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by sunir 13y ago
You are off by a factor due to an error in your math $25/h x 10h/d x 20d/mo = $5000/mo
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by sunir 13y ago
The argument is not that Yahoo! will burn Alibaba to the ground. It's that their asset holding in Alibaba will have to be liquidated to make up for losses by Core Yahoo! That is, they might burn their stake in Alibaba to the ground.
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by sunir 13y ago
As they say, there are an infinite ways to fail but only a few paths to success. If your engineering is so out of control you're constantly in crisis mode, you have more important problems than customer empathy. I think that's an
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by sunir 13y ago
Ryan, I'm scratching my head. What is your message here? Your personal life is a mess because of your startup, but you're hiring? ps. Your homepage doesn't make it clear you are a mindmapping application. The term 'relat
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by sunir 13y ago
Original paper can be found here: http://www.cs.ubc.ca/~van/papers/2013-TOG-MuscleBasedBipeds/... Direct to PDF: http://www.cs.ubc.ca/~van/papers/2013-TOG-MuscleBasedBipeds/...
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by sunir 13y ago
I frequently consider this path, but I see a lot of people in your situation. I'd be putting my family, business, and self at serious risk. Is that path the right economic choice? I'm not exactly hurting financially right now. If
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by sunir 13y ago
I love this talk by Kevin Hale about their all hands support at Wufoo. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fAnl8ZGHVXU (alternate. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wYIH2qTizUU ) The most interesting thing is that
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by sunir 13y ago
My experience says that if you're responsible for building a product, it's way cheaper to be directly in touch with the end customer so you can fix what you're building. It's better than having a legion of product manage
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by sunir 13y ago
Things like JIRA tickets to collate feedback and build a list of interested customers who will be potential beta customers.
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by sunir 13y ago
I will definitely consider the criticism on tone. However, there can be no slack for English as a second language. They are marketing in English to a market of writers. In any vertical of creatives, you really must outdo your market. They n
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by sunir 13y ago
Again, please spell API correctly. It's an acronym, not a word. Second, your jargon is for yourselves. You need to speak in the language of your customers. 1. What is a Writing Room? 2. What is a Content Query API? 3. What is managed c
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by sunir 13y ago
A few things. I would expect a writing application to have incredible copywriting. You have to out-write the writers! Here are some examples where the text could be improved, though really the whole page needs to be rewritten using the inve
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by sunir 13y ago
Interesting feedback. What's brutal about our hiring process? I imagine you're talking about the workalong for a day? We think it's a good way for everyone to meet face to face, not just for us to get to know you but for you
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by sunir 13y ago
Given the massive growth of this industry, most engineers are still relatively young. Therefore, I'd certainly would expect any engineer making an upper middle class income would think by the age of 65 that they would would end up with
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by sunir 13y ago
Olark live chat was at PyCon (no booth) and we hire remotely. In fact, sometimes very remotely like the far flung islands of Scotland, though we tend to want to pop in! :) https://www.olark.com/jobs
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by sunir 13y ago
We just did the annual summit at http://www.thesmallbusinessweb.com and I looked at the industry landscape with Bjoern Hermann of Startup Compass. http://blog.startupcompass.co/2014-saas-market-outlook Basically
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by sunir 13y ago
Ok, I understand why you proposed this. But what's hard to understand is why you are taking a discussion of rational alternatives to your proposal with such... angst? negativity? Not sure what you're feeling. Consider the converse
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by sunir 13y ago
First, not everyone here is a white male. Second, statistics that measure the state are not direct evidence. Individual cases may or may not fit. There may be statistics that measure a company that demonstrate a bias, but unless you have di
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by sunir 13y ago
I'm really dismayed by this story, because it reminds me of too many conversations with young professionals who are stuck in their career because they are not professionally developing out of some inner rage. Quoting: > "Amy ad
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by sunir 13y ago
I don't claim this view of the world is true, but the analogies they might make is that would be same as 1. Learning to use your righthand dominantly as a lefthanded person. 2. Pretending you were heteronormal when you were actually qu
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by sunir 13y ago
lern_too_spel has a point. Why write an entirely new SSL library when you can switch to an existing one that may already be mostly what you want? https://xkcd.com/927/ Whether or not NSS is the one you prefer, that&#x2
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by sunir 13y ago
related, but not quite the same. http://www.Upcounsel.com http://www.rocketlawyer.com/ http://www.legalzoom.com
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by sunir 13y ago
Like http://apiary.io ?
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by sunir 13y ago
And that website serving the page is the original wiki, WikiWikiWeb. An incredible piece of Internet history and also an incredible resource for software development mastery.
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by sunir 13y ago
Intriguing. I have some immediate questions. What is wrong with using taskrabbit itself? What tasks do you envision? What about virtual assistants like Zirtual.com?
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by sunir 13y ago
"what we really mean, and want, is code reuse" I'm not sure if you meant it this way, so I'll underscore this point. Code reuse is truly the worst "reason" to use inheritance, and in fact an anti-pattern. Compo
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by sunir 13y ago
Here's the iPhone app. https://itunes.apple.com/ca/app/rise-alarm-clock/id577221529...
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by sunir 13y ago
B2B software vales profit and only profit. A cursory list: http://directory.thesmallbusinessweb.com
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by sunir 13y ago
When talking about public policy, it's important to get away from words like "some" and talk about actual statistics, because this will impact real people, not just a philosophical position. If some is 10% of the population,
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by sunir 13y ago
Do you know any good libraries that do this? I tried building one a long time ago. The hard parts are mouse events (ie moving the caret based on a pixel coordinate) and pasting. Google docs solves the mouse event problem by rendering every

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