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by yo-mf 12y ago
Seems like your comment got downvoted, which is a shame because it was one of the few comments that spoke to the heart of the matter. Ignore all the other real injustices around the restaurant business, but go nuts over a small guy and his
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by yo-mf 12y ago
Actually OpenTable is loathed and I have worked at many restaurants that hated the fees, the crap software, and feeling they are forced to use it otherwise they would see a major dropoff in reservations. It should be noted that many of the
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by yo-mf 13y ago
Well, not really. There are plenty of equality movements that have been quite successful. But the real point is that if we believe that jobs will be more technical in nature and that deeper knowledge of technology and coding will be require
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by yo-mf 13y ago
Truly unfortunate all around. PG getting slammed from every direction. Jessica Lessin's new venture gets a black eye for shoddy journalistic standards. Lots of invective going around for what appears to be liberties of interpretation.
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by yo-mf 13y ago
The guy has an issue with the name Nokogiri? Anyway, not to be "that guy", but this same article was posted over a year ago https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3577590 and the post itself is over two years old. W
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by yo-mf 13y ago
Probably got his knowledge from watching a TED talk on the subject...
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by yo-mf 13y ago
Plenty of "products" also do not have a business model. So code posted on Github that gets comments would be a product? Really sounds like you are quibbling. The statement about "existing code" was ambiguous for a reaso
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by yo-mf 13y ago
And no successful VC's blog...oh wait. Obviously most "people" do not blog regularly. Whether it is CEO's of startups or chefs at top tier restaurants or whatever else you can think of. Does real questions is whether an
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by yo-mf 13y ago
I once had a stellar wind, about near blew the doors out my house... So you see, probably does not work so well.
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by yo-mf 13y ago
I see what you did there...
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by yo-mf 13y ago
Dear "That Guy", spot on.
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by yo-mf 13y ago
Problems may arise when you send out a direct link to an article. When friends go directly to that article from the URL you provided, that could possible be setting off triggers. Better to just have people search for the post string or just
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by yo-mf 13y ago
Good point, though I just read it on mobile where is automatically shows as one page, something I find to be a smoother reading experience.
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by yo-mf 13y ago
I think you misunderstand the state of VC nowadays. They are not about funding "innovation", they are about scaling already proven concepts. For example, look at all the dollars that have gotten funneled into ecommerce sites. Th
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by yo-mf 13y ago
Wow, lazy parents...care to provide any metrics to back up that ludicrous assumption? The lazy parent excuse is what come out of the mouths of teachers to justify themselves and the status quo. Having grown up in the inner city, there were
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by yo-mf 13y ago
And the irony is that a public school system that should be egalitarian is in fact ripe for many of the same abuses as a free market system. Yes, the farmer could move to Palo Alto so the children can go to a better school, but there is no
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by yo-mf 13y ago
In specific terms, for 2010: The mean Critical Reading score was 501. Education majors scored 481. The mean Mathematics score was 516. Education majors scored 486. The mean Writing score was 492. Education majors scored 477. Results di
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by yo-mf 13y ago
No, it is absolutely a reflection of the person. If you cannot purport yourself in a manner reflective of your education, maybe you should not be educating anyone. What the teaching system needs is someone to upend the current system, whic
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by yo-mf 13y ago
"The problem with education politics is that people like you love to totally distort the issues. Ya, there are problems on both sides, but we aren't even having honest debates yet." His was about the closet to an honest debat
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by yo-mf 13y ago
"most urban school districts are staffed with a high percentage of people that have no business anywhere close to a classroom, let alone actually teaching in it." It is even more dire that than. The pool of teacher candidates is
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by yo-mf 14y ago
LOL, Hacker News roulette... Nice article though and a change from the usual bashing of PayPal that generally masquerades as cogent discussion here. It is clear that PayPal is finally putting some effort behind the "Developer Community" rhe
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by yo-mf 14y ago
Completely disagree with OP. While SXSW did not "make" Twitter, it certainly helped get things rolling. To say that Twitter was well on its way with tons of traction is a gross overstatement. What SXSW did was provide a logical testbed for
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by yo-mf 14y ago
I agree that the vitriol towards Ask is unwarranted, though I do find the inclusion in the Java install to be very much in the realm of crapware.
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by yo-mf 14y ago
Poor thing, and was your latte not warm enough this morning? Please get off the soapbox, this guy is not a criminal and no one is suggesting that "everything should be legal".
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by yo-mf 14y ago
Chill out dude. He was doing something at an individual level (successfully I might add) that corporations do readily without even the faintest idea of the how, why, or what. Criminal? Please, how most corporations operate is what is crimin
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by yo-mf 14y ago
I think Anil missed something in his allusion to AOL. There was an Internet before AOL that a few of us were actively using. There was a thing called “the web” that some folks were toying with while the masses toiled in Prodigy and AOL. Wer
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by yo-mf 14y ago
What they do not tell you in lean startup; your early users are your unwitting product testers. Thus the calculus becomes how quickly you can plug the gaps and deliver the real MVP before your users bail en masse.
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by yo-mf 14y ago
I am surprised no one mentioned just how god awful the "Oatmeal Studios" greeting cards are. Unfortuantely for Inman however, this case is legit.
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by yo-mf 14y ago
Most important point was actually before the points listed: do business development yourself and figure out the sales process/value proposition before hiring for sales/BD folks. You will never get a handle on what customers want, how they
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by yo-mf 14y ago
I agree for the most part. The motivations and ethos of startups and agencies / dev shops / et al. are not aligned. Thus you have a huge potential for failure, which I have experienced first hand as an entrepreneur and seen repeated numer

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