DerekH

Professional poker players streaming on Twitch is rising in popularity. You can learn quite a bit about the game by simply tuning in on a regular basis. There are people who play small stakes ($10-$100) and people who have streamed tournaments where they've won >$100k for a 1st place finish.

Thanks for pointing that out. I've been reading through the bug reports and some people have been mentioning other apps in addition to Outlook: Notes.app and Mail.app. I haven't noticed any others yet.

Source: https://bugs.chromium.org/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=618771

On an interesting note, Kawhi Leonard's advanced stats were marginally better than Curry's as of two weeks ago. They're both equally exciting players in my eyes. Also, have you seen the size of Leonard's hands?!

Originally, I finished the first version of the code and forgot a few of them (went to bed). I forgot to tag Bernie, Bobby Jindal, Huckabee, and Rand Paul.

I fixed it last night. Also, for the life of me, I can't sign up for Ben Carson's email list anywhere. I keep getting errors from https://api.hubapi.com/emailvalidation. Valid email addresses throw an error as well.

Hey everyone,

I signed up for every presidential candidate's email list to see what happens. I hooked up a Gmail account to this Twitter handle, uploading all incoming emails to Dropbox.

Also, I used an email address variation that I can identify with every candidate. My plan is to watch how my email address gets bounced around to different parts of their campaigns. If anything, by the end of the election cycle, I'll have some interesting data points to play around with.

Hey everyone,

I signed up for every presidential candidate's email list to see what happens. I hooked up a Gmail account to this Twitter handle, uploading all incoming emails to Dropbox.

Also, I used an email address variation that I can identify with every candidate. My plan is to watch how my email address gets bounced around to different parts of their campaigns. If anything, by the end of the election cycle, I'll have some data points to play around with.

This blog post by Steve Klabnik would be a great start. He talks specifically about managing the issues section of an open source project (Rails).

http://words.steveklabnik.com/how-to-be-an-open-source-garde...

In general, the public has a poor understanding of being a professional athlete. Typically, when I try to explain it to others, I usually just say "it's a job like any other" - the same as staying on top of your game in the music industry, running a startup, etc.

It's easy for us to dismiss the effort professional athletes put out when you only see them on TV a few times. However, it's somehow different when we see Steve Jobs or Tim Cook on stage a couple times each year. We recognize all of the hard work Steve/Tim likely put in behind the scenes.

For some reason, a lot of people don't recognize that same level of effort for professional athletes. They just assume they show up for the game and perform at a high level.

For every hour on the field, there's probably two hours of study (mental preparation) and two hours of treatment and/or rehab (physical maintenance). Pair that with a rigid schedule every day, fatigue is a real concern.

We all know the overnight success myth. The myth exists for professional athletes as well. Athletes that make it to the highest level didn't simply wake up one morning and have all the tools to succeed. Hours and hours and hours of training, both mental and physical, had to occur. It's like anything else - you don't simply get good. It takes practice.

It also takes commitment, dedication, and perseverance to succeed at a professional level - just like everything else in this world.

I hope I was able to communicate clearly. This wasn't meant to be a rant on why engineering is so hard.

Instead, it's meant to show why the technology part may not be that important in the beginning; however, as your product grows, it becomes a vital part - just like customer support, product ownership, project management, etc. etc.

I didn't want to point to specific examples because I didn't want to throw people under the bus. If you feel like this post comes across the wrong way, I'd love to hear about it. Thanks!

That's how I read it as well. I mean, there's definitely some hints of sexist behavior. Though as I was reading, it felt like I was in the hallways of my high school years ago. Loads of gossip and craziness.

It's sad to see this story come out of GitHub though. Why can't we all just get along?

Thanks for sharing. I particularly like your comment, "We haven't taken any outside money yet, but I'm not saying we never will."

It's also important to really believe in what you're doing, funded or not. You don't get a special medal for taking money or by bootstrapping. You're still a business and you're all competing.

Did you mean Predictable Revenue? Just checking.

No problem. It's important to take your time and build it up slowly. After awhile, you'll realize you've put away good money and have made some substantial gains. If you're lucky, you'll collect a few 10 baggers and maybe even a 100 bagger in your lifetime. Couple that with a good product and/or a good job and you'll be pretty secure.

Great advice. I get antsy when I start to have too much in savings.

Saving is tough to master. I wish more people would embrace the emergency fund. It's so nice to have. You don't really need to worry about any catastrophes and if you want to splurge, you've got the money to take care of it.

But, anything above your emergency amount, put that money to work. Funds that pay dividends are also nice to haves.

Personally, I invest in individual stocks like Starbucks (companies you think won't be going away anytime soon). I've tried to think like Warren Buffet. If you're investing in a company like Gillette, you're asking yourself, "Are men going to stop shaving?"

That being said, I also put money in more conservative investments like mutual funds. You can usually set it and forget it. With the markets doing pretty good the last two years, I think I was able to grow at 10-15%.

I also try not to spend too much of my time reading up on this myself. I pay Motley Fool for investment advice and follow their thesis. They have a pretty good track record and they've gained my trust.

It's also important to have no fear. I've known people who lost out on the recent market gains because they were too scared to buy in at the low point. Now, they put themselves in the market when it's booming.

I've also played around with Bitcoin, but that was more for fun and I definitely wasn't planning for the long-term there.

I went to a bar for one of my last days at a company. I felt like I really got to know my co-workers even better. I wish we would've done that on the first day.

We tried to put together something useful to help companies bring on new employees. I know I'm not Joel Spolsky, but I've always been inspired by The Joel Test.

I've also had some tougher experiences transitioning to new jobs. Lack of direct deposit and not having a laptop on my first day were some of those problems.

For some reason, I'm always fascinated by governments releasing APIs for public data. It seems like a data set you could do some powerful things with. When governments take the time to build out a nice API to consume this data, it makes me like them more, too.

AT&T just did a civic hackathon in Chicago with Chicago's open data portal: https://data.cityofchicago.org/browse?limitTo=apis

Yep, looks like it. Thanks for posting this. I was focused on the big players in the space, and I missed this one. It's interesting that it never came up while I was talking about it with others.

I'm still trying to learn more about Active Directory everyday. Companies like Okta and OneLogin offer user provisioning (what Onboarder is doing) and they integrate with Active Directory.

Onboarder is definitely not that complex yet, but I'm still learning about this space. My goal was to make it simple. Connect with OAuth or give us an API key, and we're good to go.