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by arrel 15y ago
His intention was to get people to be a little more considerate when asking for people's time, not turning relationships into dollar-per-hour transactions. We in the nerd community often have problems empathizing with others, and thinking m
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by arrel 15y ago
Have you looked at grubwithus.com? Not many "famous" people yet, but definitely a start in the right direction.
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by arrel 15y ago
These tools all work in different ways, but I would love if someone could write an app store for these (and others) to live in so we could one-click install and one-click uninstall dev tools locally. I'd definitely pay for that manager app,
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by arrel 15y ago
It sounds like a poetic call to action that everyone on HN should probably heed. Too many talented people are pouring their efforts into the next location-based photo sharing app that nobody is going to use (trust me, I did it myself for al
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by arrel 16y ago
I'm fascinated by work methodologies, but they always remind me of the Atkins diet - something that probably works in the short term, so people rave about it, but breaks down over time. Even maniacs like Tim Ferris can't seem to stick with
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by arrel 16y ago
I've had to build sync systems in the past for RoR + iPhone and was amazed that there was no industry standard approach to sync. Even syncing contacts on my iPhone still goes haywire regularly. Is it just one of those "hard problems" that's
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by arrel 16y ago
This sounds like one more step to making push something that's expected on the web. BlackBerry did it to email when they created the "interactive pager", but it took a few years before people realized what was happening. It's great to see h
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by arrel 16y ago
Tie in rotten tomatoes reviews and you've got a torrent butler with taste.
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by arrel 16y ago
I'd rather see TED team up with another discussion forum (like Quora) insted of creating their own walled garden of conversation. Offering a way to talk with TED speakers on an already popular service sounds a lot more sustainable.
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by arrel 16y ago
I assume you have some new take on what you're doing - otherwise you wouldn't be doing it. The main takeaway of the post is that you almost always need feedback to execute new approaches properly. It sounds like you're assuming that your ex
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by arrel 16y ago
It's easy to get things done if you're a difficult bastard. People may not like it, but if you yell loud enough they'll often do it. At least as long as you're yelling. Relating it back to Jim Collins's books (like "Good to Great"), the dif
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by arrel 16y ago
The value of writing things down - details about finger pain and waxy skin surely would have been lost memories, but are the things that make stories like this so great.
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by arrel 16y ago
Reminds me of the calacanis article about facebook's developer culture - continuous deployment not only makes updates faster, it democratized the process and gives every developer the power to make things better. Good for the product, and g
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by arrel 16y ago
Did Arnold Schwarzenegger's face flash through anyone else's mind while reading this?
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by arrel 16y ago
What a reflction of the attitudes of each company towards their customers. Zappos is all about coming down to the level of their users and having fun with them. 37Signals has finally built their ivory tower, and they want customers to think
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by arrel 16y ago
Steve Blank has a lot of blog posts about entrepreneurship and the different types - searching through his old posts would turn up good info. I also recommend reading his blog from the beginning. It's a great read, not too long (a longish b
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by arrel 16y ago
I wish Taggar had addressed how this is going to impact the application review process. It sounds like the YC partners already have their hands full with the number of applications coming in each round, and I assume those numbers are shooti