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by angelbob 16y ago
Well, eventually. Just not under Obama. Maybe if they wait a few years?
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by angelbob 16y ago
Maybe. He's competing with headhunters, often at $30k+ per developer found. His charges look pretty modest if he has even a minimal success rate.
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by angelbob 16y ago
In feudalism, the downside of that approach was that if you went off on your own, armies would generally come and (at best) repossess the land or (at worst) kill you. As a programmer, you don't have quite the same issues. Where do you see
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by angelbob 16y ago
I would argue that in that case, the business guys are creating a lot more of those billions in value than we generally credit them with.
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by angelbob 16y ago
If so, then more of us should go work for ourselves. Put our money where our mouth is. If we're truly creating so much more wealth for these companies than we take in salary, it should be easy (ish) to turn that into more money for ourselv
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by angelbob 16y ago
The Micropreneur Academy is also worth looking into on this count, though it's a bit more specialized.
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by angelbob 16y ago
What, really? You don't think that that's a significant part of why being a rock star counts as a really high-status job? Not all of them make a tremendous amount of money, but pretty much all of them can get laid on any given night.
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by angelbob 16y ago
Sounds like he's pretty much saying "Groupon is a great tool for a specific purpose, but don't use it without thinking about it." Which is good advice. Specifically, it will attract a lot of customers, but runs the risk of reducing custo
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by angelbob 16y ago
That would be "don't take much money." To avoid losing a controlling stake in your company, don't sell one.
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by angelbob 16y ago
Greener than a Prius!
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by angelbob 16y ago
I suspect he doesn't care much about the storage space. JPEGs make the edges of the lines blurry or noisy - they're designed for things like nature photographs, not sharp hard edges between single-color areas.
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by angelbob 16y ago
If it is the "best job in the world," then by definition you would be happy to do it No. Somebody could, in a logically consistent way, be unhappy when doing absolutely any job.
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by angelbob 16y ago
Developing Chrome is a risk. It's only a hedge against risk if it works . It's a little like if you could buy insurance, but there'd be a 25% chance that you paid for it and it just didn't do anything. The insurance is a hedge against ri
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by angelbob 16y ago
EmailOracle appears to be the same people as ETacts. http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2028555
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by angelbob 16y ago
EmailOracle appears to be the same guys as ETacts. http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2028555
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by angelbob 16y ago
Partly they're amazing guys. If you talked to them, you'd understand some of how they managed. All that stuff PG talks about -- utter confidence, and projecting "we're going to succeed and change the world," like it was just going to happe
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by angelbob 16y ago
NewsLabs did indeed return some of the money. There are several companies that I could have easily chosen that seem to have done well. It's just that the ones where you can see in advance that they're going to rock usually aren't looking f
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by angelbob 16y ago
That's deeply unfortunate. I loved you guys on demo day. Based on my choices, apparently I shouldn't try more angel investment. I was an investor in NewsLabs. This would have been another "yeah, let's invest" choice if they were intere
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by angelbob 16y ago
Well, in France they came for people auctioning off Nazi artifacts :-)
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by angelbob 16y ago
So the trend here is... Ruby syntax, compiled to other languages' semantics? This would excite me more if Ruby's syntax were better. I want metaprogramming on top of everything and its brother, not Ruby syntax. Even though I love Ruby.
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by angelbob 16y ago
I build first, then announce :-)
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by angelbob 16y ago
That. Being able to "git init" and check in from there without needing to set anything up is so, so awesome.
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by angelbob 16y ago
In 2010? I reworked my Comet-based realtime game-in-a-web-server library, RailsGame. I fully rewrote, updated and released a webapp called WantMyJob.com. I wrote a circuit simulator game called Shanna's Pizza to start teaching my two-year-
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by angelbob 16y ago
Depends on the position. I have worked, recently, on codebases where that kind of thing was absolutely a core skill and we asked people to write linked list code in the interview process. We were also doing manually-managed core OS and di
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by angelbob 16y ago
Sure. And a good interviewer should take that into account. I ask this kind of question ("write me code to reverse this linked list, re-using the existing nodes") quite frequently. I don't expect even experienced programmers to have memo
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by angelbob 16y ago
I got http://wantmyjob.com in passable shape, and realized some new things I should really have done with it. It's a peer-to-peer job search site -- asks questions about your jobs, recommends other people's jobs to you based on what you
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by angelbob 16y ago
I'm against naming software anything where your first mental reaction is "turn into a cockroach". It looks like a good software tool with a real use case, though, naming aside.
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by angelbob 16y ago
Hi, Adam!
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by angelbob 16y ago
I suppose I'd say that the Corinthian bronzes are being arranged in order to impress somebody. It's a difficult line, I'll grant you -- a religious man is often rushing to serve God, for instance. That's an interesting line since the cust
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by angelbob 16y ago
Yes, LiveJournal. Presumably he's trying to make what he's doing sound silly since LJ is, y'know, this wacky online diary thing. I'm kind of amazed that blogs got significantly more respect, but LJ remained firmly below MySpace in being ta

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