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by sutro 17y ago
If your business ever goes beyond a one-man operation, as this guy's did, you will find it necessary to trust other people -- partners, employees, vendors, lawyers, and, yes, accountants. Whether that trust is well-placed or mis-placed can
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by sutro 17y ago
I once tried putting my nuts on the table during a pitch to some VCs. It didn't work out so well.
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by sutro 17y ago
Dear Chris: Why so inane?
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by sutro 17y ago
Great article, terrible HN headline.
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by sutro 17y ago
This is the same strategy that Clojure is now using, which is why it's the only LISP that has any chance of going mainstream.
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by sutro 17y ago
Maybe the awesome foundation will give Jeff an awesome grant to upgrade his windows server to awesome edition. Isn't it an awesome day on HN?
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by sutro 17y ago
It must have taken a lot of hard work and discipline to build that website.
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by sutro 17y ago
Too bad you didn't have the stones to stand by your original claim. Most unit testing is a waste of time. A crazy orthodoxy has arisen around it: never question the value of massive unit testing, just do it! Test-driven development is c
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by sutro 17y ago
I see a couple of problems here: 1) I don't see the word "Twitter" mentioned anywhere in your marketing copy, 2) there doesn't seem to be an option for adding cute little PacsDrive characters to my Facebook wall, 3) bad idea to charge money
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by sutro 17y ago
This linking debate is analogous to the perennial protectionism versus free trade debate.
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by sutro 17y ago
Valve might not exist were it not for id. In their early days Valve licensed id's Quake engine for use as the technical foundation of Half-Life.
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by sutro 17y ago
Splash a convincing photoshopped picture of Mayor Daley having sex with Mrs. Blagojevich across your front page. Problem solved.
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by sutro 17y ago
I'm trying to hack breathing. And walking. Because I'm a hacker. Who hacks things. I can hack anything. I can hack running. I can hack singing. Hack hack hack hack. See, I just hacked typing.
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by sutro 17y ago
Google and Amazon aren't a publisher in this context, they are a discovery service. What are publishers if not a discovery service?
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by sutro 17y ago
Time for TechCrunch to do another poll. What's more important: Amazon or North Carolina?
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by sutro 17y ago
Yeah! Take that, Twitter! Let's see you compete with this! This...sorry, what is it again? Social networking for dogs?
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by sutro 17y ago
Great job, Joel. Now get to work on these variations: SnackOverload - StackOverflow for people who like snacks CrackedTwoByFour - StackOverflow for people who need refunds for defective building materials CrackFoSomeHos - StackOverflow for
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Ask HN SF: Hacker Hoops?
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McAfee Demonizes "Hackers" in order to Scare People into Buying its Software(stophcommerce.com)
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by sutro 17y ago
Born in NOLA but transplanted to SF long ago, listening to WWOZ online is one of my few remaining links to home. Good to see it mentioned here.
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by sutro 17y ago
Google also recently replaced all managers with an Eliza-like webapp that answers any employee question with the most appropriate PHB quote from the Dilbert archive.
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by sutro 17y ago
Summary: People are idiots.
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by sutro 17y ago
How about "What are Google's search results for 'Orson Welles filmography'?"
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The Wazabee 3DeeShell: "The Worst Product I've Ever Reviewed"(gizmodo.com)
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by sutro 17y ago
Next IBM patent: System and Method for Automatically Generating US Patent and Trademark Office Submissions
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by sutro 17y ago
Just be sure to bcc TechCrunch on all negotiation emails.
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by sutro 17y ago
A different kind of hype culture exists here on HN, which glorifies engineering, discounts sales and marketing, and considers non-technology businesses unworthy of respect. I'll bet if you were stuck on a plane next to this CEO and were som
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by sutro 17y ago
I inherently do not see this as such a big admirable success story. I doubt anyone, least of all the CEO or his wife, would disagree with you. But their failure is instructive, and telling the story of their failure takes courage. sensat
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by sutro 17y ago
Your concerns about recent economic down-cycles are misplaced. Our economy needs more not less entrepreneurs like the CEO profiled here. He ultimately failed but he went down fighting to keep alive a new business that provided new jobs. A
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by sutro 17y ago
The guy hung in for 6 years on a modest salary, not quitting until his hand was forced when the bankruptcy court rejected his buyout offer. How is that a "quick scam?" He kept the business close to the edge of solvency because he was optimi

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