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Hoodwinker posted:Sure, yeah, let's give the unmedicated, untreated mentally ill homeless folk a nailgun. All they were missing was a solid work ethic, right? this ends with someone's feet nailed to a post
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Startups are hilarious. I am a consultant normally working with very, very large industrial companies that are incredibly bureaucratic. I had a quick job with a hardware startup which was absolutely insane. The amount of time they spent on figuring out how to decorate their office, and the amount of free poo poo in break rooms and free lunches and dinners was crazy. There was far more thought put in to non-core decisions than core decisions. Usually for core decisions they just wanted me to make a snap judgement about what to do. I'm fine with doing that, but I at least like to have some information and data. The org was basically data averse and trying to gather data to make an informed decision was seen as indecisive, weak and not agile enough.
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KYOON GRIFFEY JR posted:Startups are hilarious. I am a consultant normally working with very, very large industrial companies that are incredibly bureaucratic. I had a quick job with a hardware startup which was absolutely insane. The amount of time they spent on figuring out how to decorate their office, and the amount of free poo poo in break rooms and free lunches and dinners was crazy. There was far more thought put in to non-core decisions than core decisions. Usually for core decisions they just wanted me to make a snap judgement about what to do. I'm fine with doing that, but I at least like to have some information and data. The org was basically data averse and trying to gather data to make an informed decision was seen as indecisive, weak and not agile enough. lol there was a time when the office bar bill at this place I was working at was costing more than the hosting for a beefy dynamic php site edit: version 2 of this comment: lol we had an office bar bill at this place i worked at
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the talent deficit posted:this ends with someone's feet nailed to a post
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I wish I worked at those startups. My current startup just involves getting underpaid and lied to constantly. Still BWM on them because I'm gonna quit and I'm literally the only programmer on staff
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Jul 14, 2017 13:40
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Hoodwinker posted:I found this. I like it but it bugs me that the artist was too lazy to redraw the body components for the transparent bits so you can see his head through his hair and his shirt through his head e: I just realized that only happens in the second two panels, the first two his hair is solid and his shirt is only slightly showing through, what the heck
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Jul 14, 2017 14:21
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Don't worry it's legit, you're looking at the *back* collar his shirt through his semi-corporeal self. Continuity maintained, crisis averted, you're welcome BFC :salute:
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Jul 14, 2017 14:59
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JewKiller 3000 posted:yes you do, otherwise why would anyone I'm an investor through my firm in maybe a dozen non-SV companies that have raised SV capital. It's never been easier, even from top-tier firms. I'm sorry if it's been more difficult for you, let me know if you'd like to chat about it sometime!
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KYOON GRIFFEY JR posted:Startups are hilarious. I am a consultant normally working with very, very large industrial companies that are incredibly bureaucratic. I had a quick job with a hardware startup which was absolutely insane. The amount of time they spent on figuring out how to decorate their office, and the amount of free poo poo in break rooms and free lunches and dinners was crazy. There was far more thought put in to non-core decisions than core decisions. Usually for core decisions they just wanted me to make a snap judgement about what to do. I'm fine with doing that, but I at least like to have some information and data. The org was basically data averse and trying to gather data to make an informed decision was seen as indecisive, weak and not agile enough. I've been working at startups most of my career. Even in the successful ones there is a lot of bike sheding. It seems everyone thinks they need to be google (with free food, etc) but don't actually understand why google does this (it's to keep people on campus - something most of these other startups do not have), and also convinces themselves that it's necessary just to be competitive on hiring - especially in the bay area. So much time spent on building a culture, and identity and a business, and often so little on their actual products. While I do believe all of these things needs to be built to be successful it's all too easy to avoid real product problems by spending time thinking about break room stocking.
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Subjunctive posted:I'm an investor through my firm in maybe a dozen non-SV companies that have raised SV capital. It's never been easier, even from top-tier firms. I'm sorry if it's been more difficult for you, let me know if you'd like to chat about it sometime! Will you invest in my idea even though I haven't actually taken it beyond the "ideas in my notebook and also some downloaded SDK's" stage because it's a real good idea for a funy app (I'm not even completely kidding, I'd make it on my free time but it's fairly complex and I have trouble focusing on one project at a time and also, y'know, have a full-time job programming  )
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ate all the Oreos posted:Will you invest in my idea even though I haven't actually taken it beyond the "ideas in my notebook and also some downloaded SDK's" stage because it's a real good idea for a funy app No, but I'd give you feedback on how to get it ready to talk to investors. PM me if you want.
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Subjunctive posted:No, but I'd give you feedback on how to get it ready to talk to investors. PM me if you want. Sure, I'll hit you up later, thanks. I'd like it if you can at least tell me if it's a dumb idea 
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ate all the Oreos posted:Sure, I'll hit you up later, thanks. I'd like it if you can at least tell me if it's a dumb idea I mean, it probably is, but so is fuckin' Juicero, so don't let that stop you.
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https://np.reddit.com/r/legaladvice/comments/6n5tug/mn_i_got_scammed_out_of_10000_by_my_now_ex/quote:(MN) I got scammed out of $10,000 by my now ex girlfriend. What do I do?
