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by mattm 12y ago
During the war, Kellogg's moved to a 30-hour work week. An overwhelming majority of employees preferred it. Despite the reduced hours, Kellogg's found that overall productivity actually went up.
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by mattm 12y ago
Also, if the equity is worth so much money, why are they even offering it to you in the first place? You'd think they'd want to keep it all for themselves.
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by mattm 12y ago
And also how people on HN sometimes have trouble putting themselves in the shoes of others. The 2nd top comment is a perfect example: > For a Linux user, you can already build such a system yourself quite trivially by getting an FTP acc
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by mattm 12y ago
Didn't have the money yet apparently spent a million dollars developing his Bitcoin Cafe in the lobby of the building.
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by mattm 12y ago
It's depressing how 1/4 households basically have no wealth at all.
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by mattm 12y ago
I've been building websites and web apps for over 15 years now. Email is in my profile. Let me know what you're struggling with.
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by mattm 12y ago
Met my wife by learning to salsa dance!
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by mattm 12y ago
I just finished reading the book "Quiet: The Power of Introverts in a World That Can't Stop Talking" Please read this. First off, it will make you feel better about yourself and realise that there are many people like you.
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by mattm 12y ago
Ah, I didn't know about that. When I came to Japan it seemed every price was always tax included. I have noticed recently that some places have tax being extra. Now I see why.
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by mattm 12y ago
A lot of businesses used the consumption tax increase to raise prices. I attended an expo for English language school owners last year and most said they were planning to raise their prices and hope no one would notice. As I drove by a bar
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by mattm 12y ago
This is a good point. The pension system, as it stands now, is just basically another tax.
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by mattm 12y ago
This article sounds like a paid advertisement for Abe. Let's see, earlier this year, he was campaigning for companies to use their piles of cash to increase wages. What does his government do? He cuts salaries for teachers. Also, liv
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by mattm 12y ago
Learn about the Permanent Portfolio - http://www.crawlingroad.com/blog/2013/08/12/permanent-portfo... It was created as very simple and easy to follow investment strategy by Harry Browne who had many yea
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by mattm 12y ago
I'm looking to mentor a couple people about best practices for web development. I've been building websites and web applications for over 15 years now. Please get in touch if you're interested. You can see some of the proje
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by mattm 12y ago
Man, that ending is brutal. So the point of building a business and selling it is so you can post about it on Facebook? Congratulations on all the effort and succes, nonetheless.
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by mattm 12y ago
Yeah, I had a friend a few years younger than me say he wanted to get into game development. I told him the horror stories that many devs work all the time, get paid little and don't even have time to play games. His response? "I
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Ask HN: Should I continue with this partnership?
1 points by mattm 12y ago|0 comments
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by mattm 12y ago
Japan, Remote, Full Time | Contract | Part Time Stack: Full-stack Web Applications - PHP (many frameworks), Python/Django, J2EE, Perl Portfolio: http://mattmccormick.ca/portfolio/ Contact: matt@mattmccormick.ca Lo
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by mattm 12y ago
Welcome back <blink>
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by mattm 12y ago
Especially since he could have been a legitimate multi-millionaire just by doing things correctly. The market lead MtGox had is something people dream about.
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by mattm 12y ago
Google Harry Browne - permanent portfolio
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by mattm 12y ago
To add to this, people don't usually lose their jobs in a bubble. If you are losing your job, chances are a lot of other people in your area are also losing their jobs which makes it even harder to sell.
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Bad copyright rules killed Hadfield's Space Oddity(ottawacitizen.com)
8 points by mattm 12y ago|1 comments
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by mattm 12y ago
If I may so, you've identified this, but a 5 person team is way too small to have a junior dev unless they really know what they are doing. You're really doing a disservice to him because you're expecting way more than he ca
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by mattm 12y ago
Japan, Remote, Contract|Part Time|Full Time Stack: PHP (all frameworks), Python (Django), Perl Resume: http://mattmccormick.ca/portfolio Contact: matt@mattmccormick.ca Looking to work with good people working on something t
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by mattm 12y ago
I also do this. I'm going to be sitting on the plane for the next several hours, why would I want to get on first?
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by mattm 13y ago
Agree with this from my experience. I'll just take the higher salary and use it to fund my own ideas which I control 100%. Equity without say into decision making is practically worthless.
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by mattm 13y ago
Here in Japan, homes are small, there are not many public spaces and life is lived at work.
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by mattm 13y ago
This is just one of those things you learn in life. You'll never find out the real reason someone rejected you. It doesn't matter if it's a girl or an interviewer. That's just how it is. The only thing to do is to ta
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by mattm 13y ago
> Within a few months, we had a team of four. Development seemed slow and our live site was littered with bugs. Our team didn’t seem driven; they all finished work each day at 5:30. I remember watching “The Social Network” and admiring t

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