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Re: Ask HN: Anyone in NYC area want to hack?

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Post by geofft » Tue, Sep 15, 2015, 11:20 AM UTC

zeckalpha wrote: post #16

jlg23 wrote: post #7

Please excuse my bluntness, but who are you trying to troll? a) You ask for somebody to marry you (your words) but don't tell anything about yourself. b) You don't present a single hint of your ideas but ask what your potential significant other can offer (to stick to your metaphor). c) Every "exceptional programmer" is good at analysis - my analysis of your post lead to a) and b). Edit: By no means I want to deter y…

Ideas don't matter. Execution does. OP gave a taste of their opinions on execution. Seems sufficient to me.

Part of execution is being able to competently execute the process of having an idea.

It is just not the entirety of execution.

Re: Ask HN: Anyone in NYC area want to hack?

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Post by the_impossible » Tue, Sep 15, 2015, 12:10 PM UTC

jlg23 wrote: post #7

Please excuse my bluntness, but who are you trying to troll? a) You ask for somebody to marry you (your words) but don't tell anything about yourself. b) You don't present a single hint of your ideas but ask what your potential significant other can offer (to stick to your metaphor). c) Every "exceptional programmer" is good at analysis - my analysis of your post lead to a) and b). Edit: By no means I want to deter y…

I appreciate the feedback. I'm not trying to troll.

I've been programming by the time I was 10, programmed a lot in C, and program a lot in Lisp. The two biggest skills I'm working on are writing and looking at a problem from the opposite angle.

A big problem I've seen in startups is people get out of sync with each other, often from the beginning. To some degree this problem is structural, leading to a communication breakdown. I suspect the bigger issue is someplace between trust and honesty. People tend to be afraid of confronting problems.

Re: Ask HN: Anyone in NYC area want to hack?

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Post by the_impossible » Tue, Sep 15, 2015, 12:12 PM UTC

arihant wrote: post #12

orthoganol wrote: post #10

Well, that's a clickbait title. It should be "Seeking CoFounder in NYC".

Exactly. I thought someone wants to organize a Hackathon, or something.

There will be hacking. Hacking won't be the first thing that happens though. A problem with hackathons is you can't have them in someone's apartment.