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by wilfra 13y ago
I built something similar with Rails as a 'hacker news for poker' and open sourced the code, if anybody wants to play around with it (or use it). Pull requests welcomed :) https://github.com/wilfra/theplayr (live site: http://theplayr.co
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by wilfra 13y ago
I've never used elance as a freelancer and I have no idea of the dynamics involved trying to find clients - though I'd imagine it's brutal. My advice was geared completely toward finding the best developers and not vice versa. Indeed, game
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by wilfra 13y ago
elance is good and the only site i use for this - mostly because i'm used to it and i find new sites confusing to get used to, more than that i consider it 'best'. it's dominated by the weak php developers you speak of, but if you just filt
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by wilfra 13y ago
The founders on stage at TC Disrupt NYC http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4NAzQPll7Lo
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by wilfra 13y ago
That would be my guess as well. Seems like a great time to be at Yahoo, hard to imagine anybody in a prominent role leaving by choice right now.
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Which YC companies have exited at or have valuations of at least $40m?(quora.com)
3 points by wilfra 13y ago|0 comments
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by wilfra 13y ago
https://twitter.com/heynavid/status/338813242799431681 @heynavid "@paulg which one was the biggest surprise to you?" @paulg "@heynavid Since I suspect they won't mind me saying so, Rap Genius." @RapGenius "@paulg @heynavid WOOP! I was sur
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Why doesn't Quora have advertising?(quora.com)
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by wilfra 13y ago
Can you expand on what you mean by 'real estate listings'? I'm in the market to buy a house right now and want to avoid being a sucker. Thanks.
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by wilfra 13y ago
One must not be an MBA/smooth talker to be neck-deep in SV politics. Here are some companies he was probably referring to (or would be if he studied them closely): Path, Color Labs, Quora, Asana, Airtime and Foursquare. I'd cry if two of th
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by wilfra 13y ago
Not that I necessarily disagree but YouTube, Instagram and Google are bad examples. The first two had founders who were master "politicians" and were already well connected in the valley. Sergey and Larry were Stanford CS PhD students who m
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by wilfra 13y ago
I use G Finance for at least an hour a day and have for several years. Y Finance I only use for news (which they do quite well). Can you share some examples of this bad data you speak of? I've never seen it. My quotes are always accurate an
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by wilfra 13y ago
A big part of high school and even college is figuring out what you want to do with the rest of your life. You learn a little bit about a lot of different things and hopefully by the end have some sense of what you want to pursue further. H
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by wilfra 13y ago
As one of the people said on Quora the daytraders are there for the forums and they stay for that reason. If HN started trying to compete with Netflix and I kept coming here, that wouldn't mean HN's streaming videos were superior to Netflix
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by wilfra 13y ago
Your 247wallst.com source aside, I stand by what I said. Go to any online community related to investing, trading or the stock market and you'll find nearly all of the people who know what they are doing prefer G Finance to Y Finance - othe
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by wilfra 13y ago
Yahoo Finance is better if you want news and other infotainment to go along with your quotes. If you just want data, G Finance is significantly better and is the go-to resource for sophisticated investors/traders etc. What I think you meant
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by wilfra 13y ago
It'll take at least a year before we have any idea. For now, just grab the popcorn. It's going to be fun to watch. Remember people thought Facebook was crazy to pay $1 Billion for Instagram. Now it's probably worth several times that...
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by wilfra 13y ago
It is definitely both. Tumblr replaced WP for me. I have 12 blogs on Tumblr (and counting), almost all of which I post to frequently - and the only thing I ever use the dashboard for is to make those posts. The only social action I have eve
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by wilfra 13y ago
It's fascinating how countries can maintain normal relations in other areas while things like this, catching each others spies (Russia) etc is going on at the exact same time. Similar to how it's very strange how Apple and Samsung can maint
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by wilfra 13y ago
They can't take money from non-accredited investors (those who make below $200k per year or have less than $1 million in assets). This is the reason you can't get shares or profit sharing on Kickstarter. The JOBS act loosened the regulation
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by wilfra 13y ago
Because he likely has 9 figures in Bitcoin that - by design - could not be recovered were they ever stolen from him.
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by wilfra 13y ago
I think this is a fantastic idea for the New page. Give people some incentive to monitor it looking for good content. If something they are the first person to upvote makes it out of there, give them residual karma. My rate of upvoting thin
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by wilfra 13y ago
I disagree FB is vastly overvalued. It's not undervalued but if they weren't producing real revenues and profits they would be worth ~what they have in the bank, like Zynga.
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by wilfra 13y ago
It already looks brilliant. Instagram now represents around 10% of FB users and Wall Street is assigning it a corresponding value of ~10% of the company i.e. over $6 Billion (just rough math to make a point).
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by wilfra 13y ago
Node came later. Had we known we were going to use it, we probably could have avoided using rails altogether. Would not recommend rails for game dev if you can help it. For a multitude of reasons - speed and environment headaches being the
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Yahoo buying BCST.com (1999)(money.cnn.com)
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by wilfra 13y ago
"we’ve learned that the successful teams...build on mature (read: “old, creaky”) technologies, because you want to spend time making the game fun, not trying to get the latest and greatest development tool to work." That, rather painfully,
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by wilfra 13y ago
Nobody wants to build the next Groupon, where you are disgraced and forced out of your company after watching a huge portion of your net worth evaporate. They want to build the next Facebook or Google. He had a chance to do that, and fucked
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by wilfra 13y ago
Such is the risk with doing anything on Google these days. G+ will likely eventually be killed off too. Though it may take years. Search, Gmail, Maps, YouTube, Android and Analytics I think are probably safe. Only slightly joking.
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by wilfra 13y ago
Very interesting how they structured the fees. Instead of how PayPal, Square, Stripe and just about everybody else in the World does it, where it is free to send money but merchants must pay a fee to receive it - they are making it always f

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