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by sskates 15y ago
Too late, it's on the internet. They're not going to delete it because then instead of the title of this story being "TechCrunch As We Know It May Be Over" it would instead be "The Article AOL Pulled From TechCrunch: TechCrunch As We Know I
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by sskates 15y ago
I'm not saying there's a 95% chance the Higgs isn't there. I'm saying there was some non-zero probability that it was in the specified energy range before, and given these results the probability that it's now in that range is now 5% of the
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by sskates 15y ago
Can someone point to an example where a website where a clone was more successful, or even on the same level of success as the original? To be clear, Facebook was not in any way a clone of Myspace or Friendster. I'm talking about someone wh
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by sskates 15y ago
Maybe I'm missing something, but how is this argument flawed? Bayesian probability says that eliminating possible universes increases the probability of other ones (given everything else as constant). So reducing the probability that the Hi
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by sskates 15y ago
Almost certainly going towards hiring more people to build out more stuff, people are by far the most expensive part of any software operation. I agree with you that expensively developed "value-add" stuff that nobody wants would be a bad u
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by sskates 15y ago
Jobs WAS perceived as absolutely absurd during his first stint at Apple. It's a big part of why the board kicked him out in 1985. If he didn't have a track record of success on the iPod, iPhone, and iPad, his demanding and aggressive person
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by sskates 15y ago
I never understood this notion that the "fair value" of a company is somehow tied to anything but the price of its stock. If the fact that a stock used to be worth more than it is now means that it's somehow under priced then you'd have an
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by sskates 15y ago
It can be surprising how helpful most people are willing to be if you just manage to show up and not waste their time.
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by sskates 15y ago
I feel the downvotes coming, but this article is unbelievably tone deaf. Who's the audience for the article? People who are unemployed and put out of work because of technology that's displaced them? What's their reaction to this supposed t
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by sskates 15y ago
For the vast majority of cases, doing a startup funded by TechStars gives someone way more credibility than an MBA.
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by sskates 15y ago
Drew found a cofounder before doing YC. Can't think of any truly one man operations off the top of my head, although Zuckerberg was almost running the entire show at Facebook.
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by sskates 15y ago
I'm surprised the fact that it always works wasn't mentioned. Paper is not dependent on: -Having an internet connection -Being booted into your OS -Not in a full screen application -Having enough battery -Amazon's servers being up -The code
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by sskates 15y ago
Thank goodness any form of licensing or certification never caught on in the tech community. Way too libertarian to let any of that sort of stuff stand. On the flip side the worst that can happen in the vast majority of cases is that progra
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by sskates 15y ago
It's certainly easier to appreciate startups that solve "real problems". But the article wasn't focused on them creating some huge leap in value. (It specifically points out that most of the apps were "silly".) It was about them seeing an o
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by sskates 15y ago
I did the exact same thing to check. It's nice that we live in a world where the latency of this sort of information is down to a few minutes.
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by sskates 15y ago
Just because the United States has the most liberal immigration policy doesn't mean it shouldn't be more liberal. As with startups- don't worry about the competition, focus on making yourself better.
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by sskates 16y ago
That's pretty cool that you guys negotiated this and they were reasonable.
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by sskates 16y ago
There's nothing wrong with it, but a lot of people get into startups for the large upside potential. If that's your goal then make sure you're not shortchanging yourself.
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by sskates 16y ago
Absolutely. There would have to be almost no overhead in using it though.
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by sskates 16y ago
I look forward to the day where we have stat tracking of everything we do in real life.
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by sskates 16y ago
My understanding is that making you not disclose your salary is unenforceable. They can get mad at you, but they don't actually have recourse.
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by sskates 16y ago
Advice on how to go about finding a good startup lawyer by those who have gone through the process would be much appreciated.
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by sskates 16y ago
Talk about hacking the system. It's amazing that everything was legitimate except for the fact that they were reselling Chinese ammunition.
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by sskates 16y ago
"Most of my college-graduate friends have post-graduation jobs where they have no impact on the company's success, and do mostly busywork filling out forms and going through the motions." Really? I'm a little surprised that most of your col
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by sskates 16y ago
Who's the equivalent of the Winklevoss brothers in Pirates of Silicon Valley? I thought everyone looked fairly good there.
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by sskates 16y ago
Jeeze this is awful. If you're Blizzard and an ISP starts throttling your game, at least you have a little muscle to fight back (and even so their response is "oops, sorry, we'll try to have it fixed by June"). But if you're Random Web Star
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by sskates 16y ago
"This is not just speculation: from our position (Hirelite connects developers with companies looking to hire them via speed interviewing over video chat), startups value a developer about 50% more than a non-technical person with a similar
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He's at the very least set himself apart from other potential non-tech founders and demonstrated that he's willing to be a janitor even though his degree didn't give him any training on how to mop the floor.
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"This is why I don’t have an acting career, or am a musician — because as much as I’d like those, I somehow stubbornly don’t actually do the things I need to do in order to achieve them." Being an entrepreneur isn't about sitting on a beach
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by sskates 16y ago
I have to say I agree with "good ideas only come through trial and error". Perhaps "only" is too strong of a word, but if you ask any successful entrepreneur about how many ideas they've been through before figuring out the one that led to

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