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by icky 19y ago
> Don't these people have non-competes? Welcome to California! :-D
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by icky 19y ago
Also Pacific Time. Give it a few hours and see them trickle in ;-)
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by icky 19y ago
> Thanks. It's not so much my own share that I'm worried about, as much as potential disputes between the rest of the team members. Wrong mindset. Go into consulting for a while to hone your more reptilian instincts.
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by icky 19y ago
> Don't even think of negotiating with someone unless you are prepared to walk away if no satisfactory outcome is reached. Words to live by! > But all the effort put in before splitting up equity makes it virtually impossible to wal
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by icky 19y ago
Usually a startup incorporates for the purpose of issuing stock. The situation at your would-be-company looks questionable, at best.
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by icky 19y ago
Lately I've been busy and have accidentally not watched TV in a while. Lots of DVDs, though, and a couple trips to the movie theater. Right now, I'm watching the BBC's "Little Britain" on DVD, though I don't count anything on DVD as televi
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by icky 19y ago
> I don't remember that many good guys dying in the fourth one. Assume that "good guys" includes all non-"bad guys". (Villagers, missionaries, extras, etc.)
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by icky 19y ago
It's Webtender for food... :)
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by icky 19y ago
Did you think those $2.56 checks just paid for themselves?
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by icky 19y ago
Already a verb (or at least a gerund): http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=greenspunning
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by icky 19y ago
> The problem with technology people making predictions about intelligence is they don't understand the most relevant field: epistemology. How do you know that you know that? ;-)
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by icky 19y ago
You have a firm grasp of web trends -- for someone on the Internet! ;-)
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by icky 19y ago
... and FTP to transfer their cave paintings? ;-)
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by icky 19y ago
AA Liberal Arts! Applied for it after I had started programming professionally. (Already had the credits, so why not? ;-)
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by icky 19y ago
Intel's docs. Huge and comprehensive: http://www.intel.com/products/processor/manuals/ NASM docs: http://www.linuxmedialabs.com/nasm/html/nasmdoca.html
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by icky 19y ago
... and a weapon!
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by icky 19y ago
The other problem with his argument is that the effort to reimplement a lightweight language is often less than the effort required to cope with a closed (read: crippled) implementation.
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by icky 19y ago
Keep dangerous foreign memes from pristine Chinese minds? ;-) It's not just a firewall, it's an info-condom! ;-D
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by icky 19y ago
> After our first son arrived 5 years ago (unplanned) Sounds like you should hire a project manager! ;-)
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by icky 19y ago
You can define let in terms of lambda. (let ((x 99)) (foo x)) can expand to: ((lambda (x) (foo x)) 99)
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by icky 19y ago
> For my next project im thinking of going Joyent, as their storage seems more scalable. One of my past clients used them (around when they merged with TextDrive). Their Solaris setup is a PITA if you're used to Linux or *BSD. If you s
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by icky 19y ago
To make more clear the need for a submission-downvote button.
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by icky 19y ago
IANAL, and this is NOT legal advice, but: Since you'll be in California, you can take advantage of California Labor Code Section 2870-2872 ( http://caselaw.lp.findlaw.com/cacodes/lab/2870-2872.html ), and do your startup (that doesn't rel
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by icky 19y ago
> K&R is the essence of a great language book: it's short. s/book//
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by icky 19y ago
> I'm his brother He ain't heavy? ;-)
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by icky 19y ago
Nope. If it were really compelling, I'd turn on the user-agent switcher plugin and pretend to be running IE. ;-) If you absolutely must target a proprietary platform, make it Flash.
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by icky 19y ago
> it could run afoul of some contest laws. Is this legally a "contest"? Seems more like a game of skill to me. :-)
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by icky 19y ago
> I think many people mistakenly thought Arc was supposed to be some new kind of framework like Ruby on Rails. - Didn't you hear? Arc, the language, uses tables in its HTML! (My god, I would never use a programming language that wa
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by icky 19y ago
> Seriously, what self-promotion? Well, he did write about it on paulgraham.com, the #1 site for anything, ever.
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by icky 19y ago
> The typical profit of an owner-managed business is $39,000 per year. Before or after the owner/manager's salary? If the owner/manager isn't paying himself a salary, then it's more of an expensive hobby than a business.

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