keenrodent

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by keenrodent 9y ago
I bet you mean http://shakydraw.com , HN discussion here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14606544
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by keenrodent 9y ago
This is actually a pretty decent overview of what it's like to be on a well-functioning nonprofit board. In that case, instead of shareholder value you're focused on the nonprofit's mission and its long-term viability.
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by keenrodent 9y ago
Anecdotally I have had some success getting judges to think of IP addresses mapping to individuals like they already think of post office boxes mapping to individuals. For example, a post office box is a real address, but what goes in can b
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by keenrodent 9y ago
They are not crash-testing automobiles, so an accelerometer won't help. They are looking at dashcam footage from a library of that footage.
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by keenrodent 9y ago
I’ve still got one of these (a dime from my Dad’s pocket, irradiated, then into the box with the rest of my kid treasures) from when my family and I visited Oak Ridge in the 60’s. I can’t speak to why they had the machine to do it there, bu
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by keenrodent 9y ago
I am sorry for your loss. My father died in 2011 and sometimes I still reach for my phone to call him. I offer you some advice that my mother, brothers and I found helpful: Don't try to be stronger than you can be. Look to be strong to
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by keenrodent 9y ago
Having been through this personally in the past two years, I cannot amplify this comment enough. If you have earnout targets based on resources such as headcount, marketing spending, or anything else not under your control, you either have
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by keenrodent 9y ago
When people say, "first find customers, then build it", they mean find people or businesses with problems that they will pay you to solve. With this in mind, your questions have sensible answers: Customers will wait for your softw
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by keenrodent 10y ago
For me, I'd have you start where I started, with "Rock and Roll Animal." It's performed live by Reed backed by what was basically Alice Cooper's band, and that particular album's selections are the ones that so
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by keenrodent 10y ago
Without rewriting the article, the point is that there's an exploitable gap between the output of modern prediction systems and athlete performance that is explainable by information not accounted for in prediction systems. The writer
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by keenrodent 10y ago
Similarly IANAL, have owned, operated, and sold a smallish software business. I agree 100% with the above advice, but would like to highlight and amplify the previous comment's last sentence, 'cause that's the hinge: Make sur
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by keenrodent 12y ago
Your attorney will need to know more about your specific plans, but in general as long as you don't use material from the movies (title, major plot elements, character names, images, sounds, etc) you can be inspired all you want. So &
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by keenrodent 13y ago
I'm not saying no, but when you start talking pets, you start talking policies. For office pets, there's what to do when somebody's allergic (which will happen day n where n is small). If it's really the "office&#
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by keenrodent 13y ago
I can't tell if you need the money from the first customer, or just the credibility of having that first big customer in your portfolio. I also can't tell if you're looking for product improvement suggestions from this custo
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by keenrodent 13y ago
As a business owner not a lawyer my response to this kind of thing is always to consult my lawyer. The question isn't necessarily "does it infringe" but rather "how best to proceed," and it will take an actual conv