jfarmer

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   by jfarmer 15y ago

   Actually, it's not de facto , it's the opposite: de jure .
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   by jfarmer 15y ago

   Fair enough. But note that article is from 2004, and it's talking mostly about funds raised post-1999, i.e., immediately before the dot-com crash. If you were sincerely interrogating the data, you'd ask yourself how Sequoia faired relative
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   by jfarmer 15y ago

   shrug You don't have to believe me. It's no skin off my back. But as you say, you don't have access to that information. Looking at the people who have responded to this thread, I see at least three people who do. So, maybe check yourse
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   by jfarmer 15y ago

   You don't know what you're talking about. Few if any of Sequoia's funds have ever had a negative IRR, as far as I recall. Their record is unparalleled, really.
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   by jfarmer 15y ago

   Much of it is a conceit, yes, and I'm not qualified to comment on the legal precedents surrounding such licenses. I'm sure Pinterest makes you check a box saying you agree to the Terms of Use before they let you create an account. Whether t
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   by jfarmer 15y ago

   Yes, they're definitely playing with fire, and they'll have to address it soon given the rate they're growing. But the outrage, outrage , OUTRAGE at Pinterest over this clause here just tells me people are ignorant of (1) what this clause
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   by jfarmer 15y ago

   I guarantee that every site you use which involves UGC has a similar clause in their Terms of Service. You're living in la-la land if you think that's going to change, honestly. More important than the terms is the character of the founder
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   by jfarmer 15y ago

   Again, this is 100% boilerplate. YouTube, Reddit, Facebook, etc. will all have similar clauses. See for example section 6.C in YouTube's ToS. http://www.youtube.com/static?gl=US&template=terms Why? Because without this blanket waiv
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   by jfarmer 15y ago

   I have one direct comment and one meta-comment about the issue of Pinteret and copyright. First, I see no issue with their Terms of Service. That language is 100% cover-your-ass boilerplate, and any site that allows people to upload conten
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    by jfarmer 15y ago

    Why is this interesting? It sounds like yet-another data store.
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    by jfarmer 15y ago

    Here is Orin Kerr's analysis of Posner's opinion: http://volokh.com/2012/02/29/judge-posner-on-searching-a-cel... Posner's opinion is strange. Robinson (the main precedent) held that the 4th amendment permits the police to search any pro
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    by jfarmer 15y ago

    These details are great! But also too technical for me to follow immediately since I'm not a statistician. It's enough information to point me in the right direction, though. It's hard for me to express my writerly intuition, here. The k
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    by jfarmer 15y ago

    The title of the article really hooked me. My background: 1. I have a degree in mathematics 2. I've been writing software since high school 3. I've had to do more CLV calculations than I can count 4. I've co-founded a retail star
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    by jfarmer 15y ago

    I agree that a good portion of the "hiring crunch" right now is an issue of mis-allocation rather than raw under-supply. Yahoo! has tons of great engineers working on really hard technical problems. What qualified engineer there wouldn't b
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    by jfarmer 15y ago

    Artem should add pre code { white-space: pre-wrap; } to his CSS, so the code doesn't cause a horizontal scrollbar to appear.
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    by jfarmer 15y ago

    I'm not saying it's against the grain of today's dating sites. I'm saying it's against the grain of dating, per se.
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    by jfarmer 15y ago

    That's also my experience. Also, the older the person the less likely they are to want to connect with Facebook. But non-technical people under 30? No problemo.
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    by jfarmer 15y ago

    Are you kidding? Engineers are one of the most privacy-conscious demos out there, especially under 30. Just read any post on HN about any site that uses Facebook Connect. Half the comments will be about how they refuse to so much as look
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    by jfarmer 15y ago

    If you're comfortable configuring and maintaining your own IRC service and have the time to do it, I daresay you're not Grove's target customer.
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    by jfarmer 15y ago

    $10/month is expensive only if your time is cheap.
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    by jfarmer 15y ago

    It's about 1000x more interesting this way, personally. I want communities and personalities, not efficient news delivery and robots.
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    by jfarmer 15y ago

    More than that, subreddits are why Reddit didn't turn into digg. My theory is that as communities grow, you have one of two choices to maintain cohesion: aggressively police who is let in or give people with divergent interests space to exp
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    by jfarmer 15y ago

    I'd say this if you were sitting across the table from me, only in a charming way that'd make you laugh. Then we'd get beers and sing some drinking songs. This page: http://www.likesecret.com/pages/jobs Come on guys, really? "potential
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    by jfarmer 15y ago

    Good luck. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o4MwTvtyrUQ
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    by jfarmer 15y ago

    I'm commenting on this dialog, not some future hypothetical dialog that addresses Dustin's concerns. As it stands it's far too aggressive and unfriendly. Aesthetically, the copy sucks monkey nuts (to put it politely).
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    by jfarmer 15y ago

    It's accurate but overly technical and unnecessarily frightening. You shouldn't be using terms of art anywhere in your copy unless that's the language your audience speaks, too. The average user will think they're about to get a virus or d
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    by jfarmer 15y ago

    I understand the "Y reasons why Z" formula works, but I'll give more respect to a writer who can express their ideas without it. Most of the time it's a way of papering over the fact that the article isn't really saying that much. This art
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    by jfarmer 15y ago

    Good lord. It's the point of the application.
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    by jfarmer 15y ago

    I agree with the overall argument and sentiment of Dan's article. My ideal blog about technology startups would be about Silicon Valley as it is. It would be hard to run this blog. I'm not even sure it could be profitable, because most in
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    by jfarmer 15y ago

    I lied. :) I'm not interested in the article's claims, so I'm not going through them point-by-point. I apologize for my metaphors. They aren't weasel words, though. I'm not equivocating about anything. They're direct, if non-literal, exp