brettvallis

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by brettvallis 13y ago
I was an anarchist in high school too. I was an over-achieving individualist who took personal affront to the norms and rules imposed on all school kids, and people in general. I researched anarchy philosophy and policy as it presented itse
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by brettvallis 14y ago
Personally, I mostly got the feeling that he was just publically congratulating himself - showing off. I live in Cape Town, none of my alumni could put me in contact with any SV VC's, even in 24 days. He reinforced the idea of 'it's who you
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by brettvallis 14y ago
I get what the OP is hassled about. He committed time and energy on developing a product, time and energy he wasn't paid for, but it didn't matter because he believed in the product. He was going to prove that Windows apps could look good,
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by brettvallis 14y ago
OK, we so need one of these in Cape Town!!! That place really does look awesome. And space for hardware hacking too, great. I live in an apartment nowadays and really miss going out to the 'barn' and working with power tools until 3AM, seri
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by brettvallis 14y ago
I developed on enterprise PM application on the SharePoint platform (V2, WSS3.0). Over the past year, I have done 3.8% support, and the rest development. I'm quite happy with that. I've recently been aquired by a larger company who develops
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by brettvallis 15y ago
I don't usually talk about this, but your post speaks to something that most opinions on the subject never do. 22 years ago I went through a fairly strange time: I was depressed, disconnected, and feeling deeply alone. It culminated in a ve
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by brettvallis 15y ago
SEEKING WORK - Cape Town, South Africa, remote and travel as required. Enterprise Product Manager with experience in managing teams, and full product lifecycle development. Primary stack is Windows, ASP.NET, and major commercial software pl
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by brettvallis 15y ago
Muscle memory, or engrams? How about: off CPU EEPROM with very slow burn in rate. The computation is handled remotely, or distally, but the computation only becomes overriding after a certain number of like computations. Can be unlearnt: er
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by brettvallis 15y ago
Not childish, on the contrary: quite mature, accurate, articulate and insightful. Mostly we fear ourselves, what we are, what we aren't, etc. Whether the dialogue is accurate or not, well, that's up to us individually, and so is what we do
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by brettvallis 15y ago
In my experience - admittedly, I haven't been keeping detailed notes - 99.9% of the elevator close buttons that I have pushed have done absolutely nothing: the doors just wait the default interval before closing. The open buttons always sto
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by brettvallis 15y ago
When we're young (varsity age) we're unstoppable. I worked 18 - 20 hour days for about 2 years! But, we're not really. It takes its toll on the body (and the brain), slowly, without you realizing it, so you don't have an opportunity to rect
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by brettvallis 15y ago
VC money, a good team, or a great product won't guarantee success. One (or two) factors alone won't ensure success. It's a sum-of-all-the-parts thing. I think an important question to ask yourself is: how committed are you? Not so much: the
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by brettvallis 15y ago
Your father may be retired but he's not yet braindead. He is a person, he has needs, friends, interests and he moves in a different circles to you. It would be in your interest to tap this information - find out what the pain points in his