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by ericabiz 14y ago
I'm not one to usually watch videos online, but this one is well worth watching. Check out around 5:00 when they start describing the first live band to stream a concert online--a group of geeks from Xerox PARC in Palo Alto! And one of them
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Google Fiber's Next City...Austin, TX?(theverge.com)
21 points by ericabiz 14y ago|2 comments
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by ericabiz 14y ago
I think this is great, and I'd like to add: If you are cash-poor, as many startups are, there may be other ways to contribute as well. I'm the CEO of a startup here in Austin that uses Python. A couple weeks ago, another post here on HN led
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by ericabiz 14y ago
> "It's not sexist to make jokes about the word 'dongle' sounding like 'dong'." Is it sexist, or isn't it? You can find interesting arguments both ways. Your opinion is that it's not sexist. My opinion is that it depends on context. Fro
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by ericabiz 14y ago
> "Most [all, actually] of the women I've talked to about this are furious with her over how badly this portrays women." Okay, time to speak up! Hi, I'm a woman in tech. And this upset me, but not for the reasons you think. I agree that
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by ericabiz 14y ago
I'm going to say "fine", as I've honestly never noticed an issue at all. I still do video editing on my desktop as it's way faster. I don't play games, so I can't answer that one for you.
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by ericabiz 14y ago
"...but now you can find dozens of clones in the Android market." Android 4.2.2 comes with a swipe keyboard by default. I have it on my Nexus 7--I don't use it all the time, but it's useful when I am tired or I want to type longer sentences
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by ericabiz 14y ago
The Thinkpad X1 Carbon is 1600x900. Surprised that is not that well-known, as you're the second person on this thread I've noticed with that misconception. I upgraded from my old X200s to the X1 Carbon and it's great.
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by ericabiz 14y ago
"Your X1 Carbon is equally gorgeous with an equally crappy screen." I believe you have incorrect information. I own a Thinkpad X1 Carbon. Its screen resolution is 1600x900, which is not only higher than the typical 1366x768 resolution found
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by ericabiz 14y ago
From 2011. Previous HN discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2271421
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by ericabiz 14y ago
Chrome on Win7 64-bit here; it does not crash as I scroll down.
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by ericabiz 14y ago
Please read the entire link I posted above. He's rebutting the "calorie is a calorie" thesis, not endorsing it.
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by ericabiz 14y ago
It amazes me that this article still pushes the agenda that "fat makes us fat." If there's one thing that hasn't proven out at all , it's that fat makes us fat! The NY Times has even run other articles saying as much: http://www.nytimes
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by ericabiz 14y ago
Plenty of these exist on the marketplace. Personally, I use HideMyAss ( http://hidemyass.com/vpn/ ) (no affiliation other than a happy customer.) I use it for privacy reasons, although I'm sure there are plenty of folks who also use it for
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by ericabiz 14y ago
> "The problem with taking money from someone else is that, you become obligated/answerable to them." Could not disagree more. I co-founded and am the CEO of a funded company. Investors (at least professional ones, which, if you have a
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3Doodler: The World's First 3D Printing Pen(kickstarter.com)
171 points by ericabiz 14y ago|40 comments
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by ericabiz 14y ago
California's $800 minimum corporate tax also applies to S-corps and C-corps. Also, to correct a common misconception I often hear (not in your particular post, but in general when I talk about this), registering your corporation in another
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by ericabiz 14y ago
Reddit has some great city/state subreddits (obviously depends on how tech-friendly your city is.) http://www.reddit.com/r/austin is a pretty thriving place, for example. Neighborhoods, in some cases, will have private groups. For instan
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by ericabiz 14y ago
This article is Silicon Valley-centric...but other metros are growing as fast or faster. Austin, TX (where I live now after being in the Valley for 10 years) also added a similar amount of jobs in 2012: http://www.deptofnumbers.com/employm
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by ericabiz 14y ago
> "I said I don't see other male dominated industries complaining of lack of diversity." Then you're just not reading those news sources. Here's one from yesterday: http://www.guardian.co.uk/healthcare-network/2013/feb/05/rac... "Th
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by ericabiz 14y ago
Probably because you don't regularly read news websites for those industries. Here's a quick example: http://www.asrn.org/journal-nursing-today/105-hospital-leads... FTA: "Pitt County Memorial Hospital...boasts one of the best records nat
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by ericabiz 14y ago
Read the book "Feeling Good" and do the exercises in the book. Its author is the guy who invented CBT. That book helped me kick some serious depression. And it's a great read for logical thinker types.
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by ericabiz 14y ago
> "I’m employing things like resque, redis-to-go, memcachier, and a dedicated crane database..." Yet you have a 507KB (!) image on your site's home page. Optimizing that would go a long way toward improving the end-user experience.
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by ericabiz 14y ago
I have both an HP LP2475w (24" 1920x1200, IPS) and a 27" 2560x1440 monitor--the same resolution as mentioned here. (I didn't want to deal with potential dead pixels and scaling issues, so I forked over the $700 for the Asus PB278Q instead o
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by ericabiz 14y ago
Why would you not choose to go colo and save the money? Even with hiring an extra full-time person, going colo should drop your costs by at least half vs. Amazon.
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by ericabiz 14y ago
I am from Indiana and I drive everywhere in Austin. However, I also live near a bus stop... just in case! There is plenty of parking except when South by Southwest Interactive is in town (1 week out of the year.) Weather is similar to what
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by ericabiz 14y ago
I lived in Pleasant Hill and commuted on BART for 2 years. I ended up really hating it after a while. Later, I moved to Austin, where house prices are reasonable even if you want to live close to downtown, and you don't have to worry about
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by ericabiz 14y ago
This is true. When my co-founder and I looked on LinkedIn for developers in Austin with Python and Erlang experience, there were only 6 total people--and one of them was my co-founder! Fortunately, we managed to hire one of the other 5. A
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by ericabiz 14y ago
I can, for Austin. I lived in the Bay Area for 10 years and ran a tech company there. I chose to locate my current startup (now 6 people; 4 Austin/2 remote) in Austin. Here's my perspective: http://www.erica.biz/2012/austin-vs-silicon-vall
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by ericabiz 14y ago
Christopher Williamson (DreamQuest founder) is a friend of mine, and posted on his FB wall that a donor pulled out at the absolute last second. There were plenty of people who would have chipped in, but they couldn't react in time. :(

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