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are non-compete agreements just for suckers? | GiraffeNecktie: As far as I know, they're not enforceable (at least not in Canada). I would take it as a warning sign that the company has some d*ckhead lawyers running around without adult supervision. |
are non-compete agreements just for suckers? | icey: In the very few places that I've had to deal with a non-compete agreement, I've always been able to get amendments made to the contract that limits the specificity to a more acceptable level. Companies just want to try to protect their property as much as possible.The conventional wisdom appears to be that non-co... |
are non-compete agreements just for suckers? | modoc: I've had every one of my employment or contracting agreements changed. I usually don't strike them completely, I usually modify them to something limited and reasonable. I won't steal inside info. I won't go to work for one of the clients whose project I worked on, etc... Never had a problem as long as I was... |
are non-compete agreements just for suckers? | olefoo: They are difficult to enforce in many jurisdictions; and to be enforceable at all they usually have to be limited in scope. That said, yes, they are for suckers, it's a sucker move to ask for one, and a sucker move to accept one. |
are non-compete agreements just for suckers? | bkbleikamp: I don't think they're enforceable in CA. |
are non-compete agreements just for suckers? | callmeed: In some states, Calif included, they are practically unenforceable (except for perhaps the sale of a business). |
are non-compete agreements just for suckers? | pg: They're the norm in tech companies. I don't think they're really necessary for most employees. But few investors would invest in a startup whose founders hadn't signed noncompetes. Otherwise they'd be investing in air. All the founders could leave and start a new company doing the same thing. |
do entrepreneurs serve as pawns for economic development? | jganetsk: By the definition of capitalism, we are all pawns of the invisible hand of the market, as much as we are the benefactors. |
What are your priorities in a VPS service? | mahmud: #1Ability to sign up. I have filled your online form; it says you're picky/choosy about who you accept, and I haven't heard from you in 3+ weeks, so I guess I'm not it. None of your features mean anything to me if I can't get them.#2Knowing that my host is not doing a lot of maintenance work behind the scenes. ... |
are non-compete agreements just for suckers? | indiejade: Here's a good article:http://mixergy.com/why-i-wont-sign-your-nda/While I know a non-compete isn't an NDA, the reasons outlined in the article make a lot of sense and could be applied to reasons to not sign a non-compete. Particularly:Reason #1: It puts all the obligation on me and none on youH&R Block is i... |
are non-compete agreements just for suckers? | jackowayed: It doesn't seem like that big of a deal to me.I had to sign one for my job this summer (small tech consulting firm that's now doing a couple products and less consulting), but it was pretty limited. It just said that I wouldn't work in the couple of pretty-specific fields that my company's products are in f... |
are non-compete agreements just for suckers? | known: I think NDA is for Paranoids. |
are non-compete agreements just for suckers? | tjmc: They are mostly unenforceable here in Australia but I've still seen them in a few contracts and never agree to them. Far more common are clauses that prohibit overt poaching of clients or staff to a new venture which is more reasonable IMHO. |
Gmail feature you just can't live without. | vivekamn: keyboard short cuts. |
So you've just pulled an all nighter, how do you get through the day? | jjs: Go to sleep. |
So you've just pulled an all nighter, how do you get through the day? | Tichy: Sleep. Swimming in a lake sometimes is good, too (but don't drown). |
So you've just pulled an all nighter, how do you get through the day? | hvs: Eat something. Not too much or it'll make you more tired.Caffeine is a double-edged sword. It'll keep you going for a short period of time followed by a crash. Either drink A LOT of it throughout the day or don't drink it at all.Vitamin B can help in my experience.Go to bed. |
So you've just pulled an all nighter, how do you get through the day? | klagan: Lots and lots of water and do NOT expect to be productive. Wash your face often too and go for walks.Essentially, "jjs" is right. You may as well go to sleep, because you will as productive as if you were. |
So you've just pulled an all nighter, how do you get through the day? | mlLK: Cold shower, eat, coffee, and 20mg of Aderall (generic), but proceed with extreme caution. Self-monitor your thoughts and behavior closely but not too closely, don't forget to relax, and don't be shy about letting others know that you're tired or had trouble getting sleep last night. Lastly, don't make all-nighte... |
So you've just pulled an all nighter, how do you get through the day? | geoffw8: Man up. Most of its in your head, being tired just makes it harder to calculate, kick back comfortably with a brew and work away. |
So you've just pulled an all nighter, how do you get through the day? | xsc: Go to the gym. Sweat. Then, go outside and breathe the fresh air. That has always done the trick for me. |
So you've just pulled an all nighter, how do you get through the day? | sherl0ck: For the next Day? I prefer sleep though, even coffee can help you pull the day,but at the end, you still have to sleep. |
So you've just pulled an all nighter, how do you get through the day? | joel_feather: Don't do all nighters. They will make you lose a lot more time recovering compared to just sleeping little. If you actually need to get a lot done in a short amount of time, go to sleep, and wake up after 3 hours, then kick down some energy drinks. |
So you've just pulled an all nighter, how do you get through the day? | ashleyw: Sleep. I've pulled tons of all nighters…but I only do it if I honestly don't want/need sleep. I get far, far more done in 10 hours than I would in 20.Don't lengthen your working hours, optimize them. |
So you've just pulled an all nighter, how do you get through the day? | uptown: Sleep is for wimps. |
So you've just pulled an all nighter, how do you get through the day? | ErrantX: > Coffee? Teas? Energy drinks?No this will make it a lot worse.> Sleep?
