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by pxlpshr 17y ago
You're telling me, stuff I put on the internet back in 1998 is still public. My family had quite the laugh one time at a reunion when some of the old stuff came to light... To your point, being transparent on Twitter and Facebook helped us
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by pxlpshr 17y ago
I didn't downvote you. I watch "TV" at most 2-4 hours a week (including weekends), but I do watch a fair amount of movies. Contrary to your experience, it doesn't break for me but I do agree it's not really quite ready for prime time. A maj
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by pxlpshr 17y ago
I've been doing this for two years, no regrets on ditching cable box. The only time I miss it is the rare occasion when friends aren't doing anything for a UT football game. It bothers me when companies dismiss streaming/on-demand due to it
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by pxlpshr 17y ago
i think this blog posts hinges on the assumption that most people have the work ethic and drive of an entrepreneur and that's just simply not true. if it was, half the people that come to you with 'ideas' would actually do something with th
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by pxlpshr 17y ago
I agree that the data is interesting* and I apologize for over-reacting. I also agree with your second paragraph completely. *Performance metrics for many of these early stage startup funds are skewed by the quality they attract. Ycom and T
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by pxlpshr 17y ago
quite shocked this was down-voted to the ground. i wish people would express themselves outside of pressing a button. maybe it was just me but i thought the tone of the blog post was negative, or perhaps it was just because he opened by sta
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by pxlpshr 17y ago
In my mind -- who gives a damn. Either ycom is for you or it isn't. You know what's important about it? Ycom gives young people with ideas but no track record an opportunity to prove themselves. Outside of SV, it's very difficult for most y
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by pxlpshr 17y ago
i think strategy is more important than an idea because it's more closely associated to execution and the high-level direction of the company, so i don't think it's necessarily link bait per say. the 'idea' seeds the direction but eventuall
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by pxlpshr 17y ago
While not without its benefits, the stereotypical technical trader reminds me of a parasite. The fact that people focus on "taking profits off the table" through volatility disgusts me personally. Whatever happened to value-driven investmen
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by pxlpshr 17y ago
This is an interesting question because I spent the better half a year ignoring consulting work and focusing solely on our mobile software company. So if you include opportunity costs, you could say about $60k was "spent" over the course of
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by pxlpshr 17y ago
Why do people act so dismissive about what others achieve by comparing it (in a shallow manner I might add) to what other's have already done? Guess what, I've never used Kongregate and I've been addicted to games since I can remember. When
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by pxlpshr 17y ago
...and obviously paypal was ahead of it's time, and I doubt the execution was as clean or user-friendly as square.
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by pxlpshr 17y ago
this is certainly a good thing, no doubt about it, but what I'd like to know is how many people's mindset shifts from conservative to liberal knowing that they are "saving electricity with new bulbs therefore can run the lights all day". i'
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by pxlpshr 17y ago
From my experience, seed money from an angel generally doesn't take that much equity from you in return for giving you the ability to confidently work on your project (ie: pay yourself a micro salary, hire a person or two full-time, etc.).
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by pxlpshr 17y ago
There is a balance that can be found if you want to commit to a 10-20 year business, but I'm not huge a fan of profit share plans in an early-stage company because they take away the most critical resource which is reserved for growth and/o
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by pxlpshr 17y ago
How is an investor/VC going to get a meaningful return? Usually via a M&A or IPO, the latter being extremely expensive and really only reserved now for a few exceptions. Investors generally come in at the start, and therefore the exit c
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by pxlpshr 17y ago
Couldn't agree with you more. I agree with "release-early-iterate-often" however the notion of "never launch, just iterate" is bad advice IMO. This is also one of the few times I was surprised that more HN readers didn't poke holes in this
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by pxlpshr 17y ago
Another star for TechStars in my book, I've been pretty impressed by their program and it continues to out do itself. Cool to see the Vanilla forum guys on the list because I've used their forum software for quite some time. They had a big
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by pxlpshr 17y ago
Fall season has been incredible this year in regard to games. CoD MW2, Borderlands, Dragon Age, L4D 2, Assassins Creed 2, the list goes on. This is when I wish I was still working in the gaming industry: game purchases were expensed, playin
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by pxlpshr 17y ago
Well I haven't used anti-virus in a long time since switching to OSX but when I was on Windows, I was always a big fan of ESET NOD32.
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by pxlpshr 17y ago
I agree, I've spoken with someone from their developer relations and he quietly told me how much of a mess the AppStore department of Apple is. Everyone is running around like a chicken with their head cut off. They made the AppStore by cop
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by pxlpshr 17y ago
So if you look at who's doing this on a daily basis, it's obviously people who careless about the ecosystem and are in it simply for short term gain. That being said, does Apple really feel this is going to curb spam and gaming of the AppSt
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by pxlpshr 17y ago
I'm aware of that, I was mentioning what I thought were the strengths of stackoverflow in relation to a lot of the other Q/A sites that have existed before it.
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by pxlpshr 17y ago
I meant to downvote that but accidentally upvoted it. Anyhow, I thought it was a bit ridiculous that a startup technology site support IE 6.
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by pxlpshr 17y ago
StackOverflow benefits from two things: 1) started by Fog Software who has a reputation, and 2) there's a natural filter in place with its content. Perhaps just perception bias but I think it helps weed out an overload of questions like "ho
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by pxlpshr 17y ago
I definitely agree that many outlets are bloated and a lot of fat needs to be trimmed. That would be my first step before blocking search engines. If I was a content producer (which I'm not so my experience here is limited) but I would be u
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by pxlpshr 17y ago
Supply and demand is not the issue here. My point was about SEO/SEM in terms of "gaming" the system AND producing low quality content. http://online.wsj.com/article/SB124173784714798437.html
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by pxlpshr 17y ago
Absolutely! I don't disagree with you at all in that regard. But I also feel that a lot of startups overvalue traffic, hoping they'll be the next Facebook or Google when in fact they're never able to scale to meaningful ad revenue and bankr
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by pxlpshr 17y ago
Nothing will ever stop a hacker from programming and figuring out a machine, especially age. I started when I was a tot during the days of DOS on an IBM box. At least kids these days have the internet, we were left to fend for ourselves.
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by pxlpshr 17y ago
Would you say many businesses in the new-media internet sector are equally oblivious to viable and sustainable revenue models? Seems to be a gross sense of entitlement amongst consumers if you ask me. It kills off quality content provid

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