goofygrin

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by goofygrin 18y ago
I have seen it both ways unfortunately, so that's one of the reasons that I am somewhat cautious (I guess that's what happens with 13+ years of experience in the field). One that sticks in my mind is one of the first "real" jobs I had. The
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by goofygrin 18y ago
We've had "the talk" multiple times and have had paperwork for a while, just nothing signed (so I consider it worth nothing). I renegotiated more equity with the last round of work. I talked to him tonight and we're going to get the paperwo
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by goofygrin 18y ago
Thanks! The one thing I guess I didn't highlight well enough was that we were lucky to be presented with a way to change our business that would allow us to shift into a better market space. We were even luckier to recognize it and jump on
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by goofygrin 18y ago
I'd say he'd be hard pressed to find someone to put up with his shit and to work on his system for what I'm asking for. Especially in our market. In any case, I wish that people would find partners that they could actually, you know, trust
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by goofygrin 18y ago
I'll just slash his tires <wink> . I understand the warnings and I'll protect my interests, but I certainly am not going to lawyer up aggressively.
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by goofygrin 18y ago
Well I'm actually full time on my "day job" and part to full time on the startup (being ADD helps a bit LOL). But this is basically the plan. Equity doesn't really mean anything unless the business sells, but when the business gets to the
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by goofygrin 18y ago
Thanks. We've actually talked compensation in reasonably concrete terms, so I'm really not concerned with it. Right now, I want to get the business to the point where he can start drawing a decent salary to support his family. Remember, h
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by goofygrin 18y ago
Yes. This is actually something that we have run into with at least one prospect already. I have a pretty easy response to unreasonable customer demands: "Some customers aren't customers that you want." My partner agrees and so far it's k
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by goofygrin 18y ago
Not necessary. We both are responsible adults, not whiney children.
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by goofygrin 18y ago
Independent Yellow Pages. Totally not glamorous :)
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by goofygrin 18y ago
But my idea is worth something lol No seriously we are supporting the IYP industry.
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Where did three months go (AKA where've I been?)
61 points by goofygrin 18y ago|39 comments
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by goofygrin 18y ago
lets hope, because when I was in college I was an AU (authorized used) on my parents Amex and that haunted me for years (my parents have poor fiscal responsibility).
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by goofygrin 18y ago
Like another poster stated, debit cards don't build credit, but there is one HUGE problem with debit cards. If someone steals your card (or number) with a credit card and spends money with it, the credit card company is out the money. If
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by goofygrin 18y ago
seconded. When I was in college I worked full time but used credit cards the wrong way (and paid for it over the course of a few years). Now just about everything goes onto a credit card ( NOT a debit card) and it's paid off monthly. Havin
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by goofygrin 18y ago
spam in the ice machine?
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by goofygrin 18y ago
I swear I read this article (or a similar one that they ripped off) about a month ago... Ah yes, was an article about data being more expensive to text than to send to the hubble: http://www.physorg.com/news129793047.html In any case, a g
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by goofygrin 18y ago
Hedge fund jobs here in Dallas are looking heavily for C# and vba (excel) skills. There are about 2-5 hedge fund jobs that have been open for at least a year that just can't find someone willing to work their butt off for $110k and 50+ hour
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by goofygrin 18y ago
I was going to suggest UT (before I read that the OP is in Cali) simply because of the UT network. It constantly amazes me how many people either went to or support UT. Then again, I'm in Dallas, so take that with a grain of salt :)
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by goofygrin 18y ago
So uh... what's the alternative?
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by goofygrin 18y ago
programming is more than syntax There is a huge amount to programming .net that has nothing to do with the {}'s of C# and all to do with the .net framework (which won't translate to Ruby at all). That said, a good/sharp programmer is more t
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by goofygrin 18y ago
Three things: 1. Look at the MVC framework for ASP.NET 3.5 as it makes ASP.NET act more like Rails 2. If you're going to use ASP.NET, use 3.5 so you can use LINQ and all the new 3.5 features. It makes your life WAY easier. 3. There is no r
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by goofygrin 18y ago
Wow, I live in Dallas and the .NET community is very large here (have you attended any of the .NET user group meetings?) Honestly I find the OSS community to be very weak here since most developers are corporate type and they know either Ja
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by goofygrin 18y ago
If you go to a hosted solution (virtuals/rackspace/shared/whatever), the license cost of SQL is usually included. Honestly, MSFTs licensing schemes give me a huge headache.
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by goofygrin 18y ago
My experience with MySql and .NET (and this has been a while - years) has been poor simply because the ADO.NET stuff for MySql was poor (and I have no idea if it's changed). I was under the impression that Amazon's cloud required the client
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by goofygrin 18y ago
I should have sold them 100DrunkenMonkeys.com ;-)
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by goofygrin 18y ago
MSFT scalability = multiple app servers load balanced. Here's the typical example: http://highscalability.com/plentyoffish-architecture In my experience, virtuals/slices do not scale well for app servers in the MSFT stack.
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by goofygrin 18y ago
there are two issues that I see: 1. People tend to lurk rather than participate (on most large forums, something like 1% generate 90% of the traffic) 2. People as a whole have very poor writing skills and "crowdsourcing" editing and revisio
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by goofygrin 18y ago
This is what I was going to recommend, so +1 I got my first "programming" job as an intern at Cessna (in 1996). The job sucked (Fortran on a mainframe), but it was awesome resume fodder for the next few years. Plus I can say that I worke
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by goofygrin 18y ago
It's quite easy to say 'SharePoint Sux' and move along. However after about 3-4 years of Sharepoint consulting, I feel qualified to say "Sharepoint can suck" :) Sharepoint is pitched as the consumer facing glue for your enterprise. You nee

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