cienrak

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by cienrak 14y ago
Very cool. Gonna help me step up meme game to the next level. Dig the plug and play engine.
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The dangers of relying on startup steroids(theverge.com)
30 points by cienrak 14y ago|11 comments
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by cienrak 14y ago
If they wanted to, Kickstarter could be one the biggest and best platform for startup crowd funding. They have the infrastructure to capture the promise of the JOBS act/ crowd funding act
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by cienrak 14y ago
Do startups that aren't clones take money from this sleazeball? The Samwers are bad enough.
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by cienrak 14y ago
Because with crowd computing AI controls and optimizes the workflow and results. Human in, computer out.
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by cienrak 14y ago
Without a doubt the proliferation of accelerators means a lot more opportunity for startups. But keeping in mind that these are for-profit enterprises is critical to success.
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Regulators Sue a Silicon Valley Startup Con-Man(dealbook.nytimes.com)
1 points by cienrak 14y ago|0 comments
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by cienrak 14y ago
This was a Geo-Cities-like price - not adjusted for inflation ;)
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by cienrak 14y ago
Zuckerberg says they are keeping Instagram independent. Anyone buy that? And if so, for how long?
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by cienrak 14y ago
Can someone with experience tell me a little bit about the dashboard AWS provides to clients and why it would be worth paying for an additional service to manage the cloud?
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by cienrak 14y ago
“The process of building software is getting cheaper and cheaper,” said Borthwick.”The production buzzwords of our era — ‘betas,’ ‘agile development,’ and ‘pivots’ — are all an outgrowth of micro-development, which makes it less expensive t
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by cienrak 14y ago
Agreed. Can the mods change the title so its clear?
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by cienrak 15y ago
Nice to see Adobe adapting to the slow passing of Flash with interesting tools for the new generation of mobile developers and their problems (device/os fragmentation).
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Congressman demands details of secretive ACTA treaty be made public(venturebeat.com)
163 points by cienrak 15y ago|23 comments
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by cienrak 15y ago
I don't understand why they didn't try to fight this based on the NDA or no-use. Wouldn't a good lawyer be willing to take this on retainer, if they could prove their tech was being ripped off despite the legal protections they signed going
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by cienrak 15y ago
I think what Fred is saying is that in the wake of SOPA's failure, the entertainment industry might be willing to come to the table with tech and work to ban the worst offenders, rather than pushing for the kind of overarching, draconian la
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by cienrak 15y ago
The headline isn't misleading. The piece is literally about how Facebook is pitching this big change to marketers.
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by cienrak 15y ago
Isn't this just how the sausage is made? It is interesting that Timeline actually makes it easier to disrupt the flow of personal information and privilege ads over friends. But this is how the marketing department of any big company would
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Lifehackers save the most articles to ReadItLater...then forget to read them(betabeat.com)
1 points by cienrak 15y ago|0 comments
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Pay to Pitch YC Auction Nearing $2000(gigaom.com)
1 points by cienrak 15y ago|0 comments
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by cienrak 15y ago
Stack Overflow is the kernel from which all of this has grown. That was a community by programmers, for programmers. The question now is, can the structure SO built there scale across a variety of human communities. I tend to think not.
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Exploding Offer Season(joelonsoftware.com)
1 points by cienrak 15y ago|0 comments
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by cienrak 15y ago
When you are working at a large corporation there are people to commiserate with. It's fun to blow off steam bashing the boss over drinks. When you run your own startup it can be hard to admit the stresses. You see yourself as the face of t
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by cienrak 15y ago
yeah complete rehash.
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by cienrak 15y ago
Let's take an example - Etsy has grown to 80 engineers in the last year. If 50 of these workers had decided they wanted to go their own way and create a startup, how many jobs would have been created and how many of those people would be o
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by cienrak 15y ago
I think the Vonnegut reference is an apt one. But there is also a simpler question at hand. When we romanticize startups, do we actually undermine the larger, perhaps less interesting companies who are better at generating employment and ec
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by cienrak 15y ago
Startups have different goals. Some want to stay lean and disrupt old industries. Others, like Groupon, are inventing new kinds of comapanies and hiring like mad. Whatever the net-net is in terms of jobs created or killed by startups, the U
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by cienrak 15y ago
At this period, the public markets are a scary place. Tech companies that embody the new economy and have room to grow are going to become an increasingly interesting asset class. It is strange, however, to see the same folks who were recen
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by cienrak 15y ago
Not ironic. Sad. Pathetic that our patent system is so broken and abused by folks in the software space. As per usual, these companies don't share a single line of code, and Kickstarter was in business for years before this guy's patent was
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by cienrak 15y ago
I get that #OWS could use some work on the message. But isn't their whole point to be outside traditional systems of capitalism and structure? It's like saying, this anarchist mob isn't very organized. Well, yeah. That being said, I agree w

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