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by beachgeek 15y ago
This is exactly right! Its excessive regulations and crazy labor laws that stop people from building factories in much of the US. I am mostly leftist on much of my view and I'm sure people here will downvote me, but unions have screwed work
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by beachgeek 15y ago
I'm from India. Abdus Salam was MY hero while growing up in the 80s. I kind of understand the weird religio-politics in Pakistan, which seems to have led to Dr.Salam being marginalized. I'm starting to see where you are coming from, but I r
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by beachgeek 15y ago
It does seem like they are over doing it a bit. But this is a country with a serious shortage of real heroes. If other Pakistani kids are motivated and inspired by her life I think its worth the renaming, adulation etc.
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Anyone interested in a free geo-location service?
1 points by beachgeek 15y ago|0 comments
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by beachgeek 15y ago
Cool article. Two issues though: 1. The author assumes America's decline is a done deal. But anything can happen. 2. All three of the regional powers mentioned (India, China and Russia) have developed extensive trade links in the last 10 ye
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by beachgeek 15y ago
There are tons of semi-technical job positions. Its very important though to get a good grounding in CS. My recommendation would be to either complete your degree if you're close to it or get a strong minor as someone else said. My story: I
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by beachgeek 15y ago
The risk you took makes everything else seem very mundane in comparison.
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by beachgeek 15y ago
Great article, but what an awesome last name!
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by beachgeek 15y ago
I would think of Robin Li of Baidu as the #1 Chinese tech entrepreneur. Why? Because he was successful in China. Also he had the vision to figure out where the Internet would go in China + the cajones to execute on it. I know of the folks y
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by beachgeek 15y ago
Of course its anecdotal. The original article from jplarson that we are all responding to is also highly anecdotal. But you have a good point about the OP's hire. I'm also very glad to hear youngsters are starting to do their own thing. :-)
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by beachgeek 15y ago
OK. If you look at the growth amongst Internet users in India between, say 2009 and estimates for 2011, it resembles the growth amongst Internet users in US in the late 90s. US had 120M Internet users around the time of the Web 1.0 boom. Mo
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by beachgeek 15y ago
You'll still need to figure out how to spec your project. Otherwise in your next iteration you'll still have an inefficient poorly coded app, only you would have spent 3X times more money getting there.
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by beachgeek 15y ago
Except that he won't. There seems to be a strong societal and cultural pressure working against people that want to go into business for themselves. My Dad thinks I'm a bonehead for spending my time at startups and such even though I've tri
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by beachgeek 15y ago
I think his point was that Chinese startups have the advantage of serving a large internal market of Mandarin speakers, while Indian startups need to compete in the English speaking world. On that note I have a question for smg. I have not
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by beachgeek 15y ago
At the big company where I work they're actively getting rid of their US-based employees and hiring in India and China. My employer isn't one of the ones I mentioned above. But I know from friends working there, that this is the case there
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by beachgeek 15y ago
Agree that communication (or lack thereof) is a key issue. That can be worked out but having 11PM conference calls or combined hacking sessions stretching to 2-3 AM gets old very quickly. Another is the fact that the culture within a lot of
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by beachgeek 15y ago
You should consider moving back. I think its a lot easier to find tech gigs when you are based here.
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by beachgeek 15y ago
Are you in the SFBA?
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by beachgeek 15y ago
The very first startup I was in (as an early employee) went IPO in the late 90s. My next startup (where I was a founder) crashed and burned in the tech bust that followed. The crash was beyond my control, however failure was incredibly hard
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by beachgeek 15y ago
Me too, all of the above. How did you get over it?
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by beachgeek 15y ago
This has been a great discussion all. Being a tech guy myself, I agree with the majority of you. Its pointless working oneself (to death?) for someone else like we do, especially when the end result isn't even cast in stone. But every time
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by beachgeek 15y ago
Just once? You got lucky.
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by beachgeek 15y ago
This is unreal. If the employees weren't "adding as much value" why not just fire them? California is an at-will employment state anyway.
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by beachgeek 15y ago
Well even robots need some form of human supervision. I remember reading a comment from Steve Jobs to Obama that he would never build a factory in the US due to overly burdensome regulations and the like. When the dollar started collapsing
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by beachgeek 15y ago
I am speechless. This has been the story of my life, and I am stunned that you know exactly whats going on.
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by beachgeek 15y ago
Great point. I'm definitely going to need some funding to make money. The only thing consulting will buy me is additional time to market the site/hack and get more users.
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by beachgeek 15y ago
Funny, that's what my wife said too. I noticed from your other post that's what you do. Are you open to a phone call? :-)
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When is it time to quit my day job?
4 points by beachgeek 15y ago|7 comments
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by beachgeek 15y ago
Sounds like you don't want to join the Turkish army then...
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by beachgeek 15y ago
Wait, you need to take a prostrate exam to join the Turkish Army? WTH?

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