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by jaysonelliot 8y ago
Which city is that?
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The one question I have, that I haven't seen answered in the article or elsewhere, is how deliveries are handled. Presumably shops and businesses in a car-free city need to get truckloads of goods or equipment moved in and out on a reg
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Cars are the future(jalopnik.com)
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The VRML demo at 18 minutes in really took me back: https://youtu.be/Bo3lUw9GUJA?t=18m I remember how convinced some people were that VRML was going to be the future of the Web. 3D graphics in your browser, all coded with a
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by jaysonelliot 8y ago
As someone who was critical at first of the way the situation was handled, I have to say that YC has been exemplary in their followup. The response from all of the YC folks in the threads was respectful and empathetic, and didn't try t
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Has this thread been manually deleted from the HN front page?
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Mistakes happen. Waiting two hours to tell people, then doing so from a do-not-reply address, however, is a poor way to handle them. If we make a mistake like this as a company, we at least try to make up for it in some way, and make our us
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Mistakes happen, but it should not have taken them over two hours to contact people who'd been celebrating their acceptance. We got the "you're in!" email, and the whole team was pumped. Having to go back to them hours l
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Another way to look at it is that companies are making it easier to underpay their workers by offloading the responsibility for seeing that they're fairly compensated to their customers. Repeated studies have shown that tipping is inhe
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Yes, you've made that comment twice now. He's exhausted and kind of scattered in that interview. Not surprising that he was at a breaking point by the time he got to the NY Times.
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Funny enough, the OP's later Reddit posts were things like "Two months into my first job, I'm still fucking up on basic tasks" and a complaint that their co-workers are too good at their jobs, and making the OP look bad
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The OP doesn't focus on this in the post, but they're a recent grad with no work experience. Maybe it was a bit of a cattle-call experience, but IBM is sorting through thousands of similar grads and needs some way to screen them f
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You did a great job of making the "love from mom" feeling come through on the website. I think that's what made us decide to subscribe.
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I love the family story on the site, and the design is beautiful. I agree with others that suggest the nutrition info should be a little easier to find. We just subscribed to the Buttermilk Suite. Looking forward to trying it.
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This is a pretty neat hackathon idea, but as an actual business, I'm afraid it falls into the vanishingly large set of services aimed entirely at well-paid young urbanites who haven't matured into basic life skills yet. We've
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by jaysonelliot 8y ago
We acquired the trademark about five years ago, I founded the new company together with Luke & Ernie Gygax. Several original TSR people are involved. We're doing tabletop only right now, and we're working on a new mobile platf
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by jaysonelliot 8y ago
Conversely, my own company has chosen a logo with only the name, and no logomark. Our name is only three letters, so it makes for a very easy lockup, and I believe it's strong without any symbols. I wouldn't call this the best app
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I haven't seen a B30 in person, but it looks pretty comparable. Seems like it's a slightly thinner & lighter update to the B100 (though "thin and light" is relative, it's a rugged candybar). It would probably be
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by jaysonelliot 8y ago
I bought a Cat B100 a few years ago. It's my second phone; the iPhone is still my primary, but there are times that it's better to have a dumbphone. It's sold by Caterpillar, but actually built by Bullit Mobile, who specializ
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At 25, my career was just starting, but I felt like I was so old that I'd missed my shot. I remember thinking "I'm a quarter century old, that's ancient!" I had dropped out of college to start a music magazine. Whil
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Thanks for the suggestion. I've never heard them before, this is great focusing music.
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This sounds like a silly trick, but I literally put a post-it on my monitor with the name of the task I'm currently working on. It's very easy to get distracted by things in my environment and on my screen, and just seeing a sign
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Until cities have a better alternative to driving than "use our terrible mass transit in our poorly-designed cities," this will remain a problem. American cities are designed for cars, so that bicycles, scooters, or any other huma
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This study is simply moving the goalposts, conflating the low-quality screen interactions we have with the actual face-to-face social interactions that they are replacing. "Hypersocial" has no meaningful definition. It doesn'
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What is that principle? I'm a fan of CC, and I see how it is valuable to people, but what is the core principle involved with not being paid for your work? Honest question. Creative Commons is a wonderful thing. I'm just wondering
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Not utterly losing both the sizes and positions of all windows just because the laptop was undocked. Not failing to recognize the external display upon docking, despite the display working a few minutes earlier. Both of my MacBook Pros (2
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My number one piece of advice: invest in the market, never invest in individual stocks. Find the best index fund you can, and let your money grow with the market. If you want to get into things like individual stocks, or even angel investin
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As a temporary marketing campaign, this is brilliant. Everyone says they care about the IHOP brand, and "threatening" is has brought out a viral storm of news stories and discussions. Everyone claims to care about IHOP, but how ma
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There's nothing about the brick & mortar toy space that's inherently living on borrowed time. It was Toys 'R' Us' own mismanagement that doomed it. Toy stores can be a destination. Provide a compelling experienc
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In mobile design, I generally stay with the same convention of placing positive actions on the right. The "dominant hand" argument isn't relevant, since your thumb usually rests on the left side of the screen if you're r

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