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by kevinpet 15y ago
Missing from this article: you have something worthwhile to say. Honestly, I don't think I have anything to justify a book length treatment at this time. Okay, I'm not an entrepreneur, just an engineer at a startup, but I don't see the foun
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by kevinpet 15y ago
Presumably the email would cover some of this. Records don't need to be something out of CSI, you just have to have them.
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What they need to do is identify all flagged tweets to everyone, either with a "this tweet was blocked by censors in your country" or with a "this tweet is blocked for users in Iran at the request of censors".
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Those are both non-issues. They're a startup. Their product is a two-sided marketplace, naturally geographically limited. Any other open source hosting service would do just fine. It may happen that github is the most insular and the one mo
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by kevinpet 15y ago
I'm not sure I understand you. If you're talking about the creative craft "What is Dropbox?" video, that was definitely post-MVP. Dropbox launched publicly with the ability to pay for it in Sept 2008. The video that made them take off like
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by kevinpet 15y ago
Sign up landing pages as MVP? Never. Sign up pages to assess interest may be valuable, but they aren't MVP. MVP is "this is most stripped-down version of our vision that we think anyone would actually pay for". It's drawing a line in the sa
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by kevinpet 15y ago
This organization is the EFF. If it can't do what you dream of, it's just an indicator that internet freedom is not a hot button issue for a large enough percentage of the electorate.
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You realize that the whole premise of selling a company for 10-100x is that the buyer believes the dividends will in fact exceed that, right?
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This guy is clearly a professional attention whore. It's good to contrast him with "early retirement extreme" who lives in the RV in the East Bay who gets posted from time to time. "15 things" isn't sustainable. It's fake minimalism. It's l
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by kevinpet 15y ago
Not exactly what you were getting at, but Ford does something similar with the Transit Connect. It's imported as a passenger wagon with back seats and windows, which are removed in the US.
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Sure it is. I'll grant you that Mongo DB is web scale. Now could someone tell me what web scale means? The whole point of that xtranormal piece was the "web scale" is a meaningless marketing term. You can't argue that something qualifies
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by kevinpet 15y ago
I'd love to learn what the story is, but this is too painful to read in 12px (i.e. 9pt) gray type. Maybe, just maybe, if you're doing advertising, and you have a strong need for some specific look, tiny low contrast type may be appropriate.
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I suspect those numbers may be skewed by the same "we only hire the top 1%" phenomenon. There could very well be a recurring group of people with not so great ideas that repeatedly apply to incubators, and repeatedly get turned down, whethe
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by kevinpet 15y ago
Vi is incredibly easy to learn, but it takes some learning before you can accomplish anything. You can sit down with Bill Joy's original paper, read it, try stuff out, and you will be using Vi at 50% of the competence of a master with years
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The problems with proportional would be twofold: 1. How can the company taking the investment verify that the investor doesn't have other Angel investments? Remember: this is most important from a startup perspective to make sure you're abl
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The point of learning Scheme is that you can learn Scheme the language in five minutes and move on the actual topic of the course, which is about how a program gets executed.
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jwz is saying "follow the money". Thiel's drop-out scholarships are offered by his non-profit foundation. There is no relation between the discord between the self interest of a VC and a startup employee on the one hand, and the possibility
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by kevinpet 15y ago
Why should I consider it desirable that the white house listen to those who like to talk the most, rather than assuming that my views are represented by my representatives elected in an organized process? Overly participatory democracy lead
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Isn't it a bit early to start your April Fool's shopping?
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Reminds me of the typewriter registration in East Germany.
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"reducing cooling energy use by 90-95%" seems unlikely, unless you are in a cool climate and you can use outside air to cool. That is, put the radiator on the north face of your data center. This is exactly where more conventional and less
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by kevinpet 15y ago
I'm not a designer, but this doesn't fit what I understand as "spec work". What I think of is "do up a design for us, if we like it, we'll pay". This isn't the same as "do some free work that will be great publicity for you". The latter is
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The problem is that there's no difference between failing to make a profit and losing $5B in shady mortgage derivatives.
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A set with two data points cannot imply exponential growth. The phrase you are looking for is "orders of magnitude more". Please, let's keep exponential around as a word with meaning. It conveys something useful.
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This is somewhat poorly stated, but a valid point. I'd phrase it as someone is being asked to behave as if someone were a personal friend, then asked to instantly stop behaving as if a personal friend. That's jarring.
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I think a lot of people are operating under the assumption that Ubuntu is supposed to be for power users. I've used Ubuntu for years, never paid them a dime, don't ever expect to pay them a dime. This makes me suspect that maybe I'm not the
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by kevinpet 15y ago
Trading and Exchanges was my detailed introduction to what really happens in the markets. I wish I could find a similarly detailed and coherent book on corporate actions. It's a few years out of date, but not painfully so. Madoff was still
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Shoddy math. You can't take the average time to answer a customer inquiry and then assume that reducing the number of inquiries will reduce your work load by that much. The questions that can be answered by a good FAQ are precisely those qu
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If you give me free access to monopoly powers (i.e. you guarantee me no competition), I'm quite sure I can suck the public dry without ever getting a direct handout. The USPS is waste that endures solely because of government power. It just
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90% of these give me a headache. I don't like any identically repeating pattern, it looks like it's moving to me. I think what happens is that when I glance at it, my brain sometimes matches up right and left eye with some offset. I like th

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