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by lrobb 14y ago
Reminds me of the fishermans parable: An American businessman was at the pier of a small coastal Mexican village when a small boat with just one fisherman docked. Inside the small boat were several large yellow fin tuna. The American compli
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by lrobb 14y ago
sure... http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anecdotal_evidence The expression anecdotal evidence refers to evidence from anecdotes. Because of the small sample, there is a larger chance that it may be unreliable due to cherry-picked or otherwise
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by lrobb 14y ago
>> But my personal anecdotal experience The plural of anecdote is not data.
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by lrobb 14y ago
I'd say I'm living from paycheck to paycheck.... "Except I'm not getting a paycheck!" http://uptownalmanac.com/2012/10/nerds-gone-wild-day-san-fra...
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by lrobb 14y ago
On the one assembly language I vaguely remember, it has to do with how mul is implemented. The 2nd function has to swap out the i repeatedly.
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by lrobb 14y ago
Would you ask that of a lawyer or an accountant.... Or even a civil engineer?
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by lrobb 14y ago
Iirc some startup hired rasmus lerdorf, the creator of php.
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by lrobb 14y ago
It might not be legal, but it's easy to do.
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by lrobb 14y ago
There's a pattern you should be using here, instead: """ Something doesn't work right, so you add a call to fmt.Printf to help debug it. Compile error: "Undefined: fmt." You add an import "fmt" at the top. It works, and you debug the proble
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by lrobb 14y ago
He might be... But just because you're one of the thousands of engineers at google, that doesn't make you automatically qualified.
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by lrobb 14y ago
I can't seem to find it now, but I seem to recall that dropping from 1 hour to 20 minutes was worth a 30-40 pct reduction in pay. http://www.quora.com/What-studies-have-been-done-on-the-effe...
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by lrobb 14y ago
In the 80s high schools were pushing German.
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by lrobb 14y ago
Crushing it totally jumped the shark
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by lrobb 14y ago
"My philosophy is that if I take care of you, you're going to take care of my business" - one of the best guys I ever worked for.
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by lrobb 14y ago
Another cheat sheet suggests that wages are downwardly sticky, and that an oversupply of X will also result in a lot of X being offered.
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by lrobb 14y ago
12per hour with benefits is right in line with what payscale reports as the average for admin assistants in Manhattan. Which is just slightly more than average pay for baristas.
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by lrobb 14y ago
Totally agree on step 0. IME your limited resources for targeting hair dressers / law firms / etc... is still the old fashioned way: footwork, cold calls, trade shows, etc...
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by lrobb 14y ago
Quite right. There's a lot of people that just start one business and then stay with it for the rest of their working life. Then there's a lot of people that start something, decide that it's not for them, then go back to join a company. If
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by lrobb 14y ago
I agree somewhat... I tried to launch an app in a space that was attracting single digit MM investment rounds. A bit disheartening to see a company get 5mm and all of a sudden they hire a dozen developers and have prime ad space on all the
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by lrobb 14y ago
So you've never done any systems engineering or architecture, apart from the heroku mold (nail <= hammer)... Given that, don't you think your post was a teeny bit venomous?
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by lrobb 14y ago
Do you want a guy like this at your company? Uh, yeah, probably. Nick Bradbury Ramblings from the creator of HomeSite, TopStyle, FeedDemon and Glassboard Android.
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by lrobb 14y ago
The difference? Every time there's a new switch, they learn it. Not my experience at all(1), and I've had one foot in the system administration field and one in the programming field for the last 12 years. You mention IPv6, but that was a
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by lrobb 14y ago
>>> 900 day rate x 20 days a month x 11 months When do you work on your sales pipeline?
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by lrobb 14y ago
This is gold. I've experienced the "irreplaceable" business person as well, though not on that scale. I was at a startup where a guy was almost singlehandedly bringing in a few million in revenue, which was crucial to our survival.
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by lrobb 14y ago
I completely glossed over where he mentioned contractors.
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by lrobb 14y ago
Easily? The average salary for a google engineer is a little over $100k. I guess we need to define what is "good".
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by lrobb 14y ago
>>>After all, I have make an investment and actual work while you played around with excel spreadsheets and send out a few press releases? I don't even know where to begin... Such a gross misunderstanding of what a competent bus
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by lrobb 14y ago
Don't hate peeps. It's called "Minimum Viable Product" now, but 15 years ago we called it vaporware. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Minimum_viable_product The canonical MVP strategy for a web application is to create a mock website for the
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by lrobb 14y ago
You don't have to actually have a product before you sell it, or build something to see if it will sell... It's called vaporware : a computer-related product that has been widely advertised but has not and may never become available
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by lrobb 14y ago
There's 2 big ones: 1. Writing code. 2. Not committing. You should never write a single line of code until you have a customer lined up. Not in theory, in reality. Not a friend that says it's a great idea, and they'd use your software. A li

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