years

Sorry for the language, this has been boiling for more than two years now...

A few years ago we could. That's an unfortunate change.

In all my years on this planet I have never been pleased with a telecom company. Never.

A few years ago, we found ourselves crunched. We turned a lot of different knobs to try to solve the problem.

Sposato was there for about two years. Most of the people who left were marketing support or office management.

Android is no longer meaningfully open, other than a years old core of basic functions. Just like OSX and Darwin.

Reminds me, I should write my own story of how I made $190 on the App Store while exercising 15 years of coding experience.

And Microsoft has been gradually digging itself out of a hole in that respect for several years. Now in my mind they are both the enemy.

I saw other grad students get it really bad, and burn out for years. During my first postdoc, I dated a neuroscientist and reprogrammed my work habits.

I've spent many hours over the past several years trying to understand and mitigate such problems. I've come up with a bunch of tweaks that worked, and I have hopes I'll be able to come up with more.

I might notice this more than most because I made a life decision to not use a "smart phone" and have kept using the same shitty Blackberry for 6 years now. It can only do calls, texts, and Sudoku.

Can we also skip the submissions asking people not to post things instead of just letting the community decide the same way it's been done for years?

Quora has now spent several years training me to be bummed out every time I click on a link to their site. Every time it happens, I dislike them more, and become more resistant to creating an account.

Four years ago I began work on my own feed reader, NewsBlur, and it's now a full-fledged Google Reader competitor. It's also a paid app and has been paying for itself nearly since the beginning.

Think of it this way: had your company been successful, it almost certainly would have left you in a state where you'd be working for someone else for a couple years during your earnout." Not working for someone else" was never really on the table. * Getting a company funded and then running it is a resume plus. You won't have more trouble getting another job than you did getting the one you left to start this company. * Your investors expected you to fail. The odds were always overwhelmingly that you would. The whole startup investment model is, put money into 10 companies, hope 1 succeeds. Your investors are professionals. Let their problems remain their problems. * Are you going to get ridiculed for failing? Obviously, you're not an HN reader. You'd have gotten ridiculed for succeeding. Ridicule is the air we breathe. Why do you care? * Most small companies start from nothing. That's good news, because "nothing" is an easy state to achieve. Give yourself a couple years, and then try again.