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by maximp 8y ago
This was exactly my experience. I struggled building with Rails, and every day was an uphill battle trying to learn the machinery. I switched to Node, and feel my better. My structure isn't nearly as pretty, optimal, or efficient now,
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by maximp 8y ago
A great book on the recent history of music piracy and the advent of the MP3 is How Music Got Free: https://www.amazon.com/How-Music-Got-Free-Obsession/dp/01431...
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by maximp 8y ago
Definitely check out Indiehackers[0] for a HN-like community specifically around for side-projects and validating ideas. [0] https://www.indiehackers.com
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by maximp 8y ago
Cool! I wonder how much time alums will be willing to put in (unless you're paying them/charging applicants, of course). I imagine you'll get overwhelmed by applications around the deadlines, and I wonder if the individual de
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by maximp 8y ago
Alternatively, I hate filling out a whole form that requires for a bunch of info and then asks for way too much personal info at the end. I'd rather know what they need upfront so I can decide on whether to fill out the form at all.
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by maximp 8y ago
I really hope he's related to the very funny Colin Mochrie of Whose Line
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by maximp 8y ago
> 3. Someday/Maybe: This is the list of things that you one day want to do, but don’t need to get done now (e.g. read a book). Someday/Maybe Schedule a guitar lesson Order the book Getting Things Done by David Allen --- Man, th
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by maximp 8y ago
Just wanted to say - this is great, and I enjoyed it! thank you!
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by maximp 8y ago
/thread
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by maximp 8y ago
>The only way I could describe him is as a bored engineer on the 5th day of a meth binge. what an image
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by maximp 8y ago
Found the sales guy!
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by maximp 8y ago
I imagine he means interest on debt.
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by maximp 8y ago
Could you expand on this? What is the golden cage?
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by maximp 8y ago
Indiehackers, Inside The Hive (the tech episodes, not the Trump-bashing ones), Recode Decode with Kara Swisher
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Ask HN: What is something surprising you learned about making money?
59 points by maximp 8y ago|48 comments
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by maximp 8y ago
> You had no choice but to work hard. If you didn't do it, it wasn't done. Deadlines were pushed forward, everybody was unhappy. There was no margin for anything, so I had to work overtime very often. Can echo that this was m
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Ask HN: What's the deal with “don't see your perfect role? apply anyway” jobs?
1 points by maximp 8y ago|1 comments
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by maximp 8y ago
Great idea, and love how you've integrated advertising. I love that there's a schedule - following the paradox of choice, I hate choosing, and you have a good selection of videos.
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by maximp 8y ago
> be sure to take a lengthy amount of time off in the first 6 months of employment. Tell them about this prior to signing on. What's your rationale? Out of curiosity, are you an engineer?
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by maximp 8y ago
Are you guys hiring at Segment? I've been keeping an eye out on the company, and things like this are really encouraging to read.
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by maximp 8y ago
> 8-10 weeks off per year That would be a dream. I don't know anyone who enjoys this much time off (other than people running their own shops/startups)
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by maximp 9y ago
> good work-life balance could you put an average # of vacation days on that?
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by maximp 9y ago
> get past my natural tendency to avoid taking off It's not that I don't WANT time off - it's that I'm afraid it'll backfire. I'd take months, if I could.
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by maximp 9y ago
Small but well-known NYC startup. Disliked the policy strongly, and nobody would give me a ballpark of vacation to take when I interviewed and after I joined. There was a huge discrepancy in how much vacation people took, which left some fe
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by maximp 9y ago
Also, is there a good, dedicated resource for PM jobs?
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by maximp 9y ago
This is cool! One of the top comments on Indiehackers (if I remember correctly) was to click on an egg to change the background color - I'm gonna echo that here. Love the "remember to bookmark" label!
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by maximp 9y ago
So, a chicken soup delivery service?
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by maximp 9y ago
Congrats, you just launched :)
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by maximp 9y ago
Are you on Indiehackers? It's a whole community of people who'll tell you that you need to launch now - and how, and why.
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by maximp 9y ago
Creator here - thank you for sharing! Hackterms is a crowdsourced dictionary of coding terms. While learning to code, I'd often fall down a rabbit hole of research for things I didn't really need. There are lots of resources that

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