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by far33d 16y ago
Working for a large but still quickly growing company has been, for me, the best of both worlds. There's still a lot of upside in stock options and in career path because of the growth. You get to dabble in politics and you have a large com
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by far33d 16y ago
It's easy to chalk this up to whining and ignore it since it comes off as a rant. The problem is that United and its employees don't consider service a priority, not that they have a policy about canceling flights when you skip the original
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by far33d 16y ago
Boston, MA Zynga Boston is hiring in Game Design, Product Management, and Engineering. We're having a party to meet and greet candidates: zbostonparty.eventbrite.com or email me (email in profile) We were an acquired studio, so we still ope
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Doing financial or other KPI modeling can be really illuminating. At minimum, it can help you verify your assumptions about market size and opportunity. For instance, check out this great article from the founders of snaptalent: http://jam
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by far33d 16y ago
Beat me to it: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1847466
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by far33d 16y ago
I'm confused - isn't this the wrong graph? Shouldn't we be looking at a histogram showing return multiple on the x axis and # of companies in that group on the Y? Or, alternatively, return decile on the x, and total return value on the Y -
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by far33d 16y ago
We had our first child when I was 26. It's a young person's game. Lots of late nights, lots of tiring days. I'm pretty certain that I will still work the same 60-70 hours a week when I am 40 or 50, on some startup or another. The idea that
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On one hand you have a huge market, ripe for disruption, with high barriers to entry. Seems perfect for a startup. On the other hand, you have these enormous obstacles: upfront payments, minimum revenue guarantees, arcane and complicated re
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The other issue in Boston is one of focus. The reason Boston tech events and community blog posts, conversations, etc tend to be about funding is that it's all the consumer Boston startups have in common. There's no concentration (like NYC)
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by far33d 16y ago
No way. Zuckerberg wants to BE a Steve Jobs, not work for him.
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http://graph.facebook.com/<user_id&#62 ;
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My advice to you if you are going to this Q&A - read up on YC first. It was amazing how many of the questions asked in the Boston session are easily answered by quickly looking at the YC webpage or reading the "What happens at Y Combina
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by far33d 16y ago
I recently used a corporate travel booking system for the first time. What a terrible terrible experience. I ended up doing exactly what the post says - I searched for flights in Kayak, found them, and then massaged the search criteria unti
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by far33d 16y ago
TL;DR - designers who have been making games for themselves lament that someone started making games for everyone else.
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by far33d 16y ago
This has been on my "weekend project" list for a long long time. Excited that someone else actually got it done.
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by far33d 16y ago
You could become a PM @ Zynga.
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Sure - but that wasn't what he said. He said that requiring facebook makes him think that the website owner shouldn't be trusted with data. Which has nothing to do w/ lock-in on 3rd party websites. It has to do w/ the relative security comp
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by far33d 16y ago
Why would you trust a website asking for an email and password more?
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by far33d 16y ago
It does - I think the OP is referring to all the open graph data you need to add to your page to have this functionality work properly.
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Details on today's Facebook outage(facebook.com)
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by far33d 16y ago
Facebook is one of the few companies in the world with unbounded potential. It's a cultural phenomenon that has changed the way people use the internet and, more importantly, has changed the way people interact with their real friends. Very
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by far33d 16y ago
Do you have some inside knowledge of what Facebook's revenues are? What makes you think you know more about their valuation than investors who actually know these numbers?
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by far33d 16y ago
San Francisco, Austin, Boston, Baltimore, USA Zynga is definitely hiring in a lot of different roles. We're looking for great Product people and engineers in all the different studios. http://jobvite.com/m?3yUDXfwM My email is in my conta
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by far33d 16y ago
Very cool - the return of an East Coast presence for YC is a good thing for New York and Boston based early entrepreneurs.
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by far33d 16y ago
I used cabulous to hail a cab in San Francisco this weekend. Very similar service, but uses medallion taxis with regular meter rates. You have to pay the driver normally. It was a great experience and I imagine these types of services will
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by far33d 16y ago
We use these at our office: http://www.sitonit.net/home/product-overview.asp?product=foc... They are not as good as aerons but they are significantly cheaper, around $250.
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by far33d 16y ago
I'm still here, though I don't really ever post articles anymore. Too much competition - a good article is posted here within minutes, and I'm not interested in a race. I was on the top 10 at some point, but the amount of effort it takes to
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by far33d 16y ago
The way I think about scale is: 1) Know your bottlenecks and write them down. This is where you will look first if you have problems. 2) Know how you will throw hardware at it or change configurations if you find yourself with sudden growth
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Also, the two main smartphone platforms (iPhone and Android) have their default search engine set as Google.

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