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by jakejake 13y ago
My philosophy is that of all the things that are important for a business or a web service - keeping your data is the very highest priority. Just about anything else can be fixed, but if your data is lost with no backup then no amount of p
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by jakejake 13y ago
Well, if you come through looking like a ski bum with all of your worldly possessions in your back seat then you shouldn't either try to tell the border patrol that you're a wealthy tourist getting ready to kick the US economy int
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by jakejake 13y ago
Congrats on launching your app! The YC investors all have their specific interests of the moment and it could be for some totally random reason your site doesn't fit this particular round. Building a business is a long journey. YC is
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by jakejake 13y ago
It sounds like you probably work at a quality company with high standards. It's unfortunate that there are companies who don't practice the same diligence, yet you get all stereotyped together as Indian coders. In the US I have a
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by jakejake 13y ago
I think this is just a kinda microcosm for why Windows is successful in general. Because they have a sales force and support that markets to and is geared around companies. Their developer ecosystem is heavily geared towards corporate sys
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by jakejake 13y ago
Agreed. The death penalty is much better in that situation.
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by jakejake 13y ago
ah cool thanks
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by jakejake 13y ago
Really cool! Would anybody care to enlighten me on how the start/stop buttons work? I see that they add an anchor to the URL but I couldn't figure out how that triggers the style change. Thanks for sharing!
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by jakejake 13y ago
To have $180 taken from your account is certainly nothing to sneeze at. At certain points in my life that could have seriously affected my ability to pay rent! It seems rather drastic to totally drop the service and do a chargeback after 3
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by jakejake 13y ago
haha, yea sadly we're about as far from bros as it can get. Of our two girls in the office - one of them is far more crass than any of the guys!
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by jakejake 13y ago
I've never really thought that much about having a company just for branding purposes. But, I've run my business as an official corporation for about 10 years now, even though I haven't been 100% freelance for all of that ti
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by jakejake 13y ago
We have a penalty system at work if you break the build or cause the music to skip, or any number of other frivolous "office infractions" you have to put a buck in our tip jar which is used to buy beer. If you don't want to
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by jakejake 13y ago
If you really want to keep your consulting business, this is a great opportunity to bring on another person.
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by jakejake 13y ago
Wow, I had a flashback to 1998! Seriously, though, great collection of GUIs. It's cool to see some aspects of those window managers that are still in our modern operating systems.
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by jakejake 13y ago
These are all really good questions. I think it's a great idea to have some questions in mind when you interview. It shows that you are interested in making an investment in a company and not just looking for a paycheck. I would prob
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by jakejake 13y ago
Restaurant tipping in the US is fairly standard and shouldn't be too confusing or stressful. But I know exactly what you are talking about with other situations. For what it's worth, Americans are sometimes uncomfortable and don
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by jakejake 13y ago
Just leave a damn tip net time you cheapskate
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by jakejake 13y ago
http://www.tripadvisor.com/Travel-g191-c3541/United-States:C... Bullet point #1. I would consider that fairly obvious. If you can't manage to stumble across #1 cultural tip then you obviously have not done much r
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by jakejake 13y ago
Tipping and basic etiquette (particularly involving dining) is one of the fundamental bits of culture everyone should research when traveling to another country. If you are in the US and received good service, but left crappy or zero tips t
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by jakejake 13y ago
When I read that and also the section about using spaces instead of tabs I immediately thought - uh oh, here comes the nerd rage!
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by jakejake 13y ago
Well, those are all just variations of either not being a successful, profitable company or the founders simply not caring anymore. The end result would still likely be the same for the users.
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by jakejake 13y ago
Ah. Well, as they say on YC they are being extremely selective with non-profits and considering them to be "charity" (their own words). I personally wouldn't take it to heart at all if YC didn't select your company.
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by jakejake 13y ago
This is actually nice looking and has a great purpose. Maybe they didn't select you because there's no billion-dollar exit strategies for education services..? I think it could make a really great product though.
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by jakejake 13y ago
Most likely they would have gone out of business either way because nobody is going to do an acqui-hire deal if their company had plenty of funding or was actually profitable. If I was working somewhere, I'd rather the founders manage
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by jakejake 13y ago
I'm not sure why so many teams go for the extremes - either zero planning, or planning out the wazoo! For most situations the best methodology is going to be somewhere more near the center.
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by jakejake 13y ago
I'd probably be more likely to blame the hardware or compiler if my work was programming new hardware or custom compilers! I think the situation is that if you're quick to blame others for a problem which turns out to be your own
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by jakejake 13y ago
It's surprising to me how "old school" this code is for 2005. It looks similar to Perl code from the late 90's when CGI scripts and form mailers were all the rage.
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by jakejake 13y ago
I have the dubious honor of the slowest framework on the test on page #1! For some reason the i7 tests perform really badly for Phreeze, whereas the EC2 tests it performs near the top of all the PHP frameworks. I've been too busy with
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by jakejake 13y ago
The problem with posting a "list of rules for working with me" is that the only people who will read it are more diligent and thoughtful recruiters. It will only filter out people who a) bother to read it and b) have enough sense
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by jakejake 13y ago
I find that to be exactly true. The really surprising thing is that a college degree or experience at a big company doesn't necessarily tell you what you can learn from just walking through some very basic code.

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