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by dabent 15y ago
I found this not just to be useful for people researching potential competitors or partners from a startup perspective, but it's also useful for someone who's researching a potential employer. It provided a fairly accurate snapshot of my c
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by dabent 15y ago
I listened to Parson's podcasts years back and learned a lot. He was a Silicon Valley outsider, who didn't attend an elite school, yet built two major companies from the ground up. I found him to be quite the inspiration and hosted my fir
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by dabent 15y ago
The can still support SOPA, even if they aren't on the list. It would be nice to see a definitive "I was wrong about SOPA." statement from Bob Parsons and a personal commitment from the company stating the reversal of their position. This
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Apple knocks HTC (and Android) on its side with patent victory(venturebeat.com)
1 points by dabent 15y ago|0 comments
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Talking Startups and Picplum on BBC News(paulstamatiou.com)
14 points by dabent 15y ago|1 comments
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by dabent 15y ago
My take on these. I'm curious what others think. 1. Work backwards from goals to milestones to tasks. I have no idea why more people don't do this. 2. Stop multi-tasking. No, seriously—stop. See my response to #1 3. Be militant about elimi
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by dabent 15y ago
PG has an interesting approach to this: http://www.paulgraham.com/distraction.html There's also the "noprocrast" setting in your HN profile which won't let you use for more than a certain amount of time. I haven't implemented either appro
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by dabent 15y ago
I certainly agree with the idea of doing a side project. Mine wasn't a resume, but it was something I was trying to turn into a startup. That alone got me lots of interviews. I went through the "Who's Hiring" thread on HN for a couple of
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by dabent 15y ago
Sure, at least half of the applications hit the trash bin. I recall a comment from pg at startup school in 2010 correctly, he said a surprising number of the applications to YC (I want to say 20%) were in ALL CAPS. That's an easy way to s
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by dabent 15y ago
It's something to see how people asked "What we've got right now is just fine, VisiCalc runs fast enough. Some of the database stuff runs fast enough. What are we going to do with this extra awesome power?" and what Jobs' response was. He
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by dabent 15y ago
"Raising the first $25K for product development is easy – join an incubator." I think that trivializes the process. There are now multiple incubators, but about two orders of magnitude more looking for spots. Y Combinator gets thousands o
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by dabent 15y ago
I never used Yelp until I moved to Los Angeles. It has saved me many times and helped me learn more about the city very quickly. I've also faced some of the problems the author has faced, though, and hope the Yelp team can keep improving
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Solving Boggle with Python(elazungu.wordpress.com)
1 points by dabent 15y ago|0 comments
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Capturing More Value Than You Create(bryce.vc)
1 points by dabent 15y ago|0 comments
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by dabent 15y ago
This just in: We're also hiring .NET talent... * Senior .NET Developer - You should have extensive experience building .Net applications using C#. Our user interfaces are web-based, so ASP.NET MVC, JQuery, and CSS are important. We use SQL
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by dabent 15y ago
Santa Monica, CA (Los Angeles area) TRUECar.com - TrueCar shows consumers how much people actually paid for a particular new car in their area, then guides them to dealers we've certified. When someone buys from a dealer we've sent them to
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by dabent 15y ago
I've never used and adblocker for slightly different reasons. First, I'm kind of fascinated by ads, from Google's ads to the obnoxious fake news reports about the latest miracle cure. The other reason I don't block ads is that most of them
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Preventing brute-force attacks with django(bruno.im)
22 points by dabent 15y ago|4 comments
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by dabent 15y ago
I have to echo patio11 below. The point here isn't to find PhD-level image analysts, it's to find some relatively solid (Python) developers in fairly short order, while handing out advertising to people in the form of shirts. The problem
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Google Enters Into The Automotive Lead Business(dealerrefresh.com)
1 points by dabent 15y ago|0 comments
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How to Get Equity Without Really Trying(adweek.com)
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We Are What We Can Finance(techdrawl.com)
1 points by dabent 15y ago|0 comments
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by dabent 15y ago
I looked at the graph, and it looked like only 2.4% of students are majoring in computer science. I would have thought that was much higher with all the buzz about social networks, startups and VC money falling from the skies. I guess I l
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by dabent 15y ago
Sure, send me an email. I'd love to talk.
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by dabent 15y ago
I'm really glad to hear it. We've got even bigger things in the works. :-)
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by dabent 15y ago
Santa Monica, CA (Los Angeles area) also possibly SF Bay area or other cities, but most jobs are in Santa Monica. TRUECar - Put simply, TrueCar shows consumers how much people actually paid for a particular new car in their area, then guide
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by dabent 15y ago
My experience is honestly the opposite. I found my best semesters were when I narrowed the number of courses I had down. I focused on doing a few things very well and it worked out. I also wonder how the author handled pre-requisites. Du
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Allegations of past and present Internet crime haunt Airbnb co-founder(venturebeat.com)
75 points by dabent 15y ago|55 comments
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Speeding up JSON encoding in PyPy(morepypy.blogspot.com)
6 points by dabent 15y ago|0 comments
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by dabent 15y ago
I encountered recruiters who were a bit short with me in that era, but I encountered more who had a who had a different sort of desperation than they do now. Third-party recruiters rely on a steady stream of jobs coming available so they c

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