turnip1979

I feel for you man. Same stuff is happening in IoT.

Exactly. We got a mail from our car insurance provider saying they did not receive payment and asked to send the payment to some random address. This could be social engineering or it could be genuine. We are careful so we will contact the company directly and not use the provided information. But I doubt most people are so prudent.

Different seats? I travel frequently and there are differences across airlines and also laptop sizes.

Why is this called zuck?

I am sad to see these negative events as someone who was in the openstack community. But I think a lot of folks knew such stuff was going to happen.

I think the mistakes made were:

1) the so-called big tent approach 2) too much complexity 3) core projects not listening to end-users, and focusing too much on the plug-in model

It is a shame because there were so many smart and hard working folks involved. It really felt like a community experience.

I'm glad your algorithm class covered this. Mine did not. It surely covered some other obscure material that you don't know. You are missing the point. If we had a standard CS curriculum, you can fault people for missing out on stuff they should know. I think part of the problem is people is that CS is too big of a discipline at this point. A systems person couldn't pass a graphics person's interview, etc.

Can someone knowledgeable about NaCL comment?

Hmm .. Mountain View is an interesting example. The area near whishman park has no grocery stores or restaurants. I ran into an old timer in an Uber recently and he mentioned people did some of this zoning on purpose .. I.e. the need for a car to survive. As a young person, it seems weird that I bike home from work, and then take uber to get groceries. But yeah .. things are messed up in zoning big time.

You know .. this is a quirky but interesting idea. PG started YC because of his experiences/challenges as a tech founder. Maybe someone can address this niche. Obviously, the funding terms would be different. There are legal issues having to do with existing employer contracts .. this could be a rathole. I am not sure doing a startup as a side project is at all useful .. but I might be wrong.

One comment I have to make .. risk is the name of the start up game. Maybe business in general. You cannot completely de-risk it and still call it a business.

Square root of grade times 10 :-p

Does the teleportation happen at the speed of light? Was inspired by Regetti's Startup School talk and have almost zero background :p

I'm a SW guy .. been mulling getting a job in hw at some point. I watch a lot of YouTube and do hw projects in my spare time. Is there something like sw boot camps for developing hw skills? I'm almost considering getting an ee bachelors or masters as a part time student.

QQ .. this might be a naive question so please excuse my ignorance ... why did you not go with vanilla websockets as the protocol? I am a big fan of Elixir and would love to use it and Phoenix for work .. coworkers just get the heebeejeebees when I admit the wire protocol is specifically for Phoenix. Would love to understand this better. Btw .. loved the book!!

Where are you based? I'm a software guy learning about hw :)

My last interview at Google .. the interviewer behaved like a prick. His attitude was .. oh .. u have a PhD ... let me show you how much smarter I am than you. This was very clear from the first 2 minutes of the interview. What is funny is that the area I was interviewing for is my forte and Google isn't leading there. Anyways .. it pissed me off so bad that I am saying no to future interviews. Life is too short.

Would u recommend it?

Sigh .. I need to disconnect from VPN to use it. I think u can reconnect after creation.

Does this thing work on Windows 10 home edition? That doesn't have hyperv I think.

I was thinking 1 on 1 tutoring. There are already a lot of video resources out there. I wouldn't mind 30-50 bucks an hour for a consultation. Sort of like a fitness trainer for my electronics hobby.

Thanks for posting details about your experience. I'm a software person learning about hw/FPGAs. These kinds of resources are invaluable!

P.s. it says you are a student. If you want to earn a side income giving virtual classes on PCB design, etc. you'd make a decent side income. Just an idea :p

What thinkpad would u get today? I looked into the T460 but (a) they seem to have many variants within the same model and (b) I saw too many negative reviews online.

The headline seems a bit click-baity. It seems to merely add some suggested guidelines to how this is done.

450K for a house seems cheap. In the GTA, you won't even get a townhouse for that much. A townhome (with monthly fees) probably goes for over 650K :'( I don't understand it.

I don't get the tracker bug. Seems like it was fundamental to the game. Now, the Pokemon you catch is somewhat random :(

VNA=Vector Network Analyzer?

I'm in the Bay area and a hardware hobbyist (software is my full time gig). I see tons of meetups for SW but almost nothing for electronics hardware. Any recommendations?

This seems to be a non-issue IMHO. If they try to attract foreigners ala Startup Chile, they could fill these things up in weeks. If 40% occupied innovation centers is the biggest thing wrong with China, they aren't in bad shape.

Btw ... Ontario, Canada tried to do innovation from the top-down via the Mars building. The amount of money they spent in real-estate could have been used to give every person with a Masters/PhD in a STEM discipline from an Ontario University a bag of cash. But the buildings look prettier I guess than seed capital.

Heh .. I guess the first week of grad school knocked out any illusion that I was the smartest anything. But touche.

The margin is larger IMHO. I'm a professional scientist and I have no one remotely resembling an academic in my extended family. Now I'm not a textbook example of success but I've read about many other scientists in similar boats: Feynman and Tesla both come to mind. Feynman had an electronics hobby as a kid. Tesla's father was fairly set against him becoming an engineer.

I know some people with amazing private school education flounder because of it. They saw crazy competition early in life and it seems decided to settle. I had very little competition in my early years. Being the smartest kid in your undergrad makes you feel really good, and motivates you to do better. Where I really needed guidance is going from the sheltered world to reality (early 20s .. when I entered the workforce and subsequently made the decision to get a PhD).

What I want to try to do is teach my kid to have her own hobbies and be generally happy in life.

Not if you live in the Bay area. Definitely not if you have to support a family.