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by gearhart 11y ago
I've never been through the programme, but I've worked with several people who have. Most young entrepreneurs who "go it alone" tend to pick up a network of useful contacts - advisors, introducers, investors, corporate b
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by gearhart 12y ago
Flippantly repeating a HN mantra: who cares about making your life easier, you're the product, not the customer. More seriously though, the value of knowing the world's social graph is certainly more complicated than I feel qualif
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by gearhart 12y ago
All opinion, no sources: I've always considered it as a defensive play rather than a positive one - Facebook have this beautifully well-entrenched network effect that defends their position - their unique selling point is that they kno
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by gearhart 12y ago
I agree wholeheartedly with all of the points you're trying to make but the spoken word / snailmail comparison is broken and detracts from your message. Saying that spoken word and snail mail are unencrypted and thereby implying t
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by gearhart 12y ago
Is there anybody who wants your product? Do you have customers? Are they paying you? Is there cash that's just going straight out the door for hosting etc, or is there no cash at all? I've run one startup that failed outright afte
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by gearhart 12y ago
I've never played with minified d3 code before, it's kinda fun having to use just the api without being able to inspect the code :) Looks like your linkDistance is fixed at 20 (the default) and your linkStrength is dependent on co
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by gearhart 12y ago
Interesting concept. I love the connection information you can draw from Twitter, I wonder how closely it correlates to actual outbound/inbound influence. From a purely visual (and probably pedantic) perspective, if you turn off d3&#x2
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by gearhart 12y ago
Great write-up. If you're interested in this and you live in (or would like to live in) London, we're hiring. Email's in my profile.
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by gearhart 12y ago
There's a big difference between WFH and remote - in our office we encourage everyone to consider WFH and do it whenever it's appropriate, but you still need to be able to come in.
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by gearhart 12y ago
For tech roles this effect is compounded by the fact that, in a startup, the person doing the hiring is likely to be technical themselves so they can quickly work out whether someone has basic skills, whereas in a bigger company HR likely c
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by gearhart 12y ago
Absolutely agreed - I just had to click 40 times to read 40 comments when I had half a screen's worth of whitespace they could've just been sitting in...
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by gearhart 12y ago
WRT when you start the company - I only have experience from the UK market, but here you're doing a tradeoff; on the one hand there are a lot of programs and benefits for startups (like SEIS tax relief), so it's beneficial to be &
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by gearhart 12y ago
You're right, the study's not worthless - the "key findings" are all accurate and portray a reasonably sensible, true-to-life picture of the results, and we do need more easily-consumable, experimentally-justified conten
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by gearhart 12y ago
This article is completely incompetent. Firstly - any number of cookies from a single domain are equivalent, you can always use whatever identifier is in the cookie's data to store and retrieve an arbitrary amount of data about the use
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by gearhart 12y ago
We've had good success with wkhtmltopdf All of our invoices and reports are built for the web and then converted on the fly to pdfs and emailed out to clients who prefer them that way. You lose the interactivity, which is a shame for s
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by gearhart 12y ago
It's a statement that comes from knowing a lot about the tools and not a lot about the area in which you're applying them. That applies to a lot of startups, rarely the successful ones, and in this instance it certainly applies to
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by gearhart 12y ago
If convincing people to use a more structured UI is difficult but they're quite happy giving you all the information you need in their own way, why not just accept the data in the format that they want to give it to you in? It seems li
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by gearhart 12y ago
I understand the downvotes (they're very different services, and Dropbox prices can be very low because you're paying for capacity not usage - case in point I'm currently using 25 gigs but paying for a terabyte) but hones
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by gearhart 12y ago
Interesting - I'm speaking from general market sentiment (e.g. http://www.techrepublic.com/article/aws-is-playing-chicken-w... ) but I'd never heard the "Mountain of Margin" argument ( http:/&#x
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by gearhart 12y ago
http://xkcd.com/1494/ The unusual thing about this market is that by constantly improving the price point of their product but keeping their profit margins the same, AWS has forced every competitor in it to actually co
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by gearhart 12y ago
> Youtube's problems are that their costs are too high. Is that true? I'm definitely not saying it's not, but it's not self-evidently true. Is $4 per user per year a lot to pay for being the platform they watch video
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by gearhart 12y ago
He's written A / √A = A × A / A = A, but what he means is A / √A = √A × √A / √A = √A, which is actually true and is what he uses below
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by gearhart 12y ago
> "Society is the victim" and "No quality control" They had, apparently, the same customers-rating-sellers quality control mechanism that Amazon itself uses, and by introducing those and removing the need for physical
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by gearhart 12y ago
Given the proliferation of comments about how to avoid linking meatspace and digital personas, having a laptop with a camera constantly filming your face, and a piece of software designed to recognise only your face stored next to your incr
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by gearhart 12y ago
Could somebody explain to me this community's fervent objection to advertising? It seems so out of sync with (y)our usual socially liberal / libertarian capitalist standpoint.
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by gearhart 12y ago
In our environment, everyone should have a rudimentary understanding of programming. If even 10% of your complete beginners class drops out, you're failing to achieve that, so for this purpose, you should be looking for the lowest comm
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by gearhart 12y ago
Obligatory post to cut this argument short http://xkcd.com/1179/
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by gearhart 12y ago
If anybody else read this and, like me, immediately wanted an implementation of it to play with, the closest I could find was a part-implemented cljs version here: https://github.com/asolove/Sketchpad Does anyone know
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by gearhart 12y ago
The guide opens with an analogy suggesting that picking the best stocks to invest in is equivalent to picking the best restaurant to eat at, and that technical analysis is equivalent to looking for the stall with the most people at it. If t
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by gearhart 12y ago
As an Oxford grad who used to go to a lot of OE events, I agree with you completely (and have definitely encountered the OP's disappointment!). I set up my first company in Oxford just after I left a few years ago, and there was almost

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