willwagner

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by willwagner 2y ago
I believe the same tree was used for manufacturing golf balls for a time. Before that golf balls were originally made with leather stuffed with feathers but transitioned to be the "gutty ball" for 50 years or so until they transit
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Immune discovery 'may treat all cancer'(bbc.com)
3 points by willwagner 7y ago|0 comments
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by willwagner 7y ago
I think if you are including coffee shops, dry cleaners, and the rest of small businesses that are self-funded, I agree. If you look at VC backed high tech startups, I don't think that is the norm: https://www.capshare.com&
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by willwagner 7y ago
Coffee Meets Bagel | SF, Seattle, Toronto | Python, Android | ONSITE Coffee Meets Bagel is a dating app to help people make meaningful connections that inspire growth. We're looking for sr android and backend python engineers that hav
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by willwagner 7y ago
Having worked for a competitor that was later acquired by GoFundMe, the reality we faced was that we could determine pretty quickly whether a fundraiser was going to be successful within 48hrs or so. While we spent a lot of time developing
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by willwagner 7y ago
I've heard this many times before and don't doubt thats the way doctors feel but it's a little like not monitoring production because you don't want developers chasing down minor production issues.
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by willwagner 8y ago
I believe around $199 a share is when AAPL would become the first company ever to have a market cap of $1T. It could happen tomorrow. For reference, the first $1B market cap company was US Steel in 1901.
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by willwagner 9y ago
Here are a couple things that have served me well: * Own what you own 100%. Be proactive, ask questions so you understand context, and raise concerns along with possible solutions when they pop up. * Help others when you can. If you are g
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The Startup CTO’s Guide to Ops (1 of 3): Guiding Principles(medium.com)
29 points by willwagner 9y ago|1 comments
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by willwagner 10y ago
Maybe more than a toe dip based on the price, but for me, getting a MUSE device helped me start meditating and I haven't stopped since. The thing I like about it is that it gives you feedback when your mind is focused (and feedback wh
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by willwagner 10y ago
Just to support your claim: http://soils.wisc.edu/facstaff/barak/poster_gallery/minneapo... (The link doesn't mention copper in particular)
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by willwagner 10y ago
I think you are selling yourself short by not asking questions particularly as a junior dev. Depending on the role, people are hiring you for not only your current skills but your potential to grow. Write some questions down in advance -
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Lessons from Dave Goldberg: An Open Letter to Aspiring CEOs(techcrunch.com)
30 points by willwagner 11y ago|1 comments
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by willwagner 12y ago
I totally agree. Things like life jackets for sailors, ropes for climbers, and helmets for motorcyclists have made those sports impotent for the real men/women of this world who scorn safety. If you are not willing to risk it, just
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by willwagner 13y ago
I wonder if this originally got greenlighted as a "gaikai" player, gaikai being a competitor to onlive which sony bought and has promoting as part of the playstation 4. As the article mentioned, ps4 games are supposed to allow rem
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by willwagner 14y ago
got through to the buy on google wallet and it timed out. No charges if I look at my googlw wallet account so i think i'm screwed.
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by willwagner 14y ago
SurveyMonkey - Palo Alto, CA: Sr. Web Application Developer We're looking for a of solid software engineer that can help us build out our next generation survey platform. This position will require a lot of heavy-lifting using JavaScript to
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by willwagner 14y ago
A few years ago, I worked at a startup peripherally related to the search space and we did some usability studies on the google search page. What we found then, more or less, is that people generally feel like there is no problem with goog
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by willwagner 14y ago
I don't know how TiVo feels, but I always thought their lifetime subscriptions were a good way to seed their initial customer base. Lifetime is a little misleading because it's tied to the TiVo hardware, not the lifetime of the customer, b
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by willwagner 14y ago
D3 doesn't support IE (or at least it didn't 6 months ago when we looked into using it).
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by willwagner 14y ago
I'm in my mid-40s. When my dad was a kid, he always had a car lust for a Cadillac. When I was a kid, I had a car lust for a Porsche 911. I wonder what kids these days think would be the ultimate car? I presume a Tesla but I could be wro
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by willwagner 14y ago
I finally got through and registered as of 7:16 Edit: I got "no tickets available at this time" several times before getting through so don't give up.
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by willwagner 14y ago
I'm assuming others get to a "There are no tickets available at this time" alert and then you have to start over. At least, that is what is happening to me.
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by willwagner 15y ago
I like the QR codes at Best Buy; I use them all the time when I'm just starting to research electronics and I make a visit to one of their stores. It's convenient, I can store it on my iphone for later, and I can read user reviews, etc. Tha
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by willwagner 15y ago
Just out of curiosity, if that person owned TapTyping.com before you started your business, is it really possible to create a trademark after the fact that would rule out him using the domain for anything typing relate? Looking at it from t
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by willwagner 15y ago
Why is there nothing like like this in the SF Bay Area? It seems to me a theater that served beer and decent pub food would do well in SF and I'd pay a premium both for the movie tix and the food, but at the same time similar quirky places
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by willwagner 15y ago
I'm with you; I had great vision until i hit my forties and now at 45, I'm squinting more and more. With the aging baby boomers I'm surprised there isn't an uprising of discontent over this issue.
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by willwagner 15y ago
+1 for Monoprice. Their prices are great, they have a large selection of cable types and lengths, and they are speedy. With Amazon's convenience and large selection, it's hard for these niche shopping sites to gain any mindshare on me anym
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by willwagner 15y ago
Just to highlight what for me was non-obvious but interesting. It implies that this change in two places made a significant improvement to their performance stats. Basically, the optimizing compiler is finicky about the arguments object e
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by willwagner 15y ago
We tried doing something similar at XMarks (a bookmark sync service) when I worked there. We figured bookmarks were a good source for mining quality websites and hired some very bright people with a search background to build it. For some

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