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by freshfunk 15y ago
You're framing the argument in a way that makes your position stronger and his weaker. But, in your framing, I think you miss some basic points. For me, it comes down to what he said here: >Meanwhile, though, I have no sympathy for peop
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by freshfunk 15y ago
The story was a moving one and I hope Vargas gets to stay. With that said, I think illegal immigration creates all kinds of societal problems and is unfair to legal immigrants. The problem it creates is that there's enormous stress on those
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Those were some horrible examples. Its not surprising that star ANALysts make no difference. Studies show that monkeys perform just as well at investing. His other example are teams in professional sports. This is also horrible because even
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by freshfunk 15y ago
Naming your company is easy. Just do the following! - append -ly, -able, -r, -up, -in, -on - remove all vowels - substitute k for c unless it ends in -ck in which case just remove the c... or the k - take the last two letters and put the
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by freshfunk 15y ago
http://www.readwriteweb.com/archives/ciagov_possibly_down_lu... "Another hacker, known as @th3j35t3, or "The Jester," has said "Gloves off" to the LulzSec group in a Twitter statement. "The Jester" is said to be responsible for a host of
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LulzSec: Tango down - http://t.co/2QGXy6f - for the lulz.(twitter.com)
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by freshfunk 15y ago
This is something of a non sequitur. The debate is around the tech bubble not the various global financial crisis. While one may affect the other, the debate is around the bubble. You imply that the global economic situation may cause this
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by freshfunk 15y ago
This is true regardless of impending bubble or not.
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by freshfunk 15y ago
Click through to the debate and read Horowitz' side: http://www.economist.com/debate/days/view/710 He has some pretty compelling graphs and arguments for his position!
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by freshfunk 15y ago
I'm with you. $41MM or no, Pham is still an entrepreneur trying to build something he believes in. In that sense, he's no different than many here. It sucks to leave something you tried so hard at, something you believed in. Some ideas work
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>But maintaining it still takes time, no matter what language/framework you're using. Upgrading to a new version is in the end maintenance (security fixes, underlying framework improvements, and the refactorings that go hand in hand wit
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by freshfunk 15y ago
Glad to hear your opinion on this. What frameworks, in your opinion, are stable, relevant today, easy to use, and has a good community? I've been doing some client-side scripting with Ruby lately just for fun and I've also played with Pytho
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by freshfunk 15y ago
Hacking US Senate website != Hacking the US Senate (period) That's the real lulz!
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I'm an avid user of Yelp and find the overall ratings to be usually quite accurate. The caveat, though, is that the restaurant/business needs to have a sufficient numbers of reviews so that all of the top and bottom end outlier ratings are
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by freshfunk 15y ago
Thanks for this. Great to get both sides of the debate.
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by freshfunk 15y ago
Actually this varies by state. In California, the minimum wage law applies with or without tips.
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by freshfunk 15y ago
In defense for consumers, normally tip should be calculated off of the pre-tax subtotal. Most restaurants calculate tip (say if you're in a group of 6 or larger so it becomes compulsory) based on the post-tax total. So tip, as it is, isn't
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by freshfunk 15y ago
Here's the thing that rubs consumers the wrong way: "the Groupon version of the tapas menu." IMO, if a business is doing this and trying to cut costs then don't be surprised if that person does NOT convert into a regular customer. It's penn
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by freshfunk 15y ago
In any startup, founders have to play more than one role. Ergo having a strict business person and strict coder isn't great. What's better is if you have: - A product person who's done product management, product marketing, user experienc
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by freshfunk 15y ago
Sometimes I get that sense but these days it seems everyone i meet sold everything back home (a bunch of them European) and moved to the bay area. Most of them took. A short trip first and decided that the scene was infinitely better.
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by freshfunk 15y ago
If you go to entrepreneur events, it's definitely a reality. I've been part of the scene for about 1.5 years and there are countless meet up group/events for new tech. There are coworking spaces that litter a certain part of SF. In Palo alt
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by freshfunk 15y ago
If you weren't around for the last dot-com bubble burst here's the simplest explanation for what happened then and what seems to be happening now: Pump and dump.
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Selling food is a low margin business because food are high. Whereas other businesses with excess capacity and most of the costs are operational don't have these problems
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by freshfunk 15y ago
I know nothing special about Groupon but this does look really bad. It's akin to finding a greater fool down the road to leave the bag with. Normally that wouldn't bother me too much but given that they're going public the last fool who end
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by freshfunk 15y ago
Yeah, who cares about consumer spending?! It's only 70% of our nation's economy. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Consumer_spending
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If you take your analogy to completion it makes perfect sense. Let's say you're in the business of giving $10 for $9. Let's say you become so popular at it that you beat out all your competitors and now whenever anybody wants to make $1 com
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by freshfunk 15y ago
>there is no problem to generate a billion revenue that costs a billion and half. Barings bank in 1995, Enron in 2002, Merrill Lynch in 2008 ... In all three of these cases, you have situations where sophisticated financial instruments
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by freshfunk 15y ago
I think that very early on, picking AMZN as a winner is luck. But the difference between them and their competitors (even in the early days) was constant innovation both in technology and business. For example, one-click purchasing, free sh
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by freshfunk 15y ago
Perhaps the other useful part of the Amazon analogy is that I believe that GroupOn will slowly be eaten alive by competitors unless they bring some real business and/or tech innovation. Last I saw, LivingSocial's trajectory was steeper than
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I don't have any special info but based on news reports it seems that restaurants aren't a great fit for massively discounted deals. The type of businesses that do benefit the most are those that will operate anyway but have excess capacity

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