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by jambo 16y ago
Not only trivia, but indeterminable trivia. An olympic-sized swimming pool has no maximum depth and therefore no maximum weight if filled with gold. I'd bet they're accepting /apply/* (type anything in and you get a log in screen with "real
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by jambo 16y ago
I meant that you were mixing currencies, and 2000 quid is a lot more than 2000 bucks. I agree on the rate being high if you can do it in a day, but my personal experience is that clients like that are hard to find. Long-term clients who nee
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by jambo 16y ago
Not sure which you meant, but they're both low. $2000!=£2000 My experience is that fussiness is inversely proportionate to price sensitivity. Now if a prospect tries to dicker over hundreds or tell me they "have a nephew who does this kind
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by jambo 16y ago
My point.
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by jambo 16y ago
Would you be okay with strip searches as a requirement for flying, and if not, is it only the time and inconvenience that would bother you, or something else?
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by jambo 16y ago
I get it. You, like too many, think genitals are 'junk'. I am not ashamed of my body. I value my body and want to share it only with those I choose, not indiscriminately, and certainly not as a condition for flying. Forced or coerced nudity
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by jambo 16y ago
The problem with this is that you're asking for the pat-down. If that's required to fly if I opt-out of the strip search, let them say so. "I opt out of the electronic strip search {.|because} {I believe in human dignity|it's silly|I am wor
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by jambo 16y ago
I hope so too. pg put a footnote on his essay saying basically, don't eat just ramen with a recipe for beans & rice. http://www.paulgraham.com/ramenprofitable.html#f1n
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by jambo 16y ago
You should look again at Roth IRAs. Income limits were lifted this year, and you might be able to convert to one or start one now. http://www.schwab.com/public/schwab/research_strategies/mark...
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by jambo 16y ago
I like the "warrant canary" idea implemented by rsync.net, but I'm not sure if courts would see ceasing regular announcements as violating a gag order. http://www.rsync.net/resources/notices/canary.txt
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by jambo 16y ago
It might not be seen this way in general, which goes to the PR problem another poster mentioned, but my perception is that when someone markets something as über-, they mean it transcends or supersedes what they're prefixing. So not "cabs"
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by jambo 16y ago
It still works, but now you have two URLs for one resource, and when you go to the original URL it redirects you to the #! path, which judging from my timeline, people notice.
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by jambo 16y ago
Although it's a technical requirement in the current implementation of #newtwitter for the back button & crawling to work, I think part of the attraction of twitter was having your own simple URL. Now http://twitter.com/ev becomes ht
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by jambo 16y ago
http://www.tlb.org/eunicycle.html http://www.paulgraham.com/segway.html 50% as dorky. 0% as smug.
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by jambo 16y ago
I sometimes hope for this outcome, too, but I recognize that, for me, it is as jealousy that I got my project wrong in 03-04.
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by jambo 16y ago
>FBI’s general counsel Valerie Caproni told the New York Times that companies “can promise strong encryption. They just need to figure out how they can provide us plain text.” Replace the second sentence with: "They just need to be lyin
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by jambo 16y ago
Facebook also knows what websites you go to now. They have all of the log data from serving almost ubiquitous like buttons & "popular on facebook" components now.
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by jambo 16y ago
While I'm no fan of George W. Bush, it's hard to hypothesize about a past that never happened. So while not many people have that sentiment today, that's only because we picked one and didn't get to see what the other would've done.
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by jambo 16y ago
(early vision of the internet) not (the movie), presumably.
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by jambo 16y ago
I first encountered this story when Steven Pinker retold it at an Authors@Google talk: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hBpetDxIEMU About 40 minutes in, Pinker talks about the psychology, linguistics, and game theory of bribery and talks fo
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by jambo 16y ago
http://blog.tweetmeme.com/tag/datasift/ Edit: You could be right about the Tweet Button. DataSift will be run on TweetMeme's servers drawing data from the firehose.
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by jambo 16y ago
Tweetmeme isn't a great example. They didn't get steamrolled—they now power the official Tweet Button, and they'll power (they are?) DataSift, which is going to give people crazy querying capability against real-time twitter data.
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by jambo 16y ago
Speculating, I'd say reap referral revenue. Orbitz has a program http://www.orbitz.com/App/Affiliate , and hipmunk can probably negotiate better at some point. For an acquirer: drive sales.
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by jambo 16y ago
Demo day in SF will be helpful, and as for experience, the Atlassian founders are involved. I've seen other attempts to do this, usually by cities/states, that capture only the superficial form of YC. I'm going to be in Sydney on 6 & 7
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by jambo 16y ago
With respect to corporate governance, you can basically ignore the public shareholders in this case. In addition to the fact that the law affords managements a lot of leeway in determining how to maximize shareholder value, Larry, Sergey, a
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by jambo 16y ago
I'm not familiar with posterous. If you don't want to change your template, you could copy & paste the link/lead into each blog post as if they're press releases, which they might effectively be.
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by jambo 16y ago
Great write-up. I'd heard of you but couldn't remember what your product was. Have you thought about putting a PR-type blurb at the top of your blog, like "Rapportive shows you everything about your contacts right inside your inbox." with a
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by jambo 16y ago
To those upvoting this speculation about the author's frame of mind, why does this add to the conversation? To my mind, it distracts from the argument by focusing on the arguer. Is this TPM?
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by jambo 16y ago
Taxes and the macroeconomy are business concerns.
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by jambo 16y ago
"You can't dissociate any player from the others." Exactly. Companies will still have to worry about it, whether they pay for insurance directly or indirectly. "It should boil down to the question of finding the most efficient way for socie

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