amirmc

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811.
by amirmc 13y ago
I like the ambition but a lot of Startups like this will have their roots in basic research (read: University labs). That leads to interesting dynamics (and issues) with the founding teams. e.g. Profs who have been critical in developing te
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by amirmc 13y ago
This thread seems to assume that there's a clear distinction between 'work' and 'not-work'. That isn't always the case as it's entirely possible that someone can love what they do to the extent that the li
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Open Source Report Cards(osrc.dfm.io)
1 points by amirmc 13y ago|0 comments
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The Future of Deployment(evancooke.com)
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Keybase will be a public directory of publicly auditable public keys(keybase.io)
1 points by amirmc 13y ago|0 comments
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by amirmc 13y ago
I've realised that I have a tendency to fall into this trap when I find I'm working for someone, rather than with someone. It seems that distinction is important to me (subconsciously). It seems to come about when I start thin
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by amirmc 13y ago
I'm guessing you didn't mean this in a general sense. An approach like this would fail horrifically in any of the following scenarios: Claims of harassment/discrimination, claims of incompetence, any form of whistleblowing (o
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by amirmc 13y ago
Who the people are is not as important as the story and what it means. Horvath was correct for not revealing names and I have a lot of respect for her for not doing so. Anyone who wants to guess who the people are can google for themselv
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by amirmc 13y ago
Sure, people want different facets of themselves on different apps/platforms. But those apps/platforms get bought and sold along with the content and the facet of yourself that you put there. Ergo, I disagree that we don't
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by amirmc 13y ago
I haven't read War and Peace, so I don't know the context of this excerpt. Despite that, I'd like to suggest that if you have a formal structure in an organisation, then you're still able to use it to do something abou
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by amirmc 13y ago
Absolutely correct. In essence, everyone simply looks at the winners and then redefines the 'path to success' to be 'the path they took'. That sounds ridiculous but it's what many arguments boil down to. There are
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The Myth of Common Sense: Why Everything that Seems Obvious Isn't [video](youtube.com)
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by amirmc 13y ago
The author's premise is that when people interact, 'structures' always form (it's in the same section you quoted from). It's same way that one could argue that 'politics' is always present, when two or mo
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by amirmc 13y ago
And the form of that politics will vary. c.f. Two wolves and a sheep deciding on what to have for dinner.
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by amirmc 13y ago
It's been posted as an item before but I don't think it hung around long. It's definitely been referred to (and linked) in many threads where the idea of 'no-management' or flat structures crops up. e.g threads on
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by amirmc 13y ago
You didn't read the article so you have no idea about the 'feel' of it. You're judging it based on the title (which is on par with judging a book by it's cover). As with most advice, you should take it with a pinch
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From Jekyll site to Unikernel in fifty lines of code(amirchaudhry.com)
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by amirmc 13y ago
Here's why VCs care about preference shares. http://avc.com/2010/08/heres-why-you-need-a-liquidation-pref... I've heard that later stage investors (Series C/D?), may ask for 2x preferences, and in
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by amirmc 13y ago
> "... wireless charging to a point that I could just put my phone down anywhere on my desk and it could get charged." The actual technology for this has been around for long time. I'm aware of at least two startups tha
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by amirmc 13y ago
> " ... but the assertion that the pilots always are able to do something if they had just been more aware and given control of the dozens of subsystems that a commercial jet controls behind the scenes is rather ridiculous" T
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by amirmc 13y ago
This would be a great addition to the monthly "Who's Hiring" and "Freelancers" posts that go up. Not sure who runs the whoishiring account but maybe they could consider this. https://news.ycombinator.com
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by amirmc 13y ago
> "The meme maybe a cliche but it's true" No, it is false and that's why it needs to die. It prevents a wider discussion about business models and leads to (imho) ridiculously oversimplified views that are restric
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by amirmc 13y ago
They have iAd so they've put themselves in the advertising game. The systemic issue with advertising is the desire to extract as much information as possible, in order to better target those ads and help their customers (those payi
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by amirmc 13y ago
Maybe. Unless the merchant is also changing site content that you're not aware of and then everybody ends up making decisions based on flawed data and assumptions.
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by amirmc 13y ago
My guess is that they're trying to build a showcase of all the interesting 'value-adds' around GitHub. They will then use that showcase as part of the sales-pitch for GitHub Enterprise (and allow a chosen few 'developers
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by amirmc 13y ago
He's joining the Board of Directors, so he does have much more control than most.
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by amirmc 13y ago
> "It is implied that when you pay, you are the customer, and when it's ad-supported you're the product instead." This meme needs to die. It implies a dividing line where none exists. There is absolutely no reason
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by amirmc 13y ago
> "... without changing the ToS, which will likely cause a user exodus." How many people are even aware of what the ToS says? I don't recall a mass exodus from Google when they merged their privacy policies so I don&#x27
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by amirmc 13y ago
So you're extrapolating from the fact that people like Coke, Xboxes, CoD and pizza (which is Italian btw) that they must also adore America? That's way too much of a stretch.
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by amirmc 13y ago
It sounds like you're talking about Mailpile, but if so, I think you've misunderstood it. If it's something else mail-related from Iceland, I'd like to know more.

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