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by tomasien 14y ago
I got my account banned from posting for favorably comparing a post to Moby Dick, possibly the greatest piece of American literature of all time. The post was plodding in its pace, and intentionally so as the point was to demonstrate how on
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Ask HN: Do you or does anyone you know produce trash?
11 points by tomasien 14y ago|4 comments
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by tomasien 14y ago
This is the coolest fucking thread ever! I'm learning so much! Is there anything more useful than taking all the bragging out of Hacker News and seeing what didn't quite work, or works but isn't blowing up? These are the great lessons
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by tomasien 14y ago
I spend so much time arguing and thinking critically about things that I've made a decision: I'm just not going to question Paul Graham. It's not worth my time, he's right enough where it's probably not dangerous and let's be honest: we all
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by tomasien 14y ago
I hope the urge to fix this was still as strong in your as it is whenever someone reports a bug in something I'm responsible for.
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by tomasien 14y ago
PG you're so fucking cool.
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by tomasien 14y ago
This isn't plagiarism. It's laughable to say that it was, they cited him. I know this is an insanely simple comment that will lead people to think I didn't read this conversation or really think about this topic, but I did. And it's not. Th
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by tomasien 14y ago
This article makes some great points, but if you had to identify 1 point they made in the article that really pointed to "how they raised $1m" it's this: they had 120 introductions to angels and VC's. Holy. Shit. I've had maybe 4 in the yea
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by tomasien 14y ago
You're going to do great! You only need to do 2 things 1. Figure out your strengths, and play to them. Love that you're learning to program, and that's a great start so that you'll be able to contribute, but once you feel like you know the
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by tomasien 15y ago
Dealing with this stuff on a daily basis, talking to VC's and PE traders. That seems to be how they think about it.
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by tomasien 15y ago
Let's pretend they can only monetize per user what Facebook can. With only 40mm users, that'd be $100 million in revenue per year. However, their user count is continuing to explode, and could easily be 100mm in the next 18 months. At $10 p
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by tomasien 15y ago
I'm sorry, but this is just ridiculous. It seems to completely misunderstand the nature of "venture" capital: (potential value + progress toward that value) x risk = valuation. 40 mm users and growing for Instagram (the example du jour) WIT
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Basketball nerds out there: Was KD's shot against the Mavs luck, or physics? (books.google.com)
1 points by tomasien 15y ago|1 comments