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Not a good sign. But don't sit there if everyone else's busy. Check this out. http://www.longnow.org/essays/richard-feynman-connection-machine/ http://www.lon
by teyc 16y ago
Not a good sign. But don't sit there if everyone else's busy.
Check this out.
http://www.longnow.org/essays/richard-feynman-connection-machine/ http://www.longnow.org/essays/richard-feynman-connection-mac...
Also, you can sort out source control, servers, build machines. Ask questions, lots of them, and offer any sort of help. There are no real job titles in startups.
- jons 16y agoI've offered my help in any number of areas. It just typically is ignored. Very confusing situation for me.
- hga 16y agoWhat happens when you do something useful anyway? I've been in a situation like this before. LMI hired me because I was the only person in the community who knew both Lisp Machines and UNIX(TM) ... but I didn't have anything to do because Western Digital was running way behind in their 68000 UNIX workstation that was going to be the chassis for the LMI Lambda CPU (the 68000 UNIX CPU board was optional). So I figured out useful things to do: recruited people who saved the company, produced the first software update for our existing customers, figured out a short cut for providing TCP/IP, worked with the technical writer; those were the big things I can remember three decades later. But eventually I timed out and quit after 8-9 months. Most frustrating. On the other hand I did all of this in full consultation with the leaders of the company, including leaving.