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by blrgeek 12y ago
Startup failed (early employee). Did my own startup; growth was insufficient. Ran out of runway (7yrs of doing startups). Looked around & got a position as a Product Manager in AdTech, since I didn't want to get back into a dev rol
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by blrgeek 12y ago
And that is what the USA 'War on Drugs' is doing to the poorer neighbours.
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by blrgeek 12y ago
Have seen mystifly.com work around this from a travel agent perspective. Growing pretty fast..
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by blrgeek 12y ago
So I posted my location, but there's nothing beyond that I guess? If this is an MVP, what are you trying to find out from this experiment?
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by blrgeek 12y ago
So what's the point here? To find other fans of my favorite club so we can meet up?
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by blrgeek 12y ago
Am reading Running Lean, Traction, and following growthhackers.com - heady mix :)
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by blrgeek 12y ago
Can we put these (or a shortened form) on every Show HN post automatically before the comment box? Something like: > Is your comment respectful & helpful? > Is it positive criticism? Please?
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by blrgeek 12y ago
My desk/cube is on the main corridor with low cube walls, and everyone walking past me sees me napping - I don't give a damn :) My wife has done the napping in the car bit earlier in her career.
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by blrgeek 12y ago
On my chair/desk. I reduce the chair's height so I'm not bending over too much, and put my head on my arms on the table.
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by blrgeek 12y ago
Naps save me every time. Just when my work starts flagging and quality starts dropping, a 20min nap makes me feel almost as fresh as I am coming into the office in the morning. Most others at work feel awkward about taking naps - even with
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by blrgeek 12y ago
Being a friend is easier than making a friend. And if you be a friend to someone good, then you will make them a friend over time.
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by blrgeek 12y ago
Can he do these things remotely? Can you help get overseas projects? Can you setup a profile on eLance/etc where he can get projects? Can you get an investment from Kiva or another crowd-funding site?
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by blrgeek 12y ago
Comes up just before Paul does his sandworm trial.
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by blrgeek 13y ago
I just signed up for an account and put in $10 so I can be grandfathered in once Colin upgrades the pricing, and marketing :) I would much rather prefer a robust commercial entity behind my service providers (+ the super credible technical
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by blrgeek 13y ago
None really. Exploiting this requires a client that sends a malicious Heartbeat packet with a large payload size. This is unlikely to have happened in the past without any malice.
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by blrgeek 13y ago
Exactly this. If you do not have a problem or product you are passionate about, then just work for someone else who is able to generate much better value out of your time. Read earlyretirementextreme or mrmoneymustache to see how you can g
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by blrgeek 14y ago
Presumably, they'd 'invest' that $1M @ 2.5% to get 25K/yr, nicely paying off their rent, and keeping the capital in place. And if they invest it at 2.5% + inflation, they'd never run out their capital either. So your conclusion is incorrect
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by blrgeek 14y ago
Found pricing at https://supportbee.com/pricing Unltd agents on all plans, * $19 for 300 tickets/m, * $49 for 1000 t/m * $149 for 5000 t/m * $349 for 15K t/m
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by blrgeek 14y ago
Good point - till now DDG was marketing at us. Could this be where they're trying to move towards a more mainstream market? They did take VC funding, and they may need to show growth in the mainstream market to their investors.
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by blrgeek 14y ago
You, the HN reader, are not the target of this. Of course it ticks you (and me) off the wrong way - but your reaction is likely an unintended consequence! It's excellent PR because it creates a coherent David Vs Goliath narrative that journ
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by blrgeek 14y ago
Excellent PR efforts by DuckDuckGo. But not entirely sure that the arguments presented in this article are valid and would sway a technical crowd. Given how trivial it was just now for me to switch to DDG in Chrome, I don't see how that's a
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by blrgeek 14y ago
Let me see 1. Open Source OS 2. Open Source web server 3. Open Source programming language 4. Open Source web framework 5. Some (relatively) simple customer support ticketing app [not likely to be a system pounding Gorilla] And they claim t
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by blrgeek 14y ago
Excel is years ahead of OpenOffice spreadsheet. Having struggled with OpenOffice spreadsheet, and then reluctantly moving to Excel, I can tell you categorically that Excel is just not replaceable by OpenOffice Spreadsheet.
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by blrgeek 14y ago
Not to mention there ain't no chance the customer's skipping to a different service in 6 months.
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by blrgeek 14y ago
For the lost 'tough innovation opportunity' - yes, too bad. But those same artists can now create a hundred or thousand individually different Wookies or Tie Fighters or many fully animated Na'avi [or Gungan]. The creativity is not lost - i
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by blrgeek 14y ago
The second half of this article has the order by Judge Crabb,. The order starts off explaining why she earlier thought she should take up the case, and force Motorola to specific FRAND licensing terms. Motorola then demanded that Apple agre
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Judge Crabb Explains Dismissal of Apple v. Motorola(groklaw.net)
44 points by blrgeek 14y ago|19 comments
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by blrgeek 14y ago
She, Pamela Jones [aka PJ], has posted far more reasoned, and unbiased [by money] posts on Motorola Vs Apple. http://www.groklaw.net/article.php?story=20121105153442192 and http://www.groklaw.net/article.php?story=2012110322254380 are j
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by blrgeek 14y ago
You could always read the docs linked from Groklaw, and avoid their commentary.
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by blrgeek 14y ago
Perhaps we should just agree to link to Groklaw instead of a paid shill? [Who doesn't always admit his backers?]

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