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by chris123 14y ago
Facebook and Twitter could be said to lack identify, too. Google's page of search results and ads. Couple of columns, ads, navigation. People understand it. The consumer is already educated. I dunno :)
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by chris123 14y ago
It just means the are not insane, at least as defined by Albert Einstein: "Doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results."
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by chris123 14y ago
Maybe it's a "bros only" culture?
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by chris123 14y ago
Must wear lots of flair, especially when the VCs tour the office, looking important and trying to sound smart (but failing).
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by chris123 14y ago
That's not an employee handbook, it's a company: 1) giving itself a blowjob, and 2) recruiting (a certain demographic).
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by chris123 14y ago
You should enjoy life, love, learn, teach, travel, and have fun from zero to death. The 20s are no different. I for one had an absolute blast in my 20s, did well financially, and didn't take myself "seriously." Different strokes for differe
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by chris123 14y ago
To me its sad that "deep moments" have anything to do with Disneyland or any other manmade attraction, especially one designed to please Wall Street analysts and investors with an ever-increasing stream of profits, extracted from over-comme
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by chris123 14y ago
Ah, the Hacker News brag. Nice.
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by chris123 14y ago
Here's a quarter... :)
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by chris123 14y ago
Is making a round wheel copying inventor of the round wheel, or is it just using what we know, through trial, error, and customer and market feedback, works best? Or, to bring it up to the Internet age, take the Amazon.com checkout process
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by chris123 14y ago
On the bright side, there may be some good people to be found in the ash pile.
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by chris123 14y ago
Is MongoDB more marketing hype than quality product? I've heard it before and this article seems to point in that direction as well.
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It’s called the http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hawthorne_effect
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The path to hell is paged with good intentions, in this case by young, well-meaning, but unqualified and overly-ambitious people who like the sound of their own voices and think they know what is best for others, but come to realize 25 year
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by chris123 14y ago
Oops, someone (the author) forgot about AOL, which was founded in 1985 and began mailing floppy disks to people in 1993 ( http://techcrunch.com/2010/12/28/aol-floppy-disk/ ). That is when and where I had my first social web experience (it w
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by chris123 14y ago
RE: "At the bare minimum, for this level of recovery that bypasses security questions, they should require confirmation of the entire credit-card number and verification code." That's still a fail because if your wallet probably contains cr
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by chris123 14y ago
Wow, rockets, drugs, expensive escorts, and now this! Sweeeet!
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Who delivers? Is this a P2P marketplace (like Taskrabbit, etc?)?
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by chris123 14y ago
The drumbeat (of departing feet) gets louder. [From 47 days ago: "Facebook CTO Bret Taylor Departs" (215 points): http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4118498 ]
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With Three Key Exits, Facebook’s Top Talent Departures Continue(allthingsd.com)
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With Three Key Exits, Facebook’s Top Talent Departures Continue(allthingsd.com)
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Would be a valid defense argument for your lawyer to use. Lot of good that will do you in Gitmo (when the US implements this kind of law).
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Welcome to the future (Orwell, Minority Report, Enemy of the State, Matrix, etc.).
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Same diff.
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Question (on Quora) that is related to this article: "What are the regulatory/legal problems that ride-sharing startups face?": http://www.quora.com/Ride-Sharing/What-are-the-regulatory-le... -- I am especially interested in what is preve
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by chris123 14y ago
The comments here are more negative than I expected (because my sense is there is a lot of positive Hipmunk love/hype/PR going around and it is a YC darling). Anyway, just an observation. I too have tried to use HM at travel booking time an
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by chris123 14y ago
Sucking the life out of companies, products, and people is AOL's function in life. And it's damn good at it.
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Just an invitation to competitors such as Bitcoin, etc.
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Bro (i.e, this idea sounds like a Brogrammer thing to me).
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by chris123 14y ago
"Closing the barn door after the horse is gone" is the first thing that popped into my mind when I read this headline. The second thing was that they were being "penny wise and pound foolish" when they raised prices in the first place (last

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