d0m

It's not being lazy, it's being paid for A and working on B, totally different thing.

If I hire a freelancer to work on project A and charges me X$/h, but instead work on project B and still charge me for that time, it's illegal. Of course, illegal is a fuzzy term, it really depends of how the contract is crafted and, more importantly, how much one would be willing to take legal action against the freelancer (which will most likely turns out more expensive than just letting it go).

I'm no lawyer, but pretty sure it's not written in standard contracts "Employees can work on whatever he/she wants, get to keep all the IP of it, pending that employee doesn't get caught."

I mean, it's illegal and you're lying to your employer.. so in the end it's about your morale sense.. it doesn't matter much what other people do or think of it.

A somewhat stupid analogy is like saying "I'm killing people in my spare time. I get that it's wrong, but that hasn't stopped me from doing it. Am I the only one that does this?" If you find other people doing it won't make it more legal ;-)

One great way is to focus on personal problems (instead of "ideas"). Solve it in a very hacky way for yourself and then share it with people, see if it helps others. If it doesn't, no big deal, you've solved an annoying problem for yourself without investing too much time. If others like it, then you can see if you want to take it to the next level. Most first-time founders started that way.

Interesting essay on this subject: http://www.paulgraham.com/startupideas.html

I didn't even know you were at Facebook, it wasn't mentioned in the gist so I don't think it's fair to say you've misrepresented Facebook.

The irony of the game is that having money in the bank let you hire great people and pivot to the right idea, but to raise money you need great people and the right idea. So, MAYBE, it's not that bad of a thing to raise even if you don't have everything figured out yet.

Can be a freelancer. You're your own boss, you can pick who you want to work with and you're in control of your time, but you don't need to risk it all on a "risky big idea".

I'm trying to hard to use siri but it never works.

"light" > I don't understand

"flashlight" > I can't do that

"why?" > I couldn't say

"open the flashlight" > google search

For viewing the code, whatever is your favorite editor. To comment on it, go talk to the person.

Timer 15 minutes. I use that all the time. I would use it (siri) a LOT more if it didn't suck so much.

From my experience (a.k.a tried and failed..), I'd rather take a bit more time to glue a few amazing open-source tools together than to use an "all-in-one" framework that will screw me down the road.

Over the years, I've built the equivalent of those real-time systems using postgres, redis, rabbitmq and node that can scale horizontally. It's obviously longer than using firebase, but at least I know what's going on under the hood, I can easily optimize and debug it, I can add any missing features or switch any tools (I.e. can easily switch off postgres to something else if I needed it).

It's for the same reasons that I use React on the front-end. It's great for the view layer, but I still get to pick and use great libraries for the rest of the app (in-memory database, state management, routing, etc etc.) I can easily switch off React to something else because the surface API that I'm using is extremely small.

I would still use meteor or any of the competitors for a hackathon or prototype, but never for a long-term project. YMMV

Maybe a sign that things are too coupled through. Can make the same argument on any project, I.e. wanted to add small feature, ended up changing 27 files.

"Allows you to see two apps at once, it's like having super strength and laser vision." really

SICP made the biggest difference; it really changed the way I approach mutability and state management in everything I write (To name just this).

There's one thing on reddit called "multireddits" which is an aggregation of multiple subreddits; so I picked my local news subreddits + world ones and this is my daily news. I like it very much. Only complaint is that it seems to show the same news multiple days in a row even though I "read" it already.

Something that would be helpful is "How is it different than X?", such as bitcoins or whatnot.

For what it's worth, I just turn off the chat. Exceptions are less popular streams where I know the chat is great. Pro-players also often hang around other pros streams, so you get to interact with not only the streamer but their friends too.

I like it. Basically the design choice was to focus on threads within channels, instead of simply channels. Slack has that thread feature but I never use it because it's hard to follow. I guess slack could copy them and have a "text mode" and a "thread mode", easily being able to switch between both, and then the threads will be much more useful.

2 quick things:

1- It's great that you've learned a wide range of skills.. this is extremely powerful (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/T-shaped_skills). If you're not sure what to do next, I'd look for the "vertical bar" and focus on that. Maybe it could be design or tech, whatever.

2- You invested a lot of time in learning how to build and run a startup.. very few people possess those skills, so maybe start a new project learning from what previously went wrong and see where that leads you.

One huge benefit of UUID is how you can safely create them while being offline, and then sync them at a later stage without conflicts.

Structure and Interpretation of Computer Program (it's written in scheme but it's mostly for convenience and its lack of syntax).

Definitely the best book I've read on programming.

Loved this book, packed with a lot of awesomeness.

Do you know why/how is it faster than say RabbitMQ? Is it some tradeoff in features for instance?

I read it over and over again 15 years ago, great resource.

One straightforward way is to use the new sha only for new Git repos. Old repo could be migrated but it would require "re-commiting" everything to the new repo.

Keep in mind that google's mission evolved over the years.. but at the beginning, they still had a clear mission of making it easy to search the web (compared to the portals that forced you to their bullshit content).

https://angel.co/salaries is pretty useful to answer those questions

Think of yourself in 5-10 years from now. Where do you want to be career wise and relationship wise? Then backtrack from that and do the first step to make it happen. You're very lucky to not be tied to a specific location so use that to your advantage!

In Montreal, with 70k (53k USD), you can have a nice house, free healthcare and send your kids to the university.

Listrunner | Full-time, Montreal | https://www.listrunnerapp.com

Listrunner is a secure collaboration platform for clinical teams.

Using human design and machine learning, we connects doctors to their team’s collective expertise. We helps clinical teams make the best decisions for their patients, saving lives and reducing costs.

Looking to hire a front-end and a back-end engineer.

https://angel.co/listrunner/jobs/208216-front-end-engineer-i...

https://angel.co/listrunner/jobs/208224-back-end-software-en...

Our stack is mostly node, react, react-native.

Feel free to reach out: phzbox at gmail.

Much easier if you plan for it.

When starting a project, one of the inevitable outcome is failure so it's worth thinking about what would happen in that case. I.e. plan for the good but also the bad.

Also, it's important to look at the longer goal. You can either succeed or fail, but make sure it gets you closer to that goal.