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by bigsassy 15y ago
Agreed. Not to mention you can make some seriously sweet profits selling merch at shows ($25 T-shirts, $0.25 stickers, and every price point in between). If you want to pay the rent as a musician, you HAVE to do it by playing a lot of sho
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by bigsassy 15y ago
Quick aside, I'm glad the next version of virtualenv (1.7) wont install site-packages by default, so you won't need the --no-site-packages flag anymore. In fact, you'll need the --use-site-packages flag if you want all the installed packag
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Occupy Wall Street: Outing the Ringers(youtube.com)
2 points by bigsassy 15y ago|0 comments
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by bigsassy 15y ago
The author says we've been robbed of 3 John Carmack games, but he must have forgot about id Software's iPhone games. He's been playing with the platform for a while now, and has been shipping smaller games with a fast turn around for a few
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by bigsassy 15y ago
No, you're wrong. Bethesda bought id Software when rage was well into development. Rage is a "pure id" game, as well as Doom 3.
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The Entrepreneur’s Guide to (not getting kicked out of) Coffee Shops(dcfounders.com)
66 points by bigsassy 15y ago|65 comments
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by bigsassy 15y ago
The American Legacy Foundation in DC. Excellent pay, excellent benefits, and an excellent cause. Among other things, they are responsible for "The Truth" anti-smoking ad campaign. I'm pretty sure they're looking for a python developer rig
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by bigsassy 15y ago
Launch first before you consider any rash decisions. Your perspective will change quite a bit. It could be for the better or worse, but you will almost certainly see this venture differently than you do now.
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by bigsassy 15y ago
Whenever I read articles railing against single founders, I usually assume the person writing the article doesn't have a meaningful amount of single-founder experience. This makes me question their reasons given to not be a single founder.
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by bigsassy 15y ago
I'm just wrapping up what you're about to start. I'm also an experienced programmer (7+ years). I left to do my own thing for 9 months, and the venture ended without success. But what I built was interesting, and I made sure to give talks
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by bigsassy 15y ago
Bethesda Softworks started in Bethesda, MD. It's now located just up the road in Rockville, MD.
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by bigsassy 15y ago
Man, I am getting tired of people shitting all over an article and getting rewarded with top comment status. Note, I didn't say "giving a critical critique". That's fine and should be encouraged. But this is just slinging mud for the sak
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by bigsassy 15y ago
No, they don't run Django for the entire site. Django is mostly used for one-off apps, like: http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/special/politics/electi... or http://apps.washingtonpost.com/highschoolchallenge/
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by bigsassy 15y ago
There's a DC meetup of HN readers tonight you may want to check out: http://meetup.hackernewsdc.org/
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by bigsassy 15y ago
Wow, I had never heard of yr.no. Thanks for the heads up :)
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by bigsassy 15y ago
This reminds me of the article by jacquesm: "Double your price! (and no, I'm not kidding)" http://jacquesmattheij.com/Double+your+price+%28and+no%2C+I%... Here's the follow up discussion on HN: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1639712
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by bigsassy 15y ago
I'm all for open government data. You may want to take a look at Sunlight Foundation's various projects: http://sunlightlabs.com/projects/ And have you seen Open Congress yet? http://opencongress.org/
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by bigsassy 15y ago
This is actually pretty cool. When will the android app be ready?
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by bigsassy 15y ago
Go to the forums at GameDev.net. There's just OBSCENE amounts of information curated there over the 10+ years of it's existence. http://gamedev.net/index
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by bigsassy 15y ago
I used to think the same thing. I'm glad I woke up. It has nothing to do with the money, and everything to do with who you're working with. You can have bad client/coworkers/boss at $12/hour and fantastic clients/coworkers/boss at $150.
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by bigsassy 15y ago
And incredibly irresponsible. No disaster recovery plan when your customer's lives depend on your service being up? Seriously? I know there's HIPAA standards for securing sensitive health records, but aren't there standards for system up-
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by bigsassy 16y ago
Thanks! Wow, that's a great forum. Thanks for the tip.
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by bigsassy 16y ago
Doh! I'll have to fix that :) As for the questions, I'm following a method Sean Ellis advocates. You know you've hit product/market fit when 40% of your users would be "very disappointed" (haha, spelled it wrong again. thanks browser spe
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by bigsassy 16y ago
I agree too. That's a really good point too about needing things to "pull you down the road". Really great ideas and feedback, thanks!
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by bigsassy 16y ago
I'd like to contact you, but there isn't anything in your profile. How can I get in touch?
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by bigsassy 16y ago
Thanks!
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by bigsassy 16y ago
I agree about the content. I even have the content available. Right now roads are rated on: 1) How much variation they have (i.e. twistyness) 2) Do they go past a body of water 3) Do they go through a state park All of this data is ava
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by bigsassy 16y ago
I was hoping you'd post here, considering you're also kind of in the same space and bootstrapping like me. This is some really great advice you've given me, and I think I will focus on the mobile app before improving the route generating p
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by bigsassy 16y ago
You're right. I should have a sign-up form for people outside of the given area. Good idea.
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by bigsassy 16y ago
1) Haha! Actually, the idea is your friend would schedule a ride, say a couple days from today. You would be notified he's riding in a few days, at which point you can decide to join him. Three Rides would send a new ride to both of you

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