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by adw 17y ago
I want to work on interesting stuff. But... Here's the fallacy. I don't believe that what our startup is doing is the only interesting stuff I could be working on. Some of the interesting things I'd like to do have no obvious, direct econom
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by adw 17y ago
Thank you! Actually, I reckon Redpoint – friends of mine – do an even better job of wringing un-Reason sounds out of Reason. They're even more in debt to Boards of Canada than I am, though. Of my stuff, "Symbolic" was written while I was li
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by adw 17y ago
Little netlabel I run/ran: http://www.hiddenmusic.co.uk/ . I'm Covert. (Oh, software: Reason mostly, sample editing in Audacity.)
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by adw 17y ago
There's some data on VentureHacks, but really it depends.
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So you're arguing that Mint can make more by displacing Intuit than by getting bought, and that this is likely enough to offset the risk. Fair enough, judgement call. But what justifies it? 'Banker math'.
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by adw 17y ago
What community? Okay, I'm not in the Valley, but businesses are in business to do business - to make money for their shareholders. Arguing against that as a reasonable motivation is disingenuous. You can disagree with the business decision;
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by adw 17y ago
It's well-known that there are canaries in Ordnance Survey map data.
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by adw 17y ago
They just raised $14m at 140; unless they're being done over on liquidation prefs - and who knows, but on a succession of up rounds, doesn't seem that likely - they should be doing pretty well!
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by adw 17y ago
To summarise: "confirmation bias". He's got a point.
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Pretty sure BBC A+MI is a Rails shop (most of the rest of the BBC, including iPlayer, is Perl).
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by adw 17y ago
I'm a Python guy, and that community's both sinned against and sinning. You have prominent Ruby guys claiming there's no momentum - Youtube, Friendfeed, Dropbox, loads of newspapers - behind the language. But, then, I'm chippy enough to not
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by adw 17y ago
Congratulations, David! (The submitter's company, Boxed Ice, is one of the finalists; they make Server Density, a very cool server monitoring software company.)
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Timetric on cleaning up data for news (journalism.co.uk)
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by adw 17y ago
This is, more or less, the writing my school taught me in the UK.
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by adw 17y ago
Offline mode. My SCM works in a train tunnel, but my bug tracker doesn't. Total pain in the backside.
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And there are a bunch of ex-cam.ac.uk startups over here.
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As of a couple of months ago: the new ESPN UK has some rights to Premier League soccer.
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by adw 17y ago
Cmon, Disney own ESPN. Wolverine on Monday Night Football. (Either the US or UK version - it hardly matters).
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by adw 17y ago
Sure, that's absolutely true; am there, doing that, hoping for the T-shirt. All these things get set up as dichotomies when they aren't. All I'm really meaning is that "oh, they've got funded" feels like a pretty limiting way of deciding wh
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by adw 17y ago
That's a good point - I was assuming that you'd get under-market salary with extra compensation as equity. If you're just getting fair market salary then the company with more money in the bank's always going to look more attractive, all el
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by adw 17y ago
But we're not talking about stock: we're talking about whether to take a job or not. When you invest your time in a small company, you're making the same decisions as you were the day before Series A; does the product work? Can the team I'm
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by adw 17y ago
That the risk is systematically undervalued post-Series A; funding isn't magic. If you join the same company the day before a term sheet turns up, you do a lot better financially, and it's the same idea, team, market risk. If they're OK the
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by adw 17y ago
Not all of us do.
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Doh, yeah, right you are. Forgot about that cut.
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It's not quite so simple: don't US prices exclude sales tax? VAT in the UK's 17.5%.
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by adw 17y ago
A lot of this reads like the FOAF, DiSo and Semantic Web visions. None of those has got much traction in the market: my gut feeling is that there is a market in portable identity somewhere, but no-one's worked out what it is yet. I'd be tem
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by adw 17y ago
I think that might be a usage thing: over here in the UK they're both plastic surgery, but you see it qualified as reconstructive plastic surgery or aesthetic plastic surgery. Still, take birthmark removal: it's purely cosmetic, in a sense,
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by adw 17y ago
Tell that to a burns victim or a kid with a harelip. Or a breast-cancer patient post mastectomy...
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Or just Processing!
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I'm slightly intimidated to reply to you, but YUI and YSlow are pretty significant if you're a front-end guy.

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