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by asr 15y ago
On twitter, it looks like he apoligzed: "sorry for what I said ... no excuses." But then he e-mails VentureBeat with--you guessed it--a bunch of excuses: When the game blows up ... and one employee, who didn’t work on the product, and
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by asr 15y ago
This is one of those times I wish HN wasn't so strict about the title of the submission matching the title of the article--this title is extremely misleading. (As a guest post, I'm guessing the author didn't get to write the title, so I'm n
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by asr 15y ago
Actually, I'm pretty sure there's no compelling legal reason for the TSA to do this. If what the TSA says is admissible in a later trial (which it likely would be[1]), it will be admissible whether or not Schneier is present at this heari
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by asr 15y ago
Your comment is rude and trollish. GP made the reasonable point that trust in Joel may not be enough because VCs always apply pressure to monetize. Agree or not (and I don't), it's not some beyond-the-pale view. Chill with the space aliens.
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by asr 15y ago
Exactly. It's an issue because, if someone asks him for his sources, he can say no: if someone asks Path for his sources (via subpoena), they might not be able to say no. So this upload means he can no longer guarantee sources their name wi
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by asr 15y ago
If your phrasing were where this is going I'd have no issues with it, but I think (if this is successful) it's going to be much worse: "The idea is to create experiences that ... are targeted and clickable enough for brands to actually make
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by asr 15y ago
If, like me (and the US Constitution), you think we should have extremely strong freedom of speech protections, that doesn't mean you automatically think there shouldn't be private repercussions to some speech.
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by asr 15y ago
This is right, I don't think duress is relevant here. As a hypothetical, if the company hadn't already paid the $5k, just agreed to do so in the future, they could have some legal arguments for not actually paying after the round closed. Se
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by asr 15y ago
The problem is, even if you add more filters, used cars are still different enough from each other that your users likely want to see the hidden results--unlike airplane seats, where some results are more expensive tickets with an additiona
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by asr 15y ago
Sometimes the explanation is more optimistic than that--sometimes the CEO is rich enough it makes little difference. E.g. John Mackey (Whole Foods CEO) switched to a $1 salary because he felt he no longer needed to work for money [1]. I mea
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by asr 15y ago
Eh... not such a big deal to me. I would like to use Firefox--I think Google's privacy changes demonstrate why it's still important to have a non-profit in this space--but these changes are not going to lure me back to Firefox. I moved to C
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by asr 15y ago
It certainly seems like apress doesn't have their act together, but the fact remains it's a bit silly to refuse to sign a contract and then expect to be paid an advance whose amount is apparently fixed in the contract! In this case, the aut
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by asr 15y ago
Facebook jumping shark--a loose timeline: 2004: I sign up for Facebook because it lets me easily find classmates' cell numbers, and I got my first cell phone for Christmas! 2005: wow, my HS friends are all joining facebook! More connection.
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by asr 15y ago
I might agree with you, but we'd need more information to really know for sure. A minute of Googling turns up TechCrunch speculating YC and other investors got paid back in this deal, in which case I'd say this is pretty sleazy.
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by asr 15y ago
Most of these points strike me as contrary to traditional lean startup advice--e.g. it's ok to expend a huge amount of resources without seeing results for 5-7 years, and it's important to be first in a big market. Obviously, this worked fo
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by asr 15y ago
By definition getting to the same results without co-founders requires a much higher level of ability I don't think this is a compelling argument--investors don't care about your ability, they care about your company's results. If this is
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by asr 15y ago
Who is downvoting this? The point is that people can find a lot of fulfillment in work. When I read about a programmer who stopped programming at 30 to go into construction, I think that shows programming wasn't really the right career choi
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by asr 15y ago
I think where I disagree with you (and the blog author) is your attitude toward work: Money is just a medium of exchange, right, but have you ever wondered what it is you're exchanging? It's life. Work isn't a waste of life. My goal in li
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by asr 15y ago
A good Saturday read. The incentives developers face when designing free-to-play games do indeed lead to games that are no fun. But I actually think many game genres are getting less addictive. It used to be that distribution of games was
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by asr 15y ago
But Google will only consider a product a success if it achieves sufficient scale, while it would (apparently) be happy to have a successful product that is not a platform. Since 100% of successful Google products will be large, it makes se
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by asr 15y ago
But going to a naturopathic doctor for a diet prescription is rubbing crystals all over your body. William Li (the speaker in that talk) is an MD bringing evidence-based medicine (i.e. science) to bear on the question. On the other hand,
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by asr 15y ago
The author argues that Steve's expected survival time was actually much higher than the median, because his cancer was detected early--and that the delay in pursuing traditional treatment (surgery) may have been responsible for the poor out
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by asr 15y ago
This has the ring of truth--otherwise, why not just better separate the divisions within the Netflix brand, as many (angry) commentors have suggested? An additional possibility that occurs to me is that the movie studios' well-publicized di
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by asr 15y ago
This article correctly points out that pricing for legal services is undergoing a shift toward the true marginal cost for the service. So the law firm business model where much of partners’ profits are markups on simple, repetitive work don
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by asr 15y ago
I'm sorry, he lost me at comparing Microsoft stock to Apple and Google over the past 10 years. In retrospect, those are two of the most successful publicly traded tech companies of the period--not a fair comparison. Not to mention those wer
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by asr 15y ago
This is definitely not a done deal--NYC has solicited proposals from many institutions, and it's not certain they will do the project at all. The NYT has a nice overview here: http://www.nytimes.com/2011/04/27/nyregion/bloombergs-big-pu...
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by asr 15y ago
I'm still in law school, so I can't claim expertise yet, but my understanding is that accidentally killing someone while purposefully injuring them would be 1st-degree murder. When you get excused is if you didn't act purposefully... e.g. i
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by asr 15y ago
Actually, this is not true (at least in the US... not sure how it translates to other common law countries). Your mistake about the facts doesn't excuse you if you still knew you were committing a crime. (I'm having a hard time finding a co
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by asr 15y ago
"If they feel the need to compete with anyone on price in order to protect their business interests, they can do so with price cuts deep enough and long enough to drive most potential competitors out of business." If they try to drive com
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by asr 15y ago
Thanks, this summary is a useful recap. I think a lot of this article is colored by the author's positive experience with his LivingSocial rep and negative experience with his Groupon rep, which may be just the reps he was working with. And

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