billsossoon

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by billsossoon 12y ago
Interesting idea. I'm going to start posting my company's workload online in the form of competitions, letting people work for the possibility of being compensated at sub-market rates.
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by billsossoon 12y ago
Then get out of your comfort zone. If you want to shake up your career, now's the time to do it. And nobody is going hand it to you.
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by billsossoon 12y ago
The comment about BCC being Hello World with a random number generator is amusing, but the fact that you were able to generate profit from a simple web app is really a testament to your marketing and business skill.
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by billsossoon 12y ago
You can still "like C" without needing to juggle memory (similarly, you can need to juggle memory and hate C). The core Go team is likely evidence of that: they created a language that, in some sense, retains the spirit of C and y
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by billsossoon 12y ago
Reminds me of the Cozy Coupe [1] I had as a child. Perhaps that's not by accident. The fear is that these machines will be unsafe, either to their passengers or to other cards on the road. Making it cute my reduce the perceived threat
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by billsossoon 12y ago
This is also a prime opportunity to question the idea of traveling at 85 mph in 4,000 lb. metal boxes that get 13 mpg. In my town, many parents put their newly-licensed teenage children behind the wheels of enormous SUVs in the name of safe
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by billsossoon 12y ago
http://caniuse.com/#feat=flexbox Internet Explorer, as usual, screws everything up. No support in IE8 and IE9, limited support in IE10.
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by billsossoon 12y ago
Are you kidding? The notion that people (even talented people) can be swapped in and out every 12 months is a far greater assumption that people are cogs. From a co-worker perspective, yes, I'd rather work short-term with someone talen
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by billsossoon 12y ago
Why does it hurt to ask why? Asking yourself why is also a means of learning. There are so many interesting things to learn, and they're all readily accessible to us. I find myself discovering a new fascinating subject I'd love to
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by billsossoon 12y ago
> The problem is that some of the investors care more about becoming celebrities and "virality" than the laborious process of building real technology companies and getting rich slowly. Investors care about making a return on
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by billsossoon 12y ago
I can't downvote you, but I would if I could. Not because I work for Snapchat, or because Spiegel needs defending. I'd downvote you because because your comments here are petty and baseless, and sound a little delusional.
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by billsossoon 12y ago
I was curious to see how you'd react to this, since Spiegel's success has been such a thorn in your side. So let's see, you opened with conspiracy theory nutjob (so maybe the real purpose of the Sony hack was to leak Spiegel&
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by billsossoon 12y ago
Except it wasn't really a case of coin flipping. Flipping coins suggests everybody is playing the same game with roughly equal odds. So what is the game here? Releasing new consumer products randomly and hoping they become popular? Whe
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by billsossoon 12y ago
Yeah, while I agree with many of the points made in the article, I wondered why the article has such a one-sided narrative and brutally critical tone. Do the activist investors have enough power to get this piece pushed forward?
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by billsossoon 12y ago
While the article does discuss activist shareholders, it's really a brutal indictment against Mayer's leadership in general. It left me wondering if Mayer stood up the author on a lunch date. Regardless of Yahoo's recent resu
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by billsossoon 12y ago
For anybody curious about Magic Leap, I highly recommend this TED talk by the company's founder Rony Abovitz: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w8J5BWL8oJY It starts off kinda weird, you gotta give it a few minutes.
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by billsossoon 12y ago
This is great stuff, but technically it seems to go pretty far beyond what Clever is achieving. The company's value seems to hinge more on positioning itself appropriately (establishing itself as the primary educational app store) rath