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by rosenjon 14y ago
Wow. If those reviews are true, Zynga is going to fold like a cheap suit. Can't imagine anyone is working 11 hour days for peanuts when the stock is heading to $0. Weird, too, because I thought virtual cows was a pretty good business model.
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by rosenjon 15y ago
I'm not a lawyer, but I have done a lot of trademark research for my own business, and I can tell you that you're definitely infringing. The bright line standard for trademark lawsuits is essentially "would a reasonable person mistake your
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by rosenjon 16y ago
even at MIT.....
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by rosenjon 16y ago
It's worth watching. A good lesson that growth for its own sake is not necessarily a good thing. Getting really big really fast is pointless unless you have a revenue model that works.
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by rosenjon 16y ago
Not sure where the girls in that picture came from. Not any software shop I've ever worked at.
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by rosenjon 16y ago
Why'd I get down-voted for this?
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by rosenjon 16y ago
Perhaps a better way of articulating this is: "Focus on your own game." Be Tiger Woods (before the hookers, etc). Focus on being the best at what you do. Let the competition follow you. The reason I rephrased is that the competition always
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by rosenjon 16y ago
There are a whole host of intangibles that will probably break down by individual employee. An employee may have to move to a different location for personal reasons where the only option is a job that hires via HR drone. A large part of ma
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by rosenjon 16y ago
I realize that particular suggestion regarding degrees is a little Mickey Mouse. My point was simply that it is quite risky for them to have to rely on your good graces when they leave the organization. What if you're not around to bestow t
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by rosenjon 16y ago
I don't understand why this has to be a binary choice. The real issue at hand appears to be that people get promoted to positions for which they are not well-suited, and then stay there, because they do a lousy job (agree that this sometime
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by rosenjon 16y ago
The thing I've always liked about Jason's writing and approach to business is that he isn't afraid to say that they might not have the exact right answer. At the same time, they refuse to accept the "conventional wisdom" as being the correc
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by rosenjon 16y ago
I think the ability to combine C code in Obj-C allows for the usage of a huge legacy code base. However, I wouldn't be surprised if there was a design decision at some point that deliberately made it harder to port NextStep (NS) objects bac
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by rosenjon 16y ago
I'm don't get why this is surprising. NSArray takes a static dataset, and cannot be changed. NSMutableArray, by definition, can add or delete items. Wouldn't it make sense to store an array that is huge differently than one that is of small
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by rosenjon 16y ago
I agree with this perspective. For example, I was interested in watching the movie E-Dreams the other day. I would have been more than willing to rent it on Amazon On-Demand, or iTunes, if it was available. However, it wasn't. And then I re
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by rosenjon 16y ago
For reference, here is a picture from one of the MW patents: http://www.patentlyapple.com/.a/6a0120a5580826970c013487fbb5... You can see how there is some Cover Flow similarity there. However, why should this be patentable at all? Otherwi
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by rosenjon 16y ago
I agree that IP belongs in a category of its own. Real property ownership lasts effectively forever. Intellectual property, in the form of patents, are temporary monopolies under the current system. So there are already distinctions. It is
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by rosenjon 16y ago
I think the question is: What is the principled stance? The link you referenced would generally be considered the far-left stance, in that there really shouldn't be any property ownership at all (the referenced writings seem to suggest that
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by rosenjon 16y ago
I think it would be interesting to have to say why you up or down voted something, along with the vote. Make the reasons public, so people can see how the system is being used, and then publish guidelines based on the aggregate results that
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by rosenjon 16y ago
Awesome article! Thank you for posting this. I just recently started really looking at Hacker News (mostly because of my Y Combinator application), but I have been really impressed with the breadth of stuff posted here. I am a molecular bio
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by rosenjon 16y ago
I wouldn't ignore it. There is the real possibility that there is too much capital being pumped into early-stage companies, and when they fail, there will be too little available to all. The best way to insulate your business from bubble ec
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by rosenjon 16y ago
"Veil-piercing isn't about "transacting business on behalf of the company in a role that doesn't legally exist." That's an indemnity issue (the LLC is trying to shuffle blame from itself to an employee)." No... you are confusing the issue.
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by rosenjon 16y ago
That's the point of the operating agreement. It says what does and does not exist. To quote from Nolo.com ( http://www.nolo.com/legal-encyclopedia/llc-operating-agreeme... ) : "The main reason to make an operating agreement is to help ensur
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by rosenjon 16y ago
Ok, but what's your point? On $19 Billion in profit, they paid no federal income tax. I made substantially less than $19B last year, and I paid both state and federal income tax. Also, if you read the article I posted on G.E., it talks abou
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by rosenjon 16y ago
I would never use RoR for my social coupon webapp. ;P
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by rosenjon 16y ago
"Regardless of if I talked to a professional, I'd actually have to pay the same amount to dissolve this entity." Really? There is a reason companies like G.E. ( http://online.wsj.com/article/SB1000142405274870453020457623... ) legally pay e
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by rosenjon 16y ago
My first Python app was a Windows automation script that took a data dump from SQL Server and ran it through Tableau's data visualization software, to produce a daily report on various metrics our company was interested in. The enterprise T
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by rosenjon 16y ago
How stupid this was is dependent on the specifics, which we don't really have. Were you on the brink of raising a round of capital? Or did you just incorporate in anticipation of raising a round later? A C-corporation in Delaware is conside
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by rosenjon 16y ago
Totally agree. It would be unfortunate if anyone takes away from this that incorporating is a bad idea. What is a bad idea is incorporating with no idea of what you're doing. I disagree that this is a story of dissolution. It is a story of
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by rosenjon 16y ago
Bought a Mac off Craigslist a year and a half ago to do development for iPhone; it was a beat up MacBook Pro 15" from 2006 with slightly messed up screen (backlighting was uneven). However, it was a good deal compared to a new Mac ($600). I
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by rosenjon 16y ago
Ummm.... what's the date again people? This looks like way too much work to just "give it away". I was expecting an empty homepage with a single search box. Nice prank though. Me likey.

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