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by wavesplash 17y ago
The comment that asked "Quick question: can I get in trouble for posting this letter online..." ;) http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1154198
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by wavesplash 17y ago
A letter full of hot air, even when written by a lawyer, is just a letter full of hot air. There was no legal action taken. C&D letters have no teeth. Court actions have teeth, and that hasn't happened. Nothing to see here, really. E
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by wavesplash 17y ago
I don't understand why it's a 'shitty move on his part'. You started a fight and called the guy out by name. Why wouldn't you expect him to react? How would you feel if instead of offering to partner, I borrowed the concept of your busine
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by wavesplash 17y ago
There's nothing wrong with the incumbent defending his turf. I personally think HARO needs a kick in the arse, quality and innovation wise. Bring it on.
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by wavesplash 17y ago
Welcome to the wooly world of business my friend. You're threatening an incumbent and he's lashing out. Peter has wrapped up his ego into HARO so expect him to take it personally. Legally there's very little HARO can do except force you t
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by wavesplash 17y ago
We read it here, and I really appreciate that @harryh is engaging in the dialogue.
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by wavesplash 17y ago
I don't believe I made that argument. Here's my point as a startup conjecture: "Sacrifice the network effects of established languages/frameworks only when it gives your startup an unfair (10x) advantage."
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by wavesplash 17y ago
Startups aren't about language diversity for the sake of diversity, they're about unfair leverage. In this case the author made a choice that didn't add any leverage to Foursquare. If anything, the author admits he boxed the company into
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by wavesplash 17y ago
That's a very narrow definition of success. There are at least 3 areas of technical focus at a startup after you reach product/market fit: 1) ease of feature development 2) ease of hiring 3) ease of scale under load The author sacrificed 2,
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by wavesplash 17y ago
If you want to save some clicking: - Author picks Lift/Scala not on the best future interests of the company (ease of hiring, scalability, agility, maturity) but on fit for his world view about type safety and it would be fun for him. - Aut
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by wavesplash 17y ago
I know it's a radical concept, but has anyone considered tracking down a SunOS/IRIX/BSD or even Linux kernel scheduling engineer to discuss the Python design? Watching people ignore 30+ years of experience balancing I/O and CPU bound tasks
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by wavesplash 17y ago
That said, there are times when you want to price high enough to force the issue to the board. Most importantly when the pain your product addresses becomes a corporation-wide priority. You want to get buy-in from the execs before your com
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by wavesplash 17y ago
There's so much goodness in this release it's hard to digest in one setting. They've fixed just about everything I've found frustrating, added some really brilliant new work and elegantly set the framework up for expansion. A long list of
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by wavesplash 17y ago
My 1st job in the valley was working for SGI. Seeing our one-time rival become a forgotten memory makes me a little sad all over again. Some of the best OS Kernel engineers that ever walked, walked the hallways of those two companies.
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by wavesplash 17y ago
re: H264 Not all standards bodies require RAND terms, and not all RAND terms are 'reasonable' for individuals. You have to look into each standard and then to the assigned licensing agencies and what they charge for. In the case of H264, t
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by wavesplash 17y ago
I read it differently. To me Steve seems to be saying "if you want to avoid getting replaced, you need to learn to scale your skills for each stage of the company". Managing 20 is a very different problem than managing 300. Having lived th
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by wavesplash 17y ago
You have plenty of options right now (the market is hot). Some thoughts: - Take a 2-3 week vacation somewhere else far away from the valley - Come back and see how you feel afterwards - http://founderdating.com (not quite what it sounds
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by wavesplash 17y ago
Whoa. Album covers 2.0. Pure Awesome! Love where you're going with this. Small stuff: bugs in the paging UI (nav disappears when I open artist info, etc - on Chrome Dev here). Why not just put fixed <- -> arrows in the top nav so
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by wavesplash 17y ago
Same here. Oddly it seems the older generation was much more flexible in their thinking. What's interesting is how agile the CCP has become. We call it 'communist' but it no longer resembles any of the Marxist ideals we usually associate
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by wavesplash 17y ago
As a former New Yorker that spent 20 years there, all I can say is "spot on". Don't get trapped in the specifics of his numbers. He did a fair job characterizing the main markets, the types of people in the startup scene, the personalitie
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by wavesplash 17y ago
Having lived in both places, I can wholeheartedly agree. Don't come to SF/SV for the women. The downside of NY is the innovation is in finance, not in tech.
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by wavesplash 17y ago
In Silicon Valley we'd politely refer to you as a Lamprey and at least at my events you'd be banned from attending. I have two bits of advise that I tell all the startups I work with: - Never give equity for one-off work - Never work with f
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by wavesplash 17y ago
I think Josh's point was not that you needed virality. Virality is just one way to get distribution (albeit a very efficient way). Josh's point was that distribution (aka Customer Acquisition) is hard and you can't just 'bolt virality on
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by wavesplash 17y ago
I'm with Joshua on that point. In Silicon Valley experience and contacts are in abundance. Why would someone want to bring you on board vs. other well connected people in the valley? How do you differentiate from the other great angels a
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by wavesplash 17y ago
That isn't really the case. Java's threading can either be green threads or OS threads and there's no way as a programmer to know what the JVM implements on any given platform.
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by wavesplash 17y ago
Two week old article. Why is it getting published now? Just to add some content: 23andme never did complete genomes, they only targeted specific markers. As a consumer product there really wasn't anything compelling, and it was too expens
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by wavesplash 17y ago
Perhaps I'm late to the game but why not take a good look at the Gem/Gemcutter Ruby packaging and distribution system? The Ruby folks have done a few iterations of packaging systems and have pretty much nailed it. Might be worth studying th
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by wavesplash 17y ago
The deeper message "invites should go out to social circles" is spot on. Gmail's rollout policy worked because our network was already accessible (via other email providers). For something inherently social without a pre-seeded network lik
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by wavesplash 17y ago
He was a bit rambling. But he did it with style ;)
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by wavesplash 17y ago
I hate to say it, but most of the valley is just cubefarms in nondescript office parks. A tour heading south on 101 of the more interesting bits could be: Oracle campus - one of the more eye pleasing campuses from the outside (the inside o

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