Startup happiness.

This checkpoint ' comment greatly influenced my perception of the world :), decided to take it to a separate post, assuming that you could skip it?

True Tao cannot be known. :-)

The post is really wonderful. All this reminded me of my childhood, and I also wrote my first program at the age of 11 (though on FORTRAN). And all of these © XYZ Corp cause true nostalgia. At that time (1989-91) I lived in the city of Bryansk, went to the programming circle in the building of the old church, and three of us also had our own Corp, and we wrote different system trash in assembler for BK-0101 and Atari in the form of different copyists programs "protected" from copying, dreaming of a real game with graphics and music. The time was very poor, with great difficulty we managed to save some money and buy one BASF 90 audio cassette on the market to record our creations. It was a great miracle. And those were our happiest years of life.

Now we are 30 and we are again three, we have behind us a wealth of programming experience in a dozen languages, administering Unix and cissok, working in large companies, management and paper-making. We are overgrown with social obligations, have got families and grow children. But our spirit, the spirit of love, cannot fade away. That is why we left our warm places in large offices, parted with a good and regular salary, parted with the countless end of meaningless planners, meetings and conferences, with an incredible mass of stupid bosses and lazy subordinates.
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We do what we love, we program in C / C ++, Perl, Java and a little Assembly language. We work at night, we go to bed at a time when all normal people go to work. We are free to del what we want and when we want. We do not need 28 days paid vacation, because We are Spartap, and we are named GTalk2VoIP TEAM. : `-)

Eh ...

Thanks, checkpoint !