I agree. You may also consider negotiating for something they do have -- time. I am a serial start-up employee and have successfully negotiated four day work weeks at the last two companies I've worked for.
As the parent says, don't lose sight of the financials of the new company. Also, in my experience, most start-ups are missing one or more of the key ingredients to success (sales and marketing, leadership and vision, technical execution). I have found that a start up that really recognizes the importance of sales and marketing has a shot at being around for awhile.
BTW, I think this article/question is a great advertisement for living beneath your means in a significant way. If the poster has paid down a significant portion of his home and not gotten addicted to the lavish lifestyle he can currently afford, he would probably not be asking/. for advice, but rather taking the plunge.
I consider myself to a competent developer with some SQL skills and bit of DBA knowledge albeit mainly in MSSQLServer.
The PostgreSQL 8.0 for windows installation process was very difficult and ultimately unsuccessful. Anyone who uses the Win platform for development will reject PostgreSQL like I did due to difficult getting it up an running.
I am looking forward to PostgreSQL maturing relative to the windows port. Let's hope the team feels the same way!!
Although I was a National Merit Scholar and had an SAT score of 1540 (800 Verbal/740 Math), I couldn't hack it, since (A) Math has given me nightmares ever since one particularly awful Calc teacher in HS, and (B) in 20 years of coding, I've never had a need for any math higher than Trig, and Trig only once.
This proves it! They've made the SAT easier. Back in the day, anyone who scored 700+ in Math on the SAT would have been eager and capable of tackling these classes,
* FOUR (yes, count 'em, FOUR) levels of Calc.
* Engineering Math
* Discrete Math
* Linear Algebra
* Circuit Design
Maybe, just maybe, some of your professors where trying to teach you how to THINK, not just memorize vocabulary and test taking skills.
I have been using Trac for a little over half a year. Trac provides a combination of wiki + ticketing system (bug/issue tracking) + Subversion integration for source. Project Roadmap and Milestones are particularly helpful.
Why doesn't each person leave a slightly different version of the world for the next person to find?
Because there is such a thing as absolute truth. We may not like it. We may comfort ourselves (temporarily) with the reality we construct. This manufactured reality ultimately disappoints though.
My father-in-law gave me great advice back in 1999 prior to the.bomb regarding stock options.
"Stock Options are high-risk because you are not diversifying."
He recommended doing a good job on your job. Look for a better job if need/want to. And let this be the only risk you take with that company.
Take your risk capital and place focused investments in serval other companies.
The biggest danger with stock options is to _ever_ assume that they will be worth anything except as a fire starter. Manage expectations down. If, in the rare case, they hit, then fantastic. Cash in half and throw a small party.
The general sentiment on this list is that many, many people will take advantage of this. Maybe or maybe not.
I downloaded it and have tried it. GmailFS really works. I will use it for what I really need it for: storing personal files that I do not want to have to copy off this work laptop after they find out how much time I spend on/.
Seriously, I can now effortlessly share files from my home computer.
I am not sure what it is that I am supposed to be doing at work.
All day I read Slashdot and wish I had time for my personal projects.
Seriously, though, I have a desire to see our company adopt real development processes. Direct attack didn't work. So I took the project assigned to me and completed it using new tools and techniques. Therefore it is fun.
I need your help in switching to a Linux desktop.
At home, no brainer, and not really much of an impact because we are running Firefox only...
At work, however, I need to be able to terminal service into Windows Servers, interact with the filesystems on Window Servers directly, and do development and debugging of MS SQL Server apps via a Query Analyzer like product.
Any recomendations?
The article recommended Xandros, but I am cheap. Any other good distros for the desktop?
rdesktop looks like the right answer for terminal services.
What about a Query Analyzer like tool? Anyone out there doing what I want to do?
TIA
Extensions or no extensions, I have a two year old laptop that I use for heavy development, running lots of MS bloatware for my job. Rendering typical pages in IE is 10X slower than FireFox.
I was elated...
Just the other day I found out about the extensions when researching RSS feeds and readers. RSS Reader, Download Mgr Tweak, BlogThis, and of course Firesomething. BlogThis has changed how I track and capture the ideas that come to me that I cannot deal with right away. Use RSS to read my own blog.
I have no statistics to back this up...
The 2004 Civic is nearly the same size or bigger than a 1992 Accord.
Vehicle weight has a lot to do with fuel efficiency.
I had a CRX that rocked wrt MPG.
Slashdot Mirror
At first glance on my RSS reader, I thought I read that unmanned drones are going to be used to enforce DRM. MS.RIAA.MPAA.gov
I agree. You may also consider negotiating for something they do have -- time. I am a serial start-up employee and have successfully negotiated four day work weeks at the last two companies I've worked for.
/. for advice, but rather taking the plunge.
