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by bap 9y ago
Diller is the chairman of the board. Levin has been CEO and running g day to day operations for a bit now. That being said it's important to understand that IAC businesses are run fairly independently. Many (most?) have their own CEOs,
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by bap 10y ago
This made me think of a thing I've done in the past so here's a brain vomit about 'base page caching' - most of which is probably irrelevant here but perhaps someone will find it useful: I don't know how dynamic or
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by bap 12y ago
Because BTC and blockchain utility do not need to correlate to the exchange rate against USD for the system to have massive inherent value. [Edit: removed redundant 'correlate']
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by bap 13y ago
Classic.
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by bap 13y ago
At that level of 'paranoia' / privacy concern you might as assume this is an elaborate honey-pot. An unlikely scenario but certainly the safest assumption from a privacy perspective.
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by bap 14y ago
I think this deserves a conversation as opposed to a comment. The comment would have to be very long just qualifying assumptions about your situation given how oblique you have to be to protect your anonymity. Unfortunately I don't have tim
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by bap 15y ago
I"m not in any way involved with the OP but: Thanks for being awesome Patrick. :)
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by bap 15y ago
Hi, I got your email and I promise I am working my way through the queue toward it! I just wanted to note here for anyone else who feels like they are 'late to the party' that I'm trying to make this an ongoing thing. People should feel fre
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by bap 15y ago
Glad I could help!
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by bap 15y ago
My instinct (knowing nothing about your business or it's potential) is to launch but maybe you have legal or financial or personal reasons for not doing so. There's a potential problem of perception from a buyers perspective: The buyer is g
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by bap 15y ago
I'm going to talk about geography because other people are giving good advice in other regards: Can you move to a startup friendlier environment? Even by taking another job and working nights/weekends/lunch hours on your startup? Tony Hsieh
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by bap 15y ago
I've stuck it out to the very end a couple times. Once I was the last guy to lock the doors and walk away, after the CEO, after all the management senior to me. After the cleaning crew. It really comes down to what you can afford. You've st
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by bap 15y ago
I had a great telephone conversation with Emil last night re: my Offer HN post. He's very smart, down to earth and knowledgable. This is a great opportunity if you're looking to found. He's already eliminated some risk and validated part of
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by bap 15y ago
You're on! See my profile or contact info. ;)
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Offer HN: How can I help?
20 points by bap 15y ago|6 comments
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by bap 15y ago
I just tried to do a headstand like that. Now I have a headache. Thanks, HoboCEO! In all seriousness.. the Silicon Valley startup crowd is going to say some ugly things about 'Lifestyle Businesses' when they see things like this. On the ot
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by bap 15y ago
Also, in the program section.. if I decide I need a loop after I have added a couple instructions to my program I can't seem to drag them into the loop. I have to pull them from the top and delete the ones I had already brought down. (still
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by bap 15y ago
This is fun! Minor: The click and drag interface is nice but once you become a little more proficient at the game mechanics it would be nice to just be able to single or double click a command entity to append it to your command set.. ;)
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Virtual currency: Bits and bob(economist.com)
4 points by bap 15y ago|0 comments
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by bap 15y ago
Not to sound trite but: Start a project. You will learn all sorts of things about project management in a software development setting. Source code organization, etc. You will gain domain knowledge of whatever technology stack you decide to
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by bap 16y ago
One thing I don't commonly see mentioned in these types of articles/posts/etc is something I've been doing for quite some time as an avid reader. Often I will run across a phrase, or a sentence or sometimes a paragraph, that just feels awkw
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by bap 16y ago
This is pretty spiff. Revenue just from that little 123Systems Ad or are you planning some greater service rollout? It seems like you could ad maybe 3 Square Button ads in various places and still be unobtrusive about it.. Don't get me wron
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by bap 16y ago
PayPal is _ok_ but I don't feel like they're really pushing the innovation envelope (and haven't for a long time.) You might consider Recurly http://recurly.com/ as an alternative.
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by bap 17y ago
Additionally, I think it can also be said that a market of some kind will spring up around anything people value and can possess. "Success" will bring competition and/or copy-cats which will help alleviate shortage of supply, etc.
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by bap 17y ago
I too have a hard time lasting it out through an essay that seems very self-promotional. Many essayists whose work I used to look forward to reading (J. Spolsky, P. Graham, etc) seem to have become stuck in a rut of beating a particular se
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by bap 17y ago
I think that even a team of rock stars in a cubicle-free paradise are still beholden to whatever set of development priorities they are handed.
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by bap 17y ago
The most successful startups are disruptive. How can someone be disruptive when they're worried about keeping up appearances? To my mind, worrying about what others think of you starting a company might just mean you shouldn't do it at all
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by bap 17y ago
Readability is awesome and I would love to see some version of it for my iphone. I concur that if apps like this become ubiquitous then the 'industry' (whatever that is) will shift toward inline text inclusion of things like credentials as
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by bap 17y ago
Apple seems to have drifted away from it's carefully trod line of empowering and protecting users into the realm of protecting users from themselves. I tend to think that Apple signed some of it's soul away when making media deals and situa
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by bap 18y ago
I would characterize that as 'acceding to authority out of respect.' Respect, or course, must be earned and can so easily be lost when those in authority start to demand it.

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