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by jtfrench 13y ago
I don't get what point you're refuting here. Why did you start this off "No, no, and triple no. Wake up call here." That seems like a really drastic response to saying "billionaires aren't like the rest of us&q
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by jtfrench 13y ago
As someone who has done plenty of indie game development, I understand their gripes, but also I know this is the "Game" we're playing here — anyone who makes any form of success should expect to be cloned. Period. So think ab
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by jtfrench 13y ago
(Assuming you make $90k/year) 10x annual revenue I think flies by many investors books and wouldn't seem "outlandish". If need be you could probably meet somewhere in-between 5 and 10x. 2x seems like too low of a multipl
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by jtfrench 13y ago
>>>" Who you work for rarely changes who you are as a person if you already know who you are" Quite true. >>> " I think people fear Facebook owning it as scary because they know it will go somewhere with tha
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by jtfrench 13y ago
Perhaps. Are there any figures released on how much Sony has spent on it? It might help us give some context to the scale of the "VR problem", and how much it costs to really go to market with a product.
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by jtfrench 13y ago
I think it's awesome Carmack and Abrash are working together again. I read "Masters of Doom" back in the day, and it totally rocked my mind and took me back to a time when I was too young to realize just how impactful Carmack
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by jtfrench 13y ago
Hey Walker, great post. I remember you starting this while at Brown, and I also remember when FishCo was shut down. I did NOT know someone used a Pokémon card for an ID. Totally believe it though :) Inspiring story, and I'll be in touc
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by jtfrench 13y ago
Now I see what pg was talking about comment moderation. C'mon guys. Let's class it up.
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by jtfrench 13y ago
There's a lot that would need to be done. I don't think the answer is just "oh tell companies to hire more minorities/older people/{insertGroupHere}". Something needs to be done to change the perception of inte
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by jtfrench 13y ago
Damn, that is true. If he gets fired, then what does THAT say?
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by jtfrench 13y ago
Interesting. He compares FB buying Oculus to Google buying YouTube. I see his point, but I don't quite agree with the comparison. A search engine company buying a what is ultimately a VIDEO search engine makes total sense. The rest of
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by jtfrench 13y ago
>>>"to survive the inevitable mainstream enlightenment" Well said! It dawned on me yesterday that we are in the Middle Ages of technologies. Hear me out — what I mean by this is we are in a point in human civilization whe
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by jtfrench 13y ago
Warren Buffet runs an office with about 24 people, managing over $182B in revenue, $480B+ in assets, and filing 900+ page tax return annually. That is efficiency beyond anything I've seen anyone do, period. Mark Z is certainly leveragi
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by jtfrench 13y ago
I had no clue about Eich's opinions, or the opinions of Mozillans, but it's nice to know these employees feel safe enough to share their opinion and not get fired.
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by jtfrench 13y ago
So true. It's fairly common for people to spend most of their lives expecting others to give them value. "If I get into Stanford/YC, then I'll be successful" It's weird people don't think about the other w
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by jtfrench 13y ago
• Does YC fund "lifestyle businesses"? • Even a lifestyle business needs growth — just enough to support the owner's lifestyle — but growth nonetheless (unless one customer is all you ever need)
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by jtfrench 13y ago
>>"Why do these smart, quantitatively trained engineers, who could help cure cancer or fix healthcare.gov, want to work for a sexting app?" These are the questions. Maybe its the money? Engineers see investors throwing milli
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by jtfrench 13y ago
Anyone tried this out?
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Stanford Physics Breakthrough gets 600k views in 1 day(youtube.com)
5 points by jtfrench 13y ago|0 comments
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by jtfrench 13y ago
I've seen this happen as well. As a black male CEO of a VC-funded startup, I've also seen it happen to me in a slightly different way. I gotta hype up the nerdiness, the glasses, and casually name-drop my college degree just to he
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by jtfrench 13y ago
Only creepy if you make it, bro. It's not what you do, it's how you do it. Talking is a pretty basic form of communication.
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by jtfrench 13y ago
Another win for #firstWorldProblem apps. Hell, you could argue that Secret doesn't even solve any problems, and probably creates more. But damn, that stylish hipster UI and all these cool Silicon Valley cats talking about how they hate
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Zuckerberg Phones Obama: Keep the Internet Secure(blogs.wsj.com)
2 points by jtfrench 13y ago|0 comments
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by jtfrench 13y ago
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-Z-ul0GzzM4
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by jtfrench 13y ago
"unless we do it, he doesn't want to get involved anymore." >>> From first-hand experience, this is the warning sign. Does this sound like the start of a good relationship to you? Are you ready to ride this out for y
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by jtfrench 13y ago
yeah it looks like some ideas were the Mental Rotation concept ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mental_rotation ) (which is an example of non-linguistic thought) . What interests me most is finding that "assembly la
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Can thoughts exist without words(code)?
1 points by jtfrench 13y ago|3 comments
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by jtfrench 13y ago
This is a great topic. I think many of us on here have probably dealt with the similar dilemma — we ALL get awesome ideas, but how do you birth it? Should we not tell our friends about it to prevent that "reward" feeling from ki
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by jtfrench 13y ago
Amazing how little you need to survive/thrive. Also amazing how important our own beliefs/self-imposed limits impact our perception of the world . Neuro-linguistic progamming helps shed some light on this. "Whether you think
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Is our universe a hologram?(scientificamerican.com)
1 points by jtfrench 13y ago|0 comments

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