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This country's gone to the dogs ever since Corbin Frank left office

Sounds about right for 3 years commercial experience w/ PHP

Sadiq Khan is outpolling Zac Goldsmith by about 10%

Urgh, the bloody Daily Mail will outlive us all.

I'm not particularly fan of this or similar practices because A) it's a bit morally grey to say the least, and B) you're not actually testing a business idea, you're simply testing how a product sounds.

A half decent example is Evernote (recent financial troubles aside). Imagine trying to cook up a super quick landing page for Evernote and then buying some adwords. I'm pretty sure you wouldn't get very far because who wants "Notetaking App #784" (which is about all the information you can give in such circumstances)?

Based on that you'd assume no one wants to pay for/download a note-taking app. Of course this is provably false as many people pay for myriad note-taking apps. Where's the discrepancy?

When you land on a products landing page there's far more than just product screenshots. There's also the impression created by the brand, one you've probably heard of before you got there. There's customer reviews, there's well thought out pricing designed to make you pay exactly what you can afford, there's a thousand techniques used to make sure they get the sale.

Effectively, I'd say it's very difficult to distill all this down into a quick experiment that proves anything.

I'd say that this isn't entirely true.

Yeh it's definitely preferable to have one of the two developers your small startup can probably afford spending a good portion of their time rolling out, securing and maintaining your own infrastructure

With Virgin Media I have to pretty much double the TV volume on HD channels to get the same volume level.

Looks like you're based in the US. In the UK making sure you don't fritter away SEIS money is enormously important. Effectively you have an £150k allocation up to which investors can claim 50% relief in the form of income tax deductions (plus many other great things).

Whatever reason the accelerator is doing it for (whether good or bad for them) is bad for the company if it's losing some of it's allocation without seeing the money. A lot of early stage investors won't touch a non-SEIS deal.

Edit: Also for every YC/Techstars/500 there's a 100 "incubators" that overcharge and underdeliver.

Uber is more vulnerable to external price competition. Airbnb doesn't set the price of accommodation across the network and so there's not much of a risk of a competitor entering the market at a lower price point. Internal price competition is as intrinsic to their model as price uniformity is to Uber.

I'm not at all suggesting Uber adopt a "Drivers Set Prices" feature but rather pointing out that companies that adopt an internal market have providers that are competing with one another and against other companies on price. Having an "internal monopoly" means the entire company is vulnerable to a lower priced competitor.

Well there's me done with Safari for another 6 months.

Rental prices have skyrocketed in the past few years:

https://s2.yimg.com/bt/api/res/1.2/626WvTKmFK2FRBFpBg9rNg--/...

This is for buyers but the rental market price rates have gone up in pretty much the same way.

I wouldn't be surprised if London came out bottom.

Anecdotally, salaries are lower and rent higher as compared with both NY and San Francisco. Taxes are obviously higher as well.

- 1xx - Don't Refresh Yet

- 2xx - You Don't Need Refresh

- 3xx - We're dealing with Refresh for you

- 4xx - Don't Bother Refreshing

- 5xx - Refresh, You Might Get Lucky

I was actually speaking with a a friend and tech recruiter about this yesterday. He mentioned that actually, being a "One Trick Pony" is pretty good for people looking to contract.

Obviously he didn't mean simply knowing one language or framework and no others whatsoever but rather that for contract work companies are looking for people that are highly specialized to come in for a very short period of time.

A Full-Stack Super Ninja Developer is still a good thing to have on payroll but you're going to need some temporary guys that know one part of your stack inside out, especially at scale.