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by n72 12y ago
I remember telling my brother about two years ago "You know what would be a great game? A game where you can make things, worlds etc., from a few fundamental pieces, just like lego." He said good idea, but it's already been d
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by n72 12y ago
For many watches are used as a signaling device. That is, an expensive watch indicates to people that you have money. I assume these people aren't going to downgrade to an apple watch. I don't know what percentage of watch owners
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I was a mostly MS guy, but once I moved to the startup/entrepreneurial world moved to multiple non-MS stacks and I'm very happy I did. Yes, the MS tools are really very nice and C# is a wonderful language, but the costs just can&#
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by n72 12y ago
Any thought to adding weather? I was in Seattle for two years for a startup and the gloom almost killed me.
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Very similar to NYCLU's stop and frisk app: http://www.nyclu.org/app
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Once upon a time I was an English teacher in Berlin. The student I had who had the best intuitive feel for English and the best pronunciation was a massive boy band fan and had learned the bulk of her English though translating and signing
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by n72 12y ago
"I just want to earn decent money and be able to do what I want to do whenever during the day." "Beers at 2pm? Sure!" You may want to recalibrate your expectations. I mean, this sounds a lot like you want your cake and t
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by n72 12y ago
Does YC have an in-house shrink? I've always thought that if I ran an incubator, one of the first things I'd do is institute twice-weekly meetings with a shrink. I think such an arrangement would pay off amply in the long run. I k
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by n72 12y ago
I don't think you got what I was saying. The post I was referring to claimed that it is difficult to separate RapGenius from it's douchy creator. My point was simply that I don't think it is at all difficult. I.e. it's q
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by n72 12y ago
"It's hard to separate the product from the creator. We can demand a higher standard of creators, but one of the consequences will be fewer creations." I don't understand your point here. I can quite easily imagine a Rap
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by n72 12y ago
Here's the thing. I don't know Tom Lehmen, but the mere fact that he'd associate with a guy like Moghadam, let alone found a company with him, speaks volumes to me. I just took a look at Moghadam's twitter feed. Within t
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by n72 12y ago
I think you mean "made something awesome", no?
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Regardless, it's still an incredibly arrogant thing to say. The implication is that there this class of entrepreneurs who are better than the 9-5ers. Honestly, get over yourself. (And I say this as an entrepreneur who can't stand
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by n72 12y ago
"Most people walk on paved roads in the valley below" I know it's not the author who said this, but oh piss off with that self-congratulatory crap. How on earth do you know what most people do? Let's see, according to
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by n72 12y ago
"Page once told a room full of Google’s first marketing employees that their profession was built on an ability to lie." Oh come on. As owner of history's largest ad platform and someone who's made ungodly amounts of mon
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Jeez, so when does The Wives of Silicon Valley start? The whole tech scene in SF has turned into such a little soap opera, cult of personality, wank fest.
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by n72 12y ago
"Our next team meeting is dedicated to Core Values, which are essential to building our culture." Having meetings about culture and "core values" is a sure sign your culture's fucked. The fact that he thinks having
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by n72 12y ago
So, as a founder I quit my lucrative job, max out my credit card, work 18 hour days for a year giving up a social life, vacations etc. Once we're making money and I hire you to do QA where you work 8 hours a day and take no risk. There
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by n72 12y ago
I'm curious what you would recommend to the me of five years ago (this sounds like a challenge, but it really isn't — I'm genuinely interested in your take.) I started with three other guys on day 1 of a startup. They had mon
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by n72 12y ago
I think risk can be defined in many cases as taking less money than you could get with an established company. Basically, this discrepancy has to be made up and the one way to do that is via shares.
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by n72 12y ago
"Don't resolve these problems with shares. Instead, just keep a ledger of how much you paid each of the founders, and if someone goes without salary, give them an IOU." The IOU solution is not a good one: 1. Not taking salary
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by n72 13y ago
Dear Jessica, let me introduce a tool that you can add your journalistic toolkit: square brackets. As user Kosmonaut says in an "English Language and Usage" post : "[Square brackets] are used to indicate that a direct quote h
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by n72 13y ago
Wait, Ms. Lessin is one of Rapgenius crew?
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by n72 13y ago
Yeah, in thinking about my example a little more and generalizing, I think one of the problems that people have with reading clojure is that it doesn't have as robust a syntactic indication of scope that other languages have.
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by n72 13y ago
One of the reasons I think people may find clojure hard to read is that there isn't much vertical spacing. Do you find this translation of js to clojure any easier? function doThis(arg1, arg2){ var m = arg1 + 3; var n = modif
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by n72 13y ago
What does "techies" mean? Greg Gopman's Angel List profile says: " Business Development, Communications, Community Management, Networking, Sales and Marketing, Working Really Hard." This isn't a techie. He happ
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Software Engineering in Crisis – Healthcare.gov is Just the Dead Canary(nakedcapitalism.com)
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by n72 13y ago
I must be understanding what you're saying. I've taken thousands of cabs in NYC and only a hand full of times have I been required to tell them where I'm going before they've allowed me in the cab. Or perhaps it's a
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by n72 13y ago
I can't sign up without js enabled. Should this site especially adhere to strict accessibility standards?
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And you'll also need an industrial revolution to provide manufacturing jobs.

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