Huppie

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by Huppie 17y ago
You might be on to something with the real-time element. Maybe hillel should have a chat with the Justin.tv guys...
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by Huppie 17y ago
I actually wonder what is faster. Sending a snail-mail using regular airmail towards the US or sending one through this service :) At least it's 30% cheaper and saves me the time of formatting a letter and walking to the mail-office.
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by Huppie 17y ago
It's still a lot safer to diversify and not just buy stocks in real estate in your country. Better to diversify it at least a bit by splitting the money e.g. 50% Nordic Real estate 25% European Real estate index 25% US Real estate index (E.
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by Huppie 17y ago
If you don't want to lose the money, don't simply 'bet on one horse' and put it in a house / websites / whatever. It makes more sense to get a properly diversified portfolio of index-funds / ETFs. I think the best investment you could make
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by Huppie 17y ago
I'm not sure which book you are talking about but my guess would be "DNS and Bind". http://oreilly.com/catalog/9780596100575/
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by Huppie 17y ago
I'm not sure but a quick google for the sentence had Albert Einstein mentioned an awful lot of times.
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by Huppie 17y ago
Wow, great idea. If anyone has an invite left please feel free to donate me one ;) http://mailhide.recaptcha.net/d?k=01KZDHeZNxby0WEZAQk9oxcQ==...
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by Huppie 17y ago
I must say I liked the article itself but the presentation you linked a lot better. It's definately a good, detailed explanation of A/B testing, including all it's gotcha's, metrics etc. :)
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by Huppie 17y ago
Man, do I feel lucky when reading this article and your comments... Hippies riding bikes? If you look carefully you might spot a few but since over 60% of people here in the netherland use their bike at least three times a week chances are
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by Huppie 17y ago
This article is all about a company (does't matter much that this is RyanAir) that chooses to identify itself by four promises, and they keep them. They deliberately choose not to value things that other companies will value (customer suppo
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by Huppie 17y ago
I think it's the latter. I have been looking at proper led-lighting for my house a few months ago but when you want a lightbulb comparable to a 40W incandescence lightbulb it's filled with 80 LEDs (though it consumes only 4W). The cheapest
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by Huppie 17y ago
Zed is well known in the HN community and looking for a job in a funded startup with about 5 - 20 employees. It seems reasonable that this link ends up here don't you think?
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by Huppie 17y ago
Wow, this does sound like a good idea for all those marketing people omitting the plain-text variant for their HTML mail. It usually goes accompanied by text saying 'It seems you are not using a modern e-mail client to view this message, yo
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by Huppie 17y ago
I especially liked the following quote: "The biggest threat to any startup isn't running out of money -- it's going out of your mind. "
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Business Rules of Thumb(artima.com)
2 points by Huppie 17y ago|3 comments
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by Huppie 17y ago
I'm all in for empowering the user too, but then again, it's all about the defaults. In my experience power users find features like the 'change language button' a lot faster and easier than the average user. Even the tiny flags in the top-
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by Huppie 17y ago
Now, for both you and Nico... ask yourself whether you (as a 'Hacker') are representative for 'most internet users in your country'. I think a website should be easiest in use for the biggest group of users. As for me: I can get annoyed by
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by Huppie 17y ago
I guess it's because some people wouldn't understand the humor in sarcasm.
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by Huppie 17y ago
The idea behind this program is probably not to show you when your passwords 'match' but to show you whether your password is correct. E.g. If you see the colors of your password everytime you log in, you will probably learn that your passw
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by Huppie 17y ago
AFAIK, Joel is not the 'Atwood' of the two.
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by Huppie 17y ago
I think I was about 8 years old when I started cleaning pet's cages and fish tanks in the family pet store. I think I made about 2 guilders an hour (which will be about $0.80 I guess).
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by Huppie 17y ago
It looks like they had problems producing the dyes on a bigger scale. The so called 'zubbles' seem to have launched just a few days ago. http://www.popsci.com/scitech/article/2009-06/exclusive-colo...
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by Huppie 17y ago
What makes it misleading? It says just that. Although the article also says that by not buying the _exclusive_ rights to the image the 'cheap logo'-trick might backfire when other (twitter-like) websites would (legally) use the same image.