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by bernardlunn 7y ago
Lots of good research but the Paul Graham post on Do Things that don’t scale was way more succinct and insightful
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by bernardlunn 7y ago
Clickait headline without much substance
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by bernardlunn 7y ago
This is huge and amazing move. I am a big fan of Twitter and @jack and love their backing of Bitcoin. I love it when the right thing to do is also the financially smart thing to do.
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by bernardlunn 7y ago
What is it about HN people and negativity about Crypto? Want a killer app? Just look at Bitcoin. Want to find people who use Bitcoin? Move out of your world and visit countries with failing currencies.
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by bernardlunn 7y ago
Agree. I write (code for the human compiler) and that is true, although I am more Lark than Owl
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by bernardlunn 7y ago
And others are Larks, wake up at 5 raring to go
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by bernardlunn 7y ago
I recall managing somebody like that. He would come to work at noon. I was cool with that but had a boss who insisted I dock his pay if he did not come to work at 9. Welcome to Dilbert!
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by bernardlunn 7y ago
This seems like a very different story from a developer working at night because they need the alone time to catch up.
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by bernardlunn 7y ago
The comments on this tell me that the HN system is broken. All the top comments are about % and percentile. They ignore what the talk is about. At best this is clickbait. If the comments were described as “debate about % and percentile” I w
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by bernardlunn 7y ago
Think Craigslist - totally clunky UI that totally dominates its market
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by bernardlunn 7y ago
Regulation is not the answer. GDPR has not done much good. A way to pay for content without relying on ads is the only way
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by bernardlunn 7y ago
Another off topic? Does this have anything to do with the TRON acquisition of BitTorrent?
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by bernardlunn 7y ago
I call writing “code for the human compiler”. That code should address the knowledge level of reader. No general purpose article can get that right
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by bernardlunn 7y ago
Back to the future. Selling perpetual license was the old software game - great for bootstrapping
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Global open source currency index volatility benchmark(dailyfintech.com)
2 points by bernardlunn 7y ago|0 comments
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by bernardlunn 7y ago
From 20 years experience, mostly nodding along except that engineers are easier to manage remotely than sales. Depends on who is doing the managing, not inherent in the job
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by bernardlunn 7y ago
Maybe something to do with diagnosis means more money selling Pharma drugs? Or is that too cynical?
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by bernardlunn 7y ago
If you get off a plane crash alive, your laptop will be the last thing on your mind
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Hollywood’s Venture Studio May Replace Silicon Valley’s Fund Centric Model(dailyfintech.com)
1 points by bernardlunn 7y ago|0 comments
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by bernardlunn 7y ago
Yes. I generally find HN works ie surfaces interesting stuff. I judge HN by what not how. The how moan is often “they don’t like my stuff” sniff sniff
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by bernardlunn 7y ago
For Fiction I totally agree. Although I am a bit Luddite about paper, I like the break from screen time
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by bernardlunn 7y ago
Why? trees are renewable and our eyes need a break from screens
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by bernardlunn 7y ago
You missed one use case which is digital gold, which accounts for most of the price.
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by bernardlunn 8y ago
About time. As a Brit who worked in America for many years this was blindingly obvious. It is only who you pay your tax to.
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by bernardlunn 8y ago
Steve Jobs and Apple is a much better example. Any blue ocean idea is easy to shoot down
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by bernardlunn 8y ago
Hmm “Last year, bankers vying to lead the company’s initial public offering told Uber the market could value it at $120 billion.” Translation is “tell punters what they want to hear”. Reality, 10x revenue means high quality revenue and that
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by bernardlunn 8y ago
“We trusted that Medium might not do what many VC-funded platforms have done before: open an API, attract developers and users, grow, then shut it all down. “ That trust was misplaced. Pleased I stuck with Wordpress.
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by bernardlunn 8y ago
Yes
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by bernardlunn 8y ago
Speaking as somebody who used to lead enterprise sales teams, my take is a) the company did not know how to do enterprise sales properly b) they raised far too much capital. If you bootstrap (most great enterprise software companies were bo
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by bernardlunn 8y ago
This took too long to get to the point. Even with aggressive skimming and a big interest in the subject I gave up

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