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by gyardley 14y ago
Heh - if you were in charge of marketing and didn't know who your clients were, your CEO's out of his tree and your stock's never going to be worth anything anyway. I'd take the 3.5 months worth of equity just in case and start looking for
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by gyardley 14y ago
Surely the number of people who would renounce their citizenship to save a small portion of their income is smaller than the number of people who would renounce their citizenship to save a large portion of their income.
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by gyardley 14y ago
Agreed. Kohana's tutorials are pretty bad, but the API browser is solid and the code of the framework itself is very readable. As a beginner, having to dig under the hood of Kohana to fully understand it initially turned me off, but I came
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by gyardley 14y ago
Liberal arts education is both useful and costs relatively little compared to technical education. My history degree isn't making anyone's CS tuition rise. Tuitions have been rising primarily because state governments have been reducing sub
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by gyardley 14y ago
We completely agree. RMS has the right to make excuses for pedophiles all day every day, if he's so inclined. That said, conference speakers are there at the discretion of the organizers. Not being able to speak is a rights violation; not b
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by gyardley 14y ago
Wow, I had no idea. That's repugnant. Why do people still invite him to conferences? Surely there's less-objectionable representatives of his views on software.
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by gyardley 14y ago
My most recent product management hire in NYC was doing unpaid internships for four different startups when I hired him. I partially hired him for his drive and experience, so it's hard to argue he didn't benefit from the internships, but i
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by gyardley 14y ago
Likely the border of an Indian reservation.
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by gyardley 14y ago
If you can use what you've learned from your startup to tell a story about something bigger than your startup, you're more likely to get some coverage, both about your company and the broader story you're telling. I did well when I was ru
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by gyardley 15y ago
iOS app success is pretty much guaranteed - if you're smart enough to take your skills and start selling them at market rate to every Tom, Dick, and Harry who wants to hit the iOS lottery. In a gold rush, the guys who do the best are the on
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EBay Puts Down Roots in NYC with Data-Focused Tech Center(gigaom.com)
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by gyardley 15y ago
Relying on a scraper is a nasty way to do business. Registrars change their admin interface all the time - your service will constantly be breaking, often at inconvenient times. Rather bad for you if you've already taken someone's money. I
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by gyardley 15y ago
I wish there was a completely different word for self-taught people without a formal computer science background. If there was, the people with computer science backgrounds could stop grousing and moaning, and the self-taught people could g
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by gyardley 15y ago
Perhaps this is great advice for aspiring television writers, and works for their industry, but that doesn't mean we should use this advice to glorify the cult of overwork in our own industry.
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by gyardley 15y ago
I strongly suspect 'social hackers' are exactly what this particular company's looking for, and the negative connotation serves as a useful filter.
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by gyardley 15y ago
Oh man , I wish I had the patience for enterprise sales. This would be absolutely terrific for attributing offline sales to online advertising, and for understanding how e-commerce behavior relates to in-store behavior.
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by gyardley 15y ago
Steve Blank wrote about this a while ago, but it didn't seem to get much attention: http://www.slideshare.net/sblank/sxsw-new-rules-for-the-new-... The 'rules for the new bubble' section starts on slide 117. Previous HN discussion on the
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by gyardley 15y ago
Protecting them from what exactly? I'm genuinely curious about this - what do you think gets done with a browser cookie that actually causes real harm to the user? Perhaps that should be regulated instead of the mechanism for it.
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by gyardley 15y ago
Google's 'All-Seeing Eye' uses first-party cookies, just like anything you'd install on your own server. Just because something uses first-party cookies doesn't mean the data's not being sent to a third-party. If this goofy law is more than
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by gyardley 15y ago
If enough people use ad blocking technologies, the ads and analytics industries will simply switch to server-side / invisible-to-the-end-user options. The only reason why tracking and ad serving isn't done like this today is because it's a
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by gyardley 15y ago
Even if you don't use tracking for advertising targeting, a lot of untargeted / contextually-targeted ad buys require frequency caps. No frequency caps, no ad buys. You seem skeptical that ad targeting works. In fact, it works pretty well.
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by gyardley 15y ago
This argument has about as much chance of persuading the public as the 'read the damn terms of service' argument. People don't want clear warnings, disclaimers, or notices - they want the things they dislike to simply not exist.
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by gyardley 15y ago
Has this been challenged yet in a court, when someone reading only the right-hand column decides they feel all lawsuity? Is this sort of 'user-friendly interface' covered by existing case law? IANAL either, and I wouldn't touch this or anyt
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by gyardley 15y ago
Acquisition price reflects the value to the acquirer; market cap reflects the value to the shareholders. Neither reflects value to society - something completely unrelated.
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by gyardley 15y ago
If Instagram was worth more than a billion to Google, yesterday's headlines would've been different. Perhaps Instagram should've been worth more than a billion to Google, but that's another discussion.
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by gyardley 15y ago
Too early to say. VCs get paid when they can sell their stock, not when the company makes a profit. Business making money != VCs making money. (Also, VC-backed business making money != founders making money. Your VC probably isn't going to
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If RIM Folds, What Happens to Waterloo?(businessweek.com)
2 points by gyardley 15y ago|0 comments
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by gyardley 15y ago
TechStars often accepts companies before they've got a ton of traction. If you're planning on raising money before you've got that traction, pitching and networking isn't nonsense, it's your job . If you're not willing to go out and schmoo
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by gyardley 15y ago
Good lord, yes - it's the Russian government's state organ. Their appalling Syria coverage is also worth taking a look at. http://www.tabletmag.com/jewish-news-and-politics/90971/disi...
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by gyardley 15y ago
'Boring' is subjective. There are millions upon millions of people who genuinely enjoy Farmville or WoW. I personally can't wait for Diablo III to come out, which will almost certainly be farm & grindy. There exists a subset of games wi

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