klein_waffle

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by klein_waffle 19y ago
1) Almost no startups have great code. If the code doesn't solve user problems, then you should be worrying. 2) It sounds like your colleagues are not fully invested in having your project be a success. Is your project something that everyo
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by klein_waffle 19y ago
I think many of those mid-tier IT jobs are now outsourced to India and elsewhere. CSRs, some system administration, and a lot of workaday programming -- the attitude is, get Bangalore to do it, whenever possible.
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by klein_waffle 19y ago
Why read Guy Kawasaki? Evangelized product that sold itself, string of failures since. This article boring Apple fanboyism.
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by klein_waffle 19y ago
I have a new proposal. Let's force all families to write letters to each other occasionally and even phone each other. This should stop domestic violence, no?
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by klein_waffle 19y ago
The Design Innovation Team produced a lot of interesting toys in Processing and Flash, but nothing that was relevant to Yahoo's business. http://design.yahoo.com/project.php?pid=1 http://design.yahoo.com/project.php?pid=2 http://design
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by klein_waffle 19y ago
Look at the recent startups bought by Yahoo. When was the last time you heard anything from them again? The one exception is Flickr, but they were profitable and on a rocket ride to the top before they got acquired. As for all the others, t
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by klein_waffle 19y ago
In any mid-size to large programming company, very very few of its engineers will know anything about web performance. They don't teach it in school and (until now) you couldn't learn this stuff from a book.
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by klein_waffle 19y ago
qwertyy: news.yc is as good as you are. If there's stuff that you want to see, post it. If you don't, just STFU or get down with Greasemonkey to edit out whatever you don't want to see.
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by klein_waffle 19y ago
He can't be -- Robert Scoble is the Paris Hilton of Web 2.0.
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by klein_waffle 19y ago
Yep. Joel Spolsky summarized the risk/reward imbalance in an article: http://www.joelonsoftware.com/articles/VC.html This one is a bit more personal and rather bitter: "An Engineer's View of Venture Capitalists". http://www.spectrum.iee
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Interviewing the boss
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