octane

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by octane 17y ago
I buy Macs because they work fine and I can afford them and I spent far too many years of my life dicking around with Linux on the desktop when it clearly belongs in the datacenter. I don't use Windows because it isn't Unix, not even if you
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by octane 17y ago
It's luck of the draw. Roosevelt students that lived in camp snoopy got a summer camp experience, while Sixth and Marshall kids live in prison dorms.
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by octane 17y ago
Brentwood, Westwood, and Holmby Hills and Bel Air (the areas that surround UCLA) are some of the wealthiest areas in the nation and world , right up there with Palo Alto, Woodside, Stanford, etc. I have no idea where you or any of your fri
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by octane 17y ago
Yeah, I hated school too. It's not ever going to change because it's for the masses . That's its sole and express purpose . Why is anyone trying to redesign the system or otherwise shoehorn exceptional people into a system designed for
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by octane 17y ago
The English speaking world includes parts of Asia, including Singapore and Hong Kong. It also includes parts of Central and South America and Africa, and large parts of India and parts of the Middle East. The sun never sets on the British
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by octane 17y ago
I went to UCSD and did a shitload of drugs and lost my sexual innocence and had a great time for 4 years. Just remember there are no campus parties at UCSD, but plenty of house parties thrown by campus orgs. You probably won't go to any un
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by octane 17y ago
Because they have AntiVirus software to sell.
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by octane 17y ago
People with your type of personality always amuse me because you project so much of your own lives onto other people. I'm willing to bet you discovered breadth of experience late in life, like around age 25-30 - did it ever occur to you tha
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by octane 17y ago
What makes you think this is my first startup and what makes you think I haven't failed before? Not everyone gives up after one. Not everyone is forced to work after failure because they weren't smart with their personal finances.
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by octane 17y ago
People who annoy me: 1. People with web sites that don't go back when you click back, and make you click twice, but then you screw up and click 3 times, and then have to click forward again.
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by octane 17y ago
Simple answer - it depends on why your earlier startups failed.
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by octane 17y ago
> but where does a significant other fit into this picture? It doesn't. I'm not "missing" the point. Children? Don't make me laugh, I'm far too young for that.
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by octane 17y ago
Become a real solutions provider and lease a colocated server and move your clients to it by offering them competitive pricing. You might even make a profit.
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by octane 17y ago
Sure, if you equate "making a living" to "working for some guy who's going to get rich off your work", it's never a good idea to work so hard you forget to live. Only a fool would work hard for someone else. If, however, you're making a co
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by octane 17y ago
> getting more involved in the business side of things sooner Yes times one thousand.
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by octane 17y ago
> think big house and foreign cars LOL what? A big house in Silicon Valley costs at least 2 million dollars, and "foreign cars" is like saying "wet water".
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by octane 17y ago
Rule #1 of risk taking: be prepared to lose what's at risk. Are you prepared to lose your wife and kids? This situation is not any more complicated than that. Any thinking beyond this simple yes/no is your emotions getting in the way of
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by octane 17y ago
People lie out their ass in interviews. They're also likely to jump ship at any time in the future for a wide variety of reasons. Maybe they just don't like the leftovers you bring to work because it stinks up the office. Who knows. It'
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by octane 17y ago
I can't help but laugh at people who don't realize this war is long since lost.
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by octane 17y ago
Because sitting in one spot for 10+ hours a day reading page after page after page of naked computational logic does not appeal to those with feminine sensibilities. We're all fucking crazy for doing it, you know.
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by octane 17y ago
That's called Tcl.
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by octane 17y ago
> I especially don't want to see on HN I think they were thinking the same thing, which is why they started their own website and called it a new name and it's hosted on different servers and has a new URL. Also, the people running it
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by octane 17y ago
You make software engineers sound like children. We're adults. You embarrass me.
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by octane 17y ago
> I am a business guy. I have worked at large companies and managed big businesses. I have started tech and non-tech companies as a founder and an early employee. I have raised money. I have written specs. I have sold stuff to big compa
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by octane 17y ago
> there exist many someones that do like writing things like XML parsers Thank god.
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by octane 18y ago
The worst thing in the world is working with code written by an inexperienced programmer who thinks he has to use OO everywhere for everything . Same goes for table normalization. One of the greatest things about experience is that you k
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by octane 18y ago
MySpace has been around for about 10 years, and make large profits consistently. Quite honestly I'm not sure they belong in the same discussion as facebook and twitter.
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by octane 18y ago
I've tried all these drugs at one point or another during college, and let me tell you from first hand experience that coffee is the hands down winner. It's cheap, readily available, 100% legal, not regulated, delicious, and gives you motiv