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by dnsworks 17y ago
"If you worked as a receptionist for six years, for example, you aren't credited with six years of experience; I give you credit for one year." I'm sure Joel's next receptionist will be happy their years of servitude didn't go to waste.
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All three of those companies are fairly entrenched, and probably have a far older workforce than you would think.
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The Seattle crowd does the same kind of stuff, constantly. Makes it impossible to have a conversation in Seattle about start-ups because anything you think of can set someone with the "we're just as good as the silicon valley" inferiority c
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These numbers just make me sad. That much advertising trying to warp and control us. We've come a long way, baby.
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bQlpDiXPZHQ
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Japan got it's last hurrah of severed heads when it brutalized Nanking. I guess after Japan's devastating loss to America, who did not display the heads of our enemies, they accepted that their methods were sort of .. Barbaric?
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by dnsworks 17y ago
Personally I've found, "Assume that I'm paying you in cash, not with insurance" as a prefix to a question is very, very helpful with doctors. Before I tried this approach, I would get "you might want to consider having your tonsils removed.
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by dnsworks 17y ago
I did this with my daughter.
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by dnsworks 17y ago
Jay founded Equinix. After five years, how could he possibly remain interested in yet another news aggregator with gross revenues that are less than his personal wealth? I just find it interesting that Rose is the new CEO. I've always felt
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Would you expect anything less sensational from TechCrunch?
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Then maybe it's time to take an economics class, and go out into the real world, because in the real world, cities are far more expensive than farmland due to increased services. And in the real world, most people do not have the opportunit
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by dnsworks 17y ago
While hanging out on LiveJournal's Bangalore forum, I've read several stories that make me think even the threat of legal prosecution in India can be mostly meaningless, with people taking years just to get a trial, and afterwards waiting y
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India is so cute sometimes I want to pinch it's cheeks.
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I'msurprised nobody else mentioned this, but in the past decade there's ben quite a growth in chains that prepare home-cooked meals for you. I know people who buy 7 of these at a time, and freeze them. Then you just mix the ingredients toge
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A pinch of corn-starch helps quite a bit too.
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He's not repeating himself, he's just being Lean!
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Also, if you're not vegan & can stomach it, Cottage Cheese is a fantastic source of protein. It's also cheap and really simple.
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Quinoa FTW! My girlfriend likes to make Quinoa salads .. She'll just make a basic quinoa pilaf style, but without the sauteed onions, then add corn, spinach greens, heirloom tomatoes, balsamic vinegar, the super crunchy japanese cucumbers,
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by dnsworks 17y ago
Why exactly do we bother taking advice from loud-mouthed celebrity types like Scoble or Arrington who have NEVER shipped software. Period. No software that rocked any customer's lives. No software that even caused problems. Following this t
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by dnsworks 17y ago
You might follow http://www.foodhacking.com/
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But hey, at least we have social networks and the web .. and hundreds of new ways to sell products and advertise those products, so clearly technology is keeping up to society's needs!!! sigh.
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In terms of building your professional network, when you get to Seattle, look up @littleidea (he's also littleidea here on Hacker News). He's awesome.
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The tiny sci-fi geek in me reads this and is thinking, "aw yeah! Just like the later Dune books!"
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This used to be why I liked OKCupid. If you rated somebody with a 1-star rating, and they did the same, then OKC told you, and there were no hurt feelings, just "hey they're not interested". At some point someone got hurt feelings, and the
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by dnsworks 17y ago
In these occasions I find myself writing a draft of a letter, then re-writing it 5 or 6 times as my anger subsides. What starts out as a 10-page tome usually turns into 3 paragraphs of "Hey, this wasn't so great, Here's how I'd love to see
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- How To Win Friends & Influence People by Dale Carnegie http://www.amazon.com/How-Win-Friends-Influence-People/dp/06... - Beethoven As I Knew Him by Anton Felix Schindler http://www.amazon.com/Beethoven-As-I-Knew-Him/dp/0486292320
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Huge growth potential in the burgeoning slaughterhouse start-up arena(nytimes.com)
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without fail: lose karma when saying anything bad about Apple.
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I take the insult of "ass-clown" to be both a reference to jeffrey dahmer (a gay clown), as it is a juvenile rant wherein a teenaged boy makes it a point to insinuate that homosexuality is a bad thing while insulting somebody else. "ass-clo
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"Ass-clown" ? Yay for homophobia being promoted on hacker news!

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