MCRed

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by MCRed 12y ago
Asset forfeiture is one of the most heinous violations of people's rights that has come out of the drug war. One of the effects of this is that it denies the accused the ability to defend themselves by making them immediately destitute
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by MCRed 12y ago
18 million homes within a year seems really fast-- and presuming that they target larger cities first, there's a possibility a lot of us could get it. I don't care about 1Gbps vs 2Gbps so much as getting serious connectivity. I&#
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by MCRed 12y ago
Not at the time. Blackberry email was the killer smartphone app.... and the iPhone was pooh-poohed for the virtual keyboard vs. blackberry's physical keyboard, much the same way the watch is being pooh-poohed now.
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by MCRed 12y ago
All of these criticisms could have been made about the iPhone (and were-- regarding the keyboard being virtual) or the iPad (I personally couldn't figure out what the compelling app was for the iPad).... but once the platform is out th
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by MCRed 12y ago
(This issue hits politics, and below I give an illumination of why conservatives and liberals should both be concerned. But please note I'm not taking any position other than that people should learn more about the Federal Reserve.) On
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by MCRed 12y ago
I don't buy that not raising money slows growth. Your growth is a factor of finding product market fit. Fast growing companies are not doing it because they spent millions on a super bowl add- they are not buying growth (and when the
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by MCRed 12y ago
Asking this question is exactly why they shouldn't take VC money. Instead of running around trying to find an answer for "how will you be worth a billion dollars?!?!?!!!!" they should be figuring out where their market is.
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by MCRed 12y ago
We're not raising money either. We took a small amount (< $6,000!) from an angel, and that's it. I've been working for startups for 25 years, both as early stage employee and as founder. I feel that the general sentiment
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by MCRed 12y ago
Remember what I was saying yesterday about Amazon throwing things against the wall? Can you see how this idea is ill considered? IT doesn't make much sense. I predict in 5 years nobody will remember this and it will be gone from Amazo
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by MCRed 12y ago
You make an excellent point on al la carte benefits. Most companies really put so little tiem/thought into these. For instance, most 401k plans only let you invest in terrible expensive investments (like index funds. Fine as an optio
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by MCRed 12y ago
IF everybody else is using Windows, Outlook and Excel then the company is stuck in the 1990s and their other business practices (eg: emailing RTFs for specs instead of putting them in version control) are also going to be out of date. But a
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by MCRed 12y ago
Several people have said "I would never hire you"... but you see, that isn't an insult, that just shows the list is working. Every single item on this list is about respecting employees and the work. Every one of them is a
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by MCRed 12y ago
That's sort of what our relationship is-- from my view-- but I believe that at some point someone has to make a decision. Some of them are coin flips, or can be changed before too long if they turn out to be mistakes. I don't wa
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by MCRed 12y ago
If the meetings are worthwhile, they don't need to be mandatory. Quarterly company review? Ok, make it good, and I'll be there. Mandatory is used to excuse bad meeting making. Mandatory safety meeting? Ok, that's one of
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by MCRed 12y ago
See? It works!
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by MCRed 12y ago
Excellent point. That's there I just forgot to list it. I did that once. Once. Then it went on the list. Over 20 years ago. 22. for a company with an employee handbook that is all about protecting and absolving the company while
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by MCRed 12y ago
Your point is valid, but the reason for the equity is not about compensation, but about alignment of interests. If things do go really well, then I need skin in the game. But I also need to be treated like a part owner, not a disposable e
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by MCRed 12y ago
The rest of the rules could be called "asshole detectors"
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by MCRed 12y ago
IT's not a monetary issue, really. It's about the wasted time dealing with a parking space. The companies that don't provide parking often locate in places where you spend an hour a day, in aggregate, dealing with parking one
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by MCRed 12y ago
You just ruled out far more companies, and for far more arbitrary reasons-- eg: you want to get paid but you won't let any company you work for sell software in order to pay you. You're far more inflexible than I am.
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by MCRed 12y ago
Every item on my list is a red flag that the company is poorly managed. Poorly managed startups are less likely to succeed, and thus more likely to waste my time and not pay me for it (if the equity becomes worthless.) You can call that e
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by MCRed 12y ago
If the meetings are worth my time, they wouldn't need to be made mandatory. I'll happily show up to relevant useful, worthwhile meetings. Making a meeting mandatory is a big red flag that the meeting is a waste of time.
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by MCRed 12y ago
The UK charges taxes at all different levels of industry. This causes imported products to be more expensive. Happens to the products in the USA too, but the overall tax rate is lower.
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by MCRed 12y ago
The built in keyboard, and the "kickstand" are the key differentiators of the Surface. Still seemingly pretty unique features even several years later. For me, bluetooth keyboards are good enough.... but then I use my laptop as
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by MCRed 12y ago
Seems like there's a huge opportunity there when the LV market recovers enough. The thing is, the core cause of the housing crisis is still there- the cost of money is being kept artificially low. The fed is effectively pumping cash i
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by MCRed 12y ago
To be fair, I'm sometimes flexible on some of these depending on the opportunity or situation. Really, I just want to work remote and be responsible for my own environment. That's the ultimate lesson of much of this list--- office
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by MCRed 12y ago
Feel free to swap out Windows/Mac/Linux for your preferred OS configurations and make your own rules. I'm not trying to start a debate on what is best-- except maybe to say to give your employees the option. Of course if yo
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by MCRed 12y ago
It's not really that tricky- there are many tools for collaboration including IRC. And you can always go to another developers office, in the ideal one developer-per office situation.
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by MCRed 12y ago
A lot of this was fixed by working remote, and being a founder of the company. I'm CTO of a very small startup, and we're experimenting with an organizational structure based on the causes of this list and a bunch of other stuff--
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by MCRed 12y ago
This item is a matter of opinion (as is the whole list) but having worked with Bezos, he doesn't meet my bar.

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