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by hcho 16y ago
Ask them a bullet point list of what action points would they hope to set as a result of this meeting. Both for themselve and you. This will provide you with 2 defense lines: 1)They have to make an extra investment in this meeting. This wil
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by hcho 16y ago
Every month or so, there is a "Who's hiring?" thread on HN. I heard their frequenters are prety interested in startups.
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by hcho 16y ago
And to deliver measurable success, some sort of domain expertise in a business area is needed. My answer to anyone asking which language/platform should be learned is; pick your favourite, get to an average level, have basic knowledge of al
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by hcho 16y ago
She definetely was. It's the oldest trick in the book of recruitment. She first got herself 2 UK CVs and went for more. There was probably no job, and she was doing "market research".
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by hcho 16y ago
A question to those who use SSDs: Did you notice any bugs in software you are using(or developing), which was previously hidden due to slow I/O?
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by hcho 16y ago
You can play with your ad placement, do a bit of A/B testing, maybe even try different ad networks....aand make £70 instead. Is it really worth it? A personal blog is not to be monetized via ads. Use it as your personal marketing channel an
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by hcho 16y ago
Because if something goes wrong the pilots have a lot more of time for a corrective action during flight. Not so much during take off and landing.
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by hcho 16y ago
The water bottle thing is not airlines' doing as far as I know. It's to do with your countries national security authority. Emirates allows mobile phones on some of their flights.
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by hcho 16y ago
Airplane mode is safe but it is problamatic when it comes to enforcing. There's no way for a flight attendant to tell whether idevice is in flight mode. >Or are you arguing that most people turn them off because they get told to and tha
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by hcho 16y ago
Leave your phone near a CRT screen or loudspeaker, observe the noise right before you recieve a call. The rest is statistics and probability. What's the probability of interference causing a fatal misreading in aircraft's sensor? Too small.
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by hcho 16y ago
No, there is not. Unless of course, the application has a very good reason to be a desktop app. Downloading and installing adds extra friction to your distribution, which you can live without for most of the cases.
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by hcho 16y ago
If the field is that competitive, your data is already sort of open. Your competitors probably have an idea about costs and all that.
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by hcho 16y ago
Sorry if you posted this earlier, but by how much did you improve the SEO performance? Any numbers?
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by hcho 16y ago
Well, if a person complains about being poor and still have kids, I find the right to point out to that person the obvious planning mistakes in his life, It's not like I am shouting at random poor people now, is it?
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by hcho 16y ago
>If you are already poor, children aren't going to make it any worse. And yet considerable of his pain points are about not being able to cater for his child(ren)
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by hcho 16y ago
Why have kids when poor? Haven't the humanity progressed from "increase the reproduction rate when circumstances are dire" mechanism?
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by hcho 16y ago
You open windows in mediterranean countries and buildings are made for heat.And the extreme heat is around about 2 months. Winters are pretty mild, fall and autmnn are much more enjoyable. It's about the time you spend outside, I find I rec
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by hcho 16y ago
Not warm enough.I also hear stories of corruption all the time. This of course might or might not affect you.
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by hcho 16y ago
If you have to make your living there, sure. How about bootstrapping?
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by hcho 16y ago
Go to somewhere warmer, it will help you keeping your mood up. How's Greece looking these days?
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by hcho 16y ago
Increasing relevancy of content always helps. Can you reorder your content depending on what the user already created/consumed?
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by hcho 16y ago
It is a bit far from the truth. Kadesh is possibly the first war of engineering we have accounts of, in which the manevourability of chariots were decisive. Actually, every nation that challenged the status quo of their times run a war of e
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by hcho 16y ago
None. Learn languages of nations which you can sell your skills to. Both China and Russia have ab abundance of CS students, and are cheaper than you(assuming you are in US or Europe proper). Plus, Russians seem to be quite OK with English.
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by hcho 16y ago
Can it be because only a smallish subset of the female population are worth paying to see naked?
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by hcho 16y ago
Define start up. Are you going to be profitable from day one? London, that's where the big money is. Do you need VC money? London, that's where the big money is. Are you self financing and have limited run way? Go to cheaper places.
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by hcho 16y ago
Android's widgets widget is quite good. Simple and to the point. Think Microsoft Office's paper clip, only that you can get rid of and which has 5 or 6 tips in it.
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by hcho 16y ago
Unethical? Get yourself a dictionary. While you look up that word, also look up the words probationary and period if you are in Europe and employment, at and will if in US.
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by hcho 16y ago
Run away but punish them when doing so. Tell them you are very excited to join them but negotiate a later start date. 2 days before your start day drop and e-mail and say you'll need another week or something. And on the day you are suppose
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by hcho 16y ago
The rules of the free market game says someone using cutting edge technology will come up and sweep all. Which doesn't seem to happen. So maybe, as long as it works, it doesn't matter if it's Cobol and the expensive Cobol programmer is bein
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by hcho 16y ago
Last.fm? There are some folks who suggest that raising money can actually be bad for some start ups. Ramen profatibility and all that...So, in this day and age of cheap infrastructure lack of VC money shouldn't really be a huge problem.It's

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