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by hnnewguy 12y ago
> Like Zuck? Drew Houston? It's easy to rattle off a dozen names who wouldn't have started their company if they'd worked at a big company for 5 years. Outliers. It's all well and good to strive to do the same, but
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by hnnewguy 12y ago
> "Seems like a no-brainer that this one is going to end up crossing the IPO finish line at some point" On what planet is an IPO the finish line ?
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by hnnewguy 12y ago
> However, I find that those that are more practiced are usually far better than simply those that are passionate. Passion is the starting point to becoming exceptional.
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by hnnewguy 12y ago
> Imo people can create as many shitty photo-sharing apps as they want if this means not fucking up the world's financial system. So quickly we forget that it wasn't long ago what were essentially "shitty photo-sharing ap
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by hnnewguy 12y ago
> Yes that worked out well in the past. How some people believe that shuffling money about will make more wealth is beyond me. Financial innovation played a major role in creating the wealthiest global society in world history. And you
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by hnnewguy 12y ago
> But I know what I'm buying, and I'm ok with that. Apparently you don't, because you aren't really buying anything. You're licensing it. You don't own a thing in your Amazon library. They can, and have,
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by hnnewguy 12y ago
> e.g. Grim Fandango would never have happened if someone had to justify it with a spreadsheet. > if you're not strict to spritesheets, you get bigger chances of stuff not being delivered, but you also get bigger chances of stuf
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by hnnewguy 12y ago
> The airlines are shafting customers while making more money than ever before. Air travel in the US is hardly a lucrative business. It's a tough racket: "Domestic passenger airline operations lost $10 billion from 1979 to 19
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by hnnewguy 12y ago
> it seem like everyone else just puts FizzBuzz in an iPhone app and gets $100k funding. Sometimes I get the impression that simply getting funding is the goal and symbol that you've "made it"; a viable business is seco
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by hnnewguy 12y ago
no federal deficit, so no looming financial crisis Huh? Canada's debt-to-GDP is as bad as the US.
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by hnnewguy 12y ago
> Fraudulent purchases are another issue, but the risk of fraud is lower with bitcoin versus credit cards The CC companies have full control over the transactions. They can stop and/or reverse charges. As far as the consumer is c
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by hnnewguy 12y ago
You should work on your reading comprehension. What you're saying is precisely what the author is talking about: everyone has a story about terrible engineers, but they're almost always "elsewhere". Co-workers tend to
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by hnnewguy 12y ago
Some percentage of the population are incompetent, so they end up in every business in every field, everywhere on the planet. In other words, it's reality. Why does it still surprise people?
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by hnnewguy 12y ago
> I have worked with incompetent engineers, who literally couldn't code FizzBuzz. Operative word worked . This is exactly what the article says: "They always seem to be elsewhere. For everyone."
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by hnnewguy 12y ago
> Can I be compelled to describe how to perform the swipe? To describe the pattern? To guide the agent? Yes, yes and yes. Until there is legal precedent, if they want into your phone and you don't provide them access, you'll b
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by hnnewguy 12y ago
> In any one month... Pretty much everything you mention in this paragraph is covered by accounting rules a student would learn in year 1. Cash flow isn't profitability. Spending on assets is capitalized, and they depreciate acco
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by hnnewguy 12y ago
> If you give me six lines written by the hand of the most honest of men, I will find something in them which will hang him. This is what scares me about the permanence of internet commentary, and why I laugh when people say, "use
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by hnnewguy 12y ago
It's just as crazy in Canada. The fixed interest rate on government backed student loans is prime +5%! That means that during a period of historically low interest rates, students are paying nearly 8% on their loans. Why not prime?
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by hnnewguy 12y ago
> It is just another partisan post that would invariably lead to those tiring comments by people saying the trite "Sorry for Stephen Harper" nonsense. Not a single person here has brought up Stephen Harper, except you. It sou
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by hnnewguy 12y ago
> The opposition finding that the ruling party has "failed to make the case" Have you been in a bubble the past few years? It is now my default position to expect the government to "make the case" that they require
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by hnnewguy 12y ago
> What can I say? some people are assholes. What does it have to do with people being assholes? It's a business trying to sell their services. But I agree, it happens to me, as a man, all the time, regardless of what i tell them i
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by hnnewguy 12y ago
> It has very little in solid critiques "The government has failed to make the case for the new powers it seeks." "The government has failed to give a single example of how the amendments it seeks in Bill C-51 would be us
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by hnnewguy 12y ago
> You are still dismissing the role of emotional trauma in your fairness equation. I'm not dismissing anything. They are separate issues. > Even if you freely decide to leave twitter due to experiencing trauma you will likely
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by hnnewguy 12y ago
> One of those is strictly worse and calling them equal does a disservice to the individual being bullied. There's no justification for online bullying, but in one case the person is able to make a choice as to whether using Twitte
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by hnnewguy 12y ago
> So what, some people can’t use Twitter anymore even though they didn’t do anything wrong. How is this outcome any different than telling people who have been abused on Twitter to just stop using the service altogether? In either case,
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by hnnewguy 12y ago
> You could use this justification to rationalize any sort of unethical behavior you like. It isn't a justification; it's an explanation. Because, I agree: if there wasn't such a societal emphasis on material goods (ie t
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by hnnewguy 12y ago
> The pizza company sucks at taking your pizza order. Magic doesn't suck at it. My regular pizza company is completely painless to order from, both on the phone or online. They know my address, don't need my credit card numbe
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by hnnewguy 12y ago
It's their obligation as owners to know what their portfolio companies are up to. When the big investors who supply capital to these funds ask questions, "We don't know what they are up to" is not a reasonable answer.
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by hnnewguy 12y ago
> I can imagine that makes their position less defendable. What you've written I agree with, but it's a long way off from the OP's conspiracy. Cars have been around a long time, so the affinity is natural result all that
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by hnnewguy 12y ago
> It would be interesting to see an analysis of the Toyota strategy from this point of view. I feel the same. Of course I'm not an expert, but it seems like many of the issues he lists in the opening are things that can be overcom

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