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by jpdoctor 15y ago
> I didn't want anyone to know I had parents. As anyone who is the parents of teenagers can tell you: That describes pretty much describes a large fraction of that age group. There is a psychological growth phase which involves separ
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by jpdoctor 15y ago
> (even those who left) must still have company stock. The ones who are no longer there should prepare for punitive dilution.
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by jpdoctor 15y ago
> That's a lot of us. Proof by assertion, again, which is what the numbers-advertising game is all about.
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by jpdoctor 15y ago
> make you trustworthy Only for those that believe marketing, ie the gullible.
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by jpdoctor 15y ago
> but since I was young and smarter than him and gonna be really awesome early on in my life and and and and I ignored him. I feel your pain... Among my favorite Mark Twain quotes: "When I was a boy of 14, my father was so ignorant I
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by jpdoctor 15y ago
> “People under 35 are the people who make change happen,” said venture capitalist Vinod Khosla, “People over 45 basically die in terms of new ideas.” The real problem for Vinod: People over 45 are much savvier when it comes to ter
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by jpdoctor 15y ago
> This is not a new invention - it's called a multi junction solar cell. The photon absorption mechanism of multi-junction solar cells is still energy-transfer via electron-hole pair production. This paper is utilizing excitons for th
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by jpdoctor 15y ago
> The studios can't be the studios with second-rate talent Combine: 1. There is always a pipeline of new talent, 2. Businesses do not invest without a return. So either the studios are going to lock in a return, or the studios are goi
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by jpdoctor 15y ago
I love the fact that Louis CK disintermediated like a star. However, there is a reason it worked: The Hollywood/NYC advertising machine spent a lot of dollars to cause his name recognition. (Most likely, they profited handsomely too.) Bu
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by jpdoctor 15y ago
The Manhattan Project was so named because of Columbia's involvement. Yet somehow NYC never landed the geek culture, almost as if it is squeezed out by squishier disciplines. Good call Stanford.
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by jpdoctor 15y ago
I disagree: Somebody will build the thing, because there's always someone desperate enough to take the job. However, there is a better way to accomplish the goal imho: A truly shitty implementation. Those who are already in the position
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by jpdoctor 15y ago
I have been wondering how to advertise private servers, yet take advantage of the Cloud buzzword in my advertising. jealous
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by jpdoctor 15y ago
Terrible start point: An lvalue (locator value) represents an object that occupies some identifiable location in memory (i.e. has an address). rvalues are defined by exclusion, by saying that every expression is either an lvalue or an rv
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by jpdoctor 15y ago
In my wish list: I would like to "save a configuration" of windows. Often I'm programming away, with some perfect configuration, but then need to go look something up (maybe steal code from a local file), which entails opening other window
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by jpdoctor 15y ago
Disintermediation FTW. Congrats to Louis.
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by jpdoctor 15y ago
I agree it's a supply and demand issue. But for comparison: We couldn't find people to hire in Y2K either after having raised $20M. Throwing equity around does not solve the fundamental issue, it just is a competitive tactic.
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by jpdoctor 15y ago
So as long as content adds network as novelty, it's ok. How about when network as novelty? Is that also ok? You might as well face the issue: Google is exploring vertical integration, as are others.
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by jpdoctor 15y ago
> Data carriers should not be able to supply any content over its pipes. So is Google not carrying data during its data rollout? or is search not content?
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by jpdoctor 15y ago
> “It’s low-class, inappropriate and predatory for a rich person to ask an entrepreneur to PAY THEM for 15 minutes of their time,” he wrote. LOL it's predatory ? What exactly do they think the VCs' business is ?
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by jpdoctor 15y ago
> I'm still staring at tiny digital reproductions of paintings on a fairly cheap LCD monitor. If you've seen the originals, there is a 3D quality that is also lost. He had a way of sculpting the paint on the canvas, which I've never
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by jpdoctor 15y ago
Addition for the tax deduction FAQ: For S-corp >2% shareholders have some pretty specific instructions. A health-care reimbursement gets reported on the W-2, but is not taxed. See the last section on: http://www.irs.gov/newsroom/artic
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by jpdoctor 15y ago
And so the next step in the cat-and-mouse game is predictable: A whole bunch of forged requests. Bonus points if the forged IPs are from RIAA sites, DHS, White House, FBI etc.
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Crowdfunding bill in congress.(iheartwallstreet.com)
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by jpdoctor 15y ago
> Do you understand what "valuation" means? More than most people. > It is the expectation of future profits by investors. No, that is one component. > When a company is small but growing quickly is is very reasonable for i
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by jpdoctor 15y ago
> The ratio between revenue and valuation changes over time Almost as if it's more psychologically than fundamentally based.
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by jpdoctor 15y ago
OK, I'm pretty sure this is an FAQ but not getting a sensible result from google: Does anyone have a pointer to a table of processing fees for the major providers?
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by jpdoctor 15y ago
> and that was really, really good value. Perhaps. It will be interesting if that is still the prevailing wisdom after Europe melts down.
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by jpdoctor 15y ago
I got the absurd part but missed the reasonable part.
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by jpdoctor 15y ago
> assuming you gave them a generous valuation on 20x revenue and completely neglect profitability. The fact that this is a fashionable valuation tells me everything I need to know about the market.
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by jpdoctor 15y ago
> but is really unethical if the founders didn't take care of existing stock holders. Happens all the time. Usually it means that the acquiring company issued a bonus to those employees it was bringing across. If you're not one of t

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