jgilliam

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by jgilliam 12y ago
The Guardian's headline is very misleading. Google's mission statement is not "don't be evil" - it's "to organise the world’s information and make it universally accessible and useful." Larry Page is
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by jgilliam 12y ago
I read the headline as "Parents are eating the world and hurting innovation."
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by jgilliam 13y ago
A "full investigation" is the law in California when sexual harassment claims are made. It's not an admission of anything, it's just literally the law.
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by jgilliam 13y ago
Film editors will gobble these up.
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by jgilliam 13y ago
There are tons of software companies run by sales people...they just all fail.
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by jgilliam 14y ago
Anyone who thinks they should get a salary like that when you've only raised $250k should not be your CEO. Run away quickly. Don't even try to negotiate him down.
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by jgilliam 14y ago
Los Angeles, CA NationBuilder is hiring developers and a designer. We build tools for leaders, mostly focused on politics right now. We're backed by Andreessen Horowitz, Sean Parker, and many others. http://nationbuilder.com/jobs Our stac
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by jgilliam 14y ago
Los Angeles, CA NationBuilder is hiring developers and organizers. We build tools for leaders, mostly focused on politics right now. We're backed by Andreessen Horowitz, Sean Parker, and many others. Developer jobs: http://dev.nationbuilde
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How we cut Rails boot time by 33%(dev.nationbuilder.com)
2 points by jgilliam 15y ago|0 comments
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"We recommended using IE, version 6.0 or greater, when viewing this site."(votervault3.com)
1 points by jgilliam 15y ago|0 comments
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by jgilliam 15y ago
His point that Zappos isn't a technology company, but rather a customer service company makes Las Vegas the perfect fit. Las Vegas is the #1 city in the world for service industries.
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by jgilliam 15y ago
The main thing for me was being able to pursue an idea no one would fund. I could self-fund it to the point where it was obvious people wanted it, at which point fundraising is easy. And having done a few startups, I also had the confidence
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by jgilliam 15y ago
One thing to know that is somewhat unique to bone marrow transplants, is that you need a lot of people registered in order to find anyone who will match. It's not like you can go pay someone for their bone marrow and be done with it, you n
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by jgilliam 15y ago
Except they aren't called sites and groups any more. You're really underestimating how important labeling is. EDIT: Lots of people want sites, lots of people want private groups, but no one wants a space simply because they don't know what
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by jgilliam 15y ago
If a computer had written this article, maybe it would have mentioned how useful this technology is for spammers.
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by jgilliam 15y ago
How is Amazon not a platform? Completely leaving aside AWS (which the author does mention): a. it has zillions of stores selling through it b. a whole generation of small businesses have been built by people selling used books, cds and dvds
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Deschooling Society (1970)(davidtinapple.com)
2 points by jgilliam 15y ago|0 comments
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by jgilliam 15y ago
Ah, so this is why it takes LinkedIn forever to add new features.
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by jgilliam 15y ago
Jumo is a non-profit, not a startup. Using the language "acquired" and "exit" doesn't make any sense.
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by jgilliam 15y ago
I wonder if there is a way to calculate the total cost of lost developer productivity due to Facebook bugs, changes, and bad documentation. I swear I spend way too much of my time dealing with it, and it sounds like everyone else does too.
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by jgilliam 15y ago
The Constitution is not about direct democracy at all, it's setting up a parliamentary republic. And the drafting of it involved a lot of online feedback and participation, but was ultimately written by a committee of 25 people. Some notew
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by jgilliam 15y ago
That is what he normally does. http://www.nytimes.com/2009/02/13/us/13records.html
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by jgilliam 15y ago
He posted on his blog yesterday that there would be a "major announcement" on blog.demandprogress.org today, but nothing has been posted. http://www.aaronsw.com/weblog/updates
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by jgilliam 15y ago
Path is also doing really poorly. Another site based on sharing information privately with a smaller group of people. Has anyone shown traction with a product that is explicitly anti-viral?
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by jgilliam 15y ago
Why would you write a contract in October of 2009 to expire on July 2nd? Such an odd date.
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How my startup helped change the world this week(nationbuilder.com)
11 points by jgilliam 15y ago|1 comments
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by jgilliam 15y ago
I think he is saying we shouldn't use jQuery Mobile because it's a web app that tries to look like a native app.
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What the pundits don't get about the cloudpocalypse(3dna.us)
1 points by jgilliam 15y ago|0 comments
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by jgilliam 15y ago
Jesse Haff, he is amazing. http://3dna.us/about
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by jgilliam 15y ago
Thanks for the feedback. We definitely struggled with the overall positioning at launch. Our initial target is political campaigns and non-profits, mostly because they know they need this kind of a tool, and the current options are ridicul

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