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by jbail 9y ago
There's a pretty big difference between a diner in a small town and a global media/technology company. Both could be unprofitable, but only one has large potential upside in terms of both profit and business exit.
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by jbail 10y ago
Do you have any data to back up your claim that New York is "substantially more sustainable than the rest of the US"? I'd be genuinely curious to look at that data
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by jbail 10y ago
Remember when Mayer banned remote work at Yahoo? She still defends that choice even though she has clearly failed to prove her thesis that you need to sit next to someone collaborate successfully and deliver improved business results
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by jbail 11y ago
It's actually $30/mo minimum with Mailchimp's new pricing. $10/mo for the Mailchimp account + $20/mo for up to 25,000 monthly emails via Mandrill
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by jbail 11y ago
I currently use Mandrill on about 6 projects, a few of them use templates, so I've got the added complexity of dealing with that, which sucks But, I'm not going to give Mailchimp my business ever again after this stunt. I'm g
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by jbail 12y ago
Good article. It provoked a thought: In an increasingly digital world, how long will physical proximity be an advantage? The notion that a region could somehow have its own brand of patriotism centered around startup success merely due to d
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by jbail 12y ago
My first impression of min is that it looks nice. Really, for it's goals, it's pretty tight. As a branding thing, I'd change that URL. I get that it's short but minfwk.com doesn't really look like "Min Framewor
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by jbail 12y ago
I am on iOS 6. I've stopped upgrading (intentionally) because every iOS upgrade significantly downgrades the performance of the device. My iPad is a few versions old for the same reason
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by jbail 12y ago
Why build a native iOS app? What capabilities of the phone are you utilizing? I ask because this was my experience: I just tried to download the app on my iPhone 4s and I couldn't download it because my iOS version is too old. My Nexus
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by jbail 12y ago
These driving while high statistics are pretty error prone. There is no marijuana breathalyzer. A blood test shows traces of THC in your body from up to 30 days ago. So if you get in an accident and get blood tested and it comes back positi
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by jbail 12y ago
Lived in Denver 5 years. Never driven to work, a pro sports game or a bar. Trains and busses have never been empty any of the times I've ridden them...which is daily
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by jbail 12y ago
I think you're underestimating her intelligence and capabilities. Clearly she had the background and the initiative. There are super smart and dedicated people out there. She sounds like one of them. Beyond that, I'm not sure if t
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Give your iPhone to friends and display only the photos you want them to see(thenextweb.com)
2 points by jbail 12y ago|0 comments
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Uber Gets Uber-Valuation(online.wsj.com)
1 points by jbail 12y ago|0 comments
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by jbail 12y ago
There aren't enough (sufficiently skilled) Americans to satisfy the demand for tech jobs (primarily, programming) Can you provide some proof? I hear people say this, but I'd love to see real data to back it up Wages are more or
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by jbail 12y ago
The Related Topics algorithm needs a lot work. I search for "Denver" and the top related topic is "Gang Activity in Denver." Really? I search for "Chicago" and the entire related topics list is places on the hi
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Superb For iPhone Aims To Take Social Networking To The Offline World(techcrunch.com)
1 points by jbail 12y ago|0 comments
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by jbail 13y ago
I never said I thought equity is worthless. I said I would choose cash over equity if the equity is not weighted heavier than cash to account for the risk and illiquidity inherent in startup equity. I am engineer #1 at a startup right now.
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by jbail 13y ago
A bird in the hand is worth two in the bush. If market rate is $105k and you're paying me $55k in cash, then I'd want $100k in equity, not $50k. This is something many startups get wrong. It isn't a one-to-one swap. Even if y
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by jbail 13y ago
There is a striking contrast on HN between this release and say, when Node or Rails release a new version. At the one hour point since this was posted and there are no comments. Anybody use Django? Or just not excited about this release? I&
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by jbail 13y ago
Sorry, but I don't think you're right. The data shows that in east Texas, patent holders win injunctions or damages nearly 2x of the time. That's why they go to trial there. Since you didn't provide data to back up your
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by jbail 13y ago
This article didn't contain any mention of the US government.
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by jbail 13y ago
It's not SaaS if there's no code. The first "S" is software. That nit aside, the site looks nice. Good luck!
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by jbail 13y ago
Thanks for checking it out!
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Show HN: Color in your browser console(jbail.github.io)
2 points by jbail 13y ago|2 comments
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by jbail 13y ago
Replying to myself to say that I added color support. If you're using Firefox or Chrome (which I believe are the only two browsers that support color in the console at this time), then your stream names will be printed in color. This r
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by jbail 13y ago
I just pushed an updated Lumberjack using constructors. Take a peek: https://github.com/jbail/lumberjack I need to update the Readme to show doing stuff like: var cat = console.stream('cat'); cat.info('M
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by jbail 13y ago
Thanks for the comment! An insanely noisy console was bugging me this week, so I whipped up the Lumberjack script in about an hour this Saturday while my daughter was napping. This is a super quick and dirty version #1 to prove that it can
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Show HN: I just open-sourced a small utility to make console.log better(github.com)
15 points by jbail 13y ago|5 comments
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by jbail 13y ago
Well said. Not sure why you got downvoted. The fact that this is making news at all is silly. This is business as usual for Facebook and business as usual for a billionaire. FB doesn't care about your privacy and a rich guy bought som

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