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throwaway828 commented on You won't find a technical co-founder   breakneck.dev/blog/no-tec... · Posted by u/vyrotek
JCM9 · 2 years ago
The main problems I see in 99% of the cases of a founder looking for a technical co-founder are:

1. The founder sees themselves as the ideas person but doesn’t have the situational awareness to recognize that their ideas aren’t that unique.

2. The founder doesn’t understand that the value in a startup isn’t the idea but the ability to execute and build on that idea. For every very successful startup in X space there were 10x more with the same general idea but that failed to execute. The founder wants someone to built it for them but wants credit/equity for having the idea. In 99% of cases the value is created by the builders (technical cofounder) which instantly creates awkwardness of the founder wanting far more equity, credit, and control than their contributions warrant

For the above reasons I’d avoid 99% of asks for a technical co-founder like the plague.

throwaway828 · 2 years ago
I feel worth saying about 1: a non technology/software technical co-founder can still be technical but deep in their domain of expertise.
throwaway828 commented on What even is a JSON number?   blog.trl.sn/blog/what-is-... · Posted by u/bterlson
hatthew · 2 years ago
FTA: JavaScript's built-in JSON implementation is limited to the range and precision of a double.

Obviously, not all int64 values are representable in float64 (double).

throwaway828 · 2 years ago
We have ample computing power today to be rid of floats altogether and use integers, fractions and natural numbers.
throwaway828 commented on 20 Years of Gmail   theverge.com/24113616/gma... · Posted by u/thm
nevi-me · 2 years ago
Big thing for me and family+friends. I take photos of family events, and share albums/links once I upload.

My wife and I share photos of our kids, faces are tagged so new photos automatically go there.

You could say that OneDrive has similar features, however more people have Google accounts through Android devices, so Google is the easier option.

throwaway828 · 2 years ago
Amazing. And as another reply said, 1B Android devices with Photos. I hadn't put these together!

When Facebook was newish and introduced the ability to tag others in photos, I got shivers. I deleted Facebook that weekend purely because of that.

No doubt a shadow profile of me, perhaps several, exists in the dark webs of Meta and Alphabet with no limits on use or retention, but I'm having no part. I'm now curious where the GDPR stands on tagging people with no accounts.

throwaway828 commented on 20 Years of Gmail   theverge.com/24113616/gma... · Posted by u/thm
skeeterbug · 2 years ago
Maps, Chrome, Golang, Android, Photos
throwaway828 · 2 years ago
Photos?

I may be missing out on something. Is Photos a big thing, and if so, how?

throwaway828 commented on Ask HN: When was the last time you used your tech skills for a real life task?    · Posted by u/sdsd
throwaway828 · 2 years ago
Everyday.

Just not being afraid to try stuff.

Self-efficacy is a powerful thing.

(Meta edit: Both Bandura and Young in a 5 word sentence. That postgrad pedagogy course was worth it!)

throwaway828 commented on Gen Z Is Toxic for Companies, Employers Believe   msn.com/en-us/money/small... · Posted by u/lopkeny12ko
nabla9 · 2 years ago
Parents have failed to raise tame and obedient consumer-producers.
throwaway828 · 2 years ago
Children of GenX.
throwaway828 commented on Why "Freakonomics" failed to transform economics   economist.com/finance-and... · Posted by u/Anon84
throwaway828 · 2 years ago
DEI?

What's wrong with a Diverse, Equitable, Inclusive world?

Of the podcast, not a fan. Nor of the book. But DEI, that's Startrek TOS/TNG bread and butter. What's the problem?

throwaway828 commented on Ask HN: What are you using to host your email?    · Posted by u/65
throwaway828 · 2 years ago
purelymail.com
throwaway828 commented on Instinctive Sleeping and Resting Postures (2000)   ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/arti... · Posted by u/alecst
frereubu · 2 years ago
I'm a Brit who can squat too, and I think it has quite a bit to do with not weather shoes at home and wearing "barefoot" shoes / zero-drop trainers outside. I have a hunch that it's lengthened my calf muscles and achilles tendons, which makes squatting much more comfortable. I couldn't really do it before switching to barefoot shoes.
throwaway828 · 2 years ago
Having lived in Asia for 10 years I observed that I had gained the ability to squat, quite comfortably too, that I never had on arrival.

Funny old world.

u/throwaway828

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