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mcgingras

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About mcgingras

computer man

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    Comment #37951221

    Internal combustion engine -- regular car

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    Comment #37947880

    Honestly, sounds awesome.

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    Comment #37947484

    Do y'all really only work M-Th? If so, that's awesome.

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    Comment #36978151

    Where I'm located I'm billed $.07 per kwh. My model 3 LR has a 75 kw battery, so to charge it from totally empty to totally full would cost $5.25. Tesla's claims are a bit inflated…

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    Comment #29505451

    I don't have the energy to explain to the naysayers why I love tailwind so much but I do have the energy to log back into HN just to comment that I absolutely love tailwind. Give i…

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    Comment #29169841

    sorry for the snarky comment. Did not mean to offend and I take back the rudeness. That said, after doing 10 or so test queries in an incognito browser I still do not understand ho…

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    Comment #29164040

    - raise 20M - spend 10% of it on the domain "you.com" - denounce "vertical results" - introduce some real innovation : "horizontal results" give me a break

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    Comment #28946266

    The thing about these "drops" is people will liquidate them into real currency as quickly as possible. If the goal is to distribute a currency to as many people as possible (so eve…

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    Comment #28647377

    Thanks everyone, that's what I was thinking as well, but I'm fairly new to startups so I wasn't sure.

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    Comment #28647162

    I have an offer that vests over 6 years with a 1.5 year cliff. Is that normal? I'm used to 4 years 1 year cliff, but the CEO said that 1.5/6 are common for companies that "want emp…

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    Comment #28624302

    We used Liveview in a production app but have sense re-written it all in favor of React. The biggest issue with LV was the fact that users with poor connection were experiencing a …

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    Comment #28380334

    How about the idea that age blocking content and failing to put that trust in our kids is what's detrimental? Reminds me of the all too common tale of a child raised in a helicopte…

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    Comment #26699515

    The author actually included a section on diamond being a poor store of value. The idea that a man is spending wads of cash on an engagement ring for his wife as "insurance" that s…

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    Comment #25337820

    yes, it's a whole chapter written ironically. I too find this to be misleading.

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    Comment #23382862

    Gearflow | Software Engineer | Chicago, remote | Full Time Gearflow.com is the first marketplace for all things construction equipment. We set out to develop a platform that makes …

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    Comment #22806001

    "At schools like Berkeley, more than half of the students who attempt the intro computer science course will not meet the average grade required to actually declare the major. With…