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1. I would have highly recommended you work on whatever project on the side BEFORE moving to Silicon Valley. Get feedback, build a prototype, launch, fix bugs, etc, and go somewher…

There are a few companies that have internal reward systems like this that I've come across in the past. Usually bigger size companies. You'll have to try and validate this with ta…

No internet doesn't prevent software to be written or hardware to be made. That's where I'd be and where I'm going.

I was excited till I saw the video too although I think his "tone" or way of speaking and quirks bugged me more than lack of a prototype and cool music. I know that's a pretty shit…

1. Clean up the code as much as you can and document everything if you haven't already. 2. Explain your feelings and situation to the team, help them understand. Tell them you did …

It was always base on if we felt there was something that would either help the company, help the engineer themselves, or of value in some other way. No set limits but usually no m…

I feel Exec is a niche of what TaskRabbit is aiming to do

I've also seen many people who learn things incorrectly and do harm to themselves from reading this site and others as well. It goes both ways and totally up to interpretation. As …

This isn't a pic of my actual desk (pulled from Google Images) but its the exact same desk I have, minus the drawer (was too lazy to take a pic): http://farm5.staticflickr.com/4118…

1. Actually understands the full extent of the business side. You wouldn't partner with a coder who can't code and is learning on the job so why would a technical founder want to p…

Agree they should learn. Disagree that's why they're called "engineers". Plenty of engineers in various fields don't code.

I thought of an idea similar to this a few years back but a VERY different implementation. Unfortunately the project was finished (in code) but never launched due to limitations of…

Someone asked this earlier today and I responded here: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4187539

As you can imagine, this is HIGHLY subjective. What is interesting to you may not be interesting to me and vice versa. From your Facebook example, aside from the fact that it had "…

Although my son is too young for me to personally comment on how this works, I've read comments on here some time back about other parents teaching their kids python through http:/…

There is a google chrome extension that fixes this called Hacker News Collapsible Comments

$5k is pretty reasonable in my experience

I love RSS... But I hate the sheer volume of noise and repetitive shit that gets rehashed over and over again across numerous feeds. I subscribe to a large variety of topics too, n…

Majority of the stuff I work on are generally for personal use or solving a personal annoyance/pain point. A good chunk of them ends up being launched as good side businesses as a …

Working on my own stuff

There seems to be a million and one clients out there for Twitter. Is there an aggregator type application (native) for the Mac that supports Facebook's News Feed as well? I don't …

Sorry, did I miss something. What is the first rule?

Then I'm not sure if you should claim to be a growth hacker. My impressions of the term is someone who is proficient at both coding and marketing...