briholt

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by briholt 14y ago
I'd say your salary is not insanely unreasonable. The bigger question is: do you enjoy working for the company?
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I'd take the opposite approach: be glad when applicants send such poor cover letters because it immediately lets you know you should NOT waste your time on them. Some one who would send such a bad boilerplate cover letter is lazy for not se
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Paypal: Elaborate hoax by Ronaiah Tuiasosopo to steal my $2K(paypalsucks1.tumblr.com)
1 points by briholt 14y ago|1 comments
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by briholt 14y ago
Obituary headline: "Famed athlete, Forrest Gump dies of massive ping pong injuries"
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by briholt 14y ago
There also appears to be a major crash in demand for "2012" http://www.indeed.com/jobtrends?q=2012&l=
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by briholt 14y ago
Perhaps the art of finding clever improvements for finding clever improvements in life should be called "lifehacking-hacking"? Then some one will post an article about how to more efficiently post articles about how to more efficiently post
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by briholt 14y ago
Focusing on the blog is a good idea. In my limited blog experience, I've only seen one real approach: write like Hell, tell everyone you can about it, swallow sadness for the first year while no one reads it, then randomly after a year of h
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by briholt 14y ago
In general, I'd say you're right that the fact that "some one else already does it" shouldn't stop you from taking on a project. Almost every successful site on the Net was NOT the first to do what they do (Google, Facebook, Basecamp, MailC
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by briholt 14y ago
Couple of suggestions: 1. You mention "sites" plural. You may want to focus on just ONE site and pour your energy into that. 2. Start self-project management small and simple, stick to it, then get more complicated as you need it. I like to
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High school coder gets $3M for his gradebook software, 10 years later(venturebeat.com)
2 points by briholt 14y ago|0 comments
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by briholt 14y ago
Fantastic series, please keep them coming.