your best bet - but plan carefully to avoid mucking up your sleep patterns.If you must stay awake orange juice, water and regular walks (outside, fresh air) are the key.If you must have caffeine then drink tea. Coffee is too high in caffei... |
So you've just pulled an all nighter, how do you get through the day? | modoc: I actually have no problem staying up for 2 days straight. It's the NEXT day that I'm useless, so I don't do it often. I don't partake in caffeine beyond an occasional cup of tea. My body just seems fine with anything up to about 2 days of being awake. |
So you've just pulled an all nighter, how do you get through the day? | Milansoc15: I usually drink coffee with lots of water after, need to be hydrated so you don't crash after the coffee. Putting some music on helps as well, and try to stay active. Seems like once you get over that first drowsiness you're good for the day |
So you've just pulled an all nighter, how do you get through the day? | byrneseyeview: If you do stimulants, you'll want to figure out when they'll wear off. For me, drinking coffee works as long as I can have another cup every hour or two to ward off the crash. Go outside and walk around, or try to schedule something you'll care about for around midafternoon. |
So you've just pulled an all nighter, how do you get through the day? | wallflower: The interest you pay on a sleep deficit will hurt your health in the long-term. Please don't do any extended driving (>15 min) today. |
So you've just pulled an all nighter, how do you get through the day? | _-TIMMY-_: 200 mg modafinil. Useful for any rotating-shift type of work. |
So you've just pulled an all nighter, how do you get through the day? | raintrees: Sunshine. Resets your bio clock a bit. And a little caffeine.Early bed the following night! |
So you've just pulled an all nighter, how do you get through the day? | edw519: "I've done all nighters before..."Then you're doing something wrong. The way you manage your time? The way you approach your subject? The way you organize your work? The way you set priorities?An all-nighter is not a badge of honor. It's a sign of poor work habits earlier in the cycle. Find the cause of y... |
So you've just pulled an all nighter, how do you get through the day? | HeyLaughingBoy: Sleep.Though I have to say that staying up all night for any reason other than partying is dumb. |
So you've just pulled an all nighter, how do you get through the day? | tamas: I've noticed that when I pull all nighters right before deadlines, and manage to get finished before code freeze, I have an overwhelming feeling of accomplishment and get so psyched that I spend the following workday much more productive than during regular (albeit generally laden with sleep debt) workdays.But w... |
Simple Apps | raju: Here are actual links - http://untodos.com/ and http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=646277 |
So you've just pulled an all nighter, how do you get through the day? | lleger: One hour at a time . . . |
So you've just pulled an all nighter, how do you get through the day? | rishi: Work in the Sun |
So you've just pulled an all nighter, how do you get through the day? | edave: Do you have a caffeine addiction already? If so, I'd say keep up drinking some caffeine just so you don't have withdrawal problems on top of being tired.I don't drink caffeine, but here's what's worked for me:
1) Nap several times during the day, if you can, even 20 mins is enough.
