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by dad 15y ago
been working from home for most of the last 22 years. This was a good post and much of it resonated. Wrote up a few "tips" and thoughts based on my experiences working at home: http://geekanddad.wordpress.com/2011/11/11/working-at-home-s
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by dad 15y ago
smart words. Especially about supporting the VCs/Angels who are putting out for the founders. The contraction will occur, who do you want to still be standing? Help them help you succeed and all will be well. In 25 years of consulting/con
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by dad 15y ago
There was a very good talk about this at #nodeconf this week by Tom from Joyent. The basic summary was that threaded network servers, like Apache, say, approach the speed problem by "pre-allocating" resources, a chunk for each thread/insta
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by dad 16y ago
I had to turn down a job in the last 6 months because BigCorp couldn't allow me to take unpaid leave for the summer to take care of my son while he was out of school. So maybe not as much as you think.
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by dad 16y ago
"but that's not what's going to drive serious entrepreneurs to Portland" - have to disagree with you on that one. In particular, non-20-somethings who understand about life balance and that "life is short" but still have the entrepreneurial
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by dad 16y ago
Wow, talk about wetware: Here's the basis of a bio-neural computer! Immortal human cells. The ultimate "wetware" infrastructure: http://www.todayifoundout.com/index.php/2010/05/there-was-on... (found on HN home page)
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by dad 16y ago
Either that, or someone needs to hurry up and make the tech that allows us to download our brain/personality to hardware already so we can do without those annoying wetware limitations of requiring sleep, food and exercise. :-)