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by frederickcook 16y ago
I had the same question. Can someone explain?
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by frederickcook 16y ago
Their stock is the same class as the founders. Everyone who had options in Slide also made money proportionate to Levchin, which is better than the investors did, who made nothing. (This assumes early, cheap options. Later ones may have los
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Remnants of an 18th century ship at Ground Zero Construction Site(blog.foreignpolicy.com)
2 points by frederickcook 16y ago|0 comments
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by frederickcook 16y ago
Might not be the best idea to comment on your personal feelings regarding an employee's religious affiliation. It'd suck to have a HN post submitted as evidence in a discrimination lawsuit. Edit: Why the down-vote? The parent has his compan
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Very personal interview with Rand Fishkin (Mixergy)(mixergy.com)
8 points by frederickcook 16y ago|0 comments
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by frederickcook 16y ago
Wha? We are talking about internet freelancing here, aren't we?
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by frederickcook 16y ago
I worked at an open-pit copper mine in New Mexico one summer, part of which included a pretty intense 3-day safety course. One of the best take-aways was their definition of four levels of competence: Unconscious Incompetence: you don't kno
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by frederickcook 16y ago
Related? Haven't seen it this bad in a while.
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by frederickcook 16y ago
This article has a lot of great points about private vs. open, but one I disagree with is "First, it's hard, if not impossible, to monetize private communication." The obvious example that comes to mind here is Gmail. People still click on
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by frederickcook 16y ago
The size of the opportunity you choose to go after has a significant role in the maximum success you may have, and that choice should not be discounted. Founders of billion-dollar companies such as PayPal and YouTube foresaw that the world
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by frederickcook 16y ago
The term patent trolls gets thrown around too much. Did Blackboard put together a patent portfolio, and use it dissuade potential competitors? Or do they have a separate business unit that writes patents without actually producing any valua
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by frederickcook 16y ago
I noticed the same thing regarding how rigorous the tests are. But, just like real life, you can write a program that passes every single fringe case every time, or that meets the specific use cases. (In this case, the specific use cases ar
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by frederickcook 16y ago
Agreed re: the UAV comment. Imagine a world where big brother is watching everything you do, and can kill you from the other side of the world with the press of a button, with absolutely no warning, with no way for you to defend yourself, a
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How does a team of 35 design for 400 million Facebook users?(lukew.com)
3 points by frederickcook 16y ago|0 comments
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by frederickcook 16y ago
Build an API should be down at the bottom somewhere.
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by frederickcook 16y ago
In the PC market, Apple competes on quality, Microsoft (with hardware manufacturers) competes on price. This is the world Ballmer imagined for the smartphone market, but when Google knocked the floor out by giving away the OS (or even payin
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by frederickcook 16y ago
For an individual with a mortgage and family, when the going get's tough, they drop the startup and go get jobs. For someone who can live on a grad student budget (YC funding level), there are many months of productivity left after money st
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by frederickcook 16y ago
In addition, it'd be quite irresponsible to start scaling your hiring without that concrete product (proven, repeatable, scalable sales process).
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by frederickcook 16y ago
Any plans for an API?
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by frederickcook 16y ago
So, as I understand it, all this money is to work on an open source project, which is quite different than a startup. Now a well-done open source project inevitably leads to a company (Wordpress, MySQL, etc.) but that isn't what they said t
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by frederickcook 16y ago
If there's a market that you don't want to serve because of your principles, you take your principles, and I'll take your market share.
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by frederickcook 16y ago
As Mark Suster says, "there is a time to learn, and a time to earn."
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by frederickcook 16y ago
Is there a case where it does makes sense to put write off salary as loans to the founders? As the OP indicated, any sophisticated investor would insist all the money goes "forward." But even if the company bootstrapped it to profitability,
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by frederickcook 16y ago
If you bought an iPad (or pretty much any other item online) it is unlikely you would spend any taxes on it. If you did, many states require the purchaser to report and pay the taxes themselves, not the retailer. Additionally, sales taxes v
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by frederickcook 16y ago
990 days ago: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43243 105 days ago: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1060176
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by frederickcook 16y ago
I think it's worth pointing out that on Twitter, there is only one privacy setting, when you set up an account, and you have complete access to who sees your tweets. Unless I missed a major news story about this, I don't think Twitter has y
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by frederickcook 16y ago
>> If your image is a photo or something photo-like, you should use JPG. Keep in mind that many, many things produced by computers these days are photo-like, as the OP demonstrated with the icons, so this might not be the best rule
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by frederickcook 16y ago
If one can buy 1000 ID's for $25-$45, actual password strength is probably much less important than using different passwords for different sites. Why bother running a password library or brute force program when you can just purchase the i
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by frederickcook 16y ago
It's interesting how animated and expressive both pg and Jessica are. I remember noticing in multiple pg interviews how much facial expressions are used, and Jessica is the same way. They move their eye-brows, modulate their voices, their s
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by frederickcook 16y ago
Reminds me of the "first-to-market advantage" that entrepreneurs talk about all the time. Apple took a huge, huge chunk of market and has had it since the iPhone came out. I think we'll see over the next year or two how well that works for

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