2) Drink lots of water, eat s... |
So you've just pulled an all nighter, how do you get through the day? | safetytrick: Take a caffeine nap, drink something with caffeine and then take a 20 minute nap. Works wonders. |
are soft lies in sales okay? | mixmax: It depends entirely on what your goal is. If you want to create a billion dollar company it's probably essential. If you want to sleep well at night it's a mistake. |
are soft lies in sales okay? | tokenadult: Nothing busts my trust faster than lies. Indeed, the company mentioned as an example (Microsoft) lost my trust by overpromising and underdelivering with some releases of Windows back in the day. |
are soft lies in sales okay? | spooneybarger: If you have to ask if its okay, it isn't for you. |
are soft lies in sales okay? | michael_nielsen: Run your question through the argument in "Be Good": http://www.paulgraham.com/good.html Quite apart from your self-respect (value: priceless), telling soft lies is not going to help you be good, and there's a reasonable argument it may harm your company. |
Taxpayer funded open source? | sarvesh: Whenever the idea of government getting involved with startups or silicon valley comes up it makes me sick to my stomach. Picking the right startups, open source or otherwise is a hard thing to do and especially for the government. They have done that in the past, the government trying to fund the semiconducto... |
are soft lies in sales okay? | param: In enterprise software, there is another angle to this problem. If you know that the deployment process is going to take 3 years, should you tell your customers that there are features in your product that are right now sitting on your immedidate roadmap? what about medium term roadmap? How do you determine whe... |
Taxpayer funded open source? | cperciva: Let's say we pay 1000 programmers $50,000 a year to work on open source projects.What makes you think that $50k/year is enough to attract good developers? We're talking about people who could easily earn double that -- and many of the top open source developers spend most of their paid time writing open sour... |
are soft lies in sales okay? | swombat: As I understand it, "Ask HN" posts are supposed to be local, not on another site. But perhaps that was a white lie in your perspective? |
So you've just pulled an all nighter, how do you get through the day? | cyunker: For me, just taking a 1-2 hour nap can make a big difference. |
So you've just pulled an all nighter, how do you get through the day? | saikat: Sleep. If you are at work and your boss doesn't realize sleeping will make you more productive, go sleep in the toilet until you can quit your job and get one where you can sleep how and when you want. |
Taxpayer funded open source? | ram1024: you've almost got the right idea, except how does a taxpayer justify investing 60mil into something that doesn't make money?furthermore taking out the need to turn a profit will result in mediocre products being made.this smells like china to me |
are soft lies in sales okay? | niyazpk: No. (fullstop) |
So you've just pulled an all nighter, how do you get through the day? | torr: Step 1: Around lunch time, in a very nonchalant way, stroll out to your car, set your watch/portable-alarm-clock/cell-phone-alarm-clock to wake you up near the end of your lunch break, tilt back the seat, and zzzzzzz.....Step 2: After waking, splash cold water on face, then eat your lunch at you desk. |
are soft lies in sales okay? | anigbrowl: If you make a sale, you've committed yourself to making the lie come true (or at least hiding it's lack of truth). Say goodbye to your development schedule and/or your tech support budget.Of course, hardcore sales people who don't mind lying will cheerfully say 'all's fair in love and war, and no battle plan... |
are soft lies in sales okay? | edw519: Never. Trust lost is trust lost forever.Reminds me of the parable of a man who sometimes stretched the truth in business. He went to a guru for help with his "problem".The guru's advice: "Take these 10 feather pillows, slash them open, and release the feathers to the wind. Then come back tomorrow."The next d... |
So you've just pulled an all nighter, how do you get through the day? | youngian: Energy drinks, in tiny, tiny sips. After that, water and a sugary granola bar, in tiny sips and bites.By consuming in tiny increments, you are both avoiding caffeine overload and prolonging the amount of time you can keep yourself occupied with the task of drinking and eating. As long as you're taking tiny si... |
Post-YC Startup Numbers | vaksel: those are employees, they aren't counting the founders in those 200 people |
Taxpayer funded open source? | JesseAldridge: So that's it? I propose a straight-forward plan to revolutionize software development and all anybody has for me are a few lame objections?How disappointing. |
Taxpayer funded open source? | wmf: This is already happening here and there. The DOE made a policy decision to use open source on their supercomputers so that they would be vendor-indpendent; this has resulted in open source software like Lustre and SLURM. The E community was funded by DARPA. I'm sure there are others.I don't know of any umbrella i... |
So you've just pulled an all nighter, how do you get through the day? | yannis: An unhealthy egg and bacon breakfast with a Bloody Mary on top and then sleep for forty minutes after lunch break. |
So you've just pulled an all nighter, how do you get through the day? | waivej: I've done quite a few, and remember fondly a double all nighter my first startup pulled to release 1.0. Sometimes it makes sense, but it is better to be avoided.-Feed yourself well. Avoid sugar. Drink water.
