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by sachinag 17y ago
If Mike Olson wanted to hire me to sweep floors and wash dishes, I would. (Former banking client; the best combo of tech smarts and people skills I've ever seen.)
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by sachinag 17y ago
http://www.quantcast.com/friendfeed.com http://siteanalytics.compete.com/friendfeed.com/
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by sachinag 17y ago
OTOH, this is why Apple locks down its platforms.
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by sachinag 17y ago
No lie: my dream was to sell my startup and make a USAA for the rest of us. (USAA really is restricted to active duty and vets, despite the article.)
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by sachinag 17y ago
Wait, why do bigger ventures without requiring outside investors? If you want to do bigger things, you'll have to put more in, and you're going to end up in a situation where the same percentage of your net worth is tied up. Instead, if yo
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by sachinag 17y ago
I think you've mischaracterized my argument. I've not said anything about amount here - my position (farther down, I think) is that founders should pay themselves merely the minimum salary required to qualify for group health insurance. (
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by sachinag 17y ago
Because the domain doesn't cost anything to maintain. The service has hosting and bandwidth costs, which must be relatively substantial for a service of their scale.
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by sachinag 17y ago
This is why we use the phrase "all y'all" to mean the second person plural. It's actually really useful. :) I used to work in banking and VC. 80 hours was easy. More work in banking, more travel (which sucks just as much) in VC. I don'
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by sachinag 17y ago
I've found that "working harder" is more accurate than saying "working more productively". It's been my experience that many people get very excited about, say, rebuilding backends for incremental performance reasons (because they're good
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by sachinag 17y ago
Unless the purpose is to make this into some ginormous company, I'd highly recommend excluding IE from your list of worries. If it's a love-of-the-game project, do it to your (and your friends') satisfaction.
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by sachinag 17y ago
Now I know why I can't hack it as a radio talk show host or freelance writer. I just don't have the ability to stretch a single sentence - "Losing weight requires a calorie deficit." - into four pages.
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by sachinag 17y ago
I think one of the biggest mistakes I made with Dawdle was not paying myself a salary immediately. One, it forces you to work harder as your cash burn is more realistic, and more importantly, salaries are prerequisite in Illinois (and most
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by sachinag 17y ago
Do you have the stats for YC-funded companies? It'd be a nice leading indicator and if it means that more people pick up the languages/frameworks they use, that's a win/win for everyone.
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by sachinag 17y ago
Perhaps, but there's much more heterogeneity amongst PHP frameworks than Python or Ruby frameworks. For better or worse, Django and Rails are dominant in a way that Cake isn't. (Besides, all the cool kids moved to Kohana. We're not cool,
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by sachinag 17y ago
Honestly, my point isn't about saving money (although that's a nice side benefit). My point is that there's not a single "good" lawyer out there who says, 1) I do this and 2) This is what it costs. I'm very much of the opinion that if a th
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by sachinag 17y ago
Downloaded the Word docs and opened just "fine" in Open Office using Firefox 3.52 on Mac OS X 10.6.
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by sachinag 17y ago
If you know an unemployed law grad who's passed the bar, there's a good living to be made merely just customizing these forms for new companies. (I actually begged Yokum to have WSGR do these forms [Wilson has done YC/term sheet docs, but
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by sachinag 17y ago
The Congress shall also have the power to set up the court system (aside from SCOTUS). It is well established that this construct in the Constitution obligates Congress to do these things.
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by sachinag 17y ago
The USPS operates under an insane number of constraints that private competitors don't. They have to serve every single residental address in America, no matter how remote (UPS, and especially FedEx, laugh at this); they have to have outpo
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by sachinag 17y ago
I love how this reads like the syndication of a book.
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by sachinag 17y ago
As a non-programmer, I had no idea that this usage was so widespread. That's actually rather cool, and I'm going to ping my editor to add it to the reference books.
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by sachinag 17y ago
Wait, what? For people not in the US (or perhaps Newcastle in the UK), there's no way they'd know the "canary in a coal mine" idiom. This is a very, very, very America-centric idiom. /I teach English, SAT, ACT, GMAT, GRE, and other tests
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by sachinag 17y ago
No one disputes this. However, the vast majority of cars and car parts sold in the U.S. are made here and are made in states below the median in average income; neither of those things are true for computers. Furthermore, this is a mildly
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by sachinag 17y ago
Fair - the town hall question referred to IE in general; it may very well be IE7 that they have at Foggy Bottom.
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The U.S. State Department, however, does.
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by sachinag 17y ago
That'd be pretty pathetic; they were in YC.
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by sachinag 17y ago
That would require background apps. What you want is a Pre. :)
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by sachinag 17y ago
Tim Langdell is well-known for being a total dick about the use of the word "Edge" in games. He's also on the board of the Independent Game Developers Association. There's a recall effort afoot as a result of his pigheadedness: http://co
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by sachinag 17y ago
Eric Schmidt resigns from Apple's BOD is Politics how? Take your smug sense of superiority, turn that sumbitch sideways, and stick it up your candy ass.
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by sachinag 17y ago
You could probably easily do the model for consumer products if you would be able to figure out a test distribution mechanism, such as a partnership with a grocery store chain, or some such. Yeah, it would be something akin to the Americ

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