It's a huge hassle in Boston as well. Pretty boy hustle brokers deserve easy work that doesn't require real education so I can pay more to find a domicile - said no one ever...
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Please keep up the good work!
I'm looking for a co-founder with elixir and strong front-end experience or product and sales experience. Technical preference for now. If you like mycology and working with Neo4J feel free to drop a line!
The product I've been working on is intended for the pharma space and somewhat similar to Benchling but targeting a very specific agricultural niche. I've yet to start looking for institutional investment, but now that covid is over I have the bandwidth and drive to take this product full-time!
please email hydrated chia AT gmail DOT com
I still can't get over how people fail to realize that arbitrary thresholds for financial reporting (initially set in 1970 at $10k[0]) haven't been adjusted for inflation. To the point where in a not so distant future, settling up funds with friends at a large dinner could in certain cases be considered "structuring"[1]. You have access to all of my credit card records, basically everything I do online, figure it out.
The fed boys have more than enough info, but of course we should trust them with it to tax the rich... Full disclosure, we should definitely tax a-holes with billions in their Roth IRA.
0 - https://www.fdic.gov/regulations/safety/manual/section8-1.pd...
1 - https://www.investopedia.com/terms/m/moneylaundering.asp
Always cool to get insights into the business and technical challenges at Backblaze!
ZFS is incredible, curious to mess around with these new features!
However, I'm also VERY excited to return to a small office / co-working space.
My uncle works at Tinker AFB in Oklahoma and always used to explain the different unique features of TACAMO [0] aircraft. Also, on a side note, he currently has his identical job he held in the air-force as a civilian and collects multiple pensions (albeit, he was always my "cool engineer uncle" who bought me my first soldering iron).
So now, especially in the morning - if I catch myself thinking "just 15 min of YouTube" or "maybe ten more minutes of sleep before working out" I make conceited effort to tell myself "no" and actively do what I completely acknowledge I do not want to do. Ironically I sort of caught on to this signal in college when I was a horrible procrastinator and didn't yet know I was ADHD. It's a bit extreme, but always doing what you're most actively avoiding has started to work for me. Only took me a year of being locked in my apt to figure it out...
Granted, I make a great living writing software and honestly have really benefitted from my 67% complete EE degree. Software ppl generally have zero idea how computers work / how to really leverage hardware bits to accelerate certain workloads. The ideal CS education for me is based in EE but also starts with both lisp and C. NOT Python. However, I was a horribly distracted student throughout college so I really should be the last person giving recs for coursework.
Electronics simulation is fascinating, especially given the AI models used to do this. Layout gets especially complex when rf-traces / layers have to be considered or when you want to have an arrangement of traces to high bandwidth components all be the same length. Interaction between multi-layer vias is also insane (the guy who built the UberTooth1 bluetooth hacking dongle has a great defcon talk on the subject).
The best analog I can come up with is the debate / discrepancies between the US and European weather simulation models. Fascinating space, I got to work a few feet away from the Julia team at the Harvard Launch Lab way back in the day at a college internship. Of the few interactions I had with their team they are great people and unbelievably brilliant. If any of you are reading this, my hat's off to your engineering abilities - I'm still impressed by the fact you guys identified an error in intel's x86 instruction sets and yeeted the issue in less than 24hrs.
0 - https://worldwarwings.com/the-hidden-risk-faced-by-german-pi...
I only made this cheeky comment since I'm tired of associates telling me I "have to check out clubhouse for startup networking". IME it's just packed with low-info ppl talking about crypto and startup rooms just balloon with armchair "VC's" and wantraprenuers (as much as I hate using that word, I mean folks who just want to make a quick buck and have no real-world startup exp).
When covid-fatigue subsides I definitely cannot recommend relocating to the Boston / Cambridge area enough.