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by greattypo 16y ago
Sorry but I've heard similar arguments made for every salary north of 40k. There's nothing 'entitled' about expecting to be paid relative to the value you bring -- that's the American way.
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by greattypo 16y ago
If it were just me, I would use the startup edition of FogBugz in a heartbeat: http://www.fogcreek.com/FogBugz/StudentAndStartup.html MantisBT is full featured but the interface is pretty clunky and dated (IMO). I found Bugzilla to be si
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by greattypo 16y ago
Terrible title. "Fudging statistics" and "not actively excluding bots" are totally different.
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by greattypo 16y ago
The Chrome javascript engine team is simply a beast.
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by greattypo 16y ago
Welcome to the neighborhood! Unfortunately our startup is moving out of South Park in the next few days.. but if you get sick of grilled cheese, some of our favorite lunch options have been: D'urso Deli, Mexico Au Parc, and Centro. At lea
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by greattypo 16y ago
No one has mentioned my current favorite, iDrive. I didn't want to spend more than $5-10/month on online backups, and found that Tarsnap, Dropbox, JungleDisk, etc all got expensive too quickly to back up 100GB+. I wanted to like Mozy but t
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by greattypo 16y ago
I think you're mis-applying the example of design contests (which I agree are generally lame, but for a different reason). This is a chance for someone to do a public service and solve an interesting prediction problem. It's for the gover
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by greattypo 16y ago
Why does Dropbox expect casual users to understand concepts like symlinks in order to sync their desktops (or any existing folder outside of the dropbox directory for that matter)? Are their plans to make this more intuitive, given this is
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by greattypo 16y ago
R has some basic visualization libraries. The graphs are overall very functional, but basic. Ex: http://www.statmethods.net/advgraphs/images/splotm.png Alternatives like Matlab, Maple, Stata all have basically the same 'look' to their de
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by greattypo 16y ago
capitalization conventions exist for a reason..
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by greattypo 16y ago
It even works on ipad! Level 52 and counting...
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by greattypo 16y ago
Agreed, the Evan Miller piece is far more thoughtful than the OP. Still, it doesn't consider that many groupon deals are un-, not barely-, profitable for the business owner. For example: http://posiescafe.com/wp/?p=316 The deal was $6 fo
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by greattypo 16y ago
Quora is one of the first sites that I've allowed to connect via Facebook, and I was pleasantly surprised by how well it's worked so far. They haven't spammed my wall at all (like most other things), and the site itself became much more in