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by teuobk 18y ago
...unless you discover the joy of doing your math homework in LaTeX. Beautiful results.
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by teuobk 18y ago
Don't be afraid to ask for what you're worth. On the other hand, you don't earn anything if you price yourself out of the job. For reference, the going rate in Minneapolis for competent contract software engineers seems to be in the $100/h
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by teuobk 18y ago
Exactly. Unfortunately, I doubt that a proper controlled, double-blind study would be practical for this amount of time.
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I'm all for leadership by example. I think that Joel led by example when he was still actively developing code. Hanging blinds? Not so much. Hanging blinds strikes me more as an entertaining diversion from normal work than as a way to sh
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by teuobk 18y ago
I think that #0 should be: "Actually start. Don't just talk; do."
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Is there a chance that you could sell the company? Perhaps the lead management system that you built would make the company attractive. Even if you could engineer a sale that covered only the debt, that would remove the burden of a bankru
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by teuobk 18y ago
For what it's worth, I live in a Vittoria Management apartment in Palo Alto, and I've been satisfied with their management.
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by teuobk 18y ago
How about this: Build things people want (and are willing to pay for).
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I'm probably missing something, but this seems like an opportunity for Twitter to charge for a premium service...
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Slightly off-topic, but another really important thing to consider when evaluating offers is the IP agreement: Make sure that you retain your rights to work that you do on your own time. If you're not careful, you might inadvertently sign
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by teuobk 18y ago
Here's what I use: - LaTeX if the document will have a bunch of equations. - Word for everything else. For me, it's a question of efficiency. I find that I can typeset equations much faster with LaTeX than with Word, and I find that I can
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by teuobk 18y ago
I like Mark Twain's take: "Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn’t do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Exp
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by teuobk 18y ago
I agree. On the other hand, I drive by the Tesla showroom in Menlo Park almost every day, and there never seem to be any customers there. I'm not sure if that's normal for a sports-car dealer, but it certainly looks depressing to have suc
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Ask HN: Is there a state-by-state guide to IP assignment issues that affect startups?
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by teuobk 18y ago
Leaving a decent job where I worked with good people and was paid well. I left to go to grad school full time. I have yet to complete my studies, but my feeling is that it has been worth the cost.
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I agree, prospective students should be concerned with more than the skill of the gardener. However, there's nothing like some beautiful landscaping to seal the deal on a campus tour.
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by teuobk 18y ago
Part of the problem is that, for better or for worse, Microsoft Office is the standard in corporations. Everybody in the company knows how to create, open, and display PowerPoint presentations. Replacing PowerPoint would require a massive
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by teuobk 18y ago
Turn them on as soon as possible. I made the mistake once of waiting a long time (as in years) before turning on ads, and the users were NOT happy campers. They seemed to think that it was their right to have an ad-free site.
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by teuobk 18y ago
"Eat food. Not too much. Mostly plants." -- Michael Pollan
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Part of the issue might be that there aren't many venture-scale consumer-oriented projects left to fund. As a corollary, the low cost of trying ideas and starting consumer-oriented software companies has decreased the need for VC money in
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by teuobk 18y ago
For better or worse, the "piggybacking" loophole described in 5(a) has been (or soon will be) closed.
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by teuobk 18y ago
No. I used to be a devout Catholic, but I lost my faith in the Church during high school. By the time my sophomore year in college rolled around, I decided I was agnostic. Now, a few years later, I have gone the extra step: I am atheist.
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by teuobk 18y ago
What's the typical caffeinated-beverage consumption for a News.YC reader? I'm not much of a coffee drinker, but I'll down 4-6 cups of tea on a normal weekday.
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by teuobk 18y ago
For those interested in a tuition-free, high-quality engineering college, consider Olin College. I didn't go there, and I have the student loans to prove it.
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It sounds like they had their backups stored on a home machine and had to deal with a slow uplink to restore them. A cheap alternative is to use an inexpensive (but reliable) shared hosting provider for off-site backup. Don't use the acco
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by teuobk 18y ago
If you happen to have a tablet PC and a copy of Windows, you can use Microsoft's free "My Font Tool" to create a font of your handwriting. Sure, it requires some hardware, but it's easy and the results are great.