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by pjlegato 11y ago
The technical and product side sound like a good idea, in general. How will you acquire customers for this, in a marketing sense?
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by pjlegato 11y ago
How will you acquire your first batch of enough users to reach critical mass, where the site becomes an interesting destination rather than a ghost town? This will be your biggest challenge by far. Your competition is not only existing blog
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by pjlegato 11y ago
No. Again, my comments were about the article , not the community. I did not say the community should or should not do anything at all. See my other comments in this thread for a fuller explanation.
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by pjlegato 11y ago
Sure. > I've been hearing about how East New York, Brooklyn is 'that bad that hard that street' since 1983, > when I was sixteen years old and heard a NYC felon... The author quotes some felon he met in 1983, who
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by pjlegato 11y ago
This sounds like precisely the sort of investigation the author should have included in the article.
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by pjlegato 11y ago
You may be right. I don't know. I haven't spent months going around interviewing people in ENY. This is precisely the sort of thing that the author should have covered in the article.
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by pjlegato 11y ago
You are, again, putting words into my mouth. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Straw_man I said nothing at all about the community needing to do anything whatsoever. I was talking about the article , not the community. I
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by pjlegato 11y ago
I shifted no blame -- in fact, I very explicitly said that the author's various blamings of the various outside forces are all probably true. "Enough for me" is not the question. I pass no judgement on what the residents of E
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by pjlegato 11y ago
First, these are strawman arguments. I said nothing about bootstraps or market forces at all. The general tone (the emotionally charged use of the word "fucking," and so on) is also entirely uncalled for. Are we here for a rationa
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by pjlegato 11y ago
This and its parent post are (honestly) mystifying to me. I found it very easy to read. I can only conclude that bite-sized Twitter and Facebook content have left many people incapable of reading long-form prose.
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And American Spanish has "computadora". (Ordenador is mainly used in Spain.)
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by pjlegato 11y ago
It's a well-written article, interesting to read. But the narrative suffers from one major flaw: the residents of East New York themselves are denied any sort of agency whatsoever. They are not treated as real human beings in this arti
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by pjlegato 11y ago
How will you generate confidence that your product actually works at the beginning, when you have no track record? Why should a lawyer trust the outcome of an important case with "millions on the line" to an unknown startup rather
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by pjlegato 11y ago
The "peers" part of "a jury of one's peers" is widely misunderstood. It is a remnant of the medieval legal distinction between nobles and commoners. It simply means that nobles can only be tried by a jury of other n
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by pjlegato 11y ago
Who will teach these classes? Who will design the curriculum? How will you get the word out to interested students?
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by pjlegato 11y ago
How does this differ from Reddit? How does this differ from an RSS reader?
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by pjlegato 11y ago
Marketing question: How do you plan to acquire customers? What channels will you use to get the word out? There are already dozens of very actively used databases out there. Some of them have track records that are decades long. There are d
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by pjlegato 11y ago
"We can't compete with Postgres yet, but please fund us anyway and we'll surely figure it out later" is not exactly a compelling plan that makes me want to invest. I suggest that you need to work out how you plan to comp
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by pjlegato 11y ago
I don't want to look at it in any particular way. I was asking for clarification, to see whether I understand the features correctly, and to determine what customers get by using your product. So the question remains: what does the cus
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by pjlegato 11y ago
Building just the suggest-a-haircut software could be a business in itself, and it's a lot easier to execute than trying to make motorized robotic blades that cut right next to your head yet don't ever kill or mangle you. You can
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by pjlegato 11y ago
How is this different than Mongo with a little query language DSL on top?
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by pjlegato 11y ago
I'd actually like to start a device-free "Startup Social Club" in San Francisco, where people can go to chat with real humans around them directly. Mail me if you're interested in this...
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by pjlegato 11y ago
AWS is much like renting a car. If you only need a car for a week out of the year, you're much better off renting one rather than buying one and leaving it idle for 51 weeks. But if you know you'll need a car every day, it's
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by pjlegato 11y ago
It's true that you gain some technical knowledge by learning all that. The question is whether that is worth the opportunity cost of not learning other things or doing something else during that time. Every minute you spend studying
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by pjlegato 11y ago
> The drug of choice there was/is alcohol. Here it seems to be prescription opiates (in addition to alcohol). These situations are not even remotely comparable. The fraction of Americans who abuse opiates is tiny compared to the per
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by pjlegato 11y ago
> I just have to say this: So typically american. This remark would be considered highly offensive and racist if it were uttered about most nationalities. Would you say that to appraise the sentiments of, for example, a Jew? Of course no
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by pjlegato 11y ago
The article does note that, in the last sentence: "Of course, like a swagger, the signal is not so much the tantum itself as the fact that someone can get away with it."
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by pjlegato 11y ago
Those regulations are intended to prevent employers from abusing their employees. They do not entitle you to be a successful startup founder for only X hours of work per week. You're not an employee when you're working for yoursel
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by pjlegato 11y ago
They could ; they don't want to. Most are trained to use their marriage as a way to be upwardly mobile.
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by pjlegato 11y ago
Any human-made system is bound to have both good and bad in it -- including all new propositions for replacing traditional systems. Humans aren't perfect and never will be. The problem is that the baby is too often thrown out with the

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