pan_w

"While it might look like an overnight success in hindsight, the story of React is actually a great example of how new ideas often need to go through several rounds of refinement, iteration, and course correction over a long period of time before reaching their full potential."

Do you prefer that companies have their own technology or is it okay that a company utilizes existing platforms in the beginning?

My team consist of CS and ME/EE.

It's PokeBin.com if you wanted more information.

After scheduling a viewing, a PokeBin representative shows up at the apartment and conducts a live walkthrough with you via FaceTime or another video calling app of your choice.

It could also be used for anything where you need eyes on the ground (i.e. check on CraigsList meetup, your pet from work, crowdedness of restaurant, if a party is popping, for a specific talk at a conference).

Please let us know what you think.

To me a mentor is someone who is interested in helping me, I have a good relationship with and cares about my growth.

How you two go about doing those things will be entirely up to you. For example, maybe you two have some frequency of checkins or interact on a need basis. This could be over plain old chatting, code review, or playing a game. As long as there are thought out topics to discuss and a medium that makes people comfortable.

Looks like y'all don't like Snapchat lol. What would be the best platform for us to connect (Slack, Twitter DM, FB DM)?

A little about me: I have experience working on startups and in innovation centers with a background in computer science. I’m currently based in NYC, but I also spend a lot of time in SF. I’ve travelled most of the Europe, Asia, and the U.S. After college, I actually took 6 months off to couch surf through Europe, which partially inspired me to do this. Learn more about me at panw.weebly.com

Given my background, I believe I could be helpful to anyone who is involved with a startup, still in college, or involved with tech (getting involved or already involved). However, I am open to speaking to anyone.

Snapchat me @ pan-w

I wish I had more information about such programs when I was in high school. Now that I have internal information from my company, I thought I share with the community.

We'd love to collaborate or exchange ideas. If you are interested, feel free to email me at [email protected].

When I'm choosing to be involved with something, I always look to the people I'll have to engage with. It's very much a date.

For a programming framework, it would be the dev community around it. First I see if there is a community forming, that's a really good indicator if the technology is good and if it's here to stay. Then I start building a small app with the technology and interacting with people in the community online and offline. If the technology is meeting my needs and the community members are pleasant and helpful then I'll commit.

Not being able to use NPM modules directly is kind of a bummer, but they can be ported to Meteor Packages.

Looking through Feathers, it does not seem very beginner friendly and there is a lot of configurations needed. I believe one of the reason Meteor gained a lot of traction because it was extremely beginner friendly. As I developed more Meteor apps I have also been able to utilize advance features as well. There was something for everyone.

With regard to the funding, I think that is a good thing. Big name investors won't invest in something they don't think will be at least 10x better than what currently exist. If something is that much better there will definitely be a way to make money without compromising the product. Google is a great example. They display ads based on your search history. If I'm looking to buy some shoes, I wouldn't mind ads about shoe promotions. I believe the lead investor is A16Z and Marc Andressen cofounded Netscape, so I have confidence in them.

Competition is great none the less, so I hope Feathers pressures Meteor to constantly be better.

Here is an example project I'm working on if you need some insight to Meteor's capabilities. It's MATLAB in the cloud, so you could share Fiddles and build APIs that need computational capabilities: https://SaturnAPI.com

I recently open sourced my legal docs on Google Docs, so people could share docs, ask questions, and help each other. Legal docs are expensive and the language is very obscure. Let's utilize our legal experience and help each other out. Here's my post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10100848