kespindler

It's a crypto yield account that downplays the fact that it's crypto.

Do with that knowledge what you want.

Write up or copy a few page doc outlining security best practices, then require every employee to read & sign an acknowledgement that they've read it. Now every employee has gone through security training.

Add these two lines to the top to use node executables and load the dotenv:

``` set dotenv-load := true export PATH := "./node_modules/.bin:" + env_var('PATH') ```

I'm currently building a network of domain expert mentors, where companies can connect with experts for advising their existing team to solve business problems. Think of it like very low commitment consulting. It might be a great way to get a better feel for industry (and the salary you can command) before making a hard commitment.

If that sounds interesting, shoot me an email. My email is <my username> at gmail dot com.

It has two chapters that are especially relevant for you: "Chapter 2: Transform self-love into empathy: The law of narcissism", which might be self-evident in its value from the title, and "Chapter 4: Determine the strength of people's character: The law of compulsive behavior", which discusses toxic personality types, how to avoid them, and what to do in case you notice those patterns in your own behavior. I think you'll find both of those chapters extremely illuminating.

The whole book is worth checking out too. And a relationship with a good executive coach or therapist works wonders too!

1. Get some kind of market validation before you build. Get commitments from paying customers (or even pre-payment), or directly see them paying for a near-identical offering, and have a competitive advantage to deliver it more cheaply.

2. Do an inventory exercise of why these projects have failed. Doing a quick run-through, it looks like you didn't do marketing or user research for any of these projects. If making a side business still excites you, make sure you do these steps before going to build any future side business.

3. I know nothing about landscaping, but as an outsider, Bloom looks a promising product. Go talk to customers!

3. If the marketing side of things doesn't interest you, but you still want to make side money, reach out to me, my email is <hn username> at gmail. My background is pure engineering, but I have friends who are looking for technical co-founders and have ideas that I could use more technical talent on.

For more info, check out 4H work week, Lean Startup, or http://firstround.com/review/90-of-feedback-is-crap-how-to-f...

The business solution here is very clever. As an engineer, my instinct is to fully automate any system. Clara is a great example where the most effective answer is getting the 90% solution, then going the last mile with humans to bring it up to 99% (making that up) accuracy, with most of the same savings. Imagine similar solutions for customer support (especially over website chat bars. Some systems like this already exist.)

github.com/kespindler/puffin

Instead of learning a new language and new syntax, just use python!

edit: realize don't think there is pming here. i'm my username at gmail on e-mail.

I'm also going to disagree with what the author says. I go to an ivy-league school, and there are two things that make all the difference: the caliber of students, and the atmosphere of hard work. Of course there are smart people at every school, as Author writes in describing Honors programs. But the concentration is just incredibly high at Ivys. Any random person you run into or work with is most likely brilliant in some way or other.

Atmosphere of hard work - Being surrounded by many high-achievers, you just can't help but push yourself to work harder, achieve more, etc. As long as you're in touch with yourself to avoid burnout, I love this atmosphere because it pushes me to accomplish more than I would were I surrounded by a bunch of people who just want to drink all day every day (of course there are those students, but they're in the minority.)

That's not to say an Ivy is always worth it. Rather, I think you can't make a blanket statement about whether it's appropriate or not. For some it will be, for some it won't be.

del m

Isn't ``m`` going to persist in the ``Movie.rating.data`` dictionary? It seems like this approach would cause a lot of problems for garbage collection.

although i will say i usually just google for a python package and come across a stackexchange that points me to some package, rather than using some index. if you can become some authoritative reference, more power to you.

I'm not sure I'm right, but this logic works for me...

Some on this thread have said, basically, stop whining and start building. When someone asks for advice, that's not generally the greatest response. But, you asked your question, and you have your answer. You don't need to figure out every little nuance to try to achieve some maximal level of momentum. THAT is what can often get you stuck. You've got some great advice, so: Go implement it!

And more than that, come back to HN on Monday and show us the cool weekend project you made. I'll be looking for it.

It's a false distinction because we all eventually die. If we look at 100-year survival rates for test B, everyone's dead, so the survival rate is 0. So there is no such thing as "saving lives". There _only are_ N-year survival rates.

Generally speaking, it takes a lot more than random musings of a random journalist to up-end an incredibly wide-spread metric of effectiveness of diagnostics and treatments...

Note who has given them funding. Send this blog post to the VC companies that have given them funding. Should hit them where it hurts.

And yes, take legal action. (Although seek legal council to ensure first bit isn't considered slander or what have you. Be in best possible position for a legal battle.) Companies like this give the profession a bad name.