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by alexophile 15y ago
I imagine the difference is in how you listen to music. Having been a staunch evangelist for Rdio, I've found that the people that really fall in love with it are usually album listeners. If you prefer to listen in more of a radio type sett
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by alexophile 15y ago
"Apple built Keynote because everyone hates PowerPoint."
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by alexophile 15y ago
While I believe that's psychologically sound, Machiavelli's advice was specifically for a singular figure head to maintain order and control for as long as possible (i.e. indefinitely.) Normally, this is exactly the situation a CEO is in, b
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by alexophile 15y ago
I don't know if this still goes on, but the guys at turntablelab.com would have live DJs in their office and a video chat (forget what service it was on) on mute. It was especially cool because most of the listeners were also DJs that bough
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by alexophile 15y ago
That false comparison has always bothered me. Preying on the weak for fun instead of profit doesn't make you right, it makes you sound like a sociopath.
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by alexophile 16y ago
>Try to keep your paragraphs to a maximum of 3-5 sentences long I kind of recoiled in horror at this one. Whenever I'm working on my own resume or helping someone else with theirs, I go by one simple rule: your goal is to get the person
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by alexophile 16y ago
Surely, but if a journalist does even the slightest bit of homework on his past interviews they could very easily upgrade to something like "I know you've said you focus on the team rather than the idea when selecting applicants..." and go
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by alexophile 16y ago
semi-related: do you ever get tired of interviews that amount to "So what do you look for in a company?" "Well we look at the founders, more than the idea."? I'm always impressed at how genial you are in answering the world's most predictab
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Background on Saturday's Rdio outage(blog.rdio.com)
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by alexophile 16y ago
I think there's a really strong disconnect here that is really common around HN - basically, do you really want to change the world? It seems like people have a tendency to answer "yes" to this question because the alternative makes you loo
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by alexophile 16y ago
People sometimes guffaw at this, but I can't recommend Donald Duck in Mathemagic Land enough: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iEVGQKwKeCc They skip over several centuries of shifting and tweaking between the triad and the modern (western)
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by alexophile 16y ago
>whether it is a good idea to try to introduce students to the acoustic/mathematical derivation of the scale I did this when I was teaching my roommate about theory, but he has a degree in math, so it seemed like the logical approach. T
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by alexophile 16y ago
"...posting under deadpanned handles like Coldblood and Tux, the latter a possible shorthand for the group’s logo, which features a man in a tuxedo, sans head."
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by alexophile 16y ago
I've always liked the pyramid analogy ( http://www.seomoz.org/blog/whiteboard-friday-the-seo-fundame... ) - once you have quality content, you can build traffic by using higher order strategies. The better you are at creating the former, th
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by alexophile 16y ago
Last summer, I remember saying Rdio should put together an offer for like.fm - looks like that has gotten more expensive. (nice work)
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by alexophile 16y ago
On a (kind of) related note, there's the story of Freddie Keppard. Freddie was, by most accounts, paranoid - he was an incredibly talented musician but he was always afraid someone was trying to steal his material. People say he even played
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by alexophile 16y ago
I think the problem is not that the list is too long as much as that it jumps across categories, making it look like you were stretching to make it as long as it is. Some point out cool stuff you can do with Highrise, some are actual FAQ ty
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by alexophile 16y ago
I have thought for a while that some take on the Mixergy model would be an excellent way to distribute music. If you don't know, about a year ago (?), Andrew Warner initiated a system wherein new interviews would always be free, but you wou
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by alexophile 16y ago
As usual, Derek Sivers has a wonderfully relevant essay on this: http://sivers.org/15-years
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by alexophile 16y ago
At first I thought Mary Meeker was delusional - to think that the US budget problem is one of identification is completely missing the point. But then I realized she's just pushing the underlying link between technology and politics: pro
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by alexophile 16y ago
There was a series of these back before facebook, and >50% ( I would guess somewhere in the 90+ range) were just traps that sent a list of your crushes to whoever set it up.
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by alexophile 16y ago
2) Social hoooks - Your product/service must be social. It must encourage your users to invite others to try it out. Hooks into Facebook and Twitter are obvious. Email invites are another obvious feature. The product should allow people to
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by alexophile 16y ago
Not only is this good advice for getting your own things done, but it's good to keep in mind if you're building an app that helps other people get things done. When I was writing "full-time" I loved using 750words.com - it's a sort of free
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by alexophile 16y ago
I interpreted that look as "You're going to put some really lame headline above me aren't you?"
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by alexophile 16y ago
The real story here, IMO is not that the internet creates more engaged citizens, but that being interested in something encourages civic engagement. [edit: not to say the internet doesn't increase engagement, it certainly does, but that
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by alexophile 16y ago
On a related note, this line form the wikipedia article is priceless: "Caesar accidentally burned the library down during his visit to Alexandria in 48 BC." It may be a gross mischaracterization, but I love the image of a Mr. Magoo-like Cae
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by alexophile 16y ago
It seems, based on the excerpt in the article and the timing, that it may have been hit by an automatic kill/flag type situation.
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by alexophile 16y ago
"Fat-fingering" has been the phrase for a while, but I think there's a consensus that it sounds rather... unappealing.
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by alexophile 16y ago
I hear they have an opening for a librarian that they've been trying to fill for millenia.
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by alexophile 16y ago
http://www.airbnb.com/help/topic/traveling# On top of the booking price of a listing, any deposit, tax, or cleaning fee should be listed in the description or details section of the listing -- so you can view them there. You may also mes

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