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Re:What Startups Are Really Like by swolchok on Sunday October 25, 2009 @06:49PM (#902282)
It's correct as written. See sense 9 at http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/shear -- shearing stress is the stress between two blocks pressed together along a plane and moving in opposite directions parallel to that plane.

It's a very nice analogy: the startup is moving fast in one direction and the VC or whatever is moving slowly in another one.

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Re:What Startups Are Really Like by cperciva on Sunday October 25, 2009 @09:40PM (#902477)
It's a very nice analogy: the startup is moving fast in one direction and the VC or whatever is moving slowly in another one.

Personally I prefer the phrase "impedance mismatch".

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Re:What Startups Are Really Like by swolchok on Sunday October 25, 2009 @11:03PM (#902552)
It's much harder to explain impedance concisely. I, for one, never took a circuits class, and I wouldn't expect other CS programs to require one either.
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Re:What Startups Are Really Like by dunstad on Sunday October 25, 2009 @06:59PM (#902296)
Okay, thanks for the clarification.
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