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Re:Founder Mode on Sunday September 01, 2024 @04:03PM (#41419890)
https://x.com/paulg/status/1830300111232188626

He does clarify, in the linked reply, that he didn't provide examples or go into detail about what exactly "founder mode" is or how it should be done because it needs a lot of research and would more or less require a whole book to explain.

Re:US Tests Explosive at Nuclear Site as Russia Revokes Ban on Atomic ... on Monday October 23, 2023 @05:36AM (#37983426)
The most scary thing is that they are living in an echo chamber. The world around us is becoming more dangerous at an unprecented pace, conversations that were wrongly pushed to the dinner table are starting to come out in full view.

The HN community will be in shock when it finally hits on them that they too will be affected by what is happening across the ocean. The belief of unlimited superiority is blinding the fact that other people are now more willing to do harm than previously imagined.

Re:US Tests Explosive at Nuclear Site as Russia Revokes Ban on Atomic ... on Monday October 23, 2023 @04:43AM (#37983087)
I feel your pain. On here, when it comes to anything to do with the Russia or China, it's best you stay quiet. You are dealing with most propagandized community when it comes to world affairs.

PS. The downvotes don't put food on your table.

Re:India stops issuing visas to Canadians as row escalates on Thursday September 21, 2023 @02:39PM (#37602059)
Define Whataboutism?

It is my father having a love child with the neighbour's wife while I get a ass whopping for sleeping with the maid.

All jokes aside; I believe the western world set a dangerous precedent with the war on terror and the chickens are coming home to roost. Am fearful of what is to come in the future.

Russia's war on Ukraine may end up emboldening nations to act as they please with regards to dissidents wherever they might be and this is a scary world that we moving into.

Re:Who is going to replace Google for us? on Sunday June 26, 2022 @01:20PM (#31885829)
Supposing it's just a youthful phase. Like the fashion industry for example. Where skinny jeans were popular in the 80's then baggy jeans in the 90's. Then skinny jeans are back in sync now. Don't you think personal blogs and forums will come in sync at some point in the future?
Re:Seed investors: the good, the bad and the ugly, from a founder who’... on Thursday November 11, 2021 @03:32AM (#29185761)
Brad Feld's venture deals comes to mind. Have a look below.

https://www.venturedeals.com/

Re:Ask HN: What is your favorite motto? on Friday September 11, 2020 @06:56AM (#24441302)
Proverbs 27:17 - "As iron sharpens iron, so one person sharpens another."
Re:DigitalOcean is laying off staff on Saturday January 18, 2020 @03:19AM (#22083148)
Been a while since I logged in and commented on hacker news, but I had to login in order to give testimony on how digitalocean has been helpful to me this past year (2019).

2019 was one of the worst years for me financially, jobless, in debt and with a one year old child and girlfriend to look after. I was always late on payments for my 5$ digitalocean droplet and would always have my account suspended. I would always ask for an extension period and the wonderful guys at digitalocean would gladly grant me an extension and lift the suspension off my account.

And when I read the story my heart skipped a beat wondering what was going to befall my entrepreneurship dreams this year. Thanks a lot for the comment and am forever grateful to you and the team at digitalocean

Re:Please Do Not Be a One Trick Pony on Wednesday January 07, 2015 @07:38AM (#8850140)
"Lifetime careers no longer exist. I knew a bunch of people that were charging $200 per hour to do HTML in the early 90’s. Frontpage ate their lunch." Still sounds like a lifetime career to me. The "one trick pony" will always evolve with the requirements of the time. Though your observations are limited to tech, if a programmer succeeded in something like farming or health science that would make a great career change. So yes lifetime careers do exist. Its only the requirements/tools that evolve overtime.
Re:Nokia 215 on Tuesday January 06, 2015 @06:00AM (#8843772)
This phone will come in handy for some of us in Africa. The African phone market is flooded with cheap dual sim chinese phones that "can perform more tasks" than what microsoft hopes to achieve with its phone. But for 29$ they are [the chinese phones] still a rip-off for many. Buggy software applications, short lifespan (3-6 months) and spread viruses like crazy.
Re:Ask HN: How do you know when to quit your startup? on Saturday July 05, 2014 @12:16PM (#7992256)
I would suggest reading Ryan Carson's blog. there's a good post with the same title as your post. hope it's helpful.
Re:Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (June 2014) on Monday June 02, 2014 @10:36AM (#7833691)
Kampala Uganda, remote, full-time/part-time

Ruby on rails, postgres, Amazon aws, heroku, engine yard, C#, .net and currently working on my first python app.

contact: [email protected]

Re:Leo The Homeless Coder Is Still Homeless on Tuesday May 27, 2014 @11:53AM (#7805084)
"The bare minimum to keep myself distracted and fed was all I did even though so much more was possible. I told myself I liked the freedom, but in truth I was just too scared and had too low of self esteem to take on a more comfortable lifestyle." I don't know whether i fit this description. But it just did resonate with me. Am not homeless but still live at my moms house (27yrs old). Never really held down a real job (9-5) for all i can rememeber. Been moving from web app after web app hoping i could build/stumble upon something that can improve my livelihood but zero and it feels like am really running out of time.
Re:Two big announcements on Wednesday February 05, 2014 @06:19AM (#7183111)
"A company that's not good at marketing and sales doesn't stay a company - no matter how good the products are ;-)".

does a product that grows due to word of mouth amount to good marketing? i believe not. dropbox, github and recently put.io. i learnt about these products because of word of mouth e.g show hn not Google ads or some youtube marketing gimmick. i tend to use a product if a friend i know is immune to FOMO recommends it to me.

Re:My Startup has 30 Days to Live — In 30 days, my startup will be be ... on Tuesday June 25, 2013 @04:01PM (#5942028)
plenty of discussion going on here https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5939498
Re:US spy leaker Edward Snowden 'missing' in Hong Kong on Tuesday June 11, 2013 @01:13AM (#5859875)
You can check out more on this here. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5858172
Re:The Positive Programmer on Thursday March 28, 2013 @10:48AM (#5455073)
Thanks for the link. I remember the first time i made a really silly comment without reading the full story i was put into place (downvoted ruthlessly) by the community and i knew i had done something terrible. This is the post https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2825177. From then on i really took sometime without commenting on hn not because i was angry, but because i was scared of being downvoted. It taught me i needed to get my facts right before commenting on hn however much harm i never meant to cause.
Re:Watsi (YC W13) and the Future of Patronage on Wednesday March 27, 2013 @01:22AM (#5447939)
Thank you for pointing me to Kiva. Checking it out and its definitely something i could work on. Thanks again.

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