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Ask HN: How does a parent with a day job participate in Y Combinator?
6 points by dpritchett 17y ago|2 comments
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by dpritchett 17y ago
One important thing to note in this "pick three features" strategy is that you can't please all of the people all of the time. There will always be people happy to chime in that they don't like some GMail feature or other but that doesn't
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by dpritchett 17y ago
In that case I'm guessing that you are personally responsible for a value-generating product and that you figure any extra profit the company keeps from this project that is above their average profit margin is money that should be going to
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by dpritchett 17y ago
Could you please elaborate on that bit? I am having trouble visualizing the equation. Let's say my company's net profit margin is 10%. What does that tell me about the value I'm generating and what I should be taking home?
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by dpritchett 17y ago
That's not entirely true. Yahoo issued a takedown notice last year when its price sheet was leaked. I imagine most major US carriers have firm policies given the frequency with which they must service these requests. http://www.wired.com
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by dpritchett 17y ago
Chrome users are highly advised to pick up the Readability Redux extension. It has been consistently faster for me than the bookmarklet - reformatted results are effectively instant now. https://chrome.google.com/extensions/detail/jgghegg
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by dpritchett 17y ago
That is quite likely why they recommended counseling. The official reaction here sounds exactly like the one depicted in E.T.! Any 11 year old would be traumatized. The linked article doesn't say what the counseling is for.
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by dpritchett 17y ago
I'm going to keep rerolling until I get all 18s.
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by dpritchett 17y ago
Maybe I'm just not creative enough but what could be so bad about folks knowing my gmail account name?
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by dpritchett 17y ago
Justin.tv has been my go-to source for live sports for the last year. I've only watched a few matches total but the overall connection quality seems to have been on an upward trend since last years' BCS championship.
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by dpritchett 17y ago
I read that as "Caltrans recognized the correctness of the modified sign and decided not to roll back Ankrom's change."
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by dpritchett 17y ago
I pay for texts on a per-message basis. Single texts are a quarter or so and the smallest minimum text plan is about $5/mo. I don't send 20 texts in a month so I just forego the service altogether. I still send and receive the occasional
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by dpritchett 17y ago
These auditors are behind the times. My local utility surprised me with a $3000 gas bill last year because my meter had apparently been broken for at least 36 months. The whole process smacked of recession-driven auditing. It's not illegal
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by dpritchett 17y ago
FriendFeed's Tornado has a database.py on github, maybe it will get you started: http://github.com/facebook/tornado/tree/master/tornado/
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by dpritchett 17y ago
See also this HN thread from October: "Living in an RV as an Internet Nomad- 3G, solar, cost savings, and flexibility." http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=910626
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by dpritchett 17y ago
That's a fair question but it could be hard to pull off the follow-up question without it coming off as a gotcha. Tread lightly.
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by dpritchett 17y ago
Friendfeed's acquisition by Facebook was widely viewed as a talent grab. It seems to be working out well enough for FB so far. http://blog.louisgray.com/2009/08/friendfeeds-not-dead-while...
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Golden Image or Foil Ball? (VM maintenance issues)(madstop.com)
4 points by dpritchett 17y ago|2 comments