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by far33d 18y ago
You are assuming a non-founder CEO. I think he would agree that founder-CEOs are also a good predictor of success.
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by far33d 18y ago
If you aren't blizzard, the subscription, big budget, PC MMO is a very difficult business to succeed in. It's basically impossible - there's such a huge time investment that most players are unlikely to play more than one game at a time. Pl
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The Idea Factory - CIC Cambridge(boston.com)
2 points by far33d 18y ago|1 comments
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by far33d 18y ago
Looking forward to it. Just moved from SF to Cambridge 3 months ago and excited to meet up w/ the YC folks around here.
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by far33d 18y ago
I have both - the chemex is a much cleaner cup of coffee but more difficult to produce a 'perfect' cup. As a benefit, it doesn't require a burr mill grinder - the key to a solid french press cup is consistent grind. But a french press cup b
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by far33d 18y ago
The workspaces are dark because a lot of the work is very color sensitive. A good number of people can't have any ambient light around to do their jobs correctly.
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by far33d 18y ago
I am so sick of people mixing up C and C++ when making this argument. I can think of thousands of reasons to use C. C is much like learning to drive a stickshift. C++ is an utterly broken language. It's just an exercise in bad compiler erro
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by far33d 18y ago
I guess what I meant is that the alternative to blender isn't Maya - Maya is a closed system (yes, it has plugins and scripting, but you can't change the internals, which are pretty messy). Right now the biggest studios are choosing to buil
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by far33d 18y ago
Someday, one of the big studios will adopt blender internally instead of paying through the nose for Maya, and Blender will get really solid. Frankly, I'm surprised that medium sized studios haven't realized that working together on Blender
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by far33d 18y ago
To Steve and Apple, it's not about bad press and good press. It's about CONTROL. And an anonymous writer posting to a blog pretending to be the man himself... well, that's the opposite of control.
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by far33d 18y ago
I have a 7-month-old, and I believe that my wife has found the ideal care situation. She works, from home, part time. Hours are flexible, she can stay home with our daughter, and get most of her work done during naps or after I get home. I
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by far33d 18y ago
Having DD again is one of the few things that has made moving from SF to Cambridge more palatable for me.
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by far33d 18y ago
I generally hate the meta-conversations about story quality and the necessity for a down-arrow - but this story was the most awful (and obvious flame-bait) story I've seen voted to #1.
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by far33d 18y ago
If a program causes Windows to crash, where it wouldn't have without that program, it could be said to be the program's fault. The job of a good operating system is to protect itself and other processes from themselves and each othe
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by far33d 18y ago
Pixar success is all about the confluence of it's three major players. 1) Ed Catmull - He was the founder with the original vision and great technical skills. He also brings a humility to Pixar, hired only the smartest and best people, and
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by far33d 18y ago
Note, he used it on a home machine using his webmail, not his work email. Xobni seems much more useful for professional email than the email account you use for your amazon account and emailing your parents.
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by far33d 18y ago
This change will come around 10 years too late :)
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by far33d 19y ago
Doesn't matter. First thing you sign when you join a new employer is an agreement that says something like "I am not under any other company's non-compete". While this might not be enforceable, if you were a small company in a similar space
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by far33d 19y ago
I love collecting Buffett quotes: "Investment managers often profit far more from piling up assets than from handling those assets well. So when one tells you that increased funds won’t hurt his investment performance, step back: His nose
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by far33d 19y ago
Is this based on TextPayMe, the YC company purchased by amazon?
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by far33d 19y ago
This is exactly the kind of awesomeness I come to YCNews for.
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by far33d 19y ago
This article uses a classic diversion tactic - focus on a singular issue, which may have contributed, and attribute all of a complex issue to the single issue that fits the agenda. No mention of how lending agencies, given incentives to clo
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by far33d 19y ago
Ouch. I guess this was one of those "intellectual" DH0's. I will put together a real response.
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by far33d 19y ago
i won't be using the NYPost for economic analysis, thank you very much.
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by far33d 19y ago
Wow. That particular user has an exactly 100% troll:total comments ratio. Most trolls occasionally have something real to say.
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by far33d 19y ago
I can't help but think, over and over again, that the "we need a down-arrow" and "take it to reddit" comments are more polluting than the occasional non-programming/startup related stories. The comments don't appear on the front page, howev
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by far33d 19y ago
There's a quality to super-heavy ajax webapps - they reach the uncanny valley of similarity to desktop apps. Just like an animated human starts to look really creepy as it approaches realism, there's something strange about web-apps that ap
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by far33d 19y ago
Maybe you could check if the title of the page is the same as well, not as an automatic detection, but instead as a reason to ask "are you sure this isn't the same as foo". This might prevent most of the NYTimes dupes.
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by far33d 19y ago
If you are buying a straightforward diamond solitaire ring, go for it. blue nile, ebay, whatever. But if you have something particular in mind, suck it up, go to a jeweler and pay full price. But haggle. Don't pay sticker.
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by far33d 19y ago
THe BART police in SF suggest you not wear white earphones because it might get you robbed. This implies that there's still quite a bit of status associated w/ iPods and iPhones.

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