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by rick888 15y ago
"It always disappoints me when I hear that point number two is such a successful tactic. I have read quite a few books from people in influential positions, and even today it's mostly not "what you know" but "who you know" Networking has be
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by rick888 15y ago
Being employee #1 is the worst of both worlds. You get the risk of a startup and you most likely will get very little payout if the startup is successful. Most of the people I know that were employee #1 got nothing.
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by rick888 15y ago
It's not about the profits. It's about property ownership, which is important in any free country. If I bought torrentfreak.info, copied everything from the site, and slapped some ads on it, would the owners of torrentfreak.com come after
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by rick888 15y ago
Some might say the tea party falls into the exact same category. "They're just saying it in a way that few people approve of, but if that's the only way they can be heard, then that's what they'll do." ..and I don't agree with it. Eventual
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by rick888 15y ago
I've been logging in and out for the past 3 days and I don't see any new design change. Update: I can only see the new changes from Firefox.
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"who were fed up with things like taxation without representation tarred and feathered people, destroyed large amounts of cargo, and violently overthrew their government." I make a pretty good living and I don't like the new jobs program an
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by rick888 15y ago
"Actually try to understand and address the grievances?" When the people of Anonymous decide to act like civilized adults rather than teen-angst laden teenagers, I might start to agree with you. The group reminds me of many people I see on
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by rick888 15y ago
I believe that Groupon gives refunds, but it still might work with other sites.
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by rick888 15y ago
It will probably have negative effects on my sales. The new changes will showcase digital purchases/downloads and I'm selling physical goods.
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I will be glad when this finally rolls out. I am a marketplace seller and whenever amazon makes any changes, there are tons of other bugs that come along with it and my sales drop dramatically until they are fixed. The last major set of ch
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by rick888 15y ago
I had to rewrite lots of my code because it became fractured when I was working. It was mostly because some parts required me to sit down for many hours to write it out and test it and I had to try to squeeze this into 2-3 hour blocks afte
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by rick888 15y ago
"Only point I wanted to make was that quitting job is not a pre-requisite to having a successful startup, which you were implying. I used to hear that often and naively believed that to my own peril. I discourage others to do the same howev
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by rick888 15y ago
Either the startup is generating cash or you have enough money in the bank to last you at least a year. A year and a half ago, the company I was working for went out of business and I was let go. I had 3 years of savings and I decided to
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by rick888 15y ago
Most of the time, if your startup is a side-project (IE: you have a full-time job), it won't be successful. Not to say that this is impossible. I've found that when you are working full-time on something, your mind is in a different place.
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by rick888 15y ago
Have you ever run any kind of business where you are giving away something for free? People will eventually take more and more until you go out of business. "I don't think that leeching lies in human nature" I think many thousands of years
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by rick888 15y ago
"I believe I was using the definition of value gleaned from the post above which pretty strongly linked value with getting paid for your work. Call it what you will, my point is that the economy is focused on producing something that people
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by rick888 15y ago
It's also because most people just want the comfort and stability of a job.
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by rick888 15y ago
Thanks a lot. Now it's blurred out..
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by rick888 15y ago
Another tip for automated cronjobs is if a job is going to go over the time (IE: if you have it running every hour and it might run over an hour) use a file lock to make sure they won't run at the same time.
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by rick888 15y ago
So, the founders aren't the ones that started the company then? When I say "founder" I mean the person that started the company from day 1: taking no salary in the beginning because the company wasn't making any money, taking a chance for
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by rick888 15y ago
"but all the team are also 'founders' in a reasonable, non-hagiographic sense of the word." I suppose, but who is taking all of the risk? A founder takes a loss if the company loses and wins when the company is profitable. An employee doe
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by rick888 15y ago
1) Business owners will just take advantage of this (this thread is littered with comments that show exactly this). You will get less pay and make them rich. I'm really sick of companies that think I will take a 30-50% pay cut for a foosba
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by rick888 15y ago
It's not surprising to me at all. People seem to expect a large stake in a company where they are just an employee..and then get frustrated and upset when the owners take a buyout and they get canned.
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by rick888 15y ago
I wouldn't work for a startup, unless the pay was higher than than market (since there is more risk involved). I would also treat it as a job (IE: no insane hours). All too often, people toil away their life for someone else's idea and the
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by rick888 15y ago
I think it also keeps you focused and on track. A single founder can easily just keep changing directions (which I've done myself) when they should be focusing on one idea.
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Since Facebook is already mainstream, this isn't a surprise.
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Before I read what you posted, I immediately thought: "This will help my productivity during the day".
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by rick888 15y ago
yes. Hurricanes are bad.
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by rick888 15y ago
You are much better off starting your own company if you want to get to those levels.
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by rick888 15y ago
This happens with every community that becomes popular. As it becomes more mainstreamed. I suppose Reddit has fixed this issue by creating subreddits, but if you look at the main page, it's turned into cat pictures, memes, and stupid joke

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