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by davros 13y ago
Whoah there - that's a huge leap from investors finding out that the entrepreneur is lying to them to the investors colluding on price. One is fine, the other is not.
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by davros 13y ago
You probably can run, but it will take a long slow process. Can you walk a mile? If so, do that several times a week. Gradually increase to two miles. Then jog (very very very slow run) for a a few yards at a time during the walk. Gradually
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by davros 13y ago
My experience is that reaching a 'work-optional' state is not the easy transition most would think it. I recommend that you search for a meaningful goal and get to work on it, drifting is dangerous.
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by davros 13y ago
I own one. I routinely get over 600 miles, but 700 needs careful and slow driving. This A4 is a really tough comparison because the fuel economy and driveability is way better than most mid-size cars. The Tesla looks a lot better if you com
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by davros 13y ago
I agree some skepticism is warranted, so I am looking to see what Google and others say. If several big companies all say similar things then we either believe in a much bigger conspiracy or accept their claims there is not bulk access to a
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by davros 13y ago
I think its a big deal. I'm not American. I don't think things will change - at first . The leading US internet companies are all built on a foundation of trust. Undermining that trust counterbalances the convenience of their ser
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by davros 13y ago
The problem is that Obama himself has acknowledged the program both exists and is very active, the only limitation being 'Internet monitoring is only for those outside United States'- no comfort for Google users like myself outsid
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by davros 13y ago
Nice, thank you. I dislike new compose, but am finding big advantages as well because its forced me to learn keyboard shortcuts. Now if only there was a shortcut for 'reply/forward in new tab' or I could change the default size for cmd+r re
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by davros 13y ago
To me its less about the location, than how you go about running your startup. As Jeff says, working from home and distributed teams help a lot. In my experience that can enable you to maintain a very healthy engagement with your family whi
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What Is the Single Most Illuminating Question I Can Ask Someone?(slate.com)
2 points by davros 13y ago|0 comments
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by davros 13y ago
Youtube
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by davros 13y ago
Its worse than that. In many companies, a slick powerpoint presentation weighs far more than thoughtful analysis. I've done the experiment and presented the same recommendations based on the same logic in two ways. The concise email got a '
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by davros 13y ago
Currently Drive just places a small json shim file on the disk, rather than syncing a usable document. If you use Chrome its easy to get Drive to store docs locally (but not images pdfs etc) [1] [1] http://support.google.com/drive/bin/an
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by davros 14y ago
Ceramic materials like glass have high bulk modulus and hardness. The forces at the tip of a crack are much higher in these high-hardness materials so despite being harder to bend they have poor toughness [1]. That is cracks propagate much
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by davros 14y ago
before, its like a really minimal term sheet and they are alwasy subject to due diligence, failure to reach agreement on the long-form, etc
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The world of every day experience in one equation(preposterousuniverse.com)
2 points by davros 14y ago|0 comments
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by davros 14y ago
Those are all great and very interesting examples where senior leaders create a culture by taking tough and visible decisions. I wonder if they worked in the same sort of way that the post describes where new people talk about them and it m
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by davros 14y ago
Ideally, a cultural design point will be trivial to implement, but will have far reaching behavioral consequences. Key to this kind of mechanism is shock value. If you put something into your culture that is so disturbing that it always cr
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by davros 14y ago
In addition to the problems with supply, there are the problems with the play store and customer service. Behind it all seems to be management that is not taking these problems seriously. Here's what the managing director Google UK said [1]
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by davros 14y ago
Sold out immediately - not ideal but not a debacle. Missed black friday sales opportunity losing all momentum - that's pretty bad. But zero communication from Google and no additional product nearly a month after launch - that's a debacle.
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by davros 14y ago
Envy is toxic. There's nothing wrong with ambition or aiming to make lots of money, but when these are driven by envy you maximise angst on missing a goal and you will always have someone to still envy no matter how successful (unless you'r
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by davros 14y ago
Lovely essay, its great to be reminded. The more aware (dare I say mindful) you are of the joy of life, the more joy you experience.
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by davros 14y ago
He also said he should have been more frugal with the money they had, and focused more on developing product instead of chasing investors. I agree. As an investor I'd look for a business like this to be break-even after 12 months then aim f
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by davros 14y ago
I've got a chrome extension called 'Hacker News Collapse'. With one click (on the parent comment spawning the low-quality discussion) I can hide the whole thread and move on to more interesting discussions.
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by davros 14y ago
Thanks, you can unsubscribe from some emails there, but the linkedin update and a bunch of other email communications are not covered. I've solved the problem by marking it as spam.
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by davros 14y ago
Could you please add an unsubscribe from the linkedin updates email - I've been told by customer service the only way to stop getting that is by deleting my account : (
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by davros 14y ago
In many cases the value of your business is based on a combination of your talent with the other business assets especially market share and revenue prospects. So many small businesses are acquired in a way that the founder(s) are retained
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by davros 14y ago
And its super easy to scroll past announcements that don't grab my attention.
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by davros 14y ago
Is it possible to prevent a remote wipe by Apple? Or at least so it is only possible with knowledge of my password? If I lose both my MBA and my password, I am ok with not being able to remote wipe. EDIT: OK, I can disable remote wipe e
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by davros 15y ago
I agree there's no one solution for every situation. But it is also important for people to realize that it is possible to balance family and start-up needs. Startups can provide flexibility, especially in working times and telecommuting

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