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by danko 14y ago
If there's any joy to take from this (beyond pure, uncut schadenfreude), it's that news articles like this have permanently stemmed the tide of Groupon imitators that saturated every conduit of the tech media in 2011. I do fully believe tha
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by danko 14y ago
This is a good companion piece to another recent HN post: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3991122 I've found two axioms to hold true: 1) Don't compare your life to anyone's. Just don't. Comparing any two lives is fundamentally apple
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by danko 15y ago
I thought this was what Jotly was supposed to be. And then, like magic, Jotly was real. I think they had to go one vaguer to prevent this from materializing into reality as well.
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by danko 15y ago
This, to me, is the best counterpoint I've read to Michael Arrington's rant from a few months back on how startup folk need to work harder and stop crying. http://uncrunched.com/2011/11/27/startups-are-hard-so-work-m... Arrington is a r
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by danko 15y ago
At first, I read this and thought to myself -- "charming, but they didn't really pay $5K for the chair, so much as for their lack of proper legal documentation." Then I thought on it a bit more and realized -- it was the chair that cost t
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by danko 15y ago
This is a classic microeconomics case study in opportunity cost and externalities. From an accounting perspective, yes, money was coming in that exceeded expenses in labor and overhead. But the opportunity cost of the effort to support it
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by danko 15y ago
Granted, but there's a potential that this is being launched by an enterprising Google employee, and not as a part of a corporate stratagem. Of course, if it is corporate strategy, I suppose the big G could always get an employee to take
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by danko 15y ago
I built my startup using this exact outlay, so it's wonderful to have this guide in hand for when we need to scale Mongo across multiple EC2 instances. This presentation from Jared Rosoff of 10gen was extremely helpful on the first go, a
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by danko 15y ago
Google is precisely the brand that a non-Google third-party would use to launch a scam like this, so I'm going to wait a few hours before getting the flamethrower out. This really doesn't seem like Google's style from a technical quotien
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by danko 15y ago
I'm glad that this provides scientific justification for that napping danger zone between 45 and 90 minutes. Having taken naps that have ended in that precarious time span, I can attest that it feels like you're worse off than when you s
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by danko 15y ago
A pretty good array of interview tips which can be summarized as follows: (1) Make yourself as comfortable as you can, so that you can: (2) Make it clear what you're thinking and how you think (which is the point of the interview). I'm not
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by danko 15y ago
This type of analysis can be performed for any of the early Nintendo-designed NES games. They knew what they were doing. The first few levels of Super Mario Brothers are ingenious at how they subtly teach the player the context of the wor
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by danko 15y ago
What this article taught me is the mind-boggling plethora of Python web frameworks out there. I'm heavily into Django myself, and it does well enough that I'm curious as to the demand for the other frameworks. How many Python web framewor
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by danko 15y ago
I appreciate the thoroughness of the analysis, even as my eyeballs started to swim amidst the typographical lingo. The article doesn't so much 'explain' the font, though, as explain the constraints under which the font was designed. Even i
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by danko 15y ago
People like to put their mouth where their money is more than they like to put their money where their mouth is. Tech partisanship is largely because of this -- if you dropped a serious chuck of both your time and money on a product, and t
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by danko 15y ago
Good list -- I think it hits the essentials. Most of these issues can be traced to a single cause, which is that as companies grow, there's a growing 'diffusion of responsibility' effect that takes place in terms of people's responsibilitie
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by danko 15y ago
Here's the posting on Scott Hansen's blog about the making of the original Jotly video. Quite inspired, although I shudder to think what would happen if Jotly actually proves to be a success. I'm not ready for anti-marketing copycats.
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by danko 15y ago
What I've found for myself is that there's a certain part of my mind that just needs constant distraction, and if I can somehow parallelize that distraction with the continual work that the rest of my brain is capable of, I'd be in good s
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by danko 15y ago
Attractively presented article with some interesting points. I think the most interesting element, though, is the cited Scientific American article that discusses how the actual capacity of the human brain is calculated. Just a reminder th
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by danko 15y ago
Concur wholeheartedly. Van Gogh's unusual color choices are a feature, not a bug. The author asserts that the muted color pallet for 'The Harvest' imbues the painting with an autumnal glow. For me, it removes the element of the painting
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by danko 15y ago
This is a well-written and persuasive, and I think Elgan does a terrific job at structuring his argument around the 'product-to-feature' angle. What I don't agree with necessarily is the framing that Google's success is fait accompli. One
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Should Apple Make a TV? No, says The Reckoner.(thereckoner.net)
2 points by danko 15y ago|0 comments
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by danko 15y ago
There have been a metric ton of these articles, and there are going to be a metric ton more. And that's great, because it means that engineers are becoming increasingly aware of the market for their own service, which means that they're be
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by danko 15y ago
It would be, in effect, a Bill Brasky or Chuck Norris Facts sort of situation, except YOU are Bill Brasky.
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by danko 15y ago
It's absolutely true that Facebook encourages a sort of 'happiness' arms race, where most people seek to convey the brightest possible interpretation of their own lives to match the same projections they see in others. That isn't Facebook'
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On How The Hurdles of Starting a Business Get Smaller As You Approach Them(workingdan.com)
1 points by danko 15y ago|0 comments
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by danko 15y ago
Although the glibness of this piece is annoying, I think his core message is on the mark. A lot of top technical talent is being directed at problems that are really just manipulating user data in unimaginative ways. Although I think there
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The Reckoner: Rescuing The Internet Poll from 1998(thereckoner.net)
1 points by danko 15y ago|0 comments