mrtron

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901.
by mrtron 18y ago
Trusting the wrong people is painful - even when you have it in writing.
902.
by mrtron 18y ago
I hope he doesn't decide to go anywhere again as employee #6. I am not normally superstitious, but I would avoid that like the plague going forward. 'Oh you currently have 5 employees? That is too bad...' :)
903.
by mrtron 18y ago
I have played hockey for many years and know quite a few people who have done the same. I can't think of anyone with a long term injury. I suppose it is reflected in 'old timer beer leagues'. There are a few 50 year old guys on my team ri
904.
by mrtron 18y ago
I was storming into the thread to say the same thing. The other fantastic part about it is how YC will become madly rich at the cost of the 'gullible young naive programmers'[sic]. YC takes ~5%, those gullible fools only walk away with 95
905.
by mrtron 18y ago
Fantastic visualization of that data. You should release some sort of library for creating these from Analytics data or however you were logging the referrals. I would love to have a page with my traffic displayed this way - maybe over a f
906.
by mrtron 18y ago
I am in the same boat.
907.
by mrtron 18y ago
Sporadic 40k in a month != 480k/year :)
908.
by mrtron 18y ago
How much is enough? It is really hard to justify quitting and not bringing in any money regardless of how much you have in the bank and how much you spend per month. Ie. is 24 x monthly expenses enough? Even once you have enough saved up sh
909.
by mrtron 18y ago
That is the idea...
910.
by mrtron 18y ago
Get some contract work within the US, and be making a good American salary while travelling/working. Don't take too much work on so you can relax. It is something I have considered.
911.
by mrtron 18y ago
Motivation to stay indoors 6 months of the year? As long as you don't really hate the cold - and enjoy winter sports, the winter is bearable. (yes, that was for laughs, and yes I just thought it up now) It does make it harder to get focuss
912.
by mrtron 18y ago
Hilariously clever, and very easy to create with something like Django's regex urls.
913.
by mrtron 18y ago
What? a) Django is a framework in Python. If you are writing a site in django, you are writing it in python. I don't understand what you mean about 'writing it in django'. b) How is django 'fragile' and how does your app break when you in
914.
by mrtron 18y ago
I agree. However, anyone could make a digg like algorithm trivially. The value to digg is the userbase.
915.
by mrtron 18y ago
An inspirational man. If he can deal with dying that well - we can all deal with living a little better.
916.
by mrtron 18y ago
But I imagine you learned a lot of important answers during that time. I went through a similar situation, and I am still glad I did it. And these lessons are far cheaper in time learning when you can leave compared to when you have fully
917.
by mrtron 18y ago
In the wrong environment a year or two could be soul-crushing. To quote a certain edw519...'One day you realize that you only have x days on this earth and y of them are already gone.' Sometimes options vesting or even guaranteed money isn
918.
by mrtron 18y ago
Great quote...but now HN is pointing to a blog that is pointing to a HN quote. I really hope he doesn't blog about this thread.
919.
by mrtron 18y ago
Perhaps because people's beliefs are so diverse. In Toronto, there is about 8 groups of beliefs (if no affiliation is a group in itself) with over 100,000 members. That is in a city of ~2.5 million I personally find that sort of mixing of
920.
by mrtron 18y ago
A lot of the high tech locks have key backups - so it makes me wonder if they can easily just be bumped too. I want to get one of those fingerprint ones soon - because I am horrible with keeping track of keys.
921.
by mrtron 18y ago
Can you throw NSFW beside that link please?
922.
by mrtron 18y ago
I fear that a wife and kids will be a game changer too. I feel a sense of urgency for many reasons, but that is definitely one of them. There are many others, the opportunity cost to your corporate career for example. The reduced bank acc
923.
by mrtron 18y ago
Just got a 2nd confirmation that mine are gone.
924.
by mrtron 18y ago
I think GoDaddy is sending those out for every domain... I even got it for a really random/unpopular one.
925.
by mrtron 18y ago
I just got emails for all the domains I tried to register claiming they are taken. I really doubt they are - is everyone getting this?
926.
by mrtron 18y ago
Great article, I absolutely agree. I grew up in a farming community, and I worked some of the worst jobs imaginable in my youth. When I ever get angry with software I consider I am getting paid 10 times the amount to challenge myself inte
927.
by mrtron 18y ago
You are starting to sound like a lot of the big web portals out there. 'Let's break an article into 10 pages so we get 10 times the hits!' 'Let's turn that AJAX gallery that loads really quick into separate pages so we get way better traffi
928.
by mrtron 18y ago
I use their product and haven't visited the site in months. I just look at the weekly summaries to get a decent picture of how productive my week was (hours in work opposed to waste of time). Traffic to their site is not nearly as useful a
929.
by mrtron 18y ago
I think this thinking is what got them into a mess. Sure it sounds like a great idea to create a framework, but for a one-off project it just doesn't make sense. I think you would be much better off in that scenario trying to build great c
930.
by mrtron 18y ago
I suppose that selling your app through iTunes is the first example of one of these providers creating a distribution and sales network for your 3rd party apps though. But winmobile and blackberry platforms have been in existence for years

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