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by dotBen 7y ago
A man just died in Oakland today trying to recover his laptop that was snatched from him in a Starbucks. http://nypost.com/2020/01/02/man-dies-after-trying-to-stop-t... Definitely don't go running after
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by dotBen 7y ago
Yup, they just did a Twitter. I lived through the Twitter ecosystem collapse and now I'm a VC I worry about investing in startups that are built on any large ecosystem where there isn't an alignment of clear economic interest. Goo
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by dotBen 8y ago
Does it include the metadata too?
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by dotBen 8y ago
As someone with way more than 1000 photos on Flickr, I hope they provide an easy way to export the photos and metadata out. I mostly agree with the direction they want to take, I just don't want to be part of the journey and so want to
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by dotBen 8y ago
Even with the promise that they'll delete the data after, it doesn't seem like a reasonable value exchange. I would assume that meta-data and derived data is still going to be preserved. This looks like it's lead-gen for a f
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by dotBen 8y ago
Well there's many companies doing AV testing with sensors on their marked + unmarked cars. Not just Cruise.
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by dotBen 8y ago
I still can't tell if these are just rebranded Feitian Multipass keys [0], which I've already owned for several years. Has Google added something that I've missed? [0] https://smile.amazon.com/Feitian-MultiPa
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by dotBen 8y ago
I don't believe I have access to the forum - I think you had to apply to startup school... which is why I'm asking YC if they have a plan here for this!
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by dotBen 8y ago
How can we volunteer to advise groups who didn't get an existing advisor?
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by dotBen 8y ago
Unfortunate of the word 'gag'
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by dotBen 8y ago
I think you should consider your addressable market to be greater than Indian expats - I'm a Brit and I miss my curry living here as much as anyone from India! Two quick thoughts: 1) I don't get your branding, especially the compa
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by dotBen 8y ago
As a former DEFCON attendee I remain confused why the hotels feel there is enough cost/benefit to host this event. I remember one year at the Rio attendees pwn'd most of their systems, took down the POS systems of most of the reta
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The Scooter Wars will be a bloodbath – and Uber will win(recode.net)
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by dotBen 8y ago
It's a play on op-ex vs cap-ex
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by dotBen 8y ago
Going beyond an article, 'Peopleware' is a fantastic book for engineering folks transitioning to management - it's not new but the fundamentals stand the test of time. It's the book I started out with 15 years ago and I
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by dotBen 8y ago
As a VC the tricky aspect here is thinking about exits for these kinds of businesses. Snap have the luxury that they don't need to worry about finding a return for their $150k because presumably the content delivered will create far mo
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by dotBen 8y ago
nope not front-running
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by dotBen 8y ago
I know a few people doing this, one person in particular who has discovered a near-zero-risk quirk that can be exploited with algorithms for fractional %age gain per transaction/cycle/ (kind of being vague here sorry) . He's
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by dotBen 8y ago
I think the Occam's razor perspective here is that an engineering job at most of these companies is 90% the same, same-ish pay, same-ish equity, sort of mission-driven-but-not-really work, etc. What breaks a company out of commoditizat
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by dotBen 8y ago
What do people think of the admission by Sam that he uses cannabis to help sleep, and thus uses cannabis in general? I have no problem with it, but it's interesting to see high profile people in business become more open and on the re
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by dotBen 9y ago
"we reduce restrictions when possible and increase only when needed." I worry about a private company making that decision. It should be the government to make that kind of decision, not private industry.
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by dotBen 9y ago
Couple of thoughts as a founder and investor: 1) The company is disincentivized to help you sell your stock/options because it will create a new valuation of common stock. Companies use the lure of a low 409a to attract employees, espe
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by dotBen 9y ago
What is the value of using this over a service like WP Engine ( http://wpengine.com )?
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by dotBen 9y ago
An interesting part about BBC News's tech stack, which was touched on in another comment here, is that we didn't have the budget to serve dynamic pages and so everything SPG'd (statically page generated) as we called it so it
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by dotBen 9y ago
Co-founding a successful startup (WP Engine) and before that some angel investment funded by consultancy earnings in the late 2000's. I also joined Uber just around the 1000 employee mark, and I remain bullish that equity will increas
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by dotBen 9y ago
I was a web producer (front end developer) and then web developer (CMS template developer) for BBC News online 2000-2004. It was my first job in tech at 18 and arguably still my fondest time in the industry. I led some of the redesign from
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by dotBen 9y ago
What happens next to the extracted person once they are successfully caught by the yoke and the plane is now flying along with them attached?
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by dotBen 9y ago
(FYI this article is 6 months old)
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by dotBen 9y ago
Chris was the Head of the Developer Platform at Uber. Like Google, Uber has generic official/internal titles like "Product Manager" which differs from the business job title someone carries.
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by dotBen 9y ago
and I'll answer totally non-hypothetically ;) Adblock Plus > 'Open the dashboard' > My Filters. add 'functionalclam.com', no quotes, which will be treated as a HOSTS entry to be ignored.

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