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by garply 16y ago
Why would you do business with, let alone invest in, people whom you did not trust?
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by garply 16y ago
Interesting that one of the reasons jkincaid didn't like your site was due to the name. I find Visual Website Optimizer a much better name than Optimizely.
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by garply 16y ago
PG, what would you do if you already had a profitable, slowly growing product that was based on a mediocre idea, and two new ideas: A good idea with low diversification costs A great idea with high diversification costs I say diver
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Upload an image of text to output the font name(new.myfonts.com)
2 points by garply 16y ago|0 comments
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Chinese firewall randomly disrupting Google service?
2 points by garply 16y ago|0 comments
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by garply 16y ago
It's funny, I crossed the profitability line a while back after several failed attempts, but I don't really feel much different. When I finally did make a "successful" company, it was a little like when you've been practicing a song on an i
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by garply 16y ago
Is this available on Linux? I tried the flag on my chromium-dev build, but it didn't do anything. Updating the source now... (turns out yaourt is nice).
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by garply 16y ago
My definition is different: When I wasn't outside working in the below-freezing weather, I fed a coal stove through this past winter because we didn't have a modern heater in our workplace. The ash turned my snot and phlegm consistently gra
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by garply 16y ago
As an American in China, you have no idea how many times I've envied the Singaporeans. China goes out of its way to gouge Americans for visas - a visa costs about $150 for us, maybe $30 for a Canadian or European. I'm told visas are about e
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by garply 16y ago
Sorry, I don't care to reveal that information. I work in an offline sector that is not as carefree with information as Silicon Valley software firms tend to be. My company is actually far more capital intensive (think plumbing or dentistry
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by garply 16y ago
My partner left a comfy management consulting job to co-found our business and we constantly argued about taking external investment at the beginning. She felt compelled to seek it, even though we didn't need it. I'm convinced it was due to
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by garply 16y ago
"That's the real value-add of ad-supported media, the content itself is just a hook to attract and retain the right demographic." I'd like to point out that this must also be true of the content you yourself are currently reading. HN is a h
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by garply 16y ago
The latitude map is a nice visualization of how our species is clustered around the equator. Not surprising, but still neat to see the data.
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by garply 16y ago
I'm a native English speaker who's basically fluent in Mandarin. I've studied for 8 years and I live in China. It's my 4th foreign language. From what I know, Arabic is about as far from English as Mandarin, so let me put in plainly: If yo
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by garply 16y ago
I graduated from college (thankfully without debt) and started righted away. Developed product / failed for about a year, which left me just as broke as when I was in college - but I was used to that standard of living, so it wasn't a huge
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by garply 16y ago
Actually, what you're saying seems true according to PG's own "meta-trend" of founders of web startups becoming more powerful. Founders would be most powerful when they only need to raise money from friends and family - as it continues to b
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China to build giant buses that cars can drive under(engadget.com)
116 points by garply 16y ago|57 comments
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by garply 16y ago
Pick one thing you want to accomplish and fucking do it. Stop being a wuss. I'm not trying to be a jerk by phrasing it that way, I just feel like you need to be tougher on yourself to reach your goals.
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by garply 16y ago
I'm an American running a company in Beijing. I may email you some time. You have some things right and are too optimistic about some things. There are certainly freedoms here that you do not enjoy in the West - at the same time, relationsh
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by garply 16y ago
Thinking about death always puts the triviality of my seemingly dire day-to-day problems into proper perspective.
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by garply 16y ago
Thanks for the Wozniak link - I got a chance to read it and it has in fact convinced me that polyphasic sleep would not be a good option for my current lifestyle needs.
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by garply 16y ago
I upvoted you for the link to the old thread, but why is it self-evidently crazy? Just because most humans do something by default doesn't mean it's an optimal solution. Many things that people do by default are a result of environmental tr
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by garply 16y ago
You don't nap every 20 minutes, you nap for 20 minutes every 4 hours (resulting in a total of 2 hours of sleep per day). But, even as someone who works for himself and thus has more control over his schedule, napping every 4 hours seems a b
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Ask HN: Anyone here on a polyphasic sleep schedule?
10 points by garply 16y ago|7 comments
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by garply 16y ago
I've never been convinced by the argument that opening Google's algorithms would make it really vulnerable to spam. In the short term, I don't doubt it would, but I suspect a million eyes on the code would find and fix the bugs (where bugs
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by garply 16y ago
I find people who flock to these investors (YC included) ridiculous. You know what? Between 5 million and 50 million in the bank, there's not a hell of a lot of difference in how your quality of life is going to be affected. But when you ch
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$4.30 microcontroller(focus.ti.com)
1 points by garply 16y ago|1 comments
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by garply 16y ago
"They offered me money in exchange for solving their technical problems. I did X, Y, and Z while there."
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by garply 16y ago
Several of these blogs are written by venture capitalists and most of the rest focus on the high-risk-high-reward type of businesses that accompany VC. I recognize that HN tends to be focused on this type of company, but I would love to see
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by garply 16y ago
My dentist has told me that in the long run an implant is cheaper than a root canal, as most root canals will eventually fail and need the implant anyway (I have an implant because I was just genetically missing a tooth and I absolutely lov

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