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by flacon 15y ago
I have built two startups while working fulltime and raising 2 kids. The first startup failed once my co-founder left town, after the business model and app were about 90% completed. My 2nd/current startup is http://targetmobi.com . My sch
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by flacon 15y ago
Thanks for sharing this inspiring story. Having been to India previously, I can imagine somewhat what you and your parents have struggled to overcome/achieve. "They slogged their whole life to get us decent education" I bet that is probably
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Ask HN: Hacker Finances? / How much do you save each month?
45 points by flacon 15y ago|62 comments
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by flacon 15y ago
"50 hours a week @ $25/hour" I believe its 100 hours a week, which frankly sounds absurd. My comment is not ignoring either of your points since: 1. I state the salary will go up. 2. The point of my comment was to realize that making 125K i
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by flacon 15y ago
"You still have to work 100-hour weeks" Assuming they are working 50 weeks a year. 50 * 100 = 5000 hours $125,000 / 5000 = $25/hour Thats half what I make per hour. Sure they might make more later on, but I'm not interested in giving up tha
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by flacon 15y ago
I really like this quote: "The way we measure profitability is in ‘tons of money’." I couldn't help but hear a loud 'cha-ching' in my head when reading this. I makes sense though, having a lot of money in the bank enables a business to make
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by flacon 15y ago
After college I started doing some web development on the side, which really took off. I spent like 100's of late nights hacking and learning. I think there is really no other way to get good or learn things but through hard work. You can e
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by flacon 15y ago
I have a social science degree from UC Berkeley and am a self-taught programmer / Entrepreneur. I currently work as a Senior Software Developer. The best programmers I have worked with over 7 years have not been comp sci / engineering major
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Google sites(sites.google.com)
1 points by flacon 15y ago|0 comments
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by flacon 15y ago
I graduated from college with no loans. Then got married and had kids...thats when reality kicked in and life got waaaay more expensive. Who can agree with me?
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by flacon 15y ago
"Why were you pursuing these loans in the first place?" As much as I wish I had $250K in the bank.... "Did you need to buy a home? Or did you want to buy a home." LOL - as a married father of 2 kids in the Midwest I find this quite a funny
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by flacon 15y ago
"they're just not necessary" I am 29 years old. I thought the same thing as you until about age 25 when someone explained to me that CC's are a great way to build your credit rating. Since I avoided getting a credit card for so long...I had
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by flacon 15y ago
Sage advice I heard somewhere: "Weeks of coding saves hours of planning."
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by flacon 15y ago
If I could upvote this multiple times I would.
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What was your initial tech stack? Did it scale?
1 points by flacon 15y ago|0 comments
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by flacon 15y ago
You should post a link to portfolio/resume/github account to better market yourself on this thread
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by flacon 15y ago
"If you can't do some kind of code, at least learn HTML5, CSS and a little Javascript, and maybe some other server-side scripting languages" But take 5 years of solid work/practice with this to actually know what your doing...
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by flacon 15y ago
It doesn't hurt. Though an impressive Github repo might make more waves with developers. Depends on who your trying to impress/appeal to.
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by flacon 15y ago
Thanks for your answer. In this case the entire company works remotely, similar to 37signals. So its a distributed team.
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by flacon 15y ago
Highcharts is my fav and default charting library. http://www.highcharts.com Highcharts is not open source but is free to use for non-commercial use. I have paid the $80 to use it on commercial websites and client/managers are always very
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Remote Sr. Software Developer salary?
1 points by flacon 15y ago|4 comments
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by flacon 16y ago
"That said, as an engineer being a startup "employee" is a sucker's game. You'll never get enough equity or intangibles to compensate for the risk/effort/opportunity cost." As someone that just left a startup I couldn't agree more...
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by flacon 16y ago
I live in Madison WI. 200K is C-suite territory around here for a mid-sized company. An exec at one of the huge insurance companies or biotech companies make more but that not typical. We have an Amazon affiliate here and mid-level managers
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by flacon 16y ago
"I think the problem arises for PhDs when they refuse to leave their narrow field of specialty" Amen, we have a friend who spent 12 years getting a PhD in Russian History only to get out and face no job prospects. Depressingly, every year h
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by flacon 16y ago
Whats your email? I have'nt found anything solid yet. Maybe shoot me an email thoughtcoup@gmail.com
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by flacon 16y ago
Definitely.
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by flacon 16y ago
Wow! Thats above and beyond the call of duty. Thank you so much.
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by flacon 16y ago
Nope. This is a Zend master: http://www.buddhanet.net/bodhi-tree/images/photos/bodhi-uptr...
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by flacon 16y ago
Hah! Was away from HN for one day and missed those yesterday. Thanks for the info. Thats a long list.
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by flacon 16y ago
Thanks!

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