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by Jd 13y ago
Hacker pass was $99 list price and often given out for free.
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by Jd 13y ago
We do something like this with Evergreen (www.evr.gr). It's a virtual currency that is partially backed by rainforest that we purchase when people exchange other currencies to ours. We are for-profit but have partnerships with a couple
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Investors: A User's Guide(fractastical.com)
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That's true but the platform has come a long way since inception and you get instant integration into the CRM data and SFDC customers. It's obviously not the platform of choice from the developer preference side, but there can be
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by Jd 13y ago
I've won gift cards before by presenting at Dreamforce. They were for globalgiving.org, an awesome non-profit that allows you to donate to another non-profit of your choice.
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by Jd 13y ago
So do you think that the US higher-ed system is inherently flawed also, with competition between high achievers (i.e. Harvard) and schools that anyone can get into? It's true that there are more resources associated with success, but d
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by Jd 13y ago
I don't see why Americans should be able to discuss education policy in Polish. Seems a non sequitur. I don't think the author of the book claimed to be able to do such anyways. As for technological over-reliance, I take that as g
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by Jd 13y ago
It's very hard to extrapolate from stories like this to know if the actual instance and intensity of abuses is increasing, or if reportage is increasing (i.e. landing on HN front page) because of folk's irritation with other aspec
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by Jd 13y ago
Completely agree. AirBnB de facto bribes you to not leave negative ratings. Last cancellation I had was from a no-show host, who left me without a place to stay in Canary Wharf in London, had to shell out AirBnb price + $100 for a last mi
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by Jd 13y ago
I think you can often simulate this by having a good advisor or two. Make decisions frequently and rapidly, but leave a door open for critique. Presumably you need to document your decisions for this to be optimally effective.
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by Jd 13y ago
Good points. I tend to do a poor job at context switching. Once I get in a coding mood I become extraordinarily anti-social and vice versa. Also, frankly, I'm not that great at sales, at least compared to watching friends of mine who a
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by Jd 13y ago
This is a bit true for me. I expended a lot of effort looking for a co-founder, even though it was not obviously true that a co-founder would help me with the particular project I was in. To a certain extent, it was Mark Suster's insis
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by Jd 13y ago
This has been a long standing problem of my own. I think finding a true co-founder if you don't already have someone immediately present in your pool is extraordinarily difficult. The sub-optimal thing is especially difficult if you&#x
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by Jd 13y ago
We provide this.
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Yes, but you will also see useless minutia about the lives of the people who re-tweeted the originals.
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by Jd 13y ago
Well, I would say one large reason that micro-transactions haven't taken off is they are so bloody difficult to implement. Basically you are always dependent on someone's payment network, which usually is not geared towards suppor
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by Jd 13y ago
Very interesting concept. Are there any write-ups of this?
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I think the web definitively needs a good tool for delivering annotated texts. It's been on my 'list of startups to make' for a least half a decade.
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Letter to my senator re: NSA revelations(fractastical.com)
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SEEKING FREELANCER Distributed team currently headquartered in the Umbrian countryside (Italy) with staff in Berlin and S. France seeks: (1) Clojure devs (2) Mobile wizards (3) Security mavens We are bootstrapping at the moment.
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by Jd 13y ago
In many ways the problems people have with RoR are the same problems people have with ORMs. They abstract away a lot of the clutter, but then, just as you become totally dependent on the abstraction, you find you need something that you can
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by Jd 13y ago
It's a good question to ask yourself all the time, not only when you are working on a startup. "Am I failing? How?" The more you ask it, the more evaluate your own progress according to whatever goals you have, the better you
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by Jd 13y ago
Didn't zedshaw already design something like this? Where is he when you need him?
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by Jd 13y ago
I fail to see where in the original article it mentioned any costs relative to parenting. So turning this to talk about the costs of single parenting seems a non sequitur. also, when you say 7.25/hr is not a living wage, I think you ha
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by Jd 13y ago
At the moment we are sorting through some legal issues, but we plan to make this transparent very soon.
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by Jd 13y ago
It seems like McDonald's was providing an additional service for its low pay workers, so it seems a bit rude for the Atlantic to jump on them. Clearly it is difficult to live on $1K/m but I'm sure its possible -- I've do
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by Jd 13y ago
Since you ask, I happen to run my own asset-backed digital currency w/ an open REST API. See profile.
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I think there are a few things that are awesome about the Gittip model and a few things that are flawed: Awesome things (1) fills a huge need (2) we should be in the habit of giving back (3) promotes long-term thinking Bad things (1) depend
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by Jd 13y ago
What makes words easy to figure out is by putting spaces in between the words. Iamafrog <- you can figure that out what that means, but it certainly isn't easier than modern orthorgraphy. Aamafrog <- you could figure that out i
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by Jd 13y ago
This is very true, although one minor nitpick is that you should say "formal written rules" for grammar. The rules appear in fact appear to be more formal and consistent in the centuries before Panini, and the need to write them d

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