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by unono 13y ago
PG should think about 'franchising' his operation. By that, I mean creating a systemic process for accrediting founders, choosing franchisees in big cities around the world, and a webapp to manage this all. He could scale the YC s
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by unono 13y ago
There's a lot wrong with that article. If the computer is smart enough to tell you what to do in social situations and can also read, write, and drive cars, the game is pretty much up. There will be nothing humans can do that computers
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by unono 13y ago
Where does a typical carpenter, web developer, entreprenuer, hedge fund manager's reputation come from? Word of mouth from previous clients. In the beginning a company with needs hires you and your reputation builds over time. As I sai
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by unono 13y ago
Because the consumer won't buy from you if you don't have a good track record. If a big company with a good brand name like Boeing or Airbus hired you for that, they might buy it. A company with reputation on the line will be more
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by unono 13y ago
Spot on. To add a point, licensing will shift the blame from corporations and their management to workers. This will mean that the blame won't be placed on management cheaping out on processes to ensure safety, but instead the 'ba
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by unono 13y ago
Hackers need to do something about the big companies abusing the app store system. Google, Apple, Amazon are taking far too much fees from independent developers. - Apple's store especially needs to be killed fast for innovation to thr
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by unono 13y ago
Totally disagree with that. As someone who was once a non-programmer but became one, and as someone who as taught and witnessed former 'dumb guys' as you're trying not to verbalize transform into productive programmers, I fir
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by unono 13y ago
Good comment, but I have to disagree with it. The web and app stores are extensions of google/apple etc. There's people making money across the country and around the world. The difference between auto workers and programmers is t
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by unono 13y ago
Interesting. I'd never have thought of LA as a tech hub, but it kind of makes sense. Defense and tv/movies are big in LA and they never have recessions.
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by unono 13y ago
I don't understand. If people are offline, they're less likely to be consuming the products hackers create, and therefore not paying hackers.
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by unono 13y ago
I wasn't working then, but from my understanding (might be wrong), it was 'html coders' that had difficulty finding jobs, not actual coders.
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by unono 13y ago
I don't know, I used to be excited by spectator sports in my teen years, but as I got older and more intelligent, I found other spectator sports like politics and business much more fun. Also, I get more of a kick from movies, even spo
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by unono 13y ago
Sports are one of the few things keeping people cutting the cable tv cord, we as hackers are losing big money from that situation. Also, sports are one of the few times that people log off from their computers. That's another huge loss
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by unono 13y ago
The bigger question is - why does sport exist anymore? It comes from a time before movies,books,tv,video games,facebook,pinterest. Want to stay fit? Do some bodybuilding and some swimming. Want to focus your mind tactically? Plan your app e
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by unono 13y ago
Programming is fundamentally different from most other occupations. We are actually building factories - automating manual tasks. If developer jobs start to become scarce, we'll be nearing a situation where there are no jobs at all for
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by unono 13y ago
This is an absolutely great idea. More people need to think like this, just straight out offer a service. If everyone was taught this simple truth - Always Be Closing - there would be no unemployment lines.
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by unono 13y ago
There are two types of people, those who feel energized being around people and those who feel energized by internal deliberation. Offices exist to satisfy the first category. What is happening though is that the valuable work of today is c
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by unono 13y ago
That won't happen. The kind of person who needs to live in a car doesn't have any political clout.
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by unono 13y ago
(Small tip - you can get banned from here talking like that - you wouldn't talk like that in person in polite society. Read the rules). The situation you described, 'build cheap apartments', is already the current situation.
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by unono 13y ago
The tech companies should be in on this. They have to pay higher salaries to retain employees because rent costs so much. If they lobbied for more abundant housing they could decrease the salaries they have to pay and save a bundle.
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by unono 13y ago
The cost of producing a car is only a few thousand dollars, and a robo-car is just a car with a few extra smartphones. San Francisco spends about $40,000 per street homeless person http://www.triplepundit.com/2013/05&#x
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by unono 13y ago
There's an easy solution to this - electric robo-cars. With self-driving cars that can roam around, and thus not violate city ordinances against parking, there would be no homeless. Electric charging is fairly cheap and the city could
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by unono 13y ago
The crowd-work industry is woefully immature at the moment. However, it's potential is far greater, 1000000x or more. The way to imagine it is that all work that gets done in the world could be split up into pieces and coordinated by s
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by unono 13y ago
Poverty is a great opportunity for startups. There's huge pent up demand for crowd sourcing of the Mechanical Turk variety. There's no real reason a person shouldn't be able to work anytime, using just a smartphone, and earn
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by unono 13y ago
dragonwriter's right, I should have put that as an edit. But even from 'stock price', a reasonable person would infer market cap.
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by unono 13y ago
So PG would be really good at delegating, another plus point for him as future Microsoft CEO.
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by unono 13y ago
Airbnb and Heroku. And all this is since 2004, with tiny funds, and early 20s kids. Imagine how he'd do with unlimited money and talent.
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by unono 13y ago
PG hasn't been running a startup, but managing hundreds of them. A large company is just a large number of small groups. A startup is a small group. PG is someone who has proven effective at managing to give a big ROI from managing qui
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by unono 13y ago
That's a good comment, however, I have to disagree. Those management problems are software problems. And I'm sure PG, as well as the other software talents at MS would relish the opportunity to systematize it in software.
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by unono 13y ago
Microsoft's problem has been growth, and that's because they appear to always miss capitalizing on the new thing (web,search,mobile,social,tablets) - all things a startup guy is most talented at. They lack vision, a guy who has vi

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