larrykubin

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by larrykubin 3mo ago
The Odd Lots podcast puts my wife to sleep
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by larrykubin 3mo ago
I think I signed up one of the first days after it launched, it was called Startup News. Either from a pg essay or reddit, can't remember which.
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by larrykubin 4mo ago
I have a history going back to 2012, which is great. I've always worried Spotify would stop working with last.fm, I wonder if this makes it more or less likely.
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by larrykubin 11mo ago
For me personally, looking for solutions like this and researching tinnitus makes it more noticeable and worse. The best approach for me has been to pretend it doesn't exist and is insignificant, and even though it's still there a
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by larrykubin 2y ago
I always traced this to Ryan Holiday marketing the philosophy and selling books on the topic and starting a YouTube channel "The Daily Stoic"
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by larrykubin 2y ago
This page shows some sites still using ColdFusion: https://w3techs.com/technologies/details/pl-coldfusion NPS.gov walgreens.com acm.org Cornell University: https://www.cornell.edu/academics/co
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by larrykubin 2y ago
Yeah, the people I've worked with at startups never said things like "I'm worried I'll get in trouble", they just did shit
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by larrykubin 2y ago
Not large compared to Microsoft and Amazon, but Nintendo: https://arstechnica.com/gaming/2024/09/legendary-mario-creat...
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by larrykubin 2y ago
Sharp Tech with Ben Thompson
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by larrykubin 2y ago
I was finishing up engineering school around this time. I just remember handing out my resume at various career fairs and not getting any interest. Most of my friends and I took very low paying jobs that were not directly related to our cho
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by larrykubin 2y ago
Yeah, I bought past versions of the Surface and the Surface Book. They would often never wake up from sleep or the battery would be dead unexpectedly. Hard for me to trust them after feeling like I wasted money multiple times.
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by larrykubin 3y ago
There was an interview with the CEO on This Week in Startups today that answers some of these questions: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X-MNgciL5hw
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by larrykubin 3y ago
Was reading about Blank Street Coffee raising money recently to compete: https://www.fastcompany.com/90867251/blank-street-coffee-rai...
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by larrykubin 3y ago
I lived in Seattle for 4 years (2014-2017) and moved to SF in 2017. 1. Over time the weather in Seattle got to me and I became depressed. I've gotten more sunshine in the Bay Area and that has made all of the difference to me. People c
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by larrykubin 3y ago
Just follow the accounts of the tools and authors you mentioned on Twitter. LangChainAI, hwchase17, huggingface, replit, etc. It seems like there is a meetup in SF every few days lately. There was just a langchain meetup in the Presidio are
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by larrykubin 4y ago
Any promising cures for tinnitus in the future? I've had it since 2018 and it appeared during a time when I was very stressed out. I have learned how to tune it out and live with it most of the time, but wish I could eliminate it all t
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by larrykubin 4y ago
My path was to join a mobile game company and work server side. There is plenty of need for vanilla REST APIs, content management systems, build pipelines, devops, admin panel development, billing systems, and other code required to run the
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by larrykubin 4y ago
Developer Relations / Developer Advocate jobs involve a lot of travel.
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by larrykubin 4y ago
For those not aware, you can also access O'Reilly books online through many local libraries for free: Seattle: https://www.spl.org/books-and-media/books-and-ebooks/oreilly... San Francisco: https:/&#x2F
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by larrykubin 4y ago
I second this. I've used PostgreSQL for a long time, but in the past couple of years I've spent time learning how to use TimeScaleDB, PostGIS, and the JSON data types. Recently I've been working on a side project that uses Su
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by larrykubin 4y ago
I was a full time web dev on a 2011 Air with 4 GB, so this one should be good :).
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by larrykubin 4y ago
Similar experience, lived in both Seattle and Portland. There is a lot to like about the Pacific Northwest and I loved living there the first few years. But as the years passed I got a bit more depressed. Had to pay a lot more to move to Ca
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by larrykubin 4y ago
Michael Arrington argues Silverlight is the future of the web https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18531 Segway, Google+, Google Glass, Theranos
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by larrykubin 4y ago
From what I remember, Hacker News enjoyed crypto discussions in its very early days (early 2010's) when it was just bitcoin and a small number of technologists discussing it. I think I noticed a turning point when it became more mainst
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by larrykubin 5y ago
No, you need to be patient, persistent, and keep making content. I just crossed 50K subscribers and 3 million views for a Python for Finance tutorials channel ( https://youtube.com/parttimelarry ). You are well ahead of my pa
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by larrykubin 5y ago
This is definitely possible. My career in the early 2000's was spent as a mainframe developer and a ColdFusion developer (not very common these days). Then later did random startups and freelance projects for years. Around 15 years int
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by larrykubin 5y ago
Go through the intro Solidity / Ethereum project on buildspace, it's free. They do a live kickoff on Twitch and then the rest can be done at your own pace in a day. I think it is worthwhile to try it out for yourself - make a simp
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by larrykubin 5y ago
I would buy 25 shares of QQQ
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by larrykubin 5y ago
I was going to post this standalone, but will post it here. I was recently reading the Hacker News initial reaction to Facebook acquiring Instagram in 2012: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3817840 One of the commenters
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by larrykubin 5y ago
I've studied many of these indicators. Honestly, my favorite is to look at the new 52 week high list rather than trying to time reversals.

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