LucasCollecchia

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by LucasCollecchia 13y ago
Well, regardless of the results, I've had a lot of fun with the entire adventure. I've seen our offering come together from a few whiteboard scribbles to a functioning site which I use daily. I've learned a lot in the process, too, and I'm
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by LucasCollecchia 13y ago
While I think this is a good approach, since the service's main drawbacks involve cosmetic damage, it makes sense to launch using a payment model which favors lower-end cars. Once the damage issues are adequately addressed in practice Tier
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by LucasCollecchia 13y ago
Trends in property law and home ownership in urban areas seem to indicate that as rules and safeguards are developed for sharing more effectively, the rate of sharing increases dramatically. Condominiums, for instance, seem like a crazy typ
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by LucasCollecchia 13y ago
Patent trolls are largely an american problem because America is one of the only jurisdictions that doesn't award legal costs to the successful party. Additionally, most of the 'deep pockets' are found in america, and since English is an in
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by LucasCollecchia 13y ago
Yes, but if the algorithm is a trade secret and you're licensing it out with terms of use that aren't favorable to you, you may determine that its in your best interest to buy the company rather than get sued for breach of the licensing con
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by LucasCollecchia 13y ago
I get that there are different levels of quality regardless of the type of code. I was more interested in the security effects of hiding code after the open source community has had a chance to deal with vulnerabilities. None of the example
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by LucasCollecchia 13y ago
Just curious, but wouldn't this indicate that open source code which allow iterators to close off their improvements would produce less vulnerable code overall?
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by LucasCollecchia 13y ago
The issue with this stance is that your 'opponent' can easily shift assets and IP ownership so as to absorb the loss via litigation in a company which has non-transferable licenses, but maintain ownership over the patents in a seperate corp
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by LucasCollecchia 13y ago
Sorry about the long delay! Your tips certainly did line up with our process. Most of our resources were drawn from friends and colleagues who are working in the venture capital firm. In retrospect, those tips were more industry specific an
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by LucasCollecchia 13y ago
Well, you're probably right. There's a conflict of interest with respect to developing an employee's career from the perspective of the employee and the firm. Both want what's best for themselves. One of the big concepts in negotiation theo
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by LucasCollecchia 13y ago
Determining the theoretical 'worth' of a programmer is difficult because demand for programmers is typically tied up with a firm determining how much value they can get from a particular hire. Where information regarding the value of a skil
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by LucasCollecchia 13y ago
Our team is in the same boat and I think you're entirely right regarding how beneficial the application process has been. The concision required of some of the questions was cleansing: Even if I couldn't hit 120, I know I took a scalpel to
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by LucasCollecchia 13y ago
Assume for a moment that organizations are information technologies. If that's the case, then processing units are the firm's humans, plus whatever mechanized information systems they have. Now, unlike mechanical systems, human components o