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makeropson Your Employer Is Not Your Friend, and Young People Know It

Having the wherewithal and self awareness to develop a professional network is meritorious.

makeropson Free lead research for 5 B2B startup's

hey, I am interested, how do I get in touch?

makeropson Computers Conquer Heads-Up Limit Hold'em

They exist, fwiw.

makeropson Show HN: Practice Verb Conjugators for People Studying French, Latin, or Italian

I wish I had this in HS.

makeropson Ask HN: Books Like “Stealing the Network” or “Jeff Aiken Novels”

The stealing the network series is awesome. I just read "The Director" which was decent.

There are a lot of non-fiction books that read the same as a fiction though; Ghost in the Wires, The Art of Intrusion (really fun read), Fatal System Error, and of course if you haven't read Cuckoo's Egg, you should.

Reamde by Neal Stephenson is also good.

makeropson Where the term "Zero Day" comes from

I can't believe the author of ToneLoc posts here. This blows my mind! Brings up a lot of memories of great times, hanging out at the st. louis galleria food court for 2600 meetings.

makeropson How WePay Failed Eden Alexander

I think this is a missed opportunity. Terms may have been violated, okay, that warrants closing the account, do that, then donate enough money to her to help her out, and bask in the PR.

makeropson Ask HN: Would your CEO give 20% time for equity in your side project?

I fit the 30-something, 9 to 5'er demo, and I would not give up 20% equity for an extra 8 hours per week. I'd be much more likely to work out something, that allows me less pay, and more time while at the 9 to 5 to work on a side project.

makeropson Poll: Is your startup or side project profitable?

Pretty cool

makeropson Ask HN: What has recently pissed you off that ideally a product could solve?

This is a great idea (had it myself at one point); the problem is you would have to have buyin from the grocery store itself, and like a casino...the more time you spend in it the more money they make.

makeropson A Catfish Stole My Identity

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Catfish_(film)

It originates from a movie, and is also now a TV show.

makeropson Keep Emotions Out of Your Startup

"A year ago, I was talking to a fellow start-up founder and I realized how much he likes to stick with his ideas.... I wondered: is this passion or simply stubbornness?"

The whole article is based on a false premise imo. There are a myriad of reasons why I would, or wouldn't listen to a suggestion from someone else.

The best I can do at least, is to listen to everyone, and try the often repeated suggestions, but if you are implementing every whim a customer suggests, you probably aren't operating optimally.

makeropson Ask HN: Mastermind group for 9-5'ers looking to escape

What has your experience been thus far?

makeropson Ask HN: Mastermind group for 9-5'ers looking to escape

To be clear, the goal is not for the group to launch a product, it's to discuss mutually beneficial topics having to do with launching your own project.

I've owned a business, and Ive worked 9-5s, it's not an odd demographic at all, unless you buy into the macho bullshit about sleeping at your desk etc, by 20 year olds, who have never made a dollar themselves.

makeropson Favorite Kanban board for *personal* productivity management?

Can you do physical? I have found that carrying a pen, and a packet of sticky notes in my pocket at all times is the way to go. when I get home, Ill peel off the sticky, and organize it. I do it a little different though and organize things by "backlog", "Today", "tomorrow", "this weekend", "hold", because I find it suits the way I work as an individual (ie, I save stuff like washing the car for the weekend etc)

makeropson Show HN: GrowthHack as a Service – mturk + Google news api automation

If you look near the bottom of our home page, we thank him for the "inspiration".

makeropson Show HN: GrowthHack as a Service – mturk + Google news api automation

We do not right now, but it's not something that we couldn't work on getting rolled out this weekend.

makeropson Show HN: GrowthHack as a Service – mturk + Google news api automation

This isn't spam by any means; it manually collates the email addresses of thought leaders in your niche, and provides them to you. It's up to you to start a conversation.

makeropson Support for Test-Driven Devops

It doesn't always though, with chef/puppet et al, you can write the code to throw up X (aapche w/ ssl etc), but unless you use a testing facility, there is no way to know for sure (other than manually checking obviously).

makeropson Ask HN: What's your Twitter handle?

https://twitter.com/makerop

makeropson How did you go from being an adequate to exceptional programmer?

I'll let you know when I get there.

makeropson Ask HN: What is the problem you try to solve?

Getting your lawn mowed, without a bunch of bullshit.

makeropson NSA phone surveillance program likely unconstitutional, federal judge rules

Counterfeiting laws in the US seem to be unreasonably harsh, the reasoning is, that it is such an insidious crime due to the fact it can undermine the fundamental trust in our economy and government. The NSA scandal has done at least one of those things.

makeropson Ask HN: Those making $1,000+/month on side projects - what did you make?

Really cool!

makeropson Ask HN: How to graph total tweets about "bitcoin" in given timeframe?

There is no mechanism for search "completeness" without access to the fire hose.

http://blog.cloudera.com/blog/2012/09/analyzing-twitter-data...

^ that is a good resource if you ever get access to the firehose.

Shoot me an email anthony@makerops.com, and when I get home I can shoot you an email with some example code that Ive written in the past.

makeropson Ask HN: How to graph total tweets about "bitcoin" in given timeframe?

I think its hard/expensive to access the firehose no?

makeropson We scanned this from a computing magazine from 1970

Food and "things" are not the same as women.

makeropson A Prediction: Bitcoin Is Doomed to Fail

Makes sense, thanks

makeropson A Prediction: Bitcoin Is Doomed to Fail

But, it can. Sometimes it's hand is slapped, and sometimes it isn't, but the government has proven its willingness and ability to violate everything in the constitution on multiple occasions.

makeropson A Prediction: Bitcoin Is Doomed to Fail

"After all, no bank or bitcoin-emitter can be as public-minded as a government, and no private power can raise taxes or pass laws to unwind monetary excesses."

I am not an expert by any stretch of the imagination, but this seems like a big point in the authors argument.

Isn't the removal of this flaw baked into bitcoin by it's nature?

" Besides, if bitcoin ever really started to take off, governments would either ban it or take over the system."

Isn't this pretty damn hard as well?