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by johnrob 12y ago
I think we need regulation in order to eliminate cutthroat behavior in the transportation industry. Oh wait...
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by johnrob 12y ago
Regardless of how the code is written, the 'at scale' system will need to physically resemble the microservice model. Once you have tens, hundreds, or more servers you are forced to group things by service. The alternative would
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by johnrob 12y ago
With rent prices like these, food is no longer a significant part of living costs.
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by johnrob 12y ago
It's hard to beat the browser when it comes to building adequate software on a budget. It will never beat a native app in a race to be the best, but most software is about "making it work" instead of being #1 in the app stor
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by johnrob 12y ago
I wonder if most of the mileage here could be gained by simply augmenting javascript's networking capabilities, enabling the use of non-HTTP servers (and keeping the HTTP protocol simple).
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by johnrob 12y ago
Agreed. Home owners in gentrified areas can't afford to move anywhere else (that isn't far away), so of course they stay put.
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by johnrob 12y ago
Is there a word to describe a professional amateur driver?
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by johnrob 12y ago
It's the same logic in requiring employees to work in the office. It isn't necessary valid, and likewise it's probably slowly eroding over time (probably due the high costs referenced in the article).
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by johnrob 12y ago
The obvious solution (which I'd recommend) is that the cut should go to the funded company, not the founders. The majority of the cut would still go to the founders, since they own a majority of the stock. But this gets everyone (fou
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by johnrob 12y ago
Perhaps a better phrase than "jobs" is "earn income". The former comes with a lot of assumptions.
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by johnrob 12y ago
I haven't seen any evidence that suggests starting a company during a boom economy makes it easier to succeed. It does make it easier to get a salary while failing though (which is better than just failing and getting nothing).
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by johnrob 12y ago
More and more, it seems like most y2k ideas were good. Unfortunately they were almost all too early.
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by johnrob 12y ago
This sounds like a fancy way of saying focus on the product first. All the tricks in the world can only last so long if the product isn't a winner. On the flip side, if you have (and can maintain) the best product then it's only
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by johnrob 12y ago
This document reads like an enumerated list of why the web is better than apps for most things. Unfortunately, apps will likely prevail until OS producers work directly to empower the mobile web.
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by johnrob 12y ago
One downside is that it reminds me of the "fail whale".
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by johnrob 12y ago
Thanks!
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by johnrob 12y ago
I've held this viewpoint for a long time now, and it's yet to pan out. It's probably worth understanding the two main forces that lead to the browser defeating native desktop applications roughly 10 years ago: - Developers l
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by johnrob 12y ago
Meet the Italian Man Who Inspired Google Web Search
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by johnrob 12y ago
Just give me an Internet connection and, above all, some time to think. So true, so simple, and yet at times so hard to obtain.
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by johnrob 12y ago
How about if after getting a million dollar check, you just pretend that it represents 100 10k monthly payments with a 0% chance of cancellation. Does that sound more stable/predictable?
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by johnrob 12y ago
Most SaaS pricing pages give you the impression that pre-payment is prefered to month-by-month (hence the discount you get for buying 12 months today). With this in mind, isn't the old enterprise model just the ultimate future payment
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by johnrob 12y ago
It's all cyclical, and I've seen enough cycles now. The trend always oscillates between heavy clients and heavy servers. They each have their strengths: Heavy Client: simplified backend management Heavy Server: clients all run t
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by johnrob 12y ago
Keep a link to this for the initial office hours ;) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4503910
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by johnrob 12y ago
If you are evaluating negotiation as a stand alone skill I think you have to judge by how far in your favor the result is. It's entirely possible that your bigger picture strategy leads you to intentionally leave "meat on the bon
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by johnrob 12y ago
This list seems to read like: "be honest, clear, and thorough". While this makes you a straight shooter, I don't see how you'll get anything better than what's fair using these tactics (and if fair is the end goal
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by johnrob 12y ago
If your company is losing money every month, then any valuation can present a valuation trap. Founders and investors are both speculating that there will be profits down the road. Sometimes they are right. Sometimes they aren't.
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by johnrob 12y ago
If getting 12k/yr in annual in revenue is easy, then getting 1MM/yr is also easy (after going from 0->100, just make two more hops: 100->1000 and 1000->10000). Since we know that building a MM/yr business is anythin
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by johnrob 12y ago
Investors are like employees in the sense that you have to actually work and get along with them. Unlike employees, however, you can't fire the investors. So in theory you should be more careful with investors than employees (and we
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by johnrob 12y ago
Is the glass half empty, or is it half full? In other words, is the sharing economy "taking advantage" of job seekers or is it giving them temporary relief?
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To some degree, the elite universities are selling success to those already predestined for it. This is an end game state for any popular institution that accepts a subset from a pool of applicants. The battle to get in ends up being a si

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