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Shakakai

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About Shakakai

Polyglot Programmer, Tech Entrepreneur, Blockchain Investor, and Winner of the Bear vs Man 5k

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    I'm in the process of releasing a few of my internal libraries for building LLM-based apps. The first release is `typedtemplate`, a library that allows you to use Pydantic syntax t…

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    Suggestions on advertising available office space?

    My company has got an extra team room right now that would be perfect for a startup based in SF. Anyone have a suggestion for where I should advertise the space?

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    Comment #3823657

    Agree, $25 per user is insane. Not sure if this is necessarily part of a bubble or the result of some shady dealing for the VC's involved to pick up more Facebook stock to make the…

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    My company (ThoughtLeadr) is using Haskell to analyze big data (social networks) to great effect. Although, I will admit finding great Haskell programmers in the wild is rather cha…

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    Comment #2543154

    I basically read this as, "I want everything I could every possibly use in the global scope so I don't have to think about imports". Modern web development revolves heavily around …

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    Comment #2510875

    Makes me wonder what this says about Mozilla. Perhaps not the exciting place it used to be 5+ years ago?

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    Comment #2189210

    I almost forgot. You can always send thugs to rough up their office and employees. Classic move. That actually happened to me during my first year in business here :P

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    Comment #2189152

    I'm living in Shanghai right now so I've seen this move in a number of variations. I can tell you legal recourse is a bit of a tricky thing. You really don't want to rely on contra…

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    Comment #2189099

    No offense but someone willing to steal $50k is not likely to suddenly change their mind because you showed up in person.

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    Comment #2185521

    This is the order I learned web development - I think it should be broadly applicable: 1. Static website dev - modern HTML(5) & CSS http://www.http://htmldog.com/ 2. Scripting HTML…

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    Comment #2179585

    Piping git archive into ssh - great stuff!

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    Comment #2179548

    Couple follow-up questions: 1.) Have you admitted to your cofounder you screwed up? You're owning up to it here (+1) but to him? 2.) Did you just screw up your CEO part of the job …

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    I agree with jasonkester, come up with a unique project that uses the technology you want to be hired for. Cut out TV/distractions on week nights and build it out. Use that as a sh…

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    I typically write mine down in a notebook. If its a really great idea, it doesn't normally just go away. You'll keep running into situations where it would be useful if the idea wa…

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    Comment #2179347

    Take a peek at my company (ReignDesign). We design and build mobile games and applications for iOS, Android, Blackberry etc etc http://www.reigndesign.com/ Good luck finding the ri…