thegenius

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by thegenius 12y ago
Go fuck yourself
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by thegenius 12y ago
please fix article grammar
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by thegenius 12y ago
ebitda is not a poor metric for a stable business like duracell because interest charges (the most suspect component of ebitda) are not going to be wildly outside industry norms. it's also an interesting metric in general because it se
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by thegenius 12y ago
best luck man. keep on building, your work speaks for itself
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by thegenius 12y ago
I didn't get the impression that Miles is naive to these things or that he was soliciting this sort of advice from internet strangers. Far from it in fact. It looks like he knows exactly what he's doing and is very passionate abou
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by thegenius 12y ago
I opt for the less glamorous title owner/operator
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by thegenius 12y ago
Yes. This. The OP is NOT leading a team of programmers. He is asking HN to lead his team of programmers. "lead" is not a noun. It is a verb!
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by thegenius 12y ago
the best way you can improve the quality of code is to LEAD BY EXAMPLE. you're not alone in that you've been given a leadership position in a circumstance outside your control, and it's naive to think that even if you were gi
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by thegenius 12y ago
How to be a horrible founder: SPAM your users and raid their inboxes.
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by thegenius 12y ago
doesn't provide much insight. it says to build a website and submit your apps to the blogs, which is pretty insulting actually. not surprised coming from dice, the recruiters' den.
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by thegenius 12y ago
i've probably watched every youtube interview, speech of both of them, and read most of the important articles and books (superinvestors graham doddsville, snowball, shareholders letters, on and on). this is a great summary of what i&#
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by thegenius 12y ago
I have it and it's great. At first you think it's just some arrogant old man who is full of himself rambling on, then you realize you're dealing with a genius, and you can't put it down. The thing that resonated with me
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by thegenius 12y ago
In an interview today, Ginni Rometty sounded like a TechCrunch Disrupt participant on HBO's Silicon Valley. "We are reorganizing this company around analytics, around cloud, around social, local, mobile " I can't believ
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by thegenius 12y ago
while the idea has merits, i would not trust you with my most sensitive data (especially if it is reversibly encrypted or plaintext), i would feel like i was paying for an added secuirty risk, of which there are too many already. also it do
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by thegenius 12y ago
Just got mine! http://i.imgur.com/KcvlmZ3.png
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by thegenius 12y ago
Don't be so condescending.
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by thegenius 12y ago
often times startup ceos are accessible, so you might really dig into a company and its ceo, and write a few well thought out letters to the ones that resonate with you the most. be careful here - there's a ton of smoke and mirrors in
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by thegenius 12y ago
Fair enough - I can appreciate your point of view and logic.
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by thegenius 12y ago
Not at all. You're discounting the fact that $50 is a month's wages to some people in some countries or that a loaf of bread cost a wheelbarrow's full of trillion dollar bills in Zimbabwe. A person might buy a watch like that
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by thegenius 12y ago
Not really. It's all very relative. I don't see what difference it makes if you have 3 billion dollars and spend .09% of your wealth on a watch vs. having a net worth of 10 thousand dollars while spending $50 on a watch, which wou
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by thegenius 12y ago
awesomeness
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by thegenius 12y ago
I've often wondered what made Steve Jobs say that "Programming teachers you how to think" and here's what I've come up with. Programmers think in terms of orders of magnitude and have a strong ability to branch out.
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by thegenius 12y ago
Sure thing. It won't be as much of a problem so long as it's an employment agreement. My comments really only apply under a co-founder arrangement.
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by thegenius 12y ago
I saw that. What is your point?
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by thegenius 12y ago
TLDR; Show you are willing to put in effort and labor aside from generating ideas/spending/raising capital Hi Nick - I can speak for myself. I am a primarily technical, sole founder of a 3+ years profitable company who had to
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by thegenius 12y ago
on mobile, did anyone else catch their responsive menu? the animation and transition back and forth from a close button to hamburger is brilliant.
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by thegenius 12y ago
Yes. I've already taken that leap. What they need to do instead of getting rid of stuff is instead supporting it for a long time (10+ years) and just not putting any new features into it / letting new people sign up. Otherwise, th
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by thegenius 12y ago
I want to comment on this. While many people do envy Elon Musk, you're talking about the ones who admire him, and there is a big difference as you mention before that. I don't know why I'm wired the way I am, but I'm jus
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by thegenius 12y ago
It wasn't so simple for me to tell myself that and feel better as I wish it were. For example, one of the people who won't speak to me anymore is a family member who was my biggest hero growing up and the reason why I got into com
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by thegenius 12y ago
The hardest thing about entrepreneurial success for me personally is the envy it has generated. I wasn't prepared for it. When I first started seeing results in my business, I quit my job and was able to spend a lot of time doing whate

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