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I agree that hanging out with the Wall Street types, going to Wall Street bars, and living in Wall Street apartments probably skewed his perception of NYC's tech scene greatly. But…

Brooklyn reminds me a lot of Boston, tech-scene wise. There's a plenty of computer programmers around and a fair number of of young entrepreneurs, not to mention a startups located…

Rock on man :) If that makes you happy, rock on. My motivation for posting my wall of text is that I just don't think his problem is external. Maybe external changes will prompt so…

NYC rates, yep. I'd make significantly less elsewhere. Three things: NYC is expensive. A 6 pack of crummy beer is $14 across the street from my office, and a studio in Harlem is st…

> It's not the environment that matters, it's the change of environment. That's a good point. I think as long as a person doesn't put too much hope into the idea that the environme…

I'm going to offer a counter-point to your suggestion: I don't believe changing the external environment, or income, or people who you are near, is going to do jack shit. Here's wh…

> we prompt them to share their new page with friends immediately after signup Does this actually work? I've seen a few places that do this but I've always assumed it's probably a …

> Second, and this is the most important point, because it's come up again and again in the comments, he is consistently missing deadlines and has failed to be very productive. So …

EDIT: followup - http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1469271 Old post: I think the OP should be thankful his dev doesn't walk. If I partnered up with some biz guy who demanded I sh…

I know it's just a GIMP script but I was pretty impressed at how well the returned image was. My only advice is to make the instructions clearer. It's quite a simple idea "send a w…

> I have no hard data to back this up, but I strongly suspect that your average woman in her 20s is FAR more likely to be at least partially dependent on a husband or parents than …

Depends a lot on cost of living. For example, I'd never work for as low as $50/hr unless I was very desperate, but I also live in NYC. Typical contractor wages seem to be about $10…

CS isn't a degree that teaches you how to program. For me it was much more like a discrete mathematics degree. I learned probably hundreds of algorithms (compression, cryptography,…

I will definitely use this. Going to install it when I get home [no Mac at work :( ].

You sound like me. By changing jobs about ~6 times, I've gone from $16k/yr "assistant to the intern DB administrator" to well over six figures. Every job change was either because …

"You’re in it more for yourself than your company." What a delusional asshole. If anyone says they care more about a company (and in turn the success of the shareholders) over thei…

Really? _Really?_ You really think that there exist enough "incredibly intelligent" people to fill every tech role in existence? Sure, every company can _ask_ for the top 1%, but u…

> I think that a startup is not the place for that kind of person. I just want incredibly intelligent, competent people who are opinionated but value each other as well. Well good …

It's not a conspiracy if they're right in the open about it. They're praising a platform that does not exist yet, and what do you know, they have an app that will be available (for…

What a surprise: A media outlet looking to stay afloat lauds the unreleased platform they hope to monetize.

Maybe I overreacted, but the article does make some pretty big claims: needing an entirely new version of a site just for non-mouseover browsers? C'mon... Re-tooling your site so t…

> in the short term it's going to require building versions of sites specifically for them. Or re-think their design choices in the first place (which is of course building a new v…