mikepk

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by mikepk 15y ago
I understand this post is specifically about salary and money, but in my experience there is a kind of "gray" market of compensation that truly great hackers participate in. This usually (but not always) means that the person has a lot of l
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by mikepk 15y ago
I find my skill as a programmer has substantially diminished the more I've had to spend energy and focus being an entrepreneur. I believe there's a myth that the hacker can do it all and do it all well. In reality I think you end up being s
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by mikepk 15y ago
I've seen enough "programmers are interchangable cogs" thinking and solitaire-playing, email-reading managers get large flat panel monitors (back when they were more rare), while engineers scraped by with crappy resources to decide to put a
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4001 ways you'll help us build Smarterer(smarterer.com)
5 points by mikepk 15y ago|1 comments
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by mikepk 16y ago
Boston, MA - Engineers / Technologists / Programmers - not remote Why get drowned out in the Valley / SF when you can work on a sweet consumer web startup in Boston! OK I'll get it out of the way, the weather: well, yeah, there's snow/slush
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by mikepk 16y ago
Is there room to innovate in RSS / Feeds / OPML? Is it worth it to try and rebuild the feed and widget technologies in Grazr now that they're shutting down?
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by mikepk 16y ago
I just tweeted about this and someone reminded me about Startup Weekend. I assumed you knew about it already, but just in case: http://startupweekend.org/ . Same time frame, but for SW people have to be physically present (unlike minileap)
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by mikepk 16y ago
That's a great idea and I'll definitely follow your progress on it (unfortunately I'm going to be traveling / out of the country that weekend). It addresses some of the problem space I'm thinking about, and I really like the short duration
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by mikepk 16y ago
I'm also definitely not the only person looking at this problem. I'm actually hoping we can bring together the various efforts trying to address this gap.
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by mikepk 16y ago
It might have been me :), I've been going to OpenCoffee a lot talking about this idea. I think this fills a gap in the ecosystem between social events and seed accelerators (that are looking for more fully formed startup teams).
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by mikepk 16y ago
Regular socializing is a first good step but it seems like the real filter, the way to get at the people you want, is to get people doing . When you're actually working on a project (even a small project) you learn pretty quickly who actua
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by mikepk 16y ago
I also left the essay a little bit open ended because I'm looking for other ideas and ways to address this specific problem.
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by mikepk 16y ago
I've got some high level ideas, but most of them revolve around getting people working together, especially in a common space. I think physical proximity is important but another potential key is defining clear agreements that reduce the na
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by mikepk 16y ago
I'm working on hacking the startup process. I'm focused on the Boston area but I don't think the point in this essay is specific to Boston.
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Is the startup community relying too much on fate? Connecting the outliers(tenzerolab.com)
24 points by mikepk 16y ago|14 comments