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by haploid 15y ago
I am assuming he lives in a Western nation, in which case a decision to forgo contraception, and a decision to not abort, is planning to have a child.
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by haploid 15y ago
I think you may have missed the point of my question. The OP is wondering how he can maintain his productivity with a little sprog monopolizing his time/attention( he was more diplomatic than that, but that's the crux of the issue ). I the
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by haploid 15y ago
What does this even mean? Considering the 18+ year impact that a child would have on one's livelihood/career/business/passions is thinking long term.
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by haploid 15y ago
Downvoted for downvoting a comment that merely strikes a personal, subjective pet peeve. The comment added to the discussion, and the "protip" in question was a good point. Last I checked, karma is to be given/taken due to quality of conten
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by haploid 15y ago
Um. Why did you elect to have a child before considering the impact it would have on your livelihood?
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by haploid 15y ago
I am primarily self taught( with some minor help from my father, when I was a child ). I don't work for any of the "cool" places you mentioned, but I do have a reasonably successful ecommerce business. I did go to school, but I began progr
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by haploid 15y ago
Central banking. Balance sheets have never been larger.
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by haploid 15y ago
This is a question that usually resolves itself. If your SO went into a relationship with someone who he/she knew was extremely passionate about building things, and they somehow expected this to "change", they are delusional, dishonest, or
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by haploid 15y ago
You're thinking 1999. Today it's different. Now you have to have at least 10k twitter followers, at least 5k HN karma, posess at least one Arrington-stained blue dress, and win any number of other Silicon Valley popularity contests. It's
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by haploid 15y ago
You're not the target audience of the article. It's referring more to the people who spend all day hanging out at the trendy SF cafes and going to all the "networking events", waiting around to catch the eye of anyone who works near Sand H
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by haploid 15y ago
I'm guessing the initial downvotes are by anti-porn crusaders, and the subsequent downvotes are because you complained about being downvoted.
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by haploid 15y ago
First of all, stop tailoring all your efforts to a single funding source. If you're going to invest the effort of putting together a pitch, make sure it is generic enough to be used on N other funding sources. You have limited time to brin
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by haploid 15y ago
If you already have an engineering degree and you are numerate, then pick up Knuth and start reading. After that, Abelson/Sussman. It is advisable that you do this before picking up "Learn Ruby/Erlang/Clojure/node.js In 13 Seconds" or wh
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by haploid 15y ago
Hahaha. Oh good ol' post-merger SoftLayer. This is nothing new for them. They have a long history of violating their own TOS and shutting down customers, without warning, for arbitrary and capricious reasons, then blaming/citing someone el
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by haploid 15y ago
The motivation of pro-gun people generally falls into one of three categories: 1. Self/property protection 2. Fun/sport/hunting 3. Assertion of constitutional rights( and sometimes duty ) That said, this thread is in danger of political
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by haploid 15y ago
You won't "come back and finish", or at least it's very unlikely. Your brain will never be more plastic than it is right now. To echo the other comments here, what prevents you from working on your idea without dropping out? Is it the kin
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by haploid 15y ago
This is interesting. We're located in OC, and with the exception of the many "startups" being incubated by entertainment giants like Comcast/E!, I'm not aware of any SoCal tech/web startups. I will bookmark this.
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by haploid 15y ago
I wasn't even aware that there was a SoCal tech scene. Must have missed the memo.
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by haploid 15y ago
Beautiful. This is the correct answer. I'm sure well over half the developed world is currently "in a band". My own anecdotal evidence shows no link at all between musicians and developers.
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by haploid 15y ago
Good advice. And after you're done with the chiropractor, check in with an acupuncturist, a touch therapist, a reflexologist, and a holistic bowel cleansing expert. Do NOT do this until you've had your fortune told by a Tarot card reader, t
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by haploid 15y ago
We did this for our most recent front-end hire, actually. We gave him a two-day project to complete for us, and compensated him with what we thought to be a fair stipend for his time. He completed the project, we hired him, he cleaned up t
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by haploid 15y ago
I'm not sure what your point is. If the parent doesn't follow the VC-driven "get big really goddamned fast at all costs" model, he's not successful? There's nothing wrong with growing a business steadily for 5 years. Speaking for myself,
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by haploid 15y ago
Too bad this site's domain name wasn't issued by the Iceland TLD registry.
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by haploid 15y ago
Where's the insult? You mentioned that you are a journalism major, so I suggested a course of action that could parlay that into a startup job, which is exactly what you're asking about. Excellent copywriters can make very good money, and
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by haploid 15y ago
Why did you go through the expense of marriage, to a woman you have to support, when you can't even support yourself? This is not a troll, I genuinely don't understand why so many people make life choices like this.
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by haploid 15y ago
At first, I was ready to tell you that the answer is definitely no, if you are a genuinely skilled developer. But then I realized that you consider markup and stylesheets with some CRUD scaffolding to somehow be "coding". So I will tell you
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by haploid 15y ago
No, I meant duck-typed. A lot of languages popular with the HN ooh-new-shiney-language-of-the-month crowd use duck typing. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Duck_typing Also, Java is not pure OOP in any real sense of the word. It still has p
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by haploid 15y ago
This answer won't be popular here. If you're well-versed in C++, a jump to Java would be less of a cognitive leap than a jump to the dynamic / duck-typed languages that others have cited here. Java has some excellent web frameworks. My pe
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by haploid 15y ago
I find that WHEN YOU gratuitously use CAPITAL letters in your HACKER NEWS posts, it radically lowers READING speed and annoys THE everloving shit OUT OF most people trying to parse WHAT THE hell you're trying to SAY. That said, I agree that
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by haploid 15y ago
Sure, but that clearly falls into the domain of personal choice. If you make the decision to raise a family, you presumably do this with awareness of the costs, consequences, and compromises that are likely to result. You don't ask for can

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