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The Black Keys On Sean Parker: 'He's An A**hole'
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Selections of a radio interview with Black Keys drummer Patrick Carney appeared on Digital Music News, and he has some choice words for Sean Parker. "[H]e's an asshole. The guy has $2.5 billion he made from figuring out ways to steal royalties from artists, and that's the bottom line....
The Hardest Thing CEOs Have To Do
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Yesterday at Lerer Ventures' CEO Summit, The Facebook Effect author David Kirkpatrick asked two founders, "What's the hardest thing you've ever had to do for your company?" Both CEOs agreed: it was firing people. Akshay Kothari, CEO and co-founder of news reader Pulse, said firing someone for the fist time...
How to properly describe a video game: a helpful lesson from GDC
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"How to explain your game to an asshole," said Tom Francis, clicking on the opening slide of his rant. The asshole, he joked, is himself. Francis designed his powerpoint, part of the Game Developers Conference Indie Game Soapbox, one of the conference's most popular sessions, to help fellow developers...
Interview With Scott Heiferman, CEO of Meetup [FULL TRANSCRIPT]
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Scott Heiferman, the co-founder and CEO of Meetup.com, chatted with us about the state of Meetup in February 2012, after Betabeat had just finished going to seven random meetups in seven days straight. Here is the full transcript of the interview, with minor edits for length and clarity. You started Meetup...
Bound: If Custom Notebooks Be The Food Of Love, Print On
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One interesting manufacturing start-up we met in Durham last week was Bound. This small printing company offers notebooks in multiple styles (including vegan leather Moleskin-esque number) but with a twist. You can, if you so desire, have something different printed on every page. You can make a little notebook...
Life After Onion: What’s Next for Baratunde Thurston?
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Mr. Thurston (baratunde.com, Mindy Tucker) During lunch on Mother's Day, my own mom had some exciting news to announce: "I'm reading the best book!" she declared, taking a sip from her sweating water glass in the building May heat. "It's called How To Be Black. It's excellent--hilarious, but also serious," she...
Know thine enemy? Hacker George “Geohot” Hotz met with Sony engineers
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Sony has gotten a lot of knocks for its behavior in dealing with the PlayStation 3 jailbreak, the subsequent dealings with the hacker involved, the hacking of the PlayStation Network, and the resulting six-week disruption of the network last year. But one interesting tidbit emerged in a profile of that...
What’s the Worst Part of Being a VC? ‘The High Asshole Factor,’ Apparently
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(rso.cornell.edu) An interesting question showed up in our Quora digest email this afternoon. "What is the worst part of being a VC?" one user wondered. No, "sexism" wasn't one of the answers, but apparently there are quite a few grievances for the partners on Sand Hill Road. The main complaint? Turns...
Anti-Jihadist Trolls Wage War on Terrorist Message Boards
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(Photo: Wikipedia) Terrorists: they’re just like us! They use message boards to communicate and organize. Before, these message board were largely free of “first!!!1″ and painstakingly detailed ASCII art, but perhaps no more. Now, participants in the “Viral Peace” U.S. government program are prepared to fight for freedom the American...
"Christ, what an asshole" is only .001% of New Yorker caption contest subs
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The phrase is the Internet's multi-tool, yet is rarely used in its official capacity. http://web.archive.org/web/20061121233120/http://modernarthur.com/blog/christwhatanasshole.html "Christ, what an asshole" seems a fitting caption for nearly every New Yorker cartoon, and yet it's only been submitted 27 times out of well over 1.5 million entries in the magazine's caption contest....
Funniest/Most Insightful Comments Of The Week At Techdirt
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Taking the number one spot in voting (by a decent margin) for "most insightful comment" this week was from That Anonymous Coward in response to filmmaker David Newhoff trying to compare "copyleft" folks who are seeking more reasonable copyright laws and who are fighting against needless and dangerous expansion... to...
Here's What Sucks About Being The Guy Who Makes Millions Investing In Startups
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According to one of them, venture capitalists at your average mid-sized to large funds make $500,000 per year. Particularly talented or tenured partners make $2 million per year. Senior partners can rake in up to $10 million annually. That's a lot of dough! Still, there's something that sucks about every...
Here's Whitney Tilson's Massive Presentation On The Economy, Markets, And Why He Is Not Buying Apple
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Hedge fund manager Whitney Tilson, the co-founder of T2 Partners, said during a conference call presentation earlier this week that not investing in Apple was likely the biggest miss of his investment career and he still doesn't plan on buying the stock now. [via ValueWalk] "I didn't short Cisco...
Here's Whitney Tilson's Massive Presentation On The Economy, Markets, And Why He Is Not Buying Apple
You know what? Fuck Chuck Norris. I don't care if it's his birthday, the dude is an asshole.
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Report: China To Overtake U.S. As World's Biggest Asshole By 2020
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WASHINGTON—According to a new report released Monday by a panel of top economists and social scientists, the People’s Republic of China will overtake the United States as the world’s dominant asshole by the year 2020....
laughingsquid: You’re an asshole, not a genius My God. An...
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laughingsquid: You’re an asshole, not a genius My God. An entire life’s worth of driving frustration summed up in one picture....
Bang Bangs: Military To Test New 'Smart Gun'
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The U.S. Special Forces is all set to test the new XM-25 Individual Airburst 'Smart Gun' this summer. And you all know what that means: I actually have no idea what that means. The gun fires a 25-millimeter "smart round" that can be detonated at pre-programmed distance, spreading shrapnel...
Catholic asshole Bill Donohue takes out full-page ad in the New York Times trying to associate gay people with pedophile priests
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Catholic asshole Bill Donohue takes out full-page ad in the New York Times trying to associate gay people with pedophile priests
During Bill Joy's little on-stage advertisement he took a bunch of cheap shots and I couldn't help myself from saying to my fellow audience members "what an asshole." (This morning Scripting News is a cesspole too.) He still thinks SOAP
Fwd: You're An Asshole, Not A Genius [pic] - http://i.imgur.com/Gu0AH.png (via http://ff.im/kYVgu)
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The TED v. Sarah Silverman Fight Turns Really Retarded
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The TED v. Sarah Silverman debacle is turning uglier. Quick background – comedian Sarah Silverman, who is known for shock and insult humor, was invited to give a TED talk. She was subsquently trashed by TED organizer Chris Anderson, who tweeted “I know I shouldn’t say this about one of...
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