lazyBilly

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by lazyBilly 13y ago
Man that's jaded and cynical. There's a world of difference between assuming total control and tweaking your routine in hopes of living better.
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by lazyBilly 13y ago
This is all I got. 1) Write often. 2) If something sucks, make it shorter. 3) If it still sucks, make it more specific.
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by lazyBilly 13y ago
It is not an entirely foregone conclusion that the losses Microsoft incurred to break into an infamously cutthroat industry were a good idea from a business standpoint. To say nothing of whether 2013 Microsoft can afford to invest the kind
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by lazyBilly 13y ago
It's a get rich quick hustle by another name. Don't be fooled. Making money is work, it's always been work, it will always be work. Anybody who tells you different is a con man. I have done this thing he talks about and it
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by lazyBilly 13y ago
There wasn't as much "lean startup" in this article as I would have assumed via the title. I don't know that I necessarily agree with the final assertion that the "lean startup" is dead. I honestly see, right
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by lazyBilly 13y ago
Their platform is ok. It jittered a lot, and I'm really not a big fan of the social graph, but some stuff is good, some stuff is bad, it's on the balance ok. The problem is that they're selling advertising access to their pe
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by lazyBilly 13y ago
I don't have much good to say about that particular article, so I will say nothing. The rest of his blog I found fascinating, however, and I'll be reading through it with great pleasure.
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by lazyBilly 13y ago
I... don't know if that blog response is going to achieve the goal it was intended to. At the very least, the CEO might spend some more time considering how being the boss affects what is or is not a funny 'joke'.
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by lazyBilly 13y ago
A former acquaintance of mine (and noted scumbag) recently pulled this scam for a movie he made about (and with the backing of) a bunch of chiropractors. Raised over a quarter of a million dollars. He's since absconded with the funds to pa
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by lazyBilly 13y ago
I'm not old, per se, I'm probably at my peak marketability-- old enough that, if I were stupid, I would have washed out by now, young enough to be stereotypically perceived as vigorous. I can grow a nice lush beard and there's no gray in i
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by lazyBilly 13y ago
I'm not gonna lie, I like using facebook, but I unplugged it from my phone a while ago and haven't regretted it. Social networking is a fun diversion but a terrible lifestyle.
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by lazyBilly 13y ago
Like I said, a small mechanical royalty for obscure songs where you don't know who owns what, or how to pay them. No copyright trolling. And for big songs, call it gold-record hits and above, whatever Jay-Z (or equivalent) demands. If you
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by lazyBilly 13y ago
> That's not going to happen either, under the current system. Well, the dynamics of who will get paid as a result of the legal recording arrangements are well beyond the scope of this conversation, and I don't believe the terms of some
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by lazyBilly 13y ago
I think you gotta pay the original artist. As an old-school analog musician, I had to sweat for literally decades to be able to drop that perfect ten second fill effortlessly. The engineer had to invest thousands of dollars and a similar
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by lazyBilly 13y ago
I don't really see the benefit of jumping from Google just to submit your privacy to the tender mercies of Facebook, Amazon, et. al, other than to say you did it. And punting on GPS with a simple "Oh, I prefer paper maps" is a trifle dising
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by lazyBilly 14y ago
"Follow your nose!"
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by lazyBilly 14y ago
Hey buddy, the active.com guys have been suing anybody using couch to 5k into the ground for a minute now. You should change your name or expect a not so nice letter.
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by lazyBilly 14y ago
I understand the frustration, and there are a lot more unfair things waiting for you out in the business world. So opt out. Invent your own job and take no shit from anybody. Get a consultancy running and freelance. It's not complicated
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by lazyBilly 14y ago
The pace of innovation in software is both staggering and obvious to anyone who takes a serious look at what you can do with a computer 10, 20, or 30 years in the past. We've done quite a bit with the advances Moore's law has given us, if
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by lazyBilly 14y ago
It's always a treat to hear Alan Kay go on about how smart Alan Kay is. Those were the days, I guess? Sorry about this whole PC-internet revolution thing.
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by lazyBilly 14y ago
You guys are missing the point. The problem with mobile is not the ads, it's return on investment. I make mobile apps, and if my profit on a one dollar app is 70 cents, that's a hard limit on my customer acquisition spend. Which is why we
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by lazyBilly 15y ago
I think this is actually a pretty strong endorsement of TOR, just based on what I briefly read here. They had a wiretap running, and all they got out of it was "he's definitely using TOR." That's pretty awesome, if you ask me.
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by lazyBilly 15y ago
I'm deeply skeptical of business types lately, which is why my buddies and I started our own company, sans suits. Maybe finding another group of misfit technicians would be more your speed. If you are interviewing for a job under a biz-de
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by lazyBilly 15y ago
I dunno, I guess I'm of the mindset that the waves are coming, and you're either on them or under them. These days, I get antsy if I get enough time in one stack that I really feel like I have it cooking. Which is how I've clawed my way u
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by lazyBilly 15y ago
Ok, I'm calling it-- when I find myself getting a bunch of hot air blown up my skirt by Forbes, we're officially in a tech bubble. That said, I found the point about being a capitalist or a commodity relevant to the startup scene in many im