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I will never do a startup until..
- bromagosa 14y agoUntil... I learn how to spell? ;)
- jhaaps 14y agoOr divide text into paragraphs.
- DrinkWater 14y agoI wanted to replay the EXACT same thing, haha
- dworrad 14y agoQuite negative shitty comments guys... sorry to say
- freehunter 14y agoClear communication is very important when it comes to getting your point across.
- raldi 14y agoLiterally so in my case; I clicked the link to read it, but decided not to when I saw the lack of paragraph breaks.
- dworrad 14y agoMy point is that the comment "Until... I learn how to spell?" is not really the best way to get the point across. It's obvious the post needs a little attention... maybe that would of been a more positive thing to say.
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- untog 14y agoThis post is in desperate need of paragraphs. It's unreadable.
- alttab 14y agoPFDR (poorly formatted, didn't read).
- seunosewa 14y agoWell, I've just finished reading it!
- hack_edu 14y agoAnd its submitted by the writer. :(
- ry0ohki 14y agoIs that bad form? I've noticed even people like Ryan Carson submit their own links
- hack_edu 14y agoMy main point is that the author should be proud of his posts and proofread them, especially when choosing to share them this way. As far as self-posts... I'll defer to the community's choice to upvote whether or not it helps/hurts the community. Personally, I think it adds noise to the signal that is the front page.
- crusso 14y agoDarn, I was going to answer the blog's question: What do you wish someone would make for you? ... with something like your observation. Ah well, that HN community is already on top of it.
- dcolgan 14y agoBad formatting aside, this is an important insight. When I first started working at my current job, a young consulting firm, we took a client that nearly killed me for about a solid month. The thing is, we hadn't even launched their product, a test taking app, to the general public yet. There was always an air of urgency, of "if we don't get this feature done RIGHT NOW there will be trouble." I've since learned that there really wasn't as much trouble as I thought, since we didn't even have users yet, and if the feature had to be put on hold for 3 hours to spend time in the evening with my family, the world was not at all going to end. I think I'm getting better at work/life balance, but when I first started, it was nonexistent. Makes for an unpleasant lifestyle.
- rprasad 14y agoFirst rule of contracting: The client's emergency is not your emergency unless they're explicitly paying you to deal with it right now.
- denniedarko 14y agoGood insight; poor formatting/spelling.
- sum_itsin 14y agoSorry guys for poor formatting. I wrote it in a hurry and since my blog isn't that popular I din't mind it initially but looks like I made to the Home Page of Hacker News and am getting a lot of attention. So I formatted it now, hope its readable.