ringdabell

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by ringdabell 13y ago
perhaps, but you have a ton of people going through 10 week crash course "learn how to program" courses and pulling down decent jr dev jobs. there's a whole cottage industry around this, see: starterleague.com basic html+css
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by ringdabell 13y ago
When it screws you, trust me you'll remember it. That said, while I use Apple Maps for the vast majority of the time, for certain non-major/obvious addresses, I find myself double-checking in GMaps. What's really frustrating
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by ringdabell 13y ago
Fair enough. This is where I'm the cynical one in the sense that I don't see the point of having a visionary mission statement if you have to resort to spin and propaganda tactics to convince your employees to buy into it. The qu
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by ringdabell 13y ago
I think you can have both, something that rewards founders for their risk while also providing for your employees. Remember that it's a bit of catch-22 in the sense that you need your employees in order to make your company into a big
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by ringdabell 13y ago
That's a bit too cynical... I read that more as a "company should seek to provide sustainable financial prosperity for the employees". What's wrong with that? It's hard to provide for your customers if you and you
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by ringdabell 13y ago
Yes you could do that, but again I don't see how its user-friendly to have to resort to creating multiple accounts to bypass the G+ requirements. No one is saying that Google doesn't have the _right_ to do this, just that its obno
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by ringdabell 13y ago
>No you're not. It's free. Nothing is free bro. Business 101. >Who said anything about creators. They /OWN/ Youtube. They have made it /VERY/ clear what is happening. If you want to ignore that that&#x27
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by ringdabell 13y ago
> There's no such thing as a G+ account and a 'Google Account'. They are the same things Thats not the case if you registered for a google service (i.e. gmail) pre G+, which I imagine includes a TON of users. If you fall
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by ringdabell 13y ago
What happened to "don't be evil"? The criticism is a bit thick, but the prompts to join G+ are increasingly manipulative and gimmicky, designed almost entirely to _trick_ the user to into signing up + spamming their gmail con
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by ringdabell 13y ago
One of the biggest myth about getting an MBA is that you learn anything at all. The two primary motivations for getting an MBA are completely unrelated to obtaining an "education": 1. Career transformation (i.e. you're a mark
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by ringdabell 13y ago
SEEKING FREELANCER - Chicago / SF / Remote EdTech startup in Chicago seeking native iOS developer. We build classroom management software around the language learning space and need some more engineering help to get an iPad versi
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by ringdabell 13y ago
Website looks great. I'm sure the crowdfunding niche will explode even more in the next couple of years. That said, does anyone else think this will just feed into existing/new bubble? Title III in particularly will bring in a fl
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by ringdabell 13y ago
Silly analogy. Hollywood bros don't claim to be saving the world nor do they cast themselves in a superior light than all the other bloodsuckers. When you take yourself this seriously (Saray Lacey... classic example), you're goin
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by ringdabell 13y ago
It doesn't matter if you're building silly websites trying to get strangers to dine with each other. If you're building anything at all complicated, a few years of web-dev work isn't going to cut it bro. The benefit of e
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by ringdabell 13y ago
Gossip rag aside, alot of the criticisms brought forth by valleywag is on point... There is A LOT of dumb money. There ARE a ton of idiot startupbro/princesses. Anything to deflate the delusional silliness bubbling up here is probably
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by ringdabell 13y ago
"We're trying to give them more info to go off beyond hype." All you're measuring is hype though. Startups that rely on likes, follows, etc. as a gauge of success/traction are by nature, hype driven. There are many