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by neworbit 16y ago
Not precisely the same thing, but I do make a point of spending ten minutes a day with either a mug of tea or a glass of wine, simply sitting quietly to watch the world outside. Helps me "change gears".
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by neworbit 16y ago
You'd presumably have to be in a shell (or compiler window) and on a system that didn't lock itself - but yeah, yikes. How are you with centrifuges?
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by neworbit 16y ago
That's pretty much a survivorship bias, though. Tons more companies were cratered by their founders.
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by neworbit 16y ago
Article seems to complain that Apple pays its employees less but makes more profit. I'm just baffled. Yes, they make more profit BECAUSE they pay their employees less than Goldman, and because their gross income is higher than Goldman's as
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by neworbit 16y ago
At least it's possible to get a software update to the Youtube player on your iPhone. It's not like, say, changing a battery.
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by neworbit 16y ago
Moral of this story: get a commitment from the VC team member you want to be on your board - don't get it shuffled off to someone else on their team who is just looking to prove what a hardass they are. Or don't give up that board seat, but
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by neworbit 16y ago
Cool. Those are both good products. Heaven forbid, an acquisition that actually makes sense!
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by neworbit 16y ago
Getting it fixed either way would be nice, regardless of whether it's the carrier or the handset manufacturer holding it up.
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by neworbit 16y ago
I'm astounded Zynga isn't in the top ten advertisers on Facebook. Playdom probably is lumped into Disney these days, but unless Zynga's ad lab is named named Official IQ Quiz I don't see them here at all...
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by neworbit 16y ago
I suspect your question is "how do you know that they're behind stuxnet" for which none of us probably have the answer - or if one of our loyal HN readers does, they're not really likely to divulge it. The statement quoted in general, thoug
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by neworbit 16y ago
He always has the option to go to Flippa later if he doesn't get the value he wants here. From my limited experience, Flippa is kind of a liquidation market more than a source for competitive bids. Your mileage may vary.
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by neworbit 16y ago
That's true. Don't be too paranoid, otherwise that'll come across to the VC as "this might be interesting but too adversarial to invest in." But also, don't overlook the prospect that the person you're talking to is evil. Happens more than
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by neworbit 16y ago
There can be only one!
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by neworbit 16y ago
Well, the RIAA uses Cisco gear...
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by neworbit 16y ago
You're not a true plumber until mushrooms make you grow to twice normal size and shoot fireballs
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by neworbit 16y ago
I misread this as teflon pants and thought "pretty specialty purpose but I bet it'd make cleanup easy"...
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by neworbit 16y ago
Well, by comparison...
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by neworbit 16y ago
Other than dirty jokes, perhaps a two-player game?
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by neworbit 16y ago
I am suddenly struck with a flashback to the Cold Fusion experiments. I want to see this reproduced in a (pun totally intended) more sober setting
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by neworbit 16y ago
Run? Probably one. Help advise and the like? Maybe a couple others. You aren't really hedging your bets as much as you are dividing your efforts. Note, if you can get something started, (possibly also funded,) and operating largely without
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by neworbit 16y ago
or the BBB
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by neworbit 16y ago
"Someone" is probably Apple, with their huge new data centers et al
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by neworbit 16y ago
Steve Jobs is the Chinese mother in this story, not the child. He demands excellence from his team and is sometimes pretty over the top about the demand part of that phrase.
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by neworbit 16y ago
If you're Dave Mclure, you should add a couple dozen more!
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by neworbit 16y ago
You might mean "it's somewhat rare of them to sell the product you've built and are are actually selling", but having a sales-y person go out and say "sure we do that" and then coming back and saying "new urgent feature" is totally par for
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by neworbit 16y ago
What does fruit mean in that context?
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by neworbit 16y ago
this is why I love HN, all the suggestions have been actually constructive and nobody is suggesting 4channy nonsense
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by neworbit 16y ago
People often bring personal appearance up when talking about Larry Ellison, mostly in the context of what a snappy dresser the guy is as compared to the rest of Silicon Valley.
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by neworbit 16y ago
Thanks! Now I wonder what percentage of vets are below the poverty line vs outright homeless. I know people who joined up because they were poor to begin with... and in general it seems to have worked out pretty well for them, though none o
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by neworbit 16y ago
Don't know about Canada in general, but Vancouver BC has a lot of homeless on the streets. Do you have a comparison of poverty levels between Canada and the US you can cite?

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