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by dkrich 14y ago
I like how the title claims to explain how to found a business solo and then does nothing but explain different ways to build your team, why investors care about the team, blah, blah, blah. You aren't explaining how to build a business, yo
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by dkrich 14y ago
Yeah, but in my experience, the PM's response to that will be "can we get it done sooner?" If the estimated time aligns with what they want, then you're fine. But that's rarely the case and when things slip the code cleanup is pushed to the
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by dkrich 14y ago
Not sure how you define idiot, but more often than not pm's have no formal programming experience which makes it difficult (though not impossible) to understand the value of well-engineered code. The only language they speak is dates, which
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by dkrich 14y ago
Check an electoral map. Urban centers are democratic strongholds. In fact they are the only part of the map that matters for dems. The black belt has no impact on the presidential election. I have no idea why the author is calling sparsely
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by dkrich 14y ago
Yeah, just like slabs of thick bedrock in lower New York correlate with Obama votes, since it enabled large highrises to be constructed in a small, densely populated area. How far back are we willing to go to draw these correlations?
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by dkrich 14y ago
So is that at all at odds with what I said? I'm saying that I haven't found his predictions to be useful because they have not correctly predicted anything that I myself didn't predict with the same information without any statistical analy
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by dkrich 14y ago
I've got to say that I've been a cynical admirer of Silver since the last election. Why cynical? Because I began to notice throughout the Republican nomination process that his observations varied wildly on which Republican candidate presen
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by dkrich 14y ago
Dude if somebody wants to create a man in the middle attack to see my Comcast contract, that's cool. Hell, just email me and I'll send you a copy. I think context matters. I don't think most people would ignore a cert warning if they were a
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by dkrich 14y ago
I agree. To me the story here is that Comcast is a huge company that takes way too long to process simple changes. But in reality, who the fuck cares if the cert for that page expired? It's not like their collecting your bank records.
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by dkrich 14y ago
Fair enough, but I still think my point stands. I suppose if their goal was to make a quick-hit and get rich very quickly while making a lot of people's lives much worse, then they succeeded. I believe that gives them too much credit. I don
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by dkrich 14y ago
I think if that's the only point in all that which you find fault with, then my point is pretty well proven. Oh, and you can point at the board of directors and all of their past successes as if that somehow proves that the company is well
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by dkrich 14y ago
I'm surprised to see so many people suggesting that Zynga's problems are purely moral. I think that gives them too much credit. I personally have no problem with their business practices from a strictly moral point of view. Caveat Emptor. N
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by dkrich 14y ago
I'm guessing one Michael Murphy is polishing up the old resume right about now.
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by dkrich 14y ago
I use Pandora and love the product. But every time I see this commercial with Tim Westergren where he states that the royalty system for internet radio is "deeply unfair" I can't help but wonder why he believes that to be true. Where is it
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by dkrich 14y ago
The MySpace layout is what happens when too many people are working on a product. It isn't being built around a job to be done, it seems that they are simply redesigning shit for the sake of redesigning shit. Any product should ultimately b
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by dkrich 14y ago
I disagree. When you change state management to client side, you are making a fundamental architecture shift that is significant enough to remove a lot of server-side overhead. What makes you think refactoring code is going to give you a 10
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by dkrich 14y ago
And most startup founders aren't successful.
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by dkrich 14y ago
"How do you know what's useful? You've used the "saves time" metric a couple times here, but that isn't always enough. Bikes save time over walking, but people still walk. Cars save time over bikes, but people still bike. Ditch-digging mach
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by dkrich 14y ago
"The thing is, you have to talk to potential customers or you're taking on more risk than you need to. Yes, you can build something "useful", but what you and I find useful might be useful to 0.0001% of the population and not have wide enou
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by dkrich 14y ago
First, this was not written by Steve Blank, but rather Bob Dorf. In any case, I completely disagree with this notion that customers are some complex, mysterious enigmatic force that require a laboratory and several months of conversations t
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by dkrich 14y ago
I believe you're missing his point. He isn't criticizing App.net for copying Twitter. He's pointing out that it is a poor business model, even from a sustainability standpoint. There isn't enough of an improvement to cause people to switch
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by dkrich 14y ago
That's your interpretation based on your use. I do not browse that way. I pick one maybe two that look interesting and read them. I find the autoplay useful. See that? Two different interpretations of the same feature. Just because you hate
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by dkrich 14y ago
"However, I could be wrong. I mean, everyone did love the animated images, colors, and sounds on GeoCities which lead to their industry takeover and incredible success." Let's not just assume that all annoyances are created equal. One is an
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by dkrich 14y ago
"It soured my opinion of the whole article before I even read it" Seriously? The fact that an embedded video started playing soured your opinion of the article? Maybe you guys should chill out a bit. Sometimes comments like this lead me to
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by dkrich 14y ago
I completely disagree. I thought that was pretty cool actually. I rarely view videos embedded in articles unless they autoplay.
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by dkrich 14y ago
I agree that one needs motivation and ability to complete a task. I'm not sure any app or electronic service is going to supply that. If it did, you'd find a lot of people out of work. As for this quote: "How about having a reminder showing
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by dkrich 14y ago
> The basic issue in marketing is creating a category you can be first in. This sounds good on paper, but is pretty much impossible to identify objectively in practice. Something can be "first" along many dimensions, so this depends ent
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by dkrich 14y ago
What you are saying is akin to somebody from the revolutionary war going forward in time to the age of the cell phone and saying "People are talking through these boxes but I communicate just fine with the people in my house. I don't need t
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by dkrich 14y ago
I think this is one of those cases that's akin to the famous quote by Supreme Court Justice Potter Stewart when he said "I can't define pornography, but I know it when I see it." I think a lot of people are sick of the crap written on TechC
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by dkrich 14y ago
I don't think Apple will appeal, but Samsung will, which is a good move because if they concede and pay up hoping that this goes away then Apple will use that as a springboard for a thousand more lawsuits. I guess it depends on what you co

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