chris100

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by chris100 17y ago
If I was on the ICANN board, I'd pass some resolution that says that squattered domains can be claimed back. I'm sure I can come up with a decent definition for squatters.
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by chris100 17y ago
I don't see raw speed as being the issue. Even when you edit a 500-slide powerpoint, all you need at any given time is to see the current slide. Same for word processing. Rather, I agree with the original poster that it's the APIs that are
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by chris100 17y ago
The biggest barrier I can see would be overcoming the hostility from the other stores If that's the only problem, you could just open your retail store outside a mall, where no one can bother you. Think El Camino in Silicon Valley. If you
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by chris100 17y ago
One way that taught me a lot. Go to a third world country and just for fun, negotiate retail items (baseball cap, tshirt, whatever). Shoot for 80% off. Can you do it? Then go for 90% off... You'll quickly learn that you have two weapons: mo
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by chris100 17y ago
Internet prices and retail is actually something I have been thinking about recently. Someone, please help me with the economics. What if a retail store offered great advice and let you order online so you get the best Internet price? One r
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by chris100 17y ago
You are 100% correct and 100% wrong. Before Mint existed, it felt crazy to try to compete against personal finance software. Intuit Quicken, they had a laundry list of features. Somehow, someone saw a niche that this gigantic tools failed t
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by chris100 17y ago
The only things I still keep local on my drive: music my family pictures my email, contacts and calendar work files If you imagine a tablet/netbook with GoogleOS, I'm still scared to death of losing the network. There is some talk of offlin
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by chris100 17y ago
Yes, he used to work for Wilson Sonsini. This is when I'd like to have a yelp for service providers, or a "karma keeper". Today, a lawyer at Wilson Sonsini did some bad karma. Another day, another partner there will do a great thing. Can we
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by chris100 17y ago
The one thing that fascinates me about pinball is that unlike an arcade game, a PC can't properly simulate it. It has a physics/reality component to it that a computer can't touch. Just like playing tennis or golf on your wii isn't quite th
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by chris100 17y ago
Definitely tune your robots.txt But if you put exact URLs in your robots.txt, then a normal person could pick them up from there and access your content. Make sure you use a directory structure and forbid all files from the content direct
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by chris100 17y ago
FSJ has a point here. The blind endorsment of Google technology within a week of switching jobs is fishy. Plain and simple.
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by chris100 17y ago
While I hope and believe that the headline is accurate, I'd feel better if the article showed examples of seed and early rounds. A startup that raises round C for $10M is not really sending the same message as 4 YC startups getting angel fu
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by chris100 17y ago
It's a thought-provoking article. But I don't embrace the culture of free as much as Tim. If he gets his way, no company would be allowed to profit, everything would be open. Somehow, Google would be the only one to survive in the environme
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by chris100 17y ago
Yes, he lost quite a bit of credibility today. He can't find any flaw to google docs as a replacement to Office? I sure can. I'm not able to use Google Docs as a replacement for Word and Powerpoint yet when I'm doing precise positioning of
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by chris100 17y ago
When you visit those 10 newspaper sites a day, how many ads do you click? And how many ads did I click on when I was reading the paper version of a newspaper or magazine? [One of] The great downfall of newspapers is that now each action c
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by chris100 17y ago
Circulation has been steeply dropping Yes and no. 10 years ago, at best I'd buy and read one newspaper per day. Now I probably visit 10 newspapers' websites per day to read various news. While physical circulation is down, overall expos
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by chris100 17y ago
What can you do? I don't know, post your problem on a blog to get Google's attention? Maybe even cross-post into HN? It has worked before (can't find a link right now).
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by chris100 17y ago
Not a bad idea... If the side would give you a badge to embed on your web site, that says "key influencer", it could spread. Actually, a bunch of sites do this for twitter specifically, but extending it with a bunch of categories, so that i
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by chris100 17y ago
Greg Swartz, director of innovation at the golf company Ping, says he has come up with 36 ideas for better tees and loftier drives by looking at the stars Isn't that everyone's dream job? Director of innovation... looking at the stars...
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by chris100 17y ago
"charistmatic" or "leadership" may be the words you are looking for?
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by chris100 17y ago
As a hiring manager, I'll take internship or side-project coding experience over GPA anyday. Sure, a good GPA is good. But if you back it up with experience , you are ahead.
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by chris100 17y ago
On their way to meet an investor, one of them runs out of gas and pulls up to fill gas. He tries each of his credit cards and it doesn't work as its all maxed out and its the same case with the other founder. Finally they call a family me
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by chris100 17y ago
usvisanews.com was the best immigration web site last decade. They had a blog, they had live chats, etc. They provided a great service to everyone who had concerns about immigration. Especially, the "ask an immigration lawyer" live chat was
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by chris100 17y ago
Have a co-founder from a similar background as yours, and who you've known for a while While your message is quite tongue-in-cheek, there is some truth to it and I wanted to follow-up on this comment. From anecdotal experience, it seems t
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by chris100 17y ago
Excellent post. Also clearly explains why 2 is the ideal number, and why you need history with your co-founder.
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by chris100 17y ago
Interesting that while the article mentions TechCrunch's crusade, it never mentions the problematic aspect, which are the scammy offers. The article only mentions buying virtual goods as a problem. I'd say scamming is worse.
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OpenSUSE 11.2 released(en.opensuse.org)
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Reddit Opens Its Homepage To Anyone Willing To Pay(techcrunch.com)
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by chris100 17y ago
The obvious trick of course is to cook your own (healthy) meal and package it with one of those. Did that for boxes of Cheerios when we were out of the "approved" brand and it worked wonders.
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by chris100 17y ago
One of the mentors at the Founder Institute had a really good advice for running meetings (board meetings or any management meeting or staff meeting). I can't find a link to it right now, but it goes like this: - asynchronously (wiki or oth

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