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by mchannon 14y ago
I think they already have a hybrid Elance/Monster site to perform this- Elance. Once you have a rapport established with a contractor, there's nothing keeping you from sending them a job offer.
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by mchannon 14y ago
Company formation, operating agreement (boilerplate a la thefunded.org), "submit your annual reports"/"Q3 taxes need to be filed" reminder service, social media aspects of fundraising (they write the story once, you send it to everywhere it
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by mchannon 14y ago
In terms of cost/benefit, a cease & desist letter is your first best bet. They may not be aware of the problem. Making it appear that you're serious (name of a law firm, trademark no., what exactly they're doing wrong spelled out, sna
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by mchannon 14y ago
It all depends on how much salary you draw. W = opportunity cost value of other people's labor (i.e. if their time is worth $20/hour and they will have to put in 1,000 hours to earn their share(s), W = $20,000) X = value of the idea with no
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by mchannon 14y ago
Terms, terms, terms. Also, ask yourself (and perhaps the investor) what would happen if in three years, that money's gone, your product tanks, and have to get yourself a job. There are many investors who get emotional and make it their lif
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by mchannon 14y ago
On the off chance that this technology's cost could be brought down to the same per square meter as a conventional solar panel, it would add $35 to the cost of each 0.5 m^2 window, plus installation, wiring, conduit, and power converters, f
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by mchannon 14y ago
That's the billion dollar question. Despite the heartache, most job seekers could care less about getting a dear john, especially weeks or months following. HR's problems as an industry run far deeper. Employers spending too much time and
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by mchannon 14y ago
Hate to play devil's advocate here, but shaming nonresponsive would-be employers has been tried and has failed many times before. If an employer has time to run an ad, that means they're short-staffed and pressed for time. Sending heartfel
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by mchannon 14y ago
Based on Apple's latest overtures, OS X is becoming iOS far more than the reverse. That said, any code and library base, be it Apple or otherwise, has a shelf life. It will eventually be replaced, just like the hardware it runs on. That s
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by mchannon 14y ago
The web has gone through fits and starts- your job may seem stable now but how much warning will you get when demand shrinks for web development and your employer can't afford to keep you on? Furthermore, getting that graduate degree in a r
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by mchannon 14y ago
Any patent assignee will have to notice you in order for there to be any trouble. Getting noticed is usually a sign of "you've made it" success, and it's that success that should motivate you, not fear of someday making $9M instead of $10M
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by mchannon 14y ago
Exactly. "Can get" and "are getting" are two completely separate things. Even still, $100k at your SOMA startup seems like it would sound a lot better to someone earning $70k in the middle of nowhere than someone earning $100k at an existi
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by mchannon 14y ago
Strange as it may sound, I wouldn't select solely on the basis of strong programs. You're not trying to hire the program. You're trying to hire a person, one at a time. I've met Stanford graduates I wouldn't hire, even though their progr
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by mchannon 14y ago
Honesty can be presented professionally and tactfully, and honesty can be presented in a grating, self-deprecating, negative manner. Presentation will get or lose you the job. Honesty (or lack thereof) has much less to do with it.
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by mchannon 14y ago
If I was in your shoes, I'd become your own technical recruiter, pick a far-flung college town or city with a good CS program, and try to relo a crackerjack Python dev out of a batch of a dozen you contact. Fly yourself out to Podunk City
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by mchannon 14y ago
While you're in Mountain View to check out the Computer History Museum, check out Hacker Dojo, and try and find a contact at Google to feed you (their campus is a wonderland). Meetup.com worked out great for finding ways to fill up those aw
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by mchannon 14y ago
It's closed Monday & Tuesday. (Turns out that I had plenty of time Monday and Tuesday to visit, but everything else filled up; wish I'd thought to look that up)
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by mchannon 14y ago
Not knowing the difference between slash and backslash- "Go to www.ourlamesite.com BACKSLASH user". What's most interesting about the error is that it's almost always one error only (slashes referred to as backslashes, not the reverse, as i
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by mchannon 14y ago
I misinterpreted the meaning of this thread, but it occurred to me the misinterpretation was also a great question- Is there any site where different prospective car buyers can pool or "mob shop" their purchases in order to get a volume dis
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by mchannon 14y ago
The movie "Idiocracy", in its first five minutes, tackles this exact same question, in hilarious fashion. Suffice it to say, technology will evolve to accommodate (barely) the lowest-common denominator of intelligence, which has a significa
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by mchannon 14y ago
If you agree on terms, put them down in writing (especially contingencies like one of you dies, quits, or stops working hard), and have both of you sign it. There is often a brief honeymoon period where people put aside grudges that simulta
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by mchannon 14y ago
The author didn't ask for ones proven to work; everything's specious until a successful startup makes it obvious. And I would definitely pay for on-demand on-site phlebotomy for a number of reasons, if I was to need one, and I bet you would
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by mchannon 14y ago
Aside from food (and beer§), Maid service, perhaps just on the one-room level. (Much easier to justify the high price if you're paranoid and busy and can't be sure when you'll be home to supervise). Repair/handyman service, auto detailing,
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by mchannon 14y ago
The trouble could come from numerous angles. As others note, not all plankton is created equal; just as in human bodies a balance between bacteria and fungi create healthy conditions, getting a dramatic boost to one kind of plankton may thr
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by mchannon 14y ago
The solutions run the gamut from laser printing (or handcarving) your own traces and using copper etchant to getting complete boards made. The happy medium I found was using ExpressPCB's cheapest service which included high-quality (if only
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by mchannon 14y ago
Even a lot of CS Ph.D.'s aren't quite sure what they want to do in their field, so don't feel bad about having a bit of uncertainty associated with your career. Ask yourself what sort of subject area you'd be thrilled to hack on and learn a
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by mchannon 14y ago
Most Americans don't care about their electric bill for more than a few minutes every month (when they open it to pay it). Even egregious whoopsies like leaving the fridge open or the windows open don't usually add up to a large financial
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by mchannon 14y ago
Wepay.com is probably worth a look- IIRC, fees come out on the withdrawal side. It was designed and pushed with this exact application in mind. Most payment services tend to be onerous for the one-time micropayor, and Wepay was pretty pain
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by mchannon 14y ago
It's hard enough in this day and age to make something using its patent as a guide, even though by definition that's what a patent is supposed to show you how to do. The reverse is next to impossible. If I had an Apple A8 chip from 2019, I

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