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gaahrdneron Ask HN: How to not fail on coding interview questions?

I like what you're saying, but there is quite a bit of comfort and safety that comes with a $100,000+ job compared to starting up your own business. While many of us are ok with that risk, others may very well have responsibilities that dictate taking the "sure thing."[0]

0. https://danluu.com/startup-tradeoffs/

gaahrdneron Ask HN: How do you manage your mental health?

Naps.

gaahrdneron Stride, Atlassian’s Slack competitor, opens its API to all developers

hi steve

gaahrdneron The MacBook Air: A Decade’s Worth of Legacy

There are but there are some heavy caveats and they don't really work all that well. For example, I recently purchased one of these Sintech adapters[0] and a Samsung 960 Evo. NVMe drives are technically supported in the latest High Sierra, but clearly there are huge issues with the NVMe SSD drivers and OS X still. While I appreciated the higher speeds and capacity at a better price, ultimately having OSX hard reboot due to kernel panics two or three times a day made me give up on this experiment. I'll probably try it again sometime in the future though.

0. http://eshop.sintech.cn/storage-adapter-2013-mac-pcie-ssd-c-...

gaahrdneron Warming Ocean Temperatures Are Starving Reefs and Harming Marine Life

This is a fantastic documentary, and extremely sobering.

gaahrdneron Essential Phone, available now

I recall it "working" on other phones, but it's stuck on T-Mobile or Sprint (depending on your phone's hardware), and you lose out on some functionality since it uses specific bands[0]. Plus you still need an approved phone to activate it.

0. http://arkienet.com/2016/03/fi-on-a-non-nexus-phone-is-like-...

gaahrdneron Find a new city

Chattanooga?

gaahrdneron Convoy presents itself as “Uber for trucking”

uShip has been doing this for a while, curious as to what competitive advantages Convoy is going to bring to the space.

gaahrdneron Drone Imagery for OpenStreetMap

You certainly can do this for much cheaper. [0]

[0] http://diydrones.com/profiles/blog/list?tag=mapping

gaahrdneron Forgotten Employee (2002)

Here's a similar story, except this guy did it for 11 years.

http://www.reddit.com/r/talesfromtechsupport/comments/1agon8...

gaahrdneron Outbox, The Startup That Digitizes Your Postal Mail, Raises $5 Million Series A

What differentiates Outbox from https://www.earthclassmail.com/ or http://www.virtualpostmail.com/ (besides the price) that warrants a $5 million series A round?

gaahrdneron The terrifying rise of the political entrepreneur

Detroit seems pretty fascinating.

gaahrdneron Google Fiber’s Next Stop: Austin, Texas

Don't forget Florida!

130,000 people are expected to immigrate to Austin in the next 2 years. Insane!

gaahrdneron Tacocopter - Flying Robots Deliver Tacos To You

Pretty funny, I think the LobsterCopter gave the joke away.