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by avenger123 13y ago
How much time are you putting into this every day? You said you think you are burned out. You probably are. You need to think big picture on this. You have worked hard to build a business that makes real money. It's not sexy and you do
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by avenger123 13y ago
Look's like you really have a tough nut to crack here. This is a really tough area as there is so much competition. Your product doesn't have any "I need this right now." It's also something that you really need to
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by avenger123 13y ago
How many clients do you have? Get out there and spend time with the companies that might want your product. Work with them to add whatever extra features are needed to make it really worthwhile. Toyota can build the best Corolla but they st
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by avenger123 13y ago
This is great advice and I would say how most companies get started. It's hard to realize that we're our own little techno bubble when we read HN and about start-up's all the time. The fact is that most of the software compan
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by avenger123 13y ago
This is really it. We in our techno bubble care about these things. For normal people, its basically a non-issue. Heck, I even forget that Facebook bought Instagram unless I'm reminded of it here and there. This goes to Facebook'
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by avenger123 13y ago
Why is this a big problem? If your scenario plays out after VR is really viable because of the extra millions that Facebook puts into the product, so be it. At this point, the awesome feature issue isn't even really on the table based
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by avenger123 13y ago
Are there functioning alcoholics? How about people that take weed on a regular basis? Are all these people unable to do their work? Please do not categorize people with mental illness as mostly being less predictable and reliable. You are d
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by avenger123 13y ago
Just chill. Don't worry about it. Do something that you enjoy and don't feel guilty about spending all your time at it. Don't feel guilty for not doing much or just "wasting" your time. This is your mind/soul t
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by avenger123 13y ago
Sorry to hear. Seems like they were fishing to see what else they could get from you that wasn't already open-sourced. When they found that the open source code was enough, they dumped you. As this changed your mind about open sourcing
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by avenger123 13y ago
Hasn't OS X become "linux on the desktop". Homebrew is there for a lot of the main packages and its easy to bring up virtual machines with whatever flavor of Linux distribution one wants for more particular needs. If you alre
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by avenger123 13y ago
Wow. What an unexpected buy. It's not even Aprils Fool's yet. This is likely a defensive buy. I would imagine it didn't cost too much either.
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by avenger123 13y ago
My mistake. Feels similar in style to your articles :) Sorry Bobby.
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by avenger123 13y ago
I think the biggest example would be Amazon. The biggest advantage I see is that Joel's approach still allows some level of iteration on the domain model and all the associated business logic. It seems that mobile is pushing this type
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by avenger123 13y ago
I am starting to wonder if the overhead of doing an API first design is that much more than integrating your domain model into the web app directly. The benefits of having an API backend really seem to shine in the scenario that Joel is des
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by avenger123 13y ago
This might be a good thread to turn on the new commenting feature.
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by avenger123 13y ago
I don't follow Postgres too much and I saw the tweet by Peter van Hardenberg first. It's great to see the enthusiasm for the project. It's likely that 9.5 or even 9.6 will actually see the real significance of this new featur
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by avenger123 13y ago
Buyvm.net is another good one. Lowendbox is great for finding lesser known providers that don't want to become the next Digital Ocean. You are right though, you still need to due your due diligence.
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by avenger123 13y ago
Winning Through Intimidation - Robert Ringer: This is old book but a classic. It's a fun and humorous read and the context is around real estate deals but surprisingly a lot of applies to start-ups (and real life). If I were to sum up
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by avenger123 13y ago
Job Control Language - Old timers love this. The rigidity of it fits the mainframe philosophy.
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by avenger123 13y ago
Wow. Pretty broad generalization of Python and Ruby developers. Would love to get more details beyond "seemed like hacks".
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by avenger123 13y ago
I don't deny that getting older has an impact but your statements above are applicable to anyone and probably more so to older developers. Reading over your story the main thing that stuck out with me is that you've had a it rough
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by avenger123 13y ago
I don't know what you mean. My original comment remains unchanged. I understand Google used special machines to scan books and was wondering if its the same sort of tech involved. I'm sure the size of the notebook has something to
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by avenger123 13y ago
Everything you are saying about the parents and the upbringing is true. We always need to put anyone's success in context. It's easy to compare myself and feel less accomplished when just looking superficially at someone's su
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by avenger123 13y ago
They mention that they realized users wanted the notebooks back, but I didn't see any details on how they would do this. It's left as a problem to solve.
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by avenger123 13y ago
I wonder if the notebooks are stripped to bare sheets, scanned and then re-built as a new notebook with proper bindings for sending back. I don't see any other way of doing this that would keep it efficient.
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by avenger123 13y ago
Totally agree with these iterations of libraries. The latest craziness is their authentication story for ASP.NET. Their new libraries try to fix old design flaws but at the same time leave out functionality from the original membership, rol
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by avenger123 13y ago
Not all of us using .NET use LINQ without any oversight or thought. It's a great tool and needs to be used wisely. For example, all queries that are generated for database calls via LINQ are reviewed and analyzed to make sure its what
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by avenger123 13y ago
I am just reading about all this now. First of all, the main theme that resonates with me is that no company is immune to these things no matter how much "special" or "different" they are. At this point, I don't com
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by avenger123 13y ago
Are you an employee or an employee of the contractor (CGI, etc.) that's been hired to do the work?
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by avenger123 13y ago
Most oil companies see their employees that are not actual engineers (mechanical, chemical, petroleum, etc.) as the helpers, not much better than hiring a welder on contract for a job. The best way to make money with oil companies with tech

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