Murkin

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by Murkin 14y ago
Who resovles bets ?
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by Murkin 14y ago
Strange, we got Youtube crashing chromes on all our Ubuntu machines
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by Murkin 14y ago
tl;dr; 1. Spent lots of time and money(thousands of pounds) trying to meet with CEO of hedge fund just to get one of the domains in their portfolio. 2. Failed. 3. Explained that he is co-founder of twillio europe. 4. Used above story as som
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by Murkin 14y ago
Please fix headline to: "Braintree Waives All Fees On First $50k in Transactions For Next 1,000 US-Based Startups" Might be a good idea to do this always, just a little thing to acknowledge the other 95% of the world..
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by Murkin 14y ago
If ruby is such an amazing language, why not ditch rails and rewrite it in 2 months with pure ruby ?
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by Murkin 14y ago
Always felt like a price / market issue to me. They see everyone around them hire full time developers at $100+K/year And they see everyone getting freelancers at $40/hour So they assume this is how things are.
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by Murkin 15y ago
Try slimtimer, it's free, has API and even ruby gem !
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How we got rid of 80% of our support calls(blog.dinkevich.com)
4 points by Murkin 15y ago|1 comments
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by Murkin 15y ago
Talk about good timing. With the political climate of change in afrika and middle east, this might be a great reason for the goverment to tear itself apart as various factions try to take over 'in the name of the people' We do live in excit
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by Murkin 15y ago
Great stuff, only problem: I couldn't figure out how I GET money from customers
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by Murkin 15y ago
Very cute idea, but at 100$ a toy (thats what the giftcard is worth), this is not for the mass market. Tho if you are willing to take it down a notch (or two) on quality, china can probably produce them at >10$
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by Murkin 15y ago
Can someone give a concrete example of themselves using Bitcoins for something other than speculative trade ?
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by Murkin 15y ago
Can someone explain how a combined income of $150K (before tax) allowed the OP to save $100K/year ? And why is the idea of stopping being a productive member of society at 30+ is a good thing ?
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by Murkin 15y ago
Works great Chrome + Ubuntu 11.04 The share/save options are broken tho Great work !
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by Murkin 15y ago
Warning to visitors: The 3min video has no relation and DOES NOT show the slide in question.
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by Murkin 15y ago
So this is a sort of next-step chat roullete, Only now you know who's penis you are watching ?
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by Murkin 15y ago
"When logic clouds reason" Lets take this up a notch. If a open a startup today, statistically my chances of a $500K exit in two years (like his) are pretty slim. Lets say 20% ? So, if I go for it I have a projected $50K/year for n
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by Murkin 15y ago
You missed the point, they take the money as dividens. They are not selling their stock for that $20M lump. The only 'foul' thing here, is that their employees (option holders) will probably get nothing.
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by Murkin 15y ago
Google X: Is the Y party Over? I think I seen this on HN about 4 times in the last year. Is there any front where google managed to beat a good established product (except Android) ? Only good thing to come out of this, is a hopeful
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by Murkin 15y ago
Yup, until the author uploads a new, more 'clever' version and chrome auto-updates your browser, without you knowing it (since permissions didn't change).
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by Murkin 15y ago
Appears like they do have Voice (and closed SMS beta). What I don't understand is why it costs 2x-4x more than a regular phone contract gives you. One day America's companies will discover that outside its borders there are, literally, bill
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by Murkin 15y ago
In our startup we choose Ruby&Rails, might not be the most fun language and framework. But the #1 priority of our dev team, is to build the product - fast/simple/modifiable. Same goes for Python&Django. I personally believe in to ch
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by Murkin 15y ago
Can you perhaps point me to one of those $400K Ruby jobs ? Kidding aside, he wanted something with a strong existing application / infrastructure base. And while CLisp, Closure, etc are fun, we can all agree that starting 99% of web project
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by Murkin 15y ago
So you basically have two people sitting in the same room: a) 45 year old veteran, 3 years in the company, titled "Software engineer II" b) 25 year old grad, 1 year in the company, titled "Software engineer V" Sure its all open and
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by Murkin 15y ago
Enjoy it while it lasts. Sure its cool and fun while there is a small 'startup-minded' team, racking in huge bonuses. But once you grow a bit, you will inevitably have employees take a look around and think: "Hey.. home come I am much b
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by Murkin 15y ago
The seed round _is_ the 'probable return' calculation. Seed numbers should tell you what other (professional) investors consider to be a 'good deal'. If you are willing to get in and worse conditions, you are either brilliant or..
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by Murkin 15y ago
Or he can be a freelancer with his own company, investing from company's funds (no tax) and after the exit pulling the money from the company as dividends and getting to have only one (low) tax event.
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First employee of startup? You are probably getting screwed(blog.itlater.com)
389 points by Murkin 15y ago|198 comments
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by Murkin 15y ago
To clarify: * Employees working now will get nothing if they leave. * The amount you get is not tied to performance. * Chances of this happening are slim. * In many cases employees get new stock-option/bonuses at M&A anyway (to keep t
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We are the McDonnalds of Shoe stores(blog.itlater.com)
3 points by Murkin 15y ago|0 comments

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