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by connor 6y ago
Notable | Senior software engineer | Remote | https://notablelabs.com Here at Notable, we're building a robotic platform to fight cancer, one patient at a time. Our translational drug discovery platform identifies treatment
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by connor 11y ago
Notable Labs (YC W15) | https://notablelabs.com | San Francisco, CA | Full Time | Onsite Changing the way cancer is treated is our personal mission, which starts with putting patients first. We’ve developed an individualized lab
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by connor 11y ago
Townsquared - https://townsqd.com - San Francisco, CA - Hiring: Frontend Engineer, Fullstack Engineer Townsquared empowers local businesses by providing easy way for them to communicate on a secure, neighborhood based social net
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by connor 12y ago
Orange County, CA or remote surfbreakrentals.com Part time contracted (40 hours per week, 4 month minimum) Seeking Freelancer Ruby on Rails and Javascript intermediate/senior developer to work with on Surfbreak Rentals, the a place to
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by connor 13y ago
I'd take this further and add that you should always be doing something wrong in the pursuit of more than just code. As a novice programmer you can spin your wheels learning every best practice without building much of anything. And H
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by connor 14y ago
Good idea. Does that Cinema Display on their homepage also look odd to anyone else? https://d2221r371oqwhn.cloudfront.net/assets/feature-image-b...
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by connor 14y ago
I second, works great.
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by connor 14y ago
This article came across as offensive. Honestly if a company is actively classifying people as losers, it's not really the type of company I'd like to work at. A better hiring policy might be 'hire amazing people' and then look for the am
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by connor 14y ago
btguard.com is pretty much this. But you need to pay for it, because getting decent speed requires some servers.
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by connor 14y ago
Those facts kind of debunked any point the article was making. Interesting look on the past perhaps.
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by connor 14y ago
Creating a more appealing activity for girls seems like a good step. An even better step might be trying to fix perceptions regarding the engineering centric activities out there for kids (lego mindstorms, fort building, etc). Right now th
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by connor 14y ago
There's a startup campus in SOMA. Bunk-bed dorm style, mostly devs + startupers, $35/night if they still have space (I think they're almost filled with the Disrupt coming up). I've heard good things, message me and I'll put you in touch w
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by connor 14y ago
I agree, this entire article is a waste of time. How can you draw any kind of blanket conclusions from such a contrived experiment? At the very least talk to some actual businesses and see what their opinions are.
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by connor 14y ago
I agree- perhaps a dimming highlight would be a bit nicer (background dims, except for a box around the selected link). Otherwise, great work.
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by connor 14y ago
Excellent critique. I feel that HN often blows by rational ignorance with some of it's advice ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rational_ignorance ). Sometimes it's best to do it wrong and actually do something, rather than hopping around pe
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by connor 14y ago
My co-founder and I are hopping among different start-up hubs in the US to get a feel for this sort of thing. So far, Boulder has been the most dense (though it's small in size- ~ pop 100,000). And Austin seems to be one of the most activ
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by connor 14y ago
This seemed like a curious enough question I had that followed from the original Valve Flat Org HN post. I imagined others might share my curiosity. It's possible no Valve employee reads HN (unlikely), but at the very least someone might po
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Ask Valve employees: How well does the flat organization work?
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by connor 14y ago
Me too. Bobby tables is classic. http://xkcd.com/327/
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by connor 14y ago
Really not clear what this is...
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by connor 14y ago
Yes, but including a lot of unexperienced investors actually increases the risk of failure. The distraction alone (in time spent managing these investors) might be the death of any startup. Imagine trying to deal with hundreds of mini-vc'
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by connor 14y ago
A better summary is needed. I quit out when the beginning ad-speak didn't wrap up in 2 minutes.
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by connor 14y ago
Pretty cool, just that sad smtp error at the end.
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by connor 14y ago
Yeah, providing services can often feel a bit fruitless, mostly because scaling services are a lot harder than scaling a simple product. I'd advise you to at least focus in on a niche/market when providing your services. That way, you'll
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by connor 14y ago
I wonder how this shortage will be solved. There's some cool solutions coming out in response to the dev shortage- for example, CodeYear. Perhaps similar resources will emerge for training future designers? But I'm not sure how effective s
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by connor 14y ago
Fascinating :). Nice work.
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by connor 14y ago
Looks interesting, congrats on getting a product out. A bit of design advice- stick to 2 font styles on the frontpage. The 4 current styles are too much to process and take away from your message. Best of luck!
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by connor 15y ago
Good article to a very common problem. The only thing I'd add- use CSS when possible instead of an image. I often see low resolution shapes as images (like rounded buttons for example) that could easily just have been done in CSS- which l
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by connor 15y ago
I agree with ig1, a past work record is the best predictor (and I imagine evidence of past success is far more important for any hackernews reader than any paper degree). Be upfront with what roles you've played. Having to ask for further
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by connor 15y ago
Honestly, it sounds like you really need to decide what you want- do you want to launch an internet startup or do you want to continue as a professional oral surgeon? If you choose to take your money and launch your own general internet sta

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