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by pw 12y ago
I'm very glad to see that PG's departure from YC has led to a significant uptick in his essay output.
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by pw 12y ago
I was thinking the same thing about socializing with tech people, then I remembered that the heuristic was an logical conjunction. It both has not seem like work to you AND seem like work to other people. Of course, for a lot of people unin
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by pw 12y ago
Is it any good?
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Ask HN: Anyone interested in a HN Slack group?
3 points by pw 12y ago|4 comments
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by pw 12y ago
"I realize that many people who do successful start-ups say it was the best thing that ever happened to them. But they’ve also become different people, and they are not the same people they would have been if they had decided to pursue
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Start-ups and Emotional Debt(evanmiller.org)
2 points by pw 12y ago|1 comments
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Heat Death: Venture Capital in the 1980s(reactionwheel.net)
2 points by pw 12y ago|0 comments
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by pw 12y ago
Totally agree about startup culture.
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Hack.pledge()(hackpledge.org)
1 points by pw 12y ago|0 comments
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by pw 12y ago
It's a choice. You can choose to spend time with someone you love and hopefully want to spend the rest of your life with or you can choose to spend time on your business. Think carefully about this decision. One will leave you with som
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by pw 12y ago
For example, I was horrified when I found out that RubyConf didn't pay or even offer cover the travel for their speakers.
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by pw 12y ago
And not only do they offer scholarship money to individuals from underrepresented groups, they give travel stipends as well.
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by pw 12y ago
I've been to RubyConf and, as a Rubyist, I was looking at going last year, but my impression was that it was pretty poorly run (at least compared to a conference like StrangeLoop). They seemed very late in getting sponsors and offered
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by pw 12y ago
I second StrangeLoop. I went last year for the first time (after hearing about it every year) and was duly impressed. Amazing content and impeccably run. Also, it's the most progressive conference I've been. They dedicate a ton of
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by pw 12y ago
How does Transcriptic stack up in terms of price? Is it prohibitively expensive for lots of stuff or is it a viable option?
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by pw 12y ago
Diddo. My understanding is if you're doing an LLC, you should just do it in the state you're operating in not Delaware.
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by pw 12y ago
I'm rather surprised you don't charge more. Do you do much consulting work?
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by pw 12y ago
This was a disappointingly light read. I was hoping for lots of fascinating technical details and a heartening, Apple-esque story of biding one's time with a product (along with an analysis of what technical advancements make now the
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by pw 12y ago
This looks like a fine product and kudos to its creators, but I hate that products like this encourage bad practices for freelancers/consultants. Basically, if you're charging in way that requires software to track how much client
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by pw 12y ago
Looks neat, but I'm disappointed that Apple didn't go with Ruby for their next-generation language. Things like MacRuby and Ruby Motion make it seem like that was a possibility, albeit a pretty distant one.
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by pw 12y ago
This is poorly written and doesn't really have a point. How did it make it to the frontpage of HN?
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by pw 13y ago
I don't know about most startup founders, but I think YC might be okay with a fifty-year time horizon given that Sam said that they invest with an "infinite time horizon" and that needing to raise a billion dollars over the c
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by pw 13y ago
Start by putting your email address in your HN profile. There's plenty of people here that might have projects for you.
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by pw 13y ago
I wonder how much savings we're talking about. I always worry when engineers start talking about saving money.
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by pw 13y ago
Would love to chat with you more about code schools and your PhD to webdev transition. Email me p@pwhite.org.
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by pw 13y ago
I'm very for alternative education, but this trend of for-profit (or, more accurately, cash-up-front, as I think Hacker Schools is the exception) code schools is a little unsettlingly. I guess it's because it'd be very easy f
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by pw 13y ago
And...the site is down.
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by pw 13y ago
Which makes me wonder why they aren't doing the same thing but focusing on Java or .NET.
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by pw 13y ago
I have this too but didn't realize it was a risk-factor for anything? What exactly do you feel and where?
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by pw 13y ago
Get on a statin even if your LDL levels are within the normal range. They're very safe (safer than aspirin, arguably) and effective.

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