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by RKoutnik 12y ago
Yes, Valve is an amazing example of a flat company. I had intended to talk about them in my original essay but couldn't manage to make it fit in anywhere. Their employee handbook is a fantastic read on how knowledge workers should wo
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Companies with a flat structure are weird(rkoutnik.com)
81 points by RKoutnik 12y ago|70 comments
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I was shocked, visibly, when I found out that no one at the first startup I worked at played tabletop RPGs. I was shocked again when they looked down on me because I did. In a city that prides itself on "weirdos", I was the wron
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by RKoutnik 12y ago
BTC: No, there's an astounding amount of cryptography there. You can build CRUD stuff on top of it. Mint: (assuming the financial tracker) No, ask anyone who's worked with bank software before - it ain't pretty. Pinterest&#x
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by RKoutnik 12y ago
Talent does not exclusively create success - there's still some elements of luck and market in there. It's still a huge part of success. Look at the absolutely insane amounts of effort companies are putting in to attract talent.
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On one hand, absolutely. The current wash of investment means that there's plenty of CRUD startups that get funded that wouldn't otherwise. They'll get acquihired at best and the cycle continues. On the other hand I don&#x2
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The Hiring Post(sockpuppet.org)
577 points by RKoutnik 12y ago|254 comments
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Microsoft co-founder Paul Allen says he's found Japan WWII warship Musashi(stuff.co.nz)
1 points by RKoutnik 12y ago|0 comments
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Advice and Fallacies(ma.tt)
1 points by RKoutnik 12y ago|0 comments
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by RKoutnik 12y ago
Apologies for the harshness but your comment makes it clear that you've never run a startup before. Regular office life is like juggling three balls - difficult, but manageable with practice (and they're given to you - so you nev
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How Rdio Onboards New Users(useronboard.com)
5 points by RKoutnik 12y ago|2 comments
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by RKoutnik 12y ago
Most Wired readers , certainly. Most Wired readers are also smart enough to stay out of the maelstrom of politically-charged vitriol such comments sections become. Like you said, Rule #1. I suppose the Wired readers savvy enough to have
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A Liquid Nitrogen Cocktail Party(sockpuppet.org)
103 points by RKoutnik 12y ago|59 comments
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by RKoutnik 12y ago
I started with the list from this question [0] and then wrote a one-off script to convert it to the form linked above. http://stackoverflow.com/q/10414957/1216976
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by RKoutnik 12y ago
Slightly disappointed that it doesn't have syllables. Should be easy to add, I have a list here: https://github.com/SomeKittens/Haiku-Generator
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Node.js gains a new fork, much to Joyent's dismay(infoworld.com)
5 points by RKoutnik 12y ago|0 comments
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Google sold more Chromebooks to US schools than Apple did iPads in Q3(9to5google.com)
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by RKoutnik 12y ago
This is a little off topic, but a few years ago when I was trying to put together my first startup, Sam spent an hour on the phone with me (some nobody from upstate NY) going through what it would take for me to move from my idea to a real
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by RKoutnik 12y ago
Bukkit made a lot of mistakes (don't we all), but I think that this talk tries to pin them on the wrong thing. Bukkit was in a failure state the second they included the Minecraft binaries. You're beholden to a third party the m
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by RKoutnik 12y ago
The rhetoric that a 'Golden Key' will only be used by the 'good guys' is like thinking we can create a 'Golden Gun' that will only shoot the bad guys. The two issues I see are: 1) The bad guys might still be ab
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by RKoutnik 12y ago
If you think that's bad, you should see the many people who tried to copyright an empty file: http://trillian.mit.edu/~jc/humor/ATT_Copyright_true.html
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by RKoutnik 12y ago
A great opportunity here is Bluebird, the JS promises library [0]. The current documentation is nice, but only covers the API itself, with very few use cases. A "getting started" guide is badly needed for newcomers to BB and pro
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by RKoutnik 12y ago
This reminds me of the Humbug in The Phantom Tollbooth, who is described as "[someone] who always managed to be the first with the wrong answer" and later tries to argue that it was the question itself, not the answer, that was wr
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by RKoutnik 12y ago
Also of Note: Samsung is entering the VR space with the Gear VR & Note 4: http://www.engadget.com/2014/09/03/samsung-virtual-reality/
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Nice! I like how easy it is to get an example up and running. The in-browser terminal is a nice touch. Two comments - It would be great to have share buttons so I can tweet examples of awesome code. - Are you guys thinking of having an &
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by RKoutnik 12y ago
It's interesting to see a post discussing how free VCs are in their investments as I'm sending out job applications because we couldn't make it past the Series A crunch despite big-name customers and ex-FB/Googlers on th
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Why can't arrays be passed as function arguments in C?(programmers.stackexchange.com)
1 points by RKoutnik 12y ago|1 comments
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Upstate NY county rep on working with Solar City(otsego11.blogspot.com)
1 points by RKoutnik 12y ago|0 comments
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by RKoutnik 12y ago
relay.js is also nice: https://github.com/Fauntleroy/relay.js
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Making demos is usually a net loss for developers. There are few scenarios where the extra time and effort put into a demo actually result in increased sales [0]. [0] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7QM6LoaqEnY

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