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So as I've mentioned, I've done this before without the "work for myself" part. Twice actually.

One of the contacts I made today was the only technical recruiter I've ever met that understands the industry he caters to. I'm looking on my own, but he has a nose for finding much better than average gigs. I'm not relying on him, but he has exclusive access to a fair number of decent companies which quickly broadens my search.

Managers can't complain. Heck, one of the partners went out of his way to write my review. Partners don't write reviews. He did it to make a point. However, constantly going the extra mile has me physically and emotionally exhausted, and I see no chance for relief until mid-2011.

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I keep my foundation expenses to a minimum, and normally save 30-40% of my paycheck, but numerous mishaps this year have effectively wiped out most of this year's efforts. My health is currently of concern (despite being in my late 20s and reasonably good physical fitness), so that's what's giving me pause as I investigate those options. That and sacrificing my bonus and 401K match (7% of compensation), though at this point I'm willing to eat that.

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The intention is mobile games. It's something I can do entirely by myself, save for paying a college student for help with the first year or two of getting my tax nonsense in order. No direct customers to deal with. Tools and hardware that doesn't suck. Development costs are negligible. I have a detailed concept, and overall complexity isn't much more than something out of the NES era -- much of the effort will be re-learning my drawing skills, and incessant polishing. The overall scope is very realistic for a single person to push out in 4 months.

Originally the plan was to release on the side with the hope of eventually covering most, if not all, of my foundation expenses so I can save more aggressively. However stress has me past my breaking point -- I'm already broken. I doubt more work is an ideal solution, but a relaxed pace and being able to release something that meets my standards is a change of pace I sorely need. So either I continue to crank for the office while cranking for myself, or I tell them I'll build my own lunar lander... with blackjack... and hookers!
I wish the post was bit more comprehensive than this.

EDIT: Rephrased so that it doesn't look like I'm angry or ranting. I am very happy to get coverage on TC and learnt a lot in the process!

EDIT: Looks like they changed the typos in the post!
It seems very, very unlikely. Dividends have been done before. They were how "startups" used to pay investors back in the railroad days. But the rates had to be set in advance. Without preset rates, investors would have to trust company managements not to skim profits (which there are 101 semi-legit ways to do) and claim there were none to return. And while a railroad could predict profits with reasonable certainty, how could a tech startup?
knarf_navillus, the description of your cousins who are unschooling which means running wild, being filthy and illiterate, actually sounds like a different movement called "radical unschooling". Radical unschoolers often call themselves unschoolers, and some perhaps are, but others will adopt positions such as books are oppressive to children, and eating ice cream for all meals and watching daytime adult TV from 10am to 4pm every day is fine if that's what the child feels is best for them at the time, and discouraging such pursuits, or even failing to fully and enthusiastically support them means the parent is not truly committed to the tenets of radical unschooling.

(Your aunt isn't S.D. is she?)
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yay, i really like wave (aside from giving my data to google) but i really couldn't get anyone to use it with me no matter how well it fitted the project.

Also ~> http://pygowave.net/
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Pretty bog standard run-through-the-openssl-commands run down.

In my case, GoDaddy want to have 2048 (2KB) for the strength for the private key. For personal use, a key strenght of 1024 bits (1KB) would be sufficient.

1024 bits is not 1KB, 1024 bits is 128 bytes, or one eighth of a KB. 2048 bits is 256 bytes, or one quarter of a KB.
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My recollection of John Holt's writings -- admittedly somewhat fuzzy, but some 25 years ago I read all his books and even did some volunteer work for him, so I think I got the gist -- certainly doesn't include a recommendation to abandon one's kids to their own devices. He did argue that we could trust kids' instincts about things like when they get interested in learning to read, but I don't think he would ever have told parents not to pay attention to their kids or spend time with them -- which, though you don't say so specifically, sounds like part of what's going on here.

John believed in children very much -- believed in the wisdom of the natural unfolding of their interests and abilities. And he encouraged parents to believe in them too. My recollection is that it was not common for parents who had read his books and were corresponding with him and one another through his newsletter (Growing Without Schooling) to have kids turn out in the manner you describe; quite the contrary. While I'm wary about putting words in John's mouth, I suspect he would have agreed that there's something wrong in this situation, even if he might not have completely agreed with you about what it is.

