diolpah

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by diolpah 15y ago
Brilliant judgement you've made of someone you don't know. I'm sure this particular instance of incivility will garner you plenty of upvotes, however.
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by diolpah 15y ago
My understanding of the "civility" standard is whether I would say it in person. My comments do pass this test.
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by diolpah 15y ago
This is Hacker News, where everything anointed by Larry and Sergei is to be revered and worshiped by all, forever and ever, amen.
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by diolpah 15y ago
Spot on. It's different this time. Sure, it surprised us all when revenues and earnings turned out to actually matter in 2000, but it's 2011 now, man, and the future's so bright I've got to wear shades! The fact that I can download 14,511
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by diolpah 15y ago
What exactly do you mean by "large customers"? We run several million dollars worth of credit card transactions per year( through cybersource and authorize.net right now ), and we pay at or near the wholesale interchange rate. Even so, our
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by diolpah 15y ago
"and really who isn't unhappy with the world right now?" Most people who are capable of rationally evaluating the standards of living we currently enjoy versus that of any other point in human history usually aren't that unhappy with the wo
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by diolpah 15y ago
I must be living in a different version of the United States than the author is. I don't think I've ever experienced the kind of false optimistic outlook referred to here. Is this a Silicon Valley thing? Most people I talk to about our bu
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by diolpah 15y ago
It's been many years; We've been building this company fulltime since 2005, and on a part time basis since 2002. Bootstrapping is a slog, since you make expansionary investments from cash flow only. Yes, I have a co-founder. In fact, he'
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by diolpah 15y ago
1000 years? That is a timeframe long enough to virtually guarantee the occurrence of the Singularity, so I would have to say Vinge/Kurzweil/Eliezer/Goertzel/De Garis, or whomever switches on the first self-modifying artificial general inte
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by diolpah 15y ago
Ok, I will make a long story short, here. My current business began as a side project many years ago. At first, I was building/managing the technical aspect of the business( website, integration, inventory systems, fulfillment systems, etc
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by diolpah 15y ago
I've been noticing this for about half a year now, particularly when googling for technical documentation. Google is falling down on its core product, because they can..
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by diolpah 15y ago
kloncks is probably utilizing hyperbole in making comparisons with the great thinkers of western civilization. That said, we do still talk about Edison, Carnegie, and Rockefeller, over a century later. A millennium? Probably not, but th
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by diolpah 15y ago
While true, that doesn't really say much.
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by diolpah 15y ago
I'll take a wild guess, predicated on the fact that twitter is another social platform that's difficult to monetize: sponsored pinboards. My company would pay to have "sponsored pinboards" all day long if the net ROI was positive. But tha
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by diolpah 15y ago
Yes, but with links. So it's definitely worth billions. Edit: Now that I've actually looked at the site to ensure I wasn't speaking out of ignorance, I noticed that the external links are not rel="nofollow". This will be a brilliant bree
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by diolpah 15y ago
...you pitched a specific name but didn't register the domain names? This is smelling a little fishy now.
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by diolpah 15y ago
Well, I think the question of "who pays for it", while important, is orthogonal to this particular issue, which is about increasing the available supply . If a poor but healthy south asian immigrant wants startup capital to open a restaura
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by diolpah 15y ago
Here's an unpopular thought, but one that may not be on the list of "things too taboo to think about" for HN readers. What if marrow donation was a for-profit industry, or at the very least a nonprofit or government-run industry that allowe
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by diolpah 15y ago
Internet white knights are far more prevalent than you realize.
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by diolpah 15y ago
Well, it doesn't produce the correct result for us, where bandwidth costs are more than 7 times storage costs, so we get our warning far too late.
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Noah Kagan/Appsumo Exploits Death of Steve Jobs(launch.is)
3 points by diolpah 15y ago|1 comments
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by diolpah 15y ago
Spot on. And in 2007, the subprime housing crisis was "contained". Totally unreasonable to suspect that debt default contagion actually happens. Carry on, nothing to see here.
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by diolpah 15y ago
It wasn't. The "tea party" was kicked off inadvertently by Rick Santelli on CNBC, of all places. He never intended it, but it was his words that got the ball rolling.
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by diolpah 15y ago
I don't agree with cpercival's comments, and I am quite saddened by the loss of Steve - more so than I would have expected. But it should be pointed out that the comments in no way reflect poorly on Tarsnap. It's a fantastic product. (othe
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by diolpah 15y ago
I understand the direction you're going in, and in order to scale, it's inevitable. I don't begrudge you that. But my understanding is that in the past, you guys made something of an implicit guarantee that you would look at all submission
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by diolpah 15y ago
Aggressively investing? That wording suggests to me that VCs are actively cold-calling or spamming companies with indications of interest. I assume you don't actually mean this.
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by diolpah 15y ago
"Its pre-mature reputation optimization. You want to build your rep after you've proven delivering value to customers.. the product should speak for itself." There's another side to this story. Once you've built the product, have the custo
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by diolpah 15y ago
This effort to close the remaining 30% will make the primacy of social proof and popularity over team/product/traction/revenue/earnings even more powerful on AngelList. It sounds like there is a fantastic opening here for other people in th
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by diolpah 15y ago
Thanks for the story, and congratulations on your success. You helped give me a better picture of how one goes about building social proof with the investor class. We don't actually need funding, as we have successfully bootstrapped our bu
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by diolpah 15y ago
Case in point. Your social proof enabled you to "be seen" on AngelList. Hundreds of other startups go entirely unseen and unnoticed on AngelList because of their low follower count and nonexistent social proof, regardless of team, idea, p

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