Eduardo3rd
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Comment · 1 year ago
Lumafield co-founder and CEO here. Stay tuned - we’re bringing SotM back!
Comment · 3 years ago
'I had Craftsman power tools until battery replacements were only available from fly-by-night companies and a couple of the tools started failing (after 20 years). I wound up buying a couple of DeWalt tools on sale and they've been rock-solid. So I added a couple more as needed.'
I think we are in complete agreement! After 20 years of use are are more than qualified to know what you need and go get it regardless of the price point!
Comment · 3 years ago
High quality tools are absolutely a joy! I love the high end tools that I get to use in my professional life as a mechanical engineer. (less frequently now that I am a manager, but you never get tired of using a well designed Festool, Bosch, or Wera product)
However,I don't need the same level of quality in the things I have at home. I've built, repaired, and otherwise tinkered away on countless projects over the years with things I found/bought on sale/picked up along the way with no issues. I'm not a professional [plumber, carpenter, electrician, mason, machinist, etc] and I don't need the same tools they have to get the job done safely.
There's nothing wrong with choosing to spend your personal money on high end tools. In general I find the attitude around tool ownership to be one of gate keeping though, and I'm more interested in getting started and discovering what I really need with less expensive tools than I am in spending my entire budget on high end equipment only to learn that I don't need specific expensive features after a few uses.
Comment · 3 years ago
I've long subscribed to the philosophy that you should buy the cheapest tool you can find and use safely, use it until it wears out, breaks, or your skill surpasses the capability of the tool - and only then should you spend money on high quality tools. Too much money is thrown away in the name of "buy once, cry once" only to discover that you don't need the capabilities offered by the top of the line options.
Comment · 4 years ago
I would argue that outside of the Elon Musk tier of the deep tech world (and there's really only one person like that) almost every other person I know making measurable progress in hard technology is extremely focused on one thing at a time. The Crichton style 100-things-at-once approach grabs more headlines, retweets, and attention - but most of the engineers I know working on fusion reactors, electric vehicles, carbon capture, artificial intelligence, space travel, and medical advances are not trying to be VCs, entertainers, authors, and philanthropists at the same time they move their field forward.
Focus on running towards what actually moves the world forward and you'll discover the other people who are keeping up with you quickly. Don't worry about all of the noise around busier people working on other things. None of that will last.
Comment · 4 years ago
“Every man has two deaths, when he is buried in the ground and the last time someone says his name. In some ways men can be immortal.”
― Ernest Hemingway
No one remembers the names of those yet to be born. The frame of reference matters a great deal here.
Comment · 5 years ago
Meter | https://careers.meter.parts/ | San Francisco, CA and Boston, MA | Full time | Onsite
Meter is a developing next-generation volumetric imaging technology. We are building a machine that can see inside of anything and cloud-based software for processing the complex, volumetric data that the machine produces. Our technology will give engineers, designers, and eventually medical practitioners more confidence in their processes and lower the barrier to high quality imaging and inspection tools.
Our team of engineers includes world-class researchers, industrial designers, PhDs, founders of successful startups, and zero egos. We are backed by some of the top venture capital funds and angel investors in Silicon Valley and beyond. The company is headquartered in Cambridge, MA and has an office in San Francisco, CA.
We’re hiring across a number of open positions including…
Computational Imaging Scientist - Build state-of-the-art image processing systems
Research Scientist - Independently lead and contribute to applied research projects
Mechanical Engineer - Design structural components and motion systems for products
Backend Web Engineer- Drive development of the backend tech stack behind Meter’s customer-facing web app and websites
Computational Geometry Engineer - Build state-of-the-art geometry processing systems
DevOps Engineer -Architect Meter’s cloud data processing pipeline for performance and scalability
Frontend Engineer - Build user-friendly 3D experiences utilizing React, Typescript, Three.js, and WebGL
Apply at https://careers.meter.parts/ or email [email protected] if you have any questions
Comment · 5 years ago
Meter | https://jobs.lever.co/meter | San Francisco, CA and Boston, MA | Full time | Onsite
Meter is a developing next-generation volumetric imaging technology. We are building a machine that can see inside of anything and cloud-based software for processing the complex, volumetric data that the machine produces. Our technology will give engineers, designers, and eventually medical practitioners more confidence in their processes and lower the barrier to high quality imaging and inspection tools.
Our team of engineers includes world-class researchers, industrial designers, PhDs, founders of successful startups, and zero egos. We are backed by some of the top venture capital funds and angel investors in Silicon Valley and beyond. The company is headquartered in Cambridge, MA and has an office in San Francisco, CA.
We’re hiring across a number of open positions including…
Computational Imaging Scientist - Build state-of-the-art image processing systems
Research Scientist - Independently lead and contribute to applied research projects
Mechanical Engineer - Design structural components and motion systems for products
Backend Web Engineer- Drive development of the backend tech stack behind Meter’s customer-facing web app and websites
Computational Geometry Engineer - Build state-of-the-art geometry processing systems
DevOps Engineer -Architect Meter’s cloud data processing pipeline for performance and scalability
Frontend Engineer - Build user-friendly 3D experiences utilizing React, Typescript, Three.js, and WebGL
UI/UX Designer - Lead design for an integrated hardware/software ecosystem
Apply at https://jobs.lever.co/meter or email [email protected] if you have any questions
Comment · 5 years ago
Meter | https://jobs.lever.co/meter | San Francisco, CA and Boston, MA | Full time | Onsite
Meter is a developing next-generation volumetric imaging technology. We are building a machine that can see inside of anything and cloud-based software for processing the complex, volumetric data that the machine produces. Our technology will give engineers, designers, and eventually medical practitioners more confidence in their processes and lower the barrier to high quality imaging and inspection tools.
Our team of engineers includes world-class researchers and industrial designers, PhDs, founders of successful startups, and zero egos. We are backed by some of the top venture capital funds and angel investors in Silicon Valley and beyond. The company is headquartered in Cambridge, MA and has an office in San Francisco, CA.
We’re hiring across a number of open positions including…
Computational Imaging Scientist - Build state-of-the-art image processing systems
Research Scientist - Independently lead and contribute to applied research projects
Mechanical Engineer - Design structural components and motion systems for products
Backend Web Engineer- Drive development of the backend tech stack behind Meter’s customer-facing web app and websites
Computational Geometry Engineer - Build state-of-the-art geometry processing systems
DevOps Engineer -Architect Meter’s cloud data processing pipeline for performance and scalability
Frontend Engineer - Build user-friendly 3D experiences utilizing React, Typescript, Three.js, and WebGL
UI/UX Designer - Lead design for an integrated hardware/software ecosystem
Apply at https://jobs.lever.co/meter or email [email protected] if you have any questions
Comment · 6 years ago
I'm not an MIT alumnus, but if I was one I feel like this joke would write itself.
Comment · 6 years ago
Gimmick or not, wearables (Watch + Airpods) are a massive business for Apple. Large enough that they would be a F500 company if spun out at current revenue numbers.
https://fortune.com/2019/08/06/apple-airpods-business/
I don't think you can characterize that as a business failure.
Comment · 6 years ago
This was written back when YC was a few companies per batch and all of the biggest successes were yet to materialize.
Today?
Stripe: 2,500+, AirBnB: 6,300+, Dropbox: 2,300+
I wonder if this stance changed a dozen years later now that there are several multi-thousand person organizations in the YC network. Does PG think differently today after seeing several examples of large companies run by people he knows personally, or would he tell a talented hacker not to work at Stripe because it is too big?
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