tastybites

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by tastybites 16y ago
Thanks for explaining America, captain obvious. I said "What's funny" because it's supposed to be a joke.
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by tastybites 16y ago
What's funny is most of the people in Indiana ... are German.
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by tastybites 16y ago
I've been here for years, they kept deadbanning my original accounts because I say things people disagree with. I imagine it'll happen again fairly soon. By the way, your average karma is kind of low, you might want to try bringing that up
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by tastybites 16y ago
Is Vanity Fair really the best place to air this kind of grievance against wealth and decadence?
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by tastybites 16y ago
This kind is logic might work with coca cola stock but it certainly doesn't with apple. How do you measure the roi of a Mac Pro?
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by tastybites 16y ago
So what if they call you lazy? Are you going to stop getting invited to the parties they are too busy studying to go to?
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by tastybites 16y ago
You can get any of the sauces they put in the burgers on the side to dip your fries into also. On a related note, I recently at at 5 guys and it was 2x as expensive and about 1/2 as good as in-n-out. Anyone who says it's better is absolute
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by tastybites 16y ago
Continue running my company, probably.
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by tastybites 16y ago
Cognitive dissonance of realizing a lowly engineer (you know, something those immigrants do) can make more than an attorney. Apparently he wasn't paying attention during the last 20 years.
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by tastybites 16y ago
I hear people whine about their VPS hosting costs at the same time as enjoying $100 of booze and cheese at the bar.
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by tastybites 16y ago
I swear half of the web is just re-implementing stuff like IRC and finger and ytalk that have been around for nearly a quarter century. Wish I had realized this 10 years ago.
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by tastybites 16y ago
They do, but camouflage themselves as private equity firms.
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by tastybites 16y ago
Even small-scale stuff that nobody writes articles about like putting a personal guarantee on a 2-year commercial office lease or a line of credit qualifies as sacrifice and is actually quite risky. I'd offer a small edit on the premise and
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by tastybites 16y ago
Do you have an e-mail address? I think we can help you out - I run a managed hosting company and would like to offer you some help as a member of the HN community.
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by tastybites 16y ago
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1972_Nixon_visit_to_China
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by tastybites 16y ago
Glad they chose 'pipe' over 'hose'.
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by tastybites 16y ago
I would also add - sometimes a smart person just doesn't give a damn about impressing others. When I deliberately dis-engage in uninteresting conversations with "smart people" I can see them judging me immediately. Sometimes I just don't w
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by tastybites 16y ago
They generally remember to shower every so often Oh, come on.
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by tastybites 16y ago
So people are voluntarily buying and putting tracking devices on their wrists to update Mark Zuckerberg with their location in real time?
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by tastybites 16y ago
Somebody should make one for pictures of corporate stock art. You know, the glass skyscraper shot, the white-guy-wearing-glasses-standing-over-laptop, the empty board room with leather chairs, etc...
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by tastybites 16y ago
Those people aren't creating a startup in a weekend, they're creating a web app in the weekend. There's a big difference. Web apps don't need legal structure, a brand identity, customers, revenues, profits, hell they don't even need a name
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by tastybites 16y ago
A private office is very different than working from home, I'm not sure why that's the same option.
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by tastybites 16y ago
In school (UC system) I met people who are now doctors, CPAs, attorneys, investment bankers, top engineers, scientists, and various PhD candidates. I also learned that their parents are a variety of very accomplished and impressive people.
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by tastybites 16y ago
Not sure that really matters. They offer a service, it was down, there was a shitty response. This is an indictment of the response to the downtime, not the fact that downtime occurred. Downtime occurs in every computer system.
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by tastybites 16y ago
the right niche It doesn't even have to be a niche. If you provide basic infrastructure stuff (email, hosting, IT, whatever) there's billions to be made on business customers. It really just comes down to marketing and sales prowess and
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by tastybites 16y ago
The way to make the pain stop No, the way to make the pain stop (and when I say pain, I mean hours and hours of downtime) is to work with a real managed hosting vendor that cares about your servers and your business, and to move your miss
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by tastybites 16y ago
Sometimes I forget that there's entire armies of geeks that do crazy complex things other than compyooterz.
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by tastybites 16y ago
HTML/CSS is a standard - you can't tell what generated it because it's all the same, unless it sucks. URL structure will give you clues sometimes.
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by tastybites 16y ago
Not that I'd know, but it must be a lot of fun lurking in the shadows/periphery with a bunch of mysterious money. It's the hedge fund vs. web startup mentality :)
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by tastybites 16y ago
A nice place to live, a nice car, and frequent restaurant meals. Easily done once you escape the gripping fear going broke and never making money ever again (irrational).

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