ladytron

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by ladytron 9y ago
You are lucky. I wish I could have just enjoyed college without worrying about food, gas, and keeping a roof over my head. Working to pay for all that as a science major was no easy task. I cut corners and sometimes took too many credits to
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by ladytron 9y ago
He didn't run away when he saw I was reading a nerdy book. Instead, he approached me. Is that your book? He liked my brain. I knew it was time to get married about a week after we met. Everyone else paled in comparison. It took another
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by ladytron 9y ago
Hi, I'm also a big HN fan and I've been lurking around here for the last 10 years. Start your own firm, go get VC, someone will fund you. If you are at a well known company now someone will fund you. Otherwise, expect more of the
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by ladytron 9y ago
They are not required. Many more here who are successful do not have all or any of those things. They just don't talk much.
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by ladytron 9y ago
Have you ever heard of the term lipstick on a pig?
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by ladytron 10y ago
Upvote for Feynman, always
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by ladytron 10y ago
Founder, big data startup 4 kids in 4.5 years Lots of patents and nerdy stuff. I have no hobbies. I don't go to networking/startup events. I don't watch TV,Netflix, etc and I don't have cable. Rarely go on vacation, unl
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by ladytron 10y ago
I'm surprised they kept her around so long. I am wondering why they just didn't bring her in, transfer her to a new team, and tell her she was no longer "a good cultural fit" with the team. In a at will:right to work sta
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by ladytron 10y ago
The same could be said about the corporate raiders that run many tech companies. They leave ethics at the door "I'm just doing my job to support my family". I think people who start their own companies sometimes do so because
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by ladytron 10y ago
Founders don't start companies to live a "pretty good life in the top 10%". We do it because we are ambitious, want to solve huge technical and business problems, make our mark, and change the world. We usually have more ener
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by ladytron 10y ago
Work as an independent contractor. You are not an employee and even if you create IP for your client, they do not own your off time. For example, if you had two clients, they would not own the others ip. If they send you a blanket ip agreem
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by ladytron 10y ago
A Tale of Two Cities, fiction by Charles Dickens
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by ladytron 10y ago
Yes, I believe this is what happened to my friend with the rare disease of late pregnancy. Even though she had a diagnosis, she was on a regular maternity ward. None of the nurses / Drs. Seemed to really want to learn about her conditi
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by ladytron 10y ago
Btw I'm no Dr. But I can read Google. Richard Feynman wrote about how when his wife got sick he figured out that she had TB, but because he was very young and a physicist her family and their doctors ignored him and his diagnosis. He a
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by ladytron 10y ago
I recently diagnosed a rare disease of late pregnancy, Choleostasis, in one of my friends at 34 weeks. She had been complaining of itching. Google and reading a bunch of research papers made me 95% sure of the diagnosis. I sent her to the h
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by ladytron 10y ago
Go somewhere that has very little technology - maybe where there are a lot of older people or poor people. Analyse the market and see if you can automate something or streamline a process with technology. Look for problems in a low tech are
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by ladytron 10y ago
Let all of us know! We will have an auction!
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by ladytron 10y ago
I recently tried the Abaris life expectancy app and was pleasantly surprised when they estimated I will live to be 96 years old. Even if they are off by 10 years, it's still pretty good. Assuming the last 5 years are a wash due to deme
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by ladytron 10y ago
I'm curious about your experience selling patents. Are you an attorney or the founder of a startup? It is very rare to hear of anyone who successfully sold an IP portfolio, and I'm guessing you were either the inventor, or the ove
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by ladytron 10y ago
I understand. You carry your experiences on your back, in your mind. I wonder if you COULD document that in a physical way though, maybe build a website using a free host like Wix.com loaded with photos from around the world, organized chro
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by ladytron 10y ago
Not yet. Every time I see someone at my local coffee shop with a real dead tree book I ask them about it. I just found a book today at the thrift store called "Women of the West" which is full of photographs and diary entries from
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by ladytron 10y ago
Also my dream. I already have a collection of about 5000 or so books taking over my house. There are bookshelves on every wall. If I ever cash out of the startup game I'm setting up a private membership library / bookstore. I alre
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by ladytron 10y ago
Fascinating! You are living an interesting life. It is fun to read about how different everyone's experiences are.
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by ladytron 10y ago
I want to read excellent books. Not articles online, but BOOKS. I read enough computer science in the day job, so I want to read anything BUT CS. Biography, novels, art, math, etc.I want to get lost in good reading.
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by ladytron 10y ago
Go find your favorite busy coffee shop ( I know Seattle has good ones). Bring a real book and a magazine you like (not a kindle or an ipad). Sit in an open place or community table, and half read your book, making sure that people can see t
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by ladytron 10y ago
My firm was referred to a firm that needed us through the leader of the local Python user group. The client needed us to review code and act as a witness in a court case on very short notice. It was interesting work, but a bit frightening o
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by ladytron 10y ago
I love Hacker News.
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by ladytron 10y ago
Frank Gilbreth set up a dictation machine for Lillian Gilbreth so she could dictate management books while she was breastfeeding... I think in the 1930's :-).
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by ladytron 10y ago
This post is written for that .1% then, and probably not for you. Founders are very different people, with very different energy levels and risk profiles than the general population, or even the population of startup employees. Some of us C
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by ladytron 10y ago
Who are you to judge her priorities? Watching an infant can be brain numbingly tedious, and so can sitting in waiting rooms for hours at a medical office. Maybe the startup gives her husband a positive distraction to focus on instead of his

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