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I doubt if your experience as an entrepreneur would be counted when you go back in the job market and here in India I won't be surprised if you have to start again at fresher level (this is sad but true sometimes). You can get a stable job perhaps with less salary for your experience if it’s about paying the bills. You can consider freelancing for some local companies which is a less promising option. If you get a job meeting new people at a new workplace can help you come out of this state of mind.
Take a break from technology for a month. Travel without Internet that should give you some perspective on things.
I don't think there is any recipe someone can tell you here, you have to try things on your own and see what works for you.
Key is to move on then keep on analyzing your past mistakes or experiences.
I believe whenever you work hard you create energy of some form and once this energy is created it always give good results may be not immediately but perhaps later.
Where are you based in India? Add some contact info.
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My advice is no matter how good are your programming skills or your product, if you're not selling, it's useless to be that good.

Get some good selling skills and human skills. The only reason why that other crappy software that you're competing with sells for millions is because the guy is better than you at selling it.

Maybe you should study and invest in learning how to sell and then give another chance to your software (that should be a good one after 4 years).

Stop developing, start selling.
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I got the same brush off from my Conservative MP.
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Look at it this way, I'm in the same situation you are (26 though), but don't even have the experience of starting my own venture and failing. I've been saying I'm going to launch something, anything, but it's too convenient to just keep going to work, earning my salary and not really pushing myself out of that comfort zone a lot of us fall into.

Best advice I can give is to tell you that you're certainly not alone, and from an experience and skillset perspective you're ahead of A LOT of people out there. This can be tough to keep in the right perspective when you read about 25 year olds closing huge rounds and killing it on HN, but those guys are the exception and not the rule. The fact of the matter is that you're 28, with solid skills and experience, so there's literally nothing stopping you.
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The idea is awesome, I can see loads of handy maths and computer tools coming allong (RAID calculators, size converters, arithmatic functions etc.)
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Seems to be common in two-party democracies anyway

The UK has three parties, in fact we have a coalition government (albeit perhaps only technically)
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Take a break! (If you can)

I've often found that doing some kind of 'reset' helps. Sometimes this means completely stopping any kind of computer or business related effort. In the past, I've done things like traveling, etc.

As for failure, don't be too hard on yourself. If you do a little bit of searching about Silicon Valley stories, you'll see a repeated theme: people fail a few/many times before their big success. I'm on my fourth 'failure' already. ;) Bottom line is pick yourself up, dust off, and try again. You have plenty of time still - trust me.

Another suggestion might be to go to some kind of code/programming meet ups. You'll met all kinds of people there and that chance meeting that could spark it all to happen, you gotta be out there among other creative people.

Good Luck!
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I'll echo a few of the other responses, but with a slight twist.

I think you should look at Product Management in software. It is a field that requires a broad range of skills, including a very good understanding of how software is really made. But you also have to understand business, and then balance trade-offs between business needs and the amount of software that your team has time to crank out.

You will have to be both bold and humble. Bold in that you will have to be brave enough to try something new: You haven't been a Product Manager officially before, but your startup experience counts for a lot. Humble in that you can't say that you know exactly how to do Product Management, but it is such a multi-disciplinary role that is different for each team that you might work with that it is a place where you can go, and learn more and more for the next 10 years in your career.

Of course, that said, I'm talking about Silicon Valley. There are tons of jobs both for Product Managers and Programmers. So go interview. Go check out Monster, or Craigslist, and go find a few interviews for Product Manager positions. I know just about every startup in the valley is looking for both, and they also prefer people with previous startup experience.

I wish you the best of luck.
As a (hopefully "good") woman, I'm slightly offended by that - we might have career goals of our own, too. Heck, we might even want to be entrepreneurs.

But let's assume I misread you and got my hackles up over nothing - let's focus on the "some more stability" instead. I'd advise against that. The time to make mistakes that end in crash&burn is when you're young. As you wait, you accumulate obligations. There's a mortgage, there's (in the U.S.) the fact you might like to have health insurance, you specialize in a certain area, or you might even have kids.

Making that leap and saying "ah, I'll just risk my savings and a few years of my life" becomes harder as life goes on. The risk/benefit ratio seems to be getting worse over time.
It's hard to assign meaning to those kinds of code words. After all, they're specifically chosen not to betray their meaning.

I know that the Apache were upset by the implications, and there is some historical irony lurking in it, but I wouldn't take that too far, esp. for a code word. If I'm not mistaken, "Geronimo" is probably best known as a battle cry that Americans learned from the movies. I wouldn't be shocked to learn that most Americans don't know anything about the man, Geronimo.

