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by wheels 15y ago
Another way of working things out is figuring out what the probable return on the stake being given is, e.g. something like, say: • Employee given 1% • Two additional funding rounds at 30% dillution each bring that to 0.49% • In a $30 milli
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by wheels 15y ago
• No, you can't set your pricing to capture all of the theoretical value that your product creates. Otherwise it's a wash. Also, there's friction in any system, so you not only have to create value (that I get to keep), but do so enough t
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by wheels 15y ago
It's particularly ironic that you say that replying to a YC founder that lives in the same city as you. YC has never required you to live in the US beyond the 3 months that the program runs. They strongly recommend it, but there are a ha
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by wheels 15y ago
I'm not really comfortable with the word "need" there since obviously most successful companies don't go through YC. It's more like, "What are the situations where going through YC is a net minus?" and there are very few. YC is a great boo
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by wheels 15y ago
As someone who sits on the other side of that equation, $9/month basically translates to "1 support request per month". I've been meaning to do a blog post on such, but an average single support request costs us around $8. So if you've got
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by wheels 15y ago
I like my Macbook as much as the next guy, but this is way too frothy: > Apple invented the GUI No, they didn't. Xerox invented the GUI. You seem to be aware of Xerox's role, so I can't figure out why you'd assert that Apple making
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by wheels 15y ago
I think there are a lot of founders who don't code on their company's product anymore (though it's apparently not a pure factor of size – Gates and Zuckerberg are known for actually writing code many years in), but it'd be weird if they did
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by wheels 15y ago
For the record, I don't live in the US and only spent 3 of my 10 years of full-time software development at startups (my own). The US is just a convenient and familiar frame of reference. There always exists a context where a given person
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by wheels 15y ago
But saying my arguments are "entitled whining" isn't disagreement, it's name calling. Actually it's not. Name calling would be if I called you an entitled whiner. There's a difference between attacking your argument and attacking you.
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by wheels 15y ago
There are a lot of very fundamental misunderstandings of economics and labor structures in here. But I'll start with the general objection that you'll run into: The core of your argument is entitled whining. Computer programmers can make t
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by wheels 15y ago
Once you start doing stuff on the business end of things it's really useful: • You've got a conf call with 3 people from a company and you want to figure out what their roles there are and other useful bits (where they studied, where they'v
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by wheels 15y ago
That's wrong in a couple ways: • "Arabic numerals" aren't Arabic. They're Indian. They come from the Brahmi script, which is written left to right. • The prevailing numeral system being replaced, Roman numerals, also placed the most signi
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by wheels 15y ago
That's not true. "V" and "f" are interchangable (e.g. I always forget if it's "haven" or "hafen", which would be pronounced the same), as are "eu" and "äu". "V" at the beginning of a word is pronounced like an English "V" (as in "Viktoria
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by wheels 15y ago
> the future of business software is gradually being built by Salesforce, Google, Dropbox What color is the sky on your planet? Enterprise software -- the largest software market by a long-shot -- is not scared of ... Dropbox. That
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by wheels 15y ago
Pretty much the full web dev stack is open source, including jQuery. If you really get stuck, you'll actually learn more by reading the source code than by getting a piecemeal info on Stackoverflow. I don't remember having to do that with
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by wheels 15y ago
This isn't radical enough. Allowing one hour of Facebook / HN per day is kind of like saying, "I'm going on a diet where I only eat ice cream between 8:00 and 9:00 pm." Wikipedia is a huge time-sink. Needing online coding references is mo
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Why You Need to Take 50 Coffee Meetings(bothsidesofthetable.com)
6 points by wheels 15y ago|2 comments
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by wheels 15y ago
Reading comprehension fail. Just because the title asserts that the poster is a hacker doesn't mean that the post justifies why he is one. If I write something about "Why you don't steal from a Texan" I'm going to talk about you digging l
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by wheels 15y ago
There's a problem here in going from their specific case to where this may make sense, to the more general case they're trying to make, where it doesn't. For instance, if you're mapping disk space to memory addresses and have large blocks o
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by wheels 15y ago
CVS doesn't store revisions locally so it takes a fraction of the space.
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by wheels 15y ago
I wonder if it's a structural problem: if the problem is that the parent incorporation is in the US rather than the US incorporation being a subsidiary of a holding company in e.g. the Cayman Islands. That seems like it'd be a solvable, i
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by wheels 15y ago
After reading a detailed article about how we spend [...] do you really think that we then CHAIN them to an Aeron chair [...] The place that I worked that had such nice equipment basically did exactly that: you were given your standard i
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by wheels 15y ago
What I always find a little bit suspect about these posts – especially from FogCreek – is that it's really, "The Price of Dev Happiness As Long As You Define Happiness The Way Your Boss (Me) Does". I prefer sitting cross-legged with a 13" l
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by wheels 15y ago
If they're smart they'll send you a reminder email every six months [...] Eventually that would just drive down the affiliate fees. The reason that they're (presumably) high is that they've factored in the lifetime value of a customer.
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by wheels 15y ago
Relatively speaking, the 68er-Bewegung was an ineffectual fringe movement, of which only a relatively small part was women's rights, compared to the American's women's suffrage movement, which lasted for decades , spanned the full spectrum
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by wheels 15y ago
This is one of the problems of honest debate of politicized issues. Positing the obvious gets you labeled as a closet bigot. Do you really consider it far fetched that there could exist a team that worked better when they were all the same
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by wheels 15y ago
The only reason a person should be hired is because that person's abilities meet or exceed the requirements for the job. That's actually somewhat less clear than it would seem on the surface. It's a tenant of third wave feminism, which I
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by wheels 15y ago
Nothing was removed. I added the last paragraph. (Actually a few minutes before you made your comment, but perhaps before you saw the edit.)
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by wheels 15y ago
That's because you're on a witch hunt. You put words in my mouth and then branded me a sexist based on that. So, here's the thing. I actually consider myself a feminist. I've been outspoken in the past on things like believing that the g
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by wheels 15y ago
That's a straw-man. I didn't say that: • I, or anyone should go into a particular field to meet potential partners • That the women or men whom are at the top of their field chose those fields to meet partners • That people should be hired

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