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Agreed. I don't think any of my friends considered their jobs "predictable and secure" when they started. And in many cases the huge bonuses they received last year wil cushion the…

http://www.lokku.com/jobs/intern.html

You are right, the choice doesnt have to be so binary.... I come at this from the other perspective. I was a business guy who has learnt some hacking and got into the whole startup…

Ballmer's performance has been questionable but its not wise to fire a CEO without a ready replacement....I dont think Microsoft have anyone.

Yer....I think Google did this.

>"Nothing personal, but that's the kind of shareholder that ruins good businesses. The language of Ballmer's letter is clearly intended to cause precisely that kind of action from …

Personally, if I was a Yahoo shareholder I would be calling up my lawyers to start suing the Yahoo board. Financially this deal is clearly good for shareholders coming at a 60% pre…

I've heard about "investing in a mutual fund" a million times and I am surprised these seasoned professionals advised googlers to do that. With enough humility, hard work and emoti…

Not necessarily....hire great team, give them some stock then go on holiday update - just to be more explicit, the founders of a business need not be involved in its future to make…

I think it all depends on your definition of success. Many of the hackers on ycnews seem to want to make money so they can do something else. Becoming financially successful is jus…

Wow, that's a lot of open source technology. Erlang is really getting popular these days. Out of interest how are they handling unicode support?

Agreed. Though I am scratching my head as to what that company he linked to actually does.

It seems there has been a minor rebellion on FB about the Twitter app

Not sure if anyone is aware of the minor Twitter Facebok App rebellion. All Twitter updates start with "[Your Name] is twittering". Quite a few ppl have been lobbying against it, b…

looks like no ones parents are their heroe

haha, not too long I hope!

It probably set in when I went to a conference for journalism related professionals. Everyone was scratching their heads and asking how the hell do we make money from this new new …

Agreed, hence why I thought i'd publish my two cents

I recently lost my company so thought I would share some unorthodox advice to Hacker News members.

Anyone on YC working Solo?