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Is there a store in the Bay area that sells devkits? I'm looking to get a Paprillo or Mercury devkit. I'm a complete newb ... just trying to learn/play around. Rather than order online, was wondering if there is a brick…

When I click on apply, I see applyrand in the header. Just FYI.

I dabble in front end development, and every time I have to do a project, I am amazed at how incredibly bad the process is. The tools in fashion change every few months (grunt, gulp, webpack, babel,browserify).…

Hi HN, I'm somewhat familiar with CF tools like Chef and Ansible. I'd like a simple tool that I can install inside Docker containers, and run a bunch of apt-get, pip and git clone commands. I'm looking for something…

I'm seriously considering a move. I'll be losing an office with a door, 20% of my salary and job security. What I hope to gain is a fast paced environment where I'll learn, grow fast and learn what I need to do my own…

I'd like to get thoughts on a specific incident that happened to be last night. I was in Manhattan (at a McDonalds of all places). A teenager came in (he had a slice of $1 pizza) ... he sat around for a bit and came to…

I've been a Python fanboy for about a decade now. I've written many small Python programs by myself. They were usually one-offs and did a particular task well. Last year, I convinced my team to use Python for a somewhat…

I'm pretty good at writing software (in my mid-30s). Since I was a kid, I wanted to go into a leadership role. Even though I'm in my mid 30s, I am considered an exceptional individual contributor. No management…

As we are all technologists, this is a hard thesis to contemplate. But I've been thinking about the idea that technology might be evolving too fast for even technologists to keep up. A case in point: I've been following…

I'm interested in their Garage program. Are people there working on their startups full time? Is it just undergrads or also grad students? Anyone doing deep tech/systems?