big-j

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by big-j 19y ago
> Richard Stallman ... and for never selling out.
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by big-j 19y ago
One thing you might try is to start by writing some small CGI webapps/scripts. Later on, it will give you an appreciation of what the frameworks are actually doing for you. Also, if you're not married to Python, and are looking for somethin
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by big-j 19y ago
> Get yourself a new job Not always so easy.
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by big-j 19y ago
My guess is that tech companies like recent grads because they can get away with paying less ("interns welcome!"), and also the employee is usually not married and doesn't have kids, so they can spend a lot of extra hours on the job.
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by big-j 19y ago
I'm not so sure that liberal licensing leads to popularity. One obvious counter-example of your supposition is GNU/Linux vs. BSD. Incidentally, the last thing the FSF is worried about is popularity, yet look at how popular GCC, Emacs, bash,
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by big-j 19y ago
> Anyone have any preference for licenses? From what I've seen, projects that go GPL tend to be more community-focused, and seem to more readily gather a contributor community around them. I think contributors tend to like the idea of t
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by big-j 19y ago
I've got a friend who wants to start up a website. He's already got the domain, the idea, and needs admin and webdev help. But there's no business entity yet. He wants to include me, and have me share in the fruits of our labor, but sees no
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by big-j 19y ago
Yeah, I don't get it either, nailer. Massive insecurity, I guess. I routinely notice when someone is smarter than me, or has a better memory than me, or who can visualize complex logical structures better than me. It sucks (for me, in this
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by big-j 19y ago
I dunno. I think taking advice from successful business people is hit-or-miss. Sometimes they're successful because they're good, and other times because they were at the right place at the right time and just got lucky.
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by big-j 19y ago
Regarding finding a "co-founder"... could you please elaborate on what that means? That is, I'm someone who might be interested in getting together with someone with complementary skills. Do I have my own lawyer put together some kind of fo
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by big-j 19y ago
Any sufficiently complicated developer contains an ad hoc, informally-specified, bug-ridden, slow implementation of half of Paul Graham.