jakecarpenter

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by jakecarpenter 1y ago
I live in Alaska where billboards are banned, and it’s lovely. The ugliness of outdoor advertising is one of the first things I notice when traveling in most of the continental United States. Even without billboards, people still shop at lo
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by jakecarpenter 2y ago
Seems like my experience may not have been typical. I used Bench from 19-23 for a startup and always felt like I was getting great service. I agree that they were a bit expensive, but the financials passed external reviews and always made m
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by jakecarpenter 6y ago
Location: Pacific Northwest Remote: Yes (Preferred) Willing to relocate: not right now. Technologies: Javascript (Node, Angular, TS, Front-End Tech) Résumé/CV: jakecarpenter.com Email: jake@{{domain above}} I prefer smaller organizatio
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by jakecarpenter 6y ago
Agreed, the world would be a simpler place if we all followed the same play book...for online communication and everything else. But we don't, and we probably can't. Cultural, language, religious, gender, and educational differenc
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by jakecarpenter 7y ago
There weren't tax increases, we don't have taxes to increase. We use oil tax and PF revenue to fund our government almost exclusively. Some municipalities and cities have sales/property taxes, but most don't. I agree tha
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by jakecarpenter 8y ago
I agree that regulation is a good idea. Throughout history, news and facts have always been provided to most people by groups with vested interests in controlling the prevailing narrative. It started in churches, moved to papers and has tak
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by jakecarpenter 8y ago
That is a little too reductionist. It can hold a lot of things. Millions of people get all of their facts and information from live video. A lot of it is delivered by cable tv right now, but in the same way that TV news overtook newspapers,
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by jakecarpenter 8y ago
Congrats! Facebook could not have gotten anybody better to make live video awesome. I'm excited to see what the future holds for the fb/vidpresso combo.
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The Salmon Sisters on the Art of the Side Hustle(outsideonline.com)
44 points by jakecarpenter 9y ago|0 comments
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by jakecarpenter 10y ago
To me, it is about what they are able to create independently, and the value of the end product. Senior people have made the right mistakes, wasted weeks of time, and know what to avoid, what to embrace, and what to ignore. A senior dev can
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Early Stage Recruiting(huffingtonpost.com)
3 points by jakecarpenter 10y ago|0 comments
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by jakecarpenter 11y ago
Addiction. It affects so many of us-maybe all of us-greatly. Our legal system, education system, healthcare system are all heavily burdened by it, and they all treat it differently. Good solid science (and a health dose of PR) in the name o
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Dear Engineer: So, You Wanna Become an Entrepreneur?(degoes.net)
2 points by jakecarpenter 11y ago|0 comments
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Heel click phone control There's no place like phone?(wftv.com)
1 points by jakecarpenter 12y ago|0 comments
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by jakecarpenter 13y ago
Awesome Randall, keep killing it in 2014!
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Mashery acquires Hacker League(masherydev.tumblr.com)
6 points by jakecarpenter 13y ago|0 comments
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by jakecarpenter 13y ago
Your loss, it is a good read. Tumblr can't possibly be the only place you're exposed to uncomfortable opinions on the interwebs, can it?
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by jakecarpenter 14y ago
Accepted! Finally! Flying in from Juneau, AK
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Who did you become?(cenedella.com)
1 points by jakecarpenter 14y ago|0 comments
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by jakecarpenter 14y ago
It seems like getting a wide enough adoption to make this useful would be really tough, since as soon as you started to get traction (if at all) you'd get bought by someone who was scared of you or a more established player would break into
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by jakecarpenter 15y ago
We're trying to create a few startups: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3394844
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by jakecarpenter 15y ago
The more the merrier. We now have a website and a Google Group. website: http://www.startuporshutup.org Google Group: http://groups.google.com/group/startup-or-shut-up edit: added links.
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by jakecarpenter 15y ago
Follow the discussion at: http://notes.avaaz.org/kRBXB8P1Ci
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by jakecarpenter 15y ago
Well, this whole thing is pretty off-the-cuff, but I'll hang out in the ##startup2012 freenode channel, and maybe we can come up with something a little more formal.
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by jakecarpenter 15y ago
1. Good Question. I (and a lot of others around here, I think) 'jump' head first into projects on our own all the time, and stay totally committed for like the first week. I've got a long list of projects and concepts and a boat load of cod
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Tell HN: Startup or Shut Up 2012
30 points by jakecarpenter 15y ago|15 comments
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Today is the last day to apply for Startup School 2011(startupschool.org)
4 points by jakecarpenter 15y ago|0 comments
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by jakecarpenter 15y ago
How did you get your first customer? How much of your time (%) is marketing vs. sys admin vs. coding vs business?
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by jakecarpenter 15y ago
I'm not convinced that multiple submissions is a bad thing. We're all going to continue to get out information from different sources, and the discussion that follow a particular submission may have as much to do with the source as the stor
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by jakecarpenter 15y ago
Ignoring the obvious slant to the article (especially funny since the author is questioning a Forbes article) dictionary.com defines an entrepreneur as: en·tre·pre·neur [ahn-truh-pruh-nur, -noor; Fr. ahn-truh-pruh-nœr] 1. a person who or

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