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by nugget 12y ago
Keep in mind that sometimes the less you do, the better you do it. "Doing everything" sounds great but often just means the execution of various "things" suffers. Whereas Seamless for example just focuses on food and c
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by nugget 12y ago
I spent the weekend with a bunch of venture partners at a firm's off site and Magic came up a few times in conversation: not ''is it a killer idea?'' (of course, if it works) but ''can it scale?'&#x27
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by nugget 12y ago
Tremendously is relative. Austin and SV real estate prices are not close at all. High property taxes keep home prices lower across almost all of Texas. Austin prices are limited in their 'irrational exuberance' upside since ther
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by nugget 12y ago
There are a few differences but basically yes, physical ops execution to scale the business profitably (or with the promise of profitability some day) is key to a business like this. Physical ops (e.g. running a call center, which is a com
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by nugget 12y ago
Just to be clear, Facebook and Google hate any software that allows users to modify content within their walled gardens (whether that's an adblock, ad injector, or other). These companies want a totally controllable user experience in
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by nugget 12y ago
If Chrome implemented better cert checks, Lenovo (or anyone else) could just install their own version of ''Chromium, enhanced by Superfish'' for users and push them there instead. Who do we turn to then, Microsoft? (N
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by nugget 12y ago
Non paywall link: http://www.wsj.com/articles/gm-built-internal-skills-to-mana...
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by nugget 12y ago
I used to think like you, before I experienced the inner machinations of tech m&a. Somewhere out there are a handful of big companies who sell billions of dollars worth of collective research data. I don't know the market but mayb
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by nugget 12y ago
Google makes the majority of its profits from web search. The problem is that as search habits change, that entire market could become less valuable. Google could still dominate, but would just make less $, e.g. if search RPMs decline fro
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by nugget 12y ago
This is the dark side of the massive shift to programmatic ad buying and selling which nobody wants to talk about. Compliance has largely been tossed aside in search of maximum yield. Sad but definitely the trend for the future.
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by nugget 12y ago
There's plenty of land, the problem is that everybody wants to be in the same dense urban cores. Drive 3-4 hours north or south of San Francisco and you have lots of cheap, beautiful coastal land available.
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by nugget 12y ago
Great article. I also played from 12 to 15. There must be more of us out there. Great memories from that time spent in such an immersive world. The thrill of the "Lord" title at 20 (and 920/implosion spell) and the "
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by nugget 12y ago
I don't think I could ever fully trust a company that uses every scrap of personal data they can find to target ads to me to also be my privacy trustee on the web.
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by nugget 12y ago
I played a text-based MUD called Federation II for about a year before I moved over to a more popular title named Gemstone III, which was a sort of text-based precursor to World of Warcraft, where you could run around and kill rats and cast
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by nugget 12y ago
Another perspective is that it's cheaper because it lowered the barrier to entry so that the smallest of entrepreneurs could enter the market. Rather than purchase a hotel, you can rent out a studio apartment. You can start with one
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by nugget 12y ago
February 2004 I was a third year CS student in Boston. I remember complaining to a friend of mine that we had missed the boat - Yahoo, Amazon, etc - the web had matured without us and the window of opportunity was closed. If only we had b
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by nugget 12y ago
Great story. Many parallels to the performance marketing and affiliate worlds, where mostly young people stumble into great opportunities, usually exploiting loopholes or underserved markets such as this, and suddenly start printing a thou
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by nugget 12y ago
It may seem absurd to outsiders but it does make a certain amount of sense to me, especially in hindsight. I learned as much, maybe more from my classmates than I did from my professors, and am certainly glad that those classmates were peo
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by nugget 12y ago
Some of these may be remnants of Google's old SEO policies which, from what I remember, weighted TLD names pretty heavily.
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by nugget 12y ago
Bad climate and lack of water are two common misconceptions applied to both Las Vegas and Phoenix. Both are hot and dry, which many people love. Hot and dry > hot and humid, which is Texas, Florida, and most of the area in between. Nev
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by nugget 12y ago
Competition between the states is one of my favorite aspects of the US structure of Government. It goes a long way towards encouraging efficiency. True democracy is being able to "vote with your feet" and move around based on pe
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by nugget 12y ago
Find a well-funded post Series A or B company that you really believe in. Make it clear you want work as a technical contributor who writes lots of code (they will like this). You'll still make $150k and have equity in place of the e
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by nugget 12y ago
Among "white collar professionals" we have started a shift from a pedigree-based workforce to a vocational skills-based workforce. Tech is a leader here - if you can write code, you can make a living, even if you dropped out of 3
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by nugget 12y ago
When I read ''9 to 5'' in this context I take it to represent a culture and mindset of limited engagement and responsibility, not necessarily the literal physical presence for only those hours of the day.
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by nugget 12y ago
Have rank and file developers ever tried to form any sort of association to advocate for their own interests, which seem adverse to those of founder types? It would seem like there are a couple hundred thousand tech types in California alo
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by nugget 12y ago
Have you talked to many UberX drivers? More than the money, most have told me that they love the flexibility to clock in and clock out as needed. When you lease a cab, you pay a flat fee per week to the medallion owner and then work every
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by nugget 12y ago
The United States is a nation of immigrants and as a US citizen I have no problem welcoming more people in. One of my all-time favorite poems is The New Colossus by Emma Lazarus, made famous by its association with the Statue of Liberty, w
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by nugget 12y ago
Does anybody else see the irony in the contrast between this story and the current US-Mex border situation? We expend so much time and effort to harass people who fly in, while every day thousands of other people simply walk over the border
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by nugget 12y ago
Except the former Soviet Union countries were not collective societies. There were rich, powerful people and there were poor, powerless people. Instead of dollars (as in the US), the currency was political power and influence which then l
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by nugget 12y ago
I appreciate your interest in this topic and don't mind the personal criticism. I am sure some younger developers will read this, so for that reason I will respond to some of your points. << I wonder how long it's been sinc

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