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by dlu 12y ago
There's a lot of ranting, but very little substance. Save yourself the trouble from reading it. It reminds me a bit of an anti-Atlas Shrugged
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by dlu 12y ago
Those are terribly hard things to measure with metrics. Please for the love of all things beautiful may no one list out "number of bugs" as something they measure. A lot of this gets covered in retrospectives. Making sure that you
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by dlu 12y ago
I think I have an explanation in a separate comment, see https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9091737
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by dlu 12y ago
I would wager that the note belongs to a local (unsynched) notebook, which is why it wasn't on Evernote's servers. I apologize if this explanation is a bit long, buckle in. Specifically I suspect the note belongs to a "Confli
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by dlu 12y ago
I had to reread the first part of it to make sure I was reading it with the right voice/tone
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by dlu 12y ago
I really liked her take on her judging interactions, especially during the technical conversations. I think having an outside (even slightly outside) perspective is incredibly useful
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by dlu 12y ago
Jessica Livingston is giving a killer talk. I love her point of view as a non-technical partner at YC and her huge role as a judge of character
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by dlu 12y ago
Curious that payments isn't anywhere near the same revenue as Stickers and Games
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by dlu 12y ago
+1 for "indecipherable turd" That phrase is a gem
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by dlu 12y ago
Rather uninteresting article. Microsoft still has a lot to do before becoming relevant again, and Google has to lose a lot before spiraling out of control. That doesn't mean Microsoft isn't doing well. Their recent announcements a
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by dlu 12y ago
Exactly this. The hobbyist market certainly wasn't going to save them
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by dlu 12y ago
"Win8 apps that use the AppBar are going to need to be rewritten to avoid it. The AppBar is really hard to bring up in touch mode..." This was always the infuriating part of making a Win8 app, the guidelines were terrible and you
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All the Things that Don’t Matter (when building a product)(medium.com)
2 points by dlu 12y ago|0 comments
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by dlu 12y ago
Well it took far too long to get to "it rocks" and at this point I hardly need it. Google Docs changed that years ago
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by dlu 12y ago
Glad they're promoting it. Separating pay once and pay as you go was always hard to tell
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by dlu 12y ago
Is anyone really surprised? Ideologically upset? Sure, but we learned this with Twitter and tons of other companies. The APIs are there's to support or pull
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by dlu 12y ago
+1 Articulate your anger more clearly. And if you're making a historical reference, make sure people get the gist of it even if they don't get the reference
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by dlu 12y ago
I've loved this series. The fact that you can hold the game constant, yet so many other things fluctuate is surprising. Turns out it takes us years to make decent discoveries even in video games.
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by dlu 12y ago
Wouldn't this just trade effectively more or less at the same price as corporate bonds? Here is this piece of paper, I promise you it is worth this much at this time.
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by dlu 12y ago
Yeah, you're never going to find the "perfect" set of skills all wrapped into one person. Even if you could find someone with all the right skills for right now, they're gonna need to grow and evolve
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How to save money running your startup(calacanis.com)
2 points by dlu 12y ago|0 comments
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by dlu 12y ago
Great piece. Unfortunately we don't have too much of a theory/model left to fall back on, but that's how life often is. Messy. I wouldn't necessarily say that 'consumers aren't rational' but I definitely a
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by dlu 12y ago
Gonna need some more details. I'm still not 100% sure what's going on
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by dlu 12y ago
Yes, I meant keeping their costs lower overall by doing things like taking tax credits and/or grants to get cheap electricity in the longer term.
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by dlu 12y ago
I think this is the key sentence: "Apple, in contrast, uses a different technology and generates a small profit from Apple Pay transactions."
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How to manage running out of cash / doing a down round(calacanis.com)
2 points by dlu 12y ago|0 comments
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by dlu 12y ago
Traction Channels? That's a pretty terrible piece of phrasing. Here's the list: 1. Viral Marketing 2. Public Relations (PR) 3. Unconventional Public Relations 4. Search Engine Marketing 5. Social and Display Ads 6. Offline A
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by dlu 12y ago
Yay math. But we're not changing. Were you around for us trying out the metric system? If you really want to start, let's begin with QWERTY keyboards
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by dlu 12y ago
+1 We're mostly not in the top 1% (I'm looking at you Calacanis) but we are the upper-ish 1% or at the very least, a very weird 1%
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by dlu 12y ago
Some Facebook users don't realize they're using Internet Explorer. Some Facebook users also don't know if they're using Windows or Mac. These are the people we build products for

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