gentschev

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by gentschev 6mo ago
Out of curiosity, what did you segue into from the second youth, or are you still in it? Those phases seem fun but potentially hard to get out of, either because you don't want to or because you've lost the legibility that employe
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by gentschev 2y ago
There's also the related failure mode of deciding you're going to fix all your other system problems as part of the migration, bloating the scope and creating too much complexity. Just do the necessary stuff, migrate, and then go
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by gentschev 3y ago
I'm not a lawyer, but if you've been using it commercially, I believe you have the trademark. Theoretically, you could sue them for infringement, although I don't know whether you could claim damages or just get them to stop
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by gentschev 4y ago
Flow state
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by gentschev 5y ago
Ride sharing as a whole isn't going away. It's better than calling a cab or whatever used to be. But I could see Uber and Lyft each ending up as $5-10 B software layers on top of driving, not $50-100 B ones.
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by gentschev 13y ago
I don't think you need to be social at all, but it is helpful to have meaningful work samples for potential employers to evaluate. Github's just the easiest place to put those. It's similar to a design portfolio for a designe
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by gentschev 13y ago
Tribune Media Services - San Francisco, Chicago, upstate New York, REMOTE (for exceptional candidates) We're looking for engineers who like problem-solving and learning new technology, not just programmers. Join us to work on the data
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by gentschev 13y ago
Tribune Media Services - San Francisco, Chicago, upstate New York, REMOTE (for exceptional candidates) We're looking for engineers, not programmers. Join us to work on challenging problems in entertainment data processing with a small,
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by gentschev 13y ago
Tribune Media Services - Software engineers San Francisco, Chicago, Amsterdam - Full time, on-site or remote --------- We're looking for full-stack engineers to work on the leading TV, movie, and celebrity entertainment data set in the indu
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by gentschev 14y ago
Because it's not their government, and it opens a very large door to foreign governments trying to influence elections. Really, this is a question?
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by gentschev 14y ago
The scarce resource in being a successful politican isn't really money, and it certainly isn't being smart, progressive, or informed. It's the ability to persuade people. Regardless, I think the idea that anyone could be president is kind o
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by gentschev 14y ago
Oh boy, so now it's a spelling comment. Even better.
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"I'm too busy to talk unless you're raising now"(gentschev.tumblr.com)
1 points by gentschev 15y ago|0 comments
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by gentschev 15y ago
Good talk, but lots of big generalities. You have to pick and choose what to really take to heart, IMO. Good counterpoint that you may have already seen: http://www.humbledmba.com/dont-give-bullshit-advice
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by gentschev 15y ago
Agreed. If anything, you won't have to worry about those death-bed regrets for long. Also, this type of thing always seems skewed to people who worked a lot. What do the under-achievers regret?
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Is LinkedIn Worth $3 Billion?(brekiri.com)
1 points by gentschev 15y ago|0 comments
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by gentschev 15y ago
We all agree the article's dumb and pretty poorly written. Many lower income people pay no income taxes at all. I think that's rightly so, but it seems silly to write about a lack of redistribution in the US. In fact, the top 50% of househo
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by gentschev 16y ago
Really? I actually think sandwich making will be dead easy within 10 years. You just need a robot arm that can recognize and manipulate ingredients that costs less than maybe $300k.
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Can better data analysis improve healthcare?(brekiri.com)
1 points by gentschev 16y ago|0 comments
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by gentschev 16y ago
To me, the most important point is that even extraordinary people face many times in the development of their companies where things look very dim. Being able to ignore that feeling and keep working and changing your assumptions and approa
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by gentschev 16y ago
Personally, I'd be more inclined to just email my friends and ask them. I feel like I already have too many online services, pages, and who knows what to manage, and it's not apparent to me what added value a page would have for this. A si
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by gentschev 16y ago
It depends on whether you think you need to index the same fraction of web content over time. I think that's one of the unexamined principles of the search engine industry. Also, software costs are in some ways decreasing even faster than h
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by gentschev 16y ago
Yeah, I think of it as the Google uncertainty principle (after Heisenberg). As soon as Google measures a search signal, just the fact that it goes into the rankings means that it degrades in quality. People start reverse engineering the ran
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by gentschev 16y ago
Yes and no. Pretty basic spelling correction is pretty good, and as Google makes its spelling operation more sophisticated, I actually find myself needing to reverse their corrections more often. Indexing is more complicated. You could argu
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Why Peter Thiel is wrong about search being a natural monopoly(brekiri.com)
25 points by gentschev 16y ago|9 comments
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Ask HN: What do you look for in a startup job?
4 points by gentschev 17y ago|1 comments
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by gentschev 17y ago
Talk about an incoherent article.