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sirbetsalot

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About sirbetsalot

Ex startup exec, now a professional sports gambler. I do ok.

Recent public activity

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    Comment #10096049

    Twitter is the Ganges River of Social Media. Filled to the brim with garbage, everyone who floats in it drinks the water, dies and joins the floating corpse pile at the end of the …

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    Comment #10029753

    Vancouver has a real problem, these company founders aside from dwave and shoes.com are fundamentally weak on the vision side. They often have some bizarre cultural aesthetic that …

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    Comment #9756747

    BECAUSE THAT WOULD REQUIRE COMMON SENSE.

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    Comment #9715820

    cool what about competing with Harvard and Stanford Grads. I have never been to the Bay area but I really want to work down there. It seems like all data scientist postings that ar…

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    Comment #9712103

    thanks for the reply, its really weird going from a board member in a startup to searching for meaningful work again. Maybe ill try to pack up and get down to the Bay Area and see …

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    Ask HN: Tips for a canadian getting a job down south

    Hi American data scientists, after a failed startup (made it to series A) I wanted to get honest tips from my peers about applying for jobs down south. I have good experience (dwav…

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    Comment #9661853

    Just in case you don't get it. This is the typical train of thinking on Twitter. You say something intelligent looking for conversation, and eventually you are going to run into th…

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    Comment #9661805

    Satire is not your strong point?

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    Comment #9660281

    So lets see. in about 30 minutes I can deck into the Twitter API and create about 100 accounts and cron job your Twitter account for a post and then inundate you with thousands of …

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    Comment #9660147

    personally I couldn't care less about Twitter, used it once or twice and bailed, but usually when the CEO tells you its a BIG problem... http://www.theverge.com/2015/2/4/7982099/tw…

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    Comment #9660128

    I think you can simply google Dick Costolo and hear him say it directly about 100 times.

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    Comment #9655114

    of course the author misses the biggest reason twitter sucks. Abuse, fake accounts, and trolling cause more "authentic" real name users to leave every day. Twitter does nothing to …

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    Comment #9343965

    No one respects a thief.

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    Comment #9271991

    yah this idea will never be smart for one very good reason. The probability of the bottom 99% of VC ever rising up to challenge john doeer, chris sacca and the rest is near zero. I…

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    Comment #8926668

    99% of developers cannot organize themselves and develop a monstrous amount of high quality code in a short period of time. 100% of developers can demand big paychecks, all of the …

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    Comment #8924530

    Sadly this is still a relevant question due to the fact that if you give your programmers every leeway they will take advantage, not work, slack for 2 weeks and do nothing. happens…

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    Comment #8860990

    I think one of the hardest thing about hiring is that if I am an "A" player, I am usually financially sound because of it and I just don't want to put in months of effort trying to…

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    Comment #8813511

    Degree is worthless, top tier ivy league, even worse. As long as the person is smart, doesn't struggle with programming languages and willing to get better, start them small and bu…

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    Comment #8803855

    its worth exactly $0 unless you have customers paying for it right now.

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    Comment #8679724

    have vast amounts of cash and friends in the monied circles.

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    Comment #8679717

    no surprise here. Jews have long banded together in tribal cabal's to tilt the system of monetary control, government and intellectual establishment to their social benefit. Its fa…