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by johnrob 16y ago
Where is the bandwidth going between the robot and the end user? Does anybots host proxy servers in between?
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by johnrob 16y ago
Any more info about the actual test users? Are they using their own computers, or do they come to a test lab?
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by johnrob 16y ago
It might be too broad to refer to the internet as a single entity. Those of us with internet addiction are actually addicted to specific things online - the internet is just the medium. In the case of hacker news, what we're addicted to is
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by johnrob 16y ago
That's a very difficult feature to implement, since the encryption has to be 2 way. It's much easier to achieve this with passwords, because all the system needs to do is validate supplied passwords (as opposed to reproducing the passwords
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by johnrob 16y ago
I'd prefer a tool that did the exact opposite (without flash).
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by johnrob 16y ago
Paypal is a positive example of what can happen. The founders/execs became angels/VCs, and many of the 'exploited' employees got funded.
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by johnrob 16y ago
Web 2.0, techcrunch, ycombinator - these used to be the path of the outsiders. Little by little, the community has recreated exactly the kind of pedigree/ladder system that folks there were trying to avoid. If you're someone who followed
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by johnrob 16y ago
And I thought my day job got in the way...
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by johnrob 16y ago
A willingness to pursue an idea without investors is probably a trait that VCs like to see.
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by johnrob 16y ago
There is a such thing as not having to be an employee anymore, and I think that's the general consensus here as to what FU money is.
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by johnrob 16y ago
A 65 year old programmer seems strange today because very few 65 year olds are even computer literate. I have to think that will change as time goes by (although I don't know far off 65 is for you). That said, I'm pretty sure there are som
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by johnrob 16y ago
I'd say less of a chicken-or-egg, and more about making yourself available for luck. Founders and investors all have their opinions of what will or will not work. Nobody really knows though. And if the founders can get what it takes to b
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by johnrob 16y ago
Aside from having money to invest, are there any other expectations for attendees? Is the assumption that the money came from a past startup, which implies they have some connections within the startup ecosystem?
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by johnrob 16y ago
Our first 30 beta testers were all Y Combinator founders This seems like a powerful feature of YC!
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by johnrob 16y ago
I'm surprised this isn't one of the main concepts that repeatedly gets mention on this site. We obsess over 'make something people want', but never drill down deeper. Good design can go a long way toward making people want something. I'm
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by johnrob 16y ago
All that matters is what goes over the wire. The UI doesn't matter. If the data sent has no dynamic component (i.e. the text of a random word-image), then it can be replayed with different inputs.
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by johnrob 16y ago
You are right about just asking. Still, I wanted to get a sense of how unreasonable such a thing would be.
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by johnrob 16y ago
Everything has a price. If the seller doesn't want to sell, it just means the price is too low.
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by johnrob 16y ago
Not sure why that applies... The stock options here (Y amount vested over 4 years) are no different than the ones you'd get at any company. The interesting part is the Z amount of shares bought at full price.
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Ask HN: Option to invest as a condition of employment?
3 points by johnrob 16y ago|9 comments
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by johnrob 16y ago
If you have a spouse (+1), subtract two points if she has a good enough job to support both of you.
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by johnrob 16y ago
didn't Tesla just get screwed out of a whole bunch of capital? I wonder about this as well. Perhaps one of the metrics companies should use when evaluating investment banks is how accurately they price IPOs. There may be some other intan
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by johnrob 16y ago
Results per hour improved, but did total results improve? I think you're implying they did, but you kind of stated it wrong.
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by johnrob 16y ago
Are the companies supposed to be making elevator pitches? There doesn't seem to be much info on what it would be like working at each company.
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by johnrob 16y ago
I wonder if a liquidation event like this is going to make it hard to keep key employees around. The company is hardly at a place where it can afford to lose people and "hold the line".
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by johnrob 16y ago
People used phones for long distance calls. Skype offered the same capability, but for free. People used tv to watch their favorite shows. Joost offered online video, but did not include their favorite shows. Skype made something people w
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by johnrob 16y ago
I think Linus is making the right call here. At a 10,000 foot view, the real argument is about style. The style of C happens to be one that lends itself to easier groking of code amongst hundreds of developers (as he illustrated well). S
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by johnrob 16y ago
I had a similar thought when describing the idea. However, I don't think we're comparing apples with apples. The accredited investing law has been in place since 1933, so if the pyramid schemes you're referring to really are conceptually
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by johnrob 16y ago
What would happen if a startup was seed funded by 30 people at 1K each? It could be very interesting. The company would only have 30K of investment, but on the flip side there would already be 30 people who want to see it succeed. 30 eva
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by johnrob 16y ago
In the interest of increasing angel investing, why not remove the legal barriers (accredited investing) and bring a whole new class of players in the game?

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