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Why you should never be a startup girlfriend

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Re: Why you should never be a startup girlfriend

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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?

you need to watch a movie called "Les Poupees Russes" (Sorry, don't know how to do accents on my iPhone)

Re: Why you should never be a startup girlfriend

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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/performan…

Or, you know, if you want to work without having to worry about ALSA taking a dump in your ears.

Re: Why you should never be a startup girlfriend

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Crazy talk. Apple hardware is nice, but OSX is at best mediocre for systems programming.

I'd still use OSX then virtualization to get to whatever OS I need. It does depend what sort of programming you need to do though. Do many people still do systems programming? :/

A couple of years ago, I created a coin-op internet access system from a stripped down version of Debian, that ran in several hotels near Venice, Italy. It was pretty cool, and would have been difficult to accomplish with anything but Linux (infact, it replaced a windows system that never worked very well). Unfortunately the business side of things didn't work out very well because the guy I was working with was not really on the up and up:-(

I still have the code somewhere, if anyone's interested in doing some kind of deal.

Re: Why you should never be a startup girlfriend

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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.

How many people have you teased for being technologically inferior, such as writing "u" instead of you or accidentally installing Gator? When you rip into other people for doing this, even if not directly towards your girlfriend, she sees that and probably starts feeling self-conscious if she is a technological dunce too.

u "you" users r !(technologically superior).

use of English != technological status

Re: Why you should never be a startup girlfriend

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Why you should never be a girlfriend: relationships usually end painfully

Ah. Don't make me break out the Tennyson. "'tis better to have loved and lost, than never to have loved at all." Sorry, I had to!

Only people who haven't really lost someone say this kinda stuff. The pain of loss eclipses all the good parts of having loved by a large margin, in my experience.

Re: Why you should never be a startup girlfriend

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How many people have you teased for being technologically inferior, such as writing "u" instead of you or accidentally installing Gator? When you rip into other people for doing this, even if not directly towards your girlfriend, she sees that and probably starts feeling self-conscious if she is a technological dunce too.

u "you" users r !(technologically superior). use of English != technological status

use of English == intellectual status.

Re: Why you should never be a startup girlfriend

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For those of us that are single...

Does a single girl out there EXIST that could understand even a few of these items? Particularly the one about weekends?

I've scoured my campus and I have yet to find one.

If(oneExists) { letMeKnow(); } else { sigh++; }

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