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by dtby 16y ago
And as someone who has sold software and services to huge companies with gun-totin' Ron Swansons for over 15 years, let me assure you that this is untrue. So, yeah, it's a question of approach. Which was my entire point.
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by dtby 16y ago
I do wonder on what basis I must _love_ his writings. I'm not a Linux guy, so I am out of the loop. What makes these writings so lovable?
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by dtby 16y ago
2. Sell an emotional experience, not features. Eh, that works for your market. 3. Tell stories because software is boring. Now we're getting somewhere, this is universally applicable.
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by dtby 16y ago
I do wish we could get rid of the "poaching" term for at-will employees. Either it's easier to bag trophy talent on the Google reserve than in the open field (in which case, good on those employees for improving their lot) or it's harder (
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by dtby 16y ago
More to the point, people lack any domain experience. Don't get me wrong: it's cool to be an awesome hacker... but if you don't know about anything outside of hacking.. chances are some neck-beard somewhere has already solved all of the pro
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by dtby 16y ago
I'd start by not worrying about what it might say about you. You've already lost if you're worrying about validation from Joe Random Internet User.
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by dtby 16y ago
I suspect that if you think this article was "amazing" you still have a huge misconception of what it means to be rich.
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by dtby 16y ago
The answer is obviously and indisputely, "Yes." So it would be better to frame your question in a way which got the results in which you are actually interested. Do you want to know which niches are being served by HN users? Ask. Do you wa
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by dtby 16y ago
Unfortunately, the cost of maintaining a gaming license in an appropriate jurisdiction is likely to outweigh the revenue stream from such an enterprise.
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by dtby 16y ago
For whatever it's worth, there probably does not exist a way to say "I don't know if you are important enough to heed" without coming off like a jerk. If you want to avoid that impression, it's probably best just not to say anything.
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by dtby 16y ago
And now what? They get 30% less? A nice problem to have. No, it's not. Ever.
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by dtby 16y ago
Based on, and including no more than my original message: "my experience." I flagged with abandon many months ago including not believing that YC-funded "startups" had a special place in the world. Don't get me wrong... if people want to pa
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by dtby 16y ago
This presumes you haven't had your ability to flag revoked by the powers that be. I would argue that mine got revoked for taking an actual interest in the quality and scope of submitted content. So, take that into consideration when tryin
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by dtby 16y ago
My need to code comes almost exclusively fromy my need to understand. If I can understand a problem space well enough to explain it to a computer, I probably understand it.
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by dtby 16y ago
With all dues pect (and I think it's clear I respect you) , this is yet another case of taking a non_normative view of economicsl We can not conern ourselves with whether another party is doing better against us, until such time as we are
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by dtby 16y ago
And you believe that the value of this observation is what, exactly? That we are wasting energy which has been stored and untapped for hundreds of thousands of years? Do we really expect that our ancestors will be better able to exploit th
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by dtby 16y ago
Please could you expand on why you think that In 1993, I was the only person I knew with a web browser. 18 years later, we have applied hack after hack to make it into an "application platform." And it's still the same old thing.. a wa
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by dtby 16y ago
they often rationalize and are fooled by selection bias. Assuming you are talking about me, that's crazy. I have asked, literally, a handful of times that they never contact me again. It might be selection bias, but it's not rationalizat
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by dtby 16y ago
I'd like to be able to consider it but I'm not in their candidate pool (around forty, no regular job for a few years, non-tech schooling, travel, no high tech work for years before that). I am not in their candidate pool, either by your s
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by dtby 16y ago
I attended a "modest" university. I am not Internet famous. I am old. Google will not leave me alone for all of the times I have told them "I am not interesting in working at your company." I think they assume I am kidding. It's my exper
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by dtby 16y ago
Or we could stop treating the HTTP/browser combination as an application delivery platform. It's unpopular here, but it's becoming exceptionally obvious as the correct choice.
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by dtby 16y ago
At the risk oif not being labeled a troll, you suggestion was that simeine had nor considered the very difficult circumstances whic made you accept a deal about which you feel compelled to complain on HN. I have made an exceptional number o
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by dtby 16y ago
Would you like him to apologize because you made a bad deal for yourself? His comment is over-broad and snarky, but it simultaneously makes a good point.
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ECloudEdit: Erlang, Webmachine and Backbone.js(blog.erlware.org)
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Race Conditions(airs.com)
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by dtby 16y ago
Hi, HTML/HTTP are the second worse application delivery platform available. Try not to be shocked. Sorry, your other choice was #1.
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by dtby 16y ago
To put that another way, you currently have as much information as anyone does regarding the price of the course. Sweet. I'll offer 20:1 that the final price falls between $100 and $4000. Can anyone do better?
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by dtby 16y ago
I own a lot of physical gold and I bet a lot on sports. On reflection, that's not as "normal" an investment strategy as I was thinking.
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by dtby 16y ago
More interestingly, is the VC market inherently inefficient because of the accredited investor rules? Is there a reasonable proxy for "startups and venture capital investments" in the open market which would allow one to parlay insight int
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by dtby 16y ago
People need to be more carful with the terminology, not every editorial exercise is 'censorship'. I'm pretty sure that Google would be unhappy with your characterization of their change as an "editorial exercise," as well. [I say this eve

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