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by nirvana 14y ago
I'm suer you're right. I can only speak from my team[1] up the chain to Bezos, all of whom at that time I personally witnessed making really stupid decisions. (EG Bezos deciding not to fix a bug 2 months before Thanksgiving then the day bef
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by nirvana 14y ago
Every one of the problems you mention, except for #5, existed at Microsoft in 1993! It didn't really turn on a dime at all, in fact, I think probably Balmer has improved this aspect[1], when you account for the fact that Microsoft is much
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by nirvana 14y ago
Oh, do I have thoughts, let me tell you! Seriously, though, I am a firm believer[1] that company culture comes from the top. This seems consistent with the personalities for both Gates and Bezos in that they are competitive people. They
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by nirvana 14y ago
As someone who has seen stack ranking in action at Amazon and Microsoft both, this is an excellent interview question at any company you consider, especially one founded by ex-Amazon or ex-Microsoft employees. Do you use stack ranking? If
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by nirvana 14y ago
It seems flash drives go for about $1 a gigabyte or less. If the prices drop in half twice more they will be down to the $0.25/gigabyte I was paying for hard drives when I first started tracking prices in 2008. At that time, SSDs were $9.3
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by nirvana 14y ago
I switched to DDG, and occasionally I go back to google when DDG doesn't get me the results I am looking for, or when I want to do an image search. But you're right, for a segment of the market, the DDG privacy is a feature that would be a
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by nirvana 14y ago
I know it may be formulaic, but I love these lists of "rules" because I go down them one by one and say "yep, got that" or "nope, don't have that, now lets think about it." I want to talk about rule #3. And lets use DuckDuckGo as an exampl
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by nirvana 14y ago
Same experience here. I'd say iOS development is probably about %50 faster than web development for me. Maybe %100-%200 for complex apps.
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by nirvana 14y ago
I think nico is talking about a CORFO program that I've only barely heard mention as a Startup Chile participant (someone else mentioned getting mentorship thru it, but I've never seen anything from Startup Chile on how we could participate
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by nirvana 14y ago
My co-founder mentioned there is some sort of german "self employment" visa, that will allow you to get residency in Germany without having to work for a local company. I don't know any more details bout that, but would love to hear from s
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by nirvana 14y ago
Julian's situation seems very weird to me, given the stories about how secretive he was, how he kept in hiding, etc. At the same time, he was very clearly and publicly the face of wikileaks. Why did he not simply remain anonymous? All tha
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by nirvana 14y ago
Certainly there was a time when the USA seemed to be the the leaders of this kind of innovation. We're leaders of a different kind now. The video for the 15 story hotel they built super quickly seems to show an innovative design that is als
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by nirvana 14y ago
My memory was that (at least at one point) the application mentioned wanting to read someone's posts to see what kind of a thinker they are. (and also that it was ok if you didn't have one already.) This is probably a lot less practical t
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by nirvana 14y ago
I saw it. That shoe guy is exactly the kind of guy you should fund. He wasn't saying he demanded a high lifestyle income they were asking what he was working for and then they pretend like he was expecting that now . The whole show is r
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by nirvana 14y ago
Breakeven is the term people really should be using. It has been around for a very long time, and it is very clear about what it means. The thing is, people want to use the term "profitable" because they want to spin where their business is
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by nirvana 14y ago
I'm not meaning to imply that YC is discriminatory. If you look at YC as if it were a product, you could say its adoption is highest among people below 30. I did look this up before submitting my comment. If you figure that there aren't m
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by nirvana 14y ago
I normally agree with Jason but I don't think he should be so upset on this one. "ramen profitable" the amount of profits you have to plow back into the company are as much as the cost of a Ramen package. It is a way of saying you're not
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by nirvana 14y ago
Are you saying that the top YC companies on demo day get funded at valuations of ~$10M? I can believe that but I wonder if there's any data... for instance I wonder what the top and average valuation of TechStars companies is at demo day.
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by nirvana 14y ago
The assumption implicit in this article seems to be that the two programs are equally available to entrepreneurs. In considering the two programs for my startup, I don't think this is the case. I haven't been in either program, but I have
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by nirvana 14y ago
Incorporating in the USA varies by the state, and there are implications based on which state you incorporate in. For instance, some states have no corporate income tax, others due (Which is completely separate from federal taxes.) Various
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by nirvana 14y ago
I'm not the author of the benchmarks. I merely submitted the results to hacker news because I found them interesting.
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C10K 2012: Erlang Wins, Go a close second. Java, Haskell, Node & Python fail(github.com)
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by nirvana 14y ago
I don't know the status of the legislation but I heard that a bill was introduced (and possibly passed) that criminalized use of drones by private entities, allowing only government to use them. So, the political position seems to be that i
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by nirvana 14y ago
Quite possibly you're right on both accounts. The interesting thing to me is that drones on domestic soil (and the TSA, another one of Rand's issues) has been around for years. Any politician could have made it an issue and introduced leg
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by nirvana 14y ago
Dear OP: You always say the team is important. I couldn't agree with you more. The Team is important not only in the startup, but also in the group of people that make up your investors. Thus, given that we've decided your team is not stro
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by nirvana 14y ago
Do angels require liquidation preferences and other arbitrary terms (like paying their lawyer fees) that VCs do? Do angels impose bad decisions? (I've seen more than one company lose %50 of its ultimate market value as a result of a VC imp
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by nirvana 14y ago
Failure rates for flash drives seem to be driven by controller problems or bugs more than actually wearing out the flash. In order to avoid wearing out the flash they implemented very sophisticated software in the controller, and those con
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by nirvana 14y ago
It appears to me that with hard drives the Thailand flood and Japanese earthquake are causing us to lose a generation. Thus instead of going from 1TB mobile drives to 2TB drives, we're having another year of them selling 1TB drives. This w
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by nirvana 14y ago
Flash is really great in theory, but in my experience with intel and sandforce controllers, it isn't reliable enough. I've bought 2 flash drives and had 4 failures already. I've seen both drive controllers get themselves wedged to the poin
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by nirvana 14y ago
Another factor of this is that Apple has a global servicing network in its Apple stores that is kinda astounding. With a sony laptop, you would have to mail it off to their national service center, wait a few weeks and get it mailed back t

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