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Ron Johnson's New Startup Enjoy Technology(wired.com)
8 points by richardjordan 11y ago|0 comments
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by richardjordan 12y ago
There's definitely inherent bias in much of the interviewing process, whether deliberate or not, for many tech startups. But there's also a high degree of bias once inside them. Older engineers with families often can't reall
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by richardjordan 12y ago
The last point is key, and overlooked by young insecure startup hirers too often. Hire smart people with good work ethics that play nice with others. Having built technical teams numbering in the dozens this is literally the ONLY strategy t
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by richardjordan 12y ago
So, a few years back, as a non-technical founder I lost my technical co-founder in back-to-back startups. This was not a great experience, and made me decide to never be dependent on someone else for getting initial product out the door. I
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by richardjordan 12y ago
...having been in several organizations in recent years which are challenged to find enough people, everyone says 3-5 years, but everyone will hire someone with obvious talent, a portfolio of stuff on Github and enthusiasm to learn, at much
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by richardjordan 12y ago
Barely employable? ...Ruby/Rails/Full Stack jobs are so hard to fill it's insane. Starting salaries are in the $130-150k range for mid-level $150k plus for senior and even junior level is a six figure gig. Sure it'll tak
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by richardjordan 12y ago
Hackathons are a good way to make yourself try to build something in a short space of time with a new language which can teach you more about it than any amount of lessons.
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by richardjordan 12y ago
How terrible is wisdom when it brings no profit to the wise -- Sophocles :-)
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by richardjordan 12y ago
yeah the selective hackathon is a relatively new thing and kinda stupid - like hackathon organizers have some magic formula for picking winners... dumb idea
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by richardjordan 12y ago
I think a key part of the question though is the fact that it didn't used to be just entry level devs and college students at hackathons.
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by richardjordan 12y ago
You aren't wrong. I've been going to hackathons for many years and there's been a steady increase in folks who are going "to win" rather than folks going for the fun, the energy, the comradeship. Meeting other smart
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by richardjordan 12y ago
great tl;dr
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by richardjordan 12y ago
10 PRINT "HELLO WORLD" 20 GOTO GUANTANAMO BAY
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by richardjordan 12y ago
This is what the whole article says - the title is merely more layman-friendly wording.
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by richardjordan 12y ago
...also regarding his final point about the speed of light - of course special relativity which explains this is similarly a generalization of older theories such as Galilean relativity. If you look at the work of Feigenbaum - e.g. http:&#
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by richardjordan 12y ago
Per the footnotes at the bottom this builds on the work of Hardy a few years ago, who demonstrated that QM could easily have been derived by Victorian era mathematicians as a generalization of probability theory available at the time. While
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Tesla Museum fund-raiser teeshirt by the Oatmeal(teespring.com)
1 points by richardjordan 12y ago|0 comments
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by richardjordan 12y ago
I don't think you're correct here. The stresses of being an entrepreneur take a tremendous toll and given the risk-taking nature of the condition (entrepreneurialism) I absolutely see those stresses lead to dangerous and addictive
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by richardjordan 12y ago
Thanks for at least having the decency to give people notice and a chance to download everything. I still remember the shameful way in which Dailybooth handled its loss of interest in the space by leaving everyone hanging...
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by richardjordan 12y ago
Wow that was a lame attempt at humor. Not remotely funny. Not realistic enough to be satire. Why even bother?
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by richardjordan 12y ago
Love this. Always looking up movie quotes.
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by richardjordan 12y ago
This is great. Nice work.
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by richardjordan 12y ago
Exactly right. It's great to see a company which is growing fast, generating real revenue and quietly establishing itself as one of the most exciting startups in the valley, giving back like this. Note to founders - this is the kind of
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by richardjordan 13y ago
Started programming on an Apple II which I still own, in 1983 aged 11. I'm 42 now so that's 31 years. You'd need to have started at 4. Plus by the mid eighties it's not like this was that rare. My school had rooms of com
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by richardjordan 13y ago
No. It's not more net taxes. It's a change in the tax rate so the basic income is clawed back at the high end. Doesn't change tax out of pocket.
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by richardjordan 13y ago
Okay how about: ...while I see no benefit to my argument in needlessly being rude and questioning the intentions of YC on this topic in the comments section of their in house news organ... Clearer? I think you'll find I clearly state t
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by richardjordan 13y ago
Yeah, that's absolutely the concern with this kind of approach. While I am confident in the good intentions of YCombinator, you can't do a program just for one incubator, and then you have to select them, and some bad ones would g
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by richardjordan 13y ago
The domain name industry is a dirty scummy dishonest business. There isn't a company one can deal with that at some point won't make you feel like you're forced to work with crooks just to get an online presence.
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by richardjordan 13y ago
Ah. So THIS is how you juice your stack overflow ranking. Good to know.
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by richardjordan 13y ago
Wow that's pretty awesome. We need to take a look at that when ready to make a funding run.

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