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by dlitwak 14y ago
I spent three weeks there, it wasn't an exhaustive study on the psyche of the German people I'll give you that. But it was drawn on substance, I had numerous meetings with berlin tech people, and just thought the jaywalking observation seem
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by dlitwak 14y ago
just trying to illustrate my impression through an example :) obviously I realize that in a country of millions you will have plenty jaywalkers, so rebuttals like "I jaywalk and I'm German" are kind of missing the point . . .
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by dlitwak 14y ago
there is the letter and the spirit of the law. I think the spirit of the law is what is usually important, and in the case when there is no car in sight and no one is walking across the street, that's what i was referring to. regardless, it
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by dlitwak 14y ago
figuratively in startups, maybe, yeah. Not that I condone breaking the law, but startups like SideCar, Uber, Lyft and AirBnb wouldn't be around if there wasn't a bit of an appetite for breaking the rules and risking getting in trouble. More
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by dlitwak 14y ago
I'm sorry, actually curious, you can't read it? It's just a tumblr template, so I'm curious if I should change some settings to make it more readable, etc.
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Germans and Jaywalking: An American's Perspective on the Berlin Tech Scene(davidlitwak.com)
36 points by dlitwak 14y ago|50 comments
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by dlitwak 14y ago
I technically got laid off from the previous job before I started Mozio, my startup. I qualified for unemployment, but declined it. I graduated debt free from UC berkeley and was born into a well off family and my unemployment was on purpos
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by dlitwak 14y ago
Had an implicit cushion of parents who supported me and eventually lent me 10k. However, also minimized rent by moving into our closet/study for 500 bucks a month (which in sf is unheard of) and now I've moved into the living room and pay 1
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by dlitwak 14y ago
Airbnb. Keep a room in your house open, if you live in a desirable neighborhood, and have people rotating through. If you charge high enough you could at least make up your rent and on good months make more. Keep a look out for big events l
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by dlitwak 14y ago
So kind of like a hootsuite but for your personal life instead of for your company it seems?
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by dlitwak 14y ago
Republicans and Democrats voted almost in equal measure for the NDAA, and I agree, I don't like it one bit. I remember a few people from each party stood up, and being honest here the only notable person I remember was Rand Paul, so I give
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by dlitwak 14y ago
bullshit. I don't care how many primaries Romney won, 11 is a lot. And the fact that the one logical candidate in the race (as much as I dislike him), who was the least bit moderate, even evoked that "anyone but Romney" feeling only proves
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by dlitwak 14y ago
I think the whole point of conservative is not changing, keeping things the way they are, as opposed to "progressive" ideas, which advocate change. I'm not interested in debating you about who is actually "establishment" etc. in that way, m
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by dlitwak 14y ago
You don't get to say they are "Outliers" when Santorum wins 11 (I think that was the number?) Republican presidential primaries. When audiences at those primaries boo gay soldiers. When their candidate wants to get rid of planned parenthood
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by dlitwak 14y ago
True, I remember a friend chose an internship at Altria (parent company to Phillip Morris, the cigarette company) over another because they paid so much better. Re your friend though: I'd chalk it up to a maturation and the pragmatism that
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by dlitwak 14y ago
bullshit. They are the establishment, the old white guys, whose model is not the most efficient way of getting things done. yes, someone made the wrong call infrastructure wise, but you have to ask: why did they make this call? It's because
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by dlitwak 14y ago
To everyone saying all Republicans need to do is throw money at it: Missionaries beat Mercenaries every time. And the point of the article is that Democrats have ~5 times more potential to find missionaries than Republicans do. Anyone who h
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78% Book Travel in Advance: Debunking the Last Minute Booking Obsession(mozio.com)
9 points by dlitwak 14y ago|4 comments
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by dlitwak 14y ago
Yes, some of these people exist in silicon valley. But the fact that the entire cast is white, not one asian or indian, there are only a couple engineers, and they live extravagantly, they did not pick a good cross-section of what the valle
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Student Loan Debt = Less Entrepreneurs(huffingtonpost.com)
1 points by dlitwak 14y ago|0 comments
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by dlitwak 14y ago
99 Designs held the money in escrow. I suppose there is no guarantee that he would cooperate with what you want after you had awarded him the competition, but you can withhold the money indefinitely and it worked out fine for us.
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99 Designs for Noobs(blog.mozio.com)
3 points by dlitwak 14y ago|4 comments
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by dlitwak 14y ago
We tried using open street map at mozio for a by. For u our primary concern was public transit data. T was too much bother and too expensive to do transit data, and googles release of the transit API a couple months ago solidified or decisi
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by dlitwak 14y ago
I read a venturebeat article on the LinkedIn app, seems like they used some Node.js, a bunch of work arounds and A LOT of domain expertise to get it to work as well as it does. I personally found the article interesting as I'm trying to fig
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by dlitwak 14y ago
pretty cool. nice to see the emphasis on a company that actually makes piles of money for a change!
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by dlitwak 14y ago
I've always said that I think the ideas/businesses of famous founders don't undergo enough scrutiny. As a complete nobody, I can vouch for the fact that I have been GRILLED by VCs and angels in meetings. Some of these meetings led us to rea
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by dlitwak 14y ago
Surprised that there are no comments here in favor of his premise: I for one am getting sick of constantly hearing about the next "social local mobile app that helps you rate the experiences of friend's of friend's cousins" getting funded.
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by dlitwak 14y ago
Good point about the fact that she had gone as high as she could go at Google, but the disparaging of startup CEOs: "Running around Silicon Valley begging VCs for a handout; pitching weary journalists on another software product; building e
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When Parents Hover and Kids Don't Grow Up(nytimes.com)
1 points by dlitwak 14y ago|0 comments
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Reasons to Use Twitter for Airline Customer Care(blog.mozio.com)
4 points by dlitwak 14y ago|0 comments

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