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Re:FlightCaster (YC S09) Takes Off With $1.3 Million In Fund... by JimmyL on Tuesday November 24, 2009 @12:10AM (#958746)
Believe me or not, it's up to you.

As for who/what I am, wallflower is correct in that I used to be a Canada-based programmer. While I'm still based here in Canada, I now do something 100% different (having nothing to do with software development) that necessitates this kind of travel.

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Re:FlightCaster (YC S09) Takes Off With $1.3 Million In Fund... by wallflower on Tuesday November 24, 2009 @12:26AM (#958763)
Congratulations on getting to go behind-the-scenes in a way most of us only wonder what it could be like. A real "Ops" job.

I'm curious - how did you leverage your technical engineering ability to land the job, or was it more business/social acumen? I get a sense that you are very strategic from your advice about college to karate background. Especially, the novel idea about using Github to prove you wrote a paper (http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=757295)

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