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by wilfra 14y ago
Dear god, get a VPN. I used strongvpn.com when I lived in China, worked great. There are many others.
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by wilfra 14y ago
"My least favorite moment was Uber's founder talk. I love and use the app but his talk sounded too much like 30 minutes comercial on Uber" That was what I thought at the time as well. Lots of people have said his was one of their favorites.
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by wilfra 14y ago
For those who don't know bwin.party owns the PartyPoker brand which had > 50% marketshare for US online poker before UIGEA passed. They are the company most well positioned to re-enter and dominate the US market once regulation has pass
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Zynga Partners With bwin.party to Launch Real Money Games in the UK(marketwatch.com)
2 points by wilfra 14y ago|1 comments
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by wilfra 14y ago
Is it a 'dick move' that Apple releases their products at a time calculated to get maximum media exposure? Or that every other smart company in the World also times bad news? There are many things one might accurately criticize Zynga for, b
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by wilfra 14y ago
"The greatest thing about being rich is that you don’t have to do business with people you like.’”" That was 'people you don't like' :)
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by wilfra 14y ago
If you define 'being really good at what you do' as being driven like mad, never giving up, having a massive tolerance for pain and uncertainty and a gift for recruiting others to join you for lots more pain and uncertainty - then I agree.
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by wilfra 14y ago
"Zuck also mentioned that he can't relate to wanting to start a company for the sake of starting a company. I thought it was notable that Paul Graham interjected that he wished more people wanted to start companies" That is not what pg inte
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by wilfra 14y ago
Yes, or something very close to that.
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by wilfra 14y ago
I posted my takeaways on Quora (second one, currently) http://www.quora.com/Startup-School/What-were-the-key-takeaw... I agree that two people can have vastly different takeaways from an event like this, but don't see anything wrong with
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by wilfra 14y ago
It wasn't paraphrased, he gave a direct quote and a picture of LeMond was one of his slides.
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by wilfra 14y ago
Good post. "Palantir (I didn’t understand the market)" I'm pretty sure he said he didn't understand the size of the market. Subtle but important difference.
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by wilfra 14y ago
If this is the case, it makes a lot of sense. He was dressed like the lead singer of a band, cussed a lot and was very candid. None of those are a knock on him, he's awesome and it was definitely one of the best talks.
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by wilfra 14y ago
Same. Small sample size but I have a feeling they take it easy on tickets on days like today. Stanford isn't some broke municipality looking to maximize ticket revenue.
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by wilfra 14y ago
That's really interesting. Seems pretty obvious she cheated in some way. If something only happens once every 'quadrillion years' that's pretty much evidence right there, but given all of the other suspicious things as well...ya - I think t
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by wilfra 14y ago
Nothing is wrong with that. When I go to Las Vegas, I play craps for the same reason. But I didn't make a massive blog post that implied I could beat craps, get it on page 1 of HN and after 20,000 words and numerous graphs and tables announ
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by wilfra 14y ago
Cliffs: he doesn't mind lighting money on fire because he thinks imagining winning the lottery is fun.
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by wilfra 14y ago
raises hand
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Mark Zuckerberg To Speak Tomorrow At YC Startup School(techcrunch.com)
6 points by wilfra 14y ago|2 comments
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by wilfra 14y ago
I'm surprised people don't immediately recognize this for what it almost certainly is: a calculated attempt by the North Korean government to manipulate the media and foreign governments. Perhaps the word manipulate is a bit strong because
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by wilfra 14y ago
Yes, or British, depending on if it's a British or American international school. When I lived in Thailand I met lots of Thai people who spoke perfect unaccented English for this reason. Whether they had an American or English accent depend
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by wilfra 14y ago
that's by far worst case of that i've ever seen. is there some way we can report this and have it looked into? he shouldn't be banned, or should at least be given the respect of notification. it's been well over a year of constructive posts
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by wilfra 14y ago
"More senior executives will recognize the shit sandwich immediately and it will have an instant negative effect." Why would it have a negative effect? Even when you realize people are just being polite, most people still appreciate it, no?
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by wilfra 14y ago
Good read but most of that is not new information. I read a lot of that in a book about Google over two years ago. The last ~ 1 page was new though.
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by wilfra 14y ago
I don't even know what igoogle is or does. User adoption is what drives features like this to remain, not how useful they are.
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by wilfra 14y ago
"Could someone who didn't see this coming please explain to me...how this company was going to survive" How were they going to survive? They aren't dead. Not even close. Pincus has the same kind of control over Zynga that Zuckerberg has ove
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by wilfra 14y ago
Looks really cool. If these were done and you were offering them for $650 I'd buy one, but donating to a kickstarter and maybe getting one next May doesn't sound like fun... You can take down my email (in my profile) and feel free to hit me
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by wilfra 14y ago
Best to be honest and direct with your feedback than worry about whether or not you are going to bruise the delicate ego of whomever you are giving the feedback to. No that doesn't excuse being a dick but if I have the choice of getting hon
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by wilfra 14y ago
You can be too kind. Grinfucking people is doing them a disservice.
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by wilfra 14y ago
Actually he came from the fantastic World of poker :) He gravitated to Sabermetrics from there.

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