-Marvel at the sun, people in their rituals, etc.
-Make a simple agenda: when to leave work, when t... |
are soft lies in sales okay? | sgibson12: I happened to write an article about this a few weeks back. My answer is a concessional yes. But in my limited sales experience I don't do it myself. Thus making me a poor salesperson. See excerpt:"These tactics are part of all sales. To large degree, it’s accepted and understood to be part of the game. It u... |
list of companies, and business models? | gasull: I just created the wiki for you in less than an hour:
http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=648223 |
please review my webapp: metracks.com | mahmud: Do you really need age, gender and country to sign up? Remove that signup form and replace it with a "Try" button that lets people use the service. Attach the registration code to the onunload method of the user's "home" page, popup a dialog asking them to register to save their settings (requiring only login-n... |
please review my webapp: metracks.com | johnnybgoode: Anyone else remember when mp3.com did this and there was a huge controversy? I doubt you'll have the same problem this time.Edit: Actually, now that I think about it, the mp3.com controversy was about providing a streaming version after verifying that you own the CD. There was at least one other company t... |
please review my webapp: metracks.com | vaksel: You need to talk a little bit more about the Amazon S3...outside the web developer community noone really knows what that is. |
please review my webapp: metracks.com | jerryji: I like the concept, not the interface. |
Any good networking libraries in Python ? | timf: Check out Impacket too:http://oss.coresecurity.com/projects/impacket.html |
please review my webapp: metracks.com | lacker: I don't want to upload my music collection before using any site. If there was something I could try without spending all that time, I'd be more likely to. |
please review my webapp: metracks.com | paulgb: This is a service I would use. I was turned off from signing up though, because:- why do you want all that info? I usually don't even give my full name to a site until it has earned my trust.
- what does Bespoke audio player mean? I'm guessing it's the flash audio player, but that means nothing to me.
- I can't... |
please review my webapp: metracks.com | snewe: How does this differ from:lala.com
mp3tunes.com? |
please review my webapp: metracks.com | chaosmachine: "Currently in Beta, we require you to help us in testing the service and providing subsequent feedback, so give it a go, its FREE!"Your copy needs some work. That should be "it's FREE", for example. |
please review my webapp: metracks.com | rg: Can't tell whether BBC stations are available--no way to search the radio stations. The site hardly works at all in Google Chrome, have to reload the home page frequently to get out of being wedged. I see it's "unlimited" except for about a yard of footnotes qualifying that and giving limits. And, like everyone ... |
please review my webapp: metracks.com | branden: It took me some time to realize that meTracks allows you to upload your music and listen to it anywhere. Is there a reason you can't say that instead of "meTracks is an innovative web based audio player allowing you to listen to your music on demand"? I can already listen to my music on demand. I hit play. |
please review my webapp: metracks.com | nopassrecover: Couple of design points. The large bold text at top right ("music store, radio charts, audio charts) looks terrible. It's too big, not centered within it's bounds and the black highlight on something that big looks wrong.Username/password login could be made to look nicer too, especially as there is a ... |
please review my webapp: metracks.com | Fuca: I have actually been looking for a website that plays all my favorite radio stations, but did not find any stations for my country or some way to see if i can add them by urlthe logo should be static, the colors can be betteri think a webradio site standard would be a huge thing |
please review my webapp: metracks.com | ggrot: What are you trying to solve with the text captcha? Users might get confused what is going on there. If a spammer wanted to create a zillion accounts, they could very very quickly write code to solve a captcha like that.Those kinds of captchas work well for blog comments where the spammer is trying to get thei... |
please review my webapp: metracks.com | tripngroove: Regarding the UI:
When the 'charts' to stack over the site content but are the same width as the rest of the site, it appears at first that one has navigated to a new page, which makes it even more confusing when you're trying to get rid of them. I think this is a counterintuitive piece of interaction tha... |
please review my webapp: metracks.com | chanux: But why? Not even to website itself?`You may not create a link to this website from another website or document without "meTracks’s" prior written consent.` |
How have you tracked iphone user behaviour for your app? | ujjwalg: We have incorporated Pinchmedia analytics and have also tried medialytics in our iPhone apps. Pinchmedia is much better. But now we are incorporating our own analytics as we are looking for individual user behavior more than average. |
