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1. 16231.▲
   by api 15y ago

   Translation: we are now backpedaling with egg all over our faces, and will get to drafting a new lobbyist-driven assault on the open Internet in secret. This time we'll try to help market it better.
2. 16232.▲
   by api 15y ago

   Too little, too late. Fuck them. Of course, I would have said that before they stopped supporting SOPA. They've always been a sleazy spammy company whose advertising is full of blatant sexism. We should not have been surprise by their suppo
3. 16233.▲
   by api 15y ago

   Nothing good ever came from a committee.
4. 16234.▲
   by api 15y ago

   I think you would find subclinical psychopathy and related disorders among any sampling of the people humanity elevates to high leadership positions in any field: political, religious, economic, even academic.
5. 16235.▲
   by api 15y ago

   Because math is by far the worst taught subject in schools, including university level.
6. 16236.▲
   by api 15y ago

   What we really need is a new protocol based on Kademelia or something, a decentralized DNS. Engineering such a thing to scale would be tough, but getting adoption might be easier than we think. It could be offered via click-to-install brows
7. 16237.▲
   by api 15y ago

   When PG wrote about how the latest batch of YC startups were run by "operators" rather than your typical "shy tech guys," I knew he'd started to fall into the orbit of the boiler room crowd.
8. 16238.▲
   by api 15y ago

   "He wanted to bring in partners that he had previously screwed over..." That is so classic. It really does get kind of Monty Python-ish. Like I said in my post above, I have a lot of stories. If I ever wrote a book about it, I'd have to t
9. 16239.▲
   by api 15y ago

   I would fault the Startup School organizers for this. They are creating a community that is catering largely to people who are young, talented, but not experienced. They need to be educating people about how to avoid the pitfalls and scams
10. 16240.▲
    by api 15y ago

    You should read Blindsight by Peter Watts. It's about this topic, and is basically an evolutionary dynamics horror story. The term you're looking for is "nonsentient."
11. 16241.▲
    by api 15y ago

    Because they made inflated stock awards to lure in the suckers, then canned it at the last minute. It's classic.
12. 16242.▲
    by api 15y ago

    They don't care about the long term. They are going for IPO (hand off to dumber money) and then getting out. The game is: lie, leverage, flip.
13. 16243.▲
    by api 15y ago

    I've seen that too, and I've heard some whoppers of stories. Like, stuff that does not even slightly exist. Pig, meet lipstick. Like I said in another part of the thread: the stock market is the dumbest money around.
14. 16244.▲
    by api 15y ago

    Investors bear some culpability for this. The criteria that they sometimes use to judge their investments is... umm... I had an investor once tell me with a straight face that he only invests in founders with a "prominent chin," because tha
15. 16245.▲
    by api 15y ago

    The latter is what I meant. I didn't mean don't sign contracts. I meant don't do business with scum.
16. 16246.▲
    by api 15y ago

    Gossip. But honestly, some of it was visible in signs that I (and others) would have recognized had we been more experienced.
17. 16247.▲
    by api 15y ago

    I'm not working on it anymore. I've moved on to other things.
18. 16248.▲
    by api 15y ago

    Sounds like he didn't "have what it takes."
19. 16249.▲
    by api 15y ago

    Yeah. An armed society is a polite society.
20. 16250.▲
    by api 15y ago

    If that's true, then the business world needs to do a better job internally policing itself. Behavior like this (and worse... honestly this story is like a 4 on a 1-10 scale) creates exactly this impression. Clean your own house, or it'll b
21. 16251.▲
    by api 15y ago

    Never sign a contract with someone for whom you think a contract is necessary.
22. 16252.▲
    by api 15y ago

    Some of this stuff is public info. The head of our firm should have probably done more checking. But there are limits, of course, and it's a pain and can be expensive. A database of the sort that you suggest is prohibited by libel and sland
23. 16253.▲
    by api 15y ago

    And you'd instantly be sued for libel, slander, and tortious interference with business relations.
24. 16254.▲
    by api 15y ago

    The most disturbing thing that I noticed was this: a person's status in the business world (or at least certain sectors of it) seems to be perfectly correlated with how they'd probably score on this: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hare_Psych
25. 16255.▲
    by api 15y ago

    I'll do a quick summary. Episode 1: (this is the one that most directly affected me) I was working on a very interesting but somewhat far-off technology. I did some tech talks about it, and put them on Google Video. Was approached by a guy
26. 16256.▲
    by api 15y ago

    There is risk associated with working for a startup. Risk that you will suddenly lose your job. Risk that you will lose your health insurance two days before one of your kids requires an operation. It's a level of risk that doesn't exist if
27. 16257.▲
    by api 15y ago

    Very. It's bad. I kind of got out of startups for that reason. I just couldn't take working with sociopaths anymore. I have some stories. Serious f'ing stories. And no, I'm not just "player hating." A lot of it didn't even involve me. I jus
28. 16258.▲
    by api 15y ago

    What a bunch of assholes. Seriously.
29. 16259.▲
    by api 15y ago

    One way to think of NAT is that it's a hack to IPv4 that uses the port field to add an additional two-bytes of ephemeral IP address space, resulting in 48-bit addresses.
30. 16260.▲
    by api 15y ago

    IPv6 is going to open a floodgate of innovation. All kinds of things are going to become so much easier to develop and more robust without the Internet-breaking devil incarnate known as NAT.