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by sbisker 12y ago
Teespring at least is doing very, very well. Their affiliate program is incredibly successful, allowing people to procedurally design, test and sell t-shirts through various channels.
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by sbisker 12y ago
GoDaddy was entirely bootstrapped before a large chunk of it was sold to private equity firms in 2011. The founder self-funded it based on a $MM sale of a previous company, though - so they're awfully nice boots to be strapped up by. :
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by sbisker 12y ago
The funny thing is that this lie would only work outside of Boston - in Boston proper, companies big and small see this all the time, and are very alert for it (in part because of the presence of successful Extension alumni at the firms).
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by sbisker 12y ago
Rent, sure, but many other personal responsibilities are not so kind - especially from vendors who can legally tack on cumulative late fees. Try not paying your Comcast or Verizon bill on time for a month or two and see what happens. The en
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by sbisker 12y ago
Probably referring to this comment from pg, linked to elsewhere here in the comments: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4602821
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by sbisker 12y ago
I don't get it - why does the page keep calling me Bob?
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by sbisker 12y ago
From the techcrunch article: 'the company has set aside $2.7 million of equity retention grants to Perfect Audience employees who stay on.' Given how few people are in the photo, there's probably reason for that to make them
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by sbisker 12y ago
Keep in mind that the number of taxis on the road - and thus the number of jobs - is limited in many cities to the number of "medallions" issued (which represents the number of taxis that can be operating in the city at the same t
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by sbisker 12y ago
Not sure if it's what happened here, but - companies will sometimes "test the waters" in Canada and iron out the kinks before coming to the US. If they screw up, it's on a much smaller stage, and it can be fixed more qui
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by sbisker 12y ago
Have a look at that tumblr - it's not the day of acquisition announcement that matters here...
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by sbisker 12y ago
We just started using this service at GoDaddy/Locu and had our first pickup today. It was painless, felt good, and made me want to make sure the rest of the local tech community knew about them.
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Excess Catered Food in San Francisco? Donate it to FoodRunners(foodrunners.org)
120 points by sbisker 12y ago|28 comments
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by sbisker 12y ago
Remember they're saving 6.75% of your costs by keeping you as a contractor instead of a W2. And they're treating you as an employee, it sounds like. In some states that's not even legal, even if you willingly agree to it , b
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by sbisker 12y ago
I just asked the guy. He had self-taught himself programming on his own for a few months prior to attending the program, but attended in part to make a career change (had done startup biz dev / operations / whatnot prior.) Maybe t
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by sbisker 12y ago
They just mean the note itself is "dead" (voted down into oblivion or from a person who is hellbanned) - you have to view HN with "showdead" turned on to see dead comments.
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by sbisker 12y ago
Oops - apparently Hacker School no longer really encourages that sort of person. I can't edit my post to say that, unfortunately. That's a shame; they trained our guy far better than most of the candidates I see coming out of &quo
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by sbisker 12y ago
Is it intentional that Hacker School in NYC isn't on this list? It's structured very differently from many of the other code bootcamps, and I'd be curious how its differences shake out in terms of effectiveness of graduates.
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by sbisker 12y ago
Wow, that's a really good idea. What I really like about it is that with so many rejected applicants per cycle, you can actually determine statistically the impact of giving feedback on later performance. One can make a small investm
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by sbisker 12y ago
What's not constructive about it? He's literally giving sentence by sentence grammatical feedback...I'd be pretty happy to get advice like that.
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by sbisker 13y ago
I'm very wary of the photo feature, even cartoony and blurred out...will there be a bias between male vs female candidates in terms of whether people bid on them? Race? Hair color? Etc. There's a reason most companies don't w
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by sbisker 13y ago
>Additionally, the relationship between the visa sponsor and the applying individual in those circumstances is far, far, far less one-sided than it would be between potential founder and stake-holding VC. I actually disagree with this st
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by sbisker 13y ago
The hotels have been downgrading the quality around their brand names for years now, cramming people into tinier and more cookie-cutter spaces. Plus the average Airbnb has always had more livable space (not to mention a kitchen!) than a h
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by sbisker 13y ago
I agree it would be a mistake for the layperson to infer strong causation, especially in the middle of the issue - I was more musing that this is the sort of opportunity where a student in law or economics could someday get a Ph.D attemptin
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by sbisker 13y ago
Now that this is exposed and (presumably) not as present, has anyone done any work to see if salaries at Apple, Google, etc have since risen higher than salaries at companies who weren't involved with such activity? This sort of shenan
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by sbisker 13y ago
Yet another Yanko Design "concept" mistaken for a real project in the media. I wouldn't mind it once in a while, except that this studio seems to make a habit out of being subtly misleading in order to garner free press, and
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by sbisker 13y ago
A better discussion from him on the topic is linked to from this page: https://www.schneier.com/crypto-gram-9812.html#1
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by sbisker 13y ago
Are you sure that was the design of this hackathon? I was more under the impression it was to incentive their entire developer base, not simply to encourage new adoption.
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by sbisker 13y ago
Could be worse...I got this question on a mid-term in my Intro to Circuits class. The mathy folk all thought the test was awesome, and the systemsy folk all thought the professor was a jerk. :P
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by sbisker 13y ago
This happens all the time - a firm will make a number of "exploratory" funds, with the losers being rolled into existing funds and the winners "graduating" to being full funds and promoted aggressively by the firm. (At l
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by sbisker 13y ago
Four words: "Need to know basis". It's entirely possible many of the component parts needed for this were developed as "black box" (i.e., they were told not to ask questions as to why this was being developed, and t

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