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Creating QR codes in Excel(blog.ambor.com)
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by ig1 14y ago
From first glace it looks like whatever it is it's dumping it's cookies into the user agent. The "SS_" are squarespace cookies, hbfec the humble bundle cookie and BBC-UID the BBC cookie.
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by ig1 14y ago
Specialist journalism is doing fine, most industry specific news journals are comfortably profitable (companies are willing to pay subs as they have decent ROI in terms of staff education and bizdev), as are high-end news magazines like the
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by ig1 14y ago
A lot of money ? - access to the iOS SDK and App Store is a $100 which is a trivial amount given that an average iOS contractors can bill $100/hour.
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by ig1 14y ago
If you don't have product-market fit it's normally much easier to move the product than it is to move the market.
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by ig1 14y ago
If you haven't found product-market fit then what you need isn't marketing, it's product management and that's something that founders need to be heavily involved with at early stages.
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by ig1 14y ago
I wouldn't at your stage, at such an early stage the founders need to be interacting with users, you'll lose too much (information) in communication overheads if you bring in someone to do it.
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by ig1 14y ago
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Copenhagen_Consensus
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by ig1 14y ago
As far as I can tell they don't offer either SSL or SSH tunnelling, so there's no way you can securely connect to the database remotely. Without those you're sending your password and data unencrypted over a public network. By default Mongo
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by ig1 14y ago
Most of the replies here are a great example of a filter bubble. Living in San Francisco or New York you just assume everyone has a credit card. Not so. A quarter of US households are unbanked or underbanked and primarily rely upon cash for
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by ig1 14y ago
Have you ever looked at the budget of an academic journal to see where the money goes ? The average journal profit margin is 20-30% and that's roughly the same whether you're talking about an open access journal like PLoS or a closed access
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by ig1 14y ago
"make the results of federally-funded research publically available free of charge within 12 months after original publication."" Hence this research will have to be made available freely.
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by ig1 14y ago
Why was the title changed ? - the new title removes the fact that this is the official government response to the open access petition and not just a discussion piece.
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Increasing Public Access to the Results of Scientific Research(petitions.whitehouse.gov)
217 points by ig1 14y ago|61 comments
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by ig1 14y ago
Logic puzzle as the name implies are puzzles that can be solved using logic; typically deduction which neither of your given problems are. It's important to make this distinction because skills like deduction are actually critical to develo
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by ig1 14y ago
Business development isn't the same as marketing or sales, you should step back and hammer out a list of skills you're looking for. Is it primarily sales that you need, is it product management, is it performance marketing, etc. You might b
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by ig1 14y ago
If you're at the superstar level you don't generally apply for a job, you get headhunted. Typically someone who you know will be used to reach out to you to setup an informal conversation to test interest which is generally followed up with
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by ig1 14y ago
Generally for electronics people ask to see them working before they purchase them, I guess it varies by where your based but you couldn't you just stick in a sim to test it before purchase ?
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by ig1 14y ago
I'm not convinced there's a real problem that you're trying to solve here. What's an example of something you were going to buy on Craigslist but didn't because of trust issues ? A substantial part of the second-hand car market is done via
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by ig1 14y ago
It's perfectly legal to use someone-else's idea, but it is a bit of a jerk move take someones idea and walk off with it. Just be upfront about it from the beginning - agree at the start of the weekend that anything (ideas or code) that is m
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by ig1 14y ago
I imagine it's legal almost everywhere as long as the basis for the segmentation isn't on a protected category (race, gender, etc.)
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by ig1 14y ago
So you essentially want to run an anonymous money laundering service ?
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by ig1 14y ago
The article misses the point of specialist companies competing with subsections of CL. It's not just what's happening to CL, it's what's happening to every dominant classified site around the world. Classified sites used to be the dominant
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by ig1 14y ago
Stripe is apparently in private beta in the UK now, I'm guessing they're going make their formal announcement at the talk their giving at the London Web Summit in a few weeks.
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by ig1 14y ago
They completely dominated the space that the traditional facebook was in though, that's what they started out as. Obviously they've grown to encompass a much wider space since then.
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by ig1 14y ago
You just need to get an existing user to invite you.
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by ig1 14y ago
Facebook (I'm getting downvoted because presumably people don't realize Facebook was a common generic term used for the book universities gave to students with photos, etc. of other student to encourage socialization at the start of the ye
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by ig1 14y ago
Instagram, Pinterest, Square, Dropbox, Evernote, Yammer, Groupon, AirBnB, Gilt, LivingSocial, Nicira and Zynga (Although depending on your criteria you might want to include Hulu, Vancl, Rovio and Wonga in that list too taking it to 16) Pin
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by ig1 14y ago
1) Yes. It's true of angel investments generally too, the top companies form a disproportionately large percentage of the value. 2) Yes, you basically need to do cohort analysis for meaningful results. 3) It depends what you mean by "most s
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by ig1 14y ago
Of the twelve startups founded since 2007 that have reached a billion dollar valuation, two of them were funded by YC and another of them was founded by a YC alumni. It's crazy to say that's a bad outcome. It's a mistake to think getting in

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