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by api 12y ago
I don't laugh at bootstrapping at all, and have tons of respect for people who can do it all the way. But sometimes some runway is needed. But by all means you should bootstrap as far as you can go that way. The more you de-risk and ge
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by api 12y ago
That's an interesting and I think valid point. Older people tend to find it easier to raise money just on their own, make connections on their own, etc. They also have more experience, so they need less mentoring. Maybe they just don&#
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by api 12y ago
The failure is the failure to generate novelty or adequately explore alternatives. Enough people might reliable go see 25 sequels, but none of those films will be memorable. None will advance the art of film-making. None will change anyone&
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by api 12y ago
I didn't mean to imply that nobody with a family could do this, but that it's structured in such a way as to be strongly biased against people with families/kids. How many others did you see in YC with children?
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by api 12y ago
All those are valid. One you forgot: YC, like nearly all other accelerators, is implicitly age-ist. Note that I said implicitly. There is no explicit age discrimination that I am aware of, but the entire program is structured in a way that
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by api 12y ago
My understanding is that there was a kind of mini-bubble in seed stage funding for a few years, and that this has now ended. Luckily it seems to have just tapered off in an orderly fashion rather than imploded. Seed deals are still happenin
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by api 12y ago
"is now self-reinforcing and runs on its own sort of cargo-cult momentum" Loads and loads of stuff in business runs on cargo cultism. It is very, very hard to say what precisely causes businesses to be successful or to fail. Corre
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by api 12y ago
Yeah, I mean "Greater Silicon Valley" by which I mean SV itself and its wider diaspora. Other names include Startupistan, Hackerdom, etc.
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by api 12y ago
As far as I know there is no such thing, as baseband chips and firmwares are controlled by telcos and they won't allow anything unlicensed on their networks.
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by api 12y ago
Agreed, but it's important to understand what drove the adoption of NoSQL and schema-less stuff as well as the related trend of dynamic languages like Ruby and JavaScript. (1) SQL server software itself was clunky, hard to scale, compl
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by api 12y ago
I am getting legal advice, and have asked a few others. Just thought I'd ask here too. Seems like your advice boils down to 'don't assume it's wrong just because it might seem anachronistic.'
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by api 12y ago
It's a USB blotto box: http://cd.textfiles.com/group42/ANARCHY/COOKBOOK/BLOTBOX.HTM The old school version required a portable generator. Miniaturization at its finest!
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by api 12y ago
Skepticism was a reaction mostly against the excesses of new age mysticism and later religious fundamentalism. Those were also huge parts of the 70s intellectual meltdown. Now that both those movements seem on the wane, dogmatic skepticism
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by api 12y ago
While I am skeptical of psi, I'm not 100% sure the drop off of that interest is progress. You can count me among those who believe that fundamental ground-breaking innovation has declined considerably since the late 70s. One potentia
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by api 12y ago
We want G-rated curiosity. We want the benefits of creativity and invention, but without the naughty bits. Newton practiced alchemy, occultism, and religious heresy. Thomas Edison researched the use of electromagnetic fields to communicate
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Ask HN: Non-circumvention clauses and distribution agreements
3 points by api 12y ago|3 comments
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by api 12y ago
This is what you get in countries where good infrastructure isn't considered a communist conspiracy and where one of the major political parties is not overtly anti-infrastructure. France, Germany, etc. also have public transit in most
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by api 12y ago
Even for mini display port these have a chip inside that actually does the VGA modulation. It's not a big deal.
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by api 12y ago
T-Mobile doesn't charge a fee.
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by api 12y ago
At least we have Ruby, Python, Node, and OpenJDK. They can't ruin every ecosystem.
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by api 12y ago
Why wouldn't they include 4G/LTE in this? It's a serious question. It's basically a "mega-tablet," a high-end mobile device with a "real OS." It's designed for doing serious work in an ultra-port
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by api 12y ago
On the contrary, ask.com is quite happy with this. They are paying Oracle, therefore they are the customer. You are not. This is really tragic, since the Java language and VM are nice pieces of technology. Unfortunately Oracle is killing th
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by api 12y ago
Not at all. OP is pointing to a common underlying social dysfunction. We live in a hierarchically exploitative society, which contributes to the global collapse of trust. I'm sure if it were somehow possible and legal to bundle some ki
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by api 12y ago
Caveat: some of these look a bit fly-by-night. But I thought it was an interesting resource. If I were going to use any of these I'd try to dig up some third party reviews.
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by api 12y ago
The point about taxes is important. When a company like Google makes a lot of money, a lot of taxation occurs. This allows the government to essentially capture an ROI on that research. Given current "financial technology," govern
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ExoticVPS: Virtual Servers Around the World(exoticvps.com)
2 points by api 12y ago|1 comments
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by api 12y ago
It seems to stand in stark conflict with the difficulty of finding good people. If you have to let someone go for other than cash flow or pivot reasons, it seems to me like an admission that you made a mistake hiring them. Obviously this ha
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by api 12y ago
How do you conceal that in a small venture? Sounds like you have a real communication problem in that company if something like this can happen and nobody has a clue.
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by api 12y ago
I think programming challenges are the only recruitment tool we have that can cut through this and many other similar questions.
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by api 12y ago
It's also possible that had energy generation capability continued to increase forever at that rate it would have led to self-destruction in any number of forms.

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