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by wilfra 14y ago
It's not twice the cost of rooms on craigslist in the same neighborhood. Those require a lease, a deposit, setting up and paying for utilities etc. etc. etc. If you want to compare it to something, compare it to airbnb listings - and this i
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by wilfra 14y ago
:) I meant something more permanent, not a nightly rental.
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by wilfra 14y ago
Cool thanks. You guys might consider putting some type of forum or something on your site, people could post looking for people. Bunk beds sounds like a little much for me personally but it would be cool to rent my own room in a house fille
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by wilfra 14y ago
Does anybody know of a good site to find roommates/room for rent with other tech-minded people? If there isn't one, somebody should make it! Would be cool to live in a house with 3,4,5 others all working on startups - but how to find them i
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by wilfra 14y ago
Where HTML5 is concerned, Chrome is by far the most buggy browser. It's unfortunate because over 50% of our users are using it now.
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by wilfra 14y ago
From the article: 1/10 PM's to Engineers and 500 engineers = 50 PM's. That's not an entirely small amount for Facebook since they don't have a zillion different products and features that need to be owned, like a company like Microsoft or G
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by wilfra 14y ago
"...Facebook...exist to make their shareholders rich. And yet we seem to think that they exist to make cool products," Zuck specifically said this isn't true in his letter to shareholders. They make money so they can build, they don't build
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by wilfra 14y ago
Certainly not. There are issues where there are large groups of people on both sides of an issue, even here on HN. That is where the best discussion takes place. What I'm saying is that wandering into a bar frequented by Dodger fans decked
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by wilfra 14y ago
One way to look at it is that arguing against the 'hivemind' is not tolerated. Having run several communities myself, I offer the counterpoint: People arguing against the crowd, even when the crowd is wrong, usually manifests itself as what
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Steve Jobs on how great products get created(franceschine.com)
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by wilfra 14y ago
Startups create the future, not companies like IBM. In the context of my comment, people in the orbit of world-changing startups are the ones that matter. You make some interesting points though. Good post.
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by wilfra 14y ago
It's ironic you would make this post while at the same time participating in the addition of a bunch of noise to an otherwise pretty great thread.
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by wilfra 14y ago
I think you are underestimating the impact of being well known on HN for something like that. Nearly everybody who matters reads this site at least sometimes.
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Good luck!
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by wilfra 14y ago
Spoken like a true PR person. Telling every bootstrapped startup to get a professional PR person is silly. The whole purpose of articles like this is so that they can make due without one in the beginning.
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by wilfra 14y ago
Bookmarked! Great work. Thanks. I'll add one thing that I've found so far: They can take a long time to respond. One site got back to us several weeks later. A few days or more is very common. Of course no response at all is by far the most
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by wilfra 14y ago
"What are the odds that such guy would be given a chance to share a piece of himself like he did ? I really don't think the OP was naive. I think there should be more people like him." I didn't mean he was naive for what he did or for wanti
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by wilfra 14y ago
I'm sure he was a really smart guy with an interesting story but you sound a bit naive in believing everything he said i.e. about the Bonds papers and his tours and all of that. Likely a lot of exaggeration, some straight bullshit and a lit
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by wilfra 14y ago
I guess we should be glad Craig Newmark does not own Reddit.
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by wilfra 14y ago
Hi Craig and Jim, I was disappointed to learn you dont want PadMapper to use your listings. Their site and Carsabi are two sites I recently used to find my apartment and car, respectively, only after I had given up on dealing with your fire
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by wilfra 14y ago
My mistake. In any event, this has nothing to do with the US government.
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by wilfra 14y ago
Fundamental Attribution Error is a very real thing that definitely applies to SV startup culture. To put it in simpler terms, luck is a far more important factor than skill in determining whether any given entrepreneur or startup succeeds.
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by wilfra 14y ago
The US has nothing to do with this. Sweden is trying to have him extradited from the UK for a sexual assault charge.
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by wilfra 14y ago
If they put as much effort into the courses as they do to marketing themselves they might have a decent product.
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by wilfra 14y ago
http://i.imgur.com/hJ64u.jpg
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by wilfra 14y ago
If they block all but .cn they are effectively shutting down the internet. Of the top 25 sites in China, 22 use .com - and 21 of those are Chinese companies[1]. Those companies would much rather have their domain in US Jurisdiction than sub
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by wilfra 14y ago
That sentiment is one I've felt basically since I started using Chrome as well. Indeed, at that time, it was true. Due to a bunch of Chrome bugs in our game I've had to switch to Firefox the last couple of months just to be able to browse o
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by wilfra 14y ago
They are relatively immune to criticism of having poor customer service. Similar to how one would be foolish for getting angry at Craigslist over something similar. YC surely derives some indirect financial benefits from running HN but they
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by wilfra 14y ago
I used it back in the day and liked it. Other than being used to Basecamp, I don't really see why anybody would choose it over Asana in 2012 though. Given the choice between a free Basecamp and Asana it would still be an easy decision.
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by wilfra 14y ago
We are still down: http://warsocial.com Edit: Came back for a second. Went down again. Came back. Went down.

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