please review my webapp: metracks.com | michaelkeenan: I started reading "Currently in Beta, we require..." first, and then I started reading the features, and then I was thinking "wait, what does this thing do?" and then I finally found "meTracks is an innovative web based audio player...". I think the reason I didn't find the description first is because i... |
please review my webapp: metracks.com | ktharavaad: A few things
1, you should put united-states at the top of your country list2, WHY does everyone use Flex for their audio players, I simply CANNOT understand this. Just use flash and avoid the 200k framework code and the few megs of memory usage associated with the Flex framework. And since you are running ... |
Catalogue of business models | gasull: I just started a community wiki with the same idea but inverted; it's a catalog of known successful startups and their business models: http://bizmodels.wikidot.com/So it starts with the examples instead of starting with the business models. Maybe a catalog as you wish could be accomplished tagging the corresp... |
Catalogue of business models | gyred: Author of this blog has just published a book on business models:http://business-model-design.blogspot.com/ |
Please review my startup crowdmind.com | anigbrowl: At first I thought it was just another of those 'ask the intarwebs!' sites where people just twitter or post to each other, but on further inspection I was very taken with the scoring system and the ability to rate the poster's good and bad reasons.It looks like quite a bit more work to create the question t... |
please review my webapp: metracks.com | s3graham: I keep hearing "meat racks" in my head. Not sure if anyone else will, perhaps I'm just hungry. |
ASK HN: Illegal Book/Mp3/* Downloads. | vonsydov: I think it should really be a personal decision.Maybe you're luckier than he is in other ways. Maybe he'll create something great by using the knowledge which will benefit everybody. Maybe he can't buy the book at all, so downloading might not have that bad an effect.I personally feel all creative content sho... |
Please review my startup crowdmind.com | pushingbits: The main page is pretty slick, though you might want to think about using at least slightly different styles for the "Considering" and "Looking for" sections.The "get a bigger crowd" options are a really good idea.However, the question/answer pages are rather crowded. A clearer seperation of elements would... |
Please review my startup crowdmind.com | maryrosecook: As I'm sure you're aware, http://ask.metafilter.com does the same thing. I use it because of the MetaFilter community: I have a general understanding of the demographic, morals, values and politics of the people I'm asking questions of. I also know that people's answers must be posted with an account th... |
Please review my startup crowdmind.com | antiismist: The UI needs some work. The Viget Labs page looks really slick, so whoever did that should take a crack at crowdmind. I won't sign in to sketchy looking websites, even if it is with OpenID. |
ASK HN: Illegal Book/Mp3/* Downloads. | johnnybgoode: It depends on many things, such as whether or not you believe in intellectual property. |
please review my webapp: metracks.com | maryrosecook: I have a pretty niche taste in music, so it might be worth my while uploading all my music so I can access it from anywhere. However, if I had a normal taste in music, why would I not just use Spotify? |
Please review my startup crowdmind.com | mutoxen: Please advise that I need to be logged to have an aswer, because with the Back button I need to rewrite the question. |
What's a startup and what's a web app? | wlievens: A web app is a product. A startup is a business. A business can field one or more products or services in an attempt to make money. In the case when a startup has one main product, a web app, the terms are sometimes conflated (which I don't really like). |
Please review my startup crowdmind.com | Tichy: Like it, but the interface is a bit confusing. At first I did not even see the options in the side bar, which are actually the main thing to decide upon? It wasn't clear to me where to enter stuff either.I guess the actual options should be more prominent than the "feeling aspects" of said options. |
ASK HN: Illegal Book/Mp3/* Downloads. | Tichy: What are your reasons for considering it wrong? Not saying it is not wrong, but all the laws are man made. There is no absolute way to decide. Personally I like to think at the possible outcomes of policies. and decide which outcome I would like best.Free books could lead to more reading, but less books being wr... |
What Web apps increase your productivity? | priyanka: DeskAway - kinda like basecamp, google docs , twitter apps like twhirl and tweetdeck |
please review my webapp: metracks.com | mapleoin: can I upload my FLACs over there? |
ASK HN: Illegal Book/Mp3/* Downloads. | noonespecial: He refers to it as Borrowing a book from a library. But my point is that libraries have certain restrictions which an illegally downloaded e-book does not give us.Not to pick a side or even make a moral argument but here's a fun thought experiment:What if you had special mental abilities that allowed you ... |
ASK HN: Illegal Book/Mp3/* Downloads. | sho: "But if the author expect for money & we bypass the paying step in anyway, I believe it's illegal."Well, sure it is. I don't think anyone will argue with you there. The much more interesting question is should it be illegal; and to answer that we need to decide whether it's right or wrong. Laws are just an express... |
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