I do recall occasional stories of kids who showed no interest in reading until they were quite old -- around 10, as I recall. But the usual ending of the story was that at some point they did become interested, not just casually but quite voraciously, so that they more or less caught up with other kids their age.

As for the "manipulation" -- I certainly don't think reading to your kids, to take an important example, would be outside the bounds of unschooling as I understand it. I don't think unschooling is supposed to be like the Prime Directive in Star Trek, where one has to strive to have as little impact of any kind on one's children as possible. That's nuts and I don't think John would ever have endorsed it.
The new site looks fantastic! Have you changed the actual app's design too? (can't find an overview screenshot anymore, last time I checked you were using a ThemeForest template but the feature-based screenshots look improved since then).

I don't know how "sexy" the name is but like I said the site looks great and I found you on Google pretty easily (it suggested for me) so SEO is going well too.

Great execution to date and good luck!
They've said they will, which is good enough for me.

I agree that the headline is misleading.
That'll probably last only a few weeks. People will redirect their attention to more pressing matters soon enough.
By that estimate my computer is an appliance too - I just open the lid, and it is on.

Why more people don't do this, I don't know.
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No, actual app redesign is in the works. Most of my customers don't care whether I use a ThemeForest template. As long as they get the job done, they are happy.

Though, yes, been talking to lots of designers to redesign the app and the site. We should have a fresh brand identity in a few months.

Yeah, we can't take the risk by changing the name now!
And they found a way to try and paint you as a YC knock-off but still all publicity is good and I think this just reflects on TC's integrity. With the new site and momentum I'd seriously consider the benefits vs costs of rebranding (even using your current name as a subtitle? E.g. "CoolApp - The visual website optimizer", only because it might make PR coverage / funding easier later if that's what you want).

This TC comment by "Uhu" says it best though:

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JUST another way to run a/b tests huh? A one-two person startup that has raked in some of the best names as their customer within months of launch with zero funding...is "just another" thing.

When you do finally give this kid some coverage, you frame it in the crappiest, most boring way possible
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Am I the only one who eagerly clicked through hoping that through some scientific miracle drinking scotch could lead to weight loss?

As to the actual topic, I'm not sure that its so much that people think scotch has a higher alcohol content, I've always imagined it had more to do with seeming somewhat classier and in control. Sipping a scotch while your companions pound beers establishes you (perhaps on a subconscious level) as the leader of the group whose choices aren't really up for discussion.

Of course I rather like scotch so maybe I'm biased.
Your persistence has finally paid off. Congratulations and good luck.
Reading this hack just cost me some calories. I read it, and poured myself two fingers of scotch.
I have/used to have this problem - which is why I gave up drinking. In fact as I read this, I thought to myself "yeah, that's fine if you have the will-power not drink the scotch very quickly and order 2 more in the course of your friends single bottle of beer.
I've heard Clojure described as a solution to that, because you get access to every Java library, and in Java there's pretty much a library for every modern-ish need.
I'm not even sure the site needs it - it looks fantastic to me atm (admittedly on my iPhone) but no doubt your own tests could give you the hard data.

I really admire your pragmatism and "just jump in and start" attitude so as I've said good luck!
And it hadn’t cost me a dime, merely the willingness to indicate that I
would tip for service.

This is an interesting line, because it indicates the author redefined, in his mind, what he was doing: he wasn't bribing anyone, he was merely tipping beforehand. Suddenly, the practice seems much more acceptable, to the point where I wonder why I'm instinctively against it.

I guess the answer is that we should consider a stark difference between bribing someone for 'services' that aren't at his discretion to provide, such as a police officer dropping a bill or a government employee granting a permit, versus bribing someone for services that really are at the discretion of the person being bribed. The rules for being seated at these restaurants are informal rules and no laws are broken in bending them a bit.

As a result of this article, I feel much less unfavorably about 'bribing' random personnel of companies. I wonder how long that will last.
"One of my big fears is that I may not be the most qualified person to teach my children."

