cheaper, and it
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by carterklein13 2y ago
I personally think this will be one of the biggest "what the hell were we thinking" ideas to come out of the still-developing hangover of the 2013-2023 startup space. From my perspective, the once-startups that are now big compani
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by carterklein13 2y ago
Even if AI should be home-run, it probably won't be for most people. In a more technical community, it's natural to think that most people care about "values" when it comes to tech. However, the reality is that people
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by carterklein13 2y ago
I did a similar thing to you. However, I do feel like cutting your teeth as a "founding engineer" at an early startup has 2 major benefits: 1. You get to see what it's like under the covers, as you said. It's not nearly
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by carterklein13 6y ago
I think that was a pretty good place to get out without trying to time the market. I may eat these words, but I think BTC will see 20K again... ... at least, that's what I hope, as there's no way I'm buying in at an ATH.
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by carterklein13 6y ago
Maybe it won't go back down to 8, but I do consider it very likely it'll drop back down to at least 12-15. Humans simply don't work in a way that allows something to nearly triple (in value, land, whatever) overnight and stay
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by carterklein13 6y ago
This viewpoint doesn't hold true far outside of forums like this one and certain subreddits. People just don't care about any of the things you noted, and if they see everyone wearing Airpods Maxes, they'll want Airpods Maxes
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by carterklein13 6y ago
Super cool, I've never thought about it this way before. Having read about this stuff somewhat intensively, it just goes to show how many blind spots I have.
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by carterklein13 6y ago
This is an interesting take. As someone who is relatively interested in this stuff but by no means an expert (i.e. I've read a few pop-psych books), do you have any further reading I could do to see where you're coming from with t
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by carterklein13 6y ago
This is one of the main reasons I love using Go for backend work, and the lack of this functionality is just one of the reasons I dislike JavaScript. Anything to make JS feel less haphazard and more elegant (i.e. using TypeScript) is awesom
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by carterklein13 6y ago
FYI - not sure if this is your website, but when I press escape I'm taken to a Squarespace admin login page
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by carterklein13 6y ago
I thought it was just me that can never get the right god damn angle to see those signs! I swear the ones at Union Square I feel like a gymnast trying to just see how far away the next train is. Knowing the MTA, I'd guess your conspira
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by carterklein13 6y ago
I'd be curious to hear what someone who is just visiting NYC would think of something like this. From my experience, once tourists enter a subway station, all bets are off in terms of orienting yourself. I feel like the little LED indi
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by carterklein13 6y ago
A lot of people do this - just like I've seen a lot of people put "Arctic Code Vault Contributor" on their LinkedIn pages, or list that they're a student at MIT because they're taking a Coursera course taught by an
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by carterklein13 6y ago
Ugh, I hate stuff like that. Number of GitHub contributions, lines of code, number of commits - these don't actually tell people anything. I know to a recruiter doing a cursory glance, these things may be important, but it's just
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by carterklein13 6y ago
Definitely a valid point, I'll clarify because I definitely don't want people to shy away from open-source as I think it's some of the more altruistic work developers can do. Even typo fixes may not be a bad thing. I more mea
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by carterklein13 6y ago
I think #6 should be in big bold font at the top. I know Hacktoberfest is certainly exacerbating the problem, but as an open-source contributor for ~2 years myself, but someone who has been working on side projects using GitHub for like 7 y
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by carterklein13 6y ago
I have to disagree - I feel like most successful investors explicitly look for ideas that can grow in the exponential fashion you describe. YC particularly doesn't seem to show any interest towards linearly-scalable businesses AFAIK. E
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by carterklein13 6y ago
This, to me, is just furthering a new channel through which people try to get famous, like acting or being a professional athlete. Past the surface-level veil of "online presence," this article more or less just tells me "if
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by carterklein13 6y ago
I have to imagine that in most businesses and startups alike, at least those that survive, it's relatively common knowledge at this point that intelligence is not the critical determinant of a success. It's important if not necess
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by carterklein13 6y ago
I think this question begets the question of how we even classify life that isn't based on Earth's organic chemistry. If we only have one frame of reference for "life," how can we possibly classify or even recognize anot
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by carterklein13 6y ago
Depends on the location. In NYC, at least, that's definitely not the case (and it's a big reason why Manhattan is quickly turning into block after block of Starbucks followed by Chase Bank followed by Chipotle).
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by carterklein13 6y ago
Startups are about building new businesses, but not necessarily new business practices. Each startup is different, just like any other business. From culture to team makeup to line of business, no two companies are exactly alike. I imagine
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by carterklein13 6y ago
I've found standups to be probably the biggest waste of time of all Agile ceremonies (and I'm really not a fan of Agile as-is, but I'm too young to have experienced anything else so I can't say it's definitively bad
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by carterklein13 6y ago
I think the question isn't about "can or can't" but about "should or shouldn't." In my opinion, 24-year-old Stanford grads getting paid upwards of six figures directly out of college should not have any sa
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by carterklein13 6y ago
I think the one that surprises people the most is that they have no idea how most huge systems are frighteningly, perpetually in peril of going down or becoming breached. People like to joke about software engineers all being smart 20-somet
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by carterklein13 6y ago
Often, billionaires' legacies are only their name, their power, and their wealth. If anything, their actual personalities may be something even they hope people forget. The name, power, and wealth is what they want their children to ca
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by carterklein13 6y ago
What I feel like many people miss in this argument is that there's still currently no reason for the vast majority of people to want or care about the future being decentralized. Not only does majority of the population think companies
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by carterklein13 6y ago
I hope that was long enough in the past where they've done their DD and learned their very-much-needed lesson. Pre-MS Rare was my personal golden age of gaming. I don't really play anymore, but man do I think fondly on those days.

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