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by jnovek 17y ago
Well, I usually work more than 40 hrs/week on my startup because I can't stop thinking about it. But sometimes I just run out of gas and only do the bare minimum for a week or two.
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by jnovek 17y ago
Well, I've been married for five years and I'm a co-founder. I don't know if it's like this for everyone, but for us there are a lot of similarities. I think you can easily s/co-founder/wife/g on the list below. - My co-founder very intim
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by jnovek 17y ago
In my opinion, if you aren't ready to balance school/work and your startup until your startup is self-sufficient, you aren't serious enough about your startup.
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by jnovek 17y ago
We tried the free version and decided that it didn't provide the QoS that WebEx did -- the video was VERY choppy. Because our product relies heavily on doing client presentations (we have a small number of large clients instead of a large
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by jnovek 17y ago
My wife was very patient with technical explanations for about the first year of our marriage. I think she finally realized at that point that I'm ALWAYS explaining technical things and that if she seems interested, I'll keep going. So no
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by jnovek 17y ago
Agreed 100%. I'm also not a fan of photorealism, but I believe that other posters in this thread are underestimating the skill of the artist. Especially now that I realize that he is working in watercolor, which doesn't easily allow the k
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by jnovek 17y ago
My wife is a painter; she tells me that it is actually pretty typical for modern painters to project an image on to canvas rather than paint from a print. An image that is painted from a print tends to be flatter and an image painted from
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by jnovek 17y ago
I'm a rangefinder guy, so I shoot film. I'm still tapping my foot waiting for a small digital, interchangeable lens kit to come out that isn't a giant DSLR. My crummy eyes can't focus anything TTL.
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by jnovek 17y ago
Wyman's problems and suggestions read to me like a collection of the latest hip trends, and made me feel like he was someone who knows little about how a newspaper -- especially a small town newspaper -- works.
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by jnovek 17y ago
Counterexample: I, personally, am in love with the "Trends" pie chart on mint.com. It allows you to drill down and expand each wedge of the pie into its sub-components. I feel like this would be much less meaningful if it were expressed a
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by jnovek 17y ago
My learning process usually works like this: 1) Learn the syntax/guts of a tool by going through a book, tutorial and trying trivial examples. 2) Work until I run into a problem. (How do I make merb-auth work with a flash uploader?) 3) Find
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by jnovek 17y ago
"Usually I spend it reading all sorts of ebooks and papers and trying to learn new skills." I suggest you switch gears and spend your free-time coding :-). Pick some technology you think you want (you can change your mind later) and start d
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by jnovek 17y ago
That's not true. I just really, really wanted something.
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by jnovek 17y ago
That's fair. I don't like doing sales either. I have a technical call with a new prospective customer this afternoon, and I'm terrified. You need to find a business partner who thrives on this stuff. My suggestion: don't worry too much a
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by jnovek 17y ago
What's interesting is, I see a lot of people saying, "I don't have a very good idea." For the record, my first swing was an awful idea -- social networking mumbo-jumbo. Half-baked, totally impossible to monetize. Four of us worked on it f
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by jnovek 17y ago
"The Ramen-way works only for people who are fresh out of college or at least are still with no liabilities." This is simply not true. My wife and I have medical debt and my partner has a family and a mortgage. You just work your 8 hour d
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Ask HN: Was your first crazy startup idea anything like your current one?
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by jnovek 17y ago
"be totally ruthless about using your time efficiently and if at any time you feel that you can't, clock out for the day and go enjoy life." This is fantastic advice. Time spent sitting at the computer willing yourself to work when you're
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by jnovek 17y ago
For me and my company, my ability to finish things has had a lot more to do with me believing in the project. In my limited experience, you don't invest your time or your money into a startup. You invest yourself. You sacrifice your healt
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by jnovek 17y ago
Pragmatically, I would describe health care and education as commodities with some providers who sell a "premium" service. How much education happens at top tier, how much health care happens at the Mayo Clinic?
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by jnovek 17y ago
“Steve, almost all my CEO’s came from very tough childhoods. It was one of the characteristics I specifically looked for. It’s why all of you operated so well in the unpredictable environment that all startups face.” I guess my company wou
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by jnovek 17y ago
Personally, I try not to say things like "dumbing down". It's presumptuous to assume that I'm smarter than other people; I don't need that kind of ego boost. I tend to think of it as people having different interests. Many people have a f
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by jnovek 17y ago
I'm aware of its oxidation potential. Although I am not from a chemistry background, I do my best to use and store potentially dangerous chemicals as prescribed by their MSDS sheets. I use it for a printing-out-process called Gum Bichromat
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by jnovek 17y ago
I am an amateur photographer who enjoys spending a lot of time in the darkroom. As the rise of digital cameras has caused "darkroom technician" to turn from a profession to a hobby, some materials that once had pre-made formulations from K
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by jnovek 17y ago
It seems likely to me that this is just because "old timers" are seeing the same data as newbies. How many folks look beyond the first hundred posts, or even the front page for stuff to vote up? It makes sense that accounts older than a y
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by jnovek 17y ago
"In addition, Never a good idea to build a business based on what newspapers are saying or how the stock market is performing..." It's probably not a good idea to ignore them, either. I don't know about you, but all the "market research" t
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by jnovek 18y ago
That sounds overblown to me, too. This presentation doesn't make me think less of female developers. But, it doesn't matter what I think, because I'm a dude. I don't have to come to work and feel marginalized by this slideshow. It doesn't
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by jnovek 18y ago
I'm not certain how dancing or playing with cars is anything but cultural. I mean, aren't these products of years of culture, including the gender roles assigned to them? What makes dancing girly and cars boyish? "The sexes are hard wired
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by jnovek 18y ago
My question isn't clear -- a better question is, "Why do so few women want to develop software?" I think it has a lot to do with the software-development culture. And I think that the comments that these women made back up that position.
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by jnovek 18y ago
Where are all the comments about evolution, biology and women as programmers? This group of HN commenters really bothers me -- the armchair biologists who declare that women keep away from programming and startups because evolution rather

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