toxicflavor

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by toxicflavor 16y ago
I guess it depends where you are in life and how valuable a potential learning experience with a good team might be for you. My feeling is there is no greater motivator for learning than when the problems you face may have a direct bearing
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by toxicflavor 16y ago
There's something about the feeling of self-determination - directing your own fate - that makes the hard work of your own startup more tolerable, even if, from a mathematical standpoint, you would profit more from working for someone else.
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by toxicflavor 16y ago
Absolutely. But there's something about being "overworked and underpaid" on your own startup that's easier to stomach.
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by toxicflavor 16y ago
Questions about IP rights for side projects only becomes an issue if your outside work is traceable to you. There's not much discussion in that thread of flying under the radar.
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by toxicflavor 16y ago
I would say the only startup worth working on is your own. Working at someone else's startup is a recipe for getting exploited - overworked and underpaid. And the worst thing about it is that it's all couched in an atmosphere of guilt trips
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by toxicflavor 16y ago
I don't know what comes over people when they are faced with the prospect of interviewing someone. For every interviewer it seems there's a unique crackpot theory on how to hire people. And, to be honest, I myself have given some dreadful i
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Why did ListAndPlay voluntarily close after receiving music industry approval?(nelic.posterous.com)
1 points by toxicflavor 16y ago|0 comments
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by toxicflavor 16y ago
I would say the only startup worth working on is your own. Working at someone else's startup is a recipe for getting exploited - overworked and underpaid. And the worst thing about it is that it's all couched in an atmosphere of guilt trips
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Gliese 581 g(en.wikipedia.org)
1 points by toxicflavor 16y ago|1 comments
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by toxicflavor 16y ago
A voyeur's dream come true.
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Economic consequences of removal of Sunrise, FL from Google maps(news.bbc.co.uk)
1 points by toxicflavor 16y ago|0 comments
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by toxicflavor 16y ago
But be prepared to answer questions about a hearing disorder.
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by toxicflavor 16y ago
From where I'm standing NYC has no recognizable shortage of young technical talent. Hackers from Carnegie Mellon & MIT don't need to be "bussed in" because they're already drawn to NYC in droves, as are young people from all areas of th
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by toxicflavor 16y ago
Inhert it.
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by toxicflavor 16y ago
Eric Schmidt's comments are being taken out of context. His statements were a warning that unless young people particularly start taking their online privacy seriously, they may be left with no recourse for erasing their online past, short
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by toxicflavor 16y ago
Unfortunately this is not a uniquely American problem. I think you can easily extrapolate this to at least most of the developed economies.
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by toxicflavor 16y ago
Another explanation for why Bogen Communications is not hiring might have to do with their declining financials: http://www.bogen.com/aboutus/financials/#historical
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by toxicflavor 16y ago
Superuser.com and ubuntuforums.org have worked well for me.
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by toxicflavor 16y ago
Nice story. However, I think you are mistaken if you somehow believe this anecdote somehow disproves the idea that some people don't have the choice to make a living in any other way except through crap work, no matter how reluctant their d
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by toxicflavor 16y ago
"There is an art to everything it's just a matter of finding it and you can learn a great deal from even the most tedious work." Go down to your local sweatshop and try telling that to some of the people working there. See what they have
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by toxicflavor 16y ago
It's not a false dichotomy. It's not true to say that life is too short to spend doing crap work because some people don't have the choice to make a living in any other way, no matter how reluctant their decision is and no matter how much i
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by toxicflavor 16y ago
Except my point is that you can still improve the world around you (create value) even if your work does not do so. In that sense, maintaining your own survival is also a means of creating value. On the other hand, you seem to define "creat
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by toxicflavor 16y ago
Then we disagree on the value of staying alive irrespective of one's productivity level.
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by toxicflavor 16y ago
Nice design - shouldn't be too surprising for a design-oriented site. But it's a pleasing and simple use of Blueprint CSS. Just one question: I don't understand why Wufoo Form Builder was needed for the signup flow. Why not just add a form
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by toxicflavor 16y ago
And life can be even shorter if you don't.
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by toxicflavor 16y ago
It enables freedom in choices but doesn't become the reason I make choices. Well isn't that nice for you? Too bad it's not true for everyone.
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by toxicflavor 16y ago
Do you have a better suggestion?
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by toxicflavor 16y ago
In an ideal world perhaps. In the real world, sometimes you just have to suck it up to avoid an even more desperate situation. I think it's clear that's what he did.
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by toxicflavor 16y ago
Exactly. That's what it means to do what you have to do when all things are not equal. When you can pay your bills you can afford to get choosy about work, but not everyone has that privilege. He played the game he needed to play to avoid a
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by toxicflavor 16y ago
Staying alive and being able to pay the rent is creating value too.

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