iamacynic

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by iamacynic 10y ago
yeah, you wanted a license because you were going to hammer them with questions and suck up all their smart peoples' time, and then complain loudly when they didn't heed your beck and call for $5000, possibly in a public forum, ne
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by iamacynic 10y ago
to put even one SMART person's time onto a problem that costs less than $10k in aggregate is being an irresponsible, possibly stupid, business person. the only possible exception may be a company with literally $0 revenue, i.e. looking
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by iamacynic 10y ago
i'll save you both some time. "contact us" means at least $10k. if you don't want to spend $10k, they probably don't want you as a customer either.
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by iamacynic 10y ago
it's a common story. i slacked and crammed my way through most of high school and rode into university on super high SAT scores (because i studied a lot and took classes). once i got there, it wasn't easy. mainly because i didn&
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by iamacynic 10y ago
yeah, or just ... more nginx.
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by iamacynic 10y ago
i would just add that the proof of concept can cost upwards of six figures. in other words, real companies that make real things charge their customers real money. if there's no money, guess what, they're not a customer! move on.
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by iamacynic 10y ago
yes. the 50 links i have to use over and over every day managing a business are all on the bookmarks bar. for example: i have a bookmark that shows me every invoice issued in the past 30 days.
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by iamacynic 10y ago
i'm curious - how would you invest in order to take advantage of daily or presumably, hourly trends? what can actually close the loop that quickly on human activity -> financial securities performance?
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by iamacynic 10y ago
you do it until you get the money, then do what you want. maybe you're not getting what i'm saying because it involves investing (aka betting) your own money into something.
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by iamacynic 10y ago
it's bad only if that's the company you want to take to $1 billion scale. what if you don't have hot shot VC buddies from princeton, and didn't go to stanford, and need to make $1m in cash to do your real business idea?
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by iamacynic 10y ago
everything i've ever purchased from samsung has broken. i just don't even consider their gear now.
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by iamacynic 10y ago
do you run a business? if not, keep it that way.
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by iamacynic 10y ago
coastal people are stuck in the 90s when it comes to their domestic automobiles. middle america has figured it out already; domestic is good again.
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by iamacynic 10y ago
i buy the expensive local eggs at my fancy california grocery store. it's $8 for a dozen. they taste like real eggs, not corn and slime. i don't expect the $2 eggs company to care about any of the stuff that the $8 eggs company
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by iamacynic 10y ago
> Every year is potentially a record breaking year for profits. That's how inflation works! do yourself a favor and never own or run a business. record breaking numbers do not happen by accident or because of inflation. you have
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by iamacynic 10y ago
http://www.businessinsider.com/2016-was-a-record-breaking-ye... india and africa will be china in 20 years. this is the market that tesla is fighting for a fraction of, not the other way around. you're out of your mi
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by iamacynic 10y ago
> Ford doesn't have any good ideas for the future, they are too busy with the here and now according to who? your average HN reader who basically hates cars? yeah, sure. the guy who hates cars is bearish on ford, shocking. what
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by iamacynic 10y ago
> I think somebody who manages doctors should be a doctor. i could be wrong, but i believe in 'real' professions like medicine and law, there's some kind of board/bar rule that prohibits being managed by someone wh
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by iamacynic 10y ago
aka it was a bullshit factory.
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by iamacynic 10y ago
this kind of satire is actually very common (they're just making fun of a entire subculture by condensing as much of it as possible into a single extremely over-the-top person), but mcsweeney's always takes it to the next level.
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by iamacynic 10y ago
to me the more functional definition is "do you remember life before the internet?"
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by iamacynic 10y ago
yeah sure. the open source services business model has some legs but they aren't that long. in other words, yes it works, but not that great.
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by iamacynic 10y ago
> Give us creative freedom and ownership of our IP. you can't be serious. why would a company even exist if all the work it paid for would be owned by someone else? i mean sure, you can live in that world, it's just nobody w
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by iamacynic 10y ago
who says you have to run a DC if you're not on aws? did i say that, or did you project that onto me? how about hiring a smaller company that can do it for you, for half the cost? i know why not, because you think they're going t
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by iamacynic 10y ago
change.
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by iamacynic 10y ago
what's stopping you?
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by iamacynic 10y ago
a competitor that charges literally 75% less. except they won't do it, because they are SCARED out of their MINDS.
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by iamacynic 10y ago
> Not at all. Most customers couldn't care less about money. you're out of your mind. customers at the high end care MORE about money, not less. the company spending $1 million/month on AWS is desperately looking for wa
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by iamacynic 10y ago
i don't think i agree. i think they're moving up the chain to plug weaknesses in their model. 1. good customers - infrastructure customers are not good customers. they are fickle and extremely price sensitive, which is tough to
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by iamacynic 10y ago
a very important point is that 70k point is probably very variable, but exists somewhere in everyone except for the truly exceptional billionaire types. personally i always need a sports car because i'm a gearhead, so maybe mine is a b

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