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by greghinch 13y ago
I like DDG in theory a lot, and have switched my default search to it, but admittedly still end up going back to Google a lot, as DDG often doesn't bring up what I'm looking for, whereas it'll be the first result on Google.
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by greghinch 13y ago
So you would have preferred the pilot author make different uninformed, speculative claims about the cause of the crash? That's the whole point: no one reporting on or writing about this has all the facts yet
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by greghinch 13y ago
I will agree with what you're saying to an extent, but I think the threshold of lifestyle you're talking is quite low by your average SF tech worker's definition. All of the people I know who encountered crime in Oakland were
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by greghinch 13y ago
Ask Uber and the similar services currently embroiled in legal battles in NYC and LA how "no one" cares about taxis politically. Changing incumbents isn't so simple
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by greghinch 13y ago
Sorry I should have been specific about meaning places to live and commute to SF. You could do that from the Nut or Freemont I suppose, but that's a far commute, and a whole separate discussion about why I wouldn't suggest that
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by greghinch 13y ago
I don't mean this to play into stereotypes etc, but just as a matter of experience, every single person I know who's lived in Oakland for any significant amount of time (say 1 year or more), over the past 5 years, has been robbed
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by greghinch 13y ago
Cold for an engine block and timing belts and cold for a person are two different things
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by greghinch 13y ago
Or even that something can only be art if it has no other function? Don't be silly (Directed at grandparent)
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by greghinch 13y ago
Maybe not as much of a concern. It's likely the car needs to warm up for a few minutes when starting, so you don't want to do that idling inside. Easy enough to just drive in and immediately shut it off though.
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by greghinch 13y ago
I see one posting in England, but damned if I can see how to add another! I'm assuming location has to match the auto-complete whitelist, and the only London(s) that show up are not the one I need.
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by greghinch 13y ago
We Are Pop Up - London, UK - Web Application Developer (full-time) We Are Pop Up is a community-driven marketplace for short-term commercial property leasing. While we certainly didn't invent the concept of a "pop up shop", w
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by greghinch 13y ago
YUI gets a bad rap because of YUI2. YUI3 was a ground-up rewrite that addressed all of the overkill from 2 and them built an awesome library that includes things like modules and models/views, as well as things you expect like DOM, rea
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by greghinch 13y ago
Appreciate that correction, thank you
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by greghinch 13y ago
As I understand it, the US allowance for this is capped at $90k (in income, not tax paid)
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by greghinch 13y ago
There are lots of people doing startups in London but fundraising is still much harder than in SV
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by greghinch 13y ago
This. It is a huge pain to raise money at the lower levels in Europe. That I know of, something like a convertible note does not exist, or at least hardly anyone would offer one. The process can also be much longer, even if you find someo
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by greghinch 13y ago
You can even be looking at having your fat exit taxed twice if you are a citizen of another country
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by greghinch 13y ago
Are you being facetious? All of those things have been dramatically changed by the internet. Or are you saying because they are older, universities are impervious to change?
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by greghinch 13y ago
Yet. I don't want to necessarily speak for Stripe, but I seem to recall when they were first opening to the public, one of their main goals was to get to the point where they no longer needed 3rd party providers for the services they o
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by greghinch 13y ago
That is fair. I've only seen Stripe from the outside, and haven't even actually implemented it on any projects. Certainly I can appreciate how frustrating and disappointing it is to have some established player in the greater ecos
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by greghinch 13y ago
To play diplomat, I see a lot of Stripe loyalty / Mastercard hate already brewing here, and I think that's a bit unwarranted. Stripe has certainly earned their place as a cherished service, but I would venture to bet a lot of devs
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by greghinch 13y ago
The truth can often seem inconsiderate. That doesn't make it less true
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by greghinch 13y ago
Yes, by hiring a legion of professional photographers and offering their services for free. That's a hard model to sustain/emulate
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by greghinch 13y ago
My only point is to offer hopefully helpful advice to the legions of folks who come to HN wanting to learn how to start their own business for the first time. Many unintentionally assume they need to operate like a startup to their own peri
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by greghinch 13y ago
This is more about an internalized understanding of the type of business you are building for the founders than it is about external perceptions. That can be difficult for some, particularly with the prestige we in this community attribute
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by greghinch 13y ago
I should have prefaced it as "accelerated" growth. But I stand by that.
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by greghinch 13y ago
There's nothing to say a bootstrapped company can't become a a startup. When they start going for growth Edit: See below, I was referring to accelerated growth
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by greghinch 13y ago
That sounds more like the definition of a franchise business. Which may or may not be a startup as well, depending on how you go after growth
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by greghinch 13y ago
Without knowing more about the OP's business it's hard to say for sure, but I can give some thoughts based on my own experience. I'm going to assume they are a B2B company of some kind based on the limited description. In thi
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by greghinch 13y ago
There are a couple options, but the traditional small business route was a bank loan. These are obviously harder to get now, but still not impossible. The right private investor/angel is also a good route. This should essentially be so

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