burnout1540

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by burnout1540 18y ago
1. Get my on-the-side business up and running and decide whether or not it is worth investing more time in. 2. Add 20k+ to my savings. 3. Improve my BASH knowledge. 4. Travel more. 5. Waste less time (TV and web)
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by burnout1540 18y ago
Don't incorporate too early. I did that a year and a half ago, but things came up and I wasn't able to actually start the business. After the setup fees, annual state franchise fees, registered agent fees, and dissolution fees, I'm down $70
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by burnout1540 18y ago
Because Las Vegas casinos and their highly paid lobbyists want it to be illegal. They'd actually prefer it to be illegal for anyone but them to run a casino online, but having it be illegal for everyone is the next best option. The governme
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by burnout1540 18y ago
My friend works at Cisco and told me about this last week. They are indeed taking the days out of their employees' vacation days. If they don't have any vacation days, they will be on unpaid leave for the week. This type of thing has also h
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by burnout1540 18y ago
I imagine that public schools would be forced to add a community service requirement for graduating and that's about it. Oh no! The horror! What a commie! NOTE: Sarcasm not directed at previous comment.
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by burnout1540 18y ago
Unless you live in an unbelievably depressed area like downtown Detroit (and maybe not even then), home prices in America are substantially higher than they were 10 years ago. So anyone who has had a fixed rate mortgage for 10+ years (unles
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by burnout1540 18y ago
I was actually thinking of "touch typing" as being the standard method that is taught in schools and typing classes - put your fingers on the home row to begin and use all eight fingers to type. I type by mainly using two fingers, with occa
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by burnout1540 18y ago
Not being able to touch type is not a bad thing; not being able to type fast is. I can't touch type and I used to be able to type 130+ wpm without errors. I can still average around 100 wpm.
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by burnout1540 18y ago
You might also want to check out http://www.contextfreeart.org/
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by burnout1540 18y ago
Recharging electrical cars as they roll down the highway?
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by burnout1540 18y ago
Statistics and straight up facts are not covered by copyright. There's a landmark case about this: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Feist_Publications_v._Rural_Tel... There are some grey areas around the legality of scraping (mostly due to th
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by burnout1540 18y ago
You must be really down on the dollar. But, yeah, I've figured that the options are basically worthless. However, I really like the product and I got them to up the salary significantly, so I said yes in the end.
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by burnout1540 18y ago
It turns out the hiring manager was under the impression it was confidential since no one had ever asked him before. He's an engineer, so I can forgive him for not knowing. While the stock options aren't great, I was able to get them to up
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by burnout1540 18y ago
https://sos-res.state.de.us/tin/GINameSearch.jsp You have to pay $20 for all the information, but it's worth it.
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by burnout1540 18y ago
A little more research on Delaware's Department of Corporations website (which is where they are incorporated) allowed me to find out the total number of authorized shares: 52,503,000 30,000 / 52,503,000 =~ 0.06% With the package they're cu
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by burnout1540 18y ago
I went to the website for the California Department of Corporations ( http://134.186.208.228/caleasi/pub/exsearch.htm ) and found out that they issued 3,000,000 in shares after their seed funding ($1 million) last year. I can't find the lat
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by burnout1540 18y ago
Very interesting. I don't think I'll bring up the law, but it's nice to know!
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by burnout1540 18y ago
Thanks for the link. This stinks because otherwise I really like the company. I just don't want to deal with anyone who isn't completely upfront with me.
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by burnout1540 18y ago
I told them I was going to take the night to think it over. I guess tomorrow I will ask again for the number of outstanding or authorized shares. I feel like if they continue to be sketchy about it, it might be an indicator of how they will
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Ask YC: Employee stock options
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by burnout1540 19y ago
Yes, there's definitely a lot of competition for the website testing idea and it would've been nice to start on it a few years ago. But I think that a fragmented market is an entrepreneur's best friend. There is no industry giant that you w
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by burnout1540 19y ago
Ahhh well now I feel stupid. My email address is npomara at gmail
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by burnout1540 19y ago
Okay, I'll start. I'm 24 and living in San Francisco. I'm a programmer but would like to find another technical person to work with. I have three ideas for a startup: 1. An easy software solution for multivariate testing web pages. 2. A b
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by burnout1540 19y ago
Get something written down on paper before you do any significant amount of work for them. I went through this and spent several months working full time for a startup only for them to try and screw me over. I had to quit and take the iss