BobbyH

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by BobbyH 16y ago
A summary of Crossing the Chasm (a great book): * All products are first adopted by Innovators, then Early Adopters, the Early Majority, the Late Majority, and finally Laggards. You may be an Early Adopter in one market (e.g. gadgets) but a
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by BobbyH 16y ago
Here's a link to the Techcrunch comments mentioned in the NYT blog post: http://techcrunch.com/2010/07/06/skype-recruits-yahoo-engine...
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by BobbyH 16y ago
No, but they were "fat startups" aka startups that weren't founded on lean startup principles, like customer validation and customer development. Fat startups definitely can be successful, but it's more of a crap shoot. Lean startup advocat
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by BobbyH 16y ago
HN does not use the popularity of previous stories from that domain as a weight. It uses the number of votes, adjusted for the amount of time it's been since the link or comment was added. So if a story has 8 votes after 1 minute, it will r
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by BobbyH 16y ago
A Google News search found this tidbit from last month: http://blogs.wsj.com/venturecapital/2010/07/12/the-daily-sta... "The much-hyped start-up is out looking for [$100 MM] from both strategic and financial investors to increase the manu
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by BobbyH 16y ago
You could also use Hadoop to analyze data from, say, a global network of distributed pollution sensors to find factories that are polluting. Anyway, the point I was trying to make is that Hadoop is a nice building block. You could use Hadoo
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by BobbyH 16y ago
Yeah, Hadoop is parallelizable by design, so it's just a matter of renting out EC2 clusters. In any case, I'm not talking about competing with Cloudera, but using Hadoop in some new specific vertical. For instance, an ad network that uses H
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by BobbyH 16y ago
Other good building blocks to use are Hadoop (map/reduce) and Lucene/Solr (search). P.S. Great post.
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by BobbyH 16y ago
I feel bad for the Etherpad guys, who as I understand it, sold AppJet to Google to work on Google Wave: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=977015
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by BobbyH 16y ago
http://www.custdev.com/ - Learn how to do Customer Development, an essential component of the Lean Startup philosophy. Learn how to: Find prospects and how to approach them, Develop and iterate your "Minimal Viable Products" (MVPs), Segme
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by BobbyH 16y ago
Taking a step back, I think programmers should probably avoid working with "less-programmer-ey people" that are inexperienced at making products, especially when they over-emphasize the importance of "my fantastic idea". This is because ine
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by BobbyH 16y ago
I mentioned that depression is possibly an evolved mechanism. The mechanism is: depression makes you ruminate which leads to insights. Meanwhile, you feel bad so you have an incentive to make a positive change in your life as a result of th
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by BobbyH 16y ago
Your comment about "I don't usually have a cheerful face" really rings a bell for me. For years, I tried to force a cheerful face, even though it was like swimming upstream. Now, I simply accept that I have a low positive affect (not bubbly
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by BobbyH 16y ago
Yeah, that can really help. The worst part is the next day hangover. Dealing with suicidal ideation and a hangover is not fun. Also, if you're like me, you feel bad about yourself when you "waste a day" on a weekend while nursing your hango
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by BobbyH 16y ago
P.S. If you do see a psychologist, go to a psychologist who uses "positive psychology": http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Martin_Seligman#Positive_psycho... . Freudian/Yungian take a "mental illness model" approach that doesn't work for people
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by BobbyH 16y ago
What you're talking about is called suicidal ideation: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Suicidal_ideation . (Google those keywords to learn more.) I have dealt with this issue for 20 years. The first 10 years, I thought I was going to die. But
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by BobbyH 16y ago
If Chris were to release another version of Thesis that didn't use any GPL'ed code, would Thesis still have to be GPL'ed? What I'm asking is if Thesis is tainted forever by this copy-paste-refactor, or if he could "fix" the issue.
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by BobbyH 16y ago
In addition, if I purchased the Thesis theme, although the GPL would give me the right to redistribute it, I would not be able to market my redistributed theme as "Thesis", presuming that Chris has trademarked that mark. So if I tried to re
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by BobbyH 16y ago
You can see why this would work by imagining that you are a Google search engineer that's trying to lower the rank of spammy sites so that quality-ranked content appears higher. * Spammers tend to have tons of crap sites, so they have less
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by BobbyH 16y ago
I think he does make the point that divorce does more than transfer capital from the unlucky couple to lawyers. There's also a value transfer from the unlucky couple to the person who provides liquidity by buying the couple's business for c
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by BobbyH 16y ago
Gabriel, have you thought about linking your privacy policy from the front page of your site? On a broader note, have you thought about focusing your branding on the "we are insanely private" aspect? You could add "the world's most private
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by BobbyH 16y ago
Have you tried joining a biking or running club?
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by BobbyH 16y ago
If you have trouble having conversations, there's a real easy fix: ask questions about things that other people are interested in. Let's say you and I are talking: * Me: I'm a lawyer [not true, just an example] * You: Oh yeah? What kind of
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by BobbyH 16y ago
Feynman's explanation of where a tree gets its mass starts here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N1pIYI5JQLE#t=2m12s
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by BobbyH 16y ago
Are you a DBA? You didn't include much info on what it is that you do.
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by BobbyH 16y ago
Why not convert your "1099 boss" into a real freelancer client? This involves a few simple steps: 1. Ask him to be "upgraded" to a real employee (he'll say no, as we suspect) 2. Tell him you understand his decision, and since he wants you t
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Rethinking the Whiteboard(boss.blogs.nytimes.com)
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by BobbyH 16y ago
http://workatjelly.com/ Jelly is a casual working event. It's taken place in over a hundred cities where people have come together (in a person's home, a coffee shop, or an office) to work for the day. We provide chairs and sofas, wireles
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by BobbyH 16y ago
This awesome article highlights a problem I studied in college economics called the "inappropriability of labor". The problem is that because slavery is illegal, investments in training will be significantly reduced. For example, if I was y
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by BobbyH 16y ago
There are websites that cater to people that have various conditions. Here's a great article on one: http://www.newsweek.com/2007/07/22/sick-single-seeking-same.... The site mentioned is http://prescription4love.com/ . Incidentally, this

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