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by bokonist 19y ago
Exeter's actually worse than the article says. Shortly after I graduated in 2002 they tore up up perfectly functional squash courts and replaced them with new ones. The old courts weren't as big as the new prep school official size, so
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by bokonist 19y ago
I went to Exeter and Yale and found it the opposite. Yale was smarter and the students weren't quite as well off.
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by bokonist 19y ago
Oh, and the other thing you can do, if you aren't sending tens of thousands of messages, is use Gmail to send your emails, and script it through a POP code library.
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by bokonist 19y ago
The easiest thing would be to sign up with a third party email service that has an API. They can handle all the deliverability issues, so you don't have to worry about it. I hear that Bronto is pretty good.
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by bokonist 19y ago
There are tons of startups in NYC. Try going to NextNY ( http://www.nextny.org/wiki/ ) or the New Tech Meetup ( http://newtech.meetup.com/1/ ). You'll meet people in the community fast. You can start by going to Matchup Camp tomorrow
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by bokonist 19y ago
I worked on a large Python project before Django came out and ended up building my own framework. Recently, when I used Django, I realized that almost every feature it had was something I had ended up writing myself. Django had a lot more
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by bokonist 19y ago
Your college years should have two practical benefits. You should be learning a lot, and you should prove to your future employer ( or investor) that you can get stuff done. The default way to do this is to get great grades, which covers b
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by bokonist 19y ago
I don't know why anyone would invest in a fund that does not have the managers keep a large portion of their own net worth tied up in the fund. There is a huge information asymmetry. The investor does not know if the fund performs well be
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by bokonist 19y ago
http://salaryscout.com/
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Offshoring Is Dead: How to Thrive in the New World Order(blog.assembla.com)
13 points by bokonist 19y ago|4 comments
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by bokonist 19y ago
+! for "JavaScript: The Definitive Guide" Once you have learned javascript, DHTML: The Definitive Reference is a great desktop reference, although it's less important now that javascript libraries are so good.
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by bokonist 19y ago
Every point of friction the user encounters when trying to use a product is point where they will stop and do something else. Desktop software is too difficult to try out. People are scared of spyware. Configuration and system compatibil
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by bokonist 19y ago
Joel is basing his argument off the book "Measuring and Managing Performance in Organizations." In points out that in situations where the employee gains natural satisfaction from serving the customer, measurement often makes performance w
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by bokonist 19y ago
In order for a challenge to be fun there needs to be some consistency or pattern to it. The actual pleasure of playing a game comes from the brain learning to recognize patterns. But the aiming seems completely random, making it frustrati
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by bokonist 19y ago
I got the sense Joel was talking about an SDK that does not require a plugin. Otherwise it seems Flash and Silverlight already meet his requirements.
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by bokonist 19y ago
A couple of problems with his argument: 1) Web entrepreneurs working now still need to optimize for speed. It's not like the desktop world where you are launching a year or two from now and can wait for the computers to catch up. You are
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Need a partner to apply to YC with? Fill out your half of the app and find like minded people(hackermatcher.com)
34 points by bokonist 19y ago|13 comments
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by bokonist 19y ago
I second this. My eye doctor recommended them, and it helps quite a bit.
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by bokonist 19y ago
I'm not a huge fan of brainstorming, that has never seemed to work for me. Almost all of my ideas come from encountering problems. Sometimes it me who encounters the problem, sometimes some one I've talked to, and sometimes I read about it
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Reminder: Cambridge news.ycombinator.com meetup tonight, 7PM
11 points by bokonist 19y ago|1 comments
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by bokonist 19y ago
sure, come anyway
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by bokonist 19y ago
ok I changed it to say "this past june" instead of "last June" :-)
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news.ycombinator meetup - Cambridge, MA
20 points by bokonist 19y ago|30 comments