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by moocow01 14y ago
Or just don't live in the SF / Bay Area. If you want to have a crazy runway for your startup work towards paying off a 250k (or less) house with solar on it just about anywhere else in the US. The counter-argument to this is that being in
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by moocow01 14y ago
Take off your undergarment throw it by one wall. Assuming the room has 4 walls this is your marker for wall "0". The rest of the walls going counter-clockwise will be walls "1", "2" and "3". Close your eyes and spin in the room until you
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It is a very specific definition of business - the problem is that the equation in most employers head is as little pay for the most amount of work done and Ive found that this typically is a poor way to think when producing software that r
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"with many unwilling to trade the devil they know for the devil they don't" This is a big reason for me - I will only work in jobs where Im working for someone or with someone (whos already with the employer) that I already have a previous
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by moocow01 14y ago
Im not going to comment or speculate on that individual situation but suicide is usually caused by a pattern of unhealthy cognition that can be changed. If an entreprenuer is considering suicide I would strongly advise them to tackle their
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Thanks - changed
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Probably should have been more explicit about the first statement - I agree that the profession can be transformative by the opportunities it creates for those involved. My first statement is meant to say that I think it is unlikely that a
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by moocow01 14y ago
One thing Ive realized after working in software for a while is that software itself has very little ability to be applied in a way that is directly transformative to the human condition. By and large software is a tool to carry out an ex
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Where do you think the majority of scientific and engineering progress has been derived from? I don't like war but this explanation is far from comprehensive in regards to the economics of war.
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"Instead of including modules by complicated pathing like require('../../../shared/utils'), it’s much simpler to require('utils'). Utils can be symlinked from another folder in the source tree so that you can continue to actively develop it
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by moocow01 14y ago
Its a really good point and Im not going to try and cover up the pitfalls you pointed out. I'm trying to document the reusable core as much as I can because 1) Im forgetful and at times will need a quick refresh 2) Im hoping that I can ope
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I myself have reverted back to doing "everything" myself... I don't use frameworks besides my own crap. The downfalls... 1) stuff can take a LOT longer to develop, 2) sometimes I feel like I'm stuck implementing middleware when I should be
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I guess Im too seasoned but Ive come to really resent all these project management 'techniques'. I don't know of any other profession that has such elaborate and cultish ideologies for getting stuff done. The funny thing is that none of th
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I used to buy into the MBA mentality. Now I really think MBA / todays managerial wisdom is slowly destroying the world. The business climate in most corporations is plain awful and most people don't even realize because they don't know wha
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by moocow01 14y ago
You really think it takes 1 person to maintain iGoogle? In a corporate environment with so many users, business rules and systems/infrastructure I'd imagine it is quite a few.
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I understand the point but the product is in fact a screen in a different form factor just like a phone is a screen that differs in factor from a monitor. I think what I was trying to elude to is that their skydiving demo could have been ut
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I have to agree with this. The skydiving stuff - possibly interesting from a networking perspective - but from a product perspective... I just don't get why people ate this up. It honestly felt ridiculous to me. I'd be more enthused if I
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by moocow01 14y ago
If there is anything I'd tell a new college grad it would be build a financial cushion as fast as humanly possible. I don't care if you are in debt from your loans... build one - immediately. And yes it is hard when you start out. Why? Y
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"For example if you can start a new business with $50,000 then sell 20% of it to an investor for $200,000 in 1 or two years, you’ve created $1m worth of value in that time. Do you think if you bought a property for $1m with a 10% deposit, i
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by moocow01 14y ago
I unfortunately don't know much about steampunk but I think I probably wasn't specific enough. There are a number of sub-groups in the art world and I was more referring about that larger group rather than just those that practice modern a
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The art world is where the bleeding edge of culture can be found. Most of the cultural trends that are commonplace today have origins in the art world. The reason why art is hard to understand by pretty much everyone is that it usually di
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by moocow01 14y ago
* iWork - Cheaper than Office and better in my opinion * Transmit - FTP * Pixelmator - 90% of Photoshop without the high cost but still with a slick interface * Cornerstone/Versions - SVN * Textmate - Code editor * Wunderlist - Todo list *
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Well if thats how its going to be perhaps I'll register a bail of hay and a bunch scrap metal I have laying around as a resource. On another note its amazes me that the term resource in business speak hasn't become obsolete. Your job as an
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by moocow01 14y ago
Firstly, very cool. Secondly, why burritos? From my perspective the form factor of a burrito doesn't mesh with the strengths of 3d printing. It seems like you might be able to get an equally good burrito with mechanized squirt bottles tha
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I honestly am surprised that there are so many intelligent people who are willing to put up with this sort of environment. I really like Apple products but I'd be out the door in a flat second if I was working there and experienced the kin
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I never have understood people's fears about getting on an airplane... this though I'd be scared to death of. You have any unfortunate shift in the tectonic plates (which happens daily and unpredictably) and you could be dead in an instant
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Unrelated but that background with the pale hues makes it tough for me to read. Maybe Im just getting old.
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Preface: I'm an Atheist The problem that I see is the way we frame these discussions. Does the question "do you believe God created humans in their present form within the last 10,000 years" preclude you from believing in science on any le
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Agree - This paradigm plays out in every development effort I've ever been apart of... 1) Project starts out relatively agnostic and casts a very wide net 2) Features start to mature and while you are servicing one use case, you are somewha
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If there is anything I've learned over having a "successful" career as an employed person its that it eventually comes to a point where the benefits of moving forward/up in my opinion outweigh the benefits. (and in my experience this happen

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