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Posted by
puneetht on Tuesday October 12, 2010 @12:13PM
from the ask-hn dept.
Im working on a side project which I hope to turn into a full fledged startup. I need to find a co-founder because the amount of work seems to be growing and I just cant seem to be able to do everything. I was hoping to go to a rails meetup and see if anyone might be interested in working with me on it.
Of course an elegant solution is desirable, however I prefer bloatware that works, over a beautifully architected one that is vaporware.
You sound just like my old pointy haired boss. I'll do with you, what I did with him. I'm going to roll my eyes and call you names when you talk to me, because I know you're too dumb to do my job and smart enough to know that.
This matrix is a bunch of crap. The ability to "get things done" is the most important factor of programmer competency. Every thing else is incidental.
Posted by
puneetht on Thursday September 03, 2009 @03:46PM
from the money.cnn.com dept.
http://money.cnn.com/2009/09/03/smallbusiness/harmonix_rock_band_startup_story/index.htm
As an entrepreneur you never want to lose site of the mountaintop you're trying to get to, but you have to remain incredibly flexible about the path that you take to get there, which often needs to change direction.
This is one of the best posts I have ever read on HN. Kudos to the author
Ideally a patent like that should be denied ( or can be challenged in court) based on prior art. Prior art refers to documentation of an idea prior to a patent filing. So for example a person would not be able to patent an idea that was described in an a magazine , newspaper , or academic paper, before the patent was applied for.
If you want to patent something, use it more as a defense mechanism, so that other people can't claim that you stole their idea.
Hope that helps.
Portland OR: Do what you can to make the world a better place. The Dalai Lama has more street cred here than Larry or Sergey
In the 90's people were saying the same things about perl that are now saying about arc.
In the 90's people were saying the same things about perl that are now saying about arc.
This article completely misses the point. I want to know how many of the non-H1B workers at Microsoft used to be H1B's. And how about finding out percentage of engineers at all these companies. And personally I am so sick of hearing all these BS stories of H1B's stealing American jobs with low wages. I used to be on H1B and I made (and still do) more that all my friends who are American citizens or green card holders. I have green card now, and that hasnt affected my pay in any way.
Posted by
puneetht on Friday November 09, 2007 @01:32PM
from the self-post dept.
In particular how do a recession, rising oil prices, weak dollar, credit crunch affect the probability of startup success. Is this a good time to quit your "safe" day job and dive in head on into a full time startup attempt.
Commodore 64 (circa 1984)
an assembled i386 circa 1994
Posted by
puneetht on Wednesday September 26, 2007 @04:24PM
from the news.bbc.co.uk dept.
Posted by
puneetht on Thursday September 20, 2007 @12:11AM
from the self-post dept.
Robby's NightAt the prodding of my friends, I am writing this story. My name is Mildred
Hondorf. I am a former elementary school music teacher from Des Moines ,
Iowa . I've always supplemented my income by teaching piano
lessons-something I've done for over 30 years. Over the years I found that
children have many levels of musical ability. I've never had the pleasure
of having a prodigy though...
how about allowing me to track more than one project (i.e chain).
Nice work.
How about a keyword based search.
ever since 9/11 the green card process has become excruciatingly slow. There are a ton of CS Masters and PhD's who graduated around. that time. Their H1-B visas are going to start expiring in the next 1-2 years. With no way of legally staying back in the US, all these guys and gals are going to go back to India or China, start their own startups, get bought off by Google, Yahoo et al.. and live happily ever after. All YC'ers beware. This is potentially a new set of competitors for you.
please include Markus Frind from PlentyOfFish. His story is both fascinating, inspiring and so not the norm.
Also.. it may be better if you dont include YC companies, since most of their stories are already so well publicized.