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by mwerty 18y ago
Almost as bad as negatively charged electrons.
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by mwerty 18y ago
Good point. I'm inclined to agree with you now. However, if the answer was something quick and easy, I would have done it.
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by mwerty 18y ago
Thanks for the link. I'm looking at it now. > What sort of contracts? I'm not sure how to answer this. It's basically an agreement saying we'll pay the authors X% of the proceeds from book sales every month. We are a Delaware C corp.
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Ask YC: How do I store online contracts?
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by mwerty 18y ago
The site was open sourced...
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by mwerty 18y ago
>Surely the mere fact that Microsoft was willing to buy the company at a 70% premium indicates that the stock was undervalued to begin with That does not follow. MSFT might see more value in yahoo as a part of msft than yahoo run indepe
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by mwerty 18y ago
rot13 seems to satisfy your requirements
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by mwerty 18y ago
>Besides, the value of Ivy-League schools is overrated. If employers overrate you because of an ivy-league education, it's usually to your advantage.
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by mwerty 18y ago
thanks
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by mwerty 18y ago
> There are plenty of Office plugins that cost hundreds or even thousands of dollars. Do you remember the names of these plugins? I know there are some dev-tool type plugins that cost a lot.
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by mwerty 18y ago
Resonates with a blog posting by Scott Adams: http://dilbertblog.typepad.com/the_dilbert_blog/2007/07/care...
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by mwerty 19y ago
It's not annoying.
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by mwerty 19y ago
Good god, that feedback form is everywhere...
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by mwerty 19y ago
>"Good composers borrow. Great composers steal." Interestingly, he probably stole that quote from T.S Eliot: "Immature poets imitate; mature poets steal"
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by mwerty 19y ago
Investments are not as likely to be subject to http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hindsight_bias Unlike human memory, investments keep track of false positives which is why I suggested that as one possibility . But, there might be other ways t
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by mwerty 19y ago
Buying into the google IPO is one event that would signal a money-where-my-mouth-is kind of commitment to this 'type of thing'. There might be other activities (buying yahoo+google) that signal some strong sense of special. I too can recall
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by mwerty 19y ago
Did you buy into the google IPO? I ask because its not clear how special you thought Google was. It's easy to remember stuff this way and not count all the failures you also had a good feeling about.
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by mwerty 19y ago
It's less complicated in some ways. It's easier to tell if they have invested in you than if they are giving good advice.
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by mwerty 19y ago
>How can people publish a fallacy like that and be so happy? Beer.
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by mwerty 19y ago
One other advantage of fragmentation (which I'm surprised he did not touch) that became apparent as I've been trying ffeed is that I am free to say stuff relevant to me as opposed to a public forum with people who do not know me.
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by mwerty 19y ago
Thanks and best of luck!
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by mwerty 19y ago
Bug report: I linked my hn username to clickpass. When I go to clickpass.com, I keep getting redirected to http://www.clickpass.com/account_intro/intro_1 . Please always leave me with access to the landing page; I cannot even get to a supp
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by mwerty 19y ago
Hourly pay makes sense for disposable employees. You are likely asking for trouble when applying it in a startup. A case study from Charlie Munger: One of my favorite cases about the power of incentives is the Federal Express case. The hear
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by mwerty 19y ago
= "start" on windows
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by mwerty 19y ago
> Certainly letting everyone bring a brown bag or order in miso soup and hoagies is out of the question... I think that's their whole point. These are the kind of geeks they want to be seen as.
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by mwerty 19y ago
Have you looked into guids?
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by mwerty 19y ago
I don't think you'd need that metric to make Hamming's point. I can't speak for your personal sources of happiness but what if your metric is 'When I'm old, can I look back and feel content?'? The difference between what is and what could h
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by mwerty 19y ago
You'll know stuff there that you won't know here and possibly cater to a different market.
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by mwerty 19y ago
Offtopic: Suggestion to the tip guys: Can you take me to the tipxxx page on the second click. People might want to know how the button works. Or was that a conscious choice?
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by mwerty 19y ago
maybe

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