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by btipling 13y ago
Mundane is hard, and working at a startup can require mundane work. Lots of it. Automate whatever you can whenever you have time.
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by btipling 13y ago
Even for employees, startups are hard and take commitment. It's not for everyone, in fact it's probably not for most. People seem to have this idea of lavish Zynga style life styles. It's not. It's really really hard wor
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by btipling 13y ago
I want to agree, but there are times when you have to ask for timezones, like when you want to collect and present data in discrete time units like days. If a user wants to know how many app installs they have per 'day', you have
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by btipling 13y ago
The OP link is mostly blog spam that references http://www.itif.org/publications/how-much-will-prism-cost-us... which says $22 to $35 BN qualified with an "if" statement. > The United States has been the l
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by btipling 13y ago
Fix title. "lost" is not the equivalent of "stands to lose"
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by btipling 13y ago
I see a problem with collecting information without probable cause or a warrant. Though I may not agree with drug laws, I do not see the problem with convicting individuals who are committing crimes regardless of how that information was co
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by btipling 13y ago
I am not sure it is illegal to obtain information through lying and deceit, as police do this all the time, especially if the information is not used in a trial. If there is enough "clean" evidence to go to trial, I am not sure th
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by btipling 13y ago
I did contribute something, the point that drugs are not being planted on people. The parallel construction wouldn't work if the suspects were not actually committing crimes. Nobody wants to talk about it I guess however, too busy gett
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by btipling 13y ago
The data-mining aspect could be troubling depending on the details, but the parallel construction isn't. They're not planting the drugs on the suspects when they stop stop them. But the hysteria here is thick so one can't eve
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by btipling 13y ago
I disagree. RSS readers have a significant long tail expense per user. I worked at Bloglines. Pretty much every one of those free users have extra little RSS feeds that nobody else subscribes to that you have to crawl, handle invalid rss&#x
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by btipling 13y ago
> The idea that because it's free it's above all criticism is simply unreasonable. Solution: shut down the free version. Addressing complaints from free users who demand things captures absolutely zero value when you're a
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by btipling 13y ago
I don't know how reliable Google Trends are but: http://www.google.com/trends/explore?q=rockmelt#q=rockmelt&c... They couldn't have paid too much for such a downward trend.
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by btipling 13y ago
"I would not have let them in." No you should not get in their way. Don't give them permission if they ask if that is your desire, but don't get in their way. For what it's worth police don't need a warrant to
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by btipling 13y ago
It doesn't exactly put it in a good light. It's quite stomach turning actually. Having said that, I'm a little tired of HN's never ending ability to find something to be outraged about, so despite this particular thing p
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by btipling 13y ago
For what it's worth Medium has a really top notch team, and they are still iterating and exploring. This feedback will probably be valuable to them. I have found the Medium UI to be very good.
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by btipling 13y ago
This kind of stuff actually happens: http://www.theblaze.com/stories/2013/07/18/sex-bloggers-coul...
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by btipling 13y ago
Very nice, I like the flat design, but I don't think you're charging enough.
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by btipling 13y ago
You see this too across device types. Some commentators trivialize "marketshare" when talking about iPhone, but when talking about iPads in separate posts, it's all about marketshare. Mental gymnastics. The remaining goal pos
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by btipling 13y ago
2008-2009 I dealt with the Facebook API and they often broke things. The breaking changes notifications have improved things, but they still break things. Their insight analytics was broken for about a year. They just don't seem to car
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by btipling 13y ago
Rackspace is worth about $6bn, so I doubt some new startup with a tiny market share is worth more than twice Rackspace. https://www.google.com/finance?q=NYSE:RAX
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by btipling 13y ago
A price that's probably worth it in many cases.
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by btipling 13y ago
America would be so much more beautiful if we had fewer billboards and cables were underground instead hosted on poles. I think it's patriotic to oppose billboards and telephone polls.
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by btipling 13y ago
Axis and Vortex are interesting stories, but very different from the first one. They become maybe a little bit less interesting with each iteration, but are still entertaining. The first book is full of mystery and the personal dynamics of
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by btipling 13y ago
I think he probably means he has a distress password that will destroy his encrypted data if he was put under duress to disclose anything. I don't believe he is saying he can withstand pain indefinitely.
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by btipling 13y ago
> " Gentoo also provides some fantastic tools for maintaining your system. ‘eselect’, for example, makes it easy to symlink your kernel," This whole post could have been sarcasm. I know it isn't, but, this is exactly what
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by btipling 13y ago
I'm an atheist and I still think porn may be a valueless, happiness destroying exploitation of the way the human brain works in a way that makes zynga appear to be an angel of virtue. The less of it there is, the better.
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by btipling 13y ago
A cool write up and good discussion but looking at the home page can maybe be insightful too. The home page can probably be improved to see a minor tick in conversions. The "Online Inventory Management without the suck" is not a g
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by btipling 13y ago
> The cobalt blue color comes not from the reflection of a tropical ocean as it does on Earth, but rather a hazy, blow-torched atmosphere containing high clouds laced with silicate particles. Silicates condensing in the heat could form v
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by btipling 13y ago
Disagree and commit is a better strategy. Having done a short stint as an engineering manager, sometimes there's disagreement, not everyone agrees on what the right thing is, hopefully not everyone goes and does their own thing and wai
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by btipling 13y ago
iamtherockstar you are hellbanned. Your comment appears as dead. I tell you because you made an informative comment. Looks like it happened about a month ago.

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