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by gersh 15y ago
Magento can't even do a shopping cart properly. The default is a really messy shopping cart, and it is a pain to customize it. You gotta hack everything just to make a one page checkout.
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by gersh 15y ago
Zuckerberg started a social network at HARVARD. What part of being doesn't involve being part of building a social network at Harvard not involve "being part of the right social circles"?
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by gersh 15y ago
How much do those ebooks make? How hard is it to make $1000/month selling ebooks?
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Ask HN: Technically interesting vs. a good business
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by gersh 15y ago
Are your people better than the competition? If your competitors have great engineers, you may top talent to compete. If it is some forgotten nitch, you may be able to get away with less.
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by gersh 15y ago
Are starups really that hard, or do they just require certain skills? Is it luck? Are you in the wrong place in the wrong time? Do you just lack the necessary skills? Do you lack the social support? In school, you just gotta do what the tea
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by gersh 15y ago
Johm builds allows to use data types on top of Redis. I implemented the ability to query multiple fields at https://github.com/gersh/johm . I've been discussing ways to implement more complex queries on Johm mailing list. Currently, I beli
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by gersh 15y ago
How did Zuckerberg build such a cult following? You're crazy if you don't use this service. Even Apple hasn't achieved that.
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by gersh 15y ago
Eye color is nothing. Can you remember faces and names? I struggle to remember names of faces of people. I have very poor memory for names, faces, and all that sort of thing. I don't remember the names of movies, celebrities or any of that
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by gersh 15y ago
Service and product companies typically have a different mind-set. Service-based businesses typically do more waterfall-style development. Product-based companies do more agile development. Service-based businesses build what the customer a
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by gersh 15y ago
You could be a good writer or designer. Video skills can be useful. Research skills can also be useful.
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by gersh 15y ago
The workers need to be able to automate stuff or manage people, who do. Many high-paid, unskilled factory jobs have disappeared. The jobs are doing things that can't be easily automated. The more automatable the lower the pay.
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by gersh 15y ago
A non-developer needs to have some skill, which can't be automated by a computer. Such things include: design, writing, managing people, talking to customers, investors, money and relationships. If AI becomes capable of automating such task
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by gersh 16y ago
In high level texts, the "obvious" problems often aren't easy. I think there is a strong element of mathematician arrogance. If you can't figure it out, you don't deserve to know. This may go all the way back to Pythagorus, who ran a secret
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by gersh 16y ago
This goes against math tradition where classical math texts say things like "this is obvious and left as an exercise to the reader". Implicitly, I think many mathematicians believe students should be made to struggle for their own good. The
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by gersh 16y ago
It always depends on the circumstances. If people don't like the term rewrite, you can just call it re-factoring or adding unit testing. You are probably using something from the old codebase, right. If anyone asks why something that used t
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by gersh 16y ago
A big part of it is that the page loads FFFFFAST. They never went for clutter. They engineered the pages, so you can do what you want to do quickly. Do not underestimate the importance Google places on page-load times.
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by gersh 16y ago
The basics are: 1) Get good clients. Low-end clients typically aren't worth your time, and it will be hard to make money. 2) The best way to get new business is via referrals. The best business can found through happy customers 3) Don't tr
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by gersh 16y ago
Throughout much of history many top scientists have devoted their lives to finding better ways to kill people. Advertising is merely a more humane alternative.
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by gersh 16y ago
There isn't be a bubble until Facebook IPOs. If there were really a bubble, Facebook would have IPOed already.
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by gersh 16y ago
I think there are few things they should do to make this work: 1) Limit the amount of money per investor for non-qualified investors. If someone only invests a small amount, they aren't losing all their money on one investment 2) Requires d
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by gersh 16y ago
Email me. Lets make it happen.
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by gersh 16y ago
Lightbank and Sandbox have their own enclaves. The ITA (Illinois Technology Association) has offices, and some stuff. There is the lean startup circle. You can also out built in Chicago. Midventures also events. Entrepreneurs unpluggd seems
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by gersh 16y ago
http://www.raydash.com - We provide live-video on your website. BTW, who is going to the hackathon, todady, http://www.nuhackathon.com/
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by gersh 16y ago
I'd look at how different users respond to different articles? Do they click on the article? Do they comment? Do they come back to the site after they see the article? Do they vote for the article. Next, you can correlate how various people
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by gersh 16y ago
From that chart, it appears the problem is the healthcare industry is getting too much money. Medicare is expensive along with the tax deduction for health insurance. If we could get down healthcare costs, it would solve the problem.
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by gersh 16y ago
Slashdot isn't what it once was. http://www.google.com/trends?q=slashdot.org
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by gersh 16y ago
He says Facebook is a New York corporation. Aren't they a Deleware corporation?
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by gersh 16y ago
I'd distinguish between consulting and a product company. Product companies license software, sell physical goods, or off-the-shelf goods. Consulting companies sell time to their customer's requirements. They may do fixed-bid work, but the
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by gersh 16y ago
There is already the C++ shell for root: http://root.cern.ch/drupal/content/cint

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