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by jhancock 17y ago
I'm guessing AT&T's loss would be in allowing a toehold on number portability. Your current choice is: work hard to get sucky_cell_provider_X move your number to sucky_cell_provider_Y. The process isn't transparent to most consumers.
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by jhancock 17y ago
You don't need evidence of a cartel, monopoly, or cheating to decide that society/economy may be better off if the rules were changed. I have no evidence that things would be better if the rules were changed but some people that know bette
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by jhancock 17y ago
wow!! what a story. I can see why it got flagged for not being tech startup oriented, whatever. But wow, I would have upvoted it anyway.
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by jhancock 17y ago
agreed. I've had huge audacious failures. Its took years to recover. I'm not gun shy, just learned and now have a family to balance in my decisions.
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by jhancock 17y ago
"too many people wanting to be the next Mint.com, not the next Google" Google started by trying to do better search (big change to search geeks, incremental change from perspective of people outside the search world). Google could have eas
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by jhancock 17y ago
If your in any city in US/Canada that has even a small startup culture, go to their meetups. I can think of 20 U.S. cities that would be easy to hook into the local IT scene. Tell us where you are and maybe someone can plug you in. Also,
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by jhancock 17y ago
Harbor look cool. I'll keep an eye on it!!
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by jhancock 17y ago
Hi Sam!! Hope you didn't find my post critical of you. It wasn't my intent. I'm very grateful for the high quality work that is/was datamapper and for your support while I was learning it. All good programmers boast about a thing or two
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by jhancock 17y ago
According to the Farrelly brothers, dumberer is a word, so I guess we can include biggerer as well ;)
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by jhancock 17y ago
I love that the article had a huge American Express ad served up with it!
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by jhancock 17y ago
I understand. There are plenty of public companies that are not well known outside their niche. This is the part that is motivating: a big company can be successful and relatively unknown. To compare and scale down my feelings on this to
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by jhancock 17y ago
Interesting take on why Canadian banks are doing well. I had heard a different take earlier this year. I read they were doing well because the Canadian gov did not deregulate to allow them to take the types of risks that banks, investment
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by jhancock 17y ago
What is your opinion on Sinatra's support community? I keep peeking at Sinatra for my new app. I have a Merb app in production and working on a new one. My new app has characteristics quite different than my old one but I still get to bo
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by jhancock 17y ago
The sequel approach is unique. I worked with it a year or so ago and was happy.
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by jhancock 17y ago
wow, that's a tough quote from Smoot. I use datamapper for an app in production and have no problems, but to be fair, my RDB access is very straightforward and I don't use any of the relations DSL stuff. Although I think a lot of Sam's wo
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by jhancock 17y ago
I love it when a company you've never heard of gets acquired at these huge valuations. Its the type of motivational story that works for me.
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by jhancock 17y ago
I'll add two more data points to 6% being a reasonably small amount. 1 - I had a great mentor years ago. His software company, which is still running strong for 20 years, gave 5% to each of several key employees (they had good salaries as
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by jhancock 17y ago
"You could say that giving up 6% for $25k is a bad deal, that it values the business at less than $500k" I'll take it further. This is a good deal without the mentoring, although I can't imagine anyone finding your startup valuable without
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by jhancock 17y ago
I assume your funding has already set the params of what you can offer, so what is the value of hiding any of it? Standard attitude toward stock options is that you'll get screwed. So why even bother to provide them if employees don't valu
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by jhancock 17y ago
I see what your getting at. But this whole example is a setup. Let me go through some of your arguments to show just how easily they can be turned. 1 - "you would not expect that two out of nine of your collection also changed its height.
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by jhancock 17y ago
your correct. And this is why the example is not good. Your saying someone might not expect the "side effect" of width changing when height changes. But this is a semantic setup. People do know how a Square is supposed to behave. One
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by jhancock 17y ago
I understand the author is trying to show pitfalls of OO design. But the square/rectangle example doesn't do it for me. 1 - "There are actually several problems here. Thread safety is one, but let’s assume the class doesn’t need to be thre
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by jhancock 17y ago
I agree there are better RDB choices for a finance app. But if you know the ins and outs of MySQL, it can work for you.
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by jhancock 17y ago
Perhaps the value of the story is that it pays to have your headquarters and founders in the valley. Your programmers, content writers, etc, can be anywhere. For many startups, having your labor outside the valley may be critical. Is thi
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by jhancock 17y ago
I've seen this technique applied recently. The founders had plenty of people interested in the angel round. Yet, they refused to put a price on the investment, deferring it to a future funding event. Even many savvy investors that unders
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by jhancock 17y ago
I hope they do manage to pull something out of this. At $31M invested, a $170M sale could end up getting sopped up by investors. Anyway, congrats to them and I hope it works out.
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by jhancock 17y ago
Glad to see you replacing the site. I'm a satisfied tarsnap user but unless you greatly improve the site you won't get others except very early adopters like me. That said, the new site is missing the mark. There is plenty of good advice
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by jhancock 17y ago
Do any of the analytics tools like mixpanel offer build in management tools and reporting on processes as outlined in this tutorial?
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by jhancock 17y ago
Good call. There is plenty of blame to go around. The models the quants used served their purpose of recording "profits" "right now". I think being short sighted was intentional or at least "unconsciously intentional".
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by jhancock 17y ago
This is the home buyer's own little perk of "mark to market" behavior. "Your making $X today? OK, we can safely assume that will be the same tomorrow.". Sometime bad accounting practices work in your favor. Congrats on getting in while

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