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dnaquinon Heyzap (YC W09) adds option to pay game developers with Bitcoin

> When a currency is experiencing deflation it makes sense not to spend it. In that world, keeping my money under my mattress is the soundest investment strategy.

A does not imply B.

If the currency deflates at 1% but you could invest at 2%, your mattress isn't the most sound investment strategy.

dnaquinon How Apple and Amazon Security Flaws Led to My Epic Hacking

Facebook. See https://www.facebook.com/settings?tab=security&section=a...

dnaquinon House votes down stopping employers asking for Facebook passwords

read the amendment.

  "1 SEC. 5. PROTECTING THE PASSWORDS OF ONLINE USERS. 
  2 Nothing in this Act or any amendment made by this 
  3 Act shall be construed to limit or restrict the ability of 
  4 the Federal Communications Commission to adopt a rule 
  5 or to amend an existing rule to protect online privacy, in-
  6 cluding requirements in such rule that prohibit licensees 
  7 or regulated entities from mandating that job applicants 
  8 or employees disclose confidential passwords to social net-
  9 working web sites."

dnaquinon Mythbusters experiment goes awry, sends cannonball through two houses

sounds like at least one of these was broken.

"ALWAYS keep the gun pointed in a safe direction.

ALWAYS keep your finger off the trigger until ready to shoot.

ALWAYS keep the gun unloaded until ready to use."

dnaquinon Zuckerberg: Privacy anxiety is fleeting

also "no" is a valid answer to "employer asked for access to their Facebook page".

i'd do the same thing if an employer asked to search my apartment or read my email.

dnaquinon Faster Web Development With Virtual Machines at deviantART

Only use VMs or sandboxes on production-like machines.

Local development doesn't scale.

dnaquinon Facebook is not worth $33 billion

As far as I can tell MySpace only ever had 100M MAU tops. Comparing that to something 5x that is apples to oranges.

dnaquinon Ask HN: Who's Hiring? (Summer Edition)

we're always hiring. lots of projects lots of impact. shipping code to a half billion people on your first week.

http://www.facebook.com/careers/

dnaquinon Facebook has become the third largest nation

"users who have returned to the site in the last 30 days" facebook.com/press/info.php?factsheet

dnaquinon Facebook now has 500 million users

Facebook user ids are not generated sequentially.

dnaquinon Zuckerberg Makes It Official: Facebook Hits 500 Million Members

"users who have returned to the site in the last 30 days" facebook.com/press/info.php?factsheet

dnaquinon My experience as the first employee of a Y Combinator startup

5% is unrealistic. 1% is.

50 million * .01 * .65 (tax) / 4 years = 81,250

considering opportunity cost and time spent. likely not worth it.

dnaquinon My experience as the first employee of a Y Combinator startup

this is similarly ridiculously high.

dnaquinon Diaspora: One Month In

Sorry to say but "this doesn't work, that's wrong, this is broken etc" is going to be said regardless of when you release and regardless of how many users you have.

The number one rule of software engineering. Your code sucks.

dnaquinon Woot To Be Acquired By Amazon

largely modeled on Tony Hsieh's.

dnaquinon Heyzap (YC 09) raises $3M round for social game platform expansion

Good job, guys.

dnaquinon U.S. Steps Up Probe of Tech Hiring

I'm not convinced the difference is that pronounced.

dnaquinon Google Hiring Committee Stories

I had a standing offer from Google that I passed on, because I was busy doing other stuff. When I decided it was to move on I contacted my Google recruiter amongst other connections. Google didn't reinterview me, I was just extended an offer.

This process was slower than the entire interview loop at the company I am currently at.

dnaquinon Facebook has acquired Divvyshot (YC W09)

Excited to be working in close proximity with Sam and Paul again! Congrats guys.

dnaquinon The Democrats Are Doomed, or How A ‘Big Tent’ Can Be Too Big

Wow. A company blog that uses the first person plural to describe a political party. Glad I don't work at OkCupid right about now.

dnaquinon Memo to CEOs & Founders: Stop Being Such Cheap Bastards

Far too many employees at early stage startups have completely unreasonable expectations for how much their options are worth. So even though they're getting shafted, there's a sizable chunk of the population willing to work for scraps on someone else's dream.

I don't quite understand it, but I'm not exactly worried the startup employee pool will shrink anytime soon. But they won't be getting me and a sizable pool of the top talent.

dnaquinon You cannot copyright a Tweet

see: http://twitter.com/devinjames/status/1420799605

dnaquinon Making Facebook 2x Faster

It's less about speed as it is about size. A general framework is just that, general. You're paying in bytes for stuff you don't necessarily use.

dnaquinon Upgrade your career

great! another way for me to filter out potential employers.

"can you send us your stack overflow account?" "yeah, i'm no longer interested."

dnaquinon Linux: still better for coding

this is why i run ubuntu in a vm and do all my serious development there.

dnaquinon Startup Hiring Advice

I already do not want to work for the OP.

dnaquinon DrScheme's Halloween "Easter Egg"

Ran into this last night when I was measuring some stack depths. Caught me off guard.