maxawaytoolong

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by maxawaytoolong 16y ago
What Lustig doesn't mention is that sugar is what your brain runs on. Eating too much sugar is not good for actual marathons but it works great for coding marathons.
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by maxawaytoolong 16y ago
Sorry, I deleted my stories as I felt they were revealing too much personal information. My last job I was using Ruby and Java doing back-office data munging stuff for a financial firm.
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by maxawaytoolong 16y ago
What did you do before?
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by maxawaytoolong 16y ago
After thinking about it for a moment, I guess I'm totally wrong. Guys who built an awesome app in 24 hours, then improved it and raised $10M during brief moments of sobriety in between jam band benders... Those guys are superhuman. Good job
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by maxawaytoolong 16y ago
I call bullshit on you as I know everyone involved. They are great, but can you deny the part about jam bands and a history of drunk tweets by their engineers? There's a whole website about "things X says when he's drunk" where X is the eng
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by maxawaytoolong 16y ago
If you already are running a startup from your dorm, the main reason to stay in college is to meet women. Honestly, there is no easier venue, and the chance to have a captive audience of thousands of women looking for a boyfriend will never
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by maxawaytoolong 16y ago
That's pretty interesting. Do you have a cite? Android (the company) was essentially designed as something to sell to Google. I wonder if the guys at Android bypassed Schmidt because they knew he'd be a tougher sell.
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by maxawaytoolong 16y ago
Does Corona still compile the code on their servers?
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by maxawaytoolong 16y ago
Is game programming solving a problem? There is a game to be made, and the problem is that it hasn't been programmed yet.
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by maxawaytoolong 16y ago
Twitter is a unique case in that their engineers in 2009 were even worse than the ones at Pivotal. They still had outages every day, so how good could the "pivots" have been? But my point still stands as Twitter did not renew their contract
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by maxawaytoolong 16y ago
This is an odd request for Hacker News. Everyone here knows that the liberal arts are stupid. Focus. If you have time to take courses outside of the CS department you should be using that time to write unit tests for your homework assignmen
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by maxawaytoolong 16y ago
The key to avoiding this is to stop thinking like a programmer, and start thinking like a sysadmin. A programmer will automate some tedious repetitive task, and then boast about the automation to his programmer peers and managers. The progr
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by maxawaytoolong 16y ago
Wonder what changed? They generally do a mediocre job at best, so their clients didn't renew their overpriced consulting contracts.
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by maxawaytoolong 16y ago
Actually there seem to be a good number of jobs in Pittsburgh, but I know nothing about the natural environs that way. In California, if you work in Silicon Valley you can always live down in the Santa Cruz mountains. If you work in SF you
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by maxawaytoolong 16y ago
Why do you think that? I don't believe there is any legal precedent surrounding autonomous vehicles.
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by maxawaytoolong 16y ago
I've tried many things but nothing has helped more than turning off the internet.
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by maxawaytoolong 16y ago
I'm not Asian but my family changed their family name upon immigration. Nobody since has ever used any "traditional" first names, either. This is because the language of my ancestors uses a bunch of letters and sounds that don't exist in Am
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by maxawaytoolong 16y ago
Kids aren't stupid and they are mischevious. Little kids in Brooklyn already mess around with older people by yelling "pedo" at them. I've seen more than one dark British comedy where this is a repeated joke. When adults get too neurotic ab
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by maxawaytoolong 16y ago
Does it really make any difference? I grew up in an anachronistic small town and had at least 50% male teachers from 1st grade on up. I can't say I paid attention to any of my teachers, male or female. If anything, I thought the male teache
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by maxawaytoolong 16y ago
To each his own. Personally, the birthday reminders are the only reason I use Facebook. Also, each year, every attractive woman I've met in the past 4 years wishes me happy birthday, which is a nice ego boost.
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by maxawaytoolong 16y ago
What is a concrete example of saying "you're welcome" where it leads to the oppression you're describing?
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by maxawaytoolong 16y ago
It certainly doesn't sound like good management practice! Why not? I worked for silicon valley startups for 15 years and not once did I meet a "product manager" who did anything worthwhile.
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by maxawaytoolong 16y ago
Tradesmen provide their own tools if they are independently employed. If they are employed directly through a big firm, the firm often buys all their equipment for them, including a loaner truck and cell phone.
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by maxawaytoolong 16y ago
When I quit coffee completely for 6 months I felt completely unproductive and slow, so I started again. That said, coffee culture has trended towards very potent coffee. I now feel like most drip coffee I get in a coffee shop is too strong,
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by maxawaytoolong 16y ago
Just to play devil's advocate... I am not a moron, and I used to help hire at various startups. We'd always get one or two offers "we couldn't refuse" from engineers of our competitors. Whenever we gave them a second of interest, they'd was
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by maxawaytoolong 16y ago
The issue is really that the cities in the US don't have the right infrastructure. In NYC I don't remember ever having a mobile phone call that wasn't dropped. Calls generally don't drop in rural areas in the USA unless it's really, really
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by maxawaytoolong 16y ago
Yeah, I would have skipped the startups and taken the job at Google.
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by maxawaytoolong 16y ago
I'm not sure there's as much to learn from failure as various self-help business books would suggest. When you remove the specifics all startup advice is trite at best and dangerous at worst.
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by maxawaytoolong 16y ago
I shipped things and worked on something every day from age 22 to 35 and was not successful. Silicon Valley is filled with people and the ghosts of people just like me.
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by maxawaytoolong 16y ago
OK!

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