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by sabat 16y ago
Probably still true here and there -- but I would be willing to bet you could get a competent designer on elance to make you business cards and a letterhead and get them printed for far, far less than $750. And that might be the last priori
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by sabat 16y ago
Does not appear to work at all in Chrome beta (v6) on this here MacBook Pro. That or I just don't understand how to start the animation. :-o
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by sabat 16y ago
They're mainly contractors, by choice it seems. But as far as I'm able to tell, things are ugly for anyone who wants to be a perm employee these days.
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by sabat 16y ago
I agree with everyone else: go for it. As long as our econoomy doesn't completely implode, you'll get another job. You will have a great reason for having "not worked" (so to speak) for 6+ months -- you were working on personal goals direct
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by sabat 16y ago
I suppose programming as a particular profession may have this dark secret; I'm not a straight-up developer (meaning I'm an IT generalist who does develop but usually has some sort of hybrid job including mgmt). However: I know lots of 50-s
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by sabat 16y ago
It was overkill, and selfish. I was in 5th grade when Prop 13 went through, and by 6th grade school programs had to be cut, school supplies were all but non-existent, and teachers were being fired. For the sake of what -- big corporations?
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by sabat 16y ago
BTW, don't get me wrong: Heroku is a standout service, and I use it as an example of how dramatically easier it is to start a technology business compared to even 10 years ago. I just have this little nitpicky complaint, that they ought to
608.
by sabat 16y ago
The only difference is, you get 1 'foreground' worker for free That's the differentiation.
609.
by sabat 16y ago
One good reason: programming style (AKA personal preference). Python is a fine language. Ruby works better for me -- but that's just me.
610.
by sabat 16y ago
I've suggested that the autokill program post a comment explaining the reason for the kill. Maybe PG thinks that gives away too much info to spammers and abusers, but I've seen a lot of frustration and confusion here that seems to come from
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Grim numbers point to the end of the venture capital era(mercurynews.com)
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by sabat 16y ago
If a group loses half its men, the next generation can still be full-sized. But if it loses half its women, the size of the next generation will be severely curtailed. Given that we have something like 7 billion people, the odds of losing
613.
by sabat 16y ago
Absolutely the same case in California. Along with other corporate giveaways and general waste. And no one willing to take responsibility for getting rid of it -- they're too busy making deals with the beneficiaries.
614.
by sabat 16y ago
I really used to like that phrase; it makes real life into more of a narrative. Now it's becoming overused (that's not pg's fault). I'm avoiding it. Quel dommage.
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by sabat 16y ago
Cannot imagine why the comment "Skype manages it" would be killed. It's 1- true, and 2- a good point. If Skype/Ebay can do it, why not Google? If not now, I'd assume it's coming.
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by sabat 16y ago
It depends on the company, your timing, and what terms you agree to (number of options, vesting period, ISO vs. Non-qual). If you're actually interested in doing well, you may need multiple startups, and the earlier the stage, the better. I
617.
by sabat 16y ago
The odds are nowhere near the same. Besides the raw odds -- obviously much better than the zillion-to-one odds on the lottery -- you can actually affect the outcome of your startup to some degree.
618.
by sabat 16y ago
A good point that I'd thought but not expressed! Who says any one startup experience will be your only one? If you like startups and the kind of people they attract, you'll want to spend some time in those kind of environments. It's not wha
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by sabat 16y ago
As someone who just witnessed two non-founders of a startup that had a recent IPO become wealthy enough to retire -- B.S. You can do it with stock options (even without an IPO). Tony seems to be making a binary argument: it's not guaranteed
620.
by sabat 16y ago
The Magic of Thinking Big (David Schwartz), from the 1960s IIRC, is great.
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by sabat 16y ago
And it's not like they're motivated to start hiring or anything.
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by sabat 16y ago
The Onion had this strangely prophetic article about 10 years ago: Just Six Corporations Remain http://www.theonion.com/articles/just-six-corporations-remai...
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by sabat 16y ago
You and I read the constitution very differently if you think it explicitly forbids copyrights. I wonder how carefully you're reading. I've cited the copyright clause several times and even paraphrased it. It does not "forbid" copyright.
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by sabat 16y ago
I like this list, but: Human-powered Pandora Isn't that last.fm?
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by sabat 16y ago
there has been a clear progression throughout history of protection from theft There is no provision in the constitution for the treatment of ideas as property, and the guys who wrote it explicitly disdained that idea. That isn't "appeal
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by sabat 16y ago
LOL, at first I thought you meant there was a new JIT compiler with 1.9.2 -- but you're right, this is good timing for those of us excited about Rails 3.
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by sabat 16y ago
I suppose that's a good argument for open-source-style licensing. What you're describing fits Linux perfectly, and I don't think any driver author has tried to pull that. Also: authors are perfectly free to write up licenses that allow use
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by sabat 16y ago
And do you accept/support a limited monopoly for the original artist or inventor? It's right there in black and white. I don't believe the constitution is infallible, but I do think the founders got this one right -- the way they intended
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by sabat 16y ago
I suppose you could counter-sue, but that's not very efficient.
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by sabat 16y ago
I reject the concept of "intellectual property" as unconstitutional. Read the copyright clause carefully, and read the letters of Thomas Jefferson on the issue in particular. There is no provision for treating ideas or expressions as proper

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