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by jlees 16y ago
Especially given pg's comments on education in 'Hackers and Painters' (which I just finally read). Yeah. Why on earth aren't we solving this? It's because it's not just hard (as in hard math, or hard code, or hard sell) but it's actually ve
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by jlees 16y ago
Maybe you don't want them knowing your phone number to call you back with job calls or whatever. (Of course, there are ways around that too.)
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by jlees 16y ago
Google is (believe it or not) working on being more accessible to customers, but no, right now, there isn't a number she can call. It's sad that people like your mom are disappointed, and there are plenty more like her out there, but callin
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by jlees 16y ago
Is it an obvious opening for a startup? How would you generate revenue?
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by jlees 16y ago
Have you considered outsourcing the initial client contact (numbers game/craigslist posting and replies) part of the process?
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by jlees 16y ago
And in the London tube over Christmas. Chrome marketing is pretty awesome.
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by jlees 16y ago
I use Python mostly, and I was asked this in an interview question (shortly after being asked if I could enumerate the differences between 2.6 and 3, when I said 'quite frankly no, I'm building a real world app and focused entirely on 2.6 a
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by jlees 16y ago
Looks like writers who put effort into pages and then left Mahalo will basically get nothing, having expected to get something. Not good!
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by jlees 16y ago
If you're hacking on a real project where do you get solid scalability experience? Unless you hit gold and, say, create a social network that explodes like wildfire... I got the impression the author had a strong practical sysadmin backgrou
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by jlees 16y ago
Start coding the flickr mashup and keep your mind open during the process. It'll morph - you'll see something you can do. Other advice in this thread is sound on the general idea creation process - I would also add talk to people! Talk to p
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by jlees 16y ago
There is a public train service (Caltrain) that runs from San Francisco downtown (4th and King) to the Stanford campus (Palo Alto station). Renting a car is advisable if you're going to spend any significant time in the Bay Area but if you
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by jlees 16y ago
I just hope AOL starts paying all TC writers the ridiculously low monkey writer rate that it pays Weblogs writers. Ooh, and TC posts now get entered into the digg voting ring too!
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by jlees 16y ago
Nah, we didn't pay just to relicense/extend Liberation. This pickup of fonts is a snapshot of a work in progress.
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by jlees 16y ago
Only temporarily. :)
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by jlees 16y ago
I'm seeing more and more of these sites/solutions spring up but none of them seem to really work. Why? My thoughts: Partly an issue of signal to noise / matching, finding the right person in the first place. Partly frustration at unsuitable
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What CEOs need to know about design(slideshare.net)
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by jlees 16y ago
This is my thinking. Sadly they are not particularly hackery and have flown 5500 miles to see me, not hang out with other people. :) hopefully I shall be there for at least a bit though.
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by jlees 16y ago
Working as intended. Of course, the fun part is when you break up after a long relationship where your social circles are very mixed. You run the risk of losing all your friends. Which sucks.
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by jlees 16y ago
Label your graphs.
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by jlees 16y ago
Hoping to drop by. Happens to be the week I have friends in town, sigh!
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by jlees 16y ago
This is something we're actively working on, you'll be glad to hear. After all, if we're launching an OS that's Chrome-on-Linux with huge memory leaks, we're screwed. ;)
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by jlees 16y ago
I'll look into this, I can see how it'd be annoying and confusing. Thanks for bringing it up.
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by jlees 16y ago
A lot of this essay reminds me of the beginning of a startup. When days are long and sleep is optional and sparks are flying and people expect you to have cleaned the toilet because you've been in all day. (Except you've been sleeping, beca
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by jlees 16y ago
I've had mixed experiences. Generally a positive feeling from saving money, but one of the Groupons I bought (a champagne cruise in SF) still has yet to come in sight of being redeemed. The Groupon itself didn't specify that the cruise was
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by jlees 16y ago
The part that really tuned my brain anti-Groupon in this article was: Groupon sold consumers a $13 Posie’s credit for $6, and then sought to keep the entire $6. I mean, that's a 100% cut with the business getting nothing. If that's seriou
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by jlees 16y ago
This is why I love Hacker News. Similarly, if anyone has any comments to pass on to the Chrome team, I can oblige; although comment is welcome on our mailing lists too, of course. And.. fight!
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by jlees 16y ago
The item they're selling for $13 could be a low/zero margin product usually used to bait further purchases or tips. Another issue they noted was people not tipping as if they had paid $13, but tipping as if they had paid $3.
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by jlees 16y ago
Well, the basic economics of giving away too many coupons is definitely the core of the problem, but it looks like Groupon aggravated it somewhat. By taking a high cut and targeting discount-minded (rather than repeat-custom-minded) cliente
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by jlees 16y ago
You could start with some 'safe' low-bar jobs to get a feel for it, like eLance or similar (back in the day I did some eye-opening work for clients through rentacoder and a British freelancing site). The experience may be worth more to you
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by jlees 16y ago
Next step, grab a corpus of HN posts and do some text crunching to generate suggestions. (or you could 'borrow' Feross' code, which is not condoned by Google - posts on the Interwebs say Google Suggest's "API" is not for public use - and no

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