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by sachinag 16y ago
We have a well-established apprenticeship system for electricians and other skilled trades here in the States. Not all formal learning happens in colleges.
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by sachinag 16y ago
"Graham concedes that individual YC partners have invested in a few startups that hadn't been able to attract much outside funding." Interesting that Paul, Trevor, Robert, and Jessica (maybe Harj and Alexis now?) will backstop companies tha
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by sachinag 16y ago
That's pretty baller.
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Do I have to have FaceTime running to get an invite?
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by sachinag 16y ago
That pisses off the other Sachin a lot more than it bothers me. :)
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Sachin's conflating the teaching of techniques he finds distateful with the general notion of teaching management skills in general. Trying to teach the mechanics of running a business without going into psychology is like trying to teach t
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by sachinag 16y ago
There is a rumor of a substantially redesigned MacBook Air.
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Ask and ye shall receive: https://spreadsheets.google.com/ccc?key=0AkkhSN3vaY4jdF90b1l...
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Direct link: http://feefighters.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2010/10/trans...
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I found this via http://lifehacker.com/5658300/microsoft-expression-encoder-m... to get a Windows-native screencast tool (I have Screenflow on the Mac side, but a lot of Blueleaf customers are on the Windows side, so I wanted to have a na
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Tell HN: Microsoft DreamSpark - free developer/designer tools for students(dreamspark.com)
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by sachinag 16y ago
Note how they had multiple VC firms to mitigate signalling risk if one or more decline to invest in a priced Series A round.
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They share USV as an investor. I'd be astonished if they didn't.
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by sachinag 16y ago
http://cakesy.com/8736cdf03
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by sachinag 16y ago
For now, yeah. It's an extension of how the Startup Visa movement used gov2. Elected officials and their offices really only want to hear from their constituents; if you make it easier for them to verify that feedback is coming from their
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by sachinag 16y ago
If you're concerned about credit card portability (as this blog author is), your only real options are Braintree's vault or Recurly. Chargify still stores the CC at the gateway level, so you have gateway lockin, which is no different than
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by sachinag 16y ago
From the series conclusion: "The first [thing we need to own up to] is that most of the “extra” spending is in areas of care. So, please, let’s stop pretending that cost containment can be painless or unnoticed."
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by sachinag 16y ago
sigh The articles go into this - yes, the salaries are higher than expected, but they're a relatively small part of the problem. It's that we consume more care than any other country, and by a lot. We have to find a way to reduce demand
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by sachinag 16y ago
@MayorEmanuel would like to have a word with you.
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A/B test with red - I'll bet you a drink red outperforms green. (Oh, and make sure your conversion isn't clicks, but purchases. I believe the Associates API will let you track by click. And, no Pek, we don't do that tracking at Dawdle.
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by sachinag 16y ago
Evan Miller (I forget his nick on HN) wrote the first - and the best - explanation of the analysis of Groupon's economics: http://www.evanmiller.org/golden-football.html
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by sachinag 16y ago
Aetna is surprisingly forward-thinking for a bunch of evil bastards.
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I just saw a Microsoft recruiting video last night that perfectly illustrated this point. (In true MSFT fashion, it's not available online.) It was pretty awesome - splitting apart a "phone" into two panes to do a video call with one scre
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by sachinag 16y ago
The FBI is investigating AngelGate: http://www.bizjournals.com/sanfrancisco/blog/2010/09/fbi_rep...
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Sadly, there's very little research controlling for these factors. http://www.hepg.org/hep/Book/5 has a collection of papers that addresses some of this on the periphery.
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I think that's a fair characterization of my point in your first three paragraphs. There's just not a history of being able to take on the unions and "win", regardless of the labor laws. So let's stop trying to fight the unions and chara
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by sachinag 16y ago
Yes, that's how unionization works in the U.S. However, you've said nothing about educational outcomes, which is what I'm concerned with. In addition, you're a bit off on the facts. There actually are three states that expressly prohibit
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by sachinag 16y ago
Every time I point out that educational outcomes in right to work states aren't any better than outcomes in states where teachers unions have collectively bargained contracts, I get downvoted. People just really want to believe that it's a
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by sachinag 16y ago
I've never heard of the Software Freedom Law Center before. Seems like a good group. I donated $10: http://www.softwarefreedom.org/donate/
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I'm so thrilled that they gave Carl Malamud/Law.gov $1 million. His tireless devotion to shining sunlight on government has dramatically changed the way we interact with our government (i.e. SEC EDGAR, which started off as a skunkworks pro

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