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by cedsav 15y ago
Cancer sucks. If you care to learn more about the disease and the search for a cure, check out "The Emperor of All Maladies: A Biography of Cancer" by Siddhartha Mukherjee. Fascinating, scary and sobering. http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/
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by cedsav 15y ago
> I made it through the month with $150 to spare. So you ate up $850 in savings and have no way of paying rent the next day. The game isn't realistic. It condenses in one month what could happen in the span of a year or more, but the re
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by cedsav 15y ago
Looks great, but returns 0 plan that includes maternity coverage in my area. I don't know if it's an issue with the app, or just the sad state of health insurance in the US... probably a bit of both.
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by cedsav 15y ago
I like the idea, but I would expect to see a lot of very confused users when that error message is displayed. Any feedback on that from your users?
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by cedsav 15y ago
yeah, that was confusing. Don't assume that people actually read every single word on your page ;-)
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by cedsav 15y ago
Ok. I can see myself using this for my business, since I have some solid data for most metrics. I could then get a better sense of the kind of impact improving one metric or another would have. Still not sure of the usefulness when you star
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by cedsav 15y ago
I guess I don't see the point of this tool. You have to make wild guesses for every single metrics in there. Is it a MBA thing? Do people really find this useful? EDIT: Maybe I got confused by the 'business plan' part. Is it intended for an
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by cedsav 15y ago
Firefox 6 seems to ignore the encoding declaration in the xml prolog. Setting a content-type meta tag should fix this (or setting the encoding in the http headers). <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=UTF-8"/&#62
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by cedsav 15y ago
Your browser probably auto-detects the encoding as Western (ISO-8959-1). Change it to Unicode (UTF-8) to see the Arabic characters.
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by cedsav 15y ago
We're currently in the process of sponsoring two foreigners for H1B visa, and we're a small bootstrapped startup, so yeah it's definitely possible. The legal costs are fairly high, but we have been working with the 2 applicants for several
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by cedsav 15y ago
It reminds me of the Measure Map acquisition. Launch a new product, then acquire a talented team that worked on something similar. It worked pretty well I believe for Google Analytics. http://techcrunch.com/2006/02/14/google-buys-measurem
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by cedsav 15y ago
another nitpick, use the 'label' tag and the 'for' attribute with your yes/no radio buttons to make them easier to select.
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by cedsav 15y ago
For what it's worth, I think it's fairly common practice these days. Not long ago I booked a car rental (I think on Avis.com). The first time I got a quote, I didn't book it right away as I was shopping for better prices elsewhere. When I c
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by cedsav 16y ago
It always amazes me how cultural differences find their ways in the oddest little details. I had never heard of the 2 space rule until I moved to the US, and only recently did I realize that the question mark was missing its preceding space
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by cedsav 16y ago
If you have cash sitting around, you'd want to spend it to accelerate your business. Buying a company with a successful product, great team, large user base and actual revenues can be seen as a much safer investment (assuming the price isn'
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by cedsav 16y ago
We do. http://jobs.37signals.com/jobs/7750 Interns ok. No freelance / agencies please.
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by cedsav 16y ago
Comcast pulled quite a bluff, but I don't see how they can win in the long term. As a Comcast subscriber, I'd more than happy to switch to a different ISP if Comcast starts to limit access to Netflix or any other content provider.
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by cedsav 16y ago
1 in 30M? so, with over 600M passengers per year, that's roughly 20 people a year who would get cancer (and die?) because of those machines. I'm not sure how credible are those stats, but I wouldn't want to be making decisions at the TSA r
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Run-of-the-mill startup seeks mediocre designer(jobs.37signals.com)
10 points by cedsav 16y ago|2 comments
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by cedsav 16y ago
From your description, I'm guessing that the company will go under the day you quit. The founders can go on for a while on empty, but they need you if for any of their hail mary plans to have a chance to succeed. However, their only obligat
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by cedsav 16y ago
Welcome to the joys and sorrows of hosting user-generated content. If this makes you feel better,rackspace is just your first problem. You'll also find soon enough that abuses can get your domain blacklisted in chrome, firefox, and for open
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by cedsav 16y ago
Where's 'here'? His $6 rate if for Filipinos, which I'm guessing is an ok rate (given a minimum wage of $2k / yr: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_minimum_wages_by_countr... )
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by cedsav 16y ago
I think the key is that they've been in business for 11 years. You need 100% focus to build a profitable business, but once you get the recipe right (and for 37signals, when was that? 5 years ago?), it gets easier and easier to diversify.
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by cedsav 16y ago
I use Eclipse as my main development environment. I'm familiar with vi, I use it regularly for sys-admin stuff, and used it extensively a while back in college. As far a text-editor goes, I'm 100% sure that vim/emacs power users are extrem
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by cedsav 16y ago
Like an evolutionary black box. All the details stored will help the brain make sense of the event and prevent it from occurring again.
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by cedsav 16y ago
That sucks, we left basecamp/campfire for Google Wave and it was a really good fit for us (collaborative work with a distributed team).
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by cedsav 16y ago
Right, maybe I should have said the republic is still working well...
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by cedsav 16y ago
Softlayer, and yeah, they're great (at least on their dedicated hardware, not sure about their cloud services).
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by cedsav 16y ago
another quote: "Rep. Dan Lungren, R-Calif., introduced legislation last week that would repeal the new 1099 requirements." Bottom line, a misguided attempt to improve income reporting and tax collection is going to be either watered down by
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by cedsav 16y ago
Make me wonder why our hosting provider keeps handing over 6 IP addresses for free each time we order a server (we usually don't need them).

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