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by jlees 16y ago
One way out of the pool might be to reach out to potential teams herself, if you have any friends of friends within the 'plex who can send out tendrils internally. (Or just contact friendly people who post on HN... >.>)
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by jlees 16y ago
And it is not like this deadline is unknown to employers. Sadly the recruiter who knows this deadline and the managers who have "Look for suitable interns" as one of very many todo list items are not one and the same. I did an internship
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by jlees 16y ago
I don't have a DX, just an iPad, Xoom and 1st gen Kindle. But from those experiences, it's not the form factor that bothers me - it's the natural continuous access of the ebook format. I can't read PDFs onscreen for much the same reasons. W
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by jlees 16y ago
Just bought it. I'm researching ways to teach computer science and this has come up in so many threads it's not even funny. :) (Despite it being a free ebook I vastly prefer print, another problem I'm trying to figure out and solve...)
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by jlees 16y ago
"Opentable for your kitchen" is a much better X for Y than "Airbnb for food".
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by jlees 16y ago
Best practices these days tend to involve putting things in CAPITAL LETTERS, and occasionally bold or italic, and BEING A COOL DUDE, and getting real, and adding ten foot high 'Click Here To Purchase' links. I'll check those books out to se
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by jlees 16y ago
I found this interesting timing, as I just unsubscribed from AppSumo today. Today's email was a huge dive into web-copywriting-drive-conversions-awfulness with all the stuff I really loathe about that corner of the Internet. Even when the p
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Journamatic - Automatically record daily activities (checkins, Netflix, etc)(journamatic.com)
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by jlees 16y ago
Launching right after SXSW is in itself disruptive ;) I don't take photos on my phone to share on Facebook, so I genuinely don't know: do Facebook photos have location data? I think what's really interesting about Color is the notion of an
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by jlees 16y ago
The switch from the general design-by-committee approach to "look folks, we're hiring a designer, and they'll sell their ideas to us" is a really interesting one, and mirrors a lot of the part-OSS part-corporate projects I've recently becom
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by jlees 16y ago
Agreed. It's been a couple of years since I actively contributed to Wikipedia, but I had a really easy time of it, mostly adding new content that wasn't there at all and expanding stub articles with a factual basis. I can see why religious/
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by jlees 16y ago
The email alert method of retention works to some extent, but the more engaged users (multiple meetup groups and interests) get so much email it just becomes spam. Plus, alerting to new groups in a very high traffic location is also a bit o
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by jlees 16y ago
I travel overseas too, but I'd not want to face the roaming charges (I guess I could swap sims, but I have a phone hotspot anyway). Getting an iPad that works in the US (especially when there's a high density of Apple users, aka AT&T ca
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by jlees 16y ago
Clearly Zappos' famously awesome customer service isn't good or memorable enough to make the off-the-top-of-your-head list there. Interesting! (They always keep saying "Whoa, Nellie! We upgraded you to express shipping free!" on my orders -
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by jlees 16y ago
I've had FedEx sign for packages left at my front door with "Mr F. Door".
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by jlees 16y ago
It's not only the entrepreneurial kids of today that want to be rockstars; it's the "journalists", too.
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by jlees 16y ago
I cope with this with #3, I guess - not programming as a career. I can then do crazy prototypes and hackathons in my spare time and work on the general big-picture, product vision stuff that I really enjoy in my actual job as a product mana
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by jlees 16y ago
You can drop in at Hacker Dojo for a $10/time suggested donation before you maybe become comfortable enough and affluent enough to afford it on a monthly basis ;)
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by jlees 16y ago
I just hope they keep Xcode 3 around. The idea of paying $5 for make and gcc is abhorrent.
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by jlees 16y ago
The majority of Carsonified employees do not, however, code. I think this distinction is lost somewhere in all the anti-moonlighting ranting.
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by jlees 16y ago
But then all the comments on HN would be about how Google is copying the *.me sites and squishing poor innocent startups. :(
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by jlees 16y ago
Fair enough. I think people pay special attention to the SXSW party scene, too; but a general solution for all events would be pretty interesting.
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by jlees 16y ago
I'm less interested in the sessions (I can read a conference guide!) and more interested in the parties, networking events, flashmobs, etc. Where to be and who to meet. Have you guys thought about this angle?
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by jlees 16y ago
I've been to several multi day and one-day hackathons, mostly in the Bay Area. I've shipped code at every single one, but I definitely share your frustrations at those who turn up and demo stuff they built elsewhere. I also have had trouble
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by jlees 16y ago
This is only true if he actually learnt what he did wrong. Looking at his replies to some of the comments on Reddit, I'm not convinced he quite gets it.
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by jlees 16y ago
Well, presumably now they have access to the real , not benefit-of-the-doubt, numbers. Which only makes Match.com look worse...
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by jlees 16y ago
if you install the new market widget, which came by default on my Nexus S, you'll see a new featured app every time you swipe to the homescreen with the widget on. I've bought about 5 apps from this alone. Once I bought my first android app
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by jlees 16y ago
They look like get-rich-quick but there are some real nuggets of truth in there; but the hard work is well disguised. Take for example the 4-Hour body's section on ultrarunning. I'm training for a marathon so I know how hard it is, yet th
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by jlees 16y ago
What I found interesting was that he tested a ton of titles for the book and the "4-Hour" thing was the winner - it's not him that chose it, it's the market.
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by jlees 16y ago
It's not so much his books, it's him. On the surface he's the ideal HN idol; A/B tests and measures everything, scientific approach to life. But on the flipside he is wildly successful and has intimate relations with members of the opposite

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