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by axiom 17y ago
Until they speed up the datastore by a factor of 10 the app engine just isn't a viable platform. They don't even use it internally for that very reason (this is coming from colleagues who work there.)
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by axiom 17y ago
The most useful part of this link was finding prezi, which is awesome, and I hadn't heard of it before.
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by axiom 17y ago
Ugh. What possible good could it do to outlaw unpaid internships? Do people actually think the result will be companies deciding to pay interns rather than just not offering internships? Just put yourself in the position of a manager making
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by axiom 17y ago
Note also that the CPI grossly under reports the devaluation of currency, in that it doesn't take into account increases in production efficiency. Cars, for example, cost more today than they did in 1970, but are vastly cheaper (in terms of
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by axiom 17y ago
I'd bet good money that they make most of their money selling subscriptions to their stock tips platform rather than actually trading.
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by axiom 17y ago
Um, wasn't that kind of the point of corn subsidies? It really wasn't that long ago when the biggest problem in the lower class wasn't being too fat, but rather being too thin. Certainly this is a cause for concern, but keep in mind that th
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by axiom 17y ago
We're hiring in Waterloo, Ontario http://www.tophatmonocle.com
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by axiom 17y ago
Ok, I'll admit it, we've had unpaid interns. When we first started out (i.e. when we were based out of my living room, and were funded by my line of credit+credit cards) we couldn't afford to buy the fancy kind of ramen noodles, let alone p
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by axiom 17y ago
Stay the hell away from angel groups. Only deal with individual angels investors. Angel groups almost universally consist of large numbers small time "investors" who don't really have the net worth to invest on their own. They take months a
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by axiom 17y ago
I've read it, and I think it's silly to ascribe societal success based on the various random incedental facotrs surrounding it.
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by axiom 17y ago
The article mentions several times that the Icelandic form of government lasted longer than the US - if anything I see that as a negative indicator, given how little actual progress occurred during that time. Compare the impact the US syste
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by axiom 17y ago
Well no, the article is suggesting not exiting early, since and early exit means only the founders get any real money (hence my suggestion to instead give early employees lots of stock so they don't get screwed.)
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by axiom 17y ago
For me it was a question of time - raising money meant we could get up to speed faster. Sure, we could have bootstrapped, but then we'd be living on ramen for 3 years before we could afford to pay ourselves a living wage (or worse, could ha
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by axiom 17y ago
Am I the only one who's shocked that there's actually enough of a market out there for these kinds of fakes that somewhere there's a factory producing these?
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by axiom 17y ago
Or give early employees decent option grants.
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by axiom 17y ago
Because as everyone knows, real diversity consists of having enough people with the right skin color.
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by axiom 17y ago
Papers are about as good an indicator of productive output as lines of code. As mentioned briefly in the article, citations are probably a much better metric.
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by axiom 17y ago
I think the real lesson to take away from this is "stay the hell away from the education market, especially primary/secondary schools." Seriously, it's a god damn nightmare, and the fact that $50 plastic remote controls are the state of the
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by axiom 17y ago
More info here: http://99designs.com/logo-design/contests/logo-shiny-tech-st...
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Help my startup pick a new logo (redo)(surveymonkey.com)
2 points by axiom 17y ago|2 comments
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by axiom 17y ago
Ah, good point. If you look at the brief at 99designs it does a better job of explaining what we're going for. http://99designs.com/contests/36804 But I'd say "playfully campy" is a pretty good summary :)
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by axiom 17y ago
Also: http://99designs.com/contests/36804
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Help my startup pick a new logo(surveymonkey.com)
8 points by axiom 17y ago|22 comments
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by axiom 17y ago
Well of course. The vast majority of students are there to get the piece of paper that they can then staple to their resume. You don't get that by auditing open course ware.
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by axiom 17y ago
I've always wondered, even after adjusting for inflation wouldn't it make sense to adjust for population as well? In 1939 the population of the US was only 130millon, and a large portion was rural, which meant they had poorer access to thea
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by axiom 17y ago
Yeah but what gives the Chinese government the right to control the internet connections in the country? Even if it happens to be the case that all of the infrastructure was built with government funds - those funds were taxed away from cit
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by axiom 17y ago
The difference between the first example and the second is the difference between the defensive use of force and the initiation of force. Disney has a monopoly on the use of Mickey Mouse because they created it and because the spent billion
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by axiom 17y ago
Except that the predictions that actually came true are the obvious ones (e.g. smaller faster computers everywhere predicted in 1999) while the ones that didn't come true (e.g. "Translating telephones allow people to speak to each other in
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by axiom 17y ago
It would be a lot more impressive if he made those predictions before PDAs were already commonplace, and WiFi was well established. So basically his prediction was "there's gonna be the same stuff we have now, but it's gonna be all over the
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by axiom 17y ago
Reading through this: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Predictions_made_by_Raymond_Kur... I get the distinct sense that the person who made those predictions just watched far too many sci-fi movies. Nearly everything he predicted for 2020 in

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