PMan74

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by PMan74 11y ago
I'm also scratching my head, Advertising and ? - Youtube, Gmail - really just advertising - Android - is it a cash cow, there's some lic fees I guess but not huge - Google Apps - is that big money?
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by PMan74 11y ago
At the same time the EU (Norway stayed out of that party) was distributing its surplus butter mountains to the poor.
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by PMan74 11y ago
> This is more than just a nice gesture Of one thing I'd be sure: being nice does not come into this in anyway, it's all about business strategy
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by PMan74 12y ago
> I think it's ridiculous Amazon have had a few "ridiculous" ideas (e.g. drone delivery, 1 hour delivery, pre-emptive shipping). I think they know these ideas are a stretch but it gets people thinking in a new way and out
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by PMan74 12y ago
> I communicate better over text chat anyway. I don't know you of course but I really doubt that text chat would ever surpass the effectiveness of face to face communication.
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by PMan74 12y ago
Perhaps that VC is of the "If people don't think you are crazy, you aren't thinking big" school Not that those are necessarily exclusive - he could be nodding his head, thinking "I get it, this guy is crazy" h
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by PMan74 12y ago
> Also, a minor nitpick: please don't say windmill, wind power plants don't mill anything. Ha, I'm adding that to my list of pedantic points, never thought of it that way.
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by PMan74 12y ago
Don't have them in Ireland either, just a few authorised resellers. I guess a population of ~5 million isn't sufficient to support.
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by PMan74 12y ago
Office U.S. and U.K. are really different shows, US Office dropped all pretence of the reality/mockumentary, veering toward more unreal set-ups. Apples and oranges. Both are great, just different.
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by PMan74 12y ago
> the general idea of English-like programming is far from new Indeed http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/COBOL
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by PMan74 12y ago
Similar one if you like that kind of thing http://www.theguardian.com/sport/blog/2009/jan/15/masal-bugd...
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by PMan74 12y ago
Up there with those motivational pictures - banal, empty, of little use to anybody.
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by PMan74 12y ago
> The competitor received 16 upvotes on HN. Easypost's Show HN had 157. This is important how? Are these ~150 extra up votes really worth $100 each? Really worth 7.5% of your funding round. Yeah, yeah, yeah, visibility on HN is go
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by PMan74 12y ago
Physics / engineering people: while we're on the subject, could a five ounce bird could carry a one pound coconut from the tropics to Europe?
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by PMan74 12y ago
> Actually I find the problem of stashing gold very tricky. Put it in your teeth, facepalm, your teeth!
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by PMan74 12y ago
IANAL but (in Ireland) liability usually stops with the company unless the directors are shown to have acted outside company law. Given that Uber's business model seems to be based on "fuck the law, we'll do what we want&quot
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by PMan74 12y ago
>Also, deleting your account is really difficult with Uber. Not for me, there was a form on the site I think or an email, email reply from the local Uber rep (Ireland, we are small enough to have "a" local Uber rep) asking why
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by PMan74 12y ago
> The problem with arguments like these is that there being "no good reason" is highly subjective. Not only is it subjective it's almost certainly incorrect. If you read anything about Google it's clear that they don&
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by PMan74 12y ago
>The site said investors had averaged net gains of 1 percent each trading day during the past five years. How seemingly intelligent people (the guy was a doctor) read this and don't think "too good to be true" is beyond me
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by PMan74 12y ago
> Posted by Ian Leader, Product Manager Nominative determinism in action folks
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by PMan74 12y ago
> Is it okey to ask someone (my peers) to give out someone else’s (the manager’s) number? I generally get these kinds of invites via either email or LinkedIn. I wouldn't appreciate a cold call. After that the only etiquette I'd
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by PMan74 12y ago
Low tech solution: http://asset-c.soup.io/asset/2982/0993_c492.gif
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by PMan74 12y ago
> Or do you think a handful of interviews can give a more thorough evaluation Yes, when done well >3-4 years of technical college/uni College performance (good or bad) is no predictor of how good you'll be as a developer. &g
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by PMan74 12y ago
> Sure, they don't see much of me because I'm building Yellow Yellow, but I want to be there when we can all enjoy the fruits of my labors. Parody it may be but this is the way a lot of start up types seem to think
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by PMan74 12y ago
Or Resth, (unless somebody in the lisp community bagged that one already)
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by PMan74 12y ago
TL;DR - Business Insider employee has a valid issue on Airbnb and blows it up into a Business Insider article. Is his personal experience worthy of the BI front page?
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by PMan74 12y ago
Soft day, thank god
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by PMan74 12y ago
Thanks, I gave up after a few pages
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by PMan74 12y ago
> To Help You Avoid Those Steep Hills But, but ..... what if you like those steep hills, what then?
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by PMan74 13y ago
>This seems pretty polished Hmmmm, it looks like a standard MS Word template, nothing especially polished, nothing anyone with a proficiency in Word could not knock out.

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