jadams

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by jadams 19y ago
Yes, given a history of testing. I don't want to be the guinea pig, but the simple fact that it's nukuler isn't an issue.
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by jadams 19y ago
60K seems like good money for an entry-level game programming job. I wouldn't count on any profit sharing or equity to be worth anything. If it is, great, but don't count on it. The game industry is organized kind of like the music industr
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by jadams 19y ago
"Love your work" is often just a way for startups and other small companies to extract unreasonable hours from you, with little payback. I've done the startup thing. I've worked 9-5 er I mean 9-6, oh, wait it was more like 10-7:30. In the e
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by jadams 19y ago
They have regional interests, and they need to make sure they can counter any hegemonist's power-projection in the their region.
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by jadams 19y ago
Nice. Rocky's Boots for the Apple ][ taught me pretty much everything I needed to know to pass my first digital electronics course.
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by jadams 19y ago
Nice. Just got two. One for me, one for my Dad. He's 75, and still writing Mathematica notebooks and software to try to help educate people in developing countries. Rock on dad, this one's for you.
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by jadams 19y ago
Er, why do you care? Make sure you do lots of extra-curricular work that you enjoy, and that's difficult. If your grades aren't great, you can show off projects to get jobs. If you want to make your own job, grow it out of your projects. I
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by jadams 19y ago
Not very. Marks anywhere from 40% to 85%. I started when I was fifteen and failed out in my fourth (last) year. Went back part-time about 5 years later, and failed a compilers course after I decided to forgo the group, write the compiler my
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by jadams 19y ago
removes news.ycombinator.com from marketing plan
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by jadams 19y ago
Yeah, it's better to trust a liar than a "geezer". What is this, the freaking Cultural Revolution? P.S. That was something that happened before 1985.
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by jadams 19y ago
Feasible, no. Terrorism, no. Immoral, yes. Desireable, maybe.
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by jadams 19y ago
Actually software is so much easier than any other kind of physical engineering, that ridiculously small and inexperienced teams try to solve fiendishly complex problems. That's what makes it hard.
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by jadams 19y ago
A pointer dereference can make all the difference in an inner loop. As usual, the answer is to profile, then to optimize. No other dogma really applies.
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by jadams 19y ago
You have to pay to visit a doctor? That's insane! I mean, prescriptions, elective treatment I can understand. But are you saying that you actually need to pay just to walk into an examination room?
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by jadams 19y ago
Wow, TV is stupid.
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by jadams 19y ago
I have a lot of respect for people who get college degrees. An MBA is barely a college degree. Compare how much you learn in engineering, or the sciences, to what you learn in an MBA. It's all hype except the networking and resume-filterin
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by jadams 19y ago
Ooooh, unfortunate name. My wife deals with a lot of pharmaceutical names, so we've come up with the 13-year-old boy test for product names. If your product / service / company name would make a 13 year old boy snicker, then find another na
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by jadams 19y ago
What does this even mean? It sounds like something for the Enterprise Market.
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by jadams 19y ago
Isn't that a bad thing?
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by jadams 19y ago
This reminds me of the business card scene from American Psycho. God, I love that movie!
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by jadams 19y ago
So are we going to go back to the days where startups are judged based on how fast they burn through their cash? This seems like an extraordinary amount of money.
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by jadams 20y ago
I think it depends on what you want to do. This is a great place for film / video. It's getting better for games, and of course there's financial services. There also seem to be a bunch of mobile companies here, too. There's a very healthy
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by jadams 20y ago
You've just listed everything you want out of the future (financially), which is a different question. Remember, this is for a 3 month investment of time. So, it's good that you know what you want, but if someone offered to take you halfway
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by jadams 20y ago
Hehe. The snow in my back yard's almost completely melted. Looks like the raccoons and cats left me some "presents". Mmm.
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by jadams 20y ago
So, who's in TO? Anyone want to chat, or meet (at a pub, say)? Going to the original startup school, and watching the YC dinner on Justin.TV has re-inforced how important it is to have a local support network. Even if you're not working on
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Who's In Toronto, Canada?
2 points by jadams 20y ago|5 comments
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by jadams 20y ago
Local subdomains, or groups, a-la craigslist. E.g. toronto.ycombinator.com, or somesuch. I understand YCombinator's rationale for having founders move to Boston, or the Valley. That said, it might be great for you guys to get local foothold
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by jadams 20y ago
Good advice! The biggest mistake I've made in past businesses is to try to do it all alone. That's a recipe for having it fizzle out into an undead hobby project.
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by jadams 20y ago
Interesting policy. It sounds great, in theory, but would be hard to implement. A recent employer gave me 3 weeks of vacation. Great! Never mind that they kept asking me to delay it, for a year because each artificial deadline they created
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by jadams 20y ago
Well, obviously, this is for some reasonable definition of have . The numbers work for me. I'm married, and have a mortgage. I guess I was blurring the line between being retired and semi-retired. Were I to earn such a lump sum, my daily a

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