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by notauser 17y ago
I was working for a big corporate when I had a start up idea. The route I took was to jump ship to a smallish start up for as long as it would take to feel comfortable (I figured around two years, it actually took a bit longer than a year).
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by notauser 17y ago
If top-of-function comments like: /* Does everything required to initialise the UI (DO NOT CALL DIRECTLY - see class foo) */ Get outdated quickly (without being updated) you have big problems. Equally a one line comment before things like:
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by notauser 17y ago
We generally pay less for phones than the US, we just pay it up front instead of over time. It's cheaper because we avoid paying interest and carrier mark up on what is essentially a loan for the hardware. You wouldn't think it was a good d
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by notauser 17y ago
I'm afraid you are wrong about GSM network support. Integrated chipsets commonly have support for 4/5 bands and EDGE+HSPDA on board no matter what features the manufacturer turns on. In fact there are a couple of really cheap phones out the
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by notauser 17y ago
You are actually describing (part of) a perfect market - a free market is just one without economic intervention and regulation by government except to regulate against force or fraud. (Thanks to Wikipedia for the description.) I would like
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by notauser 17y ago
Plus you are probably in the process of running out of money and how long you get to tackle the problem(s) has more to do with cash flow than the state of the world.
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by notauser 17y ago
I have been using Server Density (which is also free for one host - and more comprehensive in what it does) but this is much easier. Good stuff!
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by notauser 17y ago
Thank you for the good wishes :) It's now 6 or so years later and I hope I have acquired enough skills to at least be able to make new mistakes rather than repeating old ones.
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by notauser 17y ago
That's true of a lot of people in every profession though. We all know bad programmers who last read a book in 1992. I'd be surprised if the ratio of bad:good:great was very different in any field.
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by notauser 17y ago
The irony is that for years Dixons have been the place that geeks go to try out laptops before buying them on the Internet. They obviously decided to pay it forward.
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Business guys: how my first startup went wrong
37 points by notauser 17y ago|15 comments
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by notauser 17y ago
Beware! Tax law is full of dragons and thou art crunchy and taste good with ketchup. If you have an agent or reseller in the US you may be required to collect US taxes from your/their customers, depending on the parties to the contractual r
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by notauser 17y ago
Juggling was recommended to me by a physio because I was getting shooting pains in my wrists. I used this to learn: http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-6366713757585864298... I find it rather good for thinking about bugs, as it's tot
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by notauser 17y ago
NICE doesn't face the same choices as insurance companies. NICE picks treatments based on trying to get the best results for the whole population whilst only spending a finite amount of money. Insurance companies pick treatments based on tr
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by notauser 17y ago
If that was on a CO flight to EWR that may have been me! (If I ever need a job I'm buying a round trip ticket with a 12 hour layover at IAH. Ruby's bar is like one rolling job interview for the extroverted who likes to travel.)
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by notauser 17y ago
He was quite self depreciating about his pre-launch role (button goes over here!) which is in my experience a universally good indicator of someone I would want to work with. (Plus 'button goes over here' type input is actually really valua
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by notauser 17y ago
There's also a rather large amount of anti-nuclear hysteria in there. All plants would have 'burned or melted down'? Sure, apart from the 100% of plants that weren't in the middle of a dangerous test with all the safety systems turned off a
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I was slightly confused about the design of the front page until I realised you had nicely pointed us to the FAQ. I'm always slightly sceptical of companies that are 'just like X, only with an innovative ownership scheme'. What made you dec
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by notauser 17y ago
I agree with your conclusions but not your reasoning. It's certainly hard to write software, but I don't agree that writing software is harder than the non-technical work for a start up. Programming is deterministic (for a smart enough pers
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by notauser 17y ago
Or full time for someone else - only a small number of the professional programmers I know do 'out of hours' coding for fun or profit. The ones that do tend to be restricted to a fairly narrow age range and are working on their own things o
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by notauser 17y ago
After 20 hours: 310 unique visits / 22 addresses captured (7%) 50% of traffic from news.yc - and generally didn't leave an email address at all. Users from other sources were 10 times more likely to leave an addresses if shown the pop up on
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by notauser 17y ago
I'm logging referrers so I can see how much of an effect that has - if it turns out to be significant I'll segment the results.
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by notauser 17y ago
Even if the programmers you know are too busy to help out, then they can at least help with the search. Job adverts and assessment questions written and reviewed by technical people look a whole lot different to ones written by the non-tech
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by notauser 17y ago
Good point, yes I am - It's not going into the live results but I'll put that data up too at an appropriate point. (For the interested the short link points to a tiny Django web app that's doing both the tracking and handling AJAX e-mail up
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by notauser 17y ago
My last day at my full time job was Tuesday, now I'm working on my own projects. It's a lot of fun so far (except for testing in Internet Explorer - this works in 8, haven't tried 7 yet). I wanted to get something up quickly to test my tool
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Ask HN: Please help with an AB test. (Live results in comments.)(theplanis.com)
4 points by notauser 17y ago|8 comments
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What's changed is not the publicly available data, but the cost involved in searching it. 20 years ago would it have been worth the resources required to put a 'search agent' (a real investigator) into the social network (every pub) to reco
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by notauser 17y ago
Not to mention that 105% of the pain of coding for series 60 Nokia devices is the (extensive, sprawling, frequently redundant) library rather than the core language. (Then you get to pick more pain to go on top, such as which versions of ne
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by notauser 17y ago
It comes pre-packaged and set up, with integration for the market (of questionable value) and Motorola emulators (fantastic - the more test targets the better). Downloading Eclipse+ADT separately wasn't too hard last time I did it, but it's
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by notauser 17y ago
I don't know about Aptana Cloud (when I looked at it they had very bad Linux support) but their JavaScript IDE is pretty nice. My current project has (in the development version - cleaned up by the deployment scripts) about 10 source files

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