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Texas Explosion caught on Youtube before Cable or Broadcast(youtube.com)
12 points by jjacobson 13y ago|5 comments
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by jjacobson 14y ago
Calvanism
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by jjacobson 14y ago
Adria, and most women, are tired of asking people one by one not to offend. This is her asking everyone to think about what they say in public.
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by jjacobson 14y ago
I recently helped host a hackathon in Vegas and we had several high school kids, including girls, attend. They were nervous and felt out of place at first among all the older developers. But they went in to win a significant prize at the ev
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Is not drinking an unspoken taboo?(ovikbanerjee.com)
5 points by jjacobson 14y ago|1 comments
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A Lesson for Freelancers like Me(jenwilhelm.tumblr.com)
1 points by jjacobson 14y ago|0 comments
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by jjacobson 14y ago
I'd be interested in knowing what the tweaks to the billing process were. It's a great and terrifying story.
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by jjacobson 14y ago
How did you feel two years ago? Two years from now you could be in a very different place.
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by jjacobson 14y ago
6th graders and their poorly worded surveys.
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by jjacobson 14y ago
Unscientific poll being conducted for a 6th grader's very scienctific science project.
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Poll: Does Playing Video Games Affect Your Sleep?(wedgies.com)
6 points by jjacobson 14y ago|6 comments
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by jjacobson 14y ago
Really looking forward to this!
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by jjacobson 14y ago
It's amazing to me how your mind changes when you stop thinking about life as a job and instead as goals you want to accomplish. Thanks for setting this up!
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by jjacobson 14y ago
You are 33% more likely to finish something if you share your goal with others. This is great! Founder Dating is also a great network for finding people to work with on these goals. My goal is to organize more Hakcathons in Las Vegas. Let
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by jjacobson 14y ago
The section on "Personal Priorities and Risks" is very important. Deciding when to go full time and how much each cofounder is willing to put on the line is something everyone needs to think about going into a partnership.
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TakeTwo moving to Downtown Las Vegas(lvrj.com)
1 points by jjacobson 14y ago|0 comments
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by jjacobson 14y ago
compliments of http://twitter.com/dn0t
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Live Stream of Sandy from East Williamsberg(ustream.tv)
2 points by jjacobson 14y ago|1 comments
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Tony Hsieh's Next Big Thing: Bluetooth Enabled Burritos(betabrand.com)
2 points by jjacobson 14y ago|0 comments
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SXSW in Vegas(sxsw.com)
32 points by jjacobson 14y ago|14 comments
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by jjacobson 14y ago
You are really good at your own game! Love the demo video!
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Zombie Apocalypse Line of Machetes and Axes by Gerber(gerbergear.com)
2 points by jjacobson 14y ago|0 comments
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by jjacobson 14y ago
People get bored of looking at the same thing for too long. The combination of HTTP, Browsers, HTML, etc provides a broad canvas for artists, designers and makers to paint on. Facebook and Twitter are trying hard to take all of these amazin
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by jjacobson 14y ago
Granted, I haven't been through an accelerator but I heard a great talk by Tim Falls of SendGrid who does have a lot of experience through TechStars and he covered this topic. To get full value out of an accelerator/incubator you need to be
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by jjacobson 14y ago
Generally agree with this unless your team is going through an incubator/accelerator. Those programs (and not just YC/500) are best taken advantage of by a 3-4 person team.
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by jjacobson 14y ago
Carter, you are a bad ass for putting your code up on Hacker News.
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by jjacobson 14y ago
I was wondering why comments were allowed on the blog post!
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by jjacobson 14y ago
I'm glad Tim Berners Lee built a protocol instead of a platform.
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by jjacobson 14y ago
"With Svpply.com, eBay gains access to technology talent to further improve the shopping and selling experience for its customers. Svpply.com assets – including a talented team of six designers and developers – are well-suited to help eBay
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by jjacobson 14y ago
People hate taking surveys. The only reliable way to get data out of people in survey form is to ambush them on the phone or in person and pressure them into answering some questions for you. And even then, the data has to be filtered appro

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