Maybe not "the most qualified", but you sound pretty smart to me, and there are a lot of thoroughly unqualified teachers in the school systems. I think you'll find you can pick up anything you need to know pretty quickly.
Every country has some ideal population level. Below that level, workers are treated very well but resources go unexploited. Above that level, resources are merely spread thinner per capita, and desperate workers are abused. My country (the US) is leaning alarmingly toward "life is cheap" territory, so I would prefer to dissuade some would-be parents--but that's nearly impossible without screwing up the kids we will be burdened with.
So the reason there is a God, is that there must be a reason everything is created. I have tried to find out why that must be so, but have not come up with it. The only reason I could think of why people are saying this is that it might feel better for us humans that there is a reason.
We know that the iPhone will do on-the-fly tone mapping, but there's also a slim chance that it will store a proper HDR image (such as a 12-bit JPEG or OpenEXR) for later processing.
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I have a Canon S90 and couldn't be happier with it. It had fewer megapixels than several other, cheaper cameras, but use is bearing out that the reviews were correct... they're fewer, but they're better.
First the existence of aliens and now the existence of God. What totally unscientific speculation is Stephen Hawking going to make next for the media to latch on to?
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It supports the idea that boards should be easy going before "product market fit". I think if the board had pushed for milestones we would have locked ourselves into podcasting. I was there for the last seven months of Odeo, which included the first two or three months of Twitter (it was a simple product but we had to wait for the SMS application process).
Came here to talk about Laphroaig. Laphroaig is the smokiest whiskey you can get, really nice drop, from the Isle of Islay. Very flavorful.

Perhaps worth saying as well, please do not buy a nice whiskey, and ask for coke mixed in. If you tried that in Scotland or Ireland, they would at best refuse you.
I understand the anger, believe me, but I do not understand a media relations strategy which seeks coverage from an outlet and then criticizes them for it. That isn't particularly fair that you have to be the soul of restraint in the face of shabby treatment, but journalism is a power and privilege game to begin with.
The Operational Transform part of the wave code has been open sourced for a while as part of the open source wave-protocol. I have this link bookmarked though google code seems to be having some trouble loading it right now: http://code.google.com/p/wave-protocol/source/browse/#hg/src...

Also check out the wave whitepaper on OT at http://wave-protocol.googlecode.com/hg/whitepapers/operation.... The codecommit article is also really great (and probably the most helpful thing I found).
I see you agree with me. It does warrant extra scrutiny.

Frankly, it doesn't matter if the study is carried out correctly or not. All that matters is that a study in some journal says that second-hand smoke is not bad for you.
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>And, indeed, he argues, any form of intelligent life that evolves anywhere will automatically find that it lives somewhere suitable for it.

Definitely deserves a "well, duh", but so many people seem averse to this line of thought. I can't count the number of times people have argued in my vicinity for God's existence based on how nicely our planet suits us... while in the same breath demonstrating that they understand nothing about what they're arguing against.

That said, the world is trying to kill us. If we didn't fight back with intelligence and reproduction, we'd die off rather quickly. Maybe it's not so suitable for us.
I tried his button styles on submit and button inputs. His basic "button" style and the various color and shape variations still work great and degraded well when I checked in IE7.

You can view the results here:
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Only a small addition was needed to turn off left and right borders.
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I'm glad for you! Persistence does pay off indeed - now start sending emails to CNN, let's see you slowly break down all the media fortresses.

Also, get a favicon.
Seems equivalent to being the one person with a D-SLR and 5 lenses when everyone else carries a point and shoot. Even if you take fewer pictures people assume you're the more serious photographer. Apparent overkill is an effective way to preempt annoying comments?
Read/re-read the article. Or at least the title. He's not speculating that God might exist, he's saying he understands the sentiments that lead people to feel that way, while the book goes on with why he says they're wrong.
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I did, however you never really "quit", especially if you are at risk of going broke. I went broke about 6 times after quitting, however if you are a developer (like most people on here), then you probably have a skill that you can use to get work on the side. That side work is critical to getting your business off the ground. That's because most businesses you start won't be paying the bills in the immediate future.

Even worse, they need money! I actually successfully managed to get to an exit, however I now advise other people to work as long as they possibly can before they quit their job. I know how lucky I got and I also know how many times I literally was days away from being completely broke.

Then again, perhaps those moments are what makes the entrepreneur. I do think that having a plan would be useful. While your plan won't be accurate, at least you can think through all the steps you need to take for the foreseeable future.

Also ... try to have 6 months runway if you can (I know, that's a luxury).

Create a plan, begin executing and then go after it. The worst case scenario, you have to get a job again. The last thing you want to be is in a position 10 years from now asking yourself "Why the hell didn't I do it?"

The only other thing is to make sure you take care of your basic needs (health, etc). I've made the mistake and have met others that have put their business before themselves and it helped nobody. Aside from that ... best of luck!! You're in good company on this site!

