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>'Wow, you're still missing the point.' Not really. You just seem to be taking half a dozen suggestions by a 'Series A investor and board member at Uber' , some of which are anecdotal, 4 out of 6 of which hing
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>'Trust hasn't scaled before, and Uber probably can't innovate that away.' I don't use Ebay, Craiglist or Uber so perhaps I just don't understand how these things work, but my first thought is simply to cr
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>'It seems amazing to me that he looks so calm and cool when they were actually being poisoned by their own CO2 and without knowing if they were going to make it alive to Earth.' Though our problems aren't close to same
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I'm reminded of two things: A Vice piece on the contrast of slums and a billion-dollar home in Mumbai [1] and a pair of 2008 billionaire suicides [2][3]. It makes me wonder if each of these guys and the profiled Alwaleed are just so fa
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>'Honestly, using time trackers like Harvest has shown that I'm really only productive 6 hours a day, and after that it's a struggle to focus.' This is actually part of my thought. My completely anecdotal notion is
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>'I wish Kickstarter would put big lettering near the 'support' button that says in big red letters, "Kickstarter is not a store"' I can't see that happening. Though, I'm not sure what if anythin
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>'Based on my experience at least, YNAB (You Need A Budget -- http://www.youneedabudget.com/ ) is the best budgeting software out there. It's a lot more complex than this, and unlike something like Mint it does
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>'I enjoy a 40-50-hour work week and prefer a marathon to a sprint.' Is 40-50 hours a week the new casual? That's 9-12+ hours of work and/or adjacent things per weekday considering lunch and any sort of commute. I&#
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>'Consumers don't buy Beats because they're shinier though. They buy them because of the image that comes with them, thanks to a successful marketing and endorsement campaign.' Sure, but exceptional shine is exactly
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That's a great lesson. Long ago I found myself working every weekend at a new job - a place which subjected me to hours of grilling interviews by multiple people. I got hurt in training one evening, came to work the next day and schedu
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Great work, the content looks solid and I love that you've already covered several frequently omitted, but very useful features (transcripts, mobile usable video downloads, notifications, rss). My only request would be to come up with
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In my experience, enterprise gamification, like enterprise facebook, enterprise twitter and enterprise wikis are, for the most part me-too bullshit bought and sold without any real justification beyond an easy, hip-sounding KPI for some exe
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Foolishness on multiple fronts. It's just a matter of time, the nice thing about fads is that they disappear even faster than they appear in the first place. Ten years ago 'atkins' vanished overnight and it looks like 'g
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I dabble on MTurk every now and then. It might sound strange, but I find certain kinds of survey type simple tasks incredibly relaxing and some of the HITs clearly connect to what seems to be interesting research. Pretty much everything the
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HN trends happen regularly. Right now it's profiles, in the past it has been military aircraft, biology, whatever. It's pretty neat and seems to work well - waves of variety without the segregation of something like subreddits or
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>'Given that the best way to get a decent startup/VC job is to come out of a hedge fund, I can imagine it hurting people if they can't say where they worked.' Well, for cleared positions there's a pretty standa
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>'One part of it is that electronics are actually very cheap compared to living expenses.' Cheap relative to living expenses and childcare in particular. Years ago, it was cable TV to keep kids off the street while parents we
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Looking at your linked thread, I don't think it's the concept itself that saw you downvoted so much as the way you stated it. It comes off as an oversimplified 'Everything is better with startups!' Cut out grating phrase
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>'During our Secret Santa drive, volunteers sometimes refused to drop gifts at houses with TVs inside.' This brought back memories. Part of my first 'job' (minimum wage program for at-risk youth) was pickup / d
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Personally, I perceive the 'complexity as a status marker' less a technological or programmer culture problem and more as one of business and job culture. You won't find someone building needless complexity into something if
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Yes, yes it does. I try to do as much as possible via Python and maintain a jumpbox for running the full client. More importantly, I avoid VMWare wherever possible. These days there are plenty of excellent, fully viable alternatives which w
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>'The world is going to change drastically in the next 10-20 years. Side discussion related to the article: what to focus on? Will web development still be a thing (I'm doubtful)? If so, what does web development look like in
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>'I take contention with your first sentence as if you find a good enough mechanic, you'll be able to ask them to see what their cost is with parts.' Sure. I think we're talking about totally different things. The q
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>'If there is a better way, I'd like to do that.' I gave this a little thought a few years ago, it's an interesting problem in. There are lots of variables generated (estimates) and validated (bills) by disparate so
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One of the things I love about using edX, which I wish would become a standard for everything - synchronized transcripts for videos [1]. 1: http://i.imgur.com/sYHfGHe.png
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In the US it refers to a section of the East Coast [1]. 1: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mid-Atlantic_states
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It's funny, I somehow expected this would be about anything but dollar cabs - they're just a mundane part of life throughout the mid-Atlantic. Where I grew up they were the cabs and delivery service since the 'legit' equ
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>'This is a really relevant piece, if I'm interviewing you I'm going to wonder if you're not asking any questions about the company.' Honest question, can you give some examples of good questions that the typic
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The author advocates questioning the interviewer directly, but he doesn't mention questioning anyone in his Netscape interview, only making mental notes of various red flags. In practice, I think that's the way 'both way&#x27
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I sit above a pretty busy intersection and get to witness the madness and regular accidents of rush hour traffic heading out of downtown on a daily basis. I think simply shimming an extra second or of intersection clearing time between tran

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