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by aorloff 10y ago
I know. What I'm struck by in all this is that much of Uber's staff must be really junior. Not just the assholes at the center of these stories, but everyone else around these incidents. Which kind of contradicts the idea that
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by aorloff 10y ago
> if you lack compassion for people who come from less fortunate countries What I'm hearing people saying is that they want a candidate who will talk about compassion for the economic futures of Americans. If you are barely making e
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by aorloff 10y ago
Well said. The problem is, many recruiters actually wouldn't understand that sarcasm. And that's the problem the OP is talking about. For a lot of recruiters, they are so excited to be working at a big tech firm that they don
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They certainly appear to be taking their own liability in the matter very seriously.
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This is what happens when a string player makes it. You want to see some folks having fun or making music after an exit, talk to the horns or rhythm section.
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Is OpenDoor a startup, or a REIT ?
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What people are discovering is that tech + crowdsourced feedback loop is better than gov regulation. Feedback loop is faster, more thorough, and more reliable.
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> budgetary and timing constraints ain't that the truth
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Flurry (now part of Yahoo) has experience with IoT storage at that scale (or near it). The "T" just happens to be your phone. Data processing (and staying in business) at that scale is a matter of great teams and solid architect
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I would imagine that one unintended consequence is that very few homes (read: zero) actually sit empty for a whole year. In fact, I would imagine there's a local property manager right now offering to rent your house out with "ve
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by aorloff 10y ago
Sounds like your manager didn't do his or her job. As a manager of people, you have to own these kinds of metrics and be prepared to wield them whenever the "value of an employee" question comes up.
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Yes but labor rights is a poor substitute for a system that allows and encourages small business. I'm not talking about "Entrepreneurs" in the new sense of the term, I'm talking about the sense that the first 200 years
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Places that have rapidly soaring housing costs need to get rid of / streamline the permitting process a la trailer bill 707 in CA (which the special interests killed - largely unions because they use the local permitting process to exa
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Usually when you sign that inventions assignment agreement (the dreaded PIAA), there is a place where it says, now list on Appendix A all the inventions you previously created PRIOR to coming to work here. And THAT'S the place to leave
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by aorloff 10y ago
Well summed up. Somehow though, the GPL won in the end.
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Sorry but those are NOT notable attendees. Notable attendees have CREATED something notable that they shared on the playa.
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Synopsis : read my article about viral marketing using this 1 weird trick !
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Actually, at a 3-person startup sales knowledge is probably exactly what they need from #4.
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Can beacons trigger a notification without an app listener already installed ? On iOS they can't.
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What you are saying basically, is that someone needs to disrupt YC itself. And this is true. Someone should host a "Day After Demo Day" and allow anyone who wanted to run the race without paying the entry fee to pitch to any int
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by aorloff 10y ago
Or maybe its more accurate to say, the prices will be high so the appropriate label will be "luxury." I'm seeing "luxury" 2-bedrooms going up in the Bay Area with linoleum bathroom flooring. "Luxury" is
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Too Big to Jail [NYTimes](nytimes.com)
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I think its more a statement on the perception of globalization and how it affects the working class in western countries, combined with some actual breaking down on how the whole trade thing is supposed to work (WTO, Doha round is now 15 y
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by aorloff 10y ago
Rent control helps the well connected, not necessarily those who need it : http://www.wsj.com/articles/SB122126309241530485 and ties up existing inventory. I know people here in SF who have an apartment, and own a hou
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by aorloff 10y ago
Well, for those of us who got started in the 90s, the obvious answer is to have bought up a ton more short dictionary word domain names.
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by aorloff 11y ago
I hate to say it, but the sump pump story was more interesting to me than the original secret society article. I guess I can empathize more...
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by aorloff 11y ago
Kahneman and Tversky, Prospect Theory. Applies to investors, VCs, and ordinary people at the grocery store.
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by aorloff 11y ago
Holy shit I was about to write a comment to say - YES!!! absolutely. And then its you. Well, you are still right, and its still what I was thinking.
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by aorloff 11y ago
No, this guy seems like a real human being. Jurors are supposed to be humans, first and foremost. That's why juries are made up of your peers and not a bunch of legal professionals. There's lots of "rules" in life, and
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by aorloff 11y ago
Another way of saying this : a lot of B and C players are really A players working for the wrong person. A lot of how productive and successful engineers are has to do with the environment they are working in.

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