acid_bath

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by acid_bath 16y ago
I agree that hanging out with the Wall Street types, going to Wall Street bars, and living in Wall Street apartments probably skewed his perception of NYC's tech scene greatly. But, hackers like myself who hang out with hacker types, go to
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by acid_bath 16y ago
Brooklyn reminds me a lot of Boston, tech-scene wise. There's a plenty of computer programmers around and a fair number of of young entrepreneurs, not to mention a startups located there. I know a few bars frequented by coders and there a
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by acid_bath 16y ago
Rock on man :) If that makes you happy, rock on. My motivation for posting my wall of text is that I just don't think his problem is external. Maybe external changes will prompt some introspective changes, maybe it won't, I just genuinely
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by acid_bath 16y ago
NYC rates, yep. I'd make significantly less elsewhere. Three things: NYC is expensive. A 6 pack of crummy beer is $14 across the street from my office, and a studio in Harlem is still $2,000/mo. Realistically, $100k/year in NYC is like $60
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by acid_bath 16y ago
> It's not the environment that matters, it's the change of environment. That's a good point. I think as long as a person doesn't put too much hope into the idea that the environment itself is going to force changes upon oneself, it's
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by acid_bath 16y ago
I'm going to offer a counter-point to your suggestion: I don't believe changing the external environment, or income, or people who you are near, is going to do jack shit. Here's why: I feel exactly like the OP. Failed weight loss. Fail
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by acid_bath 16y ago
> we prompt them to share their new page with friends immediately after signup Does this actually work? I've seen a few places that do this but I've always assumed it's probably a poor performer (and makes your site looks spammy) becau
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by acid_bath 16y ago
> Second, and this is the most important point, because it's come up again and again in the comments, he is consistently missing deadlines and has failed to be very productive. So I wrote a pretty harsh post previously before this littl
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by acid_bath 16y ago
EDIT: followup - http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1469271 Old post: I think the OP should be thankful his dev doesn't walk. If I partnered up with some biz guy who demanded I show up early for no other reason than appearance I'd assum
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by acid_bath 16y ago
I know it's just a GIMP script but I was pretty impressed at how well the returned image was. My only advice is to make the instructions clearer. It's quite a simple idea "send a whiteboard photo to XYZ, get a clean version back" but I had
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by acid_bath 16y ago
> I have no hard data to back this up, but I strongly suspect that your average woman in her 20s is FAR more likely to be at least partially dependent on a husband or parents than a man of the same age. Careful with your selection bias,
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by acid_bath 16y ago
Depends a lot on cost of living. For example, I'd never work for as low as $50/hr unless I was very desperate, but I also live in NYC. Typical contractor wages seem to be about $100/hr depending on YOE and type of work.
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by acid_bath 16y ago
CS isn't a degree that teaches you how to program. For me it was much more like a discrete mathematics degree. I learned probably hundreds of algorithms (compression, cryptography, 3D rendering, AI), how to analyze and create new algorith
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by acid_bath 16y ago
I will definitely use this. Going to install it when I get home [no Mac at work :( ].
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by acid_bath 16y ago
You sound like me. By changing jobs about ~6 times, I've gone from $16k/yr "assistant to the intern DB administrator" to well over six figures. Every job change was either because the job was gone (startup going under) or a very substanti
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by acid_bath 16y ago
"You’re in it more for yourself than your company." What a delusional asshole. If anyone says they care more about a company (and in turn the success of the shareholders) over their own success, they're lying. Anyone who expects this is
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by acid_bath 16y ago
Really? _Really?_ You really think that there exist enough "incredibly intelligent" people to fill every tech role in existence? Sure, every company can _ask_ for the top 1%, but unless they're delusional they're going to have to deal with
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by acid_bath 16y ago
> I think that a startup is not the place for that kind of person. I just want incredibly intelligent, competent people who are opinionated but value each other as well. Well good luck then to you, sir. If you find that Perfect Employe
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by acid_bath 17y ago
It's not a conspiracy if they're right in the open about it. They're praising a platform that does not exist yet, and what do you know, they have an app that will be available (for $$$) at launch. I don't mean to imply it some Big Evil Con
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by acid_bath 17y ago
What a surprise: A media outlet looking to stay afloat lauds the unreleased platform they hope to monetize.
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by acid_bath 17y ago
Maybe I overreacted, but the article does make some pretty big claims: needing an entirely new version of a site just for non-mouseover browsers? C'mon... Re-tooling your site so that it's not dependent on mouse-overs, fine. Making a "th
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by acid_bath 17y ago
> in the short term it's going to require building versions of sites specifically for them. Or re-think their design choices in the first place (which is of course building a new version, but perhaps not specifically for touchscreens).
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by acid_bath 17y ago
For the older crowd on HN: How much of ageism is real, and how much is in your head? I only ask because all the places I've worked at have had a lot of older programmers, at least in their mid 30s up to mid 50s being the typical range. The
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by acid_bath 17y ago
> I wish more people would do that. There aren't enough of us. Ehh... I'm pretty glad we're in short supply. Makes it very easy to just walk into (or out of) a job even in a poor economy and raises my wages to levels I feel guilty for
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by acid_bath 17y ago
Not that I'd do this, but I can at least see the appeal. Just about everyone who wasn't a "big name" that I've contracted for has dicked me in some way. Demanding more work before payment, or dropping off the face of the earth, or "sudden
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by acid_bath 17y ago
Eh, I think it's a solution in search of a problem. Other than looking cool, if you timed yourself, I bet it's much faster to just type it. (on my mac): Cmd + L type "gm" (gmail.com is now highlighted in the dropdown because it's one of the