authentic

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by authentic 17y ago
"Programming Clojure" is a really basic book and a bit outdated by now. A good way to begin but not sufficient to become good at writing idiomatic code.
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by authentic 17y ago
You will be doing another startup. My experience is that once you have worked for yourself/equity the mere thought of being employed by other people becomes impossible to bear.
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by authentic 17y ago
I don't think so. More likely the investor driven cult of must-have-multiple-founders has distorted people's perception.
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by authentic 17y ago
There are many rights that can in fact not be signed away. You have no idea what you are talking about, do you? http://mattmaroon.com/2009/05/01/hacker-news-disease/
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by authentic 17y ago
a user agreement cannot override statutory rights.
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by authentic 17y ago
I have not changed my stance on anything. Do not make deletions out to be more work than they really are, as others have mentioned the suppression of content from a particular account is already implemented to combat spam. Anyway, deletion
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by authentic 17y ago
Not at all saying the subsidiary would be held responsible here (they are not operating the website in question anyway), it does however affect the question whether the parent is conducting significant business in a particular country. Whet
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by authentic 17y ago
you misunderstood. it can be argued that once YC has established a sufficient nexus within a particular country it can be held to its laws (in this case, DE data protection and privacy laws which are far stricter than those of NL, afaik). o
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by authentic 17y ago
technically, YC has a European subsidiary (a startup funded by them).
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by authentic 17y ago
regulation outside the US may not apply here but this is not how the law works in the EU, which deals with the data itself rather than just identification. not too long ago I compelled a telco who had pissed me off to send me a 200 page dum
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by authentic 17y ago
i did mail pg with a similar request (different account), and he essentially responded that he could not be bothered to implement deletion or do it manually.
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by authentic 17y ago
single founder, for the simple reason that i like to be in control. imho, it is always a mistake to make somebody not strictly necessary for the business a founder. dishing out vanity co-founder titles at employee level equity stakes is deb
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by authentic 17y ago
the correct singular is alumnus (m) or alumna (f), not alumni.
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by authentic 17y ago
the correct singular is alumnus few things bother me more than blatantly incorrect usage of Latin next to supposedly prestigious institutions
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by authentic 17y ago
come on, my fiancee booked a flight for EUR 17 round trip recently, including their credit card handling fee (which can be avoided by using visa electron). if that's not budget then i don't know what is. i have booked GBP 20 round trip flig
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by authentic 17y ago
Helping to nurture local startups is definitely cool. On the other hand, picking them off to integrate into their product pipeline also prevents greater things from happening. I feel that martinkl could have built a company able to stand on
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by authentic 17y ago
I share your dislike for the Windows platform -- for uses other than as a web browser boot loader and media player -- but Red Gate are (smartly) following the money. How many non-MS developers do you know that pay for dev and admin tools?
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by authentic 17y ago
comparing SV and the UK (where I live atm), it's very different. in SV you will be meeting people working on a startup idea of some kind literally everywhere, people are focused on maximizing potential upside rather than minimizing downside
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by authentic 17y ago
did not see this in time, too bad...
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by authentic 17y ago
scenario a: operate at a loss for a while, maybe achieve target (but maybe not), draw the ire of regulators for anticompetitive behavior scenario b: spend cash you can easily afford, have an immediate cash flow return, get a solution that i
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by authentic 17y ago
Their pricing seems far too high, though.
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by authentic 17y ago
You're probably thinking of RealNames.
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by authentic 17y ago
corollary: admitting to yourself that your idea has been wrong and requires change is much easier and thus more likely to happen than making a team of cofounders radically change course.
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by authentic 17y ago
that's my startup's field as well (although not point-and-click since I believe that concept has failed in the past). i suspect there are quite a few people here working on similar things, just not discussing it on HN since there is very li
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by authentic 17y ago
this headline should read: fringe group of 44 wealthy germans demand higher taxes, strangely making the news. the rest of the country opted to kick out the socialists from government in recent national elections, replacing them with a liber
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by authentic 17y ago
automaton
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by authentic 17y ago
In reality, most employees are paid more than they produce, and a large part of the surplus generated by a productive minority inside a company goes to an unproductive majority rather than being skimmed by the controllers of capital. Theref
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by authentic 17y ago
I stopped after "JEE development, though challenging and exciting"
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by authentic 17y ago
Cambridge, UK.