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by uuilly 19y ago
Many bay area law firms work for free for a while if they like your idea. They also hook you up w/ angels and VC's b/c they're not going to get paid if they don't. Ours have given many startup workshops where they bring in industry ninjas
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by uuilly 19y ago
I think this is a great idea and I can relate. I was a wayward youth. I never did anything serious but I was constantly on the wrong side of the law and my success / failure rate was pretty impressive. Though it's not as bad anymore thin
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by uuilly 19y ago
Entirely possible that my previous company would have never lasted had they not been bought. Perhaps those opposing internal forces would be too much to bear. But it did work for a while.
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by uuilly 19y ago
Yeah, for whatever reason it doesn't feel right. If you're headed to / live in the bay area, drop me a line and we can have a beer. As far as your transition goes, congrats! You'll miss the epic nature of your previous projects but you w
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by uuilly 19y ago
I used to work for a defense company that eventually got bought by a mega defense company. It was ~3000 people in various parts of the country and it was started by a man who deeply believed in the power of the entrepreneurial spirit. It
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by uuilly 19y ago
For some reason I always associate the 'z' in place of an 's' as pretty juvenile slang (though funny its right place.) You'd be surprised, there are tons of good names still out there. This is probably not one, but may be a good jump off
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by uuilly 19y ago
I know domain-names are tough to come by these days, but I just don't dig on slang mis-spellingz in an edumacational site. You feel me cuz?
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by uuilly 19y ago
Agreed. It really depends on the kind of travel. Watching other people commute is not mind expanding. That said moving somewhere totally different and working there for a year is.
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by uuilly 19y ago
Amen. Our startup has 5 people and (by coincidence?) none of them own TV's.
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by uuilly 19y ago
Me too! I don't miss the concrete jungle at all.
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Giants in Combat(economist.com)
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by uuilly 19y ago
I think the best part is the mouse gestures. It doesn't actually add any functionality that you didn't have before but it makes the whole experience more organic and you forget you're using a computer. That's what apple does right. This m
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by uuilly 19y ago
And I'm not allowed to compete in the marathon using roller-blades. The reason this is a story is that he is perceived to be a victim. I'm psyched he's running that fast though. For a while I really wanted to work in prosthetics. Would b
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by uuilly 19y ago
I wasn't criticizing it. The Yugo's reputation as a POS was at least partially undeserved. As great as it is that poorer families will get cars, I seriously doubt its long term reliability.
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by uuilly 19y ago
Anyone remember this: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yugo
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by uuilly 19y ago
I like the site. I just watched a few interviews and they were all above average. I'll definitely come back. But I have no idea how it will scale if they have to conduct every interview.
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by uuilly 19y ago
non-tech news: economist.com realclearpolitics.com (Heavy flash-blocking required for both.)
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by uuilly 19y ago
Agreed but the article said otherwise. It said japan and northern Europe achieved the highest marks for non-thar-ness. The US was criticized for minor thar. I merely asked whether a little thar was such a bad thing. Esp when two common tr
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by uuilly 19y ago
I really enjoyed this article and I think he's largely right. Pride (thar) is the most overlooked variable in geo-politics. But he leaves out an important detail. The US provides much of the defenses for Europe and almost all of them for
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by uuilly 19y ago
Per this idea, shorts on the insurance companies dealing with the WTC were trading at 30x their usual volume in the days leading up to 9-11. So the WTC was destroyed, insurance companies took a bath and whoever shorted their stock became q
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by uuilly 19y ago
I am an entrepreneur and I am dyslexic and I have ADHD. It's way worse with numbers than words though. Basically I just have to be really careful copying numbers by hand. It made proofs in E school a nightmare. For a few days I even had
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by uuilly 19y ago
When I took electricity and magnetism I was on the rocks at E school. I decided that rather than learn the material I would memorize problems to pass tests and save time. I ended up doing very well in the class but I didn't learn a thing.
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by uuilly 19y ago
I think this is a really good point. The first liquid fueled rockets didn't fly nearly as high as solid fuel ones either. That said the handful employees I know at google use MS office. That seems odd to me.
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by uuilly 19y ago
The title of the post is "brilliantly wrong." I thought this story was apropos.
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by uuilly 19y ago
When I was at MegaCorp the smartest guy I knew (photographic memory, ninja puzzle solver) thought that users should be required to pass a test to use OUR software! His rendering engines were amazing and his UI's were a disaster.
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by uuilly 19y ago
That mat really tied the room together.
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by uuilly 19y ago
The right system is a train and if you get on you never get off? I think Fred Brooks would differ.
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by uuilly 19y ago
I played hockey for 22 years. The beautiful thing about it is that fighting is the great equalizer. There are unwritten rules that you must follow to avoid getting stomped by a toothless caveman. For example, if you shadow their star pla
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by uuilly 19y ago
I use it too. The web UI is kind of brutal but I don't have to go there much. It works, I'm happy with it.
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by uuilly 19y ago
Hard to tell how serious he is. I personally think that TC is boring and I'm not a regular reader. But as a reviewer their impartiality is a strength. If people think that negative FB press is sour grapes then the reviews become worthless.

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