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Someone making a normal salary at a normal job will probably keep making roughly this amount. An early employee making a low salary plus options at a startup will learn the skills …

Congratulations! The cash they raised is your free market research budget. Their VC is paying for many of the mistakes you will not have to make.

Why let the exception case (removing an external drive quickly) ruin the main use case? going forward it seems reasonable to assume ubiquitous network connectivity, so you can simp…

It's basically search engine spam generated from SEC docs. Adds needless verbosity to when people want the info in a concise format. When looking for actionable financial info I ha…

i do not think it is as clear-cut that brand advertisers will pay higher rates or even accept the format as they may think. sure, conversion/recall etc might be higher but company …

making me type advertiser-specified words on a mobile device to visit some site? terrible and easily worse than an interstitial.

Double Recall looks like one of the very few startups that would make the world a worse place if they succeed :(

Congrats to all! Among the revealed ones I am most excited about (and would invest in) Parse -- solves a real problem, it is easy to see how it can be commercially viable, and ther…

this was also pg's argument when i asked him to remove some postings made with another account that accidentally revealed confidential info about a friend's company, so i considere…

a few more were listed previously but for some reason no longer appear in the article: Hiptic: Stylish, single page websites for everyone. http://www.hiptic.com/ Pingm: Phone syste…

i did go to law school and am thus reasonably well aware of how laws work ;) having no specific knowledge about sweepstakes regulations, i does not appear completely unreasonable t…

Good story. Wouldn't a better hack have been to draw input values in both countries, then communicate this input to the other location and XOR the results to determine the final ou…

It works even with a US delivery address in your account that is separate from a possibly non-US billing address. You can simply switch back and forth the country in your profile t…

Thank you for sharing your observations. Out of curiosity: might the fact that - as revealed in this story - there has been an outstanding warrant for the guest at the time of book…

Same here. Laid out the estimated added cost of enforcing payment via the court system besides interest to them, received payment soon after. Somehow the psychology of getting a "d…

What explains the proliferation of UK incubators, given the rather modest success achieved here with similar programs?

Is the consensus that charging equity for introductions is okay when you call yourself an incubator but abusive when an individual does it?

As a founder I disagree. The decision for or against a VC is not made by employees and if anything a16z protected the interests of major shareholders over job hopping opportunists …

Not to draw this out further but I do think variations of these make for good interview questions for entry-level people. Here is why: First, it is trivial to communicate the probl…

I would not be surprised if the subset of allowed characters was motivated by ensuring easy input cross a variety of gaming devices and console UIs. Of course, I also would not be …

downvoter dumb. no hire.

consider the following example where the condition "one ball is heavier than the others" holds true but your method yields the wrong solution: {1,10} vs {6,6} when it is further sp…

this is incorrect. the sum of n>1 balls each of some non-maximum weight needs not be less than another set including the max-weight one.