dhuck

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by dhuck 16y ago
the new york times has had something similar to this for years. you can highlight words and it will show a "question box" that you can click to see more information about the word, google search, etc. it's displayed inline so you don't need
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by dhuck 16y ago
these are pretty sub-par questions that were probably written by a marketing person: "But completely opting out of the platform won’t allow you to play any games and other third party features on the site?" and this is one of the first time
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by dhuck 16y ago
could it have been an intentionally planned ... mistake?
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by dhuck 16y ago
http://colorschemedesigner.com/
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by dhuck 17y ago
I'm in Maine right now. Here's a warning message from chatroulettemap.com that I see when I visit: "We'd like to advise maine.edu to stop using student's names in their hostnames. We've decided, at least for the time being, to hide IP &
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by dhuck 18y ago
Get in touch with your school newspaper (if you have one.) I wrote for mine throughout college and I know that editors are ALWAYS looking for articles from people like you. Trust me, the campus wants your voice, you just have to be proactiv
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by dhuck 18y ago
user: tdavis created: 287 days ago karma: 911 it really disappoints me to see users with very high karma levels making such obscene, unnecessary and completely non-hacker-news-esque comments. you are hurting this community: please stop.
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by dhuck 18y ago
I live outside of Boston, where the median home price is way north of 500k. And living in a rich area doesn't make you rich - I can attest to that personally, too: I rent, I eat ramen. But I know that if someone made this proposition to me,
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by dhuck 18y ago
I really didn't have anything negative to say about the Craigslist post - we've all seen this sort of naivety before. Most of us have even been there. But what really bothered me personally is that this was posted in the Boca Raton Craigsli
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by dhuck 18y ago
do you have any links to those "well-worn rules of thumb"? i'm looking at building a "purchase!" button, that's obviously quite important in the whole scheme of my site, so i'd really appreciate anyone pointing me in the right direction...
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by dhuck 18y ago
tumblr.com - it's slow going finding cool people, but they are out there. use the explore page. other blogging sites with location services might be helpful as well.
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by dhuck 18y ago
I think one line of thinking in acquisitions is not just to get control of a product, but rather to take that startup team under the Google wing. I am a firm believer in the idea that the most important asset that a company can have is its
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by dhuck 18y ago
this is my favorite quote, from the "Be Silly" section: "If you want to publish a paper in economic theory, there is a safe approach: make a conceptually minor but mathematically difficult extension to some familiar model. Because the basic
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by dhuck 18y ago
I think it's important to note that this was not a public meeting for all CEOs of all companies everywhere - just their portfolio companies. Sequoia asked the CEOs to keep everything private, but then the notes leaked, then the slides leake
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by dhuck 18y ago
yeah, that's fine. script kiddies run scripts that other people make. but very few people can say that they took down yahoo. i mean, that's not a typical script kiddie success story, is it? talk him down all you want, but i remember what it
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by dhuck 18y ago
I love biking: I ride a fixed gear to school almost every day, it's only a few miles and I can get to class faster if you include the time it takes to park and walk to class. The health benefits for riding a bicycle are a fantastic reason t
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by dhuck 18y ago
i come from a somewhat similar background (i'm 23). to add on: this is why i'm very happy with .NET. the overlap between web apps in ASP.NET and client based apps is large. no mac or linux, obviously. recently i've started building a small
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by dhuck 18y ago
Couldn't agree more with the idea with about ignoring companies that say they need $5-$10 mil in order to be a "viable business." Today's companies (look at ycombinator) can do that with much, much less. $1-$2 mil seems like a good level -
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by dhuck 18y ago
I bristled at this: "A business that needs no more than $1-$2 million in financing to become a $25-$50 million (exit value) company, simply by executing the core business plan." That is an insane requirement for return. I'm not sure how tha
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by dhuck 18y ago
said another way: you can't lose money you don't have that might not help, so here's a picture of a pack of corgis on a beach, hope it helps: http://media.tumblr.com/b9vfl4b63eh5j0pmcEfbxxxGo1_500.png
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by dhuck 18y ago
I have nothing against Mr. Perkins personally. I think he's a great investor - and he's undoubtedly a lot smarter than I am. I have nothing but respect for the man's accomplishments, I just take offense at how he chooses to spend his money.
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by dhuck 18y ago
Quote: "“The issue of length is important to all these guys, and the way you know that’s the case is how often they tell you that length is not important,” said Mr. Kaplan, who sailed on the Maltese Falcon on its maiden voyage from Istanbul
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by dhuck 18y ago
Babson College is hosting an open business plan/idea competition. I'd be right up there with my plan - but my prototype (sadly) isn't ready yet. So I'm hoping that one of the Hacker News teams can come in and claim some glory. Right now the
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$30k b-plan/PROTOTYPE comp.: deadline SUNDAY, free flight to Boston(vator.tv)
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by dhuck 18y ago
I use to agree until I started to enjoy cooking... (cheaper, healthier, and all that.) Eating can bring a lot of joy to your life, preparing meals and enjoying with someone seems (imho) to contribute to a better, more well rounded lifestyle
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by dhuck 18y ago
Maybe for you, but some people can pull it off. Jeff Immelt, CEO of GEO ( http://www.businessweek.com/magazine/content/02_04/b3767079.... ) boasted that he worked 100 hour weeks for two decades. I've heard plenty of stories of people workin
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by dhuck 18y ago
I never made any serious money with AllAdvantage (less than 40 or 50 dollars total) - but I was in pretty active on a message board with people that were earning serious cash. The people with several thousand referalls were sometimes pullin
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by dhuck 18y ago
5000 hours just to get the thing in the air - kind of ruins the whole thing from a purely cost advantage perspective. Just imagine what you could build in 5000 hours... Not to take any credit from this guy at all. He deserves mad props (heh
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by dhuck 18y ago
Why wait for the users to come to your site? If you let me import my last.fm profile - and scrap all of my friend's profiles (they're linked from my profile) - you should have all the data you need to start recommending music or generating