carguy1983

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by carguy1983 14y ago
Ooh, me, me, pick me. Let me guess! Do it because you want to change the world ? It's a laughable, tired cliche now, especially coming from a guy who made the equivalent of a digital hipster moleskine who isn't changing a god damn thing
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by carguy1983 14y ago
A good way to start a career, not a very good way to live though.
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by carguy1983 14y ago
"projected" return, "declaring" a projection then "falling short"... These terms invalidate the given statistics, rendering them essentially meaningless. These figures are geared toward being consumed by finance professionals, not by peopl
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by carguy1983 14y ago
I don't like the way this is framed - but to answer the question: because I did this sort of thing with a LUG and organizing community events when I was much younger (it helped me get into college and get my first job) and quite frankly I'v
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by carguy1983 14y ago
Anyone know what the p in pmarca stands for?
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by carguy1983 14y ago
No. The GED (HS equivalency) and community college systems are highly effective at getting turn-around kids into top public universities (like UCLA, Michigan, etc.).
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by carguy1983 14y ago
I wouldn't call it waste. I would call it overhead, which is very different than waste.
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by carguy1983 14y ago
Yeah, I dunno - people like us were also talking shit on the people who chose CS or MIS or whatever back in '99 based on the fact that there was strong demand in the labor market until the first crash. Now we're talking shit the other wa
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by carguy1983 14y ago
HALLELUJAH. Thanks.
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by carguy1983 14y ago
I have an 8-way Xeon Mac Pro w/ 20GB of RAM, almost half of which is 'free' at any point during the day unless I'm doing something really out of the ordinary. Yet it still swaps to disk ALL THE TIME and a new Terminal.app window can take up
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by carguy1983 14y ago
The starting point for your contract rate should be the thousands number of your salary multiplied by 1.5 i.e., if you make $50k a year, charge $75/hr. If you make $100k/year, charge $150. How much do you think an associate attorney at a
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by carguy1983 14y ago
You could have a thousand examples of the copy->innovate->invent development cycle, but most Americans simply won't ever believe Chinese people can invent things until it happens. Nevermind that Chinese people invented all sorts of
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by carguy1983 14y ago
A company is not a family. Repeat after me: a company is not a family. In families, mom and dad are probably fucking on a regular basis. They also fight over trivialities and cheat on each other. The kids are CHILDREN who make mistakes,
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by carguy1983 14y ago
I'm talking about all-together meals, not cafeteria and catering which is totally normal and acceptable by pretty much everybody.
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by carguy1983 14y ago
It's simply not scaleable, and shouldn't be a goal for a startup - if it happens naturally, great everyone loves each other, but it shouldn't be somebody's job description to organize this sort of thing with an implication of alienation if
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by carguy1983 14y ago
> It's not a mandatory meeting or something Try missing 20 in a row, because you'd much rather eat with your friends or SO. What happens? The happiness manager comes and pays you a visit is what happens.
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by carguy1983 14y ago
WARNING: RANT MODE ON. So what happens when you need to have a serious talk with someone for screwing up and everyone's in a terrible mood afterwards? Do you expect them to also join you at dinner? Or is their punishment that they have to
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by carguy1983 14y ago
You're missing an obvious implication of the article, which paints a stark picture of winners vs. losers. Even when talking about Imeem it described it as being "buried" by MySpace - a word you usually use to describe a loser, not a winnin
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by carguy1983 14y ago
> But at Ridejoy, we’re not just a team, we’re a family, and families eat together. LOL no. I have a family. I don't need a second one. I also have friends. I don't need a second set of friends either. Pay your employees fairly a
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by carguy1983 14y ago
Interestingly, the older you get, the more obvious this all seems. Probably because you become more experienced.
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by carguy1983 14y ago
... and what do you think an Amazon slice is? It sits on a physical machine that can be identified, located, and handed over by Amazon given a lawful request, all without the site operators knowing. You think they give a fuck about the oth
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by carguy1983 14y ago
Wow, you place an awful lot of faith in amazon.
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by carguy1983 14y ago
syslogd + open source monitoring + indexing has done this for a while now. Competing business idea...?
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by carguy1983 14y ago
The best way to become good at politics is to have serious political goals and possess IQ and EQ to really analyze how to achieve those goals. There's also a red herring here - politics (in life, work, government), to me, is a proxy concept
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by carguy1983 14y ago
I've heard from insiders that Microsoft M&A almost always goes through the finance/model/quantitative motions, but sometimes Gates (in the past) and Ballmer just get into a straight bidding war, consequences be damned.
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by carguy1983 14y ago
China's more like 7000 miles away by air: http://www.wolframalpha.com/input/?i=distance+from+beijing+t... And as far as putting it on a boat, sailing it across the pacific, through panama, and up the atlantic - or dropping it off in Long
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by carguy1983 14y ago
It's not actual money.
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by carguy1983 15y ago
Sexism doesn't even have to be the issue here, it's just breathtaking how unprofessional some tech presenters are. The real solution is to be ruthless and fire or eject anyone immediately for doing as something as incredibly fucking stupid
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by carguy1983 15y ago
If this becomes legal, wouldn't kickstarter instantly be the kickstarter of startups?
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by carguy1983 15y ago
Large US cities have plenty of neighborhood markets / corner stores with fresh fruit and vegetables and meat. I live next to 3 of them in West LA, within walking distance. SF has even more. NY has countless. And yes, they are much more p

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