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New comment by fishcakes in "I am rich and have no idea what to do"

fishcakes — Fri, 03 Jan 2025 03:46:05 +0000

Strongly recommend tiger21 - which is an amazing community of people dealing with the positives and negatives of wealth. I have found it immensely helpful.

Message me if you are interested.

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New comment by fishcakes in "Ask HN: What are you working on (September 2024)?"

fishcakes — Mon, 30 Sep 2024 04:38:20 +0000

We are building a new kind of venture capital investment firm - Empros Capital.

We are hiring for two roles:

1. People that have a technical background and want to become investors.

2. People that have an extraordinary background outside of technology (especially in writing or other liberal arts) and a deep interest in technology and want to become investors.

Please get in touch if interested! My email is alex at …

Ask HN: Give 8 year old access to Chat GPT?

fishcakes — Wed, 13 Dec 2023 22:48:42 +0000

My 8 year old daughter loves using Chat GPT / Dall-E to generate images. She also loves to ask the AI questions.

Has anyone given their child access on their own device (she has an iPad) and had any good / bad experiences? Any thoughts on how to do this in a way that doesn't expose her to everything in the world?

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38635303

Points: 13

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New comment by fishcakes in "Automated Data Wrangling"

fishcakes — Sat, 29 May 2021 02:27:25 +0000

This is a terrific idea!

New comment by fishcakes in "Liquidity Is Coming"

fishcakes — Fri, 04 Dec 2020 14:21:53 +0000

You said it perfectly. Agree 100%

New comment by fishcakes in "Steve Jobs at MIT Sloan School of Management (1992) [video]"

fishcakes — Mon, 14 May 2018 04:14:34 +0000

Interesting to think about why this reality didn’t come to pass. Ben was clearly right about the opportunity market being huge and i think it’s timing. Without having thought too much about I think he underestimated or couldn’t compete with Microsoft. Having cheap wintel PCs everywhere made next irrelevant.

New comment by fishcakes in "Palantir is using War on Terror tools to track American citizens"

fishcakes — Fri, 20 Apr 2018 04:04:54 +0000

That is like asking everything Oracle or Postgresql knows about you. It doesn't make sense.

Palantir is software deployed for specific customers. The customers then use Palantir against their data and publicly available data.

SFO sues Turo, says they must comply with rental regulations

fishcakes — Thu, 25 Jan 2018 00:36:03 +0000

Article URL: https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2018-01-24/san-francisco-sues-daimler-backed-rental-car-upstart-turo

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16227730

Points: 2

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Ask HN: Why is no one talking about the us electrify getting hacked?

fishcakes — Sat, 22 Apr 2017 21:38:39 +0000

Three cities had power outages concurrently on Friday... probably not conincidence. No?

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14174969

Points: 2

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Ask HN: Best Enterprise Stack?

fishcakes — Mon, 13 Mar 2017 17:44:45 +0000

Hi Everyone -- I am setting a new company (not a tech focussed / engineering / product company) and am wondering what people have found to be the best stack for collaboration across the company. My needs specifically are:

1. Collaborative File Storage system (Box / DropBox / etc.) 2. Wiki or some other place we can collaborate on documents and keep organized.

Any thoughts? There must be something better than SharePoint for the wiki!

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13860276

Points: 1

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New comment by fishcakes in "Best Wifi Mesh Network Kits"

fishcakes — Mon, 05 Dec 2016 04:27:28 +0000

I agree completely. I went all in and I have 7x UniFi ap AC in my house (2 per floor over 3 floors and one in the guest house). They are all powered by the switch (power over Ethernet) making it super clean.

The software is fine by the big advantage is that it has meraki reliability without the licensing.

New comment by fishcakes in "Hedging Against Getting Paid in Stock"

fishcakes — Mon, 29 Jun 2015 01:16:24 +0000

I think the spirit of this is misguided and goes against the spirit of the compensation. The stock based compensation is designed to align everyone's incentives as well as filter for individuals who believe in the prospects of the company.

