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   Any college basketball fans on News.YC?

   2 points by hooande 19y ago|3 comments
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   by hooande 19y ago

   I was trying to think of something appropriately motivational, and the speech from Animal House was all I could come up with: http://www.jibjab.com/view/123484 I'm sure you're going to wow them
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   by hooande 19y ago

   thank you for injecting good sci fi references into this boring business discussion
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   by hooande 19y ago

   not counting google/gmail? 1. netvibes 2. news.yc 3. twitter
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   by hooande 19y ago

   I recommend "The Design of Everyday Things" (formely "The Psychology of Everyday Things") by Donald Norman. It's kind of dated and it's focused on product design, but it has some very good ideas about making products that are easy to use an
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   by hooande 19y ago

   Programming isn't rocket science...there are elegant ways to solve problems and brute force methods, but in the end the only thing that matters is that it works and the client is happy. There isn't much they will teach you in school that wi
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   by hooande 19y ago

   I have to say something about all of this...My name is Joel, I am on the team that built the awesome highlighter. Thanks for all the comments, positive and negative. We're working hard to clean up the product and put out new features. If an
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   by hooande 19y ago

   Twitter has been great for our startup. It's true what they say, news travels fast on there. I'm here: http://twitter.com/hooande
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   by hooande 19y ago

   I didn't think that was even possible with an international operation of that size.
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    World of Warcraft is completely down(worldofwarcraft.com)

    2 points by hooande 19y ago|3 comments
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    by hooande 19y ago

    On one hand, I'm glad that arrington validated something I've believed for a long time: news.yc is the best social news/network/app for people who are into startups. On the other hand, I do not want to see this place get overrun by ron paul
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    by hooande 19y ago

    The ShareSpace tag is brilliant. I don't know if you came up with that yourselves or were inspired by another site, but either way nice work.
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    by hooande 19y ago

    Way to go Scribd! I think this one is going to be big, guys
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    by hooande 19y ago

    The problem with this is that it's too easy for spammers to make new accounts for every post.Then all you do is limit the number of posts (which may or not be a good thing) without doing much to deter spam.
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    by hooande 19y ago

    are these guys a YComb startup?
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    by hooande 19y ago

    I've worked at several startups now and I have never worked a full 8 hours per day. There's always some internet surfing, phone calls (which might or might not count as "work"), meetings (also might not count), lunch, coffee or smoke breaks
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    by hooande 19y ago

    "millionaire by the time you're age 25" ? Is that what the kids are aiming for these days? Back when I was in high school the goal was "millionaire by the time you're age 30". Oh how times change.