Hacker News: loahou04

New comment by loahou04 in "Airbnb, My $1B Lesson"

loahou04 — Thu, 23 Jul 2015 04:19:11 +0000

Its an interesting read to hear about other investors who have missed out on deals. I actually tried investing into a startup this year and completely failed due to governmental regulations. Even though i worked my ass off saving for 2 years to have discretionary income in order to invest as i wanted to I did not meet the requirements of being an "accredited investor" and so i missed out on the funding round. I spent at least a month getting everything ready and going back and forth with the founders meeting with them emailing them back and forth to find out from a newsletter that they had closed without me. I guess until the SEC opens it up i'm shit out of luck and am better off going to a roulette table at a casino...

Ex-Goldman Programmer Guilty of Stealing Code – WSJ

loahou04 — Sun, 03 May 2015 14:27:27 +0000

Article URL: http://www.wsj.com/articles/jury-gives-split-verdict-in-trial-of-former-goldman-programmer-sergey-aleynikov-1430496291?KEYWORDS=Sergey

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9481387

Points: 22

# Comments: 6

New comment by loahou04 in "Ask HN: How do you deal with professional jealousy and getting older?"

loahou04 — Wed, 08 Apr 2015 14:22:28 +0000

I feel the same way. I actually do the same thing too. I end up talking with people i used to work with and seeing how much they've grown and their positions. I don't feel like I am bad. I've started my own consulting company and did over $500k in revenue last year, yet I will talk with these developers who are just so much smarter than me and do better than me and i just get crazy jealous about it probably from my competitive nature. I think its just a part of life. Literally just last night I had a real bad depression of what I have done professionally and how though I have a lot in savings and I've started my own company doing consulting work I locked myself in my room all night and started working on my own side project. It's not going to be big, but just to have it done and say that I did it I think would make me happy. In the end I think you just got to find what will make you happy and just go with that.

New comment by loahou04 in "2048"

loahou04 — Tue, 11 Mar 2014 05:12:52 +0000

Thanks a lot jerk...now ive lost 2 hours of sleep because of this game! Keep up the good work!

New comment by loahou04 in "The Star Trek Economy"

loahou04 — Fri, 14 Feb 2014 11:57:54 +0000

Human greed pretty much takes over. Social pressures won't work because people will always want to "keep up with the jones" or show off what they have done. The only way you could have post scarcity is if everything and anything in the living reality could be created, which of course is just highly improbable if not impossible due to the emotional nature of our species as well as differences in individual needs and wants (I.e. Not everyone can fall in love and be married or be just as popular or be just as good I sports). Personally, I don't think there is a reason we can't have a better welfare system, I just don't think we should care about those who do not contribute to society. If all people in Star Trek are now in it for the bettering of the human race than that would mean not a single person is thinking of themselves, which much like greed, is a natural human state of mind. Do we know what/who is going to better society, no we don't. However, with capitalism people democratically choose what does and doesn't. To have government subsidize specific items/ideas we leave capitalism and start having a centrally governed panel who picks the winners, or at least subsidizes them. Let the free hand of capitalism decide who can contribute the most to society and let the people also decide who much they should be rewarded. If anything it's not economics that needs to be changed, rather the human psychology that needs to be reformed.

New comment by loahou04 in "To my daughter's high school programming teacher"

loahou04 — Tue, 10 Sep 2013 13:03:27 +0000

Thats a shame. Some of the best developers i've worked with and worked for are women

New comment by loahou04 in "So You Want to be A Freelancer"

loahou04 — Fri, 12 Jul 2013 14:44:41 +0000

At least for developers freelancing i dont think even marketing is all that hard. With the number of recruiters and such around its actually quite easy to get calls out and start working within a few weeks. I started out with old co-workers and such but found that the easiest way is to post your resume on one of the career sites (monster, indeed, linkedin, etc..) and you will get a flood of calls. 99% of them will be crap...but if your a 1 man show all you need is 1.

