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by dollar 13y ago
You don't want to move to SF: 1. Expense. You are in a low tax, low cost, business friendly jurisdiction. Thousands of entrepreneurs are leaving California to start companies in Texas. In many respects , your situation seems ideal fo
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by dollar 13y ago
Arrogance is a disruptive personality characteristic whether the individual is an academoc or self-taught, and no one likes a know-it-all of any type. However, the behaviors you describe are extremely common among gifted and talented indivi
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by dollar 13y ago
I am absolutely overflowing with computer science PhDs from IBM, CA, and academia. I would give away 10 pompous entitled know-it-all Computer Science PhD types for just one single self-taught know-it-all. Maybe the real problem is that you
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by dollar 13y ago
All of the typicsl straw man arguments about roads and healthcare are nonsense. Rand believed that any way society chose to organize itself to benefit its members was perfectly acceptable, as long as that organization was rooted in individ
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by dollar 13y ago
> Successful people consistently underestimate how lucky they are. Meanwhile mediocre people consistently attribute other people's success to luck. As luck would have it, they are both right and wrong. I am a high school dropout who
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by dollar 13y ago
237 of the Fortune 500 is a powerful reality distortion field. I've been right (Zynga) and wrong (Facebook) before, the future is notoriously hard to predict. The fact that anyone perceives any long term value to software with banner f
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by dollar 13y ago
HootSuite is less than useless, as Twitter Terms of Service prohibit anything that might take eyes off of Twitter.
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The NSA Is Building the Country's Biggest Spy Center (2012)(wired.com)
5 points by dollar 13y ago|0 comments
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by dollar 14y ago
Word to the wise - just stop. Get a life. Do something else with your time. Go see movies. Spend time with friends. Just sit outside in the sunshine and breathe the air. Do exactly nothing for a while. What are you trying to prove, and
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by dollar 14y ago
Kleiner Perkins already funded this company... in 1999. This will be a hot technology... in the year 2000. Unfortunately it will promptly go bankrupt in 2001. http://money.cnn.com/magazines/fortune/fortune_archive/2001/...
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Show HN: Our bootstrapped consumer hardware MVP took 5 years to make(justincase911.com)
4 points by dollar 14y ago|1 comments
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by dollar 14y ago
Never received a confirmation email. No delivery attempt in the mail server log.
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by dollar 14y ago
Interesting whois for GoDaddy. :) GODADDY.COM.VATAXIDERMIST.COM GODADDY.COM.THEYOUNGCONS.COM GODADDY.COM.THEVILLAGEAT63RDSTREET.COM GODADDY.COM.THEFOREXTHIEF.COM GODADDY.COM.THECOTTONWIFE.COM GODADDY.COM.TEST.CHUMCHUM.NET GODADDY.COM.STAGED
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by dollar 14y ago
I have owned every Kindle including the Fire, but I will not purchase a device with mandatory ads.
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by dollar 14y ago
The question no one ever asks is "why is the bill $23,000?". The only question that ever gets asked is "who should pay this $23,000 bill?". I charge $200/hr for my time at a minimum. Did this child really receive an equivalent of 2.8 week
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by dollar 14y ago
What is the target application and who is the target customer or this service? It seems like a solution looking for a problem. How often does an application need to burst, but only within the resoure limits of a single VM? The problem of
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by dollar 14y ago
Perhaps you should read my advice to the OP a second time, which clearly says "My advice is hire counsel to advise you, educate yourself...". In what bizarre lawyer-universe is telling someone to hire counsel and educate themselves on the
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by dollar 14y ago
The adage "An attorney who represents himself has a fool for a client" has some relevance, but in the information society self represeration can have major advantages. The best way to be a Pro Se is to hire outside counsel to advise you, b
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by dollar 15y ago
You mean like demanding employees return their stock options? Yeah, nothing totally despicable about the management of your company, they are all GREAT GUYS!
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by dollar 15y ago
Well said KLS, exactly well said. I regret that I will never get back the 30 seconds I wasted reading this article.
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by dollar 15y ago
Management is not programming, these are simply different skill sets. If you are asking senior managers to write college graduate programming solutions, you are being an asshole. If someone has moved up to people management, ask them peop
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by dollar 15y ago
Until GoDaddy makes an official public statement to Congress, the transfers are still on.
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by dollar 15y ago
I will tell you like it really is. 1. Say what your product does and why its going to be major in a single sentence within the first 10 seconds of your presentation. With VCs you need to pitch the problem or the opportunity, they do not gi
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by dollar 15y ago
This guy's thinking about trading and investment, and indeed risk taking in general, is completely amateurish. I guess we knew that already, since otherwise he wouldn't have to live on $7000 per year.
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Picking a lock with Kevin Mitnick's business card(youtube.com)
2 points by dollar 15y ago|0 comments
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by dollar 15y ago
Tear down foreclosed homes to prop up the housing market? If Mark is serious, then that is some of the most ridiculous dumbfuckery I have ever heard of. Let me give you a truly radical idea - rent the fucking homes.
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by dollar 15y ago
98% of everyone else where exactly? In Manhattan, NY the average household income is $121,000, while in Cullman, AL it is $41,000. Sorry, $250k in a major US city is "just making it" for the average family. Meanwhile: 47% of Federal tax f
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by dollar 15y ago
The mystical $250k first became "rich" back in 1993, when it became the top Federal income tax bracket, while $200k became "rich" way back in 1943 for the same reason. $250k 1993 dollars in 2011 $370,000 $200k 1943 dollars in 2011 $2,500,00
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Why $250k does not equate to rich [2010](thefiscaltimes.com)
1 points by dollar 15y ago|3 comments
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by dollar 15y ago
There has been a lot of lip service paid lately to income inequality in the United States, especially with respect to the earnings increase of the top 1% of wage earners over the last 10-20 years. Looking at the time series of wage bracket

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