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by ahoyhere 15y ago
From several folks I've known who worked at Mozilla, you just trade in money-dickwads for power-dickwads. Obviously this varies depending on where you are in the organization. But the bottom line is: there are always dicks, and they always
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by ahoyhere 15y ago
That's under the terribly flawed assumption that "culture" can only be had at a "startup."
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by ahoyhere 15y ago
Did pg base that statement off research? If so, I'd love to see it. If not… well, why not?
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by ahoyhere 15y ago
You don't need to take your health advice from 37s -- the book "The Way We're Working Isn't Working" is basically nothing BUT cited research that shows how overwork hurts everybody & everything, including the employer/project.
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by ahoyhere 15y ago
It's a pendulum cycle. Boom & bust cycles always are. What happens is a couple people strike it rich, then a bunch of followers try to do the same thing, it may work for a little while but not for long, and when the stupidest, most inef
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by ahoyhere 15y ago
Ah, it only chafes when I apply your statements back to you about your profession. I see. Point of fact: I started as a visual designer when I was a teenager. Then I learned PHP, then Ruby, then JavaScript, off which I made lots and lots
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by ahoyhere 15y ago
The Wikipedia definition may be accurate. It's important to note that it does not say "undeveloped markets." You added that in your head. "Development and research for markets" -- just markets. That means any market. Startup is a phase, n
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by ahoyhere 15y ago
The bill doesn't appear to "eliminate overtime" but "eliminate the requirement to pay overtime rates for overtime work." In which case there is no change since pretty much everybody already earned too much to qualify for overtime pay anyway
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by ahoyhere 15y ago
“Our youth now love luxury. They have bad manners, contempt for authority; they show disrespect for their elders and love chatter in place of exercise; they no longer rise when elders enter the room; they contradict their parents, chatter b
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by ahoyhere 15y ago
Visual style != design. End of story.
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by ahoyhere 15y ago
Piracy is already illegal. Just like child pornography is already illegal. There is no need to make extra laws about it, and whenever somebody purports to write a law to "prevent" a crime that is already illegal, you can know that that law
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by ahoyhere 15y ago
You're right, ericd, but the vast majority of corporations (and shareholders, and lawmakers) are incapable of thinking beyond the next quarter earnings call.
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by ahoyhere 15y ago
Big Macs barely qualify as food and are not a staple, or even remotely desirable to have your people eating. Fast food and restaurant food is relatively expensive in Austria. Good, healthy, whole food ingredients are subsidized.
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by ahoyhere 15y ago
No, saying somebody can use Photoshop is not like saying they're a Ruby whiz. Here's how you can tell: "Oh, Bob! He's an Eclipse wiz!" How much does that actually tell you about Bob's programming skill?
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by ahoyhere 15y ago
Oh, is there a button in Photoshop that helps you "draw inspiration"? Or can that happen without Photoshop or any design tool whatsoever? It is the exact same thing.
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by ahoyhere 15y ago
The best programmers copy from different sites, combining their code in a way to make it distinct and unique. Do you see why this is inaccurate?
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by ahoyhere 15y ago
Good design has nothing to do with being a "photoshop wiz." Unless, of course, you as a developer describe your main skill as being "a text editor wiz."
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by ahoyhere 15y ago
Which is fine! I'm not ANTI-Fast Company. I'm also not anti-porn. Assuming it doesn't hurt anyone, people have a right to enjoy whatever they care to enjoy. Some people even enjoy TechCrunch. People just need to understand what they're
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by ahoyhere 15y ago
Have you traveled much? In lots of other countries, few stores take credit. Examples I've been to: Austria, Germany, Portugal, New Zealand… strangely enough the hot "latin" countries of Europe love credit cards, so it's easy peasy in Italy
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by ahoyhere 15y ago
Food and water is cheaper in all the European countries I've been to -- all staple foods like milk, eggs, butter, vegetables, most meat, and most groceries, including bottled water (local!) which is $1.20 for a liter. Good bottled mineral w
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by ahoyhere 15y ago
Or it's actually a toy. Like 99% of "social" apps, including Foursquare. See what that other commented pointed out about the sliding downward trend of checkins.
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by ahoyhere 15y ago
When you're depressed, fame, money, opportunities can be all the more depressing because they don't help you feel better . Unless you've been well-off, famous, respected, you can't understand just how big a gulf there can be between what
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by ahoyhere 15y ago
"Lifestyle business" is a strawman argument. The fact is, all -- ALL -- the research on work effectiveness & work-related health shows that this kind of work schedule is terrible. Not only do you stop working effectively after a few h
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by ahoyhere 15y ago
You're right. It's called hagiography -- a term HNers would do well to learn.
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by ahoyhere 15y ago
The opinion of openness of an Apple product has nothing to do with whether Steve Jobs' biographer lied intentionally.
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by ahoyhere 15y ago
This explanation doesn't really get to the heart of it. Fast Company has always been breathless and brainless. They always present "business" in such a way to make it seem like all you need to be a rich, successful, famous, sexy entreprene
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by ahoyhere 15y ago
Thanks for taking the time to write all this up. I haven't delved into my copy yet, but it's great that now I can do so knowing that I shouldn't trust Isaacson's editorializing. I joined Hacker News a long time ago. I think it's shameful th
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by ahoyhere 15y ago
Why should suicide attempts count? They can't be compared to the rate in the general public -- most suicide attempts don't succeed. More importantly, even if you did count them as successful, there'd need to be another 119 suicides for Foxc
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by ahoyhere 15y ago
> You have your Android phone! Why must you wish misfortune on my choice? Because people like this are hypocrites… they want to take your choice away, and scream and fight and claw madly if they don't get their choice. Mentally, these
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by ahoyhere 15y ago
Nobody who's actually read anything written by Jobs, or read any number of excerpts from interviews, etc., could believe that he is what you are describing. Case in point: his Stanford commencement speech. http://news.stanford.edu/news/200

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