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by imp 16y ago
I'm surprised that he says to make the announcement before telling the laid-off employees one-on-one. When I was at GE and they had layoffs, the individuals were told first, and then there was an all-employee meeting to announce the layoff
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by imp 16y ago
I agree about the cargo cult part of it. Some of the speeches at the higher levels seem a bit theatrical and focus more on the presentation style than the content. Most beginners need a lot of work on their delivery, however, so it seems
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by imp 16y ago
I've been in Toastmasters for three years now. I think it's great for building confidence. Although I still have a lot of room for improvement, I've come a long way already. It will help you become better with prepared speeches, leading,
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by imp 16y ago
My personal opinion is that there isn't a need for this, but others have pointed out menupages.com, which I guess is really big. I've never cared to search for restaurant menus online myself. Even if you covered the city I live in, I woul
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by imp 16y ago
> they make money hats Where do you get these phrases? You're making me laugh at work :)
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by imp 16y ago
Are your projects making any money yet? Without any other details, I would say that no, it's not practical. Possible, yes, but not practical. If you're at zero dollars today, and you actually have one decent product, I would guess three y
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by imp 16y ago
Despite the down votes from others, I appreciate the correction. I didn't know that it's anyway, not anyways. I appreciate the help. Thanks.
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by imp 16y ago
I love that quote because his son went on to study politics and war anyways: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Quincy_Adams
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by imp 16y ago
While you're small, you can use a combination of PayPal, Google Checkout, or Amazon Payments. His mistake is not upgrading to his own merchant account once he started making a bunch of money.
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by imp 16y ago
Gym membership, books, GeekDesk, services that save me time (doggy daycare, gutter cleaner, etc.).
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by imp 16y ago
Do you have ideas for a solution? What could "we" do differently, given that the US is really a collection of individual businesses each acting in their own best interests.
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by imp 16y ago
Count me as interested. Whatever business model you end up with, it sounds like you can find decent names, which I would gladly pay a small premium for. Since this post will fade away soon, you should set up a basic email list so that peop
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by imp 16y ago
Scrambled eggs and cheese. Glass of milk.
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by imp 16y ago
Wow, I'm surprised that a book on pricing is so expensive. Since they're the experts, perhaps they think that all books would be more profitable if they were priced higher. I wonder if many books are priced lower because they hope to get
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by imp 16y ago
That wasn't clear from your title. Thanks for the clarification.
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by imp 16y ago
Every application is going to be different, so comparing to other sites is only moderately useful. The more important question is whether your % of active users is increasing over time. That's way more important than how it compares to ev
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by imp 16y ago
I'm working on a site for that. It's Curious Reef: http://curiousreef.com It's pretty geared towards programming now, with the OCW Intro to Comp Sci class being the most popular, followed by SICP. I would be interested to hear if that's
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by imp 16y ago
And that sounds like what the author of the OP said here: "I’m willing to bet, at some nebulous point in the future, long after Drexler and I are dead, someone may eventually develop a technology sort of vaguely like what he imagines." It's
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by imp 16y ago
Build a free application that draws people in to the site. Not necessarily like the freemium model, just offer something cool for free. Either give away great software, or become an authoritative source of data, or both. This worked amazi
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by imp 16y ago
Not everyone can be ramen profitable in their first year. I think his point is that people assume it's easy to get to profitability and end up out of cash when they don't get there right away.
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by imp 16y ago
He seems to be doing okay with building initial products and then selling them off if they have potential but don't interest him anymore. I would guess that adding a co-founder would put more pressure on him to stay with a project that he
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by imp 16y ago
I've been using emacs for a few years for php/js/css/html. I think it's great as-is without any extra addons. I don't like context completion or tag generation though. Just not my thing.
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by imp 16y ago
#4 already exists: http://www.theonion.com/articles/desperate-pandora-employees...
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by imp 16y ago
The MIT course for Intro to Comp. Sci is pretty good too. There's a bunch of people working through it on my website, Curious Reef, if anyone is interested: http://curiousreef.com/class/mit-opencourseware-600-introduc...
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by imp 16y ago
In the US, I think it's less than 10% graduate with no debt.
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by imp 16y ago
That's much different though. Those people were at least manually clicking on the amazon links and not having their cookie stuffed secretly in the background. I have a low-traffic book review website that makes $2/month from Amazon affili
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by imp 16y ago
I lurk on a weightlifting forum, and this flow chart is the most concise description of bulking that I've seen: http://images.t-nation.com/forum_images/auto/r/350x0/c/9/c98... taken from here: http://tnation.t-nation.com/free_online_foru
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by imp 16y ago
Yeah, that's a good one too. I learned that lesson the hard way a while back. Checklists are a great idea.
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Ask HN: Sysadmin uptime gotchas?
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by imp 16y ago
The Innovator's Solution: http://www.amazon.com/Innovators-Solution-Creating-Sustainin...

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