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by ahoyhere 16y ago
Not true. Seems like quite a few places in the world have a tax on gross receipts - including, of all absurdity, Philadelphia.
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by ahoyhere 16y ago
As compared to not taking care of them, and having them freeze to death?
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by ahoyhere 16y ago
Working around other motivated, hard-working, intelligent, fun people is about a lot more than having warm bodies around so as not to be "bleak." The amount of serendipity & opportunity that comes out of coworking - when the coworking c
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by ahoyhere 16y ago
"They won't listen" - really? I've had lots of older mentors in my life, and they treated me like their equal. This is a distinct contrast to older people who just take the opportunity to lecture and judge. "You won't understand until you'r
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by ahoyhere 16y ago
The design of your chat stream looks like an almost direct rip off of Campfire. If you want people to believe you're doing something different, you have to make it so your product isn't confused with the competition with a glance.
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by ahoyhere 16y ago
I'm sure many people who are unemployed are unemployed through no fault of their own. But... ... the other day I checked out a site for finding tech/design-oriented interns. There were 50 listed in my city (Philadelphia)... and most of the
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by ahoyhere 16y ago
That doesn't invalidate my metaphor. If an advertiser is willing to pay you $x then you can be guaranteed they're earning $x * 2 -- or more. If you had the product instead, and were the advertiser, you could be the one making a lot more mon
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by ahoyhere 16y ago
Nope, you're mistaken. I've made tens of thousands on ads... and hundreds of thousands on products. Products that cost money. It's easier to control, more rewarding intellectually (because your interests & customer interess are in sync)
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by ahoyhere 16y ago
The metaphor I use with my startup students is this: PPC (even banner) advertising is like scrounging for scraps at the table of someone successful. AND, of course, if the ads work -- if the advertisers get their money worth -- then of cour
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by ahoyhere 16y ago
People won't follow the link if it sounds creepy. And addressing real-live women as "Female" definitely sets off most women's creep-dars.
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by ahoyhere 16y ago
I'm an east coaster with lots of west coast friends, from whom I've picked up a lot of west coast slang and mannerisms (e.g. "the 95", "fuckin A"). But I've never heard grub as a verb.
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by ahoyhere 16y ago
There are lots and lots and LOTS of female entrepreneurs who start all kinds of business. I know - I searched aggressively for women entrepreneurs to see if I could find any who met my criteria, so I could invite them to speak at my confere
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by ahoyhere 16y ago
$100k to $250k seems like a needlessly large bracket!
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by ahoyhere 16y ago
There's lots and lots of research out there that meditation increases insight, memory, improves sleep, reduces stress, reduces the physical perception of pain, improves, well, just about everything. Useful refs: http://www.amazon.com/Destr
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by ahoyhere 16y ago
Nobody is ever satisfied with being "satisfied." That's why "satisfied" people complain about all the minor annoyances they bear, such as the whole point of the original article. If you think hard about it, you'll realize that you'd rather
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by ahoyhere 16y ago
There's a moral, but the author couldn't find it. The moral is not "don't distract programmers" but: Programmers need to grow up. If you program just to program, or "solve problems" as so many put it, then of course, you will be miserable w
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by ahoyhere 16y ago
Not the greatest corporate showman? Have you watched any other CEOs present their products? Even the other Apple CxOs. It's all blather blather blather buzzword awkward brow wiping bullshit bullshit equivocate buzzword blather blather adjus
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by ahoyhere 16y ago
So, what you're saying is, if our tool says your web app is "fat" and to "lose weight" -- so you plan to implement that suggestion by cutting off a leg? Measurements exist for a reason. You have to use your own judgment to interpret them.
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by ahoyhere 16y ago
Not true at all. I design heavily interactive apps and my husband, Thomas, wrote the first OSS JavaScript animation library (Scriptaculous). We consistently push boundaries. It's what we do :) But for a good example of how to do heavily int
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by ahoyhere 16y ago
Hi, I'm the writer behind Freelancember. I agree with the other commentor who said you shouldn't just drop a bomb shell like this in email. That's why, naturally, Freelancember has several other rate-increasing-related guides before the tem
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by ahoyhere 16y ago
Hi. I'm the author of Unicorn Free. Since the topic is extra income, you might enjoy my post about how I brought in $216,000 of product income in 2010 up thru October (actually it's nearly $300k now that it's December). http://unicornfree.
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by ahoyhere 16y ago
clique-oriented, where you have your close friends from a very young age, but casual acquaintances keep each other at arms length much moreso That's how I feel in Vienna, too, despite making huge efforts to find/make friends (like throwin
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by ahoyhere 16y ago
If you're amazing at what you do, and good at selling it, you can get a high-paying job without a lot of the extra bullshit. In short: earn your pay. People who truly earn their pay are rare. For some reason, almost everyone is concerned wi
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by ahoyhere 16y ago
I have had friends who've gone to work for Yahoo & the Big Goog. They've all quit save one, who is a fun guy but one who, professionally speaking, (sadly) likes to be told what to do. The reasons: boredom, not enough freedom, being stuc
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by ahoyhere 16y ago
Yes. Let's say you have a limited amount of creative energy, which based on what we know about exhaustion of Executive Function & decision-making, is probably true. Do you want to waste a large portion of your allotted creative juice on
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by ahoyhere 16y ago
IMO, you're right about the romanticism, but it'll be hard to tell anything from this survey because of the tendency for nerds to overthink! Tell you what: I tried to go with my gut feeling on every question. I am very risk-averse, but the
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by ahoyhere 16y ago
My mother used to beat me, until I was big enough to fight back, which I did. Guess which hurt me more? Her abuse of me doesn't weigh on me nearly as much as mine of her, because in the latter I had a choice . So there you go.
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by ahoyhere 16y ago
There's no indication that they "allowed" it to pass - but, rather, that they caused it to pass, with great glee and evil rubbing of hands. It seems like any political resistance has been mere theater.
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by ahoyhere 16y ago
Believe it or not, in all my dealings with the IRS, they have been polite and effective. And I was late with my taxes so there was a reason for them to be jerks.
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by ahoyhere 16y ago
Unlike probably most people here on HN, I have done real violence to someone else. Over and over, in fact. I had the cops called on me and I've had to live with the consequences. And I don't mean legal consequences. Beating up on other peop

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