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by bobp 18y ago
nice hack!
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by bobp 18y ago
Thanks for the heads up about the whitelist feature. I would also like to be able to record all my activity locally and not send anything to the server. It would make RescueTime more useful and eliminate my privacy concerns.
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by bobp 18y ago
Thanks for the tip. I'll definitely try it.
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by bobp 18y ago
You nailed it. Lately I've been bored by my work. When I'm excited about what I'm working on, the problem is much less serious.
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Ask YC: How do you avoid wasting too much time online?
44 points by bobp 18y ago|52 comments
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by bobp 19y ago
In this kind of forum that encourages entrepreneurship even in the face of stiff competition I'm surprised that many people dismiss the notion that someone could make a better seed funding organization than YC. There are many successful ent
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by bobp 19y ago
By my experience (I've gotten job offers from a few startups), most startups (especially after their series A) offer employees (at least engineers) a miniscule amount of equity (a small fraction of a percent). Even if these companies would
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by bobp 19y ago
Is Giles saying that with the help of Rubinius you can do Lisp-style code generation in Ruby? I don't know much about Rubinius but this doesn't sound right. Lisp macros let you manipulate the program's AST in compile time very easily becaus
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by bobp 19y ago
Good job on the site! I like how the song keeps playing when you click around, but when you hit the back button the song gets cut off :(
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by bobp 19y ago
I guess it depends on your definition of risk. The definition I was going by is the chance of getting a decent payout after spending 4 years of your life working somewhere. If you work for someone else's startup, especially for a tiny amoun
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by bobp 19y ago
I'm not sure how the equity is currently divided, but these are very good questions, thanks. The company had an A round and it has about 10-15 employees. I should have said that founders are exposed to greater risk in the very early days of
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by bobp 19y ago
It's risky in the sense that the chance of a meaningful payoff is much smaller. I don't mind living on ramen for a while if it made the "dream" tangible. If the difference between a founder and an employee were, say, 5x to 10x the equity, b
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Ask YC: Should I work for a startup?
14 points by bobp 19y ago|27 comments
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by bobp 19y ago
I agree. Despite the guidelines, I can see this potentially being used to spread rumors, gossip, lie, or just stuff that's plain unflattering on people. I doubt many people will be actively monitoring their Biographicon profile and this con
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by bobp 19y ago
Will the same map in a few years include the American empire? Afganistan, Iraq, (maybe) Iran...
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by bobp 19y ago
Many very smart people built amazing products in Java (Google, Amazon, Ebay). Calling them drones makes you sound like an amateur.