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by dmk23 13y ago
As if this should surprise anyone. It is pretty typical for an investor to pronounce one thing and then do something totally different. Investors are driven by the "feel" of the opportunities they get to look at and any pronouncem
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by dmk23 13y ago
Any talk of Java "dying" is just nonsensical Java hands down is the most obvious choice for any applications that require performance, yet are too complicated to write and support in C/C++/other lower level languages. Ja
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by dmk23 13y ago
Moreover, the property values there will go even lower because of dried up financing. This could become a textbook case of government power abuse backfiring at the people the politicians claim to be "helping" There is a better des
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No, Obamacare Is Not A Good Deal For Young People(forbes.com)
2 points by dmk23 13y ago|0 comments
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by dmk23 13y ago
I did help out by reporting the issues in detail. I am very thankful to PyPy developers for all the help they provided though as I said it did not address all of our concerns, which is why our PyPy deployment is more limited than what we wi
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by dmk23 13y ago
PyPy has LOTS of problems with 3rd party libraries. If you want to deploy it in production you'll have to check that each one of them does exactly what you need it to and oftentimes you are surprised how things are broken. We are using
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Booz Allen fires Edward Snowden, says they didn't pay him $200K(politico.com)
8 points by dmk23 13y ago|0 comments
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by dmk23 13y ago
This whole "scandal" is a tempest in a teapot stirred up by the privacy fear-mongering industry. There is nothing to suggest any wrongdoing by any NSA personnel involved (except for Snowden). No harm of this NSA program to any US
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Edward Snowden Is A 'Grandiose Narcissist Who Deserves To Be In Prison'(businessinsider.com)
4 points by dmk23 13y ago|0 comments
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Apple Deserves an Apology From US Government(youtube.com)
2 points by dmk23 13y ago|0 comments
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by dmk23 13y ago
The funny thing - this video is not too far off in describing Tesla's actual interactions with financiers of his time. If you are going to make financial players a dependency in your business plan you'll have to jump through similar kind of
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by dmk23 14y ago
What did you expect? VPN is a favorite tool for all sorts of frauds. If your true IP is obscured by a VPN this is just a red flag for PayPal or any other payment processor. Especially if you happen to share the same IP as someone committing
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by dmk23 14y ago
I do not understand why anyone would find this quote surprising, controversial or even newsworthy. Employees operate within the rules established by their employers - they have a boss and are expected to be a "good solider" to support objec
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by dmk23 14y ago
Ego is usually the bigger issue than age, though typically there is a relation and experience moderates ego. Age is just a number, ego is something that could cause self-destructive behavior and bad decision making.
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Beware of Ballers on a Budget(bothsidesofthetable.com)
1 points by dmk23 14y ago|0 comments
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by dmk23 14y ago
I am a little surprised we are not hearing the points from this article more often. Yes, we can learn from failure and so on, nobody is disputing this. The problem however is way too many people are taking a way too permissive and lax attit
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by dmk23 14y ago
I am not sure why this is considered news. Guess just because this guy went on the record to state the obvious? Every large company develops internal politics with various degrees of harm to itself and its performance. If the business is le
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Just Who Do The Data Paranoiacs Think We Are? (adage.com)
1 points by dmk23 14y ago|0 comments
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by dmk23 14y ago
Kudos for telling this story, especially discussing your relationships with investors. These days it is pretty rare to see a story where such topics are addressed credibly beyond the standard "we love our investors" line. If an entrepreneur
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by dmk23 14y ago
You've captured a lot in this comment. Yes and I stand by every word of it You've characterized Arthur Shorin as a 'huckster' which in many places would be considered insulting. This guy spent 27 years at his Grandfather's company and gr
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by dmk23 14y ago
Giving up 75% of your company to some huckster is absolutely ridiculous. If you give up control the new guy in charge will always be able to get rid of you. You are basically signing up for an employee type of deal, but with a fundamentally
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by dmk23 14y ago
Nice to see that this independent report confirms what I've posited earlier in "You Can Go It Alone" thread: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4799752
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by dmk23 14y ago
I think it is important to draw clear distinction between "hiring senior people" and "turning over control". If you hire a VP Sales and they do not work out you can rollback the change with pretty limited amount of pain and start over. If y
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by dmk23 14y ago
Find the fastest path to revenue/profit. Nothing else will matter if you can accomplish that. Since you'd be selling to large organizations the most critical issue is figuring out the sales process, the MVP and what you can charge them. You
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by dmk23 14y ago
I hope all the Obama supporters here still feel good about helping re-elect the man. Rest assured he is still going to support amnesty for unskilled illegals who are more likely to vote Democrat for years to come. EDIT: It is pretty funny h
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by dmk23 14y ago
The bottom line is you get what you negotiate. If you act like a patsy you'll be treated like one. If you sell your value to the investors you'll be in the position to drive terms. That's why early stage fundraising/investing is tricky by d
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by dmk23 14y ago
No greatness has ever come from being a namby-pamby. It is a lot better to be polarizing yourself and find your natural constituency than fail to connect with anyone by trying to be "safe".
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by dmk23 14y ago
You just made another case against incubators / accelerators in general. If they have to rely on "asymmetrical information" to get access to deal flow and make competitive offers and if releasing the data would hurt their attractiveness to
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by dmk23 14y ago
I'm sure you would find a way to anonymize the data if it would result in a compelling story for YC. But as we all know so well the "startup outcomes" follow a power law. Dropbox and AirBnB make for a great YC PR, but are certainly nothing
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by dmk23 14y ago
We can always count on California government officials to intrude on technologies they know nothing about. This is nothing more than a quest for cheap publicity and endorsement of various pressure groups, which promote the self-interests of

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