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by brm 14y ago
Are you paying for them to be there for a prescribed time or are you paying them to get the work done?
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by brm 14y ago
Avoid a huge debt burden for the sake of prestige and college can be four gap years. Do crazy things for course credit. Take professors in all sorts of your interests out to lunch and ask them questions. Experiment. Mess up. Go around the w
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by brm 14y ago
I can't help but read this and feel that your life priorities and response levels to problems are out of whack
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by brm 14y ago
This is the best, most reasonable thinking I've read on this study (From Jay Parkinson, the M.D. behind the startup sherpaa.com) http://blog.jayparkinsonmd.com/post/24488678085/when-i-read-...
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by brm 14y ago
I find myself in an even stickier place. As a designer I work in HTML and CSS, borrow and implement other people's javascript to make my interfaces do nice things, and dance around in wordpress php, tumblr themeing, and the superficial cod
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by brm 15y ago
$/sqft per year makes more sense when you take into account that most corporate budgets aren't monthly (this isn't an apartment rental) and that most commercial lease terms are several years long
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by brm 15y ago
Thinking a lot about nationality and citizenship lately and I've come to realize just how absurd is that far and away the easiest way move citizenship in this world is still marriage. While a global citizen passport would be nice, simply ma
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by brm 15y ago
I'd put equal money on Helena Christensen
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The Keyframe Bias(blog.jackcheng.com)
5 points by brm 15y ago|0 comments
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by brm 15y ago
Dressing better is not necessarily dressing up. Dress for the situation but wear high quality clothes with the right fit. Just because its business attire doesn't mean its good clothing or that you're dressed well. Stand outside the local
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by brm 15y ago
Well the employees certainly aren't working for free. So yes, everyone is getting paid and fed on 85+ million in venture investment.
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by brm 15y ago
He didn't necessarily say he wasn't going to go through with idea if it was shot down... He seemed like he just wanted help finding where the holes he should be guarding against and planning for were.
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by brm 15y ago
Look at Mint (who used their blog to great effect as a startup). All it takes is a simple link at the top of the blog. http://www.mint.com/blog/
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by brm 15y ago
I looked to the Hipmunk logo, and then I looked to the 'home' link... then I found it in the sidebar. Its nitpick I'll admit but it seems odd to see so many startups use their blog to direct users to their site and then not optimize a way
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by brm 15y ago
Unrelated but I have to point it out since it happens constantly... If you're a start-up and you're directing people to your blog, please, please, please make an obvious and easy link from the blog to your startup's homepage. Don't hide it
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by brm 15y ago
One that gets missed almost everywhere is: if I type the wrong username or password, keep my username in the field (so many erase the forms when returning the error). That way I can tell if the mistake was in my username or my password an
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The Argumentative Theory(edge.org)
4 points by brm 15y ago|0 comments
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by brm 15y ago
I'm probably going to be downvoted for this but... Increasing the speed at which our news is delivered is not even necessarily a good thing. Please wake me when someone invents something that makes it more accurate and unbiased.
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by brm 16y ago
I've said it before and I'll say it again, limit the number of comments and submissions per user per day... See discussion here: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2242505
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Matt Mullenweg on Multi-WAN Routers(ma.tt)
24 points by brm 16y ago|14 comments
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by brm 16y ago
This is old and not updated anymore but some good thoughts and interviews with Scott Heiferman, Caterina Fake, and Gina Bianchi (Ning)... http://theglueproject.com/ Somewhere around online is a really good article with Heather Champ from
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by brm 16y ago
You're failing from the moment you start. Your whole mission is to get to a point where you're not failing anymore. If each day you're making progress towards the things that will make you're specific venture sustainable then you're on the
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by brm 16y ago
I read this: “There are very few who are as inherently bright as Natalie is, who have as much intellectual horsepower, who work as hard as she did. She didn’t take a single thing for granted.” As: Few people who have the same level of intel
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by brm 16y ago
Submission quality is secondary to the drastic decline in discussion quality. I've always believed that best way to improve the quality of contributions is to make the opportunity to contribute seem finite. It'd be interesting to see what h
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by brm 16y ago
I believe it says they grew to 16 million VISITORS not users? Did I miss something?
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by brm 16y ago
From the comments there... DHH shitting on the app store http://bigthink.com/ideas/21603
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by brm 16y ago
Any chance you'll go into detail on what it was like to work out the dropshipping arrangement?
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by brm 16y ago
First, Chicago pizza is not pizza it some sort of Midwestern casserole. That said, if you haven't had pizza from Burt's out in Morton Grove you're not allowed to enter the judging. Outside of that, my favorites are Pequod's, The Art of Piz
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by brm 16y ago
that difference... innate or easier understanding + the ability to execute it IS talent
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The Birdfeed Easter Egg That Never Was(log.scifihifi.com)
1 points by brm 16y ago|0 comments

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