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by sbisker 10y ago
Often when it is a class project the department or the professor's lab can collect the payment as a sponsorship instead of the students. Still sketch, but arguably at least the company is forced to pay someone for the labor, and argu
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by sbisker 10y ago
I did make you a beautiful logo, didn't I ;) Yes, it's been a while. One of the reasons I signed and took your $25 offer was because I wanted to live in a future where I didn't feel massively entitled to someone else's
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by sbisker 11y ago
Once it becomes straightforward to do ML with a pre-packaged library, you'll quickly start to see Amazon or a third-party offer effective MLaaS. That will suck quite a bit of oxygen out of the room.
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by sbisker 11y ago
This is just a long-tail SEO play, nothing particular to Google Fiber. See also http://www.xfinity.com/compare/comcast-xfinity-vs-att-u-vers... , http://www.xfinity.com/compare/ , etc. I'm gu
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by sbisker 11y ago
Theranos' reply: http://fortune.com/2015/12/20/letter-to-the-editor-theranos-... It reads like it was written by a small team of lawyers who have had little sleep - not a good sign. :/
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by sbisker 11y ago
You bet they have! The reputational risk to a media outlet of writing a digital puff piece is now negligible; they can basically drive traffic to or away from it as they please. There are also real SEO benefits to mediocre pieces beyond ord
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Hackers and Painters for Kindle – On Sale for $2.99(amazon.com)
2 points by sbisker 11y ago|0 comments
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by sbisker 11y ago
We've seen a rash of these "bad news bears" articles lately. It's important to note that this stuff has always existed in some startups, and it isn't inherently bad - it's a natural consequence of taking so man
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Highly Valued Startup Zenefits Runs into Turbulence(wsj.com)
2 points by sbisker 11y ago|0 comments
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by sbisker 11y ago
The fact Fidelity is being this transparent is great news for engineers in the startup scene considering or holding jobs at these companies. No longer can managers keep selling a dream that was last pitched years ago at their last funding
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by sbisker 11y ago
It's not at all clear they had a solid support and sales setup. The company folded for a reason - why would you buy a company and run it the same way it was run before, if it was about to fold under those same processes?
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by sbisker 11y ago
Yeah, that's a trick drivers play on customers so they don't take a hit to their rating. If Uber catches a driver canceling too often, they'll boot them or freeze them from picking up more fares. (Conversely, if a customer is
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by sbisker 11y ago
I suspect the list is pretty long. But off the top of my head, Pandora had a pretty brutal layoff in the very beginning, to the tune of (from what I understand) basically asking their most dedicated employees to work for free. Somehow they
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by sbisker 11y ago
>I net enough to pay off the mortgage, so I’m doing that, which will leave the entire household debt-free and cut our expenses drastically The lead seems buried here. This isn't someone quitting, this is someone in a position of inc
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by sbisker 11y ago
The article comments mention that you need to have the Bitcoin wallet address to use the tool to decrypt the files. Either they found some relationship between the wallet and the secret used for the encryption, or they actually compromised
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by sbisker 12y ago
In fairness, CNN was only started in 1980. In its beginning, it may very well have been much more intelligent and mature. Now that the TV news business model (and cable for that matter) is much more mature, it's a race to the bottom.
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by sbisker 12y ago
You're doing nothing wrong. At the same time, I wouldn't walk just because they aren't being candid. Usually what this tells you - especially for later-stage startups - is that your options have very little expected value (th
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by sbisker 12y ago
Seems like an unfair comparison - Oculus has little revenue and working prototypes of the best VR experience to date. Even disregarding the tech talent, Oculus proved their ability to deliver something interesting that people wanted, howe
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by sbisker 12y ago
For those not in the SF area, this is almost certainly in response to this (unless Uber has a mole within Lyft...): http://blog.uber.com/SFpoolparty
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by sbisker 12y ago
IIRC, the last two investors had some sort of deal where if the IPO was priced at under $20, Box paid them some sort of penalty. (Maybe someone here remembers the details better than me.) I'm sure they watched their backs on the paperw
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by sbisker 12y ago
Facebook and Google have entire training programs around the fact that a person is, indeed, worth 80k or more even without hitting the ground running. My understanding is that FB has a bootcamp of something on the order of 6 weeks for new e
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by sbisker 12y ago
A counterpoint: https://medium.com/designing-for-results/if-by-growth-hackin...
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by sbisker 12y ago
I have to disagree here. Folks with failed startups are as diverse as the startups they built (or just as often, struggled to build). The simple reason why is because while a startup is the best place to learn how to start a startup, it is
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by sbisker 12y ago
Am I the only person who ever found the course list for an MBA genuinely interesting ? Like, intellectually so. I get the general usefulness of advising undergraduates that MBAs are, in general, a bad idea for them. They're certainly
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by sbisker 12y ago
Is this company ok with this being posted? If so, they should say what company they are, because being associated with a clever puzzle like this is great for recruiting (even if it's not being used anymore). Unless they have their own
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by sbisker 12y ago
What's to say they wouldn't if they were more uncommon?
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by sbisker 12y ago
You don't take public transportation in a big city, do you? Cell phone theft is a HUGE problem. Huge. People don't like carrying things of large, uncontrolled value on their person when they don't have to. The status quo is t
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by sbisker 12y ago
At least anecdotally, having moved here from Boston, no question that you're correct. You definitely get more space for your dollar in SF than in Boston. The reason is simple - they simply didn't build things as small in SF. Peopl
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by sbisker 12y ago
It's not very usable, but there's a drop down to specify whether you have one or two people in your party. Their website (and possible the product, I forget) suggests that if you have more than 2 people in your party, that you kin
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by sbisker 12y ago
Has anyone tried this yet? How was it?

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