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by slowernet 6y ago
I'm curious whether the issue is that there isn't an appetite among LPs for lower-risk, lower-yield investment, or that the indie.vc terms didn't enable enough upside or liquidity? If it's not VC and it's not loans,
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5 reasons why my product sucks, and yours can too(medium.com)
2 points by slowernet 10y ago|0 comments
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by slowernet 10y ago
The court case has not concluded. A gay, foreign media magnate known for publishing lurid expose (in addition to a lot of excellent and funny reporting [1]) was never likely to receive sympathetic treatment from a jury of people from Hulk H
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by slowernet 10y ago
I think the poster was referring to the Greek economy's need for bailout/recapitalization from the EU, not provision of aid to their citizens.
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by slowernet 10y ago
While the US is in fact known as the manufacturers of several delicious varieties of cookie, you might be surprised to learn that consumer packaged goods as a whole are not among the top 10 categories of goods exported from the US to the UK
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by slowernet 10y ago
Your question is probably rhetorical, but it happened because the Republican party decided they needed to bring social conservatives (especially Southern whites disaffected by the Civil Rights Act) into their coalition. See "Southern s
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by slowernet 10y ago
Dodgeball, the predecessor of Foursquare, predated Loopt in the mobile social space by at least three years. There were likely others. Loopt received the at that time unheard of privilege of running an always-on location service on some pho
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by slowernet 10y ago
In that it requires address validation. So "private" per se is wrong, sorry, but nothing within a community is intended to travel. Placewire is happily promiscuous. Thanks for the question.
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by slowernet 10y ago
Litany of failed ventures: http://www.adweek.com/news/technology/6-hyperlocal-failures-... Litany of crippling systemic factors: http://streetfightmag.com/2013/08/23/why-your-hyperlo
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by slowernet 10y ago
Please see my reply to bobbylox for the operational differentiators I see between Placewire and other hyperlocal models. I'd argue that despite feeling apathetic about the individuals in your community, one could be motivated use Place
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by slowernet 10y ago
Nextdoor is a private message board, which is an ideal environment for people who enjoy message boards and the type of conversations they engender, while the unit of content on Placewire is a photo. I believe this enables a different type o
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by slowernet 10y ago
1) Better unit economics via user-generated content creation. I'm not paying per-market salaries like Patch (though I'm not reaping the benefits of labor of a dedicated professional, either). 2) A native ad product (sponsored phot
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Apply HN: Placewire
2 points by slowernet 10y ago|10 comments
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by slowernet 10y ago
Now tell us how this would affect your plans for the next round of Co-Prosperity Cloud awardees. $41? $43? Sky's really the limit here. "Co-Prosperity Cloud 2: the Trickle-Down"
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by slowernet 11y ago
Definite elements of cultishness. In my experience it's best to remember that employers need people like you more than you need any one of them.
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by slowernet 11y ago
It's not unlikely that they signed a non-disparage, non-disclose in exchange for some/marginal severance.
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by slowernet 11y ago
I made the decision to use Redis/Ohm and Cuba for a personal project several months ago and I've never felt more connected to and in command of what I'm doing. I owe both these gentlemen a debt of gratitude.
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by slowernet 11y ago
I'm missing how your first sentence is connected to your second (are you suggesting a contiguous array of pointers?) but I believe the generalized disadvantage of pointers is poor locality of memory access, cache misses, etc.
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by slowernet 11y ago
Ok, on whose behalf do you suspect this story was planted? Industrial robot manufacturers? One of China's manufacturing rivals? Levis? I have no inside information; I can't say whether it was or it wasn't. But dropping a link
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by slowernet 11y ago
Based on fiduciary responsibility to current Square shareholders, I can't believe he's allowed to do this.
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When You're Having Fun (6 Years at Netflix)(royrapoport.blogspot.com)
1 points by slowernet 11y ago|0 comments
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by slowernet 11y ago
Follow along at home: https://github.com/antirez/redis/commits/geo
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by slowernet 11y ago
The office holder had a long, accomplished career, but the author, bummed that he can't find any up to date books to steal from the office, is calling him out for phoning it in because he accumulated some junk over the years and went t
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by slowernet 11y ago
Some background on their rationale: https://medium.com/@noah_weiss/the-lego-block-exercise-4c7d6...
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by slowernet 11y ago
Based on the "adapt or get out" tone and unironic use of jargon like "Teal Organization", I picture their emergent culture landing somewhere between Lord of the Flies and Scientology.
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by slowernet 11y ago
Basecamp's revenue and efficiency is of course impressive, but I'm not sure a multiple like Atlassian's would apply. Investors could reasonably assume (or know, if they're privy to their plans) that Atlassian is planning
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by slowernet 11y ago
"Young"? Really?
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by slowernet 12y ago
Economies of scale in sales, tech and business operations. Knowledge sharing, eg. distribution and audience development techniques. Increased leverage with 3rd party vendors, search and social platforms, etc. Plus the usual benefits of scal
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by slowernet 12y ago
I agree that QA and support skills are in demand, geographically portable, and will help develop empathy and understanding for the perspectives of both software engineers and end users.
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by slowernet 12y ago
Good tactical advice here: http://avc.com/2011/04/finding-and-buying-a-domain-name/#com... TLDR: Lead with a real offer at a price that the owner cannot dismiss out of hand, gently imply that your offer has a

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