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by arach 12y ago
> One of the hardest lessons I've had to learn in life is that success has very little to do with engineering. The technical side needs to be just good enough to work. The rest comes down to marketing and networking. My understandin
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by arach 12y ago
I happen to think that because the leverage is greater, the reward for hiring highly skilled & talented engineers is much greater than it ever was. All the products mentioned were functionally simple and I like billyhoffman's expla
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by arach 12y ago
I cannot believe that this post by Sam Gerstanzang, a partner, speaks for a16z. I certainly hope it doesn't get much traction internally and there have been a few internal notes explaining to him the number of ways he is wrong. What I
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by arach 15y ago
Perhaps you are correct, but why worry about what others think of you? Find your people, enjoy life and make stuff.
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by arach 15y ago
Skype retained its value and even became more valuable, but that doesn't mean it made strategic sense for a marketplace / e-commerce company.
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by arach 15y ago
I think the notion that a company such as HP could be led by someone who is not irrefutably passionate about technology is flawed. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Meg_Whitman Nothing about her bio suggests any sincere interest in technology.
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by arach 15y ago
Well done guys.
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by arach 15y ago
>> It's kind of a long story as to why, I'm also interested in this story. This is one case where not seeing vote counts encourages me to write a comment that doesn't add value. Voting up the other 2 replies wouldn't be that useful.
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by arach 15y ago
Let's not cheer this nonsense. This could be a tabloid article about "Showbizz revival spawns businesses to services stars". I mean StackExchange as a startup to serve startups? Can't be serious.
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by arach 15y ago
I agree with you. The people you back hopefully have inherent hunger and achieving some measure of financial success should not slow down their drive. Do we know about the dudes or dudettes who started a promising company but started relaxi
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by arach 15y ago
I am not an expert either. It is one thing to argue that valuations are high and another thing to argue that silly ideas are being funded. I don't see any evidence that the bar for getting funding has been lowered. I know perfectly good tea
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by arach 16y ago
> So I'd waste my time, or worse, internalize a bad design pattern because I didn't know any better. Maybe. Or maybe someone would point out that you took a wrong path, you'd be embarrassed for a few minutes and learn the better design
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by arach 16y ago
> Guaranteed to make even the simplest of projects seem terribly, horribly complicated! That's pretty hilarious :) Freudian?
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Viinyl is About.me for music(thestartupfoundry.com)
3 points by arach 16y ago|1 comments
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by arach 16y ago
I remember someone making a speech (borrowed from someone else) about "just words". Words matter. Conversations matter.
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by arach 16y ago
guildhub.com? guilds for github...
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by arach 16y ago
I don't know enough about the Cajun English language to comment on your analogy. For what it's worth, here is wikipedia's article on Quebec French [citation needed] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quebec_French#Mutual_intelligib... http://e
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by arach 16y ago
> it needs to change this cheap labor mindset into one of innovation. I agree with your point that Montreal needs to change its cheap labor mindset, but I'm pretty sure the innovation part is and always was very strong here. Thankfully,
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by arach 16y ago
You've made some pretty awesome observations. Having said that :) I'd like to point out that there were more than 700 attendees at StartupCamp last month. A relatively good portion of those people were not skeptical at all about business am
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by arach 16y ago
When your default market is multilingual, you don't just translate your software, you deal with supporting more than one language from the start. I don't know how many markets are bilingual by default. I'm not saying that internationalizati
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by arach 16y ago
I think you're exaggerating. Parisians may tease Quebecers, but that's just to keep themselves in teasing shape. Teasing is a sport, you gotta practice. Most French people will be able to understand most Montrealers. It should be noted that
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by arach 16y ago
Anyone else think it was a reference to Kafka? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Metamorphosis
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by arach 16y ago
I'm no expert on Montreal's economic activity overall, but Montreal and Quebec have fared relatively well during this recession. "A look inside the April unemployment numbers of 8.1 per cent shows Quebec, at 7.9 per cent, below the national
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by arach 16y ago
>Anyway, looks like Quebec is finally separating :P Hehe. It's funny that this happens the day before St-Jean Baptiste day. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Holiday_(Quebec)
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by arach 16y ago
http://earthquakescanada.nrcan.gc.ca/recent_eq/2010/20100623...
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by arach 16y ago
Felt it in Montreal. 8th floor of an office building. It took me a few seconds to know it was an earthquake. The windows of another building near us were shaking. My reaction was a little slow. Went away from the windows toward a support be
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by arach 16y ago
The military played a huge part in the growth of the Valley. Here's Steve Blank's presentation: The Secret History of Silicon Valley. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZTC_RxWN_xo
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by arach 16y ago
Not a fan of the the use of the phrase "Silicon Valley North", but good press for the Canadian startup scene is ... good. One of the great points made in the article is about the pick-up mechanism: """“Say you’ve got three brilliant young p
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by arach 16y ago
It's funny because email is how I started using Posterous. I thought the getting started process was clever. Over time, I started using the bookmarklet more and more. After a year, I would say I use the email feature extremely rarely.
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by arach 16y ago
I'm pretty sure there is nothing unfair going on here. This is news.ycombinator.com and people who come here care about ycombinator companies. The YC related posts aren't bigger or any different from others and I think they are submitted th

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