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by sabat 16y ago
I understand your points and pretty much agree with them. My issue is with the term "bubble," because it means different things to different people. Originally, "bubble" means stock market bubble, and when one of those things bursts, it's r
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by sabat 16y ago
I'm having trouble seeing this as anything but bad news.
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by sabat 16y ago
There is no bubble. Repeat: there is no bubble. The last time there were Chicken Littles proclaiming a bubble it was about 2005-2007, and there was no bubble that time either. Yes, there was a problem later on with the housing market and wi
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by sabat 16y ago
Crack. That's what Fred Wilson and Dan Lyons are smoking. It has to be. No one could seriously be suggesting that we're in a bubble.
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by sabat 16y ago
(I was mostly teasing.) :-)
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by sabat 16y ago
She's got a good point; I'd take the same stance on the word "startup". I see a lot of statements here like "take a look at my startup!" with a link to a little webapp that's brand new and either has no revenue model or no customers. I wond
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by sabat 16y ago
Highway 1 is awesome -- I like your game. ( cough cough it's Highway 1 up here; Norcal people don't use 'the' when referring to highways cough *cough)
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by sabat 16y ago
To get sun on a foggy day, all you usually need to do is either 1) head across the bridge to the East Bay, or 2) go to Mt. Sutro or Potrero Hill.
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by sabat 16y ago
Someone might argue that giving all that money to Halliburton and other private war profiteers does the same thing -- so war is good for the economy, right? And maybe it is -- but at least granite countertop makers presumably pay taxes (unl
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by sabat 16y ago
Well, wait -- ignores companies like Facebook opening datacenters out of state The bulk of Facebook's employees don't work in datacenters, and (as another poster noted), big companies do this for redundancy and to reduce latency -- not be
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by sabat 16y ago
IANAE (I am not an economist), but here's an observation from a born-and-bred Californian: whenever the economy is bad, the state budget takes it on the chin. California is big -- bigger than a lot of people realize. I mean this in terms of
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by sabat 16y ago
They had court orders. That means they had due process of law I don't think court orders automatically mean justice was served. Accusation was levied, and execution was carried out.
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by sabat 16y ago
Maybe, but it still seems like a fairly valid point. The key is in Sequoia's msg being "strongly-worded", which it was. The presentation read like the author knew the future for certain and that it was all bad news. In all likelihood, som
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by sabat 16y ago
Or, perhaps more aptly in this case, it's like saying winter is here because it got cold for a week in April. Sequoia's infamous presentation always struck me as hyperbolic; "RIP good times", really? Forever? Long, long recovery? Anyone who
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by sabat 16y ago
It's really a matter of one's approach and level of paranoia. Me? If I wasn't running Flickr (say I was running getfreckle.com), I'd probably opt for more conservative settings. I may not need to time that guy out, but I'd probably do it so
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by sabat 16y ago
You're right, but I still don't believe this creates an impossible situation: * most webapps don't allow giant user uploads of any kind * if you have a persistent user with a net connection that's that slow then you have no choice but to
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by sabat 16y ago
And it would be easy enough to defend against if it really became a problem -- just time out. Most web sites don't need have a need to receive gigantic POST data.
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by sabat 16y ago
He has mentioned how lacking some of the tools are -- he once referred to Google Website Optimizer as "the devil" IIRC. Whether Patrick has the inclination to work on tools like this, I don't know. I think it'd be a good idea for him to wri
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by sabat 16y ago
When I worked at Oracle I saw a good amount of this -- people whose jobs seemed to be nothing but stirring up trouble and looking busy while accomplishing little or nothing. Oracle could afford that, but no company should afford it. That'
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by sabat 16y ago
Heh -- Justin is the guy who coined "luck surface area" and apparently thinks no one knows it. I had answered a question in another thread about who made it up, and someone followed that up with "see Justin? they are paying attention" -- so
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by sabat 16y ago
Name-based virtual hosting would break this. But I'll bet DNS "alternatives" will spring up, quickly.
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by sabat 16y ago
You see, Justin? We are paying attention.
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by sabat 16y ago
It promotes the idea of a magic number, and that hard work and time leads to returns (not true for the majority of startups). It encourages thinking like "Man I'm at the 950 hour mark, I'm almost there!", or even worse, planning one's prod
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by sabat 16y ago
Question: I will this be available later as a video? (For those of us who may not be able to catch it live.)
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by sabat 16y ago
Posting seems slower than it used to be. I'm sure PG is on the case. No complaints. I'm glad HN exists.
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by sabat 16y ago
Nye's current status: "feeling much better". I had feared a stroke, but he's saying that he had just been pushing himself too hard. Whew. Dug up a story here: http://content.usatoday.com/communities/entertainment/post/2...
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by sabat 16y ago
I'd love to know what the objection is to this comment -- I wrote "teh Googlez" instead of "Google"?
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by sabat 16y ago
Exactly what I was thinking: Dropbox seems like a perfect buyout candidate for teh Googlez.
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You're not a fraud. You changed your mind. It's OK to do that.
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by sabat 16y ago
Jason, "luck surface area" is one of the best metaphors I've heard in a while, and certainly one of the most useful. It clarifies something that a lot of people don't realize: the harder you work and the more you get yourself out into the w

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