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by warcher 9y ago
You don't have to catch them all, just enough to make some examples. If you're not doing some kind of greyball uber shenanigans, one semi-competent police officer can close the circle on somebody pretty easily.
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by warcher 9y ago
I mean, they cut a deal with Japan that legalizes Airbnb rentals and allows for local regulation-- why not Canada?
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by warcher 9y ago
Not that there isn't a whole industry revolving around bleeding you white, keeping you chained to the oars by debt until you're no longer useful. Those issues are orthogonal.... I think.
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by warcher 9y ago
More and more I find myself reasoning about competitive advantage and stuff like that-- whenever I put up with something really unpleasant, I think "Hey, how many of my competitors did I just shake off?" If everybody got funded, I
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by warcher 9y ago
Untrue. Also untrue that you need funding-- you can replace funding with a brutal workload and a lot of patience. I did it, ask me how, haha. I mean, don't get me wrong, you are gonna sign up to be broke. For a while . A lot of pe
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by warcher 9y ago
As somebody who's founded a couple companies, there just aren't enough people with the appetite for risk and drive needed to manage a controlling interest in a company. And on an economic level, if the net compensation level, incl
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by warcher 9y ago
It's a lot easier to get the money out of your investors than to beat it out of your competitors, haha. Hedge funds are all the same at the end of the day.
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by warcher 9y ago
Is there evidence of fund returns non-correlated to the public markets? Big IPOs in down markets? I see a lot of dot-bomb kinds of things, and the latest IPOs have been taking full advantage of the froth in the public markets. It'
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by warcher 9y ago
Man, I loved working construction. Admittedly, I was young and strong, and my body could handle the workload. That stuff will flat out use you up over decades of strain. But working outside, with my hands, making something tangible I coul
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by warcher 9y ago
In fairness, the article is about executives, not employees, but everything you said is right. One of the biggest and hardest jobs a startup exec/founder/whatever has is having a steady hand in the face of serious fucking freakou
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by warcher 9y ago
Man if you learn one new technology a decade you're ahead of Alan Kay. I don't need to hear any more stories about PARC or Smalltalk. They were both wonderful, I am certain. We thank you for your service. Enjoy that Turing awa
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by warcher 9y ago
Silicon Valley is getting real weird, man.
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by warcher 9y ago
Sure you can. I mean, no offense, but there are a lot of people who will sell you a display ad that gets in front of whoever you want. And lord knows there is nothing stopping you from doing cold outreach. I think what a lot of people wan
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by warcher 9y ago
Mine. I don't advertise through google and our SEO isn't anything special. Est 2010, thanks kindly.
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by warcher 9y ago
Jesus, yes, how did I have to scroll down this far before I read "ATT was a government monopoly"? Google doesn't have a monopoly on anything. They have the best search engine, but I can switch in seconds. Likewise the rest
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by warcher 9y ago
Perhaps you'd be happier with a fully featured keyboard, no computer required? They make some great stuff these days, and it all feeds back into the computer pretty easily if you come up with a riff or loop you like, and want to put i
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by warcher 9y ago
A startup theme that I'm seeing more and more often is domestic outsourcing, where the executive/biz-side team is in SF and the engineering team is someplace more economical, but still in the states. A tougher lift for sure, but
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by warcher 9y ago
If you have to whiteboard code, I would strongly advise practicing. It's pretty loosely related to your day to day workflow, but some places are committed to it. You can get burned with a false negative just because you're not f
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by warcher 9y ago
That quote is gold and I am absolutely going to steal it.
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by warcher 9y ago
Ugh. From your lips to god's ears. Don't get me wrong, the inter-application intent stuff is really cool and good, but sometimes, guys, it's all in-app stuff. I need to tightly couple these objects. I need to pass actual n
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by warcher 9y ago
I think this may have been intended as sarcasm, but yeah man. I do C development for my real high performance mobile development. Everybody does. If you saw an app and wondered "Oh wow, that was cool, how did they do that?!", m
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by warcher 9y ago
You talking about the pseudo-restful activity/intent design? Cause I'm not gonna defend that , haha. It's a neat idea that simplifies corner cases at the expense of making a lot of common cases very counterintuitive. If
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by warcher 9y ago
C/Java interop is pretty painful still, and the tooling for native debugging in android studio is notoriously unreliable. (I hear it's better now, but I haven't had to get into those libs recently, so I can't say defini
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by warcher 9y ago
Well, the data comes from a substantial investment, which much be returned, or the business will be a failure. This is not a public service-- if you did some cool shit, but ultimately the bottom line is turning a dollar invested into fifty
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by warcher 9y ago
Man, I knew this was a troll when I clicked the link. I'll briefly vent my spleen and get on with a substantive comment. I get real tired of web soft boys coming into native and complaining about how complicated it is on the metal. T
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by warcher 9y ago
The problem as I see it is the difficulty in posing a problem that's interview-sized and still relevant to their actual workflow. I don't know how much whiteboard algorithm time you spend during your day to day, but for me it&#x2
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by warcher 9y ago
Some people have done sorta ok with this as a fallback position when their business model failed. I think it's a pretty dicey proposition. Foursquare did it after failing at everything else, and while they're ostensibly 'pr
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by warcher 9y ago
Always hiring for my chosen profession: horseman of the apocalypse. Sorry analysts; it was your turn I guess.
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by warcher 9y ago
The real dangerous issue, as I see it, is good pickers trading on their edge for increased fees, because presumably they're pretty smart and can justify them based on past performance. But if the edge goes away.... you're still s
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by warcher 9y ago
The essential problem, as I see it, is that the H-1B is being explicitly used to depress wages for US citizens in the vast majority of cases. The solution (which we'll never see) is just to de-couple the H1-B from a particular employer

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