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by greghinch 13y ago
License it to them. Have a legal contract drawn up that says they are licensing it from you for a fee. The fee can be nominal, $1 even. But that is the most formal way to protect your IP.
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by greghinch 13y ago
"Planned obsolescence"? I'm still using Macs from 2004 and 2008 just fine. They've certainly lasted longer than any PC I ever owned.
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by greghinch 13y ago
Currency speculation is a risky but thriving market
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by greghinch 13y ago
I think what the parent is saying (and is reiterated by several other posts here) is that premise of young Japanese people not having sex is based on a lack of understanding in the cultural subtexts implied by the way those young people are
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by greghinch 13y ago
After spending the better part of 7 years doing what has come to be known as "front-end", and then the past 3 becoming better at "back-end", I've started advocating that the division needs to stop in general. If you
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by greghinch 13y ago
Everyone who isn't listened to is, in their own mind, really good ;)
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by greghinch 13y ago
"All you really care about is the % of the company you are potentially getting and the current value of the company." Respectfully disagree: what you care about is strike price, share price, and quantity. Percentage can be a g
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by greghinch 13y ago
Because at one point they were necessary. Welcome to government provisioning. Optimization comes only when someone's political career is on the line.
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by greghinch 13y ago
I'll take it one step further and say being really good at engineering means you don't need anyone else managing product
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by greghinch 13y ago
It definitely feels like much of this post is presented in an overly negative perspective aimed at the startup, when in fact some of this may have come down to the employee not realizing what working for an early stage company entails, name
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by greghinch 13y ago
If the startup is going to outright lie to anyone not on the inside, then there's not much you can do. But the onus is definitely on the prospective employee to press them for the facts, and recognize people for being shifty. The autho
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by greghinch 13y ago
And, you know, the ones in the middle that are actually successful because they have people who know how to balance both.
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by greghinch 13y ago
> And you've already concluded that that is indeed what was going on at this start-up. Just from the mere use of the word "micromanaging"? Nope, I was responding directly to the parent of my comment, to the line I quoted,
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by greghinch 13y ago
> I think that this is pretty status-quo (you're an engineer, not an idea guy/founder after all). Er, no. A good leadership knows how to frame questions and let the engineers find the solutions. You don't come the engineer
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by greghinch 13y ago
$17.75 million invested is probably beyond the stage of "fledgling". Perhaps "middling"? I will agree that founders' large salaries should come from profit, not investment. Also, you have to imagine that the valuati
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by greghinch 13y ago
As others have stated, salaries in London (and almost anywhere else in the world) are quite a bit lower. But many would argue you need less for a good quality of life in these places as well.
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by greghinch 13y ago
> I was once asked if I had ".NET and API experience" (verbatim) :/ This is one of the things that irks me most about recruiters. They talk about these skills like they are trading cards or XBL achievements. "Oh good
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by greghinch 13y ago
Agreed, the lesson from a product failing because the team didn't work together seems much less likely to be, "trying to start a product with a team doesn't work" and more likely to be, "this team didn't work&q
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by greghinch 13y ago
Don't worry so much about picking the right tools. Just pick something that is popular and start using it. You want something that is popular to start with because a) there will be a large support community and b) there will be more jo
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by greghinch 13y ago
I lived until recently in a very active community of both cyclists and family-aged couples (Marin, CA, Fairfax to be specific), and heard numerous stories at the local pub about many cyclist men having this very issue. Anecdotal evidence to
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by greghinch 13y ago
"YC Partners Garry Tan and Harj Taggar along with the early-stage firm’s “Ambassador to the East” and Reddit co-founder Alexis Ohanian have raised $39 million for a separate fund called Initialized Capital, according to an SEC fil
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by greghinch 13y ago
London, UK - We Are Pop Up - http://www.wearepopup.com - Full Time We Are Pop Up is a community-driven marketplace for short-term commercial property leasing. The platform launched at the end of 2012, and has already given num
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by greghinch 13y ago
> Most government employees are unemployable in the marketplace, so it's in their interest to follow orders, at whatever cost, to keep their jobs. My anectodal observation is that this may be true for some individuals, this could
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by greghinch 13y ago
When I was freelancing, I did some government work. I was flabbergasted by the slow pace at which things moved, and that I had to create accounts in 3 separate systems to submit and get paid for even very basic invoices. Government is a pla
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by greghinch 13y ago
The title is not a description of the story, but rather a speculative editorialization designed to be provoking in order to generate karma for the submitter
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by greghinch 13y ago
#4 particularly stands out to me. I always feel sorry for people who make statements like, "my work isn't my life" or "I work to live, I don't live to work". Considering how much of your life you dedicate towar
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by greghinch 13y ago
As much as it seems like an interesting service and a problem that no one has quite solved the way I (and I think many others) want, I have a suspicion any company like this is more likely to be looking to get acquired by someone like Apple
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by greghinch 13y ago
Personally I would be cautious of anything in a can as well. By it's nature, the act of food preservation usually requires a massive increase in either sugar or salt. You're right you shouldn't stress about what you eat too m
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by greghinch 13y ago
It's as much about habit-forming as anything. If you just stop buying food that comes pre-packaged, you force yourself to make new food-buying habits that will trend towards healthier meals.
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by greghinch 13y ago
The article takes the long winded approach to point out the rational argument about how to combat obesity that's been obvious all along: moderation. Laying the blame on sugar in general is a panacea; the problem more has to do with how

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