As the parent says, don't lose sight of the financials of the new company. Also, in my experience, most start-ups are missing one or more of the key ingredients to success (sales and marketing, leadership and vision, technical execution). I have found that a start up that really recognizes the importance of sales and marketing has a shot at being around for awhile.
BTW, I think this article/question is a great advertisement for living beneath your means in a significant way. If the poster has paid down a significant portion of his home and not gotten addicted to the lavish lifestyle he can currently afford, he would probably not be asking
Go for it! Live!
Ning was the unfortunate lad's name.
To ridicule is human...
That name is far too long and hard to pronounce.
Umbrella Corp. is available...
It sure feels like a first port...
I consider myself to a competent developer with some SQL skills and bit of DBA knowledge albeit mainly in MSSQLServer.
The PostgreSQL 8.0 for windows installation process was very difficult and ultimately unsuccessful. Anyone who uses the Win platform for development will reject PostgreSQL like I did due to difficult getting it up an running.
I am looking forward to PostgreSQL maturing relative to the windows port. Let's hope the team feels the same way!!
Although I was a National Merit Scholar and had an SAT score of 1540 (800 Verbal/740 Math), I couldn't hack it, since (A) Math has given me nightmares ever since one particularly awful Calc teacher in HS, and (B) in 20 years of coding, I've never had a need for any math higher than Trig, and Trig only once.
This proves it! They've made the SAT easier. Back in the day, anyone who scored 700+ in Math on the SAT would have been eager and capable of tackling these classes,
* FOUR (yes, count 'em, FOUR) levels of Calc.
* Engineering Math
* Discrete Math
* Linear Algebra
* Circuit Design
Maybe, just maybe, some of your professors where trying to teach you how to THINK, not just memorize vocabulary and test taking skills.
I have been using Trac for a little over half a year. Trac provides a combination of wiki + ticketing system (bug/issue tracking) + Subversion integration for source. Project Roadmap and Milestones are particularly helpful.
Check it out at http://projects.edgewall.com/trac
Why doesn't each person leave a slightly different version of the world for the next person to find?
Because there is such a thing as absolute truth. We may not like it. We may comfort ourselves (temporarily) with the reality we construct. This manufactured reality ultimately disappoints though.
My father-in-law gave me great advice back in 1999 prior to the .bomb regarding stock options.
"Stock Options are high-risk because you are not diversifying."
He recommended doing a good job on your job. Look for a better job if need/want to. And let this be the only risk you take with that company.
Take your risk capital and place focused investments in serval other companies.
The biggest danger with stock options is to _ever_ assume that they will be worth anything except as a fire starter. Manage expectations down. If, in the rare case, they hit, then fantastic. Cash in half and throw a small party.
The general sentiment on this list is that many, many people will take advantage of this. Maybe or maybe not.
/.
I downloaded it and have tried it. GmailFS really works. I will use it for what I really need it for: storing personal files that I do not want to have to copy off this work laptop after they find out how much time I spend on
Seriously, I can now effortlessly share files from my home computer.
I am not sure what it is that I am supposed to be doing at work.
All day I read Slashdot and wish I had time for my personal projects.
Seriously, though, I have a desire to see our company adopt real development processes. Direct attack didn't work. So I took the project assigned to me and completed it using new tools and techniques. Therefore it is fun.
I need your help in switching to a Linux desktop.
At home, no brainer, and not really much of an impact because we are running Firefox only...
At work, however, I need to be able to terminal service into Windows Servers, interact with the filesystems on Window Servers directly, and do development and debugging of MS SQL Server apps via a Query Analyzer like product.
Any recomendations?
The article recommended Xandros, but I am cheap. Any other good distros for the desktop?
rdesktop looks like the right answer for terminal services.
What about a Query Analyzer like tool? Anyone out there doing what I want to do?
TIA
Soon MS will be patenting the Open Source process!!
Is the bee's knees similar to the cat's ass?
If your not sure, sent an invite to gmail and I will do a thorough analysis for you!
vending machine delivered temporary accounts.
Apparently the only known symptom of this virsus is its ability to generate multiple /. posts.
Plain and simple FireFox saves me time.
Extensions or no extensions, I have a two year old laptop that I use for heavy development, running lots of MS bloatware for my job. Rendering typical pages in IE is 10X slower than FireFox.
I was elated...
Just the other day I found out about the extensions when researching RSS feeds and readers. RSS Reader, Download Mgr Tweak, BlogThis, and of course Firesomething. BlogThis has changed how I track and capture the ideas that come to me that I cannot deal with right away. Use RSS to read my own blog.
Al Gore created *NIX.
I have no statistics to back this up...
The 2004 Civic is nearly the same size or bigger than a 1992 Accord.
Vehicle weight has a lot to do with fuel efficiency.
I had a CRX that rocked wrt MPG.
This is the beginning of the end... Marry this supercomputer with AI and BitKeeper access to the kernel and who knows what will happen next.