EDIT: Also, on Biden's comment about attending mass: that's just Biden being a good Catholic. Fortunately, Joe Biden isn't the type to actually demand that others practice his religion.

The religious aspect of this story didn't bother me, because these guys, like all Americans, have the right to express their religious beliefs as long as they don't force everyone to follow them. The policy of killing bin Laden is supported by many people who don't belong to a religion. Bin Laden's attacks killed all sorts of different people. It's hard to argue that the Obama administration was carrying out a religious vendetta with this operation.

I read this article in my office a stone's throw from Ground Zero. I found the details about the policy-making and military operation fascinating. I'm glad I didn't wake up that morning to read that we leveled a suburb in Pakistan with 32 2000lb guided bombs (and we think we might have gotten Bin Laden)!
Thanks for the replies. I didn't mean to frame it in a mutually exclusive way; I'm up for ini or yaml configs any day. Am looking at this from a rel-eng perspective.
I think your last sentence explains why it will never happen - if one guy will be left making a killing by supporting IE6, why would everyone else have gotten out of the game? Certainly the ridiculous hourly rate he charges will offset the cost of maintaining IE6 support.

That said, I hate css as much as the next twenty-something web developer :)
Need to spellcheck the front page. You have a couple errors.
The best question is "In one sentence explain why this hit 1st page on HN"

http://1sentence.com/in-one-sentence-explain-why-this-hit-1s...
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It sounds to me like you're stuck because you don't think you have the drive to try another startup but believe that there isn't any interesting corporate work. Both of those beliefs may be wrong:

- you should be able to find work in the healthcare sector and use your experience to really improve things or join a startup that is past the grueling early stage

- you might be able to find a different environment or a different partner for another try at a startup. Taking on a day job for a while might expose you to other people with energy to start up a new venture
The history of technology is one of disrupting old industries. The death of quality, be it content, hand-made goods, or mom and pop shops, has been heralded many times. Each time, somebody manages to find a way to make good products.

If the movie industry refuses to sell movies that aren't on plastic, the Internet will obsolesce them. That will not spell the end of video as entertainment, as it will leave a void to be filled by somebody smarter and faster. MP3s didn't kill music, despite all the dire warnings. The news is struggling, but sites like huffpo have shown you can make money giving away news. There's no reason someone can't come up with a model whereby they can make money making good news.

Copyright, as it was intended, is fine. I make something, that means I can sell it, not you. I'm okay with that. I'm not okay with limiting users, and I'm certainly not okay with suing them or charging them with crimes. The laws, as they are being written, enable copyright holders to pursue the latter course of action as an alternative to innovating and adapting. That, I am not okay with. There's nothing stopping anyone from making money with quality content on the Internet, save the confines of their own lack of imagination.
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Or find a business partner who can do the selling for you.

Nothing says you have to give up your dream or stop doing what you love, just make sure you have the right people around you.

Most startups fail. The fact your company failed doesn't mean you are a failure. Make sure you know why the company failed, though, so you don't make the same mistakes again.
In what way is it undemocratic? If you're talking about the continual extension of copyright terms to prevent older works from falling into the public domain I agree. Copyright is also the bedrock of the GPL.
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"I want to get it how it was committed--because how it was done matters to me, as a developer and as a person."

Or as a micro-managing boss. I don't need someone staring over my shoulder as I work or after I work. My mistakes aren't your business and I find your attitude unpleasant.
this. And they are thankful for been chosen as the victor side. Understandable.
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Actually you're supposed to look slightly down as far as I can tell. The hard rule seems to be 'just avoid looking up'.
Although dropping IE6 support is a valid enough plea, "favour progress to backward compatibility" would be the wrong professional lesson to learn for him. The real question ought to be "do your customers require IE6 support and will they be unhappy if you drop it?"
So of course irregular combatants make the choice to not be protected under the Geneva Convention, by not wearing uniforms. This way, they can be shot if captured, even if they surrender. But must they ? The Geneva Convention says you cannot execute lawful combatants that surrender. It doesn't say that you must shoot unlawful combatants.

Anyway, my point was that it was all rules made by Western powers to govern combat between great powers, and they have an obvious role of excluding smaller powers and non-state organizations from playing with the big boys. So when a non-state organization takes action against a state, this makes it legal for the state to treat them however they want.
This article is spam.

1) It has been repeatedly submitted to hacker news.

2) It is link-bait seemingly designed for hacker news

3) It is nothing more than a transparent Ad for their game that they "spent hours" developing.

4) Nearly every sentence of the article is hyperbole.

5) The author has no credibility, and undermines the benefit-of-the-doubt with every sentence.

6) It reads like it was written by a 13 year old.

