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by bugsy 16y ago
The spare time issue is an interesting one. One one side we have companies saying that they look for programmers who are working on projects after they get off work and on weekends. On the other side we have companies having employees sign
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by bugsy 16y ago
Absolutely true and good advice. In particular renting an office is spectacularly bad advice for someone who has no income coming in yet from product and service sales.
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by bugsy 16y ago
I was just thinking of a friend I have who has a very successful software product he sells. He is Scottish. He went to the university, got a doctorate in mathematics, found himself completely unemployable. Ended up living in a subsidized fl
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by bugsy 16y ago
I have started a number of successful businesses. Startups do not need "help" from the government. If you need "help" to start a software company that requires almost no capital investment, you are probably very incompetent or have chosen a
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by bugsy 16y ago
Great, let me know what countries I can immigrate to as a highly skilled person with a profitable company. I've applied to Australia/New Zealand and Canada and been denied from all three. I keep hearing about how the US is unfair to not let
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by bugsy 16y ago
Is the US a hostile environment for startups? It seems the US is the most friendly environment in the world for startups.
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by bugsy 16y ago
It's just the thing for those who want to continue living in a police state!
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by bugsy 16y ago
Presumably you have no response to his key question regarding what major tech innovations have come out of India recently. Perhaps those $10 laptop computers they announced?
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by bugsy 16y ago
The entirety subthread about "is it ad hominem or not" is useless meta noise that has nothing at all to do with the main post. Folks, please just say no before creating such a subthread, or responding in one. The original very brief comment
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by bugsy 16y ago
Very cool app.
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by bugsy 16y ago
Salaries since 2008 went up mostly in reaction to US DOJ finding that Apple, Adobe, Google, Intel, Intuit, and Pixar had an anti-competitive agreement to not hire each others employees, in order to depress wages. ( http://www.justice.gov/op
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by bugsy 16y ago
That's extremely interesting, particularly the specific list of countries. I bet it was not Microsoft who originated the decision to do this.
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by bugsy 16y ago
The study he did isn't broadly valid because he only tested using a captcha system that is quite abysmal, and for which the results were not surprising. If he wants to increase conversion rates, he should get rid of the irrelevant fields su
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by bugsy 16y ago
This is a great idea and I know it is going to be successful. Please fix your typography though by using balanced ‘single’ and “double” quotes and right-single-quote for apostrophes such as in it’s. It does not look professional to have typ
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by bugsy 16y ago
Nice list. Such lists are quite personal and depend on one's values and philosophy. Here's my own triage list: 1. Is it reproducibly making the program crash or corrupting data? If yes, stop everything, fix that right now, today, and issue
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by bugsy 16y ago
What specifically is it about my comment that you found to "perpetuate the distinction's hold on our global psyche, to our global detriment"?
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by bugsy 16y ago
So scheme is better because there is no tool support and with no tools there is less to be confused by. Hm.
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by bugsy 16y ago
Reading this thread, the historical demographic trends were very interesting. Do you think they are irrelevant? If so, please explain why. Very interesting that from at least the 1850s right up until the 1930s more than a third of the popul
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by bugsy 16y ago
I agree with the referenced article, the term has been devised to be derogatory. In the past these sorts of businesses, with no VC ownership, were called software companies. Now they are called "lifestyle businesses", a term that calls to m
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by bugsy 16y ago
"what ASCAP has already negotiated with songwriters, composers, lyricists and music publishers" There is a huge difference. ASCAP represents ASCAP members, who choose to join the organization. ASCAP then becomes a legal agent regarding coll
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by bugsy 16y ago
Glad it's been rejected. Google is wanting to circumvent US copyright law by creating law through the civil courts. The civil courts are not the appropriate venue to change copyright law. In addition, the idea of seizure of out of print or
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by bugsy 16y ago
It's however much you have to pay to attract said developer to Leeds. That's how much.
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by bugsy 16y ago
How much developers make on average in Leeds (a town not known as a center of innovative high tech development any more than Detroit currently is) is not relevant to the acquisition of highly skilled and sought after talent that does not ex
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by bugsy 16y ago
Sure, it doesn't excuse recruiters, recruiters are scum, etc. I agree with you completely on that. But it's not relevant to his problem. He is trying to solve a problem. His analysis has gone awry because he is focused on something that is
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by bugsy 16y ago
No sarcasm at all. What is the problem the author has? The problem is he is unable to hire a senior iPhone developer with a deep and broad skill set. What is his analysis of the problem? His analysis is that recruiters are to blame. Recruit
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by bugsy 16y ago
Facebook: http://www.businessinsider.com/googler-turns-down-500000-cas...
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by bugsy 16y ago
adobe.com apple.com google.com microsoft.com facebook.com
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by bugsy 16y ago
Seems pretty clear that the recruiter provided you with a very valuable service, that the qualified candidates you really wanted to make offers to weren't willing to respond to ads citing the insulting salary range you thought you could get
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by bugsy 16y ago
$165k is indeed the minimum rate for iPhone developers with experience, as employees with benefits. Realize though that taxes come out of that, whereas I understand that in EC salaries are posted as after-tax values. For an iPhone consultan
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by bugsy 16y ago
"CS still has a higher average salary than most other subjects." Right, but don't qualified UK developers now have the option of working anywhere in the european community without complicated work visa hassles. Perhaps for a job that requir

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