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811.
by rdouble 14y ago
That is how most of the fashion sites start out. There's some point in time where they find a desperate luxury goods manufacturer willing to give them a deal, or meet a guy who inherited his family's shirt factory and wants to try out somet
812.
by rdouble 14y ago
"Cinderella Story" is now a pop phrase which simply means exceeded expectations. It is most commonly used in sports. In this context it fits perfectly. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cinderella_(sports)
813.
by rdouble 14y ago
That... is tacky.
814.
by rdouble 14y ago
Sites like these have huge expenses. In addition to having to pay staff ranging from programmers to models, they take on a lot of risk when they buy and warehouse the products. Consumers are fickle. If the site buys the wrong stuff, they ar
815.
by rdouble 14y ago
That doesn't really mean much - most online fashion retail has similar markups, and nobody else is making money. Edit: In the case of the 2nd piece, Nasty Gal probably isn't making much money on it at all. It's made in the USA (which is usu
816.
by rdouble 14y ago
It would be interesting (but unlikely) to hear about the company's entire financial picture. After working in online fashion retail, it's clear almost nobody is making money, despite what their revenues are.
817.
by rdouble 14y ago
Every designer I've known falls into one of two camps: they either have an incredibly detailed folder hierarchy or else they store every file they've ever created or downloaded on the desktop.
818.
by rdouble 14y ago
Personally, I'd rather get a shot than have to eat nutritional yeast.
819.
by rdouble 14y ago
Sprinter speed is mostly determined by genetics and training (and often, PEDs). Diet is largely irrelevant - Usain Bolt's "power food" is mcnuggets, Yohan Blake's is a 16 banana smoothie.
820.
by rdouble 14y ago
A ford explorer can stop on a dime. A fire truck cannot. A fire truck also has a blind spot equivalent to 3 ford explorers.
821.
by rdouble 14y ago
You can't get B12 from any plant source, though.
822.
by rdouble 14y ago
The phrase "American Dream" traditionally has meant something much more like "secure mediocre living" than the ease of starting a multinational corporation.
823.
by rdouble 14y ago
Except that Minnesota actually is boring.
824.
by rdouble 14y ago
To be fair, the part of Minnesota where Bob Dylan is from is indeed a cultural wasteland.
825.
by rdouble 14y ago
Could you give a list of the names of those negative companies, as a service to engineers seeking employment?
826.
by rdouble 14y ago
You seem to have had a negative experience which has caused you to invent a venture capital funded employment dystopia in your mind. This isn't entirely surprising if you are located in New York as there is always a subset in Silicon Alley
827.
by rdouble 14y ago
Even in Silicon Valley, one could do it for $5M after taxes.
828.
by rdouble 14y ago
Oh... thanks. "Derp" on my part.
829.
by rdouble 14y ago
I've found that most smaller companies do not do any sort of background check on their potential employees.
830.
by rdouble 14y ago
What does "never have to look at the right side of a menu" mean?
831.
by rdouble 14y ago
Clearly, as the world population approaches 7 billion, people are indeed having kids. My comment was Silicon Valley specific. Do you know something I don't? Are 20 something tech employees in Silicon Valley all of the sudden having lots of
832.
by rdouble 14y ago
If Europe, Canada, New Zealand and Australia are included in those statistics, the age is closer to 35.
833.
by rdouble 14y ago
Well, I wish I hadn't replied since you edited your comment to say something quite different to what I was responding to. That said, if I was wagering money on the age of when any tech employee in Silicon Valley gets married and starts havi
834.
by rdouble 14y ago
I'd like to see your data. Silicon Valley aside, the trend for women with college degrees has been to postpone childbirth until around age 35. This isn't exactly news.
835.
by rdouble 14y ago
The Economist had an issue about this topic 2 months ago. Every article was posted to hacker news. You could probably search and find the previous discussions.
836.
by rdouble 14y ago
What does the rest of the world have to do with my comment?
837.
by rdouble 14y ago
Does it matter? The social dynamics are similar.
838.
by rdouble 14y ago
In Silicon Valley, nobody has kids until their late 30s, if ever. Edit: the post I replied to originally said something to the effect that finding engineers without kids by age 30 would be statistically difficult. Which is false in Silicon
839.
by rdouble 14y ago
In the part of Minnesota I grew up in, open enrollment was mainly used to get a kid onto a different school's hockey team, if he didn't make the starting team of his local school.
840.
by rdouble 14y ago
The food in the article and your food seem quite involved and niche (Thai, vegan, Nordic). Does a cart like Potato Champion do better because the food is easier to produce and everybody likes French fries?

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