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by rick888 15y ago
Most people won't think anything you are doing is "real work" until you are making a substantial income.
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I think every developer that wants to go out on their own has the idea to start a consulting company (I did too). I will never do it again because of the reasons listed. I also had problems getting customers to pay me on time (and some at
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by rick888 15y ago
Why does it not surprise me that Germany is helping with new toilet technology.
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This just validates your idea. There are always better ways to market a product and make it unique enough to win over your competition. It sounds like they still have a small team, so if you want your own company, just keep working on you
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by rick888 15y ago
As I get older, I've realized that my time is much more valuable than money to me. I've had a few jobs where I needed to work 12 or 14 hour days..but I won't do that anymore...unless it's for my own company.
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This is the problem with working on a startup while you are working a full-time job...you are essentially working all the time. I can't imagine having a wife+kid to deal with too. This is why I quit my main job to pursue my startup (with a
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by rick888 15y ago
yeah, well pirating software, music, and movies isn't free speech either.
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so..where are all the free speech advocates when someone willfully violates the GPL?
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by rick888 15y ago
I gave up on getting freelance clients through craigslist a long time ago. Most are bottom-of-the barrel clients that want a ton of work for very little money. Either that or they don't want to pay you after you've finished (and want a to
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by rick888 15y ago
I wonder how long it will be before China decides to take away their right to protest and the freedom of the press...
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It is an exchange, but hackers are having a field day. People are realizing what the world realized many years ago: we need banks. I feel like bitcoin is going through all of the growing pains and making the same exact mistakes we already
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by rick888 15y ago
It seems they like to use this term, so bitcoin can claim it's still decentralized. Since it's obvious we do need banks for bitcoin (or a safe way to store our currency) and it's not very anonymous, what's the point of using it again? I wou
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by rick888 15y ago
technically, you are when you are looking for a job. You need to market and sell yourself to the highest bidder.
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One more reason why you shouldn't base your entire business on Twitter or Facebook. They have the power to shut you down in a second.
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IF you want to see a documentary without the pumped up drama, check out "chasing ghosts". Not as good as King of Kong, but still interesting.
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by rick888 15y ago
but you can still get people to your site through any means (not just Google). If you build a Facebook or Twitter app, and either of those companies compete with you, change their apis, ban you, your company is pretty much finished. This i
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Haven't these guys gotten enough? If they really had talent, they would have moved on years ago and started a successful company.
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the news?
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"The passive aggressive thing has been much, much more prevalent amongst nerds, in my experience, compounding the problem" For me, it's been nerds and women.
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by rick888 15y ago
I love meetup, but they never got any feedback on the new design change they made a few months back. Many people weren't happy with this (including me). I think they probably spent too much money on it and there were infrastructure changes
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I don't think so. There has definitely been an increase in breakins in the past few months.
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good, I'm glad. I hope when articles pop up about piracy, more people agree that it isn't just bits being transferred.
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I second Taipei. You also won't have to worry about the government filtering your Internet access.
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"People were misconstruing our acceptance of Bitcoins as an endorsement of Bitcoin" They may not think so, but buy accepting it, they are endorsing it.
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Bitcoins are just bits on a computer and aren't physically taken away like a car or a quarter...so I don't think you can call it "stealing"
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by rick888 15y ago
The problems here with Bitcoin come across as the same problems with piracy: Bitcoin are just bits on a computer. Just like piracy, when we copy bits from one place to another, is it really "stealing"? Anyone that says "yes", better double-
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by rick888 15y ago
How much do you have in savings? I did this as well, but I had about 8 months to a year in savings.
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1Password has saved me so much time. It has a nice search feature that allows you to just start typing the domain (or name) of the password you saved and then click it, and it will auto-fill and login. I am a freelancer and I maintain abou
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further making my point..thanks :-) afraid? silence the opposition
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...you mean the ridiculous amount of people that misread my comments? I never said ALL and I never equated it to piracy. To me, because everyone is so jumpy about it..it means I'm probably correct....just sayin

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