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by xfax 13y ago
I've got to say, never saw that coming. Good for the WinAmp team - better than having to just shut down the business.
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by xfax 13y ago
First rule of taking VC funding - be aware that you're on someone else's schedule once you do.
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by xfax 13y ago
I'm looking for a configuration management system since our VPSs are getting a bit crazy to manage manually. Been looking at Chef and Ansible primarily. Anyone have a good comparison between the two?
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by xfax 13y ago
It reminds me of the following quote - don't attribute to malice that you can attribute to incompetence.
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The exceedingly rare Unicorn VC(cbinsights.com)
2 points by xfax 13y ago|1 comments
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by xfax 13y ago
Here you go: http://www.readability.com/read?url=http%3A//www.foreignpoli...
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by xfax 13y ago
Wow, this is timely. I was just looking at these two yesterday for a distributed computing framework I am building. After some research I decided to go with RabbitMQ as well, but mainly because of the out-of-the-box support for authenticati
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by xfax 13y ago
We exist. I graduated from Booth recently and was a developer in the PnP subsystem team at Microsoft for over 6 years prior to b-school. In my class I had a hardware engineer (VLSI) and a telecom systems architect among others with strong t
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by xfax 13y ago
Seems pretty darn disingenuous on CrunchBase's part. Don't they tout their "public" nature at every opportunity they can get? Seem the link below [1] for example: Data on CrunchBase is public, and members of the vent
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Ask HN: Where do you store your data?
1 points by xfax 13y ago|0 comments
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by xfax 13y ago
I'm convinced that one of these days we're going to see a new "DB" which will be a simple hashmap with collision handling sacrificed for "speed and performance"
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by xfax 13y ago
Damn. Looking forward to reading CloudFlare's post-mortem blog post on this. Seems to be widespread.
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by xfax 13y ago
Great effort! Unfortunately, you're likely to get a bunch of requests for changes since there are a bunch of places where geo-political boundaries are murky at best. For example, your map for India ( https://github.com/d
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by xfax 13y ago
Does he though? Sure, for USV investments it would make sense. But I'd be surprised if other VCs shared data on their failed investments with him or his firm though.
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by xfax 13y ago
I have a feeling that if you're a startup that took VC money, you very much care about an exit. Whether you like it or not.
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by xfax 13y ago
I recently moved to NYC to join a startup and I must say the community is thriving here. You can find a lot of like-minded people at local Meetups. This was on the front page a couple of days ago - should give you a good idea of ecosystem h
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by xfax 13y ago
It would be bigger news if they confirmed that they weren't filing for an IPO! Seriously, all this hush-hush and efforts to keep it low-key are actually producing opposite results.
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by xfax 13y ago
Because hiring is hard (and a time suck) and a degree from a good college happens to be a pretty good filter for whatever attribute makes a decent employee?
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by xfax 13y ago
Haven't read the full report yet, but sort of surprised that USV didn't make it into the summary. On the other hand, not surprised that the top 2 funded startups are both fashion related.
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by xfax 13y ago
Not sure how this is uniquely applicable to Delhi. Sounds like this would be an issue pretty much anywhere in the world.
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by xfax 13y ago
I agree, having a single return point makes debugging that much easier. Back at Microsoft, the following pattern was used quite extensively in the OS group: int someFunc() { DWORD error = ERROR_SUCCESS; error = foo(); if
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by xfax 13y ago
Not disagreeing with you on the sentiment, but the argument disregards causation. It's like saying Fort Knox has never been broken into, so let's stop wasting money protecting it. By the way, this example is only meant to highligh
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by xfax 13y ago
Properly designed and written scalable software can last indefinitely with little or no modification The problem is that what may be "proper" today (thinking, say, 5-10 years out) may fail the test in 10-15 years. One has to des
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Excite your customers(farhan.org)
3 points by xfax 13y ago|0 comments
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by xfax 13y ago
This should apply equally to papers in Economics as well. The R&R Excel debacle was embarrassing.
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Q2 2013 Ventural Capital Financing and Exit Report(cbinsights.com)
1 points by xfax 13y ago|0 comments
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by xfax 14y ago
I'm going to be joining a startup upon graduation as their first PM and posts like these are invaluable. There is just so much a PM must do and excel at that I've started a notebook to keep everything structured till it becomes second nat
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by xfax 14y ago
They do, but they are investing their own money and can choose to value whatever they please (e.g. Social responsibility). VC firms on the other hand have a fiduciary responsibility to their limited partners to maximize returns.
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by xfax 14y ago
These sort of shenanigans make me wary of using any service that has raised a considerable amount of external funding. Believe it or not, VCs (as opposed to angels) are only in it to get a good return. This frequently forces companies to
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by xfax 14y ago
"These people shaped the way I see the world. The people you surround yourself with don't just open doors. They change the way you think, and change your self-image of your capabilities." Truth right here. And one of the things people ignor

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