SanjeevSharma
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3 years ago
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on: Memory leaks detection paper co-authored by Netflix CEO Reed Hastings in 1992 [pdf]
I worked at Rational Software when we acquired Pure software. We sold tons of Purify+. The legend of course was the Hastings took the $ he made from selling Purify to Rational to start Netflix. So as a Rational employee, I had a contribution to Netflix's existence... Or so I like to tell myself ;).
SanjeevSharma
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3 years ago
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on: Ask HN: Company is going through layoffs, but still interviewing me. Red flag?
Not necessarily. (a) They could be laying off low performers and still looking for backfill some of them. (b) they could be laying off in certain skill areas and hiring in others. (c) One division could be laying off while another is hiring.
SanjeevSharma
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3 years ago
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on: Ask HN: Which are the most interesting books you have read in 2022?
- Thinking Fast and Slow (been around for a while - I am just getting to it)
- The 3 Body Problem, Dark Forest, and Death’s End - a SciFi Trilogy by Cixin Liu. A masterpiece. Read them back to back
- Think Again, by Adam Grant
SanjeevSharma
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7 years ago
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on: Ask HN: Favorite nonfiction books of 2018?
SanjeevSharma
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8 years ago
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on: What exactly is Full Stack these days?
This person does not exist. It is a myth created in Silicon Valley. What 'Full Stack' should really mean is someone who can learn new technical skills real fast. Someone with a passion for learning and implementing what she learns. In an ever-expanding technology scope, it is really impossible to know it all, but one can be on a journey to be curious and learn the skills that the job needs.
SanjeevSharma
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9 years ago
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on: Ask HN: Best tools to handle complex requirements writing?
SanjeevSharma
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9 years ago
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on: Theranos is offering investors Elizabeth Holmes’ shares
Agreed. They patented all their 'ideas'. If they could not get them to work with todays tech does not mean that they cannot work in the future. The patents still hold...
SanjeevSharma
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10 years ago
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on: Where do DevOps guys hang out?
Attend a DevOpsDays meeting - www.devopsdays.org.
SanjeevSharma
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12 years ago
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on: Ask HN: What's the difference between a cofounder and an employee?
I think this is the best description, but with a qualification. No mater when you joined the company, if you took no salary and got 'significant' equity, then you
could be called a co-founder, especially you helped the company get off the ground or make a significant pivot - like Elon Musk for Tesla.
I know folks who are on Founder Board of Advisors. They work/provide guidance for sub-1% equity and no salary. They would never be called 'co-founders'
SanjeevSharma
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13 years ago
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on: Where to buy an online business?
Depends on what you are looking for, I may something for you. Send me an email info(at)quadrantb.net
SanjeevSharma
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13 years ago
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on: Is Verizon FiOS blocking traffic from Windows?
Yes, I can get to every other URL I tried that is inside the firewall, including other similar servers
SanjeevSharma
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13 years ago
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on: Is Verizon FiOS blocking traffic from Windows?
I have checked all the configs - remember it work fine when I switch my ISP over to my cell phone from FiOS. I am not implying a conspiracy - just trying to get a solution
SanjeevSharma
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13 years ago
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on: Ask HN: Best developer laptop under $1700?
My vote for the MacBook Air 13'. Hands down. I installed Windows 8 on it (bootcamp) and have Ubuntu running in a VM.
SanjeevSharma
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14 years ago
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on: How should I learn programming?
I would recommend codeacademy.com. My 10 year old son is using the tutorials there to learn programming.
SanjeevSharma
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14 years ago
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on: Ask HN: Who is actually doing something with "Big Data"?
SanjeevSharma
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14 years ago
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on: Ask HN: Best book you read in 2011
SanjeevSharma
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14 years ago
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on: Ask HN: What are the best ways to find and recruit interns for start up?
There has been a lot of flak around free (non-paid) internships lately. As a bootstrapper, I cannot afford to pay an intern. How should I handle getting an intern on-board?
SanjeevSharma
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14 years ago
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on: How do you build a userbase from scratch before launching a new website?
Alexis Ohanian talks about it. I remember seeing a video. Can't remember where.
SanjeevSharma
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14 years ago
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on: What is Wealth in America?
Very interesting, all the comments this post has received. I posted this link on HN because I guessed that several readers here are entrepreneurs like myself, who would one day like to be amongst the 'rich' (or according to the articles author 'upper middle class') and would like to know how that segment of society lives. I had no intention of starting a discourse on class warfare ;)
On the other hand, personally I found this article to be extremely instructive on the relationship between 'net worth' and 'income'. As someone who has worked a job all my life, till date, I have always looked as my salary as my measure of how well I was doing financially. This article made me take an alternative perspective and look at 'net worth'. If and when I decide to stop working for money (side note - someone said Steve Jobs worked so he was middle class. He worked, yes, but I am sure it was not for money! He was Rich.) I would like to still have cash flow coming in from my investments and other passive sources. I believe that is what the author is getting to. If that amount at which I can stop working for money is $100,000 per year, I need to have $2 million in net worth; for an income of $1 million (whew!), I need to have $20 million, and so forth...
SanjeevSharma
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14 years ago
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on: Infected by the Entrepreneurial Parasite
Excellent point! I guess those of us with the 'bug' or 'parasite' - whatever you want to call it - just march to the beat of a different drummer. We value freedom over security, charting our own path over following the beaten one...