New comment by loahou04 in "Ask HN: Freelancer? Seeking freelancer? (May 2013)"

loahou04 — Wed, 01 May 2013 15:56:41 +0000

Seeking Work Remote-only with travel if needed

Mobile (iOS, Android) J2EE .NET Javascript (node or frontend) SQL/noSQL Enterprise System Design

hung.chen.ucf at googles email service

New comment by loahou04 in "Think Like a 5-Year Old"

loahou04 — Tue, 12 Feb 2013 15:57:06 +0000

i still act like i'm 5 all the time...i just bang on things until they work and then try and figure out what i banged on

New comment by loahou04 in "From jQuery to JavaScript and back again"

loahou04 — Fri, 08 Feb 2013 13:53:18 +0000

i definitely think frameworks are a huge help, however, i do believe that understanding the underlying source of the frameworks will help you even more. Use the framework as needed but truely understand why they chose the direction they went with in the framework/toolkit in order to better yourself and grow as a developer

New comment by loahou04 in "US employee 'outsourced job to China'"

loahou04 — Wed, 16 Jan 2013 21:08:44 +0000

i couldnt imagine this being true. Any developer will have to answer questions about specific items he was working on and integrate it with other teams. As soon as they asked him any questions i'm sure he would have been completely stumped and everyone would have known immediately he wasnt doing the work

New comment by loahou04 in "What If Cars Were Rented Like We Hire Programmers?"

loahou04 — Wed, 16 Jan 2013 21:02:51 +0000

true but i would hope we all know what hes getting at. And by the way its hilarious because anyone who has been a contractor and gone through a staffing firm knows EXACTLY that same situation

New comment by loahou04 in "How To Become a Successful Freelance Web Developer (and Not Kill Your Career)"

loahou04 — Fri, 28 Dec 2012 03:34:00 +0000

I had a very different experience than how you wrote it. I started as a FTE for a small software company and was contracted out to a larger one. They made the mistake of letting me know how much they were actually charging for me per hour and when they started laying off engineers rather than management i realized how mis-managed the place was. Thats when i went on my own and searched for work on my own. Co-workers is one way of finding new gigs, but the best has been actively searching through linkedin and other forums such as HN!

New comment by loahou04 in "[dead]"

loahou04 — Mon, 10 Dec 2012 23:00:46 +0000

looks like it is down in the US

New comment by loahou04 in "Show HN: My first try at a WordPress plugin"

loahou04 — Thu, 20 Sep 2012 14:16:24 +0000

I'm with jhaaps on this! As a group i think our industry is very much into sharing anything and everything we have done, its like our bragging rights even if it is just clicking a button or checking a checkbox. I dont know how many times things that are that simple take me hours to find only to find a google search post that has the answer right there for me.

New comment by loahou04 in "Ask HN: losing faith in the startup where I'm employee #1"

loahou04 — Sun, 13 May 2012 13:47:20 +0000

agreed. In the end its just a business decision. If their really people who you want to stay in touch with then they will understand your decision

New comment by loahou04 in "I have no idea what I'm doing"

loahou04 — Tue, 24 Apr 2012 00:24:33 +0000

I always get stuck on new things and just get absolutely frustrated over things that i have no idea what i'm doing. I find taking a break and then coming back to it usually helps. The funny thing is once you figure it out you cant ever see how it didnt click in the first place

New comment by loahou04 in "Ask HN: if you google 'bottle' what is your first search result?"

loahou04 — Wed, 28 Sep 2011 12:07:17 +0000

bottlepy specialybottle wiki

New comment by loahou04 in "Any ace hackers out there?"

loahou04 — Wed, 28 Sep 2011 02:29:06 +0000

I am apart of the team you are looking for. We are a team of web and mobile specialist. Many of us have worked together on multiple projects. A few of us have also successfully brought up startups from the ground up and are looking for a new exciting venture. Please feel free to contact me at hung.chen.ucf@gmail.com