moocow01

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by moocow01 15y ago
One way I think to mitigate this mind game of fear of failure/rejection is work on what you're "passionate" about. The word "passionate" is abused a lot but in this context I mean work on something you know you want to work on and genuinel
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by moocow01 15y ago
Some probably mediocre product ideas being somewhat of an insomniac myself... - Job posting for insomniacs - night shift jobs, jobs that require working with outsourced teams, etc. - Application that tracks sleep and somehow deduces somethi
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by moocow01 15y ago
Think this has merit to being a tutorial about getting on the web but while not to step on your efforts it seems like you've sort of built the shell but not the yolk. I understand the the central piece is the problem of insomnia but what i
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A Dying Artist Named Phil(voices.reedmag.org)
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by moocow01 15y ago
Attention Startups, -- great opportunity-- you could be at the forefront of enriching yourselves with the money of America's poor and addicted! Of all the problems out there to be solved this is truly the one opportunity not to be missed..
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by moocow01 15y ago
Personally, the most mocked and misunderstood web service I can think of within the last couple years is Chatroullette. I guess this rule passed over them.
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by moocow01 15y ago
"This year, my New Year’s Resolution is this: I am going (finally) to learn how to code. It’s been on my agenda since June 2009" Hopefully this will be seen as constructive/motivational by the author... but why if you've wanted to learn som
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by moocow01 15y ago
Completely agree... its sad how corrupt the US government is and its all bundled up in official terms that everyone takes for granted - lobbying, contributions, etc. US politics has become more and more a corrupt money grubbing system wher
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by moocow01 15y ago
Its been my personal experience that a huge number of companies (all types not just 'startups') tank after a while (~5 years). When I look back if I had stayed with any of my companies I would have been out of a job anyways. Therefore, I'
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by moocow01 15y ago
This article should be called "Astronomers actually redefine the term moon" If this is the definition, then lets also report that Saturn now has a gazillion moons.
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by moocow01 15y ago
He gets the satisfaction of knowing that a company probably solved one of their problems for free by running off with his code while flipping him the bird.
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by moocow01 15y ago
For people with experience and multiple job offers which most likely are the types company's want or at least should be trying to hire, there is no incentive to utilize these services in my mind. While I'm sure there are a few great applic
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by moocow01 15y ago
Yes, and? ... (yeah I know its sad but I think thats what a lot of these places love to chew up and spit out. Its probably a perfect service for the companies to find these types.)
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by moocow01 15y ago
I would expect that SOPA on the whole would discourage domain registration and the general development of web properties amongst the masses so I'm a bit surprised GoDaddy supports it just from a business perspective. Anyone care to enlighte
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by moocow01 15y ago
Honestly if the human race discovered a less evolved colony on the moon, I wouldn't want to know what we would end up doing to them. Most likely Nike would figure out a way to put them in cages and force them to make shoes every day. I th
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by moocow01 15y ago
Does this take into account people who are upgrading to a new Android phone from an old one? If not it could really impact the metrics if one is looking at this as a measurement of new entrants into the Android ecosystem.
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by moocow01 15y ago
I think in general, being a generalist in any field puts a ceiling on your career path after a while. And like you said the ceiling is not so much about the generalist being mediocre at many things, its more about others getting confused a
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by moocow01 15y ago
I would guess this has become a trend based on the following... 1) Entrance of lower quality, inexperienced founders who want an end product and only know about the buzzwords that supposedly go into building that product. They don't have a
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by moocow01 15y ago
I think there is some truth to that but I'd say the one difference between speech recognition and brain recognition is that speech is a voluntary action you control, while your thoughts have a largely involuntary component to it. Involunta
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by moocow01 15y ago
I would say rather the capability may be 5 years away. Whether consumers want it - I'm skeptical. I knew someone who for reasons I won't go into had a computer that they had to control with their eyes (basically has a webcam that tracks t
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by moocow01 15y ago
Can you learn to perform surgery in one day?... yes! but most likely you will be arrested for murder.
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by moocow01 15y ago
I think there is a somewhat unstoppable direction towards automation but it will probably be shaky and filled with potholes. For example, its been interesting to see the consumer response to the self checkout stands in the big chain stores.
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by moocow01 15y ago
I'm sure people will interpret this article which is essentially a job ad in many different ways but here is my take away from it... In my opinion, 2 of the most prevalent contributors to a toxic work environment in tech are micromanagement
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by moocow01 15y ago
This makes me laugh and also burt a little inside. It reminds me of a pitch for joining a senior citizen community the way it flows. "At first you'll start your day with a good friend doing arts and crafts and then hey look how the time f
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by moocow01 15y ago
You have a good point but to offer a counterpoint, their many problems probably shine through or will shine through in other unpredictable ways. Its almost like having a friend who has a problem they don't want to talk about - after a whil
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by moocow01 15y ago
I and many others would probably like to say to Pincus "Karma is a bitch" but I'm sure him becoming a billionaire, despite the lackluster response from the market, would make that point kind of moot.
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by moocow01 15y ago
Agreed but just a small quible - Zynga just recently became mildly profitable - 25m on 500m revenue which is not exactly a stellar profit margin. So I guess the analogy might rather be they aren't printing money or rather they are printing
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by moocow01 15y ago
I'll agree that most job postings make me puke a little bit and are typically very poorly done across the industry. This certainly isn't all that great but it gets much much worse. One of my favorites was a job posting that started off br
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by moocow01 15y ago
Can you explain what this is besides setting contenteditable to true on an HTML element container? I see some other dotted lines around certain sections when you focus on them but I'm not sure how this is really powerful past just setting
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by moocow01 15y ago
You could try to replace your income with small business ventures and certainly having some cash will help. This business makes it seem like the only way to do well is to hunt down VCs and convince them you are the next prodigy. There are

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