Not saying I'd be jobless, just having a set schedule. :)
As someone who worked for a major technology consulting firm, I can tell you how difficult it can be.
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As someone who worked for a major technology consulting firm, I can tell you how difficult it can be.
Because of that, I don't know if it's any more conducive to developing a startup than any other situation. You could very easily go from the bench to an 80hr/week project in short amount of time. If I were developing something on the side, I'd rather have more of a set, regular schedule.
I interned at Sun (R.I.P.) back in 2003 and their game tables were always full. I could challenge anyone, from fellow interns to managers to senior engineers, and get a game going.
No matter what our positions were in the company, on the game tables, we were equals. And shit talking was spat pretty heavily as well :-D
It was a great environment and I personally felt that it helped build the level of trust (for me) and bring everyone together.
What kind of input validation are you doing? It doesn't seem to prevent invalid characters. For example, I put in words with 'q' and 'l'--2 letters not represented in hiragana--and was able to generate puzzles
However, if they read something and tell others about it, they're opinions and hype are just as valid as the next man's. It follows that peers who don't read ebooks may be intrigued enough to actually buy a physical copy
Also, can you call something a knockoff if it comes out before whatever-its-supposedly copying is released?
Did your schooling mention this sort of thing? If not, do you think they should?
But if you listen to his first two albums, "The College Dropout" and "Late Registration", and compare it to what was being released at the time, you find something completely different.
In addition to the new sound (summary: sped up soul samples), he came with emotion as well as acceptance of his being a upper/middle-class guy (his mom was a college professor) while others would try to masquerade as gangsters.
Basically, what he did was bring relevant hip-hop to the mainstream, showing suburban kids, college students and yuppies that you can relate to rap music without having to act like someone else.
I guess not.
I relocated from Austin to San Francisco to Japan and with each move, I drastically reduced my lifestlye. It's just as PG said: you don't really miss anything.
And I dealt with books by getting an e-reader so I could carry my library in my backpack.
Even though I don't really understand the intricacies, I can usually get-by by overdoing it all the time. When in doubt, bow.
When I finally (and eagerly) got back online, I saw that the world hadn't ended. It was an important lesson: life goes on, even if you're not connected.
Since then, I've drastically reduced my time spent online and as a result, have accomplished a lot more things offline. I highly recommend it to anyone who feels they need to be always connected.
There's already been cases where thefts happened after people tweeted that they were going on vacation (http://www.socialreflections.com/twitter-connection-to-home-...). I wouldn't be surprised if the number of social-media related robbery increases as these services continue to gain traction.
By using services that tell people exactly where you are, you're really telling people exactly where you aren't: your home.