turnip1979

I feel for you man. Same stuff is happening in IoT.

Exactly. We got a mail from our car insurance provider saying they did not receive payment and asked to send the payment to some random address. This could be social engineering or it could be genuine. We are careful so we will contact the company directly and not use the provided information. But I doubt most people are so prudent.

Different seats? I travel frequently and there are differences across airlines and also laptop sizes.

Why is this called zuck?

I am sad to see these negative events as someone who was in the openstack community. But I think a lot of folks knew such stuff was going to happen.

I think the mistakes made were:

1) the so-called big tent approach 2) too much complexity 3) core projects not listening to end-users, and focusing too much on the plug-in model

It is a shame because there were so many smart and hard working folks involved. It really felt like a community experience.

I'm glad your algorithm class covered this. Mine did not. It surely covered some other obscure material that you don't know. You are missing the point. If we had a standard CS curriculum, you can fault people for missing out on stuff they should know. I think part of the problem is people is that CS is too big of a discipline at this point. A systems person couldn't pass a graphics person's interview, etc.

Can someone knowledgeable about NaCL comment?

Hmm .. Mountain View is an interesting example. The area near whishman park has no grocery stores or restaurants. I ran into an old timer in an Uber recently and he mentioned people did some of this zoning on purpose .. I.e. the need for a car to survive. As a young person, it seems weird that I bike home from work, and then take uber to get groceries. But yeah .. things are messed up in zoning big time.

You know .. this is a quirky but interesting idea. PG started YC because of his experiences/challenges as a tech founder. Maybe someone can address this niche. Obviously, the funding terms would be different. There are legal issues having to do with existing employer contracts .. this could be a rathole. I am not sure doing a startup as a side project is at all useful .. but I might be wrong.

One comment I have to make .. risk is the name of the start up game. Maybe business in general. You cannot completely de-risk it and still call it a business.

Square root of grade times 10 :-p

Does the teleportation happen at the speed of light? Was inspired by Regetti's Startup School talk and have almost zero background :p

I'm a SW guy .. been mulling getting a job in hw at some point. I watch a lot of YouTube and do hw projects in my spare time. Is there something like sw boot camps for developing hw skills? I'm almost considering getting an ee bachelors or masters as a part time student.

QQ .. this might be a naive question so please excuse my ignorance ... why did you not go with vanilla websockets as the protocol? I am a big fan of Elixir and would love to use it and Phoenix for work .. coworkers just get the heebeejeebees when I admit the wire protocol is specifically for Phoenix. Would love to understand this better. Btw .. loved the book!!