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by pytrin 14y ago
You are taking it too literally, I was referring of course to his influence on making the teamsters one of the strongest unions in American history, not wishing for a carbon copy of Jimmy Hoffa. Second, not to slide off topic, but it's hard
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by pytrin 14y ago
Most professions in the U.S have unions. The most publicized are their sport player unions, which have perfected the art of collective bargaining. Worker unions are a part of U.S culture.
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Developers Vs. Bigcorp(techfounder.net)
39 points by pytrin 14y ago|48 comments
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by pytrin 14y ago
Breaking news: Apple sues Samsung for infringing on their patent to use trucks with rounded wheels to deliver money. More to follow
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by pytrin 14y ago
To me it sounds like a cop out from a jaded VC. I understand where it's coming from - VC take multiple pitches a day, most of them bad - and not just because of the delivery. It's the VC job however, to be able do detach delivery from the a
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by pytrin 14y ago
I thought it was a great presentation with great advice. If you have specific questions, post it here and other HN'ers can add their commentary on it.
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Samsung argued that Apple could not claim the rights for all rectangles with rounded corners or other basic geometric designs used for phones and tablets. http://www.forbes.com/sites/susankalla/2012/08/25/apple-deli... I haven't seen th
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by pytrin 14y ago
I guess they're not into video games ;-) I'll send them a note for their appeal
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by pytrin 14y ago
Apple builds beautiful products on one hand, but on the other tries to stifle competition using patent laws instead of with their products. The problem is with the system that allows patenting obvious solutions such as rounded corners or cl
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by pytrin 14y ago
Cache is a not a solve-all solution. It is useful only for commonly used data, otherwise you just transfer the database problem to a caching problem.
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by pytrin 14y ago
That's an inner method call, that's not the use case I was referring to. When you call a static function from a different class, you put the class name before the call, and make it different to substitute it - which you could easily if you
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by pytrin 14y ago
No, you still have a problem in your database. Running a database smoothly with large datasets is the main performance problem for web applications. As fast as you can get with smart DB architecture, DB calls still take the bulk of the time
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by pytrin 14y ago
* You can't extend a static method call - ie, it will always refer to a specific class, you can't replace it with another without changing a lot of calls. * Lots of static calls are indicative of function classes - classes as namespaces for
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by pytrin 14y ago
People often leave comments that are poorly worded, poorly thought of and sometimes completely irrelevant, all to make their voice heard and not because they care. There's too many of those here on HN
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by pytrin 14y ago
Well put, the database is usually the bottleneck in web applications, not the language or code.
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by pytrin 14y ago
I think every HN user should read this and consider it when posting their next comment.
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How To Give (Negative) Feedback Effectively(jasonshen.com)
48 points by pytrin 14y ago|19 comments
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In my opinion that was a really ignorant and degrading comment, as opposed to others who tried to offer real feedback.
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by pytrin 14y ago
I'm not having any trouble, but thanks for the advice. I guess you never heard of Airbnb, Fab or dozens of other online marketplaces (sorry, "middle man") that have become huge businesses. Lucky for them they didn't know that Google and the
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by pytrin 14y ago
For us specifically, that is exactly our audience. Non techy people have no use for our service. Many tech ventures are for techy people. Mass consumer startups are a different beast altogether - they can usually get large traction the easy
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by pytrin 14y ago
Most people do not come through the homepage, but rather get to it after visiting one of the component pages through organic sources. So we put a premium on featuring components there, but I see your point. Perhaps we should have a differen
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by pytrin 14y ago
Not sure what your case is - if read my comment, you'd notice I said I traveled to silicon valley from Israel. Just get on a plane and you're here, if it's important enough for you. Naturally, I did try to raise in Israel. The funding scene
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by pytrin 14y ago
You can always travel to Silicon Valley, you don't have to live there - we live in a global village nowadays. Even though I now live in Mountain View, the funding attempt I mention in the post was done on a 3 week visit to the valley (from
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by pytrin 14y ago
Appreciated and will pass it along. Thank you
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I agree that not every business needs to raise. If your goal is to slowly build a lifestyle business, there's no rush. If you want to become huge, funding helps a lot. Being patient means you give opportunity to others to bypass you while t
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by pytrin 14y ago
Investment means much more than money, if you get the right investor. Connections, exposure and social proof that can help you expand your company in many more ways than with just money. I can think of many similar companies that weren't re
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by pytrin 14y ago
I agree to a point - you don't need funding, as we've found out the hard way, reaching break even point without it. Funding can provide a strong springboard that accelerates your growth at the critical first steps. Not to mention, that best
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by pytrin 14y ago
Good point - I consider a closed beta a product that hasn't launched yet. It is meant to test features and experience, but not to measure actual real-world traction. In this case I would suggest to raise before opening it to the public, sin
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by pytrin 14y ago
Thanks for the feedback, it is helpful. We are constantly trying different messaging on the homepage to see what works best and we still haven't found the magic words. We can't say "buy source-code snippets" for a couple of reasons - first,
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Why we stopped raising until we no longer need the money(techfounder.net)
45 points by pytrin 14y ago|33 comments

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