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by arfliw 12y ago
What's more likely, coinbase is running a 'scam' or that they don't consider Orange Coast College one of the top 500 universities worldwide?
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by arfliw 12y ago
"tends to emphasize that their earnings came through hard work and merit." Examples?
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by arfliw 12y ago
What makes you think they don't realize it?
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by arfliw 12y ago
Watching the video is the closest I've ever come to crying from something I saw on the internet. Moving stuff.
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by arfliw 12y ago
Inspired by KDice, yes. There are some key differences in game play, rules and mechanics, that were meant to improve upon KDice's shortcomings.
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by arfliw 12y ago
Nobody knows what Bill Gates did with all of the money he got selling his MSFT shares over time, just that he put them into Cascade Investments - his investment vehicle. Very odd that you never read about him buying stock or companies or re
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by arfliw 12y ago
Square, not Stripe. And how could fraud not cost them money? That's a cost of doing business for every payment processor.
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by arfliw 12y ago
http://warsocial.com HTML5 game similar to risk. Rails/Angular/Redis/Heroku Took over two years to build. Now it just needs a bunch of players. Monetization isn't built in yet but it's ready for it.
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by arfliw 12y ago
My living room consists of my desk, TV and a small sofa. The desk is positioned in the middle of the room, so I can see the TV. It's a terrible setup for entertaining guests but it's nirvana for working from home. I'd hate to
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by arfliw 12y ago
YC is not an incubator
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by arfliw 12y ago
It's obviously not a "company" yet. Shoot him an email and ask what his plans are.
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by arfliw 13y ago
Actually, they are the sole investor in lots of companies - and have stated they don't mind doing that. Two I can think of off the top are Github and Rapgenius. There are more.
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by arfliw 13y ago
I think so, yes. But I'm averaging[1] and buying in small pieces, because I have no idea where the bottom will be. [1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dollar_cost_averaging
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by arfliw 13y ago
23360 - anybody do better?
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by arfliw 13y ago
Would be way better with numbers on the tiles.
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by arfliw 13y ago
I don't know if it's related or not, but their website is running horribly slow right now. Took me about five minutes to initiate a buy order, as most clicks were non-responsive or took ages to load.
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by arfliw 13y ago
I agree they've done a great job with Instagram (and on that alone I don't get why people aren't willing to give them the benefit of the doubt) but Friendfeed is not a good example. They didn't extend the product at all.
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by arfliw 13y ago
It will if this IPO is an epic fail, which it looks like it may be...
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by arfliw 13y ago
Not sure if this is a bug or not but I was able to endorse a bunch of comments and my karma is only 11. Question: if a comment is never endorsed does that mean that user is effectively banned?
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by arfliw 13y ago
First time I've ever heard of Mark Zuckerberg investing in anything, separate from Facebook. He always cited 'focus' as the reason why he never does it.
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by arfliw 13y ago
"Who is Paul hanging around with that smart is paired with awkward more than outgoing?" Programmers, obviously.
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by arfliw 13y ago
What about Steve Jobs?
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by arfliw 13y ago
What do you do now, if you don't mind my asking? I was an online pro too. Taught myself to code since Black Friday.
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by arfliw 13y ago
Their investors don't have any choice. Mark Zuckerberg has absolute control of Facebook. He can do whatever he wants.
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by arfliw 13y ago
2 days sounds about right - thus why all of those jobs are for $500 or less.
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by arfliw 13y ago
Wow this game is really hard. 20 minutes in and my best score is 3.
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by arfliw 13y ago
This is probably why speakers at YC tell stories based on their experiences - and thus do not just give blanket advice.