davidhansen

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by davidhansen 15y ago
Not that I encourage this particular lifestyle, but some people do manage to do this successfully. John Carmack, for instance, works 40 hours per week on iD, 40 hours per week on Armadillo, and still manages to raise two children.
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by davidhansen 15y ago
It bears mentioning that this "smart nerds are extremely scarce" perspective doesn't apply nearly as much outside of the SF/NYC/Boston areas. Here in Orange County, for example, the job market for developers is fairly balanced.
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by davidhansen 15y ago
Nice. FWIW, We emit "direct" postscript for most of our generated warehouse documents like packing slips, gift cards, snail-mail gift certificates, invoices, etc.
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by davidhansen 15y ago
One minor thing I'd pick out of this rant is your exasperation at the fact that VCs did not respond favorably to being cold-pitched. One thing you need to understand is that VC is a networking game, not a capital allocation game. You will
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by davidhansen 15y ago
Not to say that the reporter(s) weren't being negligent here, of course. The quote, as reported, is so wildly divergent from the actual quote, that I wonder how you can think the reporter was "negligent", as opposed to "intentionally just
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by davidhansen 15y ago
and that the best way to do that was to help other people get what THEY want. Would be interesting to see how you back this up. My experience has invariably been that no good deed goes unpunished.
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by davidhansen 15y ago
I'd prefer to be the better person here rather than defame them publicly Idly allowing bad and potentially evil behavior to go unrecognized and unchallenged is by no means being a good person. Not to Godwin the thread, but your attitude
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by davidhansen 15y ago
I assume this poll is still valid with straight equity instead of options? I voted as such.
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by davidhansen 15y ago
for the best jobs (or cofounders!), it will be helpful to start off at an elite institution. FWIW, I not only attended a state university, but I also dropped out of it, and still managed to co-found a few successful companies. I'm not su
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by davidhansen 15y ago
Hopefully this fixes the random "I'm tired, so I'm going to stop doing code analysis and inspections until you restart me" bug that is the bane of my existence in 10.5.
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by davidhansen 15y ago
Small shameless plug for our own attempt at the "personal" 404 page: http://www.ties.com/fgswgdfjgjah ( flash required to see video, sorry )
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by davidhansen 15y ago
As others have remarked in this thread, their products are maintenance and UX nightmares, and their sales and legal departments operate on the basis of "do lots of evil". I suppose it was an exaggerated choice of term, but I was trying to s
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by davidhansen 15y ago
The article is poorly written, and SAP is indefensible as a company. That said, welcome to my world. It's been an interesting experience working in an industry (ecommerce) that is regarded as a huge yawnfest by most of the startup communit
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by davidhansen 15y ago
Nice troll. In the unlikely event you're actually asking in earnest, it's the same reason electrical engineers learn about electrons, or chemists learn about orbital shells, or authors learn about Shakespeare, or linguists learn about Latin
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by davidhansen 15y ago
In case #1, it doesn't take a lot of time to raise money. Collateralizing a bank loan against future revenue is a fairly pretty straightforward process, and the only "pitch" you need is (possibly audited) documentation of your free cash fl
46.
by davidhansen 15y ago
Sir, your ability to cram as much fallacious argumentum ad verecundiam as possible into a single paragraph is unparalleled. I salute you.
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by davidhansen 15y ago
Which is quite meaningless. Organizations of that size will have at least a few data analysts, data mining specialists either in-house or on contract, and tons of tools created to help C-level management understand the complex data the org
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by davidhansen 15y ago
Ok. First, I will point out that my appreciation of her effort has absolutely nothing to do with the fact that her conclusion - that the manager or company in question is actively trying trying to force her to quit due to her gender - has
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by davidhansen 15y ago
I'm pretty sure the author reached an entirely fallacious and baseless conclusion. My understanding of the events are thus: 1. An authentication daemon crashes periodically due to a bug. 2. "S" discovers that rebooting the daemon's host pr
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by davidhansen 15y ago
We're not at all "notable" amongst the startup scenesters, but Ties.com/Scarves.com is located in north Orange County.
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by davidhansen 15y ago
May I suggest offering a "I don't want to share tasks or analyze crash logs, I'll take my chances" version of the app for us tinfoil hat people who just want a nice todo list app and don't care about being "social"?
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by davidhansen 15y ago
Well, I tried to download it. It wants to be able to send SMS, read system logs, know my location, and access account authentication tokens... ...for a todo list . Yeah, no.
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by davidhansen 15y ago
Bayesian logic and reasoning.
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by davidhansen 15y ago
We use Network Solutions as our registrar for our "valued" domain names, and name.com or godaddy for everything else. NetSol provides pretty good validation and security options for so-called "VIP" customers, but it's not perfect. The next
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by davidhansen 15y ago
raises hand My current company started out as a side project. I decided to make it a fulltime project after about three years. We are quite profitable. Today, we operate a few "premium" domain name businesses, but we started with a rath
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by davidhansen 15y ago
I average 11 hours per day during the week about about 3 hours per day on the weekend. I am productive for roughly 90% of the time. Of that 90%, I am experiencing flow only about 15% of the time. I work in a very high-distraction office,
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by davidhansen 15y ago
Been there, done that. I have two other accounts that have been hellbanned for comments that moderators most likely disagreed with. I have learned to filter my posts through a "would this opinion be unpopular?" filter. It's unfortunate,
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by davidhansen 15y ago
does anyone know of a good example of a startup which was forced to bootstrap without significant funding (on account of a burst VC bubble) and survived to stick it to 'em? I don't know. We started up in the shadow of the dot com bust, s
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by davidhansen 15y ago
Although GRPN is undoubtedly a money-burning scam of a company that is doomed to inevitable failure, it should be noted that the broader market is currently suffering from sovereign debt contagion in Europe and the associated liquidity scra
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by davidhansen 15y ago
In November we: 1. Made a critical hire 2. Completed "holiday rush" preparations 3. Expanded the warehouse and office

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