Hedging out your stock based compensation goes directly against this, and misaligns you with the rest of your company. I think if you don't believe in the companies prospects it is best to take another job or ask for more cash and less equity.

New comment by fishcakes in "Beside a startup, what are the other ways to significant wealth for a dev?"

fishcakes — Tue, 02 Jun 2015 17:02:05 +0000

Yeah :)

New comment by fishcakes in "Beside a startup, what are the other ways to significant wealth for a dev?"

fishcakes — Tue, 02 Jun 2015 04:48:22 +0000

Here are a few ideas:

- Selling enterprise software (you can make 10%-20% of an 8 or 9 figure deal)

- Selling securities in some form or another (you make ~5% of deals worth potentially hundreds of millions of dollars)

- high leverage consulting (solving very hard tech problems for lots of people. for example: I have a friend who helps a whole bunch of computer vision companies and makes a ton. Another friend is an SEO expert.)

- Patenting core technologies and selling those patents (A buddy of mine sold his patent for $10M)

- "platform based land grabs". Think of the people who bought tons of domains early in the Web's history. Or the first guy to make an emoji app on iOS. These are different than "starting a company" as you really only need a product and can pull it all off on your own. I suspect there will be more of these in the future.

All of these require creatively navigating business as well as being an awesome dev.

Will existing thunderbolt displays work with new retina macbook

fishcakes — Fri, 13 Mar 2015 03:46:01 +0000

Article URL: http://store.apple.com/us/question/answers/product/MC914LL/B/how-to-connect-apple-thunderbolt-display-to-the-new-macbook-with-usbc-connector/QPTFX7Y4D4J4JX77F?fnode=beaed0e76c7fb86deb8b20be6acc5c81b2b876db9d41fc923544951ffcb8d61d11969896ce2e4cfa336c976cb0dece9d945ba5c305d9f609e971d2c851c7b32c0046967011916e8769d1eb855b0c477cae2c56f482aa566dacf073491d74ecfff3f792b4ee30e8fe05ca964555436de4

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9195572

Points: 2

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New comment by fishcakes in "Leaked Palantir Doc Reveals Uses, Specific Functions and Key Clients"

fishcakes — Mon, 12 Jan 2015 04:50:31 +0000

On one hand, it is true they deploy people to implement the software.

On the other hand, the customer has results after 6-8 weeks. How much software can really be built in that sort of time frame? Not much...

In my opinion Palantir is a product company, but the product is deeply integrated in to an enterprise. And doing that takes time and people.

New comment by fishcakes in "Ask HN: Where to find great web developers"

fishcakes — Sun, 05 Oct 2014 17:11:38 +0000

No engineers in our network are excited about working on the web. Everyone is either mobile or backend focussed.

Ask HN: Where to find great web developers

fishcakes — Sun, 05 Oct 2014 01:15:07 +0000

We are having an incredibly tough time finding developers with experience developing for the web. There are a plethora of junior people, but we haven't been able to find engineers who care deeply about making great websites.

Any ideas, or anyone who is interested in doing this on a contract basis?

I am (pretty) confident it isn't us as we've been able to find amazing mobile developers, backend, devops, and even data focussed developers.

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8411128

Points: 1

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New comment by fishcakes in "Palantir Pricelist (page 27) [pdf]"

fishcakes — Wed, 17 Sep 2014 03:25:54 +0000

That is simply FUD – Palantir guarantees to customers that their software is working within 90 days AND has generated results. They offer a refund if not. Their homepage said this for a while!

New comment by fishcakes in "Palantir Pricelist (page 27) [pdf]"

fishcakes — Wed, 17 Sep 2014 03:18:40 +0000

The alternative to Palantir - an alternative enterprise bespoke system or one built by the companies' or Gov's IT department - costs a whole lot more (25x) and often doesn't work! Palantir is a great value.