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by SMrF 16y ago
When I was a kid I loved dressing up and makeup, etc. My parents (thankfully) did not discourage this type of play, but did they encourage me to make a career out of this interest? No. Was there anything in society that pushed me, a straigh
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by SMrF 16y ago
If your startup projects have failed you, you don't think your 401k plus social security are enough, you are within two decades or so of retirement and you are still "just a coder" I know exactly what you should do: 1. Pick a company you do
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by SMrF 16y ago
Years ago I suffered what I would now call "burn out" although at the time I didn't know what was happening. I found this essay to be an accurate description of my experience, but I think a doctor would be a better source of information on
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by SMrF 16y ago
She's a Stanford grad, entrepreneur, surfer, model and apparently she has been published in the NYT. She also created this diet, which looks interesting: http://thenaturalfoodsdiet.com/about.php I had no idea human beings like this existe
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by SMrF 16y ago
I wish I had time to write a longer post, but I have to catch my train. Suffice it to say the stealth startup is a relic. It's like waterfall methodology is to agile development. It had its day and its uses, but now there are better ways to
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by SMrF 16y ago
I don't think it's a coincidence that you don't live in the Valley and you're thinking of bootstrapping a small business. In the rest of the country I believe you are firmly in the majority, so welcome to the club! I've always wondered why
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by SMrF 16y ago
Biology is just a layer of abstraction on top of physics. It's turtles all the way down...
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by SMrF 16y ago
It's a strategic decision. If you punt you are signalling to the other team that you don't think you can get a first down in one more down. Example: It's fourth down, (your last chance), and you have eight yards to go, that means you went t
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by SMrF 16y ago
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Punt_(football) An American football team will punt when it fails to reach a first down. There are four downs to try to go ten yards, if you don't make it after three downs you usually punt. It's a strategic d
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by SMrF 16y ago
I submitted the python solution. I changed the problem to accept a list. I was guessing this preserved the integrity of the problem, although I don't really know C so I couldn't be certain. I explained as much when I emailed my solution.
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by SMrF 16y ago
Nice. Did you just recreate the Readability algorithm or are you trying your own approach?
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Steve Blank is My Hero(blog.twosix.es)
9 points by SMrF 16y ago|1 comments
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by SMrF 16y ago
And a little light bulb just went off over my head. Now I know why patio11 is working on a Twillio app. There are so many cool things that could be done with this.
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by SMrF 16y ago
I highly recommend reading through Lamson. Zed Shaw's rants may rub me the wrong way on occasion, but he's a seriously good coder. Lamson is fantastically well-written and documented.
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by SMrF 17y ago
Based on rates I saw for Java developers while working at Accenture for a few years. I adjusted down, assuming individual contractors wouldn't be able to bill out at the same rate, I just didn't adjust down enough...
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by SMrF 17y ago
So the problem is not that the market for programmers is too big, it's the other way around: the market of jobs available at a better rate is too small and larger companies have this market cornered. My hourly rate expectation was based on
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by SMrF 17y ago
Are contracting rates really this low? I would have expected $150-$200/hour range for serious programming skills, which most on this list seem to have. Instead it looks like the number is somewhere between $75-$100.
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by SMrF 17y ago
It seems like a big leap to me to take the problems of our generation and extrapolate them to be a (literally) universal explanation for Fermi's Paradox. I have the same problem with the apocalyptic explanations. Just because humans have bu
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by SMrF 17y ago
If this is to raise awareness, you might want to reword the stats. I found them slightly hard to parse. "Your BMI is lower than 37% of people who submitted this survey." This might be better written as, "You are fatter than 60% of people wh
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by SMrF 17y ago
"The world is imperative! Things have state! We do not live in an imaginary fluffy world of mathematical elegance & correctness." I don't think that this means an imperative language is therefore better than a functional programming lan
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by SMrF 17y ago
This was already posted once before here: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1159438
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by SMrF 17y ago
"I just find it curious that these specific themes tend to occur again and again." The markets for each of these categories is huge with plenty of room for innovation in specialized niches. It makes sense to me to see plenty of competition
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by SMrF 17y ago
Added my email to my profile.
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by SMrF 17y ago
Whenever the FizzBuzz topic pops up on Hacker News in the back of my mind there is a nagging anxiety: am I one of these programmers that can't program? There is always some comment in the ensuing discussion that makes me question my own com
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by SMrF 17y ago
And when you switch from your Linux tablet to an Apple tablet that experience will be significantly better. Your metaphor breaks down because there is no other tablet (worth talking about).
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by SMrF 17y ago
I took a look. Just a few comments: Typo here, I think you meant "you're": "Formats lyrics on your screen to be easy to read while your playing an instrument." It took me a little while to figure out how to create an account. You should pro
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Starting up with a day job isn't that bad.(planningforaliens.com)
2 points by SMrF 17y ago|0 comments
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Relentless – The Difference Between Motion And Action(steveblank.com)
3 points by SMrF 17y ago|0 comments
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by SMrF 17y ago
I don't think you ever get over self-doubt. It's just another thing you have to overcome day after day. One strategy, as you mentioned, is to delude yourself. My cure is a dose of self-deprecating laughter with my co-founder. "We are such i
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by SMrF 17y ago
Is anyone else getting redirected from the article to rotten.com?

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