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by louischatriot 13y ago
I am working on a similar project: a persistent database in Node for Node projects, with no external dependencies. That means you can use it with a simple require(), no external software needed. This is useful for small projects that don't
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by louischatriot 13y ago
You don't need to read 500 pages to understand the core of regex. "The core" means "what you will use 99% of the time". You need 11 minutes: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hwDhO1GLb_4
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by louischatriot 13y ago
Consulting pays well (very well) but of course it doesn't scale. I made my first $10k doing that.
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by louischatriot 13y ago
Being an "exec" at a 2 or 3 persons startup is not far off being a grunt. In fact it is the same thing. Putting "CEO" on your resume is not impressive if your company failed.
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by louischatriot 13y ago
Yep you're right, founders have that upside too. But raising a seed round is not that easy (don't believe Techcrunch :)), and if you can't do it your story will be "I spent xxx months/years on something nobody cared".
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by louischatriot 13y ago
I agree. I was not trying to defend jobs at startups. We're hiring but can't afford high salaries so I totally understand that such jobs are no good for most people : not well paid, you lose it if the company fails, long hours, stressful. T
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by louischatriot 13y ago
To be blunt, you don't seem to have founded a company. If you had, you would know that some businesses just take some time to become profitable. And that's not just Internet-based business, look at Tesla or SpaceX for example.
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by louischatriot 13y ago
Impressive that his two professors took 1 whole month to finally believe him, even though the article gives the impression that the error was obvious (a bad formula). Summary of the article: http://tldr.io/tldrs/5171189e1a18dac804000170/me
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by louischatriot 13y ago
Some good points, BUT. The first employees do not take nearly as much as risk as founders. Yeah you might lose your job if the company fails, but at least you were hired and got a salary from day one, you didn't have to work for a year or m
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by louischatriot 13y ago
Actually, there is: http://tldr.io/tldrs/50509fb5e37267fc34000007/tl-dr-what-is-... But this page is a bit outdated, this is what we use now: http://tldr.io/tldrs/514d1c2ec02bf6ba46001aba/more-on-the-tl...
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by louischatriot 13y ago
This is an important issue, but as the article says, Auth Basic over SSL is perfectly secure (if you don't redirect 80 to 443 of course). And since it is so simple to set up and use, I can see why some providers would use it (I do for examp
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by louischatriot 13y ago
People like to guess a pattern (i.e. "from the first 5 secs I think the song will go like this and I'll like it") and like when they're right. That's also why we tend to like more songs we've already heard several times (even though we didn
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by louischatriot 14y ago
I completely agree. A few months ago, I switched from being ultra busy on my company to taking some time to do what I really enjoy. As a result, I actually get more done now than before. The article is well written, you should read it. Here
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by louischatriot 14y ago
Looks very much like Hipchat. I'm curious as to why it's better (if it is).
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by louischatriot 14y ago
It's great to get some insight on a deal that, frankly, I couldn't understand. I am of course biased, because I believe (like many others) that algorithms are bad at summarization, except for already well-structured content (news are usuall
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by louischatriot 14y ago
This situation is very acute in "top tier" firms such as the management consulting big 4. The hiring process is designed to avoid false positives at all costs, even the cost of rejecting extremely good candidates.
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Introduction to Dart streams by the author of Dart in action(blog.dartwatch.com)
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Show HN: Web-based GUI for MongoDB, using the ACE editor(github.com)
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by louischatriot 14y ago
DHH points are valid, and I agree with him that this move shows how much Yahoo trusts its employees. That basically means they have no clue why they're falling appart and think the answer is "people need to work more". But we have to keep i
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by louischatriot 14y ago
There is no general answer to this one, but I'd say those 6-12 first months are when the company is most derisked. If you're going to be employee #1 of a 12-months-old startup, it means it still exists (vs all those failed projects), so it
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by louischatriot 14y ago
Only someone who hasn't tried to start a company could say that founders and investors don't deserve to have most of the equity. Try to start one and give all employees the same equity you own ... Some points you make are valid though, it's
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by louischatriot 14y ago
For a few months, I've been working some serious hours and as a result slept about 5-6 hours per week nights. For one week now I've forced myself to sleep 8 hours even during the weeks, and noticed my productivity shoot up. It is worth it!
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by louischatriot 14y ago
Funny to see that this happens to everyone. A week ago, while testing some stuff to locate a low-importance bug, I erased the whole user database. Fortunately we have a good restore so the problem was solved in a few minutes, but still, col
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by louischatriot 14y ago
Sales commissions are the best way to maximize short term returns. Then your operational teams leave because they're paid much less but don't see why their work is less important, your clients leave when they understand the solution you sol
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by louischatriot 14y ago
That's a pretty hyprocritical statement. Big companies know how to legally pay almost no taxes, see: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Double_Irish_arrangement And that's probably not "our" politicians who are to blame.
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by louischatriot 14y ago
I'd like to become rich. Not to buy stuff I can't buy today but because of the possibilities it gives you. If you have a few millions in your bank account, you can take whatever job you like, create a company without fearing that failure wi
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by louischatriot 14y ago
Python noob here, I am very interested in what you think makes Python a better browser scripting language than JS (which I use a lot on client and server side and like very much).
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by louischatriot 14y ago
Great app, kind of tldr for stack overflow :)
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by louischatriot 14y ago
Of course thorium reactors is not a proven technology but if there is a scientific consensus saying it is promising, I don't see why utility companies and civil nuclear reactor manufacturers try to make it viable. They have everything to ga
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by louischatriot 14y ago
I anxiously await the day (that may never come) when legislators actually understand what they do when they try to regulate technology.

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