"~Own a Mac or be willing to admit that you should." Who codes on a Mac?
Anyone serious about coding.
Why you should never be a startup girlfriend
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Re: Why you should never be a startup girlfriend
#22Many of these points are nullified when you find a girlfriend that is also in the startup world. Share the pains and joys together!
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#23"~Own a Mac or be willing to admit that you should." Who codes on a Mac?
What do you code on?
Linux or BSD is where it's at for hackers. MacOS is nice too, of course, it's simple enough that my mom can use it. Just that if you really want to be in control of things, you probably want Linux. If I had to do sales or something else where looking flashy was important, I guess that would be another place where Apple's very nice looking products would be a good pick, but Dell+Ubuntu is a much better price/performance bet for someone who just wants to hack, a lot, and enjoys the freedom and control that come with free software. Admittedly, not for everyone, but then again, this site is for hackers, right?.
Re: Why you should never be a startup girlfriend
#24I guess someone needs to write an article for the 1% of people who fall into the "startup boyfriend" category.
I appreciate men who understand computers, use Macs (or, well, I'm platform agnostic but prefer !windows), know what twitter is, and will wait in line with me to get a new iPhone. :)
Re: Why you should never be a startup girlfriend
#25Earlier quoted context omitted.
"'tis better to have loved and lost 5 times, than never to have loved at all." Is this version true too?
Yeah, you need to iterate to refine the process.
If every iteration hurts then is iterating a lot really a good plan?
In each iteration one believes this is the final iteration that will last forever. If not, you're doing it wrong. How is that compatible with planning to iterate?
Re: Why you should never be a startup girlfriend
#26Many of these points are nullified when you find a girlfriend that is also in the startup world. Share the pains and joys together!
true and better you both read HN sitting opp each other sipping coffee :)
Re: Why you should never be a startup girlfriend
#27Earlier quoted context omitted.
Yeah, you need to iterate to refine the process.
If every iteration hurts then is iterating a lot really a good plan? In each iteration one believes this is the final iteration that will last forever. If not, you're doing it wrong. How is that compatible with planning to iterate?
It's the same as creating a company... If the failure rate is high, trying more than one time bring the failure rate down...
But when you are creating a company if you start by thinking that it's going to fail, you are already out of the game ;-)
Re: Why you should never be a startup girlfriend
#28"~Own a Mac or be willing to admit that you should." Who codes on a Mac?
I do, I used to code on a laptop running gentoo but got tired of spending too much time working as a sys-admin on my own system...
Now I use a mac and use prefixed portage to manage all the unix apps I use.
Re: Why you should never be a startup girlfriend
#29There's something about lists like this that bother me. I know it shouldn't -- it's meant to be light and humorous. I think what bothers me is that the person she describes is really, godawful boring. The line that stands out for me: "If you want to understand your boyfriend, understand computers. It’s not that difficult." I...I just don't know. I'm an engineer at an early-stage startup and computers are a big part o…
I agree. I've never had a girlfriend or worked at a startup, but I hope I'd be mature enough not to care if she used Windows, had an obsolete/nonexistent gaget collection and was happy working in a cubicle. And that I'd understand her well enough to be able to show my affection in ways that meant something to her, rather than requiring her to understand that it means something to me.
Re: Why you should never be a startup girlfriend
#30"~Own a Mac or be willing to admit that you should." Who codes on a Mac?
I do, I used to code on a laptop running gentoo but got tired of spending too much time working as a sys-admin on my own system... Now I use a mac and use prefixed portage to manage all the unix apps I use.
You use portage on a mac? How? Got a link?