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by deyan 15y ago
Quite impressive indeed. I was particularly interested in the insane iPad numbers, which surprised me. I thought I would use this opportunity to ask the HN community: what do you think people use their iPads for? Honest question - I have ha
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by deyan 15y ago
Just a quick note that the standalone version has a number of bugs (e.g. plugins might not install, templates might not install, etc.). So if you get an error, try the Firefox based one which works very well.
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by deyan 15y ago
Not even one positive comment? No one is excited that they are making a highly affordable surface for 10 times+ less? We are a startup/hacker community after all, I don't think it is too much to ask!
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by deyan 15y ago
I read the other comments here and found them lacking significantly. It seems that many folks did not actually listen to the full podcast (available here: http://5by5.tv/hypercritical/42 ). Personally, I am usually extremely skeptical of G
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by deyan 15y ago
Actually, TrueCrypt doesn't work if you want to do collaboration and real-time sync.
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by deyan 15y ago
For those looking for alternatives, I have been using Boxcryptor and it has been excellent. It includes a few more options (e.g. file name obfuscation).
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by deyan 15y ago
To be totally honest, I really wonder how long it took to create this and whether it was really a good use of their time. It is beautiful, full stop. But it also appears as if it took a ton of time to create and put all the bells and whistl
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by deyan 15y ago
If he doesn't leave, he risks quite a bit - he might be banned from visiting/working in the country and indeed even deported.
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by deyan 15y ago
Update: USCIS just reversed its decision and allowed back Amit into the country. (Source: he just posted on his facebook wall). I know Amit and how hard working he is and am very thankful this was resolved so quickly. At the same time, I ho
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by deyan 15y ago
Great book indeed!
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by deyan 15y ago
Thanks for the link! Does anyone know if this breaks the 3.0.2 recommended patches (e.g. muffling logging, etc.)
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by deyan 15y ago
Note that the article is talking about VC-scale (think 10s/100s of million in revenue).
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by deyan 15y ago
Thank you for this essay - I spent a lot of time researching (higher) education and had similar conclusions - although certainly not as substantiated by experience and well put.
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by deyan 15y ago
This really captured my biggest concern as well - thanks for the link!
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by deyan 15y ago
Thanks for the link. To be honest though, I feel quite overwhelmed by what I perceive to be an incredible increase in js frameworks - has anyone seen an article comparing different alternatives and their pros and cons?
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by deyan 15y ago
Gosh I was closing the tab and noticed with the corner of my eye this title. Almost couldn't believe it - it has been so long since I remember reading Phrack and this ground breaking article in particular. Thanks for bringing up good old me
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by deyan 15y ago
More narrow sounds more like it :)
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by deyan 15y ago
May be this is the wrong decision, may be it is the right decision - it is quite unclear and only time will tell. However, from an entrepreneurial perspective, Reed has all my respect - it is incredibly difficult to disrupt yourself and he
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by deyan 15y ago
Thanks, I will check those out. To add: I highly recommend Principles of Product Development Flow ( http://www.amazon.com/Principles-Product-Development-Flow-Ge... ) - incredibly difficult book to read (i.e. lots of good but dense informati
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80 startups launching at Demo (link to Venture Beat coverage)(venturebeat.com)
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by deyan 15y ago
Respectfully and realizing it is all relative, $25M is not swinging for the fences. By a very long shot. It is a great outcome for them certainly, but not swinging for the fences.
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by deyan 15y ago
Quite disappointing to hear that they didn't swing for the fences - especially given that Zite was doing well, is arguably better than Flipboard, and news consumption is a major use case for tablets in general.
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by deyan 15y ago
I think you are missing the point of the thread. The argument was that working long hours gives you trade off with working smart. So it is an either /or, at least to some (in my opinion large) extent.
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by deyan 15y ago
This is incorrect. You can acquire and merge nonprofits just like a real corporation. The difference is that you don't have equity, therefore, if you do want to compensate people (e.g. employees or investors or whoever), you need to do so w
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by deyan 15y ago
Could be. After all, MBA is meant to train managers, not entrepreneurs. That's what has always surprised me about the common sentiment towards MBAs: why does everyone expect all MBAs to be amazing entrepreneurs out of the box? We don't have
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by deyan 15y ago
In my experience, an MBA or equivalent (meaning someone with experience building/running a business) adds value mostly through pattern recognition. In a startup, it is easy to get lost in the noise and go down many wrong paths. An MBA shoul
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by deyan 15y ago
I was not sure about the purpose of the website. On the one hand, it apparently wants to help people with projects find great coders. Great. On the other hand, it appears that it is also aiming to help you find (technical) cofounders. I don
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by deyan 15y ago
I could not agree more - but would also add that in addition to learning about learning, learning about yourself, others, and society is also very important. I can never understand all these kids who somehow mistakenly believe that the purp
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by deyan 16y ago
Seems to me that your analysis suffers from a fundamental attribution error (blaming you rather than circumstances). While it is possible that you could have done a few things better (with the help of the ever so omni-potent captain hindsig
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by deyan 16y ago
Does anyone know the people behind the initiative? I am not referring to the instructors, but rather the people who started SEE and pushed for making the courses available for free, etc. I am doing some research on how to get more universit

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