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by epc 7y ago
It is not illegal to buy competitors (commenting only on US law). It can potentially violate antitrust laws if you eliminate all competition in a market by buying out competitors. But given the existence of Seamless/Grubhub, Uber Eat
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by epc 7y ago
Initial Twitter service was built using Ruby on Rails, shifting to Scala on the JVM around 2011-2012. See: https://www.infoq.com/articles/twitter-java-use/ https://carlosbecker.com/posts/twit
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by epc 7y ago
I wouldn't say people fled to MySpace…friendster had this initial surge of users, the site become unreliable (and once you set up an account and got over the initial flurry of fun, there was no "there" there. You could connec
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by epc 7y ago
You could argue Friendster lost a lot of its early, first mover, momentum to MySpace and Facebook because of its initial implementation in Java JSP. By the time of its rewrite in PHP, MySpace had become the "in place", followed fa
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by epc 7y ago
Maybe this post? https://www.vox.com/2018/1/9/16865384/smart-vehicles-cars-fo...
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by epc 7y ago
I don't know about groceries, but the SoHo store was a pretty decent place for lunch opposite 568 Broadway (where 10gen, Foursquare, Zocdoc and many other NYC startups have been located).
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by epc 7y ago
People, usually peer engineers, but occasionally executives, would try to rebut whatever I was trying to state as I'd state it. I learned to be an utter asshole to these people. When interrupted, I stop speaking. Entirely. Nine out o
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by epc 7y ago
The A220 is in service today, on Delta. I flew one this afternoon.
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by epc 7y ago
Maybe: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20340953 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20340392
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by epc 7y ago
Yes. If you’re a middle manager you’re typically getting directives from on–high that you have to implement indirectly by pushing buttons and pulling levers which themselves are pushing buttons or pulling levers. Picture driving some sort o
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by epc 7y ago
Really depends on the organization. Middle managers manage managers. They are definitely in meetings, just meetings you're unaware of. My experience dates to IBM in the 1990s so is lacking whatever has developed since then. At IBM fir
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by epc 7y ago
I found they were not particularly good. I mean, performance was fantastic when they worked, but I found multiple devices (mostly computers like Macs but some other things like a TV) would "lose connectivity" with them while showi
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by epc 7y ago
Don't move to NYC without a job. I love living in NYC, have been here for 20+ years. But your $60k will disappear rapidly. If you want to be in the NYC metro area while you look for a job pick a suburb on a train line about an hour o
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by epc 7y ago
Mostly retired. Stopped worrying about finding FTE 5-6 years ago and focused on making the cash I had work for me on a more immediate time scale. I do some advisory work with local startups for equity. Angel invested for awhile but stopped
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by epc 7y ago
I was burned out after 5 years of 7x24x365. Days were filled with conference calls and escalations about conference calls, nights were filled with the technical work I was supposed to be doing during the day. I was prohibited from filing pa
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by epc 7y ago
Am 52. Served as IBM’s “corporate webmaster” in the 1990s (sort of like being CTO but without the cool executive hat). Corporate Webmaster was responsible for all technical operations of IBM’s corporate sites (from systems administration to
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by epc 7y ago
It's the promotion process moreso than the hiring process. You can only be promoted if you fit a pattern that your job ladder's promo committee recognizes and if you are already performing at the level you're going to be prom
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by epc 7y ago
Nest's income/expense is likely a rounding error on the Google balance sheet. Killing off the Nest developer ecosystem is a choice, not driven by any economics. I have eight Nest thermostats across two homes, and a pile of Nest c
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by epc 7y ago
For a site served through cloudflare it seems a bit slow, are you generating the featured schools list every time the home page is hit? CF doesn't seem to be able to cache the page very long (I keep seeing cache misses). Maybe either
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by epc 8y ago
Because I am obligated to resume investing based on a HN comment? Wow.
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by epc 8y ago
I’d evaluate up to ten per year but typically only do 2-3 as well, primarily US East Coast. Fairly consistently, starting in 2015? 2016? the minimums kept creeping up, until a prospective CEO told me I'd wasted his time (he'd con
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by epc 8y ago
I'm not.
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by epc 8y ago
I stopped angel investing when the “ask” jumped from $25k to $250k. At $250k I’d just as soon be an LP in a fund and spread the risk (and let the GPs do the work).
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by epc 8y ago
Seconding snapnames.com. I've been using it since 2007 to grab interesting domains when they expire. You can place bids on registered domains and they just wait until the domain expires. My favorite thing is to track acquisitions of
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by epc 8y ago
Common carrier status for phone companies in the U.S. was the price they had to pay for the monopolies they received to run telephone lines on public property or easements on private property, probably dating to earlier with telegraph compa
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by epc 8y ago
I was on a flight to London that caught one of these tailwinds last year. I recall a little buffeting mid–Atlantic, don't know if that was in the jet stream or not. Only problem really was that we arrived too early in London and had t
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by epc 8y ago
A billboard is impersonal. Reminding me to buy something for Mother's Day is temporarily irksome but I drive by and forget about it. In contrast, the vendors sending personalized 2-3 week flood of "HEY EPC HAVE YOU REMEMBERED YO
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by epc 8y ago
I don't use eero+ (their managed firewall service) and run my eeros in bridge mode behind an ISP router/firewall…so with those caveats: my wifi has stayed up even when the uplink to the ISP is down. I have not tried managing the
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by epc 8y ago
I just pulled out a Google Wifi setup because I found it was would drop clients if we were streaming any video content. I thought that maybe the dropped clients were connected to the mesh APs (which weren't hard–connected to the LAN) b
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by epc 8y ago
If you're looking to stay in the NYC region but don't need to be actually in NYC: Boston and Philadelphia have great startup communities and great transportation options. Closer in to NYC: Stamford (lots of empty office space),

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