eligottlieb

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by eligottlieb 14y ago
"Stupid and superficial" is a good description of today's low-need, low-investment, small-problem start-up environment.
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by eligottlieb 15y ago
>In other words, you will do what 99% of all applicants will do, even the ones that didn't really want the job in the first place: you'll tell the interviewer what you think they want to hear. Well no, I tend to do the Luciferian thing:
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by eligottlieb 15y ago
Of course you can shop around for a doctor who will diagnose and prescribe what you want. All you have to do is find someone who will completely disregard medical ethics in the name of being paid to give you expensive happy pills.
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by eligottlieb 15y ago
Actually, I'd say the #1 thing not to ask me in an interview is "What is your passion?". Did you really want to hear about my time between the sheets with my wife? No. Did you really want to hear about my love of outdoor Humans vs Zombies
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by eligottlieb 15y ago
Frankly, if you can stretch your degree into an additional year or take summer classes, do it. My primary regret from university (May 2011) is that I graduated in 3.5 years. On the one hand, I had no debt. On the other hand, crunching my
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by eligottlieb 15y ago
If you made $250k and lived off $50k/year, after taxes and about 6 or 7 years you'd have $1 million in the bank. After 10 years you'd definitely have enough to generate a perpetual income from your invested wealth. But that's, again, diffe
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by eligottlieb 15y ago
Take the libertarian claptrap somewhere else, please. The person entitled to determine whether you should take Adderall is your doctor .
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by eligottlieb 15y ago
Isn't this just really a nicer Craigslist with some social-trust components?
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by eligottlieb 15y ago
One of the few things that actually stands to make a difference in this zone is the possible implementation of crowdfunding laws. If small, new businesses like start-ups could actually raise investment through crowdfunding (ie: through peo
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by eligottlieb 15y ago
Ah, the old Giga Drill Breaker model. Easily said, a joy if done willingly, but an incredible pain to make others go through. Group heroism is... difficult.
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by eligottlieb 15y ago
Welp, I need to work more. Google is quickly creating my customer base.
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by eligottlieb 15y ago
They advertise no jobs at all outside of San Francisco and Houston. They base everything on GitHub, screwing over those of us who have been using Sourceforge, Google Code, Bitbucket, or some other open-source hosting service since forever.
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by eligottlieb 15y ago
By that standard, what's not a dead-end job? Today you develop software, tomorrow you... develop more software?
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by eligottlieb 15y ago
>But I just wish more people would have the gumption to say 'I made a big set of money hats for myself, my investors and my employees, and I feel great about it'. It would be great if making money for employees counted as a plus on the
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Deca: a language for high-level programming close to the bare metal.(code.google.com)
3 points by eligottlieb 15y ago|0 comments