rnc
Re:I Am Sam Altman, President of YC Group. AMA
on Wednesday September 28, 2016 @11:03AM (#12598178)
Sam, you started Loopt when you were 19 and figured things out very quickly along the way.
Could you give us some insights on how to increase the speed at which we learn stuff? Many people here(myself included) rely on books to learn about something or solve their
problems, and that doesn't seem to be the case with you and other top founders(Collison brothers, Drew Houston, etc.)
Fireside Chat with Paul Graham [video]
Explore/Exploit
Re:Ask HN: If I were your dream hire, would you hire me? I live in Som...
on Sunday May 10, 2015 @01:33PM (#9520622)
This is something I've also been wondering for a while (I live in Peru).
Most of the folks I know follow this path: apply for a Master's degree abroad and then try to find a way to stay in that country. But this is the thing: I'd love to work abroad without having to do a Master's because I don't like reading/writing papers, it doesn't seem like a very optimal path to me.
So my current strategy is to build a portfolio on Github, get freelancing work online and then see if some company abroad hires me. Could this work? Could some company hire me based on my experience online? Glad to hear any thoughts on this
Ask HN: How to rephrase or tweak bad questions?
I've noticed that PG in his essays solves a difficult question by transforming it, e.g see http://paulgraham.com/hubs.html (3rd paragraph) and http://www.paulgraham.com/nerds.html (6th paragraph). So transforming questions yields much better answers. Any advice on how to develop this skill? Can you point to some principles or recommend some books?
Re:Y Combinator rejection reasons
on Sunday April 19, 2015 @11:23PM (#9406001)
I remember that some years ago while reading "Hacker and Painters" I got the naive impression(I was 18) that I could just go to grad school and then become rich by just building a technically superior product, without having business experience. How wrong I was.
Re:Ask HN: What's the best way to limit daily news consumption?
on Sunday April 05, 2015 @09:28PM (#9326007)
Leechblock(Firefox add-on) did the job for me; you can make the websites available only for some amount of time per day/week and then they'll be blocked. The effect of this after a while was that I lost interest on reading news endlessly.
In the general case, I think that first you need some tools that force you to change your behaviour; after a while it becomes a habit and you won't need then anymore.
Re:Ask HN: C# vs. C/C++ as career forward.
on Wednesday February 04, 2015 @09:21PM (#9001407)
Care to elaborate? I'm early in my career(24), love embedded systems, but I just don't know if there are good jobs available in this industry for young people. Could you give more info?
Re:How do you keep studying when you're not in school?
on Wednesday January 28, 2015 @09:38PM (#8964008)
What works for me is to go to bed early(10pm), wake up at 6am and to study/ready/practice programming for an hour not matter what. The key is to set aside that hour even if there are other duties that you have to do.
Ask HN: Optimal way to get a job abroad(US/UK) as an engineer? Advice please
I'm an electronics engineer who likes to work on embedded software, unfortunately where I am from(Peru) there are no jobs available on this area(apart from being a teacher assistant). So I'd like to work abroad. But, as far as I know, the only way to do that is to go to grad school to another country, apply for an internship and then get the visa to stay there, so that's currently my plan. The...