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by dottedmag 11y ago
E.g. using a variation of zippers
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by dottedmag 11y ago
So, how to beat the game then? Say, an instruction how to apply a touch of makeup before going to the business meeting or to the interview.
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by dottedmag 11y ago
iPhone receives firmware updates, so it does not qualify.
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by dottedmag 11y ago
Not really. 1) Public information is income/assets after deductions, and deductions vary greatly. 2) Only selected newspapers get the whole dataset, everyone else can search in DB, but the searches are logged by Tax Administration (pre
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by dottedmag 11y ago
Apparently you hadn't been recruiting anyone in Europe. Once you've hired a bad candidate, it is very hard to get rid of it (borderline impossible in Scandinavia, for example).
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by dottedmag 11y ago
Welcome to Californian People's Republic.
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by dottedmag 12y ago
How many of those factors are purely emotional/psychological/imagined ones? One trick to figure it out is to imagine founder being hit by bus: who will be hurt? Will family be hurt (besides losing the founder himself)? Employees?
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by dottedmag 12y ago
Well, one funded startup I know pays founders 250% of the typical engineer's pay. But it is a wildly successful enterprise though (to say the least).
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by dottedmag 13y ago
Quite a number of Jet Infosystems (a company with a lot of products utilising Lisp) ex-employees ended up in Yandex.
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by dottedmag 14y ago
Hey, I definitely do have skills, but they are just not web design skills: I've got a plenty of diverse software engineering experience, ranging from QA to leading software engineering teams and to designing network protocols (besides a lot
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Ask HN: is there a place for single-person bootstrapped software businesses?
11 points by dottedmag 14y ago|6 comments
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by dottedmag 14y ago
It would make up, but it would also come with a hefty price tag.
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Ask HN: Elance for software designers/architects?
4 points by dottedmag 15y ago|2 comments
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by dottedmag 16y ago
It is kind of ridiculous to hear people freely mixing "people, food and culture" and "government". What could me MORE idiotic?
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by dottedmag 16y ago
It isn't hard to have this problem :) I am going to move to Prague soon where life is only marginally more expensive than in my current location, and you still may live pretty decent life on 1k$/month.
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by dottedmag 16y ago
You know, it's like suggesting someone who got out of ghetto after spending lot of time and work to make it possible to go there again and to try again escaping it. Sure it gives a _lot_ of motivation, but the _wrong_ kind of motivation.
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by dottedmag 16y ago
I'm doing lot of work in free software (paid and unpaid, just for fun). Does it count?
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by dottedmag 16y ago
I think you nailed it: I was motivated by the need for living decently. Now I climbed out of poverty and feel I have potential for much more, but don't have any particular challenge in mind to tackle, and have no idea how to find one: reach
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by dottedmag 16y ago
How do you find the stuff that worth doing? Every time I try to do something I figure out it is already done by somebody else with a great mastership.
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by dottedmag 16y ago
I learn a lot already, and it helped until ~5 years ago, when I started seeing familiar patterns in new stuff (especially one having big "hype count"). I can count new interesting ideas with my fingers on one hand. Hmm... Execution model of
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Ask HN: How do you keep yourself motivated in "motivation gap"?
32 points by dottedmag 16y ago|30 comments
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by dottedmag 18y ago
The "common knowledge" of the IT industry is not a some language or notations, but a logic (not a common logic, but a science) and mathematics. While considered as "abstract" and "having nothing to do with reality", /proper/ branches of mat