maxawaytoolong

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by maxawaytoolong 16y ago
There are people in the USA who push for English as a national language, not the removal of loan words.
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by maxawaytoolong 16y ago
What does a person in this type of position do on a day to day basis?
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by maxawaytoolong 16y ago
The infuriating thing about cronyism and nepotism in Silicon Valley is that nobody is allowed to call a spade a spade. It's always a talent acquisition. Where your talent is that you already know the guy heading M&A.
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by maxawaytoolong 16y ago
My sister has done this with her kids. The deal is they have to be a certain age. I'm thinking around 6 years old. Old enough to not require 100% upkeep, but young enough to not have much else going on. Kids pre-teen or older would rather b
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by maxawaytoolong 16y ago
He has a biomedical engineering degree and actually worked a 9-5 day job as an analyst for a few years while playing gigs on weekends. http://stereogum.com/4530/quit_your_day_job_girl_talk/franch...
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by maxawaytoolong 16y ago
It looks like a rebranded and enhanced Dashcode.
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by maxawaytoolong 16y ago
Maybe in basketball and soccer, where you just need a ball. In sports like golf, gymnastics, figure skating, hockey, gridiron football, tennis, skiing and snowboarding it's another story.
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by maxawaytoolong 16y ago
I've worked for startups for 15 years and we've never begged anyone to take our money, much less copywriters.
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by maxawaytoolong 16y ago
If you're actually good at copywriting and can drive serious traffic, you will have numerous startups literally BEGGING you to to take their money Can you name 10? or even 5?
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by maxawaytoolong 16y ago
where my options would presumably be either to join the Aryan Brotherhood or get beaten up every day He's in a military prison , not Riker's Island.
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by maxawaytoolong 16y ago
In order to make 200K as a $100/hr contractor, you need to be continually employed at that rate. The consistent employment is the hard part. In my experience one can make $100/hr+ as an iPhone contractor, but only in small chunks. It's gett
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by maxawaytoolong 16y ago
It's not that you don't like to code, or need money to be happy. It's just the weird economic structure of startups and the software industry kinda lends itself to "missed opportunity" depression. Look at it like professional athletes. Many
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by maxawaytoolong 16y ago
The big Muslim countries in the middle east are kind of fucked one way or another. Iraq and Iran alone have more than 100 million of the Muslims in the area. You're not going to see a lot of hot startup action from war zones or autocratic r
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by maxawaytoolong 16y ago
The real problem if you're still programming at age 30 isn't that your brain has deteriorated. It's overcoming the daily ennui that comes with the realization that you could have been a multi millionaire by now if you would have picked bett
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by maxawaytoolong 16y ago
The pledges are actually orders for the watches.
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by maxawaytoolong 16y ago
If you're blind, how can you point the camera at text in the first place? (honest question, no snark)
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by maxawaytoolong 16y ago
Germany had women's suffrage in 1919 and proceeded to go to war against almost everyone. Poland, Norway, Russia, UK, USA, Netherlands, Sweden, and other allies all had women's suffrage by WWII.
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by maxawaytoolong 16y ago
Expect to get 1% of the existing options if you're lucky.
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by maxawaytoolong 16y ago
On the other hand, does any casual reader of the Economist really know if articles about China's military capabilities are accurate or not?
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by maxawaytoolong 16y ago
Maybe it's just cuz someone ran into me head-on while texting, but I'm glad more people don't tweet what songs they are listening to in their car.
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by maxawaytoolong 16y ago
Anyone know what school he is talking about? When did this article come out? $5500/year sounds like a good deal. I've seen private schools for the rich and famous, like Dalton, that charge $35,000 a year for K-12.
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by maxawaytoolong 16y ago
A big reason the dot-com bubble was bad was because normal people with more to lose were depleting their retirement savings buying stock in stupid companies that recently went public. There are no more IPOs. The public at large cannot parti
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by maxawaytoolong 16y ago
This article assumes that companies die due to competition. In reality, tech companies die from within. What would kill Facebook is a bunch of dumbbells on the inside making stupid decisions and sticking to them.
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by maxawaytoolong 16y ago
This sort of negotiation is common for things like design, photography, video, music, illustration and other creative assets. Based on the production values I'm assuming the video comes from that world, rather than the programming world.
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by maxawaytoolong 16y ago
A marathon is 42K and people run those all the time with minimal training. Puff Daddy only trained for 8 weeks. Every yuppie in NYC has met at least a half dozen out of shape office workers who have a mid life crisis and decide to run a mar
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by maxawaytoolong 16y ago
You should write an ebook on how to find a fiance and move to a new city while being unemployed and having $100K in debt. This would be more interesting than any of the advice you're going to get about how to find a tech job in Philly. Mayb
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by maxawaytoolong 16y ago
Silicon Valley is a lot closer to New York than it is to Asia.
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by maxawaytoolong 16y ago
AP CS is heinous, yes. I disagree with the rest, though. I would agree if I thought the other classes were worthwhile, but about 70% of my junior high and high school was filler at best. At least if there had been programming classes I coul
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by maxawaytoolong 16y ago
Perhaps the reason startups are struggling to hire in NYC is not because there are too few hackers but because there are too many startups. Most hackers simply do not have aspirations to work 80 hours a week to make some MBA jackass rich of
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by maxawaytoolong 16y ago
Most startup jobs in NYC pay over $100K if you're an engineer. If you have a family and need a bigger place you can always live in New Jersey. "Money" is not really a problem in New York City. If you're smart and hustle in NYC, you can alwa

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