ZackOfAllTrades

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by ZackOfAllTrades 16y ago
If you are doing something important and useful well, where you are and what is going on around you doesn't matter much. I imagine if you start turning over some rocks in Beijing you will find some interesting innovations. You live in a cou
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by ZackOfAllTrades 16y ago
This has the feeling of a pun where the person says something garbled and then starts laughing and pointing when you don't understand what he said.
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by ZackOfAllTrades 16y ago
At least they had released an app before going for funding.
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by ZackOfAllTrades 16y ago
Most of my impressive stuff has come from being nice and treating everybody, students, counselors, and business people like they are people too. Example 1: Went and talked to my teachers a semester early. Set up an extra credit project on a
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by ZackOfAllTrades 16y ago
Way too early to tell, but I figured I might as well get the idea out there early. And pg & friends probably have some different goals than what some hn users are used to a online forum having. HN doesn't need to be monetized or have hu
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Ask PG: Can we see the response to the HN changes?
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by ZackOfAllTrades 16y ago
Possible feature if karmaless posts are kept: Allow users with certain levels of karma to create a poll on a comment. It would allow people to see what the masses are thinking without spawning a thousand I-agree posts, but still let the rea
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by ZackOfAllTrades 16y ago
One way to do it: every XXX minutes generate a file containing all the data pulled from MongoDB for the past YYY minutes. Have that sit someplace accessible within the Intranet. Use some XMLHttpRequest on the browser side to pull the data u
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by ZackOfAllTrades 16y ago
Not in your target market, but from a general perspective: What kind of story are you telling to people? The about page is about the team not what the team is doing. I was expecting something about the service and what it does. Stop using t
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by ZackOfAllTrades 16y ago
I am in the same boat as you. The way I look at it is that I come to terms with what I suck at right now and then work hard at sucking less. Eventually I get really good at what I sucked at and move onto the next thing. And you don't need p
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by ZackOfAllTrades 16y ago
I've been struggling through that lately. I keep getting distracted trying to prove or disprove there is a solution to the MU puzzle. He will present a new idea and I always have to go back and check to see if I can make any headway. I've t
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by ZackOfAllTrades 16y ago
> http://sharescribe.wordpress.com 1. Get rid of the "Just another WordPress.com site" in the upper right hand corner. Pimp out your blog. Make the website look like you are serious. 2.Learn how to install wordpress directly on your w
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by ZackOfAllTrades 16y ago
You can thank Tim Ferris for that little idea. Pretty smart dude when he isn't tooting his own horn.
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by ZackOfAllTrades 16y ago
Fact: most witty statements tend to break down when you look at them closely.
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by ZackOfAllTrades 16y ago
>>Become a better rock climber >Hold on tighter?:) ...he would never get anywhere.
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by ZackOfAllTrades 16y ago
Big: NO idea. 19, soon to be 20, year old college student. I'd like to make some money, but I haven't made up my mind up yet. Maybe apply for YC if I have good people to work with in a few years. Small: See how far I can take treeowls.com.
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by ZackOfAllTrades 16y ago
It seems like the thought process of every fledging social network this morning was: Google is launching their social network? Perfect! Time to launch our similar but not quite finished rival product. We might just get listed at the bottom
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by ZackOfAllTrades 16y ago
You could really make waves if you made a way to better organize your friends visually. Option A: People's icons as little boxes that I can drag around. Make a venn diagram for groups. When you friend people, you select their group(s) by dr
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by ZackOfAllTrades 16y ago
Thank you. It helps to know other people are out there struggling.
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by ZackOfAllTrades 16y ago
As a student interested in entrepreneurship, I get this feeling all the time. Teachers and profs will tell you if you have a good idea to pitch it at the University's Big Ideas/PowerPitch/NextBigThing program and see if you can get the appr
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by ZackOfAllTrades 16y ago
Do something hard that nobody else wants to do. Get so far into the project that you get past the ugly parts and can start doing things nobody else is. Aim for critical mass in terms of learning ideas and skills. When you are at the point w
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by ZackOfAllTrades 16y ago
We are looking for guys and gals who can help us hack together Mathematica graphics for an interactive calculus textbook. We are currently in talks with an established publisher to partner with, and Wolfram is trying their best to make this
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by ZackOfAllTrades 16y ago
In 2011, I will revolutionize the textbook publishing industry.