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hxron So I made something that's pretty stupid but had fun doing it

Congrats. You've just automated the whole thing :)

hxron How to get a job at a kick-ass startup (for programmers)

>> Coworkers that are really smart that you can learn from?

So how do startups solve this paradox? - founders/current employees are always looking to hire someone better than themselves, while prospective employees are looking to work with smarter people than themselves at the same time.

hxron BareMetal OS: A 64-bit Operating System in only 16KiB

yes, see Zepto OS and publications. http://www.mcs.anl.gov/research/projects/zeptoos/

hxron How to Write an Operating System

Makes me wonder, can I make that money doing stuff like this? I know systems research is irrelevant and all that (Rob Pike)... AFAIK the last successful operating systems startup was VMware (is that true?). Does the world have place for more OS startups these days?

hxron To Do List Advice

Time to invent a new term for 'slashdotted' applied to HN. (Especially since HN seems to drive a lot of referral traffic). Any good suggestions anyone?

hxron Riak JS Lib, with implementations for Node.js & jQuery

Riak.. sounds good! Is this just an implementation of Chord (http://pdos.csail.mit.edu/chord/) with a REST API?

hxron Tell HN: AeroFS - File Syncing Without Servers

A lot of research went into building group communication tool kits like Spread and Ensemble. Today they are being used in server/cluster environments. I was playing with re-purposing one of these (JGroups) for my pet project. The toolkit implements the abstractions I need (A peer communication Channel, peer discovery etc.). It also provides various protocol stacks so I can use a different one for streaming movies vs. syncing files.

hxron Tell HN: AeroFS - File Syncing Without Servers

I am working on something exactly similar in my free time as a side project. Nothing to show yet, but I am currently playing with rsync to support incremental diff-based syncs.

Will your program be open source?

hxron Arrington Gets an Anybot

Very cool! My wishlist:

1. 360 degree camera (so I can walk in any direction without turning around) 2. 3D vision (in the operator interface!) 3. Wings, jet pack 4. Multiple lasers 5. Vuvezula

hxron How to Lose Time and Money

I think user generated tags go a long way in filtering out which stories I'd like to read/explore. (I used to read Slashdot until I found HN a few weeks ago). For now I just use the number of comments as good first approximation.

hxron Ask HN: What are problems that need to be solved?

Steve Jobs summed it up in his talk at D8. To approximately quote him from my memory - `Enterprise software is a very different beast; the people who use it don't get to make the decision (of buying/adopting the software) themselves, and the people who make these decisions are _confused_!`