billirvine

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by billirvine 14y ago
> Nobody's going to prison. That depends on what happens. No one thought Martha Stewart would end up in prison for insider trading, something that didn't put other people's money at risk.
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by billirvine 14y ago
Those are nothing compared to SEC laws and IRS requirements. Run afoul of them, and prison is in the cards. And PayPal didn't break any banking laws, only ran into parochial issues in some states. And Uber is having trouble too, aren't they
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by billirvine 14y ago
I've been reading hacker news for a long time, and actually making companies also... more than just reading. The "legal risks" here are with the SEC and IRS -- the top two most risky legal risks in the universe. Both send people to prison.
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by billirvine 14y ago
Massive, scary legal risk here. This won't last long.
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by billirvine 14y ago
(1) How can simplistic "landing pages" validate a product idea? (2) And if you actually do have a good idea, ins't using this more like "quicklyspill.it"? Given what chrisacky observed, this is not even close to an "MVP" since it's not even
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by billirvine 14y ago
> The author raises a good point about page load times not > really being minimized and lack of thought around good > responsive design The author has likely not experienced the wonders of setting images as DIV backgrounds, the
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by billirvine 14y ago
This reads like someone's justification for their own lack-of-talent with media queries and CSS, or their laziness toward creating an optimized experience for all users. "Responsive" is a trendy buzzword thing for what solid digital designe
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by billirvine 14y ago
I ban the word "pivot" from my startup. Seriously. It costs $10 to say that word. Next, you and many others interpret "Lean Startup" wrong. It's not a race to launch something , it's a race to a GREAT PRODUCT. And "lean" certainly has noth
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by billirvine 14y ago
Very good advice, but I'm going to take the curmudgeon level +1. Or... take a little more time and actually learn CSS3 and media queries... then write your own style sheets. It's really not that hard and you'll end up with a style sheet whe
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by billirvine 14y ago
If the "dev" doesn't give a shit about design, the dev shouldn't be touching the design! I've seen far too many "sites" that are not a start, but a finish, wrapped in the homogenized turquoise blandness that is bootstrap. Sure it's possible
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by billirvine 14y ago
Why is there a movement to make every quickly-made website look like dull white/blue with a hint of beige? This is madness. "Hack away on an app and have it look halfway decent" is a very, very poor attitude that portrays laziness and a dis
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by billirvine 14y ago
Thousands of mid-sized to small business, run by people too busy to read hacker news or other sources of geekery, have no idea why they should consider not using GoDaddy. A response like this is part of the problem, and not even close to be