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by hussong 17y ago
If those numbers are real, that's pretty deflating.
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by hussong 17y ago
Gotta love the random deer in picture 5.
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by hussong 17y ago
The intro is in Romanian, but don't worry, the body is in English.
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Interview with Scott Wheeler, co-founder of YC-backed startup Directed Edge(arenabiz.ro)
22 points by hussong 17y ago|5 comments
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by hussong 17y ago
If you look hard enough, you can get rent down to $400-500 a month. If you have a kitchen, food isn't expensive (rice and beans). And thanks to the good public transport, you can do without a car (unless you have to go to Sand Hill Road eve
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by hussong 17y ago
Lead-gen makes a lot of sense as a secondary revenue stream. If you can't make the transaction, you can still sell a qualified lead. Once you hit big volume, this becomes a significant source of income.
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RentHop (YC S09) Video Pitch on Reuters(reuters.com)
27 points by hussong 17y ago|15 comments
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by hussong 17y ago
Heh, I'm amused by the term "Mountain View Chocolate Factory" -- but where's Charlie?
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by hussong 17y ago
I was surprised the author didn't mention the (hard to quantify) emotional cost of living out of a suitcase. Bits don't care where they live, people usually do.
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by hussong 17y ago
You can work around this with a mail-forwarding address, some vendors also scan your mail so you can look at it online and even deposit checks. Lots of RVers seem to be using this.
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by hussong 17y ago
Wow, haven't seen that one in a while, feels like years ago. We actually tried a couple takes until we stopped caring and just wanted to get it done and have the application sent.
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by hussong 17y ago
I think they have Internet there, too. SCNR.
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by hussong 17y ago
I'm sure we'll see those on the Caltrain soon. People there regularly have some of the most sophisticated and expensive folding bikes I've ever seen.
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by hussong 17y ago
I love how they provide a link to the launch webcast along with the overload error message. Too bad it's not live anymore, though.
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by hussong 18y ago
For those interested in the subject: Ernst Weizsäcker, former Dean of the Donald Bren School for Environmental Science and Management at the University of California, has some interesting articles on resource productivity on his website: h
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Dealing with Recessionary Times(tompeters.com)
3 points by hussong 18y ago|0 comments
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by hussong 18y ago
Joseph Campbell said it best: "people want to feel alive". And when you're exercising at the limit of what you're physically capable of, you do feel very alive. Getting into and pushing through physical pain on a regular basis also makes it
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by hussong 18y ago
I guess network operators will do whatever it takes to block the app since it eats their revenue from SMS and calls.
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by hussong 18y ago
Thanks for digging, I knew I had seen this before. Amazing story anyway.
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by hussong 18y ago
I share your preference but I think as long as a significant number of people still buy the entire magazine or even a subscription to get the 'great stories', unbundling will only hurt publishers' profits.
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by hussong 18y ago
From the article: "Ubuntu (pronounced oo-BOON-too)" -- intended pun or involuntary irony?
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by hussong 18y ago
I usually don't fancy those quizzes (e.g. for music and movie tastes), but yours was actually interesting. Very good pictures, fun to look at, but they took too long to load to keep me involved til the end. Scaling of fonts / liquid layout
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by hussong 18y ago
I feel like the other german auction sites really missed a great marketing opportunity there.
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by hussong 18y ago
117 bids and 20K EUR in a few hours, not bad so far but still under minimum price, six more days to go.
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by hussong 18y ago
Seems like they didn't channel the foreseeable hate properly.
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by hussong 18y ago
Waiting for the linux port.
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by hussong 18y ago
I was really surprised to learn that the horny old caveman was the same guy that wrote one of the most interesting papers I came across in media economics: De Vany, Arthur & Walls, W. David, 1996. "Bose-Einstein Dynamics and Adaptive Co
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by hussong 18y ago
It's interesting how the slogan of Mao's "Hundred Flowers Campaign" is widely used as a metaphor for healthy competition fueling innovation and progress of a population, while the campaign resulted in violently silencing most of the dissent
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by hussong 18y ago
g you're right, I wouldn't turn to them for advice on design or architecture.
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by hussong 18y ago
I think the article is OK overall even though a few points are not very well phrased. As for image attributes: while they don't accellerate loading files, they enable the browser to render properly while images are still being loaded, so th

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