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Oh yes, I'm reminded of this comment I saw on the AskReddit thread, "What's the worst buyer's remorse you've ever had?" Fence quote:Fence Financing a fence, bought for a partner who soon becomes unfaithful, all on land you don't own! This is a BWM bingo. Hoodwinker fucked around with this message at 20:00 on Jul 14, 2017 |
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Not to mention chain link fence are hideous and cheap looking. You finance a fence and it's not even a nice one wtf
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Jul 14, 2017 20:03
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Install is the bucks. Gotta cement those poles.
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Nail Rat posted:Not to mention chain link fence are hideous and cheap looking. You finance a fence and it's not even a nice one wtf He should have leased the fence. And yes you can do that: https://www.unitedsiteservices.com/temporary-fence-rentals
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Crossposted from the /r/relationships thread: My husband (48M) is having a midlife crisis and invested all of our savings into bitcoins. I (46F) have no idea what to do now quote:What the title says. I'm alternating between having a panic attack and just being in shock. Today I went online to make a payment and saw there was $216 in our bank account. Yep. All the rest was gone. The activity showed a series of massive withdrawals over the past week. I immediately called the bank assuming fraud or an error. They looked and told me they didn't have any way of knowing where the money went or who took it out, only that it had been withdrawn. I cancelled my credit card and called my husband to tell him to do the same. The bank said they'd investigate and hopefully reimburse us.
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Another thread could argue until the end of time whether cryptocurrency was a good investment or not but taking the leap to the tune of $50k+ and flat out not telling your wife about it is a bad sign no matter what.
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Jesus Christ, mid-40s married couple with only 50k in savings. Hopefully they're just a one income household? We are headed for some serious-rear end poo poo when all these old people run out of money
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ate all the Oreos posted:Sure, I'll hit you up later, thanks. I'd like it if you can at least tell me if it's a dumb idea It's like uber, but for criminal defense lawyers.
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pathetic little tramp posted:Jesus Christ, mid-40s married couple with only 50k in savings. Hopefully they're just a one income household? I'm like 90% sure that's a troll.
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pathetic little tramp posted:Jesus Christ, mid-40s married couple with only 50k in savings. Hopefully they're just a one income household? She said bank account, not that 50k was the totality of their retirement savings. Which is the second stupidest thing in her post, who leaves >50k sitting in a bank account?
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Enos Cabell posted:She said bank account, not that 50k was the totality of their retirement savings. Which is the second stupidest thing in her post, who leaves >50k sitting in a bank account? Not her husband.
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Jul 15, 2017 03:03
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Me, trying to make a down payment on a house.
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Jul 15, 2017 03:15
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Ha, was just gonna say "Anyone that lives and dies by the 6 months of income in savings" rule. I see people with ~$200k sitting in checking accounts all day.
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Enos Cabell posted:Which is the second stupidest thing in her post, who leaves >50k sitting in a bank account? Uhhhh.....yeah, like Solisce Kirsk said....that's not an enormous amount for someone who wants to keep 6 months of expenses liquid. I understand going over $99,999.99 in earnings per year makes you fantastically wealthy so therefore you expenses should be well below 1/2 of that that for 6 months, but it happens.
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Youth Decay posted:I'm like 90% sure that's a troll. Now that I think about it that probably is some dumb, overthought troll. Which in itself is hilarious because I mean, trolling that topic is kind of pointless, I think, but whatever. Lots of bored folks out there.
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Enos Cabell posted:She said bank account, not that 50k was the totality of their retirement savings. Which is the second stupidest thing in her post, who leaves >50k sitting in a bank account? Here is my BWM.... at 43k right now, I didn't want to go over 8k in my banking account when I planned things out (that is about 4 months of expenses in my account, I live cheap), but I stupidly didn't follow the put X amount in an index fund at Y interval. I did for a while but the market went up and up and up and I thought seems high towards the end of last year (BWM). I didn't sell out, just stopped adding money in, I haven't traded any stocks since then and have been having cash build up. I didn't want to deal with the trouble of a savings account for 1%.
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ain't no timing the market just put it in and hodl
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This isn't the long term investment thread or the stock trading thread. Let's keep our personal doubts out of here. Take it to those threads were we can all tell you to either put all your money into VFIAX or AMD respectively.
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curufinor posted:ain't no timing the market
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Hoodwinker posted:this but unironically not a drat drop of irony in my statement, pardner
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Motronic posted:Uhhhh.....yeah, like Solisce Kirsk said....that's not an enormous amount for someone who wants to keep 6 months of expenses liquid. I understand going over $99,999.99 in earnings per year makes you fantastically wealthy so therefore you expenses should be well below 1/2 of that that for 6 months, but it happens. People who make 100k a year are just further down the line on the guillotine train. But yeah, that was totally a troll. Everyone knows you keep all your money in gold.
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Krispy Kareem posted:Everyone knows you keep all your money in gold. Please stop doxing me. Thanks.
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Jul 15, 2017 14:08
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"Invest in rest." Mattress futures my friends.
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Solice Kirsk posted:"Invest in rest." Mattress futures my friends. SCSS gamblers from 2008 are sleeping soundly.
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