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by speby 11y ago
While I certainly can't prove your comments any other way, my point isn't to declare that I somehow know what Amazon is going to do with this, rather that there are a lot of interesting possibilities when you control the whole pro
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by speby 11y ago
This is a massive lack of imagination. I highly doubt the only motivation from Amazon's perspective is strictly about cost-cutting. On its surface, yes, it would be easy to assume this could result in some odd or lesser version of havi
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by speby 11y ago
That [currently] is not Zenefits' business model. Their entire premise is that you can practically use any providers you want for your benefits such as various 401K providers, various health care plans, etc., as well as any payroll ven
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by speby 11y ago
What about asking for someone's prior compensation after you've hired them?
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by speby 11y ago
There are almost certainly rules/stipulations around the money that was taken off the table by the founders in their funding round. It most certainly was tied to vested equity, at an absolute minimum, rather than granted as something s
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by speby 12y ago
I'm surprised no one has yet mentioned CarMax. I won't argue as to whether CarMax is best or not but I can attest that it is a very straight-forward, no-haggle, and pretty fair-priced way to buy a car. Even if you don't fee
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by speby 12y ago
What were the specifics of the stock shenanigans?
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by speby 12y ago
I'll second that. It makes CB Insights look good because it now is well-known that a slightly more unscrupulous competitor stole the otherwise brilliant design of CB Insights because they were unable to come up with something they coul
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by speby 12y ago
How neat to see this little article pop up from 1985. Professor Neil Rickert was one of my computer science profs while I was at Northern Illinois University. He was a pretty solid teacher and beyond a doubt, knows his shit in and out. Defi
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by speby 14y ago
It may be different, yes, and I can relate to the OP's original complaint from his girlfriend. Still, given the language used on the site and the (albeit weird) use of a "credit" that can be used in the future for each month you don't buy s
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by speby 15y ago
It is ironic since Kodak itself pioneered the first digital camera technologies. Often rare that the behemoth itself invents the disruptive technology but it certainly happens: For example, IBM, with the PC.
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by speby 15y ago
Don't forget bandwidth.com. That's one of the main providers Twilio uses in the US for all their local numbers.
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by speby 15y ago
Oh, I know that it is taught. I am also very aware of the strategy myself. I fully understand how I might start to go about ripping off an AirBnb or other startup. In fact, I would theorize I might be good at it. But despite it being someth
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by speby 15y ago
It's not a business decision (ie. Gee, one can make profit by imitating a competitor very closely), it's purely out of principle. I would never attribute building a Great Company purely from the imitation of other ones. Be original, even if
255.
by speby 15y ago
There is absolutely zero respect or dignity from what these guys do. Regardless of their personal financial success that might stem from this tasteless work, I would never support them, do business with them, or use their knockoffs.
256.
by speby 15y ago
I'm sure they use really good strainers!
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by speby 15y ago
Can't wait!
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by speby 15y ago
Same here... darn, I know.
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Poll Everywhere is looking for fantastic JS/CoffeeScript Front-End/UX Designers(jobs.polleverywhere.com)
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by speby 15y ago
Kind of depends on what code you're talking about. Some "failed" startups may have valuable code that can be sold or licensed out, even if it ends being somewhat of a firesale. Others may tuck it away on a backup or project folder and never
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by speby 15y ago
Where is the all the bad PR for craigslist (a la Airbnb) for this story?
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by speby 15y ago
PDF button for the article doesn't work and I couldn't find a link in the source or the JS. Annoying. Anyone stumble across the PDF version? Printing the page to PDF from the browser works to no avail either.
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by speby 15y ago
It's kind of an easter egg since most users will never notice unless it's the few people that make their Finder icons absolutely huge. It's definitely just to poke fun and since it isn't in anyone's face, it's not that unprofessional.
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by speby 15y ago
This is open to interpretation. I would say a customer who comes along asking for something you don't already have may present itself as an opportunity. If, in fact, you're already planning to do X and X is the thing the potential customer
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by speby 15y ago
Interesting. I show 10.5M-ish monthly uniques to SurveyMonkey, as of March 2011: http://siteanalytics.compete.com/surveymonkey.com/ Where did you get the 20M uniques from?
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by speby 16y ago
I didn't detect the irony but then I also didn't RTFA. Then again, should I have to in this case?
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by speby 16y ago
Rockstars earn millions of dollars... are they paying those kind of wages? C'mon guys, don't use such a trendy, silly adjective to describe people you want to hire. It's incredibly over-used.
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by speby 16y ago
Classic Google. First they try to buy Yelp.com and that fails, so they build Google Places (TBD if that turns out to be more successful). Now they tried to buy Groupon and failed and now they're potentially creating a clone of that instead.
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by speby 16y ago
Then you're getting a lot of value out of it already. $50/month for that many people working on that many projects is peanuts!
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by speby 16y ago
Maybe offensive but this is perhaps the 12th or 13th article related to income-inequality or Bush tax cuts that I've seen on HN in the past month or two. Frankly, these articles are getting old and I'm seeing almost no new perspectives. Mos

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