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by jmtame 15y ago
True. But the people getting the checks weren't writing blog posts warning people not to buy apartments in NYC either. I'm not saying Airbnb is right or wrong, but to make a matter like that a public spectacle might influence insurance comp
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by jmtame 15y ago
It's not a matter of questioning people you admire or not, it's a matter of reserving judgment and not making personal attacks until you know all the facts from both parties.
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by jmtame 15y ago
In SF here and just signed up for individual health insurance, HealthNet PPO ($70/month) after getting recommended to an agent through Dave Ramsey's web site. It's a high deductible plan (around $7,500), but the premiums seem low. I persona
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by jmtame 15y ago
According to the founders, Airbnb has offered to cover her losses all along, from the very beginning. If that's true, and in fact she rejected the help and rejected meeting with the founders as she claims she did, then Airbnb did everything
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by jmtame 15y ago
I'm confused on whether you think that quote is from me or Andrew. I was asked to clarify just in case: that quote is coming from my own personal experience (and I updated the page to reflect that). Andrew's not targeting college students,
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by jmtame 15y ago
It didn't feel like I was talking to an alien who had no understanding of the problem with education today when I interviewed him. He started having attention problems in 4th grade (which is the age he's targeting), and all of the problems
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19 year-old Stanford Ph.D. dropout Andrew Hsu is Changing Education(startupsopensourced.com)
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That is why the for-profit Asian tutoring industry groups students by performance, not by age. There are “grades,” but they do not depend on when a student was born, only on what she knows and is able to do. I just interviewed Andrew Hsu
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by jmtame 15y ago
I'm building something that makes this easy to do online, would you mind sending me an email and I could see if it helps you with scheduling and video chat + screen sharing?
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by jmtame 15y ago
awesome post Tristan. working for free makes perfect sense for a short period of time--you let cofounders get an opportunity to try you out risk-free. it's not "desperate" like some people think it is; it shows serious dedication and intere
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by jmtame 15y ago
seems a high when you have to jailbreak it's not difficult to jailbreak your phone. go to jailbreakme.com, and you're done.
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by jmtame 15y ago
Having just moved to SF, I knew I had to get back to a gym, so I started looking around and was shocked at how expensive the prices were. Upwards of $100/month for anything decent, which is way out of my budget. I just started P90X, I'm on
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by jmtame 15y ago
too late to edit my comment but an interesting analysis which does consider the quadrants: http://zodiackillersolved.blogspot.com/2008/12/340-cipher-so...
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by jmtame 15y ago
I didn't recognize that the cipher could be split into four quadrants (with the "+" symbol bisecting vertically and horizontally) before reading the comment; maybe he's cycling through the symbols based on the quadrant they're in? I noticed
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Reddit's possible solution to famous Zodiac cipher(reddit.com)
113 points by jmtame 15y ago|18 comments
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John Resig Discusses jQuery and Decision to Join Khan Academy(startupsopensourced.com)
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"On-Topic: Anything that good hackers would find interesting. That includes more than hacking and startups. If you had to reduce it to a sentence, the answer might be: anything that gratifies one's intellectual curiosity." http://ycombinat
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by jmtame 15y ago
Hey Joel, thanks for commenting. Yeah, I don't want to come across as this Wall Street banker type of person saying "you need to get people to meet with you instantly! Demand time from them!" I think this is more of a trick to use if you've
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by jmtame 15y ago
Really? Can you elaborate?
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Hacking the system: how to land meetings with anyone you want(venturebeat.com)
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by jmtame 15y ago
Thanks Yehuda--you had quoted me on the asset pipeline and I have since upgraded to Cedar on Heroku. I suppose the slow loading of images in the asset pipeline was the biggest gripe on my part, but didn't realize images should still be serv
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by jmtame 15y ago
Right, though I think I was more hesitant on upgrading to Cedar--probably could have done that without any problems, but ultimately I just didn't like 3.1rc. My major gripe was with the assets pipeline. Edit: are images not supposed to be s
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by jmtame 15y ago
The assets pipeline feels horrible, it's really slow. I upgraded to Rails 3.1rc, realized it fights with Heroku unless upgrading to the Cedar stack. Lesson learned: stay away from Rails release candidates. But I downgraded to Rails 3.0.8 be
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by jmtame 15y ago
Sending a free copy of Startups Open Sourced to your e-mail now, I have some interviews in mind that might help give you some motivational boost.
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by jmtame 15y ago
I don't think Hacker News has any interest in comparing itself to other news sites, but direct comparisons have been used successfully in advertising before. I don't think it's annoying in this case because nerds are typically just not draw
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by jmtame 15y ago
Husky Starcraft draws in over 100,000 viewers over the period of a live stream with around 60k watching at any given time, which is really impressive.
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by jmtame 15y ago
Have you ever watched the interesting casters like Husky Starcraft? It gets intense, much more exciting to watch than golf or NASCAR.
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by jmtame 15y ago
Interesting excerpt from Startups Open Sourced on this: Q: How long did it take to get the beta version of reddit built? I think we launched in June, a little less than a month after we got started. It was a really rough version of the si
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by jmtame 15y ago
In Startups Open Sourced, he says Airbnb "tried everything" but he says that press is the single best source of their growth. Having the happy customers came in second, but would be interested to hear if this helped them much. It's hard to
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by jmtame 15y ago
I'm not sure on that. Brian would have to comment if he's lurking, although not sure he'd know either since the company is separate. They still operate a web site.

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