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by kschrader 15y ago
At my company in NYC (Intent Media) the founders specifically spent time writing a clause into our standard employment agreement granting everyone the rights to their side projects. I'm not sure how common this is, but it seems like somethi
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by kschrader 16y ago
The Continental application for iOS allows you to just pull up your boarding pass on the screen and have the security screener scan the phone screen. I would imagine that some of the other airline apps do so as well.
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by kschrader 16y ago
Am I reading the chart on that page correctly that the post-graduation salary is on average 20-30% less for most MBA graduates? I find that to be a shocking figure after the 2 years and huge amount of money that people generally invest in g
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by kschrader 16y ago
How about people who write a blog like this and then plaster it with ads?
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by kschrader 16y ago
I wonder if they pushed this out of the door because of the traction that Instagram is picking up right now. It feels very similar, although not as refined at this point.
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by kschrader 16y ago
The problem is that "agile" doesn't mean anything. On my team we follow an agile approach, but we also have rough ideas on product direction for the next year or so and themed releases planned out for the next few months. For us it all come
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by kschrader 16y ago
Does anyone else find the entire premise flawed? If all he wanted to do was maximize the amount of income he's going to pass on to his children then he would be an investment banker, not a Harvard professor/author. Any bank would take him i
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Paul Graham’s “Lucky Office” is New York City(kurt.karmalab.org)
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by kschrader 16y ago
Working on locking down space right now. Should know in the next couple of days.
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by kschrader 16y ago
Perhaps instead of down-voting this you can simply reply to it. Unless of course you don't think that discussions happen everyday or that it's not ultimately saving us time.
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by kschrader 16y ago
Many companies, software (Facebook) and otherwise (Toyota) have open layouts to encourage problem solving in groups. Most of the good engineers I know are just as adept at hashing out a solution on a whiteboard as they are doing it quietly
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by kschrader 16y ago
Yes, discussions between programmers about how to best implement things happen every day. We work in an open work space, and I can't even count the number of times that someone has jumped into a discussion with a better idea of how to imple
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by kschrader 16y ago
I require all of my programmers to be on site, not because of any need to monitor what they're doing (Pivotal Tracker, source control, IM, and email take care of most of that for us, even while we're in the office) but to have the kind of c
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by kschrader 16y ago
New York, NY (SoHo) - Intent Media is hiring engineers, techops people, and product managers. We're building an awesome new advertising platform for ecommerce companies, and we're already making money and growing. We're in a giant loft in S
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by kschrader 16y ago
Salesforce originated this model: http://www.salesforce.com/crm/editions-pricing.jsp
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by kschrader 17y ago
That's bullshit. There are a lot of impressive startups here and a number of others that are about to come out of the gate that are going to kill it. I lived in SF for a number of years, and the mix of impressive to unimpressive start-ups i
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by kschrader 17y ago
Pre-owned games pose much of the same problem on the console market as piracy does on the PC market. The end result of both is the same: people play our games without a single bit of money ending up with the people who made the game. In th
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by kschrader 17y ago
It's unlocked, but the radio only supports the ATT 3G frequencies in the US, so it's effectively locked in to ATT unless you want to use EDGE for everything on T-Mobile.
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by kschrader 17y ago
I'm curious, has anyone ever seen a software patent novel enough that it could be considered a "non-obvious" solution to the problem that the inventor is trying to attack?
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by kschrader 17y ago
No it doesn't. You're just playing semantic word games. If I incorporate a company one day and bring you on board the next day with half of the available founders equity then would you argue that you're "just an employee" because you weren'
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by kschrader 17y ago
Intent Media is hiring in NYC: http://www.intentmedia.com/im-jobs Small team right now. Ruby. Java. Agile. Well funded. Hit me up directly (kurt@intentmedia.com) or work@intentmedia.com if you're interested.
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by kschrader 18y ago
Ruby is a tool that you use to build things. This is like saying that saws are dying because less wood was cut over the last few months.
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by kschrader 18y ago
No, it would have sucked then too.
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by kschrader 18y ago
Also, a bug might be cheap now, but when it breaks a year down the road and no one knows what happened, it's going to be a big problem.
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by kschrader 18y ago
Animoto? Really?
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by kschrader 18y ago
You are clearly not part of the target market for Seesmic. Although I'm not sure who is, to tell you the truth.
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by kschrader 18y ago
That's an interesting question that I don't really know the answer to, short of falling back on the generic "trust your network" sort of answer. Also, I'm not suggesting that you cut out the phone interview all-together, just keep it short
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by kschrader 18y ago
Get out and meet them (and their friends) in person. Nothing beats networking. I personally only work through my network when I'm searching for a job. The other key is to move fast. If you want one of these people, don't waste their time wi
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by kschrader 18y ago
Oddly enough, Zed Shaw has been a Python programmer for at least the last year or more, which undermines your second paragraph a bit...
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by kschrader 18y ago
I can’t imagine an ex-VC launching such a company without one. Really??? He can't be serious here. I know a number of ex-VCs who have done this.

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