RyanZAG

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by RyanZAG 13y ago
The article's main point seems to be that Everpix could have done well by paying employees well under (half?) market rates and succeeded. Maybe by handing over a lot of equity to employees (probably most of it), it may have even worked
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by RyanZAG 13y ago
Handing off work to employees is not passive income, or every business owner in the world would be "passive income". It's just a standard product business.
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by RyanZAG 13y ago
The words you're looking for are "I'm making money with a product that has fixed costs and variable income", not passive income. It's a pretty well known model used by a number of companies such as Microsoft. You&#x
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by RyanZAG 13y ago
There's a lot of paperwork and checks involved. No matter what route you go, it will take some time.
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by RyanZAG 13y ago
Lots of people have had that idea, but it doesn't work because you just end up with "Sales as a Service" to use your words. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6686977
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by RyanZAG 13y ago
They can certainly cash it out using a number of bitcoin to currency services. So the hacker has done the equivalent of stealing $1mil out of a bank, except a bank is very easy to trace while stealing BTC means the thief is home free. h
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by RyanZAG 13y ago
Interesting use of optimizing sql query plans down to JVM byte code. I don't think anybody has done that before - but it sounds like it would work really well. Would be really interesting to hear more on that as it might be applicable
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by RyanZAG 13y ago
Browsing through these jobs is enough to kill your faith in humanity. I don't think I saw any I'd want to work for regardless of salary. Cases in point: We're looking for a younger developer ... There will be no compensation
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by RyanZAG 13y ago
Just wanted to add another view on this: wasting a few days creating a perfect design for something that you never even create is not necessarily wasted time. During that time you're thinking through all the different interactions your
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by RyanZAG 13y ago
Great is the enemy of good. Especially when great is not even possible to achieve (wide public adoption of PGP). EDIT: And you seem to be saying that this is actively bad, which I think is just jumping the gun without identifying any actual
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by RyanZAG 13y ago
Going to go off the deep end here and say you really were at fault. You can't just rewrite whole systems as a new hire on your own decision with zero buy in from other colleagues or management. While the technology is important in a st
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by RyanZAG 13y ago
Major upvotes to you - ignore these other comments, you're entirely correct. A lot of these mundane jobs do need to be done, but a lot of people enjoy stable mundane jobs. Leave these kinds of jobs to them, they will actually thank you
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by RyanZAG 13y ago
How many px is 180 degrees then? or even 75 degrees? Obviously it doesn't work because degrees aren't linear and px are linear. That's the point of the article - confusing angles and px is a very bad move that might appear to
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by RyanZAG 13y ago
Possibly a kickstarter to code CMYK into gimp would be a good idea? If the gimp team doesn't let you do it, it should be easy enough to fork it with a bit of financial backing from a kickstarter.
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by RyanZAG 13y ago
He missed a group of people: any designer who did not entrust their entire professional workflow to a single, for-profit company whose best interests are in moving your workflow in ways that benefit the company over the user. Being dependen
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by RyanZAG 13y ago
Oh wow, I'd recommend turning off the ability to add suggestions before actually demoing this on a stage or anything. You're at most an hour away from being flooded by all kinds of very rude suggestions. http://www.beta
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by RyanZAG 13y ago
This should be part of the Google Play desktop website, and it's actually abuse of the open Android platform by Google that it isn't. (Yes, it can still be abuse if developers can technically host APKs elsewhere in the same way th
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by RyanZAG 13y ago
Not true, Samsung devices have always had unlocked bootloaders on all of their international (read: most sold) devices.
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by RyanZAG 13y ago
> Born in El Paso, Texas, Caldwell graduated from Stanford University in 2003 with a B.S. in Symbolic Systems and a B.A. in Psychology Opportunity cost...? What makes having a B.A. in Psychology not a negative hiring signal too? He cou
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by RyanZAG 13y ago
Don't think you're being unbiased here. Using C# inevitably means you will be shelling out for various tools along the way that you would never have paid for if you went with something like Python. Granted, if your business is mak
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by RyanZAG 13y ago
Not sure what you mean by the Skype thing - as far as I know, Skype is already released.
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by RyanZAG 13y ago
He was a huge fan of the Surface 1 when most other people were calling it terrible, so this is not in any way surprising and not an indication that Surface 2 is likely to do any better than Surface 1.
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by RyanZAG 13y ago
You mean the Linux Desktop, not Linux. Torvalds heads the Linux kernel - it is already the most successful piece of software in existence with the highest number of users and very good user experience. Android is Linux, most routers are Lin
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by RyanZAG 13y ago
Going off the 'chart' (which is probably the worst chart I've ever seen), it looks to me like the bottom line has dropped a lot. I think the bottom line probably isn't Mountain Lion? Are you using some chart where you ca
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by RyanZAG 13y ago
Possibly a big part of this fast adoption is that you can upgrade to Mavericks from previous OSX releases - you can skip over Mountain Lion, etc. So a lot of the people who never paid to upgrade their OS before can now skip directly to Mave
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by RyanZAG 13y ago
This is very, very true. The waters are a bit muddy though, because a lot of those smaller 'would never take VC' startups actually transition into the VC kind of startup. This is even true for many of the big players in the tech l
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by RyanZAG 13y ago
100% of it is pure paranoia. Working over a VPN or any other sillyness really has no effect on an employees ability to take your data. All they need is 30 seconds with a flash drive (or a screwdriver when nobody is looking and remove an HDD
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by RyanZAG 13y ago
How does this compare to Surface, and why would anybody buy one of these instead of Surface? With Nokia now owned by Microsoft, does this not mean that Microsoft has released two Windows RT tablets with similar stats? I assume Microsoft wil
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by RyanZAG 13y ago
I'd personally say the same about Flash and any other browser plugin - they should all be disabled. The amount of money traded on the black market for 0 days for all of these plugins is staggering. That said, users of these plugins are
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by RyanZAG 13y ago
Sure, and I haven't used Internet Explorer in years. That doesn't mean that suddenly disabling Internet Explorer is going to have no effect even if I (and probably most of us here on HN) would not even notice. A lot of corporates

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