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by angstrom 18y ago
That's pretty straight forward. It goes without saying that the more ownership of the company you can retain via self funding the larger the potential return is going to be. I would suggest looking at VC money as diluting risk rather than r
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by angstrom 18y ago
CueCat wasn't all bad. I received several free barcode scanners which had better uses than scanning magazine ads once they were hacked...
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by angstrom 18y ago
Three years?! If this company is truly ruled by such trite examples he would be CTO by then.
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by angstrom 18y ago
A narcissist always enjoys a good mirror.
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by angstrom 18y ago
Yeah, it was sensible until the part where we're supposed to believe that corn ethanol can save us. Aside from the fact that the net energy gain is almost zero or less once you account for the fuel, fertilizers, and the fact that its suscep
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by angstrom 18y ago
Seen more than once where a site was blocked by a filter because someone cursed in the comments. Page looked perfectly clean otherwise.
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by angstrom 18y ago
Who needs demographics when you've got fluffy stats like the article uses? Just spout of vague generalized assumptions about the feelings and supposed actions of multiple demographic groups. Stop when you've reach your 1000 word retainer.
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by angstrom 18y ago
They talked about her on NPR not too many months ago. She doesn't just recall events, but also the way she felt and even smells. Truely remarkable, but also debilitating.
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by angstrom 18y ago
Agreed. The problem with over promising is that in every case that I've seen it done (I've seen this 3 times in my short 4.5 year career) the promises were made without analyzing if the agreement fits what's needed not what's wanted . An
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by angstrom 18y ago
All bad sales people overpromise. A real solution would not be shopping a list of 'could have' 'should have' 'currently have' 'will not have' to the partner company as 'already implemented and will have' so that the requirements are reali
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by angstrom 18y ago
I'll know more come Monday when our CEO gets back from a meeting. He didn't want to explain things over email...which is probably a good sign that whatever he has to say needs to be fluffed in order to sound right. I honestly think that if
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YC: Tales From the Startup Crypt
9 points by angstrom 18y ago|13 comments
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Jangl, VoIP company, may soon be sold(venturebeat.com)
2 points by angstrom 18y ago|0 comments
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by angstrom 18y ago
That is in fact much closer to what I was thinking. The cultural context is important when it comes to understanding the less formal common grammar we humans tend to use more frequently and which is littered throughout the Internet. We can
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by angstrom 18y ago
For a good read on the subject of AI and how humans think check out the book OnIntelligence by Jeff Hawkins. It covers some about the previous attempts at AI and why they failed. http://www.amazon.com/Intelligence-Jeff-Hawkins/dp/080507456
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by angstrom 18y ago
Language will be difficult for quite some time due to its links with culture and the fact that it is always evolving and cross polinating between languages. I don't believe there's any way to solve that without an AI that can actually learn
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by angstrom 18y ago
"Plus, I have a beard." That's worth $100K right there if you put it on your resume. :)
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by angstrom 18y ago
"Don't do it for the money. You're not going to make any." Agreed, but I would temper that with 'hope for the best, be prepared for the worst'.
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by angstrom 18y ago
A good read on the subject is A Random Walk Down Wall Street: http://www.amazon.com/Random-Walk-Down-Wall-Street/dp/039332... It's been touted for nearly 40 years.
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by angstrom 18y ago
Lack of physical existence for one.
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by angstrom 18y ago
Well, at that time they hadn't branched out. So it really would've been Barnes & Nobel, Borders, and small books stores.
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by angstrom 18y ago
Not to mention it's pretty dangerous to give a pissed off person a weapon like a lollipop while being facetious...
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by angstrom 18y ago
My guess is no. But on the flip side I've never heard of a legal case involving open source code outside the SCO lawsuit and that was more like extortion. Personally, I've always stuck to using LGPL, MIT, or BSD licensed code in closed sour
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by angstrom 18y ago
Interesting. Any word on when they'll add hydraulics?
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by angstrom 19y ago
Vista is to XP as WinMe was to Win98. Microsoft will recover with Windows 7, but the question will be how much of a role the OS plays in 2010 compared to what it did in 2001.
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by angstrom 19y ago
Um, he's sick. My best friend's sister's boyfriend's brother's girlfriend heard from this guy who knows this kid who's going with the girl who saw nickb pass out at 31 Flavors last night. I guess it's pretty serious.
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by angstrom 19y ago
Won't comments made on other posts offset that though?
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by angstrom 19y ago
Their culture - across many products and many years - has been one of making complicated things more complicated. That's just the side effect of the backwards compatibility which proved so successful throughout the 90s, not as a design or
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by angstrom 19y ago
Maybe, but for all the hype over Facebook I find it ironic that Amazon probably has more valuable information via Wedding/Baby shower wishlist registeries than all of the social graph in Facebook is worth.
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by angstrom 19y ago
I would start with very trusting people. The kind that would be gullible enough to upload their private phone records. Seriously though. This is just like what Facebook tried to do with the purchase history thing last fall. It didn't go ove

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