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by chaz 14y ago
Regardless of origins, I think there's still an important role for city governments to manage the number of cars on the street. NPR Planet Money did a story about the effect of NYC's planned +2,000 cabs (in additional to the existing 13,200
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by chaz 14y ago
It absolutely can work -- I used to work at one. The model is for a few principals / partners who are responsible for finding clients, negotiating contracts, and attracting talent. The clients tend to be sales, marketing, or finance organiz
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by chaz 14y ago
Are companies actively telling you that you don't have enough experience, just not responding, or are you getting discouraged by the job description? Having written many job descriptions, a lot of it is a negotiable wishlist and actual numb
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by chaz 14y ago
What are the roles that you've been talking to employers about? Your experience sounds most like a product manager to me: broad understanding of technologies, experience with end customers and the value proposition to them, ability to navig
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The Story Of A Failed Startup And A Founder Driven To Suicide(businessinsider.com)
210 points by chaz 14y ago|67 comments
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by chaz 14y ago
Just two days ago, he announced he was taking a "leave of presence." Typically, I write over 200 reviews a year for the Sun-Times that are carried by Universal Press Syndicate in some 200 newspapers. Last year, I wrote the most of m
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Thoughts on Blink(medium.com)
4 points by chaz 14y ago|0 comments
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by chaz 14y ago
Why do you believe that TurboTax is horribly coded? I can't say whether or not their code is good or bad, but the US tax the fact that TurboTax is so popular and successful is only because the paper + accountant alternative was so terrible.
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by chaz 14y ago
Combine that with a fairly sophisticated highway system that runs everywhere around the country, a post-war boom in car and suburban home ownership, and low cost of fuel, and it becomes imbued within the culture as the norm.
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by chaz 14y ago
The advice is that successful companies like Dropbox and Skype are so rare, that referring to them as a model is itself a trap. The chances of succeeding here are incredibly small. For every Dropbox, how many similar companies are there in
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by chaz 14y ago
Aren't most of the people logging into Mailchimp online marketers? Maybe "technical" is the wrong word, but their customers are all in the tech business somehow or another. I think that qualifies.
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by chaz 14y ago
100 students x $8.50 is only $850/semester. Even if the class was 500 students, that's still not an overwhelming amount of money for writing a book. If you're teaching classes that large, you're probably making more money on the lecture cir
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by chaz 14y ago
I have a hard time criticizing someone for taking a ride on something that was grew from 0 to 30 million uniques in 6 months, just to see where it goes. You're right it wasn't super sticky and failed to drive long term utility for users, bu
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by chaz 14y ago
I assumed that it was just British English ... British seems to just use "university" for any higher learning degree program, whereas Americans use "university" only for schools with grad programs as well as undergrad. http://grammarist.co
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by chaz 14y ago
I assume the citation from the 20 is this: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_universities_in_Austria...
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by chaz 14y ago
Mine too -- same config. Love the resolution, but the 2D performance has been disappointing from the start. I upgrade my MBP every year, and hoping that we see some improvement this year in the graphics handling.
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Google separates its mapping and commerce unit, Jeff Huber steps down(theverge.com)
3 points by chaz 14y ago|1 comments
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by chaz 14y ago
> The reason for the hold out is the carriers, not Google For a Google SVP, much of the role is external. If getting partners on board is important and it hasn't happened, then you're out.
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by chaz 14y ago
Thanks for clarifying.
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Can the FTC Save Uber?(slate.com)
1 points by chaz 14y ago|0 comments
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by chaz 14y ago
When Diablo 1 and 2 were launched, the single player was 100% client-side. As a result, there was rampant cheating. Jump online with your character, and you had an unfair advantage because of your infinite gold, stacked character and rare i
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by chaz 14y ago
I've met enough people who worked at EA to know they have competent engineers and managers -- they are not completely inept. When hundreds of millions of dollars are suddenly at risk, you have a clear channel straight to the CEO to get the
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by chaz 14y ago
Not to say that there isn't bureaucracy in a company their size, but the launch of a game this size is a really big deal. There's a tremendous of PR, and they're getting scathed. Polygon downgraded their review of 9.5 down to 4.0 because of
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by chaz 14y ago
The contention is that 1950s tax law enabled tax shelters which allowed wealthy filers to heavily reduce their income tax bill. http://online.wsj.com/article/SB1000142412788732470510457815...
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by chaz 14y ago
This only works if the products are good substitutes for each other, and in entertainment products, this is usually not the case. There's only one Beatles, one Star Wars franchise, and one Sim City -- lots of alternative ways to spend time,
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by chaz 14y ago
Agreed. I usually use the version of Hanlon's Razor that substitutes "incompetence" for "stupidity." Not that they didn't understand what was at stake, but made a series of bad decisions.
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by chaz 14y ago
Stupidity isn't about the individual developers -- it's about the incompetent decisions that Microsoft made about the browser. They decided that IE would be released only in-sync with new Windows releases. Vista troubles meant IE was effect
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by chaz 14y ago
Hanlon's Razor applies here: "Never attribute to malice that which is adequately explained by stupidity."
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by chaz 14y ago
This is totally news to me as well. I'll have to investigate and confirm.
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by chaz 14y ago
Everyone should learn to write. This should not be taken as "learn to write a novel." The practice of writing develops skills in articulating opinions, clarifying purpose, supporting with facts, and raising clear questions -- skills useful

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