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by haploid 16y ago
"[I] heard that there are people who tell them that they just need to get over it and cheer up." I do this. A great many of my friends and family do this too. I'm not sure why you find it so difficult to believe that there are people who
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by haploid 16y ago
It's possible. Kindergarten is age 5-6. I started with LOGO in the first grade( age 6 ), if that can be considered a programming language. I was poring over my dad's purple 8086 book by age 8 and writing some basic assembly programs. Kids
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by haploid 16y ago
Right. Except the Federal Reserve has zero impact on tax or fiscal policy. These are not "tax dollars". The means by which the Fed extracts wealth from US citizens is not by taxation, but by inflation, since they effectively control the m
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by haploid 16y ago
"My goal is to dethrone mailinator as the de facto temp email provider." "This project is just to get a couple of bucks a month, nothing else." Which is it ?
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by haploid 16y ago
I'm not sure what your point is regarding something being wrong with their management. Are you suggesting they should migrate away from Silverlight? That they should choose a different data format? That they are probably lying about imple
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by haploid 16y ago
Interesting perspective on "raising too little". I was previously unaware that all bootstrapped companies fail.
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by haploid 16y ago
These days I use this thing called a browser. It has bookmarking functionality built in. The entire value proposition of logging into a website in order to bookmark other websites is lost on me. I wish I could grok the value, but I can't.
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by haploid 16y ago
Actually, yes you do. The original GoF was written with C++ in mind. Plenty of enterprise C++ code embraces heavy use of design patterns.
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by haploid 16y ago
Many of us who use Java on a daily basis don't really care about the Apache/JCP soap opera. It's a fun little sideshow, but it doesn't matter. Wicket is pretty much the only apache java project that holds any value, anyway. And they didn'
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by haploid 16y ago
Huh? Why specifically ruby on rails? If you're the non-tech founder, why are you already making decisions regarding the technology stack of your future business?
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by haploid 16y ago
I guess I don't grok the value added by Tumblr. What exactly do they offer that offers a better value proposition than Wordpress or Posterous?
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by haploid 16y ago
Same here. This would be a nice little cost saver, except it appears they don't support anycast. As such, it's a nonstarter for us.
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by haploid 16y ago
Pedantry doesn't suit this discussion well. You are correct that the word copyright was not specified. What was specified was that they hosted content they do not own. By this standard, I fully expect AWS to terminate services to EVERY SI
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by haploid 16y ago
Right, except Wikileaks did not violate the TOS. Classified material cannot, by law, be copyrighted. Once leaked, it is public domain. Amazon's claim otherwise was completely disingenuous and dishonest.
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by haploid 16y ago
I wonder how long their software deployment process takes. I do not see this change, nor do I see an option to switch to this change.
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by haploid 16y ago
Sorry, I never answered your actual question. First, learn from your mistakes. It sounds to me like you negotiated your current deal poorly. Next time around, if you are committing or risking more to a given project than your other partne
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by haploid 16y ago
Been there. Destroyed my credit right out of the gate when I tried to run a web development firm in 1997 on student credit cards. Was threatened with eviction twice, and eventually was forced to move. Was fired and subsequently sued for
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by haploid 16y ago
What do you consider "safe" in a super-inflationary environment? Safety is generally regarded as being cash or bonds, but those become the absolute worst asset classes to hold during very high inflation.
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by haploid 16y ago
You must raise outside capital to be considered an entrepreneur, bootstrapping be damned? We employ a couple dozen people and never took a VC round. Looks like I've been living a lie. :( At the very least, she could have suggested an alt
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by haploid 16y ago
Is this a serious post? The government can exact capricious petty revenge on your business, so it's not the business's fault for exercising cowardice? It would be unbelievably easy to rightfully Godwin your perspective on this issue, but I
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by haploid 16y ago
This. Hopefully you've selected a component or mvc web framework that enables clear separation of roles, to minimize integration bottlenecks. As for processes, Scrum methodologies such as the daily stand up meeting and weekly defined itera
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by haploid 16y ago
I think you should do a little more research into the actual events of the Saverin/Facebook story. Ben Mezrich's book, and Aaron Sorkin's writing are particularly fictionalized when it comes to this aspect of the story. May I suggest "The
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by haploid 16y ago
Some of us actually enjoy creating and producing. It seems that you are suggesting an irreconcilable dichotomy between work and enjoyment of life with your phrase "turn your whole life over to it". In point of fact, many people do this as
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by haploid 16y ago
Interesting. Except the Federal Reserve has absolutely no intention of raising short term interest rates above 0.25% for several years. The spreads in the real world will be much, much thinner than the example above suggests. Although it
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by haploid 16y ago
I'd like to buy enough upvotes to make this comment appear forever. This is a fantastic post. I have found that at moments with friends and family when the happy platitudes are stripped away, whether through drunkenness, circumstance, or j
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by haploid 16y ago
Disagree, but anecdotally so. I look back with extreme fondness on a 5-month period of my life in 1998/1999 when I was working 80-hour weeks on a project that was ultimately doomed to market failure. I learned a tremendous amount, and my t
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by haploid 16y ago
There's no obvious indication that the CEO in question is under large amounts of stress. Generally, many founders who work this much do so in a state of flow, which is very much a non-stressful manner of working.
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by haploid 16y ago
Sure. We usually come up with job titles describing the "human" equivalent of what function the application performs; e.g: The Warden - an set of scripts to manage chroot jailed workers The Middleman - a heavily customized MQ/ESB The Coxs
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by haploid 16y ago
I've heard this "more productive" refrain countless times, but I have yet to see it in reality. I would love to be made aware of how exactly Java doesn't allow one to pivot easily. That said, we have been at it for 5 years now, so it would
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by haploid 16y ago
I did the same. We're launching another site soon, so it may work as an experiment there. $17 is impossible to say no to, even if it never gets used. Although I have to wonder why $17? Seems rather arbitrary.

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