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Ask YC: Should Fridays and Saturday nights matter to a young hacker?
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Re: Ask YC: Should Fridays and Saturday nights matter to a young hacker?
#22Why are you using university resources for your startup?
They have fast internet and an environment conducive to productivity? It's extremely unlikely that the university would come after him for his IP, especially if he is a student and is not spinning off university sanctioned research into a company.
Of course, you're right, he would still be better off staying away from all university resources, depending on his school's tech transfer policy.
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#23The last two sentences of Warren Buffet's answer are priceless:
Q: What is your career advice?
A: If you want to make a lot of money go to Wall Street. More importantly though, do what you would do for free, having passion for what you do is the most important thing. I love what I do; I'm not even that busy. I got a total of five phone calls all day yesterday and one of them was a wrong number. Ms. B from NFM had passion, that's why she was successful. A few months ago I was talking to another MBA student, a very talented man, about 30 years old from a great school with a great resume. I asked him what he wanted to do for his career, and he replied that he wanted to go into a particular field, but thought he should work for McKinsey for a few years first to add to his resume. To me that's like saving sex for your old age. It makes no sense.
http://mba.tuck.dartmouth.edu/pages/clubs/investment/WarrenB...
Re: Ask YC: Should Fridays and Saturday nights matter to a young hacker?
#24The last two sentences of Warren Buffet's answer are priceless: Q: What is your career advice? A: If you want to make a lot of money go to Wall Street. More importantly though, do what you would do for free, having passion for what you do is the most important thing. I love what I do; I'm not even that busy. I got a total of five phone calls all day yesterday and one of them was a wrong number. Ms. B from NFM had pas…
For more on this watch some of this talks....this is from 1998 but still so relevant.
Re: Ask YC: Should Fridays and Saturday nights matter to a young hacker?
#25The last two sentences of Warren Buffet's answer are priceless: Q: What is your career advice? A: If you want to make a lot of money go to Wall Street. More importantly though, do what you would do for free, having passion for what you do is the most important thing. I love what I do; I'm not even that busy. I got a total of five phone calls all day yesterday and one of them was a wrong number. Ms. B from NFM had pas…
Matt, you should submit this -- I would but I don't want to jack your karma.
Re: Ask YC: Should Fridays and Saturday nights matter to a young hacker?
#26You've got to balance that stuff out dude... if you really only enjoy hacking and don't like hanging out with friends, going to movies, eating out, partying, whatever, then cool. But if you're working long hours just to be competitive, then don't do it! Life is too short to treat it like some sort of war. Have fun while you're young. Hacking can be a social activity too. Do you have any friends that are programmers t…
I've always enjoyed hacking since I was 12, and when I'm doing it, it rarely feels like something I have to do. I do it because i want to.
I didn't study computer science in college, I choose to study Philosophy instead. Mainly because in highschool programming courses weren't challenging, and the questions I had my teachers couldn't answer.
Fortunately philosophy has been a pleasant surprise, I've learned alot of new things related and unrelated to hacking. But I knew there was no point in going on when I spent my time in class drawing out concepts and writing algorithms for my project instead of taking notes.
Re: Ask YC: Should Fridays and Saturday nights matter to a young hacker?
#27Why are you using university resources for your startup?
They have fast internet and an environment conducive to productivity? It's extremely unlikely that the university would come after him for his IP, especially if he is a student and is not spinning off university sanctioned research into a company. Of course, you're right, he would still be better off staying away from all university resources, depending on his school's tech transfer policy.
He's actually not a student anymore. Using university resources for your startup is a really bad idea!
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#28If you're looking for people to have sex with, this is the easiest, cheapest, and most direct way to make it happen. http://sfbay.craigslist.org/search/cas/?query=w4m
Where is the sense of humor on here, this was hilarious.
Part of being young is also relaxing and not being so serious all the time. (pro-tip: Laugh a little more often, it melts away the stress)
Re: Ask YC: Should Fridays and Saturday nights matter to a young hacker?
#29You should plan breaks into your lifestyle. Friday nights has always been a minimum for me.
Re: Ask YC: Should Fridays and Saturday nights matter to a young hacker?
#30The last two sentences of Warren Buffet's answer are priceless: Q: What is your career advice? A: If you want to make a lot of money go to Wall Street. More importantly though, do what you would do for free, having passion for what you do is the most important thing. I love what I do; I'm not even that busy. I got a total of five phone calls all day yesterday and one of them was a wrong number. Ms. B from NFM had pas…
For more on this watch some of this talks....this is from 1998 but still so relevant. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DfuXKpMFUjc
Buffett is pure awesome. Thanks for the link!