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by neworbit 16y ago
I would find this more plausible if my Samsung Android devices were a) regularly updated with Android tech as opposed to seemingly lagging the rest of the industry b) supported worth a hill of beans instead of getting a "uhhhh we don't supp
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by neworbit 16y ago
TL;DR: We invest in brilliant people who get things done, we don't mind if they're jerks as long as they get things done.
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by neworbit 16y ago
I liked Digg a lot back in the day. I've checked in a few times in the last year and found nothing new or fixed to recommend it and a great deal to not. Thanks guys, good luck, but I'm not planning on coming back until my friends start tell
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by neworbit 16y ago
Have you ever seen their local talent? These are the guys who built Symbian. Nokia should have bought Palm (and similarly pivoted to it and away from the existing awful tech).
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by neworbit 16y ago
I often wonder why Lua isn't more popular in general - it's really a pretty good language. Seems like it exists primarily in the game environment. Or maybe it's just because World of Warcraft uses it and thus the elephant in the room makes
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by neworbit 16y ago
Heck, that's no stretch at all, 4HWW was all about outsourcing your research and production. Saying "now apply that to web page generation" is a one sentence book.
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by neworbit 16y ago
Jason Calacanis and Tim Ferris are the two most polarizing dudes here on HN as far as I can tell. But love 'em or hate 'em, they do both get lots of press.
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by neworbit 16y ago
Yeah I used to piss off the CFO a couple of jobs ago by spending entirely modest amounts of money to make the engineers happy/productive and explaining "this is something where I would spend my own money to do this, and in fact I did, if yo
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by neworbit 16y ago
That is a very odd assertion... if you're a good chef, and have "come up through the ranks", you've probably had to clean up after yourself... but I don't think that means that you can take the dishwasher and make him the head chef. Unless
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by neworbit 16y ago
A decent rule of thumb is usually "would you spend it if it was your own money" - most people aren't going to go buy $20,000 couches for the office, but they might buy an $800 couch or a $150 Craigslist special. Feel free to ignore this if
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by neworbit 16y ago
Well, let's be fair - "I can change" is the only reasonable response - the alternative is that Google gives them the death penalty.
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by neworbit 16y ago
as one of my good buddies said "Who buys a $20,000 couch? Do you know how many servers you could get for that price?"
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by neworbit 16y ago
I think Mahalo has refocused appropriately, and I am pleasantly surprised to see that. But I think this is no longer a sustainable business model. If you need to spend as much on content generation as I'm seeing cited here, your time to bre
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by neworbit 16y ago
Combine the two and work at your local Barnes and Noble - they often have a coffee shop and areas for you to spread out and read/work/etc
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by neworbit 16y ago
The local daycares seem to be exclusively populated by kids of engineers, so I question that :)
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by neworbit 16y ago
That's a lot of expense and hassle as compared to saying "no"
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by neworbit 16y ago
If you have someone on your advisory board who has been through this before, even in an unrelated space, spend quite a while talking to them. Possibly offer them a slice to come in and help you get this done at good terms. If you don't, con
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by neworbit 16y ago
Sure - but the VC isn't going to come write code for you, whereas if he can connect your sales team with the right customers, that beats the pants off someone who just flat doesn't know your space.
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by neworbit 16y ago
This is ideal! VC generalists may be successful businessmen in the general sense, but investors who don't know your industry are inherently dumb money regardless of how much they swear up and down that they bring value to the table.
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by neworbit 16y ago
I enjoy Tim's books (and find them somewhere between entertaining and useful depending on chapter) but I found this darn near keyboard-kill amusing. "Be careful of reading health books. You might die of amisprint." - Mark Twain
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by neworbit 16y ago
Oh yeah, and: congratulations!
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by neworbit 16y ago
You need a good M&A attorney. But they aren't cheap. Here's my two cents. You probably want the ability to collar their stock at very least and depending on what you think of their prospects you may ask them for a ratchet in the case of
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by neworbit 16y ago
Get started. Your objective at this stage shouldn't necessarily be to close investors (though if they express interest, be prepared to move on it) but to raise awareness and show A) you exist B) you have a good idea C) you are building trac
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by neworbit 16y ago
There are two good rebuttals to this article: 1. Apps are useful in an offline market, like when you are in the subway with no data service. 2. People don't like micropayments. They are willing to put up with ads instead. Why do people keep
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by neworbit 16y ago
...but the point of a rollup is that you do want to buy five or seven cars out of those twenty.
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by neworbit 16y ago
That still feels like "sysadmins are being replaced by developers" to me
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by neworbit 16y ago
Last I checked Catholic dogma, which has been a couple decades now, I think Steve has to actually pass away before he can become a saint.
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by neworbit 16y ago
Seems like there's SOME element of truth to this, if probably not as rationally analyzed as one might surmise from this comment. It tends to be more "oh why would I work harder at this dead end job, I'm gonna go home and have a drink and pl
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by neworbit 16y ago
Good work! What are you doing next? :)
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by neworbit 16y ago
No wonder people's impressions of sysadmins are not overwhelmingly positive. (I'm envisioning Wally from Dilbert here.) If you can replace someone's job with the proverbial small shell script (or apt-get install $OPENSOURCEPROJECT), sooner

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