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Re:Why Good Developers Are Promoted into Unhappiness (2007) by mooreds on Sunday April 28, 2019 @08:19AM (#19770724)
> You really think that you can spend most of your time designing and coding as a contractor or start-up founder?

Sure, if you don't mind failing. :)

I agree with blub. Coding and designing is part of a startup but if you spend a second more doing that than you have to, you are setting your company up to fail. Instead you should be talking to customers and churning out whatever the absolute minimum code is that will validate your market.

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Re:Why Good Developers Are Promoted into Unhappiness (2007) by wjossey on Sunday April 28, 2019 @01:37PM (#19772425)
I spend a huge amount of time coding as a startup founder, but also a huge amount of time doing 10 other things too. Owning your own business tends to mean doing a lot of everything, with coding just being one of those things.
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