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by debt 12y ago
Just build something for yourself. Something complicated but not too complicated. Best way to learn in my opinion.
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by debt 12y ago
The compensation packages that tech companies are offering are outrageous. Coupled with the fact that money itself generates better returns than most startups. Earning 10% a year over 10 years in some mutual fund is way better than invest
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by debt 12y ago
In his defense it was a personal project; not a product for paying customers. I find it impossible to get "upset" at someone's personal project. But haters gonna hate. EDIT: Count all the haters above coming out of the woodwo
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by debt 12y ago
I still feel sports stats has a lot of room for disruption. Stats.com is the leader in the space but their feeds are incredibly expensive. I think if a competitor could get the reliability of data as Stats has achieved but with a much, much
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by debt 12y ago
This is why Yelp should kill two birds with one stone and just open source both their filtering algorithm and their rating algorithm. This would cause more engineers to want to work at Yelp and stop this PR fiasco where people think Yelp is
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by debt 12y ago
Couldn't they use this method to communicate over vast distances? I mean shit you could build a computer that uses something like this to measure the shift in a superimposed particle; this would allow communication to anywhere on earth
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by debt 12y ago
"For that same price, they could choose instead to connect only with Twitter, Instagram or Pinterest—or for $10 more, enjoy unlimited use of all four. Another $5 gets them unlimited streaming of a music app of their choice." This
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by debt 12y ago
Might it be that the new crop of greedy MBAs and investors on the Street are colluding, trying to find new and quick ways to extract lots of capital and make themselves wealthy by pumping up tech stocks?
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by debt 12y ago
This really is a very important point. The fact that James immersed himself in the world in all respects(day job and as an amateur) likely increased his chance of success. If you were asked on the spot to name the names of a few acquaintanc
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by debt 12y ago
What if more articles were published in a particular year? I mean I assume the data would be skewed if more words existed in a particular year. I figured they'd measure how the language of say a random bunch of 5000 words as changed ov
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by debt 12y ago
How do you generalize more than a billion people with "they"? I think we're reaching the limits of the English language with that one. I'd say it's hard for an outsider to determine how the majority of a billion peo
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by debt 12y ago
That's because HN lives in an echo chamber of FB hate while 90%(close to a billion people) of FB users actually find it as an indispensably useful tool.
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by debt 12y ago
"Tri Alpha protects its trade secrets so tightly that it does not even have a website." It doesn't even have a website ?! Top secret indeed!
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by debt 12y ago
Couldn't this have been easily prevented if they had done proper journalism in the first place? Instead all these "news" outlets(including BoingBoing) mindlessly linked to an untrue story and have potentially ruined a man
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by debt 12y ago
So they purposely gamed their own reviews to be negative in order to put off the notion they don't game reviews?
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by debt 12y ago
Then why does Yelp itself only have 2 1/2 stars on Yelp ? Couldn't they just game their own name? [1] http://www.yelp.com/biz/yelp-san-francisco
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by debt 12y ago
Foursquare doesn't hold a candle to Yelp. I can order food, make a reservation and figure out what's going on in my neighborhood with Yelp. Foursquare has a new logo.
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by debt 12y ago
I think people just want enough computing power(not tablets or desktops) to plug in and join in on the internet fun. They also want a screen just large enough(not too large, no ipads) to properly enjoy media content. Thus I think a slightl
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by debt 12y ago
I would assume so. But if the idea or company fails or the planned trajectory falls short, how would the company know it was the budgeting process at fault versus some other factor?
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by debt 12y ago
Budgeting is particularly interesting in a situation where you receive funding. It seems it would be much easier to budget in a bootstrap situation, where growth is likely happening a bit more slowly. You're slowly adding a person(engi
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by debt 12y ago
This definitely would provide a visual hierarchy to view all the potential interactions, though I think your problem might be more hardware-related. I assume if you combined as many of these apps(Moves, Cardiio, Foursquare, etc.) into a sin
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by debt 12y ago
This is a good point. You could get the best of both worlds and just buy books on eBay for cheap. It's cheap and you end up with a physical copy.
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by debt 12y ago
It's unpopular but I really enjoy reading on my phone. It's small, it's always with me, it's much more convenient than lugging around a physical book(and I love physical books). But that's why I buy ebooks(they&#x27
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by debt 12y ago
Remember that the reverse would be true as well though. I could easily vet all the crazies out of a particular area. "This guy is a homophobe, this guy is racist, this guy a violent white supremacist as of July 15 2014. So I won't
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by debt 12y ago
In the movie There Will Be Blood a stranger shows up to Daniel Plainview's doorstep pretending to be his half-brother. The stranger relates some story about their childhood together and that's enough to convince Plainview of th
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by debt 12y ago
I know this is probably an unpopular idea but it seems like we set up so much infrastructure(intelligence agencies, the entire security industry, etc.) to create and secure private information that I feel like it creates an unnecessary econ
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by debt 12y ago
Ha, what a disaster G+ has to be for Google. They must kind of be looking at it like "ew what do we do with this thing now?" They should've taken a more holistic and serious approach to bringing your offline identity online.
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by debt 12y ago
As a backer myself: this reads like someone who quite literally no idea what they were doing or getting into in the first place and likely doing it for all the wrong reasons. How did they not know the difference between building a single pr
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by debt 12y ago
Desalination has a very large negative impact on the natural ecosystems within the ocean[1]. http://www.pacinst.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/21/2013/02/d...
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by debt 12y ago
I know this sounds crazy, but I don't want to buy in CA because we're running out of water. There seems to be no long-term solution besides the desalination of ocean water. There are towns[2] in California here people have paid of

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