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by curo 9y ago
pg is Nostradamus, this list is amazingly prescient - #5 explosion of upstream SaaS - #6 tons of higher-res components of CRM software - #9 instagram - #11 google drive - #22 smartsheet wonder if the few on here that haven't been solve
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by curo 9y ago
continued... There is no mental trick here; maybe it’s a pre-mental trick. It’s not even a habit. Habits are mental. There is a deep power in the moment that originates before the mind arises. Slip into these depths before the mind muddies
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by curo 9y ago
A few years ago, I could have wrote what you wrote, but at age 31, I feel almost as productive as I’ll ever want to be. So what changed? I simply don’t think about it anymore. Coming up with rewards schemas is thinking about it — it’s your
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by curo 9y ago
Cool idea and great job launching. I might consider at some point in the future. For now, quick feedback: my primary curiosity is what the interface looked like. It clears up my understanding to see the "How It Works" page but tha
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by curo 9y ago
Hakeema | Lead Engineer, VPE, Senior Architect | Boston, MA or Portland, OR (remote-potential) | www.hakeema.com We're a profitable, mission-oriented, down-to-earth team about to pass a quarter million in ARR in our first six months. W
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by curo 9y ago
Hakeema | Sales Animal "First Sales Hire" (besides me) | Boston, MA | Full-time | On-site Hakeema is brand spanking new. Our mission is to bring massive amounts of joy and efficiency to impact work. We're funded by a large cl
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by curo 9y ago
> "beyond the right kind of computation" Could you explain this? The observer isn't a mystery, I agree. But the original comment seems spot on: if you are describing consciousness as a state of matter, then you're say
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Ask HN: Best US startup towns and cities outside Boston
2 points by curo 9y ago|4 comments
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by curo 10y ago
http://www.backerpass.com would work well as it doesn't require backers to signup for an account like Patreon. (disclaimer: i know the guy who created it.)
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by curo 11y ago
Yea Justin's great. He sent my YC rejection and made it feel like landing on soft pillows. Then handled my objections with warmth.
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by curo 11y ago
I need a banana for comparison.
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by curo 11y ago
Interesting. Do you have experience with this, or have someone in mind I can look to as an example? I'm not sure I know what a startup consultant does, and I haven't ever met one. I see you're in MVP development. One reason I
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Ask HN: Tips for making the entrepreneur-to-job jump
11 points by curo 11y ago|7 comments
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Ask HN: How will automation affect data science jobs?
2 points by curo 11y ago|3 comments
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by curo 11y ago
> "That’s the old economy way of dealing with new products: to throw up legal and regulatory roadblocks" I had a tiff with Zenefits failing to notify me about a cancelled policy while still collecting payments. They denied res
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by curo 11y ago
He's a Nobel Peace Laureate and recipient of the Congressional Gold Medal. He's been meditating on compassion and the self for several hours a day for 77 years (since he was 2), almost 200,000 hours of meditation. He's author
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by curo 11y ago
I lived in the Bay Area for 3 years and might return. You do meet some pretty cool people working on interesting projects. Besides the networking you just feel pressure (and inspiration?) to work faster and harder. Not just because your s
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by curo 11y ago
Yea that's true. And I even enjoy that self-contained aspect of papers, especially when I'm reading up on an unfamiliar field. But perhaps they could be more high-level. Some authors go crazy. Say for instance, by explaining ph
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by curo 11y ago
One thing I noticed is that there's a lit review at the beginning of most research papers. That's a lot of work just to get people up to speed. Thought not a complete solution, I envision a github-like environment for the researc
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by curo 11y ago
> "The biggest improvement to email since spell-check." Spell checking is an indexing and comparison task. Crystal is saying that she's better than I am at social tasks. Could that be true? Maybe the Turing test passes n
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by curo 11y ago
Here are the primary difficulties that owners report when selling themselves (FSBO). - Understanding and performing paperwork: 18% - Getting the right price: 13% - Preparing/fixing up home for sale: 12% - Helping buyer obtain financing
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by curo 12y ago
Re: re-reading, for me reading a few books on the same or similar subjects approximates re-reading enough for me to have felt like I've re-read after only having read.
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by curo 12y ago
My brain jumped to "curse" and "legal recourse," not "recursion." And I'm a software developer. Hacker School seems fine. I think you guys are over thinking it.
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by curo 12y ago
Perhaps not, but he points out at least two similarities: - Earlier members get bigger payouts - Udemy is making $0 off the first recruiting member, which would otherwise be unsustainable, if it weren't recovering that money off future
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by curo 12y ago
No. In fact, it's 100% free. They never ask you for a donation. And you're not even allowed to donate unless you stay the full ten days. It's run completely by volunteers and old students, who walk away from their jobs for a