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by sachinag 15y ago
Um, no. A précis is a summary. Also, we all have Google to look up words we don't know.
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by sachinag 15y ago
Heh, that'd probably be worth in the neighborhood of $500K given how many openings there are for Rubyists in the Boston/Cambridge area.
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by sachinag 15y ago
The rational thing for Sony and Microsoft to do is to stand down on any new console. Both consoles push 1080p and there's been no mass adoption of 3D or other display technology to warrant a new introduction; Crysis 2 is being released for
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by sachinag 16y ago
Meta comment: it's kind of awesome to see more umich.edu links on HN lately. Would there be interest in an Ann Arbor meetup, say early May, after Funded by Night?
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by sachinag 16y ago
They may be S3's biggest customer, but Netflix is easily AWS' biggest customer overall.
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by sachinag 16y ago
I'm astonished that that's rare. Do you tend to select companies to interview who aren't developing for themselves (non-young men programmers)?
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by sachinag 16y ago
Hell, Exxon is run by an engineer.
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by sachinag 16y ago
It's still pay to pitch. We had this fight on HN last year too. They're good people with good motivations, but it's still pay to pitch and, as a result, I wouldn't recommend it to anyone.
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by sachinag 16y ago
Good people can be corrupted by bad influences over time. The douchebaggery on HN is at all-time highs and good people are being sucked in. I've got enough karma to spare that I'm happy to be downvoted to oblivion on this, but it's really
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by sachinag 16y ago
Yay HN circa 2011!
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by sachinag 16y ago
Yeah, I wonder why Ellington didn't get more traction.
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by sachinag 16y ago
Would love to learn more about the UX considerations given that you've done everything from iOS to Flex.
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by sachinag 16y ago
There's plenty of later stage money; it's the seed capital that's lacking.
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by sachinag 16y ago
Braid wouldn't be Braid without the art. Dirt cheap illustrators won't help him; he needs someone good .
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by sachinag 16y ago
Scribd is ruthlessly efficient with their SEO even though they don't create linkbait content.
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by sachinag 16y ago
I don't think this is fair. MetroPCS has their own towers and is a pretty robust national carrier. Leap/Cricket also has a pretty broad footprint.
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by sachinag 16y ago
It's obvious that building an API is easier than 1) building and shipping physical devices that work well enough to qualify for card present transactions and 2) obviating the need for a merchant account (only PayPal really gets you there, a
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by sachinag 16y ago
For me, I noticed it when people started posting things from investor blogs and the VCs and angels themselves started commenting here. I think that spurred some small handful of users to start showing off how smart they were in hopes that
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by sachinag 16y ago
As a longtime MeFite and a longtime member of this community, I believe that most of the issues could be dealt with by having obvious and active moderation. As MetaFilter, not only do we know who the mods are, we know which mods are on call
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by sachinag 16y ago
Wow, we need an Ann Arbor HN meetup!
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by sachinag 16y ago
One would hope because that was juvenile and completely unnecessary.
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by sachinag 16y ago
It's crazy that a payment processing startup has such excellent, whimsical design, but they do. Tisho is amazing.
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by sachinag 16y ago
Campfire?
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by sachinag 16y ago
Only up to contributions, not gains. But for most young people, you're right: contributions > accumulated gains.
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by sachinag 16y ago
You should absolutely max your Roth first every year, as you can use the account for a first home purchase and qualified education expenses in addition to retirement. (We'll have a lot of this sort of stuff on Blueleaf as we get closer to l
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by sachinag 16y ago
Ben Huh has offered to negotiate with Conde Nast for Reddit. He also has $30 million in new investor cash that he's sitting on. Also, this: http://www.itworld.com/offbeat/134411/animated-take-cheezbur...
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by sachinag 16y ago
I'd be astonished if any of us ever realized any significant revenue. Projects != startups
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by sachinag 16y ago
Your share of the coverage is $100. The cost of that coverage is most certainly not $100. Odds are your employer is paying $400 (given the standard 80/20 split at smaller companies).
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by sachinag 16y ago
~$250 a person. You can do group coverage through the Connector as well, but group plans are pretty easy to get through traditional brokers once you hit four enrollees. (You may have some employees covered through their spouse or school,
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by sachinag 16y ago
I've said it before - it's insane that more startups don't locate in Massachusetts in the early days. The Mass Connector can get you pretty decent coverage for around ~$250 a month. Live there, take the Megabus down to NYC for NYTM and fu

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