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by jfarmer 14y ago
You strongly disagree that photon137 sounds more reasoned and compelling to me? You're welcome to disagree, but I'll be happy to tell you flat out you're wrong. My point was about the impact of their respective statements, not the content.
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by jfarmer 14y ago
As a neutral third party who has no strong opinion about this issue and limited background, photon137 is making the much stronger (and informative) case. Not sure if your goal is to have an impact on people like me WRT this issue, but if so
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by jfarmer 14y ago
Er...Gandhi typifies almost everything Thiel is talking about. Extreme outsider to extreme insider to victim.
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by jfarmer 14y ago
The "official" way to do this is through what's called a 409A Valuation, a process designed to assess the fair market value of your common stock (and other classes, eventually). You can do one yourself (note: talk to your CFO first -- you h
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by jfarmer 14y ago
When Groupon was growing early on, it was an example of a successful startup founded without the usual Silicon Valley trappings, in Chicago. When Groupon flames out, it's an example of Silicon Valley's excess. Can't win, it seems. ;)
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by jfarmer 14y ago
This is one of the fundamental things 37signals doesn't seem to understand. In a winner-take-all market, which includes any market with strong network effects, you want to get as big as you can as fast as you can. Charging for the product
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by jfarmer 14y ago
If you're telling a story, don't digress. In particular, don't have a six-paragraph section entitled "Digression." A challenge for the author: summarize the article in a single sentence that any Ruby developer would understand.
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by jfarmer 14y ago
I co-founded Everlane ( http://www.everlane.com ). I'd agree with these three priorities, although I wouldn't use those words. A customer who comes back to your site, does N things, but doesn't purchase is telling you something -- you jus
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by jfarmer 14y ago
I invite anyone who is skeptical and in the SF Bay Area to reach out to us and say "hi." I'm jesse@devbootcamp.com. You can read my HN profile -- hopefully it's credible enough that you don't think I'm in the business of blowing smoke.
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by jfarmer 14y ago
Hey Paul, it's Jesse. Go Maroons! :) I'm helping DBC. It's the real deal. Email me at jesse@devbootcamp.com if you want more info.
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by jfarmer 15y ago
Well, drinks are still on me, your vaguely condescending commentary notwithstanding. :P
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by jfarmer 15y ago
Heh. You should read the Q&A I did on DailyKos that Monday evening. http://www.dailykos.com/story/2009/09/28/787366/-Facts-from-... If you're ever in San Francisco, look me up. I'll buy you a drink and you can call me an idiot as muc
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by jfarmer 15y ago
I'm telling a story; am I supposed to leave out the ending? Michael, my eventual co-founder, was peripherally involved in this whole episode. And trust me, neither HomeRun nor Everlane need the pitiful traffic my blog post will send them ;
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by jfarmer 15y ago
This could also be a story about how I met my co-founder at Everlane ( http://www.everlane.com ), oddly enough.
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Keith Olbermann Thinks I'm an Idiot(20bits.com)
29 points by jfarmer 15y ago|17 comments
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by jfarmer 15y ago
Exec is definitely positioning itself as the "more exclusive" TaskRabbit, or at least the "more professional" TaskRabbit. At Everlane we used TaskRabbit all the time for random, around-the-city tasks, including fetching things from IKEA (th
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by jfarmer 15y ago
I think you're projecting a little. Would you say that about the Old Spice YouTube campaign? How about the Sony Bravia "Bouncy Ball" commercial? The Volkswagon "Darth Vader" ad? Or if we're sticking to ads for web-based things, how abou
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An entrepreneur's letter from his future self(takeaswig.com)
1 points by jfarmer 15y ago|0 comments
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by jfarmer 15y ago
If you've never worked with Joe, this is the kind of nonsense he does in his sleep. I first worked with Joe four years ago. He joined the team knowing no Ruby. What did he do his first week? Diagnose and patch a pretty big bug in MRI's t
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by jfarmer 15y ago
The way I think about it is this: comprehensibility is a feature. You have to weigh it against accuracy, effectiveness, etc., but it should be taken into account.
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by jfarmer 15y ago
Patents don't exist to protect people's work, per se, they exist to "to promote the progress of science and useful arts." Protecting people's work is a means to that end. In this case it seems obvious, to me, that this is not promoting inn
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by jfarmer 15y ago
I didn't connect with Facebook because I know all the dirty tricks people play. ;) I can't connect now, after the fact. There are also some simple design oversights. For example, any time I see a list of people, there should be a "follow"
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by jfarmer 15y ago
It's hard to find people to follow, even though I'm well-connected to the initial group of users (lots of friends in YC, started using Quora in 2009, etc.). It's made worse because the Facebook Connect prompt on the homepage shows ~12 frien
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by jfarmer 15y ago
See also https://github.com/technoweenie/tainted_hash
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by jfarmer 15y ago
I found if you use the mouse scrollwheel rather than the keyboard it was much smoother.
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by jfarmer 15y ago
Don't do it. This is highly unorthodox. Even if you can negotiate your way to a better situation, the fact that this is their opening offering says to me they either don't know what they're doing or are trying to take advantage of you in
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by jfarmer 15y ago
Nobody is saying that's the case, but surely you see the (qualitative) difference between: "Why did you even do this? It's really unfocused. This needs to be more focused if you ever hope in seeing something happen. We need to see more a
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by jfarmer 15y ago
Chill, man. It's clear he posted this as a "Here's a good idea, let's start to flesh it out" sort of page, and it got exposure before it had even been fleshed out. I'm sure he's looking for people who are really excited about making it ha
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by jfarmer 15y ago
You should make some that are clean, clear, flexible, and well-made, where the styles don't suck and developed enough to be useful. :)
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by jfarmer 15y ago
It was more a reply to mokus, who chided you for being wrong even though you were technically (albeit unknowingly) correct. ;)

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