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I was an anarchist in high school too. I was an over-achieving individualist who took personal affront to the norms and rules imposed on all school kids, and people in general. I r…

Personally, I mostly got the feeling that he was just publically congratulating himself - showing off. I live in Cape Town, none of my alumni could put me in contact with any SV VC…

I get what the OP is hassled about. He committed time and energy on developing a product, time and energy he wasn't paid for, but it didn't matter because he believed in the produc…

OK, we so need one of these in Cape Town!!! That place really does look awesome. And space for hardware hacking too, great. I live in an apartment nowadays and really miss going ou…

I developed on enterprise PM application on the SharePoint platform (V2, WSS3.0). Over the past year, I have done 3.8% support, and the rest development. I'm quite happy with that.…

I don't usually talk about this, but your post speaks to something that most opinions on the subject never do. 22 years ago I went through a fairly strange time: I was depressed, d…

SEEKING WORK - Cape Town, South Africa, remote and travel as required. Enterprise Product Manager with experience in managing teams, and full product lifecycle development. Primary…

Muscle memory, or engrams? How about: off CPU EEPROM with very slow burn in rate. The computation is handled remotely, or distally, but the computation only becomes overriding afte…

Not childish, on the contrary: quite mature, accurate, articulate and insightful. Mostly we fear ourselves, what we are, what we aren't, etc. Whether the dialogue is accurate or no…

In my experience - admittedly, I haven't been keeping detailed notes - 99.9% of the elevator close buttons that I have pushed have done absolutely nothing: the doors just wait the …

When we're young (varsity age) we're unstoppable. I worked 18 - 20 hour days for about 2 years! But, we're not really. It takes its toll on the body (and the brain), slowly, withou…

VC money, a good team, or a great product won't guarantee success. One (or two) factors alone won't ensure success. It's a sum-of-all-the-parts thing. I think an important question…

Your father may be retired but he's not yet braindead. He is a person, he has needs, friends, interests and he moves in a different circles to you. It would be in your interest to …