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tomasienrbc

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About tomasienrbc

I'm Tommy Nicholas, founder and CEO of The City Swig.

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    Comment #4340740

    The first article was detailed and pretty interesting. The rebuttals were both weak and just CRAZY uninformative. Left with no other option, for now I'm choosing to not care.

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    Comment #3904933

    I know this question doesn't have bias, so I'm implying you're saying the organization doesn't work, but to me the results speak for themselves. Valve/Steam is just killing it righ…

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    Comment #3819207

    Facebook HAD to do this. They couldn't fight off mobile photo-sharing without an autonomous brand and autonomous app. Great acquisition.

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    Comment #3817869

    Posted a blog that (partly) talks about how Instagram poses a massive threat to Facebook TWO MINUTES before this broke. Needless to say, everyone's going to be reading Zuck and ign…

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    Comment #3782730

    It's illustratively boring: the very process of reading it is so boring, illustrating the monotony of his startup, which led to him quitting his start up. That was the point of Mob…

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    Comment #3755468

    I love all the "aren't the current players going to win this war" posts. That's a HUGE advantage for you: everybody is going to underestimate you and your possible impact.... until…

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    Comment #3755453

    This is the Moby Dick of blog posts. Incredibly boring, but that's the point: he's illustrating how boring his startup was, so he quit, just as HM illustrated the monotony of whali…

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    Comment #3755449

    The Moby Dick of blog posts. Boring, but that's that point.

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    Comment #3755438

    This is the Moby Dick of blog posts. Incredibly boring, but that's the point: he's illustrating how boring his startup was, so he quit, just as HM illustrated the monotony of whali…

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    I Had That Idea Years Ago

    Did you now? How'd that work out for? Badly? Must have been the idea, couldn't possibly have been your execution and follow through. I'll just quit I guess!

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    Comment #3583060

    Love this article, but I find it a little odd that Paul Graham essentially seems to have said: "I've never worked in restaurants, and I really don't understand their needs or busin…

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    Comment #3565794

    GREAT GL reference btw, really appreciate it BRO

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    Comment #3565791

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GOdAbjebs-g It's supposed to be hard.

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    Comment #3503862

    Sounds like he subscribes to the lean model too.

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    Comment #3503848

    This guy says he saw his business losing profits from the "tube" sites (free porn aggregators) but instead of bitching about it he said: thank you for raising the profile of our in…

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    Just keep running

    Tonight I went out for a run, and 2 miles in I tripped and fell, cutting my knee and forcing my bad shoulder back out of place. Pried my shoulder back in place, made sure I could p…

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    Comment #3466856

    A hacker that was 3x as productive as the average hacker in my company that specifically wanted 3x as much pay, as opposed to other benefits, as my average programmer would be susp…