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by bhousel 16y ago
Why? A few lines of Javascript can tell you which timezone the user's machine is set to. Add a timezone dropdown field to the form where they enter the meeting details, and default that field to their local timezone, but let them change i
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by bhousel 16y ago
Location based checkin sites are basically games. The problem is that, like all games, people eventually get tired of them and move on to something else.
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The Four Horsemen Of The Enterprisocalypse(informationweek.com)
3 points by bhousel 16y ago|0 comments
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by bhousel 16y ago
Are you in the NYC area? If so, email me using the contact info in my profile. We may be able to work together on something.
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by bhousel 16y ago
Maybe a better analogy: The Boston marathon fills up so quickly that a local running club director decided to just start his own marathon nearby for runners who didn't get into Boston. http://www.runnersworld.com/article/0,7120,s6-243-297
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by bhousel 16y ago
sorry, it should be: http://new-york-founder-dating.meetup.com/
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by bhousel 16y ago
All true. Right now 14/3 Romex costs about 3x more than Cat5. Copper is expensive! LED lamps use DC power. The LED lamps that you can buy that screw into a standard Edison socket contain electronics to convert the AC line voltage into DC
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by bhousel 16y ago
NY Tech meetup is the biggest: http://www.meetup.com/ny-tech NY Founder Dating: http://www.meetup.com/new-york-founder-dating NY Hacker News: http://www.meetup.com/NYHackerNews There are many many more.. It's very easy to get caugh
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by bhousel 16y ago
First.. Let's assume you have enough money to get by for at least 6 months. And provide for anyone in your care. Including health insurance for emergencies. If you don't have money saved up, well, I'd try to get your day job back or some
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by bhousel 16y ago
Abstain from downvoting? I've in fact adopted the tactic of agressive downvoting. Spurious logic? Downvote. Personal attack? Downvote. Comment scored higher than I feel it should? Downvote. Metadiscussion? Downvote. I lurk on the
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Know When To Shut Up(wekeroad.com)
1 points by bhousel 16y ago|0 comments
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Extroverts, Introverts, Aspies and Codies(ribbonfarm.com)
4 points by bhousel 16y ago|0 comments
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by bhousel 16y ago
I think we should be careful with all the generalizations. I agree that stealth mode is usually stupid for the typical web startup. But there are certain types of startups where it is essential to have everything working perfectly befo
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by bhousel 16y ago
Here's a good article from a few months ago about the economics of ebook pricing. It supports your comments about the publishers having too much control over the pricing. http://dearauthor.com/wordpress/2011/01/16/why-do-ebooks-cos...
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by bhousel 16y ago
It was shut down for a few days, but it's back up again.
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by bhousel 16y ago
Shameless plug: I built a site to let people borrow and lend Kindle (and soon Nook) books. You can make wishlists of books you want to try out, and hopefully some kind person who owns that book will loan it to you. http://booklends.com
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by bhousel 16y ago
That being said, open source libraries aren't always free when it comes to support and technical costs.. While it's true that you can't always compare open source support with vendor support, I definitely feel the tide turning on this one
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by bhousel 16y ago
This article is somewhat blogospam. But it does raise a point that I wanted to mention. In many cases (and Windsoc is such a case) when you are trying to sell to developers, your competition isn't the developer's wish to "do it myself". Y
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by bhousel 16y ago
Oh really? Well then you'll be pleased to know that I just released Gumroad Lite: Clickable: http://gumroad.com/l/nbmeyt
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by bhousel 16y ago
Germany would for instance never get rid of the non-assimilating Turkish population. You can think of no time in Germany's history when they tried something like this?
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by bhousel 16y ago
I can somewhat agree with this. I used to do a lot of computer graphics work professionally. My degree was in electrical engineering, and it was the controls and robotics classes that taught me the necessary math background to work with c
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by bhousel 16y ago
If your password is stolen and someone steals all your bitcoins, how enthusiastically will the police investigate this crime? Is your bitcoin wallet covered by your home insurance policy against loss or theft?
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by bhousel 16y ago
It's profit all the way down.
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by bhousel 16y ago
Clickable: https://gumroad.appspot.com/l/jxrvbk
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by bhousel 16y ago
As it's a guide for international students at NYU, I think that's implied.
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by bhousel 16y ago
Hey PG, have you read Clay Shirky's Here Comes Everybody ? It has lots in there about the problems inherent in big communities, especially in how they function on the internet. The later parts of the book (chapter 8 and beyond) seem appli
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by bhousel 16y ago
Well, my main concerns are: Cuts in spending on education, politicization of primary school curricula, immigration and travel policies that discourage talented scientists from working here, and general anti-intellectualism in politics. But
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by bhousel 16y ago
Am I the only one bothered by the fact that they refer to the URL anchor section as a 'hashtag'?
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by bhousel 16y ago
> How would society, or more specifically government, even go about inspiring a cultural change to value scientists? Any ideas? "Too many athletes, too few scientists" is a broken premise: Elite athletes are valuable only because they a
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by bhousel 16y ago
I, for one, welcome our new... oh, fuck it.

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