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by synnik 16y ago
I have no phone. Not at all, not a cell, not a work phone, not a home phone. I suppose this is what I get for being both a hacker and a luddite. But this definitely will NOT work for me.
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by synnik 16y ago
It sounds like your "4 Hour" mantra is really not accurate -- you are spending more hours on fulfillment, and even more on all the posts and discussions. I'd be interested to see what the actual profit/hour ends up being once you take all
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by synnik 16y ago
Does it have source control integration? I've got to believe it does, otherwise you would not have so many users, but I found no info about it...
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by synnik 16y ago
I've sold dozens of t-shirts, ties, etc on both CafePress and Zazzle. But until this article, I never realized that I could have spend an extra 3.5 hours on each of them and been a serial entrepreneur... Which is not meant to simply be snar
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by synnik 16y ago
Yes, you are missing the update at the bottom, wherein he mentioned the readers who are missing the intended irony or the article.
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by synnik 16y ago
I feel hourly rates for consulting could be driven by "hot" skills, but not employee rates. Any manager who pays new employees less than old ones is asking for trouble like this. HR departments should also prevent this, if they have their a
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by synnik 16y ago
The trend for HR to be inundated with so many resumes that the good ones fall through has much more to do with the current unemployment rate than with the resume being "dead"
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by synnik 16y ago
I found the logic of this essay to be less than stellar. He rejects early animal-based experiments on learning, but says that Cybernetics is a more promising arena. But he doesn't address his original complaint, that human minds are differe
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by synnik 16y ago
Fun project. But highly concerning if it gains real traction -- As a general rule, people are only on my LinkedIn profile if I already think they are good to work with. This site makes me turn half of them into losers. That is not a fair as
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by synnik 16y ago
Despite my reading of HN, I've never really paid much attention to YC, but this data makes me ask: Are all YC companies web apps? Are there no infrastructure companies, or other types of services?
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by synnik 16y ago
This is more of a problem in corporate IT than in the startup world. I have seen many projects in corporate IT that go way overboard to ensure their apps will scale. But why? I am working on a major app right now that will have 300 total us
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by synnik 16y ago
This is absurd. What this article says is that for 250K per year, you will meet every single possible financial need, even while paying for a fairly extravagant mortgage, and still be able to save for yourself and for your kids, own multipl
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by synnik 16y ago
I find it to be far from empty, and it helps me in my decisions. shrug Raising good adults does not preclude raising good kids, so I do find your response to be a bit combative. Just because you have one clear goal in mind does not mean t
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by synnik 16y ago
I think your statements are accurate. I was not disagreeing with what you said, just pointing out a deeper goal behind it.
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by synnik 16y ago
But there is a secret: The goal is not to raise good kids. The goal is to raise good adults.
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by synnik 16y ago
Aggregate all the posts for freelancers that say, "This should be an easy job for someone with the right skills. 10 hours tops."
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by synnik 16y ago
Sorry, but this seems very odd to me that a developer would be almost 50% off in estimating their own team size, then post a second comment correcting it only halfway, and finally getting the correct answer by looking at your 'About Us' pag
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by synnik 16y ago
Why are we even having these discussions? If you want to build a business, do so. If you want to build an app, do so. If you want to play games all weekend, do that, and if you want to build a small tool just for your own use, do that. Tryi
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by synnik 16y ago
What "user story" are you trying to fulfill here? Are you trying to be a reference site for worldwide peaks? Or are you trying to be a resource so someone looking for a hike near them can see what their options are within a few hours of the
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by synnik 16y ago
I'm confused - what does a PDF showing their sales pitch have to do with the Google project?
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by synnik 16y ago
Ah, yes, the sales guys -- the guy who visited us seemed very sharp, and we did get a good impression, overall. But he was dismissive of our DR/business continuity questions, and it raised a number of eyebrows, hence leaving us with the imp
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by synnik 16y ago
We got the same impression when evaluating them for our enterprise. 98% of their sales pitch made them sound very sharp, and their technology is impressive. But that last 2% made us scratch our heads and say, "Really?" Stuff like telling us
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by synnik 16y ago
Salesforce targets enterprises, not startups. The users of this service will almost certainly be their existing customer base, for whom it is an add-on to existing services... not a new major platform and expense.
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by synnik 16y ago
There is a flip side to this coin -- for all you know, they interviewed 10 people with 10+ years of PHP experience, and the 2-3 years of Drupal were then reasonably a deciding factor.
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by synnik 16y ago
Please tell me that the headline is not accurate -- I hope that they gain access to the APIs/tech, and not to any actual personal financial data. I highly doubt mint.com's userbase really wants their banking data shared with new startups.
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by synnik 16y ago
There are other services with drag/drop to upload your photos. The one I use even works dragging directly from Picasa, so I don't even have to touch my own file system. From what I can tell, min.us has no other features, so I'm very confus
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by synnik 16y ago
On the contrary, I suddenly feel very good about my salary. I'm right on-track with everyone except for Facebook, while I work in the corporate world. Of course, I work in the energy industry, so that is probably the critical difference. Th
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by synnik 16y ago
Performance -- even if the CSS is the same size as the image, a single CSS file can return all the icons with a single HTTP request, vs having to make separate requests for each image. Even with CSS Sprites, there are two requests - one for
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by synnik 16y ago
I have no problem telling my salary, and getting screened out for it. My salary is in the upper range for my position already, so I prefer to be screened out vs. wasting my time in interviews for a position on which we never could have reac
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by synnik 16y ago
Once you understand all this, you still need to KISS. Going overboard with clever CSS manipulation has two major drawbacks: 1) "Fragile" layouts, where simple changes break the entire UI. 2) Broken javascript - as an eample, jQuery-UI uses

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