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by omouse 11y ago
A cofounder just makes some things easier; you have someone that's available 24/7 to talk about ideas and implementation. When it's just you it feels a little easier to give up unfortunately.
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by omouse 11y ago
well the idea is that you're going to talk to your colleagues anyway for updates, the only person who really needs the daily standup is a manager who doesn't interact with the work all day. it's like being treated like a ch
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by omouse 11y ago
Robinhood is limited to users in America right?
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by omouse 11y ago
Good projects last for decades and outlive companies. See: LibreOffice ;)
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by omouse 11y ago
It seems like the opportunity here for Firefox OS and Android in the future is to have an API layer that's even simpler and allow for apps that are lighter weight. As I read the article I thought, hey wouldn't it be nice if my apa
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by omouse 11y ago
That was refreshing; a regular newspaper publishing an article about computer science. And it does a fairly good job, I wish I could see something related to CS rather than to web apps and startups in the Canadian newspapers.
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by omouse 11y ago
I've heard the word "gay" used as an insulting term at my job a few times now in the last 6 months. The last time I heard that was...online from 13 year olds playing Call of Duty. It's definitely nice to be in environmen
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by omouse 11y ago
Same. It took 2 months to get a Macbook Pro; it took a month to get a monitor (and the CTO himself walked over to buy it); and I ended up bringing my own keyboard and mouse and mouse pad and headphones. I'll end up bringing in my own m
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by omouse 11y ago
and still backwards incompatible with XMPP? greeeat
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by omouse 11y ago
The only thing I took away from this is that more hackers who are hacking on hackathon projects and for-profit code bases should be hacking on free/open source to maintain the spirit of the hacker ethos.
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by omouse 11y ago
Yep, us programmers are usually introverted but more than that we just have never been given lessons on negotiations. Business people have classes on psychology and on how to deal with workers and clients and they have far more social train
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by omouse 11y ago
> When I was in a unionized position, it was frustrating because I couldn't choose to not join (technically I guess I could, but the union and the employer had already agreed that non-union employees still paid 90+% of union dues to
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by omouse 11y ago
That's the biggest problem; when your union caves into the government/corps demands then you get screwed and yet you're still forced to pay union dues and be a member of that union. All the major unions in Ontario (Canada) ac
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by omouse 11y ago
>* I feel like unions are first a way for the less competent to kind of hang in there and not have to try harder* That's a common misconception; not all unions are like that. Some unions do value seniority such as teachers' uni
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by omouse 11y ago
Interestingly enough, the original goal for PayPal as Elon Musk articulates it is that they would end up as infrastructure for all digital transactions which would make fraud much more difficult. All the fraud issues seem to be at the inte
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by omouse 11y ago
It should actually go further down than that.
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by omouse 11y ago
This is why Estonia's e-residency program focus on authentication and digital signing. It should be harder to steal a crypto key no?
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by omouse 11y ago
It's usually a finance dept person who gets an email like this and yes it's a possibility. A CEO/boss sounds like they're in charge and it's sometimes very difficult to question orders. I heard a story that at one p
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by omouse 11y ago
Makes sense; 70k isn't nearly enough to own/maintain a property. You absolutely need dual incomes and it looks like this guy is single.
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by omouse 11y ago
Is there a new c2 wiki where programmers hang out? I know we have HN, proggit (reddit/r/programming), and stackoverflow but where's the coder wiki where dilbert comics are posted every day? :P
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by omouse 11y ago
I wish this would happen in Ontario; I know a judge struck down a non-compete/non-solicit clause in one case but employers still stick that shit in.
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by omouse 11y ago
They're trying to turn into infrastructure. Of course they're supposed to be burning through cash and I'm happy to help them heh.
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by omouse 11y ago
Yelp is fucked; they don't seem to have innovated in years and they've been riding on the whole reviews for restaurants for a while. Expanding into healthcare doesn't make sense unless they split it out as a separate web site
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by omouse 11y ago
You got it right; you either conform to the role you're given or you get out and do something else. The role doesn't even have to be aligned with increasing revenue or increasing customer happiness, typically it's aligned wit
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by omouse 11y ago
Yep, the best reason to use Twitter is that it's far easier to broadcast and it's easy to reply to random followers. On Twitter it feels easier to have conversations and I think that's the core strength, not that it's ju
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by omouse 11y ago
Pretty much this; it's like they've got 90% sales and marketing and business people running the show and the software devs are just sticking around because Stockholm Syndrome.
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by omouse 11y ago
I've been wondering what's happened to all the Perl devs. It seems like 5 years ago there was lots of solid web dev work happening in Perl still and now it seems like a sea of Rails and Scala/Java.
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by omouse 11y ago
> And having a single development job at a big company for a decade isn't some kind of career-killing move... unless you turn it into one, by letting your skills stagnate and wither, which is on you. Working 40 hrs without training
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by omouse 11y ago
Heh, well that's pretty good validation for my idea; another startup is doing it; CauseSignal, hope they do well!
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by omouse 11y ago
> she wanted regular standups even though it was just her and myself for many of the minor projects This was the most hilarious part of my last company; they hadn't hired any coders yet and I was expected to do a standup meeting wi

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