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by elbrodeur 16y ago
Sounds like Casasanta gave them fair warning. Public fistfights like this, though, are pretty obnoxious.
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by elbrodeur 16y ago
Interesting story. He said/she said stories like this, though, are often difficult to parse. Regardless of what is fact, what is fiction and what is in between, the allegedly sheisty developer Daniel Pasco seems pretty flippant: http://twi
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by elbrodeur 16y ago
I'm a little suspicious of this dataset. $122k + 3.5% for a mid level product manager who joined Q1, 2011 at (presumably) Groupon? $320k + 1.5% for a C-level bizdev who joined Q1, 2011 at Groupon? 5% of equity to late entry employees at a c
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by elbrodeur 16y ago
There isn't a handbook: There are thousands. All of them written by people who made it, academics who understand it or people who were on the sidelines when it happened. The tricky part is: You just have to do it. The handbooks won't help y
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by elbrodeur 16y ago
This part of life is pretty difficult. You have so much promise. You can do anything. It's just a matter of picking a direction. That direction will shape you into a great ______. Or so we all thought... To a certain degree, it doesn't matt
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by elbrodeur 16y ago
I'm assuming it was flagged because it looked like blatant blog spam: A repost of a post you wrote and submitted a year ago with a linkbait title.
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by elbrodeur 16y ago
Anecdotes like this ("$100 in ads bought 1 book! It's the ad platform, not my product!") are slightly annoying, and saying 'ponzi scheme' 4 times in the first two paragraphs doesn't make it so. Our startup has had a large amount of success
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by elbrodeur 16y ago
I'll second this. Unless you're joining as CTO/VP of Engineering, 1% seems like a very generous grant. By all means, you should try to negotiate for more, but as the first employee at one startup and the third at another I was never given m
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by elbrodeur 16y ago
Both of the photos are confusing, but the photo depicting the wires more so. If you count the wires it seems right until you notice that the hacked up blue and white wires are not going to the lighting device at all. Or where the power (pha
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by elbrodeur 16y ago
You're absolutely right. People don't care how something looks. They care how it works... but a designer's job isn't to make something pretty; it's to make something useful and easy. Being pretty should be derived by osmosis -- a designer o
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by elbrodeur 16y ago
You probably have chrome -- or some other popup blocker. I had to allow popups for Tazo.com for it to work.
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by elbrodeur 16y ago
There's more to planning your press and media attention than your product, though. Here are couple of benefits from a good PR strategy: - Investors can hear about you - Showing relevant press from a reputable source is a great way to overco
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by elbrodeur 16y ago
MySpace's exit was $580MM. They had an estimated revenue of $300-$400MM in 2009. They might not be Facebook, and may never have a very high valuation, but the exit was very profitable for those involved. Twitter can just as easily be great
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by elbrodeur 16y ago
I think the link title misses the point of the article. The article is about getting unstuck -- something very difficult to do in any relationship. People get disengaged; routines become habits. The question she's struggling with is; how do
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A Spacetime Cloak, or a history editor(iopscience.iop.org)
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by elbrodeur 16y ago
Again, there's no way to contact you personally regarding this really off-topic thread, so I'll reply here. I'll agree with you that there is an unfortunate rise in the amount of politically charged rhetoric lately, but I really don't care
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by elbrodeur 16y ago
Sorry, trying to get a handle on the barrage of headlines after thanksgiving and, previously, two weeks out of the country (and offline). "ICE's total cost" is what? Meaning the breakdown of their budget as it relates to the takedown of the
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by elbrodeur 16y ago
I'm not an expert but it seems to be legal and even constitutional. It's offensive, but if you mad-libbed the story, I'm betting it would seem less offensive. The US Government siezed __number__ of __noun plural__ because of suspected __ill
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by elbrodeur 16y ago
Putting this here because you don't have an email address: - Upvoting an article is the group's way of saying, "This article has something interesting in it." - Bad articles, spam, linkbait or things that don't fit in the guidelines or don'
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All candidates who pledged to support net neutrality lost yesterday(money.cnn.com)
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by elbrodeur 16y ago
I would say it's the same thing that makes anyone good at anything: The ability to take the body of knowledge associated with the field and not only synthesize it, but to riff on it and make new -- or at least -- compelling things. That mig
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by elbrodeur 16y ago
I think HCI -- even though it's a relatively new program in most schools -- is a response to a problem a decade late. For reasons good and bad, Academia can't keep up with Moore's Law. First, you don't want to build a major for every new te
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by elbrodeur 16y ago
Can I ask why you prefer this? I think that prefacing the word engineer with the type of engineering is much more preferable than redefining the word to mean something to do with physical engineering.
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by elbrodeur 16y ago
Sorry about the confusion. We call our developers engineers.
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by elbrodeur 16y ago
While I agree with the central theme ("UI/UX Designers and developers are going to get harder to find") I don't agree with a lot of his reasons. He's obviously not an engineer and doesn't really understand AJAX, jQuery or HTML5. Personally,
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by elbrodeur 16y ago
Longest. Press release. Ever. It would be nice to read a review of the service rather than a press release. That being said, I think one of the main hurdles a service like this will be user banner blindness. Many people have banner blindn
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by elbrodeur 16y ago
I'm having trouble understanding why it should. The main thing that is difficult for me to accept is that the fire department was there, within rock-throwing distance of a fire, and did nothing except make sure the neighbors who were covere
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by elbrodeur 16y ago
>>People who sustain life-threatening injuries when uninsured do not pay "at cost". They don't pay at all. The hospital bankrupts them, and then the rest of society pays nominally increased premiums to cover them. I should have said
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by elbrodeur 16y ago
I did gloss over your main point, sorry. Insurance does work. It worked in this case: The neighbors houses were saved. But when insurance is the ONLY means by which a burning house can be saved we should rethink how we treat emergencies.
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by elbrodeur 16y ago
You're ignoring that in almost every other instance where you could have had insurance, you receive assistance and pay the price. This is not insurance, this is a protection racket. EDIT: By protection racket I mean this: I think in this sc

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