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by augustus 19y ago
I see your point. This is the classic business mindset. I would venture to say though that the classic rules can be broken for other considerations because the Internet is a new medium. I will get to other considerations in a minute but the
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by augustus 19y ago
that's great, Mark. Any idea how much money all this is bringing in? I am not convinced that letting others create free social networks is a good market to be in.
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by augustus 19y ago
Sacrifices are great. Its visually appealing and I loved it too when I first started. But on looking back I think what makes the greatest chess players is their intelligence and ability to calculate quickly and accurately. Here is an exampl
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by augustus 19y ago
that's very interesting.
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by augustus 19y ago
you must be referring to the game of the century against Bryne. Fischer played that game when he was 13 years old. In later years he rarely sacrificed much. Fischer's style of chess is considered the most universal in that he has no prefere
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by augustus 19y ago
Great Post. I have scheduled to read this on my holiday. Thanks for that story jkush. That was interesting.
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by augustus 19y ago
Glad to see Hacker News fans like Classical music. I am a huge classical music fan. That's all I listen to.
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by augustus 19y ago
Maybe web based email such as hotmail was there earlier?
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by augustus 19y ago
Great article. I see your point.
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by augustus 19y ago
I think the article is pretty accurate though. Mozart could create a symphony in one go but the author does say that he started at age 3. His father encouraged him and then Haydn was also his tutor. The way I read the article is that intell
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by augustus 19y ago
I don't know much about working at Google. But using Adwords and dealing with some of the folks at Google was really a pleasant experience. They really went out of their way to accommodate me. I was really surprised!!
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by augustus 19y ago
I have some experience in this area. I currently get 2% of a 7 year old startup along with market pay. I used to have my own company too. If I were you, I would give them options. Option 1. 2% is great if you can get it along with market ra
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by augustus 19y ago
Yeah, you are right. I think his $34 million stake was in eBay so it grew overtime. That's my guess.
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by augustus 19y ago
The noble committee is a disgrace. There is no connection between global warming and peace.It is questionable whether global warming is a threat in the first place. What does a lifetime politician know about global warming anyway. The noble
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by augustus 19y ago
8en, So which culture are you from? You can't be an American? And of course America is a culture without a history and prejudice against people with dark skin right?
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by augustus 19y ago
The fact that you don't know programming is no big deal. Being a programmer for over 12 years and looking forward to my next startup, what I can tell you is that ideas do matter. Consider this.The same amount of time that Google spend build
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by augustus 19y ago
Good article on Usatoday
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by augustus 19y ago
you know what? I feel sorry for employees who work their whole life for companies and then suddenly find themselves laid off. The initial hardwork is nothing compared to the great life ahead once we make it!!!
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by augustus 19y ago
i have some experience with this. i researched a lot of payment gateways such as authorize.net but decided against it because they have a lot of fixed costs which you can only recuperate with high volume. Also online processors have a lot o