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by madaxe 14y ago
Hah. Most founders are broke. Sure, you own an equity slice in a business, but the reality is that you pay yourself a pittance, and your best hope is to be acquired for a six figure (not six zero) sum after a decade of back-breaking labour.
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by madaxe 14y ago
You're paid stupid money. I run a 30 man engineering team and earn less than you.
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by madaxe 14y ago
I find a fiery death due to a poorly trimmed light aircraft caused by the family of human blimps sat in the back row discriminatory. Weight distribution matters, particularly when you're in a single prop 8 seater. If some dude rocks up on t
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by madaxe 14y ago
Bingo. I have a profitable, scalable enterprise. We're worthless because we're profitable - if you make money, your value is a multiplier of profit. Now, if you run a startup that makes no revenue, or even loses huge amounts of money, your
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by madaxe 14y ago
I still love that on the same landing form where they say: "Are you carrying > $10k in cash" they also ask "Are you a terrorist?" and "Are you a nazi war criminal?" Has anyone ever checked the "Yes" box to either of those?!
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by madaxe 14y ago
What the hell? Android has won? Have you ever looked at statistics for device usage? Here's a neat little graph of about 200M unique users over the last year, mostly from the US and UK. Either we have a very odd sample (unlikely, broad bask
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by madaxe 14y ago
Possible, but not how I ended up with my fun - see my reply to sibling!
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by madaxe 14y ago
Yeah, as I said, long story. It's true that the debt isn't legally transferrable, but I was left in a situation where I had no choice but to take it on. Long and the short - kid brother at expensive private boarding school - taking him out
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by madaxe 14y ago
You don't have an option for "less than nothing". Long story, but my parents split and left me with their debt and my brother to raise. By the time we started the company I was £200k in the hole, at the age of 22. Nothing like having a fire
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by madaxe 14y ago
Yep. I've had Lloyds phone me and tell me my own goddamned password over the phone . Which means, apart from anything else, that they store them plaintext. Phishing for this kind of info is stupidly easy though, and while call-centres quit
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by madaxe 14y ago
Bath here, too. Set up a twitter/eventbrite, and I'd recommend prodding Felix to broadcast it on @welovebath - I'm down for it.
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by madaxe 14y ago
We formalised spelling in the 18th c., independently of one another. No particular reason beyond that, afaik.
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by madaxe 14y ago
Pi relates to SI units, but not gravity. Unless you wanna be esoteric and go herp derp g=(GMm)/((orbital circumference)/2 pi )^2 at which point tada QED! Also tidal forces, lots of pi when your cranking those out. And keplers laws of planet
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by madaxe 14y ago
1000 cubic centimetres - a cubic decimetre. Not a cubic meter. A cubic meter of water ways a ton.
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by madaxe 14y ago
Well, because his conclusion was basically "shit, I don't know, something to do with sine waves and SHM I guess". I'd explain why here but it wouldn't fit in this margin.
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by madaxe 14y ago
Would you just look at all of our autistic chickens.
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by madaxe 14y ago
Blubolt, Bath, UK - Full Time, no remote opportunities, sorry. We're looking for two PHP devs, and a designer / XHTML/CSS slicer. For full details, see http://www.blubolt.com/jobs/ PHP Dev positions: * Your role - Predominantly eCommerc
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by madaxe 14y ago
Hush, don't let the bad man's lies scare you. Lassie is still alive and she's with Santa's Little Helper in a doggie spa in the maldives.
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by madaxe 14y ago
Russia is also a different planet.
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by madaxe 14y ago
Where do you think your tax dollars go, silly rabbit?
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by madaxe 14y ago
Don't work with recruiters, period. Why? From the hiring side of the table, here's why. 1) they misrepresent you and lie. "Kevin has 10+ years of experience with Ruby on Rails". I go "huh, Kevin's a lying shit. Bin." 2) 40% of your goddamne
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by madaxe 14y ago
Man alive. That sounds like no fun. Also an entrepreneur here, and admittedly no (major) failures as yet, but I envy you at least having parents to fall back on. All alone in the world here. Nothing like the absence of any safety net to mak
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by madaxe 14y ago
Yup. Aforementioned satan missile can carry hundreds of warheads, and an equal number of decoys. Two of them, they said, could wipe out all US cities.
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by madaxe 14y ago
You haven't lived until you've sat on top of one (on its side!) waving a cowboy hat. Fond memories... Although I now also remember my lunch of various animal tubes on the same day. Damnitall.
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by madaxe 14y ago
By the time its left the silo. Russians are dead keen on their one-shot silos packed to the gills with various devices (pneumatic, hydraulic, explosive) to bring a missile up to ludicrous speed very, very quickly. Spent a very enlightening
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by madaxe 14y ago
Don't forget "passenger trains". Neatly dressed up to look like the express service, but chock full o' nuclear goodness. The roof peels back, and you can launch straight from the rails.
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by madaxe 14y ago
Gazelle does at least 5.5km/s.
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by madaxe 14y ago
They experimented with it, publicly declared it a success, but said they weren't going to do it, and proceeded to use the tech on the far side of the country. Pechora-Kama I think was the original project. Maybe they did, maybe they didn't,
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by madaxe 14y ago
Not really. A 10kt yield at altitude wouldn't leave much radioactivity above background at ground level. Also, this is the Russian military we're talking about. I don't think they'll fess up to detonating a nuke, no matter how small, in a p
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by madaxe 14y ago
Yup, those would be the ones. Nice long convoy of them with APCs and tanks at the head and tail, cruising down the highway. Seeing this kind of stuff is par for the course out there though. Drove from Rostov na donu to Stalingrad and there

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