Why not just milk it until the money train dries up or you are rolling in cash? Just because one or more companies offer the same product doesn't mean you're going to squashed. What will tank your business is losing…
For me it's mostly about gow people use metaprogramming. In Ruby, if I'm trying to find the source of a dynamically generated method in a dynamically generated class, that usually requires me to run add a debug…
And supposedly the virus can survive for an extremely long time in a dormant state. Could someone do a little bit of homework who died from smallpox, dig up their corpses, and find live samples that way?
Former insurance agent here. You can think of insurance as a small & certain loss to hedge against a large & uncertain loss. If stuff happens and you do need to cash in on that insurance policy, the payout should be…
I was playing with a parser generator last summer, and it was immensely frustrating to bump into bugs it had & features it lacked. In the end, it was much easier easier to write the entire parser myself. So if I…
This happened to me, too. I lived in a hotel, moved out, and was unable to forward my mail. My hotel room was considered to be a commercial address. I think this was in 2011.
Anyone can sue you at anytime for any reason.
Just tinker with Elm at work on your lunchbreak and say you uswd it at work. If you're awesome, no one will know and/or care where you picked up your awesomeness.
Beats me. I use Atom everyday and spend zero time wishing I had a better editor.
After having retired a couple of phones due to crappy battery life, my most recent phone purchase has a removable battery. I'll probably buy a new battery in ~4 months, when the phone is a year old. I'm happy I decided…
If net neutrality fails, would it makes sense aggressively pursue a legal effort to break up "big cable"? Back in the long distance/DSL days, the local telcos were forced into allowing alternate vendors to sell long…
In SF, I have a 250 square feet studio with no kitchen & I pay $1550/month in a cheaper part of town (the Tenderloin).
Speaking for myself, and I tend to make practical choices for what I understand now. At the moment, I am not using Rails in my day to day work, and this is largely based on my past experiences. Pros: - easy enough to…
One basic reason is that immigrants often find it easier to open a business than interview for jobs. It's hard to answer the question "tell me about yourself" in a culturally relevant way when you are still learning the…
Here are my simple tips: - don't run out of cash - make something you enjoy working on - sell something people need - sell something for more than it costs to make - don't expect the people around you to be as excited…
One specific example is venture debt. If you raise a bunch of money from a whitelisted VC, SVB will lend you money on top of that. Maybe you raise $9 million from Accel Partners in a series B, and SVB lends you another…
(not sure if you were being sarcastic, so...) >> In most cases when a company rejects you because of "culture fit", chances are there's something wrong with yourself. I completely disagree. Interviewing teams reject…
>> Variables must only be capital letters, maximum length 6. "When it is worth considering breaking up a monolith app into micro services?" "About 1500 variables from now"
I like the idea of @codeclub. "Would you like to go to @codeclub" "Yes!" "Ask HN: How should I teach code to kids?" Getting kids an opportunity to become interested in @codeclub is a related, but separate question.
I've never been a parent or teacher, and have not been responsible for raising children in any formal capacity. So, my question is... Are the kids remotely interested in programming, and does it make sense to try…
The only problem with being a server janitor is there being a communication mismatch. I've worked with a sys admin type who was told, before being hired, he'd be a space janitor. He loved the reference, because that's…
>> Can you talk about a project you experienced that went very badly I'd like to offer a spin on this. In my experience, asking a question that demands one to recall specific details about a painful event in an…
My favorite is being told I can't store stuff I need on some enterprise storage solution because it is running out of space, when I know in my head a couple more terabytes of storage costs way less than the amount of…
If you're business never takes off, it won't matter where you are incorporated. Get some decent advice for a professional you trust. When you start making mad stacks of cash, let the profits from your business pay for…
Other than some superficial syntax similarities, I find Elixir to be nothing like Ruby. Pattern matching, immutability, OTP, and the actor model feel like building blocks from a whole different universe.
Why not just milk it until the money train dries up or you are rolling in cash? Just because one or more companies offer the same product doesn't mean you're going to squashed. What will tank your business is losing…
For me it's mostly about gow people use metaprogramming. In Ruby, if I'm trying to find the source of a dynamically generated method in a dynamically generated class, that usually requires me to run add a debug…
And supposedly the virus can survive for an extremely long time in a dormant state. Could someone do a little bit of homework who died from smallpox, dig up their corpses, and find live samples that way?
Former insurance agent here. You can think of insurance as a small & certain loss to hedge against a large & uncertain loss. If stuff happens and you do need to cash in on that insurance policy, the payout should be…
I was playing with a parser generator last summer, and it was immensely frustrating to bump into bugs it had & features it lacked. In the end, it was much easier easier to write the entire parser myself. So if I…
This happened to me, too. I lived in a hotel, moved out, and was unable to forward my mail. My hotel room was considered to be a commercial address. I think this was in 2011.
Anyone can sue you at anytime for any reason.
Just tinker with Elm at work on your lunchbreak and say you uswd it at work. If you're awesome, no one will know and/or care where you picked up your awesomeness.
Beats me. I use Atom everyday and spend zero time wishing I had a better editor.
After having retired a couple of phones due to crappy battery life, my most recent phone purchase has a removable battery. I'll probably buy a new battery in ~4 months, when the phone is a year old. I'm happy I decided…
If net neutrality fails, would it makes sense aggressively pursue a legal effort to break up "big cable"? Back in the long distance/DSL days, the local telcos were forced into allowing alternate vendors to sell long…
In SF, I have a 250 square feet studio with no kitchen & I pay $1550/month in a cheaper part of town (the Tenderloin).
Speaking for myself, and I tend to make practical choices for what I understand now. At the moment, I am not using Rails in my day to day work, and this is largely based on my past experiences. Pros: - easy enough to…
One basic reason is that immigrants often find it easier to open a business than interview for jobs. It's hard to answer the question "tell me about yourself" in a culturally relevant way when you are still learning the…
Here are my simple tips: - don't run out of cash - make something you enjoy working on - sell something people need - sell something for more than it costs to make - don't expect the people around you to be as excited…
One specific example is venture debt. If you raise a bunch of money from a whitelisted VC, SVB will lend you money on top of that. Maybe you raise $9 million from Accel Partners in a series B, and SVB lends you another…
(not sure if you were being sarcastic, so...) >> In most cases when a company rejects you because of "culture fit", chances are there's something wrong with yourself. I completely disagree. Interviewing teams reject…
>> Variables must only be capital letters, maximum length 6. "When it is worth considering breaking up a monolith app into micro services?" "About 1500 variables from now"
I like the idea of @codeclub. "Would you like to go to @codeclub" "Yes!" "Ask HN: How should I teach code to kids?" Getting kids an opportunity to become interested in @codeclub is a related, but separate question.
I've never been a parent or teacher, and have not been responsible for raising children in any formal capacity. So, my question is... Are the kids remotely interested in programming, and does it make sense to try…
The only problem with being a server janitor is there being a communication mismatch. I've worked with a sys admin type who was told, before being hired, he'd be a space janitor. He loved the reference, because that's…
>> Can you talk about a project you experienced that went very badly I'd like to offer a spin on this. In my experience, asking a question that demands one to recall specific details about a painful event in an…
My favorite is being told I can't store stuff I need on some enterprise storage solution because it is running out of space, when I know in my head a couple more terabytes of storage costs way less than the amount of…
If you're business never takes off, it won't matter where you are incorporated. Get some decent advice for a professional you trust. When you start making mad stacks of cash, let the profits from your business pay for…
Other than some superficial syntax similarities, I find Elixir to be nothing like Ruby. Pattern matching, immutability, OTP, and the actor model feel like building blocks from a whole different universe.