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reaclmbs@hush.comLiving life and enjoying it; a.k.a. "presence"; is not available to everyone. Most people, including workers in Silicon Valley such as engineers, literally get used and farmed. You happen to be of rockstar talent level and your ride will be more pleasant than most. Don't feel guilty - but don't get upset either when we mock you.
A downvote without a reply is a form of impotence. It says: I don't like what you said, but I don't have the verbal dexterity to articulate my position in a cogent & cohesive way.
> the best work that they've ever done
Whatever you say, Marie Antoinette. You're the exception to the rule and can perhaps create a new kind of corporate culture (though I sincerely doubt it.. if you do, you'll owe it to society to write a management textbook. Or - you will act like most people do - and hoard the information for personal benefit, until one of your underlings reverse engineers it and publicizes because you're just not paying her what she's worth. Case in point: Michael O Church). Most great work is stymied by politics, because the great creative thinkers and engineers haven't been groomed and trained in politics/management. So due to their social flaws, their projects fail, and they're stymied.
Michael O Church is crowdsourcing political support, and he believes the crowd will throw out the hegemony. Well, Michael O Church just might be on to something.
I think it's disrespectful to call it quirky, especially considering their international customer base.
>I'm the greatest white-hat troll on the most interesting Internet forum in the world
Wrong. And that's because we don't give you access to it, because of your puerile ego-driven behavior, kiddo.
Congratulations on living in a cultural vacuum!
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feature request.
for software teams.
at EOD write "how you are going to quickly jump back into code". This introduces a business process to enforce a cognitive best practice that leads to much faster "stack load" times.
Can one of our resident cryptography geniuses (e.g. cperciva, tptacek) weigh in on how Peer2PeerCoin (PPCoin) does/doesn't address Bitcoin 51% vulnerability?
you guys are rationalizing. brook's way ahead of ya
> Basically any startup that is successful at getting frequent TC coverage could be accused of playing the politics game
WTF are you talking about? Getting into techcrunch is as simple as writing a check to a PR firm.
Shut up, jerk.
Some people are happy letting their ego be in the driver's seat, and they do pay a price for it.
> You should never be making 50% of your pnl in a period that represents only 1/30 of your sample
Nassim Taleb would disagree
If anyone had the same allergic reaction I did to the above comment, please get in touch.
Maybe if you -50'd every such comment, people would quickly learn. How long would that superpower take in the REPL
Mr. Campos, if you're interested, I'm available for discussing this offline. Best regards.
Groupon is no longer the same company it was 4 years ago; you might be biased by being anchored to a $20 IPO price, which you should actually blame on the investment "banksters"; thousands of merchants are grateful for the relationships they have with the company and continue to maintain those relationships; at least one YCombinator company has been purchased by Groupon. Calling it a "scummy greater fool play" is not appropriate in light of these facts.
i.e., they don't have a 100% stake.
Many in this thread have failed to consider these facts: Groupon is no longer the same company it was 4 years ago; you might be biased by being anchored to a $20 IPO price, which you should actually blame on the investment "banksters"; thousands of merchants are grateful for the relationship they have with the company; at least one YCombinator company has been purchased by Groupon. I bought Groupon in after hours on this announcement and I am proud to post my trade publicly.
You really should not speak of things of which you do not know.
Congrats to all! Well done.
$350 is a filter not the basis for a "profit center".
NNT calls them nerds. IQ tests invented by nerds so they could call each other intelligent.
Dwolla better than Bitcoin? Way, way better marketed. Better UX.
Dwolla can improve its tech stack and have it be the UX layer on top of Bitcoin if it chooses. I guarantee you there are folks at Dwolla working on this. Dwolla = front end of payment protocol. Dwolla = bank?
Competing payment protocols = Bitcoin; Bank routing/Swift + Forex. There were efforts to abstract gold into a payment protocol in the 90s but they failed.
Bitcoin or one of its numerous derivatives (feathercoin, litecoin, terracoin, ppcoin, ixcoin, novacoin, namecoin, freicoin, "govcoin") will likley win as a payment protocol.
The bitcoin investors have zero incentive to spend the money marketing it and building a sexy interface on top of it. There is money in interface.
BTW, a paypal competitor IS interesting! It's a 10bn+ market. but dwolla could be the "bank". it could be the secured storage. ....
note: andreesen has also invested in ripple/opencoin. reminds me of their simultaneous bets on dalton cadwell (immeem)'s picplz, and instagram.
He is a C programmer.
good interfaces on data are rare
Oh my god. If this includes berry ice cream delivery I will be a happy man.
Someone needs to write "c for ruby programmers"
Very exciting and empowering article. Makes me want to learn c, or at least believe that c is possible, straightforward easy and useful.