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by mlinsey 19y ago
2-4% and a market rate salary after a VC funding round is about market rate for an experienced executive, eg someone brought in to be a VP of Engineering.
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by mlinsey 19y ago
If I'm reading this correctly, I can't believe Microsoft blinked. All the talk of proxy fights and deadlines and new boards...and now this? I'm not much of a businessman but raising your offer before the other side makes a counter-offer, a
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by mlinsey 19y ago
Well, hopefully the VC's don't have majority control of the xobini board after one round of funding. If your VC's don't want you to sell early, they don't have the power to stop you unless they have this power written into the terms of you
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by mlinsey 19y ago
Stories of the early days of personal computing are ones I find particularly inspiring because these entreprneurs did what they did in an industry that didn't exist yet and in a climate where there was far less of a startup community in ter
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Automatic Patch-Based Exploit Generation(lambda-the-ultimate.org)
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by mlinsey 19y ago
Looks interesting. I imagine this only works for certain categories (DVD's and video games would be good ones)...for anything where variation in the condition of the item matters, this model will obviously have problems.
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by mlinsey 19y ago
I think that a well-written language specific book can be much better than the internet, because they can take you from the beginning through advanced concepts in a structured way. This means you can really see how everything fits together,
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by mlinsey 19y ago
The Mac as a gaming platform should have most of the advantages of PC's and consoles: The advantage of consoles are standardized hardware, and the advantages of a PC are the openness and not having to pay royalties or operate at the whim of
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by mlinsey 19y ago
In the linked article, the first two sentences of "Step 1" are: "Before you can solicit interest in your product, there are two things that you need to do. The first step is to obtain a provisional patent for your invention..." This step c
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by mlinsey 19y ago
Weren't those the layoffs that were announced before the buyout offer?
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by mlinsey 19y ago
OK...so how does one find out what stage of the life cycle the fund is currently at? Is this public information?
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by mlinsey 19y ago
Good summary. The biggest question I have for the semantic web people is: what will be the killer app that gives each individual site (and not just semantic web companies) the strong incentive to use a semantic web standard, even when that
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by mlinsey 19y ago
Clever! And I do think that if we think of debugging as scientific experiments than that will improve our debugging. But if debugging is science, isn't all engineering science? It's not like the process of testing, identifying problems, an
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by mlinsey 19y ago
I'm hard enough on my keyboards that I would be really scared of using this.
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by mlinsey 19y ago
Go wherever you have access to the best talent pool. If you know lots of good people where you currently are, that's as good a place as any.
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by mlinsey 19y ago
The biggest problem with hiring foreign contractors is not that they're foreign, but that the mindset required to hire them cannot attract good hackers. More specifically, the kind of people who decide to save money on development by hirin
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by mlinsey 19y ago
Woz is awesome, but do you have a non-real-player link?
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by mlinsey 19y ago
Perhaps- I dropped out of college to start my first venture. It folded unexpectedly early, and afterwards I found myself without another idea I found compelling enough to put 100% into. Rather than going back to school I decided to try my
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by mlinsey 19y ago
"Capitalism is dying"? Where did this come from?
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by mlinsey 19y ago
So after this I thought: hey, why not pose the parent's question to Stumpedia itself? Here's what it gave: ~~ You asked: how is Stumpedia different from Muchobene itself? ~~ Connected in chat session (41 seconds). ~~ The other user says:
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by mlinsey 19y ago
From first glance it looks like Muchobene is the client that you use to answer questions, stumpedia is a site where people without Muchobene can ask questions. I could be wrong though.
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by mlinsey 19y ago
Yahoo's core business is in a bit of trouble (the fact that their experiment with Google AdWords has been rumored to double their revenue is an indication of how badly they were monetizing before more than anything else), but they are still
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by mlinsey 19y ago
Finally, Wired Magazine lives up to its name!
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by mlinsey 19y ago
Hopefully this will be good news for Brazil in the long run - but I worry that becoming a major oil exporter will be much worse for the Brazilian people. The ideal workforce to make a country rich from technology and innovation is a well-e
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by mlinsey 19y ago
Generally this is true, but keep in mind that a non-technical audience will often have strong negative reaction to a demo based on what seem to hackers as the silliest, most trivial things: a rough-around-the-edges design, links that don't
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by mlinsey 19y ago
I guess walled gardens work okay when everyone's knocking on the gate.
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by mlinsey 19y ago
Alternatively, you could just be sure to get their business card and then you can reply to them. Asking their email and typing it into your phone works well too. If you need someone to remember you, you should be the one to tAke the init
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by mlinsey 19y ago
If you're good at getting your bearings, yes. But having witnessed myself and others struggle to figure out "wait, which way is which according to this map?" for a little bit before getting our internal compass aligned with the map's orien
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by mlinsey 19y ago
Interesting. A somewhat tangential question...for a company like Craigslist that seems content to collect profits as an independent private company rather than cash out with a sale or an IPO, what happens to those that hold stock? I'm think
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by mlinsey 19y ago
Does it matter? I would think that all the relevant rights and responsibilities to shareholders would be the same no matter who the stock was bought from, but I'm not an expert in the matter.

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