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kapauldo··on Ask HN: As a programmer, how do you know if you're a good one or not?
Yeah I agree with this, finding balance between risk and productivity. Although doing something beautiful is the exception.
kapauldo··on Ask HN: Whitepaper v Academic Paper: What’s the best way to share breakthroughs?
White papers are not peer reviewed so are faster. If your goal is speed, white paper. If your goal is ip or prestige or sharing knowledge, academic.
kapauldo··on Ditching the MacBook Pro for a MacBook Air
Great write up, I will likely upgrade my old air, was waiting for a fix to keyboard and other issues
kapauldo··on Texas Is About to Create OPEC’s Worst Nightmare
Does this mean oil will continue do plummet bc of so much supply?
kapauldo··on Ask HN: Why and how is Gartner Inc. still relevant?
Same as Oracle, they're an excellent sales org with a commodity product.
kapauldo··on Ask HN: I’m a non-tech founder, would you recommend me working with freelancers?
I would invest a few days or weeks and write a detailed and precision spec. Then you can work with freelancers. The biggest risk is scope creep because it sours relationships quickly. If you invest the time to write a spec, there is far less risk. A spec is a narrative and a list of specific screens and functions. I have run a dev shop for 10 years and can help you with a spec if you're interested.
kapauldo··on Dropbike: Data Breaches and Free Bike Rides
Wow what a great write up. I respect your engineering and writing skills.
kapauldo··on Thousands of scientists publish a paper every five days
That's called soft fraud.
kapauldo··on Ask HN: Cities underserved by tech jobs?
Buffalo is a undergoing a downtown Renaissance and has cheap real estate and a lot of technical talent being under utilized by banking Java applications. Come here you'll get great talent, great food, great culture, nys tax breaks, cheap real estate.
kapauldo··on Broken Time: “Nardis” and the Curious History of a Jazz Obsession
Here's the song with a fairly long interview preceding it . I'm not a huge fan of the sub genre but it's clear talent and skill

https://youtu.be/ObN55DQmFZI

kapauldo··on Harvard University is fighting to keep its admissions process under wraps
It's a private institution. So long as it doesn't accept public money or break any discrimination laws, it should be allowed to keep its admission process private. Does anyone honestly think George bush was admitted because of his grades? Let's find something meaningful to be outraged about. We are never going to win this one and it's not worth fighting.
kapauldo··on Sprintly Is Not Shutting Down
Congratulations on getting up to bat and giving it your all. Consider the loss tuition.
kapauldo··on Ask HN: Is 'search' a solved problem?
It's definitely not solved from a technical perspective but it's really hard to compete in a business perspective. The market wants good fast search. If you come up with great fast search, it's still hard. The only opportunity I see from the business perspective is to challenge the visual paradigm. Having said that, there are tons of opportunities from the academic perspective such as inferring context, letting users control context, etc.
kapauldo··on Redesigning the Economy Airline Seat
I think they are solving the wrong problem. It's not the chair it's the space between them.
kapauldo··on Ask HN: What is good business advice for independent mobile app developers?
Always be looking for leads.
kapauldo··on LGTM: a Chrome extension inspired by a tweet
Thanks for sharing. This is a great little project.
kapauldo··on Enslaved and then marooned on Tromelin Island for fifteen years (2014)
What a neat story. I read the whole article, thanks for sharing.
kapauldo··on Bulldoze the business school
I am a business school graduate. It's a little shocking to read this but also hard to argue. I think many degrees have no value except for serving as a requirement for entry into a career.
kapauldo··on Microsoft Bans “Offensive Language” from Skype
This is flimsy.
kapauldo··on Ask HN: What stack would you use to build a CRUD web app in 2018?
Rails. It's minutes to build a functioning CRUD.
kapauldo··on Employees at Practice Fusion got nothing as execs pocketed millions
How is this a loss? They paid taxes on gains? Not sure what the badness is here. They cashed out and paid taxes.
kapauldo··on I tried emailing like a CEO and it made my life better
Short emails make you sound like a dick. I wish there was a solution.
kapauldo··on Silicon Valley Struggles to Add Conservatives to Its Ranks
I don't see why this is a struggle
kapauldo··on Don't Assume Your Data Scientist Is a Software Engineer. A Thread:
Don't assume your data scientist is a scientist. It's a made up non-credentialed title.
kapauldo··on A majority of millennials now reject capitalism, poll shows
Extreme capitalism fuels social problems and millennials have to clean up the mess.
kapauldo··on Ask HN: Time Management Tricks and Tips
Distraction is the #1 time killer. Put your phone on dnd and don't check email for 1 hour blocks. I guarantee a change.
kapauldo··on Coinbase Obtains Partial Victory Over IRS
Bitcoin is not private like sotoshi imagined.
kapauldo··on Universities are also to blame for the GOP’s ‘grad student tax’
Hard to sympathize with a blue blooded yalie.
kapauldo··on ETH price hits $500
When the bubble bursts there are going to be no buyers so I hope people who made a few million are slowly converting back to usd.
kapauldo··on Ask HN: Why are we still using years of experience to measure work aptitude?
Experience has a productivity curve.
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