davidhansen

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by davidhansen 15y ago
it's nice to be reminded that there's a world outside SV/London where people can actually get started (and funded). It's also nice to bear in mind that there's a world outside SV/NYC/London where people can get started and succeed without
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by davidhansen 15y ago
We developers are getting evermore control and power on the internet No, we're getting far less control and power, compared to the free-for-all of the Internet's early days. SOPA is just one example of longstanding power structures exten
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by davidhansen 15y ago
she said yes. We’re announcing to our family on Christmas, as per our family tradition. Congratulations, Patrick.
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by davidhansen 15y ago
Well, you'd be wrong. Speaking from personal experience, nobody cares about bootstrapped businesses. There is no glory, admiration, or external social validation of any kind to be had by bootstrapping a business. The money, the challenge
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by davidhansen 15y ago
Minor nitpick. A spouse, a mortgage, children, student loans -- life quickly throws you all kinds of things that you don't have the option of escaping. Once you've made the choice to get married and have children, yes, you cannot escape y
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by davidhansen 15y ago
but a lot of people similar to Candidate A who can actually code are being presented with questions about linked lists and similar structures no-one who has written code for years would remember, let alone use in their daily work lives. Y
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by davidhansen 15y ago
Yes, and here's to hoping he doesn't do any business with Citibank, directly or indirectly.
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by davidhansen 15y ago
And don't put off marriage. Why not? Elucidation on this point would be appreciated.
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by davidhansen 15y ago
I'm not sure why the author of this article somehow thinks that geeks deny the existence of sexism in geek culture. The reality is that it's widely known and accepted. If the author wants to find something to rail against, he should have
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by davidhansen 15y ago
I've worked in software for roughly 14 years, and I've worked almost exclusively for startups during this time. I understand the concept of nepotism, so I get your point - I guess my question is not really "how do these people keep their j
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by davidhansen 15y ago
I can't speak to social networks or social media tools, but I can assure you that ecommerce has a lot of difficult problems to solve. To a first approximation, it's easy to throw up a LAMP site and sell random crap. Once you get beyond
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by davidhansen 15y ago
The product is probably about 90 % done already, the last 10 % should take no more than two weeks Spoken like a true non-technical cofounder :) Sorry to be the bearer of bad news, but the the pareto principle applies heavily to software d
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by davidhansen 15y ago
The completely honest answer to your question is that I'm not willing to start killing people. Seriously, no troll. I understand that the popularity contest driven plutocracy we currently operate under will never create a sane government
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by davidhansen 15y ago
I'm not calling you a liar, but I'm skeptical about stories like this. I can't even fathom any scenario in which someone more intelligent than a cucumber could behave in this manner. How does this PM manage to get and maintain any job at
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by davidhansen 15y ago
You've also probably seen thousands of variants on "what ever happened to do no evil?" posted to myriad Google articles over the years, as well. Such is the nature of discussion. Sometimes the same idea in a slightly different context is
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by davidhansen 15y ago
How are you defining value creation? Why are investment sizes listed, but not earnings, or even revenue? Oh, that's right. It's 1999 all over again.
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by davidhansen 15y ago
What about product and administrative ? Both are usually large enough to be their own categories, especially compared with something like PR.
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by davidhansen 15y ago
I operate a number of ecommerce sites, so I'll give my perspective. I will preface this by saying I like the concept, and the implementation is clean. Congratulations on your launch - it's nice to see new ideas entering the industry. Firs
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by davidhansen 15y ago
Orange County, CA
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by davidhansen 15y ago
That may be about to change, however. Astronomers have spotted a cloud of gas with a mass about three times that of Earth that's on a trajectory that will have it pass close to Sgr A in 2013* If this is for real, I am ridiculously humbled
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by davidhansen 15y ago
Related anecdote: When we first started, the niche for our first retail site was already dominated by several existing companies. Like idiots who didn't know any better, we went ahead anyway. Fast forward a few years: We now own several
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by davidhansen 15y ago
Interesting, are you in NYC or the Bay Area? In our local market, a 7 year ruby developer would command on the order of $75k.
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by davidhansen 15y ago
Just as a warning, angel.co is completely useless if you don't already have a number of preexisting connections to the angel investing community. If you start with 0 followers, you will have 0 followers forever, and nobody will ever see
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by davidhansen 15y ago
Could someone help me understand the space thing? Specifically the phenomenon of rich engineers and businessmen like Allen, Carmack, Branson, Bezos, Shuttleworth, etc spending huge amounts of money on space-travel-related projects. I, like
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by davidhansen 15y ago
From launch? Roughly an hour.
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by davidhansen 15y ago
More drum-beating about this illusory talent shortage, eh? I'm still waiting to see any signs at all that this shortage actually exists, aside from random "I can't find a rockstar!" anecdotes.
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by davidhansen 15y ago
In some ways we think the 1% are a bunch of undeserving assholes who are screwing things up for the rest of us. We see Valleywood as a huge bubble and, just like Hollywood, it often looks shallow, vain, and like nothing more than novelty f
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by davidhansen 15y ago
Meanwhile, those of us continuing to succeed in the "tech backwaters" of the US will be forever amused by the smug self-satisfaction coming out of the "cool" cities. This little spat being just one example.
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by davidhansen 15y ago
People need contact with people. Usually, but not always. Hermits really do exist.
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by davidhansen 15y ago
My understanding is that he works 13-14 hours per day, 6 days per week, and he takes Sundays off entirely for family time: "I still work 80 hours a week," he admitted to Mark Lisheron of the Austin American-Statesman. "It used to be 80 hou

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