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by axiom 15y ago
Can we agree that the host here is at least partially responsible for what happened? First, let me say that what happened was horrible, and the person who did the damage should go to jail for a long long time. AirBnB should cover the cost o
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by axiom 15y ago
Anyone have an idea as to how so many Y-Combinator companies get this kind of mind blowingly awesome press? is it just the brand recognition of being a YC company?
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HN meetup: Waterloo, Ontario, this Thursday July 14th(meetup.com)
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by axiom 15y ago
Pretty sweet! Looks like an easy way to get $5k to me: http://kik.com/dev/contest.php
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by axiom 15y ago
The big thing Google+ seems to be missing compared to Facebook is the ability to be a voyeur on other people's lives. I haven't used Facebook in years but I recall that was the thing that basically everyone spent their time doing. Google+ s
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by axiom 15y ago
Check this site out: http://bitcoinwatch.com/ The velocity of bitcoin is 730k/24h or $11M/24h, which is pretty insanely high and suggests that if anything the current value of bitcoin is low (due to perceived risk.) Lest you think this is
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by axiom 15y ago
The thing that will keep bitcoin alive is black market transactions. As long as there is a single officially supported currency that can be traded into bitcoin there will be a huge market for it. I don't see every nation in the world bannin
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by axiom 15y ago
"While #2 isn't a very effective leader, their heart is usually at least in the right place" You know what they say the road to hell is paved with. Lots of people have great motives, but end up achieving nothing but destruction. Yeah, I def
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by axiom 15y ago
I've had 3 kinds of bosses: 1. Hardass who pushes everyone to the limit, tends to micro-manage, frequently overrules consensus with his own views. 2. Total pushover who agrees with everything. Constantly seeks consensus and rule by democrac
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by axiom 15y ago
Waterloo, Ontario We would consider hiring remote developers, but ideally we want someone who can work in our office with the rest of the team. We are a growing and profitable startup in the education space with 12 employees. Our developmen
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by axiom 15y ago
There are ways to hack around the lack of SSL on third party domains with Ajax, but yeah it's pretty insane that they still haven't got that in place.
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by axiom 15y ago
I'd say what killed it is that for $200 you can buy a decent used 13" laptop, instead of spending $250-300 on a borderline unusable new 10" netbook.
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by axiom 15y ago
The reality is that the vast majority of successful startups do work very long hours and push themselves to the limit. Only once a company is established and has a successful product can you begin to see huge leverage off of every hour of w
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by axiom 15y ago
Nah, I don't think so. When a company like Color (and honestly I don't know that Color is a lame duck, I'm just using them as an example) has $40 million to burn they can afford to pay a kid right out of school $150k/yr + $1M in equity. Mos
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by axiom 15y ago
This is the other unseen cost of being in a bubble. All the best talent gets tied up in lame duck me-too companies, and makes it impossible to hire people for the good companies.
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by axiom 15y ago
I've found that conferences are never ever worth it by themselves. The only way we've been able to justify the cost of travel+time was by scheduling 15-20 meetings with customers in the area of the conference, so that the actual conference
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by axiom 15y ago
It's going to be brutal. I've been telling everyone I know in Waterloo for years not to buy any real-estate (especially those trendy lofts) because the prices will crash once RIM falls apart. On a related note, we're hiring at Top Hat Monoc
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by axiom 15y ago
Any suggestions on a better topic? wanna come present something? :) We just picked it because we have a couple of Djange and App Engine experts and so it seemed like a good idea.
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HN meetup: Waterloo, Ontario(meetup.com)
38 points by axiom 15y ago|25 comments
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by axiom 15y ago
Ultimately there's no substitute for human judgement to filter things. It's just a question of who makes the call, and how "democratic" the process is. "Interestingly, about 95% of companies that apply to be featured on AngelLiist do n
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by axiom 15y ago
Working without a salary, pre angel funding = co-founder You should be giving them 20%+ equity. If you treat them like employees, they will act like employees. At this early stage in the startup you need dedicated fanatics who will obsess a
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by axiom 15y ago
Microsoft issues dividends. Google and Apple don't.
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by axiom 15y ago
Be very very careful. The success rate for this kind of hire is around 10%. I personally don't know of a single startup that did this and didn't have to fire the guy after a few months (with lots of time and money wasted.) Seriously, not a
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by axiom 16y ago
"Rule No. 11: Be nice to nerds. You may end up working for them. We all could." It's funny, but at the time this was written this was kind of a controversial and insightful statement. Now, it sounds so obvious that it's a cliche. Amazing ho
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by axiom 16y ago
I'm not saying this is the best article on HN but take a look at this: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2347017 Is that really a much more insightful piece? In my mind that's much more pandering to the HN crowd and has a lot less conte
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by axiom 16y ago
http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2347487 Death by flagging. James seems to rub some people the wrong way on HN. I like his writing. He's witty and always has an interesting point of view.
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by axiom 16y ago
If you try once and succeed, you're lucky. If you try 10 times and succeed, that's called hard work.
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by axiom 16y ago
Wow, congrats to the InPulse team!
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by axiom 16y ago
I'll admit that I expected it to be terrible, but watching the clips I'm starting to feel a glimmer of hope.
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by axiom 16y ago
Well, the change that prevents this from happening again is DNA evidence. Definitely the human factors that caused this will still complicate things, but at least the most egregious kinds of cases can be prevented.

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