Yet it is high on the first page of Hacker News.
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Maybe a little oftopic, but are there places where you can find tips about best-practice content?
To be clear: I once read that a button labeled "read more" is not very good because people don't like to read. But when you name it something like "more about this subject" people get greedy.
Argh, guys like this give the rest of us a bad name. It's ridiculous to claim that we're somehow universally better than developers at Google or anywhere else.

One of the big arguments in that Slashdot thread seems to be backlash over developers bragging about how they change software that handles millions of dollars in the middle of the day without any testing. Let me tell you, any HFT firm worth it's salt is very conscious about risk controls. I mean honestly, what kind of business are you running if you're routinely exposing yourself to potentially massive losses because of one developers error? Not one that would be around very long.

I can only speak to where I work, but we are not coding by the seat of our pants. Yes, traders do make intraday changes to their strategies, but they can do that because their software is backstopped by a tiered risk infrastructure that limits the damage their software can do.
I agree that the music & film industries have done dumb, counter-productive things and I agree also agree that the way forward is to provide better and more convenient service, like Netflix.

But I also hear a lot of people use these arguments to rationalize violating copyrights, and I think that's wrong.
If you really need the money, then a good compromise may be to go work for another startup for 12-18 months. You will get a meaningful salary (depends on the startup, but it should at least cover your basic expenses and allow you to save a little), but more importantly, it will hopefully allow you to work alongside other talented, motivated people and learn from the founders. After you have "recharged your batteries" from a financial and emotional perspective, you may want to give it another try to launching your own startup.

An alternate plan would be to consult on SAP for 'x' amount of months, make a pile of money and use it to fund your next startup. However, the consulting life can be very stressful.

good luck!
I would definitely consider changing the name.
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Failure is the road to success, grasshopper;)

If you don't have any family, you should take some time off (months) doing something else. Preferably nothing at all (ie. travel).

You need to put your experiences into perspective. When you do that, you'll probably value those 4 years highly.

You now have 4 years experience you can draw on when you start your next venture!
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This is common in all styles of democracy, parliamentary or two-party. Remember, worst system of government possible, except all the others.
You need to stop focusing on the goal and start focusing on the journey.

If there ever was a cliché that's it but at the same time it really is true.

"Having your own successful company" is not what is important. Setting yourself small goals and then reaching them are.

If you didn't die your gamble didn't backfire. It just gave you one thing that most people lack. Experience with what it means to be responsible for your own faith.. That's never going to be a bad thing.

Next time take one of your smaller projects instead of things that take 1 1/2 year.
Unfortunately, due to budget constraints, mankind is absolutely unable to bother any intelligent neighboring civilizations. Right now, we can't even annoy unicellular extraterrestrials.

And any alien that could do something against us would be so advanced a war would take 2 minutes from pressing the "smite" button to the complete obliteration of our planet.
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These guys have an awesome view and are a bunch of great people. Really a top notch crew.
I like it - a good destination for a few minutes of diversion and good to hone your technical writing skills.

It would be useful to have different ways of scoring answers, separate buttons for "funny", "insightful" or "clear".
Can you elaborate on the gray area bit?
Python is fairly popular among startups, and hence supply follows demand.
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Nice site! One suggestion, remove the "In one sentence explain" from the posts. My eyes get tired of seeing that over and over...
Funny, by reading the GP, I thought exactly the opposite - that in the context of the sentence, that would be a woman with a career to pay the bills. May be hard to have two entrepreneurs tho - Or only without children.
I think if you're really sure, that you wanna be an entrepreneur, then there's no way around it. you might consider your current work as a means to acquire enough funds to get your next venture start. and that might at least help you focus a little more on your current work.
I don't know why you're getting down votes. This story seems well written, but for the majority of the story (all of the important parts), it relies only on information released by the government. Why should we believe this story? It seems to be a perfect tale that can't be corroborated now.
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I think the big issue here is that the bandit problem assumes independence between machines, while this is almost certainly an incorrect assumption to make when analyzing user behavior. For example, I might be able to increase convergence by changing the button text to "buy now" and changing the background color to black, but not each one independently. Conversely, changing the button text to "buy now" might hurt convergence if the background color is black, but improve convergence if the background color is white.

Essentially that means that if I make N changes at the same time and convergence changes, it's not possible to tell which combination of the changes affected convergence, and how (at least not without a new series of hypothesis tests to establish controls). Perhaps only one change made the difference and the rest were irrelevant, perhaps multiple changes made the difference, etc.

The bandit problem is much simpler because it guarantees that none of the variables depend on each other. If there is no such guarantee, we're effectively stuck with searching through an exponentially large space of possibilities, and using NHST to tell the difference.