Any other rules I try to artificially create can instantly be broken so I'll stop providing advice
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This is just my opinion, but I think big news networks should keep their opinions out of their reporting, supplying us with as much factual information as possible (even if some would find those facts offensive). I find this article to be good reporting because it introduces Hawking's controversial opinion and a few opinion-based reactions without muddling them with its own bias.
I graduated from college, sold everything I owned, and drove across the country to San Francisco.

Months later, I have advertising income from www.ThatHigh.com that generates enough money to pay my rent and food. I now spend all my time working on Djangy.com - private beta invites coming very, very soon!!
There is no anger, of course. I am thankful to TC for covering VWO.

Was just wishing if it could have been a little better. It is a wishlist, not at all a rant. Sorry if it came out to be that way.
"I might be wrong, but I'm that the sensors in modern professional SLRs can handle much more difference in exposure latitude than smaller digicams and especially cell phone cameras, with film holding even more latitude."

Correct. Here's an example of 16mm negative of Kodak's Vision 3, for example, that shows the various meterings in the scene: http://motion.kodak.com/US/en/motion/Products/Production/Col.... It's easily 7 stops - I think you'd be hard pressed to pull off the same image on your iPhone camera (though I am interested to see how well the new HDR stuff works).
John Gruber once described Techcrunch as being in the dirty rotten business of VC funded startups. (I think it's the talk with Merlin Mann a couple of years back). Would love for all the connections between Techcrunch and the VCs to come tumbling out of the closet one day.
I had a decent job -- reasonably good pay, decent benefits, good people. But I wanted to work in software and that just wasn't the role there. I was also living in Orlando, which is a shithole, so something had to change.

I saved up $12,000 and quit last year, despite the terrifying economy. No real plan beyond "do something interesting." Moved across the country, built iPhone apps, had a good time. After about eight months, got bored, money got tight, but no biggie -- I got a job at a startup. I couldn't have landed it without everything I learned during my little adventure.

It's an amazing feeling – it's freedom. No one expecting you at any place or any time. Just you, your motivation and whatever you're able to imagine.

If you've been working for the man for awhile, having 100% control of your time can be weird. My advice would be to establish a routine and stick to it like glue. If you've got a specific working space, make sure you're in it each day at the same time. Eventually you'll be able to fully enjoy the flexibility, but at first productivity will require you sticking to what you understand as a working schedule. Modify this as you learn your natural rhythms throughout the day. (ie: maybe you're a night owl, so you enjoy a bit of work in the mid-morning and then a six hour burst later in the evening.)

Working at home is fine and all, but you might want to find a quiet, productive place away from where you live. If you're near a nice library, this is ideal. The change of scenery will help you stay sharp.

Give yourself a break, if it's at all possible. I used the flexibility that self-direction bought me to go to Europe for a couple of weeks. It recharged my soul. Some kind of adventure will do you good if you've been following other people's rules and direction for any lengthy period of time.

Most importantly, set clear goals for yourself when you're ready to get down to work. I didn't always do this and my work suffered. Even if you're working by yourself, a little scrum action might do you some good: plan weekly sprints and do a little standup with yourself each morning or evening to review your progress. You're your boss now – no one else will hold you accountable.

Good luck. It's a bit risky, sure, but a great feeling.
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Only if you ignore their bias towards gaining as many readers as possible, even at the cost of more "meat".

That said, I agree, it's not bad. But it is amusing how incredibly non-offensive news networks get when anything religious / anti-religious comes up.
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Wow. This is a great resource. I had no idea these books were online. I highly recommend Marshall's biography of Watt to anyone who wants to see how little startups have changed in 230 years.

Just start reading: http://www.history.rochester.edu/steam/marshall/chapter7.htm...
thanks to the incredible complexity of the U.S. fiscal system,
it's essentially impossible for anyone to understand her incentive to work

The second line is true regardless if the first. Under what circumstances is $0.3, $0.6 or $.09 worth performing an extra $1 of labor? It depends on how you value your leisure time, whether you have a specific goal for the money in mind, whether your math skills are sufficient to even understand how much extra the $1 will net you, etc. That's not a reason for not simplifying the system, but it is a reason for the first and second argument to be plainly false: households do not, and are often incapable of, reason(ing) based on the fiscal system.
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