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by tlogan 9y ago
I'm that part of the world so I will give you some background. He was using both name city of Sarajevo and using emblem of the city on his Facebook page. And since situation there is kinda tricky it is not interest of anybody living in
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by tlogan 9y ago
What when ISIS figure out this is the easiest way to terrorize people in US? What are we going to do then? Luckily the ISIS followers are not so smart... But North Korean intelligence might pull something like this on a much larger scale.
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by tlogan 9y ago
Yes - but lets step back and think about what we can do to prevent these things from happening. TWO things went wrong here. Not one. The criminal who made the fake call was to blame and the police officer who shot an innocent and unarmed oc
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by tlogan 9y ago
What if person who made a call is outside of US? Or we are unable to track it? Who are we going to blame then? The "911" seems like an open line for terrorists or some other nation to kill anybody they want... Or terrorize anybod
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by tlogan 9y ago
The main problem is that people do not want to pay. Simple as that. For example, I met so many real estate agents which refuse to have G Suite and pay $60/year because it is "too expensive".
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by tlogan 9y ago
As far as I know, it is very easily enforceable and quite common for enterprise software. In certain countries that is even illegal to publish "benchmarks" like this one. I remember that there was a law like that in Germany - not
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by tlogan 9y ago
I was under impression that "no benchmark clauses" is many ToS and license terms. Are there any enterprise software which allows that?
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by tlogan 9y ago
I wish this is true. The problem in software development that current way how company financing is set up is that you do not need domain expert to make it. In other words, it is nearly impossible to be hired as domain expert because very sm
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by tlogan 9y ago
But their marketing page [1] is telling us that everything is ok... [1] https://www.google.com/appsstatus#hl=en&v=status
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by tlogan 9y ago
This happens because people refuse to pay for anything on the web. And you get what you pay for. I guess I'm just stating the obvious. Now 100% sure how to fix this - but it hard problem.
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by tlogan 9y ago
I 100% understand and I was doing the same. Your approach is ctually the problem. Hiring should be very very important - maybe even the top priority. The two most important things in the company should be: hiring and sales. In that respect,
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by tlogan 9y ago
Sadly this is not true. There are so many excellent applications and SaaS - but they die very fast. If the company which builds an excellent solution does not get acquired they will learn the meaning of the word "hell on earth": c
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by tlogan 9y ago
Good question - but all these gateways have tendency to drop messages, report weird errors, messages are sometimes delayed by hours, their MMS support if quirky, etc. I.e., if you ever worked with Twilio you will learn about "30008 Unk
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by tlogan 9y ago
I guess they wanted to say "starting a startup" - not starting a company. To have a successful company (not a VC startup) you really just need to code a little and know to market/sell (or have co-founder who can do that). And
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by tlogan 9y ago
And why that is a problem at all? You can optimize your time to find one customer (read investor) which will give you $1M or to find 10K customers which will give you $100 each. Pick your fight.
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by tlogan 9y ago
Good question. Lets take lawyers a side. How much would you pay to somebody to ensure that a big evil corporation is not cheating their ~10M customers by $10/year (100M/year in total)? $10M? $50M?
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by tlogan 9y ago
Back in days, each engineer in Microsoft had a private office. Oracle too... Good days...
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by tlogan 9y ago
But a private office is very very expensive. People might think I'm trolling but I honestly think that until "engineer > real estate" there will be no real progress. All this talk about "open space", "hot de
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by tlogan 9y ago
All this talk reminds me of my father's drunken talk: real estate is the king - if you want to get rich be in real estate. Sadly... it is true. ---- P.S. For readers who are a little slow, the point is that if office space is not a cos
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by tlogan 9y ago
This is reasonable decision. If you say something bad about my company then "no soup for you" [1]. It seems like there is no free speech on internet: because free speech is controlled by corporations and the loudest people on soci
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by tlogan 9y ago
Here is the key part: > Of course, men and women experience bias, tech, and the workplace > differently and we should be cognizant of this, but it’s far from the whole > story. On average, men and women biologically differ in ma
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by tlogan 9y ago
This seems like fight between two fractions in the Uber. On the one side, it is Benchmark capital while the other side there is Travis and investors aligned with him. What is uber ownership breakdown? What do you think who will win?
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by tlogan 9y ago
In a large corporation I worked for a long time, if EVP fires somebody on the spot it means that EVP is next to go. I assume this will be the case for Salesforce.
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by tlogan 9y ago
The sad thing is that people do not even understand why the memo is bad. The problem: You cannot invoke science to tell somebody: I'm better than you. Period. That causes wars.
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by tlogan 9y ago
With "lazy CEO" I'm referring to other myth which is talking how successful CEOs are waking up at 4:30am, then they go run, mediate for 90 minutes, don't drink coffee, don't eat meat, and then work will 10:30pm. Eve
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by tlogan 9y ago
Typical HBR article. Sure. Decisiveness, adaptability, reliability, etc. are great. But the biggest problem is when the CEO is decisive, the CEO is engaging the team, the CEO is adopting to environment and the CEO is reliable - but the CEO
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by tlogan 9y ago
Why can't films and TV accurately portray doctors? Or any other profession ...
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by tlogan 9y ago
If your plan to grow your company by begging for money then you need have a co-founder: you need to convince somebody to work for free. That is first step toward convincing VCs to give you money. If your plan to grow your company is thru bu
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by tlogan 9y ago
No - it is just about age. HN readers are younger thus they think they know more. Old people will just say: "I don't know about that" [1] [1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YvT_gqs5ETk
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by tlogan 9y ago
In general, you can sell 3 things: 1) fear, 2) greed, and 3) sex. 30% percent of Internet content is porn. So you have number 3 covered. Selling greed is hard, so lets do fear.

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