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by glimcat 15y ago
If it was an easy, solved problem then I could probably fire my non-technical cofounder. This is something that requires significant creativity to do well. One of the biggest problems today is not getting your message out there - we have mo
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by glimcat 15y ago
Sounds like a problem to solve with a disruptive startup. Got any actionable ideas?
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by glimcat 15y ago
IMO the level of involvement in IP generation, in determining the business's direction, and the degree to which you need this specific person are more relevant to equity vs. treating it as direct compensation.
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by glimcat 15y ago
"We" the company, "I" the person representing the company.
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by glimcat 15y ago
Donald Norman is presumably in there somewhere as well.
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by glimcat 15y ago
Always assume "equity" has zero value. Any payout will go to the investors first and the founders second, with employees benefiting significantly once in a blue moon. If a blue moon shines, hurray! But don't plan your retirement on it.
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by glimcat 15y ago
How does anyone become a better coder? You code. Pair programming is a great scenario for this because it tightens the loop - you feel more free to attempt things which you're not certain of and it's much easier to find out what you did wro
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by glimcat 15y ago
Because smart people act on their ideas.
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by glimcat 15y ago
Steve Jobs was moderately disruptive at Atari, even if a lot of it was "I should get Woz to do this." Some of Steve's pet projects at Apple were miserable bombs. It's less a quest to find the right place than it is the fact that it's imposs
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by glimcat 15y ago
Google doesn't really do customer service. Then again, it's still less walled than Apple's garden. There are benefits to avoiding native when it will work.
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by glimcat 15y ago
It's only their third week. The Vietnam War protests went on for how long? Give them some time and maybe they'll get the message figured out. The solutions to economic depression and socioeconomic disparity are a bit more complicated than "
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by glimcat 15y ago
There was anonymity before there was an internet.
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by glimcat 15y ago
I really don't care if teenagers with no money run a free copy of my stuff. They weren't going to buy it anyway - and now they're out there increasing its penetration. From a business perspective, it's often a win if you stop fallaciously c
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by glimcat 15y ago
It's civil rather than criminal, or at least it used to be, so it is not really accurate to call them "just as illegal." It used to be you had to show damages and then sue for reparations. Regardless, conflating the two is disingenuous. &#6
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by glimcat 15y ago
> what actually gets approved is longer lasting pecker perkers and yet another blood pressure medication That's a problem with the industry and the government, not so much with the research. But I'd love to see improvements there. Also,
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by glimcat 15y ago
"claim that piracy is not stealing" Infringement is not stealing, or at least it wasn't before people started trying to abuse marketing to induce linguistic drift in order to promote their agenda. I don't think "let's just punish this idiot
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by glimcat 15y ago
Sexy. Is there a backend that helped generate this?
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by glimcat 15y ago
> We haven't sped up the pace of drug development http://fold.it/portal/info/science > haven't developed nanomechanical computers micro: http://pubs.rsc.org/en/Content/ArticleLanding/2007/LC/b70876... nano: http://physicsworld.
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by glimcat 15y ago
I can sympathize with this. But I also think it's wrong on many points. Feynman's point that "there's plenty of room at the bottom" is extremely relevant to the modern age; most of our marvels are now Small Stuff rather than the Big Stuff t
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by glimcat 15y ago
The hardware is the tricky part, has always been the tricky part. $20 a node is cheap for these things - in some cases, unrealistically so. "Control everything" is that with a big multiplier.
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by glimcat 15y ago
Intent to scale.
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by glimcat 15y ago
The economics of the situation are such that hoops are rarely worth tolerating during the initial submission. If you're not Google, I don't have much time for you until you clearly signal to me that there is actually a real job opening, wit
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by glimcat 15y ago
Optimization, bleh. Mining the tar out of Facebook's rather Orwellian data set? FUN!
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by glimcat 15y ago
The part that goes on in my head, yes. The part that involves typing, no.
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by glimcat 15y ago
"some of which are those low-level-design type of choices where if you go the other route, a different set of people complain" This is actually a wonderful scenario. If either party successfully grows the market, both can benefit.
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by glimcat 15y ago
Network. Be awesome.
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by glimcat 15y ago
Google by any other name would still be rolling in cash. McDonalds has 10x the revenue of Burger King. The Wii was mocked and ridiculed, but has shipped 60% more units than its competition. Some name choices are problematic, but what matter
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by glimcat 15y ago
Being really good at one thing almost always involves being pretty good at a few things.
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by glimcat 15y ago
Now if only it was easier for said PhDs to get access to said data. Actually, on second thought, that's a bit horrifying.
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by glimcat 15y ago
Campus writing centers provide tutoring and feedback. They don't just fix it for you.

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