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nate
7,926karma·1,070submissions·October 10, 2006
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YC alum. Founded Inkling and Draft. Ran Highrise. Founding engineer at Census (acquired by Fivetran)
https://ninjasandrobots.com
I'm working on https://allihat.com, https://pageforth.com, and more. If I can be helpful at all with anything, please hit me up on X (@natekontny) or email me anytime (nate.kontny+hn@gmail.com).
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I've met an equal number of non-engineers who feel they should work remotely. I watch as my wife works remotely. She gets at least 10 times more done for her employer when she works remotely. 1 reason…
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Funny. But really, you are looking at Amazon reviews because you probably care about the design of every day things. I wish more people did. The people that do tend to be very successful. I think abou…
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I'm not intending to troll you :) I swear. But actually your comment might miss the point of the OP. Give Jimi Hendrix or Slash the worst guitar and the worst amp and he'll make much better music than…
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There's also maybe a similar point to be made about him using Java to code his games. Java gets a lot of bashing these days, and there's so many "hot" languages to mention during those bashing session…
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This looks like a fun list too of math movies: http://www.qedcat.com/moviemath/index.html
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I'm pretty sure their chances are just fine. :) They are still making hires which I'm pretty sure they wouldn't do if they saw their company declining. Also trello and asana attract very different mar…
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I can't believe we are calling this stuff patio did as dark side and someone else brought up "ruining the internet". And bringing up "morals". Go spend some time on "dark side" seo forums. Some of tha…
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My wife just bought me a beginner's mediation class at the Peace School in Chicago. We just finished our third class. I'll write up a few notes about it later this week on my blog ( http://n8.tumblr.c…
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You should pay for Hulu :) I bet that would annoy you more. I still can't believe you pay for hulu and still get ads all throughout the damn show. And not just ads. You see the same ads over and over …
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What do you mean by "works"? :)
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That is awesome. Nice work.
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Ah, thanks for pointing that out. I will.
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Does anyone have more context about how this changed Joel's business? I'd like to hear some more specifics about what this stuff led to changing.
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Curious what you guys thought of this. The link shows what it's like with my friends, but if you click the "Customize" link in the popup you can use your own Facebook friends. Seemed like a lot of gam…