SheepSlapper

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by SheepSlapper 13y ago
Yeah, that's how Reddit got off the ground. Worked out pretty well for them. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zmeDzx4SUME
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by SheepSlapper 13y ago
The irony of paying a well known patent troll to get rid of other patent trolls can't be lost on the people at Ditto, right? ...Right?
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by SheepSlapper 13y ago
He says what made it okay in his case: "This job meant security, a huge opportunity to go out of my comfort zone and learn, and countless other 'soft' benefits I couldn't think of. And I got to work with people I truly e
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by SheepSlapper 13y ago
And you're making quite the assumption. You assume that working at PA would be "settling for low pay", when in reality nobody knows what the position pays. Maybe it's low for Seattle? Or just lower than PA would pay if
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by SheepSlapper 13y ago
The irony is, this is a community based around the startup lifestyle. Often that means extra hours for a promise of equity (which, in my experience, isn't worth the paper it's printed on) and lower salaries. But for some reason, t
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by SheepSlapper 13y ago
I'm working a job that pays $100k a year, and I'm miserable. I've never had more fun working a job in my life than when I was working in a PA-esque environment (as far as I can tell, it was a very anti-PC office) making $60k
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by SheepSlapper 13y ago
As a member of those "some people" you mention, that's probably why I don't understand all the hubbub :)
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by SheepSlapper 13y ago
Comedians tend to offend once in a while, it's part of the gig. And PA is smack in the middle of the comedy/video game business, sometimes they might trample your delicate sensibilities[1]. As someone who isn't easily offen
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by SheepSlapper 13y ago
And if your philosophy is truly "work is family" then this kind of job posting is exactly the thing you need to weed out people that aren't passionate about the things PA is doing. A point that seems to go over many peoples&#
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by SheepSlapper 13y ago
Money is just one form of compensation. PA offers a matching 401(k), my company doesn't. PA offers what seems to be a pretty sweet working environment, my company doesn't. PA might have some interesting/hard problems to solve
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by SheepSlapper 13y ago
Haven't we beat this subject to death already? https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6803059
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by SheepSlapper 13y ago
I can't agree more. They're not going to find someone who can do 4 different jobs each as well as if they hired 4 people who were experts in their fields, but what people seem to be missing is the fact that hiring a jack of all t
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by SheepSlapper 13y ago
Not just that, the tiny piece of equity you do have is hypothetical "future money". I've been in multiple startups where you're trading salary for equity, and none of those stock options are worth the paper they'r
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by SheepSlapper 13y ago
That was my trick too, except it was moving in with my girlfriend instead of having a kid (knock on wood). She gets up at 6, and after 45 minutes of her stomping around getting ready for work there's no way I'm getting any more sl
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by SheepSlapper 13y ago
Written communication is hard, and one of the keys to good written communication is leaving as little room for misunderstanding as possible. Using proper capitalization, spelling, and grammar are a few of the ways you can make your text m
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by SheepSlapper 13y ago
I'm with you there, I'm pretty anal about keeping my texts as correct as possible. Proper grammar, capitalization, and spelling make messages so much easier to read and comprehend, so why wouldn't you take the extra few secon
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by SheepSlapper 13y ago
EntityFramework + LINQ is an amazing combo for getting things done quickly. And Visual Studio provides the best debugging experience I've ever had. Couple it with ReSharper[1] and you're in code heaven. At least until you run into
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by SheepSlapper 13y ago
Laravel is pretty awesome, I agree. But if you haven't touched PHP in a while then I'd recommend getting familiar with the vanilla language again first. Beacuse who knows what kind of frameworks you may be using in a future gig, b
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by SheepSlapper 13y ago
Why stop at sports? Let's start bullying people-who-love-music-but-can't-play-an-instrument-themselves! Or how about people-who-watch-movies-yet-can't-act-their-way-out-of-a-bucket? Those people definitely deserve our scorn
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by SheepSlapper 13y ago
I agree, choosing to not be offended is almost never the easier choice, but is usually the better way to go.
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by SheepSlapper 13y ago
No, "not guilty" is not the same as "innocent", for the same reasons as posted above. "Not guilty" means we can't prove you're guilty of something, "innocent" means we CAN prove you didn&#x2
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by SheepSlapper 13y ago
Yup. And?
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by SheepSlapper 13y ago
You're confusing -ist and -ism. Men are better drivers = Sexist Men are better drivers, so let's not hire women = Sexism
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by SheepSlapper 13y ago
Agreed, I work out at the Embarcadero YMCA and it's great. My only gripe is there's nowhere to deadlift, but other than that there's a ton of machines, weights, and free classes.
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by SheepSlapper 13y ago
I agree, most of the time being in a situation where working >40 hours in a week is due to a failure in planning or estimation. Not to mention the fact that, at a certain point, putting in extra hours has seriously diminishing returns. I
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by SheepSlapper 13y ago
/r/loseit helped me lose about 50 pounds, and getting another desk job helped me gain about 20 of those back :) Regardless, loseit is highly recommended.