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by angelbob 17y ago
Quick summary: What I find so interesting about Die Hard—in addition to unironically enjoying the film—is that it cinematically depicts what it means to bend space to your own particular navigational needs. This mutational exploration of a
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by angelbob 17y ago
Houses are decently cheap, rent is cheap in most places (not Silicon Valley). The US is overall not a terribly expensive place to live, if you don't want to be in Manhattan, Hollywood or Silicon Valley. Being a decent software engineer, yo
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by angelbob 17y ago
To me, it reads like somebody in the trenches who wants very much for this to be true -- but doesn't necessarily have the authority to make it happen at a higher level. The fact that Eric Schmidt feels otherwise, and that privacy is a leaky
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by angelbob 17y ago
In most industries, expect to get less than the software industry as a software engineer. Software is just a lot more important to, say, Microsoft's business than it is at BOC Gases, and they pay proportionately well. However, that's not n
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by angelbob 17y ago
They were initially calling for 30. I'm not sure how many they're launching with. (Disclaimer: while I've met the guys who founded this and got a bit of early information on their operation, I don't have a non-publicly good answer to this
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by angelbob 17y ago
I think his point about holding startups to the same standards of truth that we do "the most mature public companies" is actually a good one. We expect a lot of lying from the marketing departments of mature public companies. But we feel
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by angelbob 17y ago
Sure. We just build way more of them than people need :-)
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by angelbob 17y ago
They troll LinkedIn a fair bit -- Google recruiters ask after me a couple of times a year.
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by angelbob 17y ago
I don't see any gender differences in the OA that would be important. If a woman is willing to similarly watch for the best man and choose him when she meets him, she should use the same algorithm.
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by angelbob 17y ago
I find that each successive withdrawal is less severe. I get maybe two days of headaches at this point, not a week, and they are far less annoying and painful. My body may be atypical, but it definitely reduced the severity of the withdraw
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by angelbob 17y ago
This can only end well for them It's hard for me to ever read a phrase like this in a sincere way.
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by angelbob 17y ago
The OA makes it sound like it is.
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by angelbob 17y ago
Similarly, Ruby developers are flocking to easier technologies like Passenger in droves rather than sticking with the older (but often faster) technologies like NGinX and mongrel_cluster. It's nice to have the powerful technologies for more
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by angelbob 17y ago
I think the advice about Group 2+ would be "don't partner with them either. They've got priorities other than making money, and making money is hard enough you can't do it accidentally."
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by angelbob 17y ago
The problem with a realistic perspective is that it keeps you from shooting for anything really big. Aim for the stars, hit the trees. Aim for the trees, hit the mud. And being around people who aim for the stars just feels better, you kno
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by angelbob 17y ago
On the one hand, he has a good point buried in there: Hunch doesn't collect enough useful information, and it doesn't do a great job with it. Fair enough. However, his basic hostility to the idea of recommendations coming from a machine s
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by angelbob 17y ago
I think he alludes to them being unsavory things that still won't go away because there's a demand. That's what I got out of that sentence. I'm not quite sure why a plasma clinic would be unsavory. Maybe he's thinking of the (now illegal?)
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by angelbob 17y ago
Hey, you don't know how many normal-looking people are perverts. It could actually be way more than 13%! :-)
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by angelbob 17y ago
I dropped out, then got two bachelor's degrees at Carnegie Mellon. I could have gotten a GED, but in that case, why? I can't be drafted either way, and I don't particularly want to manage a McDonald's.
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by angelbob 17y ago
Perhaps Bill Gates doesn't think of himself as being primarily in that race?
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by angelbob 17y ago
I was also a Home-Account customer. We cancelled after a month or two. A lender did get back to us, but promised a rate they couldn't actually get, and eventually stopped calling. We also have really good credit, so perhaps that's why I
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by angelbob 17y ago
From his point of view, hey, it might have worked. From our points of view: for the best that it didn't, plus he looks like an ass.
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by angelbob 17y ago
This is an excellent summary of the kind of things a company should worry about only if they can't actually measure performance. Though "appearing disinterested" should still be a huge turn-off.
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by angelbob 17y ago
I disagree with his point about various collectives overall increasing the sophistication of angel investors, because the existence of organizations like YC are likely to draw in newer, less experienced angel investors. When you democratize
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by angelbob 17y ago
I haven't started a business in spare time, but I've put similar amounts of time into various open-source, unpaid projects. I'd second the guy who said, "do something you really care about." I find that programming stuff that motivates m
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by angelbob 17y ago
This is a powerful thing to point out. Touchscreens really are a different animal than mouse-based browsing, and in the short term it's going to require building versions of sites specifically for them. For the same reason, the iPad is bri
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by angelbob 17y ago
Sure. And multifounder companies have non-founder support like spouses and friends as well. Doesn't mean they're not real founders, right?
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by angelbob 17y ago
It's hard to tell if this validates the GPL. They were found guilty of DMCA violations for removing copyright and redistributing, but does that say anything about the validity of the license itself?
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by angelbob 17y ago
Honestly, I haven't played it either, but from what was posted I believe the story is about violence being horrific and infectious. The game mechanics include both things that make you paranoid by limiting your perception (increasing viole
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by angelbob 17y ago
You can dilute the founders, then vote to grant them more shares.

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