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eonw

266 karma · joined November 5, 2014

my name is Ian, and I some times visit this place known as the internet, its full of fun stuff.
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eonw··on Firebase expands to become a unified app platform
yea, anyone can build a web application this way... but how well will it scale?
eonw··on Tech Startups Come Up with Some Creative Definitions for ‘Profitable’
you know, i would have thought investors on that level were doing their homework too, but look at Theranos... raised a unicorn level valuation without ever really proving their product worked at all. Isnt Palantir in trouble too?
eonw··on Not a Hacker or a Hipster – How I Got My First Startup Job
this is true, in business, at conferences and such i am typically kind of shy. One day my fiance pointed out that everywhere i go i end up meeting and talking to people(gas stations, bars, national parks). Then i started applying the same approach to business, and its netted a number of new and interesting contacts.

you don't know if you don't try.

eonw··on Why Wind Turbines Have Three Blades
it was also explained to that in very cold weather, the three blade design helps prevent any single blade from gathering too much ice from the wind? so if the top one gets a lot of ice its weight will shift it around? i am no engineer, could be nonsense.
eonw··on Why Wind Turbines Have Three Blades
this is one of the best articles i have read recently. I too am a big fan of always asking why and trying to buck the trend of "thats just the way it is".
eonw··on Hiring Is Broken and Isn’t Worth Fixing
ive only met one in my life, and i wouldn't recommend him to anyone... if he was available and i could afford him i would in do it a heartbeat first. he was a 10x with more diplomacy and kindness then any co-worker ive ever had. rare breed indeed.
eonw··on I Don't Want to Hire You If You Can't Reverse a Binary Tree
my thoughts exactly, never had to do that once.
eonw··on I Don't Want to Hire You If You Can't Reverse a Binary Tree
when i interviewed at yahoo as a full stack web developer, i was dismissed after getting the a single tree related question wrong. was a trivial 'trick' question about balancing certain types of trees, similar to this article. having been through that, i wouldn't have wanted to work there based on that being the bar of entry.
eonw··on USS Carl Vinson has first UAV command center install aboard an aircraft carrier
this drones you speak of would be pretty small and each one could be taken down with much smaller guns from air or sea. no need to use a missle, they are designed to take out heavily armored air/sea craft. thus i think it would take a lot more then 10k cheap drones to take out a carrier group.
eonw··on Ask HN: How do you handle secure communication at your company?
define secure? we use slack and email.
eonw··on The Good, the Bad and the Ugly of Remote Work After 5 Years of Experience
i agree with this. i have yet to meet a very productive remote employee that is changing locations frequently. all the travel i do is either for work, or vacation, in which case it would be the same if i were in office.
eonw··on The Good, the Bad and the Ugly of Remote Work After 5 Years of Experience
i get the lonely feeling some times, ive been working remotely for the majority of the last 6 years. it can be trying at times.
eonw··on The World's Highest-Paid YouTube Stars
wow, my girlfriend and all of her friends get Ipsy bags, didn't know it was started by a YouTuber. Good for her!
eonw··on The World's Highest-Paid YouTube Stars
these articles always use very inflated statistics. i know some youtube creators that have many many followers and their earnings(per million views) are no where in line with what these articles claim the top is making.
eonw··on I've been impacted by Twitter's layoffs. This is how I found out this morning
wow, thats pretty cold.
eonw··on Computer science is now the top major for women at Stanford University
as someone who works around hundreds of MDs daily. I would say they all look down at CS degrees, in fact at my work, a masters in CS still gets you the label of "unskilled labor" but a CNA with 6 months of training is not.
eonw··on A $200M Shell Game in Seychelles
HKs reputation is only slightly better. In some industries(ones that include copyrights, for instance) no one will touch an HK entity either.
eonw··on I am Sam Altman, President of Y Combinator – AMA
i would think not, considering there were already others operating in the exact same space... they were probably just hoping for at least a small piece of the pie.
eonw··on 18F launches cloud.gov
I think 18F is a great idea and seems to be doing good things, but are there not existing options they can use? Why reinvent the wheel?
eonw··on Seattle, in Midst of Tech Boom, Tries to Keep Its Soul
would you say your experience with seattleites was limited due to your staying in a small pocket of the city?
eonw··on MakerBot lays off 20% of its staff for the second time this year
this isn't really surprising, the number of printer makers is too large for the market to support, certainly if you arent super lean in operations. this is a thinning of the herd and time for M&A in that space.
eonw··on I'm Google – chains of visually similar images and videos in Google (2011)
i don't think porn constitutes the vast majority of internet content by any means, or even the majority at all.
eonw··on The 3REE Stack: React, Redux, RethinkDB and Express.js
yea, i know, i read it. wasnt much there. already know what all the tools did.... by why jump to this stack from one of the other 15 that came out this year?
eonw··on The 3REE Stack: React, Redux, RethinkDB and Express.js
yawn. another stack.

what are its merits?

eonw··on Study: Some car models consuming around 50% more fuel than official results
i have a 2010 4runner and it was sold as 22mph, i get 16.5. i mean i knew those numbers were bad, but thats quite a bit off, if you ask me.
eonw··on Forested Overpasses Allow Animals to Cross Safely Over Highways
the ones i have seen have fencing funnels to them, there are gates for humans to cross, but the fence runs from one overpass to the next. the animals have no choice but to use the overpass.
eonw··on Why Vim, an '80s Text Editor, Is Still the UI of Choice for Power Users
"choice for power users" is quite the claim, i dont buy it. its a choice, not THE choice.
eonw··on Tech companies lobbying for CISA are abandoning their users' privacy
any idea how OSX compares?
eonw··on Uber shakes up real estate market with massive lease in Oakland
plus the impending lawsuits for wrongly classifying their employees as contractors... thats going to take years to play out and could hit their profitability really hard.
eonw··on The CIA's most famous ship headed for the scrapyard
kind a cynical outlook. sailors have respect for each other, just as all warriors do.
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