ZackOfAllTrades

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by ZackOfAllTrades 15y ago
PG: Need to change the link in the bottom right of the page that says search to hnsearch instead of google with site:...
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by ZackOfAllTrades 15y ago
I wonder if this will affect how people write Wikipedia articles. Will authors start trying to point to something obscure now? It would be neat if the guy went back and did this same analysis in a few months after this sunk into editors bra
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by ZackOfAllTrades 15y ago
The hyperlink is taking out the ' for some reason. Not sure why exactly.
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by ZackOfAllTrades 15y ago
Zoho does this. http://blogs.zoho.com/general/how-we-recruit-on-formal-crede...
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by ZackOfAllTrades 15y ago
Click this: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Baumols_cost_disease A ' was forgotten
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by ZackOfAllTrades 15y ago
This might only work for some companies, but it worked out well for me: Take one of a company's flagship products and remake it using open source technology. You don't even have to do the entire thing: just enough to show that you understan
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by ZackOfAllTrades 15y ago
Having an idea stolen sucks. I empathize with you. It's rough and I've gone through it with a business partner of sorts. It hurts to think that something you worked hard on and thought through is going to benefit someone else who doesn't de
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by ZackOfAllTrades 15y ago
I had an idea like this a while back, but I tried to go with less flashy and more interesting patterns. I was making a website for stoners who were up late at night. The plan was to sell them pizza and other munchies. http://www.treeowls.c
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by ZackOfAllTrades 15y ago
Depending on the project, you could try to see if can get even one sale before you go all Gung-Ho Startup Mode. If the project can earn that first dollar, then you have much more evidence that it is business material and worth your time. If
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by ZackOfAllTrades 15y ago
It's MIT's 150th celebration now. It's why they have been so loud as of late. Probably a good way to get the donations to come in.
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by ZackOfAllTrades 15y ago
Question: What is the next thing most companies will use to market themselves? Banners, emails, and Likes are becomingly increasingly worthless, so where do companies with marketing budgets turn to get customers? Sounds like a market where
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by ZackOfAllTrades 15y ago
Never forget: Although HN may look like reddit, HN is not reddit.
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Somebody forgot to renew Processing js's domain(processingjs.org)
1 points by ZackOfAllTrades 15y ago|0 comments
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by ZackOfAllTrades 15y ago
They generally flip a shit about anything beyond the basics. I haven't been able to get a Cr-48 to even see the wireless around here. Apparently, the guy who set up the network hates Ubuntu and did his best to make it a pain to connect. No
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by ZackOfAllTrades 15y ago
Texas A&M: 1.
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by ZackOfAllTrades 15y ago
Obvious retort: YC is not just about the attention of PG and Friends. The summation of prestige, money in the present and, likely, in the future, and YC network alone still put a company in a different world. Question: Will YC pick people w
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How many computers can you have on your college's network?
2 points by ZackOfAllTrades 15y ago|6 comments
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by ZackOfAllTrades 15y ago
Only thing I would add is work on projects complicated enough that you would need to learn data structures eventually. Whenever I try to read about trees and hashmaps my eyes glaze over. It's only in practice that I find I learn data struct
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by ZackOfAllTrades 15y ago
Since nobody has replied, I should probably give a better answer: This is based on personal presence and tastes of course. The little guy just brings with him connotations of Howl's Moving Castle and the like. It may not be a bad thing dire
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by ZackOfAllTrades 15y ago
The little guy in the bottom right corner gets the point across, but he is creepy as hell. Change him into something less Japanese. Maybe a magician? Pulling back the curtain to show all the magic? Or an engineer with a helmet showing the
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by ZackOfAllTrades 15y ago
Why focus on something like that? Any possible answer you get is only going to hurt your chances: A. You are "too late" in the year- you stress out and lose focus. B. You are "too early" in the year- you wait for the perfect launch time and
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by ZackOfAllTrades 15y ago
"The less you need money, the more people want to give it to you." - some advice I have heard about finances. Applies to businesses selling a product, startups looking for money, and, especially well, to scholarships. The best indication th
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by ZackOfAllTrades 15y ago
Same situation as you. We have Stroustrup himself here at Texas A&M, so all anybody ever uses is C++[0]. My intro teacher to 121 actually told us to us the Waterfall method by name. All anybody wants to do is go into the video game indu
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by ZackOfAllTrades 15y ago
Make it pretty. I cannot think when I see that page.
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by ZackOfAllTrades 15y ago
Why?
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by ZackOfAllTrades 15y ago
Just called in and talked to Chap. I wanted to make sure he got to see the idea and know about before it got lost. He immediately made the jump to transcripts and text-based stuff. Chap: Recording calls with skype forum post: http://forum.
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by ZackOfAllTrades 15y ago
Idea:Record calls and make them available to others through the website. Less repetition of questions and you will be available to have a much wider outreach.
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by ZackOfAllTrades 15y ago
Best thing you can do now: offer the dropship guy a job. He knows your product well enough to "break" it and he has the motivation to create something strong enough that it is causing a fuss. Learn from Geohot. Don't scare away people who w
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by ZackOfAllTrades 15y ago
Main questions: Does PG actually need more money? Would a store do anything more for the YC brand than if the time required to create it were spent doing other things, like helping startups/doing interviews/thinking? I suspect that the ans
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by ZackOfAllTrades 15y ago
After reading it, it only improves a certain subreddit by 6x. It doesn't actually change much for the overall site besides the fu subreddit.

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