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by adgar 14y ago
"At this stage, 42Floors only serves the Bay Area, but Freedman tells me that the New York City launch is just over month out, likely followed by other technology hubs around the world like Cambridge, Boston, and Seattle." Funny definition
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by adgar 14y ago
> That's a strong assertion that I actually tried to keep out of my post as I hypothesized what I saw as a plausible scenario given only whats been in the media. You said it was "more likely," implying you had some reason to believe it
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by adgar 14y ago
> Because I could, for the record, say that Google pulled its Maps app off of the iPhone in iOS 6. Someone with in-depth knowledge of the licensing agreements! You must know exactly what happened, based on your assertion of credentials,
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by adgar 14y ago
> Yes, there may be instances where a jury foreman misinterprets the law, but that can happen anyway, so why attempt to enforce the unenforceable and pretend domain knowledge isn't important or useful? The point of forbidding juror's ow
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by adgar 14y ago
"I can run a 3 man startup and change things in a week! Why can't a public traded company worth billions with thousands of employees change things in a week?" Check your ignorance and entitlement at the door, please.
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by adgar 14y ago
> the average number of people that access each tweet, which is probably more like 100+ I'm sorry. I really am. I know this isn't Reddit. But... HAHAHAHAHAHHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHHAHAHA Yes. Yes, on average , a given tweet
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by adgar 14y ago
> Maybe the answer is similar to why some people stay in abusive relationships. As someone who was in an abusive relationship for a couple years, who found himself giving everything for nothing in return and not understanding why everyt
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by adgar 14y ago
Use the most trusted e-mail sending service you can find and afford. Don't roll your own. Spam has made e-mail such an untrustworthy system that your e-mail's origin has to have a track record, these days. You'll find a continuum of optio
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by adgar 14y ago
+1! Thank you for the thought out response! Seriously - your company should share it more broadly. You have a rare perspective on HTML5's audio story. Most folks have only focused on video. I'm curious where 3rd party services come in in sl
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by adgar 14y ago
That's a perfectly fair argument. For those who want to embrace HTML5, which flash-based features in the main site weren't ready to be ported to HTML5 due to technical limitations? As one of the few sites even trying, your use case could dr
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by adgar 14y ago
> I'm not really interested in arguing about the piracy industry as it opens up too many emotionally backed arguments that naturally disregard logic in favor of subjective terms. Right, it's just that that's the industry Grooveshark is
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by adgar 14y ago
You didn't answer the question. The question being asked is why - if y'all are capable of delivering an html5 grooveshark for mobile - the main grooveshark app (your flagship product) still exclusively uses flash.
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by adgar 14y ago
> Don't lecture me about "intellectual honesty" after referring to file-sharers as if they were an uniform entity and likening them to an "industry". I was referring to services whose business models are designed to exploit file sharing
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by adgar 14y ago
> the same industry that failed miserably at adapting to new challenges. I didn't realize the "users sharing tracks they pirated" industry had had trouble with adapting to new challenges. If anything, they have the most experience ada
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by adgar 14y ago
You're right. We're just asking questions. There's nothing wrong about asking questions when there's no proof one way or the other. That's why I think Barack Obama is from Kenya and Karl Rove personally blew up the twin towers.
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by adgar 14y ago
But entrepreneurism!
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by adgar 14y ago
Since bitcoin is defined to deflate over time as use grows but eventually no more bitcoins are circulated, banks should be expected to charge for storage. You're paying for the privilege to hold onto the money, since the optimal strategy
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by adgar 14y ago
Linkbait indeed. The move toward "open core," shitty as it may be, has been transparently ongoing for some time now.
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by adgar 14y ago
> It's hilariously inaccurate to say that NYU students are loaded. First of all, I said "overwhelmingly likely" to be loaded. And I guess we're at an impasse until one of us takes the time to get the raw data. Because I know you're dead
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by adgar 14y ago
They were NYU students. if you don't know NYU, that means they were overwhelmingly likely to be fucking loaded. But I don't know them so one can't say for sure.
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by adgar 14y ago
I think the feature most folks miss is a userbase.
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by adgar 14y ago
Exactly. The product doesn't matter, the users are resources to advance the founder's personal fortunes. It IS all about the gamble. How is making hundreds of millions of dollars a failure? It's about you.
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by adgar 14y ago
Not unlike their code before they got the community to audit and fix it for them.
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by adgar 14y ago
I guess if you provide so little value to your users that your testimonials are too distracting, then there's good reason to be so insecure.
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by adgar 14y ago
> What you are referring to, is closer to the "Potential for Potential" - I don't know if there is any way, or anyone who measures something like that. Your parent poster is definitely referring to this concept. (S)he is referring to th
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by adgar 14y ago
If your startup can't handle the outgoing traffic from your testimonials, it reflects a tremendous degree of insecurity. What's more troubling is that you assert that startups - in general - can't handle that outgoing traffic.
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by adgar 14y ago
Unscrewing the cap is a tenth of a second I don't think about. Pouring a glass of water in bed and trying not to spill it on the table and floor, then drinking that glass, then re-pouring more water and drinking more, all while worrying abo
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by adgar 14y ago
Anecdata point (new favorite word) from someone who in theory should "know better": I have my corporate password, a bank password, personal email password, and one I've been using literally 80% of my life for all the other sites. It's got a
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by adgar 14y ago
> It could have as easily been a pitcher and glass and would have satisfied the want. Actually, no it wouldn't. If you read closely, my want was not water . I'd say my want was closer to convenience . I explicitly did not want to pour
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by adgar 14y ago
> Frankly, it cracks me up when someone refers to their IQ seriously or boasts about being in Mensa. Other than testing for mid-to-high level mental retardation, subjectively, IQ tests seem to be terrible at measuring actual brilliance.

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