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by enjo 12y ago
Cool! I was watching "Big Giant Swords" on the Discovery channel (a fantastic show) and they touched on competitive sword fighting last week. After seeing this, the whole thing makes a lot more sense.
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by enjo 12y ago
Anyways: after considering all the messiness, I gave it a pass. There is a lesson here. "Computer people" have a real aversion to simply scaling up a business by using humans to do things. Sometimes that simple answer (hire a bu
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by enjo 12y ago
I'm a programmer and I completely agree. When everything was new it was fun and exciting. I started programming seriously when I was 12 years old. By the time I was in college programming was an absolute chore. Yet I do it for a livi
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by enjo 12y ago
Physics is applied math and I think that is an important distinction.
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by enjo 12y ago
FWIW we are seeing exactly the same. We compete in highly competitive areas, and our paid search ads barely break even these days. Paid search is really tough. Our organic efforts are much more fruitful.
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by enjo 12y ago
That needs a citation. When I polled my largeish team in 2007 it was nearly 100% hard wall office.
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by enjo 12y ago
That's all well and good. Except that I still need to get around, and Uber (and it's competitors) remains better than my local cab system. That's true of basically every city I've ever visited as well. Until that is no l
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by enjo 12y ago
Most isn't all tho! At any time I can come up with a dozen really small fixes. Changing the timing of a task, updating a string, or any other small things that are always hanging around.
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by enjo 12y ago
That's exactly right. It's not about pushing meaningful or complex code to production, it's about pushing a small change so that a new engineer can see the whole process from end-to-end. We do have people push on their first
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by enjo 12y ago
I finished college in 2002, and moved to Dallas to support my wife while she pursued her PhD. Dallas was particularly hard hit with Texas Instruments and Ericsson shedding thousands of engineers. The market was flooded. I submitted 45 appli
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by enjo 12y ago
If you're really serious about starting something on your own, you can do nothing better than stay exactly where you are. You are getting first-hand experience with the challenges a growing company faces. You have a real opportunity to
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by enjo 12y ago
Anecdotally, at least, the negatives do seem to be making some impact (at least here in Denver). I've met an increasing number of people who have heard of the $500 rides who are scared to touch Uber.
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by enjo 12y ago
I use them almost every day. In cities all over the country. They are better than Taxi's in literally every single way. I actually have nothing but positive things to say about them.
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by enjo 12y ago
I would encourage you to read the book "Maverick" which examines a lot of this in detail. It's interesting the environments they've applied these types of structures to. Including line-manufacturing. http://en
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by enjo 12y ago
Reminds me of a story I heard about Photobucket. The founder there apparently had a $1M cash offer early on to sell out. At that point his credit cards were maxed and was really struggling to keep the thing afloat. He chose to pass and went
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by enjo 12y ago
You got the wrong phrase. The question is can you build a successful company without working long hours, not "without working very hard". At Quickoffice we worked very hard. We'd have the occasional long night, but there were
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by enjo 12y ago
McDonalds is the antithesis of Chpiotle. They don't cook anything. It all comes prepacked, waiting to be warmed up in a microwave. You're not wrong, it tastes like cardboard.
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by enjo 12y ago
I find Chipotle really interesting as a company, because they are sort of the most mass market expression of these foodie ideas. Watching them struggle with ingredient quality as they've gone to massive scale is really interesting. The
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by enjo 12y ago
My 2013 N7 still runs like a dream. It was such a better device.
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by enjo 12y ago
Not only that, the symptoms are pretty obvious. Are they? The guy in Dallas originally reported with nothing more than abdominal pain. While he quickly deteriorated after that, was he already contagious at that point?
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by enjo 12y ago
There are a TON Of servers out there running PHP through good ole CGI. I would imagine that some of those are running web apps that lots and lots of people use. Meaning you now have shell access to those machines. Mining username/passw
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by enjo 12y ago
My wife (a PhD holder in the field) would smile and say "that is of course because markets aren't efficient".
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by enjo 12y ago
It'll be interesting to see how that changes with Android L. My Nexus 5 gets massively better battery life (~30% for me) on the developer preview.
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by enjo 12y ago
File I/O is the big bottleneck. For our python/front-end stuff it's a dream (We use Vagrant+ansible). We have a Java portion as well and getting decent compilation performance has thus far been impossible.
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by enjo 12y ago
At Gridium we provide literally everything on the list.
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by enjo 12y ago
I always figured that they just didn't really want to be in that business. It creates a conflict with the other phone manufacturers as well. From Google's point of view having a robust Android ecosystem is more important than buil
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by enjo 12y ago
Voice is being slowly integrated into hangouts.
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by enjo 12y ago
While that is absolutely true, I don't follow how that relates to my post? There is nothing inherent about the flexibility of a startup that means it has to be the frenetic roller-coaster that the thread starter referenced.
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by enjo 12y ago
>At a small startup everything is often falling apart at the seams... >Morale can rise and crash, repeatedly, like a roller coaster... >You're looking at the short term: days and weeks, not months and years... None of this rin
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by enjo 12y ago
Kale chips and nuts!

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