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by wilfra 14y ago
It's not just posturing, their success came easy to them and thus they truly believe success is easy. They don't recognize the huge role luck plays. There is also the fact that the problem you guys are describing is not a problem at all to
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by wilfra 14y ago
This is where I got it: https://twitter.com/neilsarkar/status/276823902930497537
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"If your pitch doesn't end with 'and the cops can't do shit' then your startup idea sucks"
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by wilfra 14y ago
"make sure you submit your application ass described above before the end of Friday, April 5th, 2013."
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The only two things I dislike about HN: -It's a crapshoot or manipulation game to hit the front page -People downvote logical arguments they simply disagree with
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by wilfra 14y ago
I realize this is propaganda but it's working on me. I'm starting to like Kim Jong-Un. First Eric Schmidt, then Dennis Rodman and now TPB. If these are the kinds of friends he wants to make, I'm a fan. This is a masterful 'fuck you' to the
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by wilfra 14y ago
Not without paying taxes on it. Companies like Apple, Facebook and Google have many billions of dollars in foreign banks which they aren't bringing back because they'd have to pay huge tax bills if they did. There has been a lot of pressure
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by wilfra 14y ago
I'd spend some time learning how to hack the press and try to get some free publicity. This is a good place to start: http://onstartups.com/tabid/3339/bid/80121/How-To-Get-Media-... You want to give them a pre-packaged story and from a qu
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by wilfra 14y ago
Agreed. A hacker put some malicious code on one of my sites over a year ago and it was quickly buried in search results after ranking 1-3 on page one for years. I fixed it, changed hosts, notified Google and have tried everything else I can
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by wilfra 14y ago
This is how I communicated with banks when I lived in China. Baidu translate. They were trained to do this with foreigners.
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As his $700 severance package demonstrates, the guy just didn't care about money. That's admirable and I think he's awesome for it - but when it comes to whether or not you can be fired from your own company, it's foolish. He got outplayed
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by wilfra 14y ago
Biggest lesson here is to go for Zuckerberg style control. Mason gave these guys control from the very beginning because he 'doesn't care about money' and didn't want to be greedy. Now look at him - he got fired from his own company while i
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by wilfra 14y ago
It's not #2 - or at least there is no risk of anybody 'leaving'. These are not executives, they are the majority shareholders and control the board.
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Your app crashed from the traffic
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is toogl.es pretty much what a stock foundation site looks like?
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Not looking bootstrappy sounds like a good reason to use it for some projects. Is there a 'stock foundation' looking site you can link to, I'm curious if I'd recognize it.
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What's the advantage of using Foundation over Bootstrap?
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Probably doesn't want to burn any bridges or piss anybody off. If he's friends with Mark Otto (creator of Bootstrap) I assume he's not some unknown CS student looking to make a name for himself but actually somebody who works in the industr
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by wilfra 14y ago
Nice commission for that sales rep. This is the dark side of enterprise sales. Microsoft and many others have surely done many such deals over the years - and paid out handsome bonuses to the reps/execs who made them happen.
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I feel bad for trolls and even worse for people who made one remark that pissed off the wrong person and are a completely productive and well meaning poster (I regularly see this type on HN and notify them whenever possible) - but I have ab
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by wilfra 14y ago
Regarding your pump-and-dump theory, you lack understanding of some fundamental things about stocks. The huge stockholders are mutual funds and huge institutional investors who rarely sell their shares. Retail investors barely move the need
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by wilfra 14y ago
Apple is one who likes a closed system. FB and Google both want to be on every platform and want everybody on theirs.
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it was written by michael arrington, founder of techcrunch
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the mises institute is that way ---->
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by wilfra 14y ago
That's a big if. I have a feeling her side of the story is much different. Probably including lots of blustering by him about how important he is and that he's a lawyer and how she's an idiot and the government is ridiculous. I'd bet a lot
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by wilfra 14y ago
Hopefully theonion appreciates the homage, this is fairly textbook trademark infringement and they can take this domain away.
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by wilfra 14y ago
Why are you making logical, rational statements in the middle of a twitter-hating party?
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"This was basically maintained in one giant text file managed by one organisation." Actually it was managed by one guy! http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jon_Postel
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They probably are - and I assure you an exposé about them doing so would hit the top of HN!
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Did you read the article? The Chinese government is involved in a vast, systematic and sustained cyber attack against the United States (and many other countries). If the NSA or CIA were doing this, people would be just as interested in rea

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