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811.
by dotBen 15y ago
BTW articles like these demonstrate why tech-PR is still a profitable business to be in. I know many young founders who read articles like these, "30 under 30", "most innovative founders", etc and get depressed because they're never picked.
812.
by dotBen 15y ago
The post reads as if investors are these unicorn creatures who hold the balance of power - they must be pitched with optimum precision otherwise you'll go no where. The reality is investors need deal flow and want to learn about new compani
813.
by dotBen 15y ago
If you're integrated into local you may want to give some thought to what career path you want to transfer into. Why wouldn't you assume he'd just want to stay with Zagat?
814.
by dotBen 15y ago
Forgive me but one of the main benefits I saw with Ocado when I lived in the UK was that deliveries were fulfilled from a Waitrose distribution center, rather than a store. That means fresher food then what is available on Waitrose's shelve
815.
by dotBen 15y ago
(I'm an Ocado-loving, London native transplanted to SF for the last 6 years) "What does this give me over Ocado (or their many many many competitors - I mean, Asda deliver?!)" We have NOTHING like Ocado (or Waitrose, frankly) here in th
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by dotBen 15y ago
I started my first startup when I was 17 (13 years ago, damn). The problem I had then, and you have even here is that legally you're a minor and can't sign contracts. EDIT: I noticed from your resume that you are based in Singapore - I don'
817.
by dotBen 15y ago
Yes, but to play that logic out if you already have a tenant paying a low rent and you want to make a lot more, you'd need a good reason to kick them out, remodel a little and then be able to put the place back on the market for the top dol
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by dotBen 15y ago
Can someone placed to comment (ie a resident of the building) tell us what aspects were considered unsafe - and ultimately whether this is justified or whether this is a new landlord who wants everyone out to redevelop the property?
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by dotBen 15y ago
My preference is still a *nix virtual instance running locally (or on a LAN server/my desktop) so that I can keep even better control over environment, keep discrete projects separate and clone dev environments quickly to peers. VMWare Fusi
820.
by dotBen 15y ago
This change is all about setting up reddit so that it can better handle future growth and opportunities. FTFY: This change is all about setting up reddit so that it can be be sold.
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by dotBen 15y ago
I think the author is doing a little bit of disservice to "marketing folk" (women AND men), who I think he is really referring to here as "booth babes". "Booth Babes" tend to refer to models who dress provocatively purely to entice people i
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by dotBen 15y ago
Domain registration != DNS hosting I continue to be amazed at how many startups (and other companies, high profile individuals, etc) rely on GoDaddy for their DNS rather than having a properly managed DNS hosting as part of their web-hostin
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The Lost iPhone 5: More Questions Than Answers(zdnet.com)
3 points by dotBen 15y ago|0 comments
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by dotBen 15y ago
C'mon Zed, really? a) The code will be open source - the community can verify the code for anything untoward b) Given the nature of the product, most implementations are going to be behind a firewall anyway, with the storage layer talking t
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by dotBen 15y ago
ghshephard - yes I live and work in SF and Silicon Valley and have done so for 6+ years. I always dictate my own terms on contracts. I advise others to do so too. Have you tried to hire engineers in Silicon Valley? I've heard of employees w
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by dotBen 15y ago
Yes, exactly. Which is why you would redact that line and tell them you can only sign the contract without that clause. In the current climate NO software engineer should be signing any employment contract handed to them without making som
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Guardian journalist disclosed WikiLeaks' passwords in book published by Guardian(twitlonger.com)
2 points by dotBen 15y ago|0 comments
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by dotBen 15y ago
But you said "ask you anything" :P Can you at least say how many 0's?
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by dotBen 15y ago
I'd like to see a different Patent Pledge. One where software engineers pledge not to participate in formal patent creation. Because ultimately, all of the software patents out there were 'authored' by a software engineer. You have to hav
830.
by dotBen 15y ago
It's arrogant to a point but there is a reasonable argument in there. I'm 30, I've worked in my fair share of large companies and startups, and I can see the pain points many large companies have the startups frankly don't. If you're 21 an
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by dotBen 15y ago
I post this to HN mainly because of the reference to YC (and YC companies + founders) but also because I think his point that we don't think about the 'real work problems' out there is astute. B2B is sexy too.
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26-Year Old Founder Raising $100 Million To Take On Microsoft(businessinsider.com)
12 points by dotBen 15y ago|5 comments
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by dotBen 15y ago
(If this photo is genuine...) It's a very surprising photo because Steve didn't look anywhere near this bad just 2.5 months ago during his keynote at WWDC on June 6th. Here is a screen grab: http://cl.ly/0G140D1Q2h3x0o1x411h/o (You can se
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by dotBen 15y ago
From http://web.mit.edu/zacka/www/images/DSC_0567.jpg , it looks as though all of the load is distributed between the single middle-rear post and the two ceiling drops. I'm really surprised that was enough to support the weight of a person
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by dotBen 15y ago
For a while I toyed around with a startup idea that was essentially what geckoboard is doing. I decided the size of the addressable market is too small to be interesting but one of the revenue ideas I had was to essentially build out a big
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by dotBen 15y ago
Well, I've been to previous F8's and other events in that venue - it isn't going to be a 4000 person event.
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by dotBen 15y ago
FYI even at $400/ticket, Facebook are almost certainly losing money on putting on the event. $400 is that interesting price range where it will be a 'big waste of money' (as one other commenter put it) to anyone who isn't otherwise direct
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by dotBen 15y ago
Gold in your possession is less liquid than gold in an exchange approved vault in Manhattan or London… Um, so why does Hugo Chávez want the gold in his possession then?
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by dotBen 15y ago
The Venezuelan upperclass despises Chavez and fears him. Well in that case, why would they trust him to make right on his promise to deliver them the gold + 2% in a foreign vault upon the physical surrender of their own gold? Why would t
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by dotBen 15y ago
I don't get how the crowd-source option is at all attractive, though perhaps I don't understand enough about how the gold markets work. If I was physically based in Venezuela and owned X gold bars in my physical possession, why would the sa

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