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I believe your generalizations go too far. The "crazy" founder who succeeds despite all odds is only one archetype. There are others. Many outliers are successful by creating new m…

You're right. That's true the before the acquisition and after. Your employer can say you have to accept a reduced package or get fired. The difference is the starting point of the…

The author notes (a) ways Harvard could spend its money that might have more public benefit and (b) that other non-profits are more deserving of donations. Even if all true, that d…

Other Conspire founder here. We will not spam your contacts, sell your or your contacts' email addresses or personal data, or otherwise sell data about you to third parties. Down t…

I'm a founder. Re permissions: We use IMAP to access email data, so there is no granularity. It's all or nothing. We never move or delete messages and only send messages with your …

Lots of innovation in this area: https://github.com/panicsteve/cloud-to-butt

Interesting research that seems directionally true, but I wonder if this overstates the case. The sample set is people who are willing to download an Android app and share data wit…

If your friend knows of instances where Silicon Valley firms (1) double-billed travel time or (2) billed as you stated in the value billing section, consider reporting those to the…

I'd recommend taking introductory meetings with several attorneys. You should be able to quickly get a sense of what kind of person you're dealing with. Then check references. Yoku…

This is important advice. Spend time finding someone you trust and that you feel comfortable talking to. You won't run into any of the unethical things mentioned in this post with …

Good point re point of failure. If LinkedIn doesn't put a lot of resources into the proxy servers, mail delivery could be very slow or fail completely. I"m still impressed with the…

This approach seems almost magical. There are a couple areas that I'd like to hear more about. - How detailed is the strategy coming down from the top? "... [W]hat you work on is u…

These can be non-trivial to integrate, but consider using third party authentication like https://developers.google.com/accounts/docs/OAuth2Login .

I did not expect to have my spirit crushed on HN this morning. Need to call my parents.

Given that hipchat groups are completely separate from one another—meaning no shared data—it seems that there are natural ways to shard the various datastores. There is no theoreti…