jonpaul

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by jonpaul 16y ago
At the beginning of the football [American] season: about $5k. Around now: $2.5k.
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by jonpaul 16y ago
It's not being abandoned. This is FUD that a small vocal minority like's to espouse. Silverlight is for most practical purposes, a subset of WPF.
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by jonpaul 16y ago
I disagree. A person would have a much easier time transitioning from C# to VB.NET than C# to Java. This is simply because the libraries in C# and VB.NET are the exact same since they both run on the CLR. The syntax learning curve may be st
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by jonpaul 16y ago
I really don't get much utility out of Mahalo, but why would it drop in this algorithm change? Isn't the site like a wikipedia for search results?
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by jonpaul 16y ago
I love the mindset behind the advice of having a little saved up. I currently have about $15k saved up. I fully intend to one day have real FU money. In the meantime though, having a small emergency fund that I'm adding to each month makes
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by jonpaul 16y ago
I forget shit all of the time related to programming. I then started a blog that just documented snippets to accomplish various tasks in various languages that I use. This way if I forget, and I do all of the time, I can refer to my blog. D
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by jonpaul 16y ago
Two years ago, I was gung ho about Twitter. Now, I feel there is way too much noise. But Tweet every 30-60 minutes? That's a lot. (I realize the author of the post owns a auto-tweeting service) From a business engagement perspective, I can
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by jonpaul 16y ago
Bummed that you can't get more than 8 GB of memory on even the i7. Why are the i7 mobiles only limited to 8 GB? That seems silly for today's standards and memory costs.
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Ask HN: Is Pay Per Check-In a Viable Business Model?
2 points by jonpaul 16y ago|0 comments
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by jonpaul 16y ago
I don't like the statement that "Hacker News ruined my morning." That seems like you're either creating a link-bait headline trying to appeal to the emotions of HNers or you're trying to shift responsibility from yourself to another entity.
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by jonpaul 16y ago
Awesome. We're in similar shoes. We should connect.
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by jonpaul 16y ago
http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:m51jMMm... I had to use a Google cache article because when I click the original CNN link it goes to a new updated article. The quote: "We have no freedom here," she said. "I speak to a
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by jonpaul 16y ago
While you may have a point. There was this one time when a foreign military helped a homegrown revolution and it seemed to work out alright.... http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/France_in_the_American_Revoluti...
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by jonpaul 16y ago
I find this semi-humorous and quite expected for him to say this. I've dealt with their support on a few occasions; it's like pulling teeth to get them to respond.
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by jonpaul 16y ago
Saw ass.io and giggled. Hehehe.
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by jonpaul 16y ago
I really liked Turbotax.com and used it for about four years up until last year. It doesn't support multi-member LLCS, so it's not useful to me anymore.
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by jonpaul 16y ago
Cool idea. Back button is broken.
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by jonpaul 16y ago
Although I agree with the point that customers don't give a shit about the technology stack, did it seem to anyone else that he may be a little self-conscious about his choice of choosing ASP.NET? Read every single point. They all mention w
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Ask HN: Pay for Tumblr Backup Service?
4 points by jonpaul 16y ago|2 comments
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by jonpaul 16y ago
What I want to know is how these engineers at these startups avoid visual distractions? It seems to me that a lot startups create environments like this. It's clear that Dropbox has the money for cubes/offices. Is it a cultural thing? What
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by jonpaul 16y ago
Cool. Did you do any kind customer development? Analyze any problems, etc?
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by jonpaul 16y ago
That makes about as much sense as saying: pick two sports teams to play each other, the odds of one of the team winning is 50%. The point is, that probability doesn't hold, and thus nullifies the anecdote.
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by jonpaul 16y ago
The best single comment I've read about luck was written right here on HN. I've detailed it here: http://techneur.com/post/1321568428/luck-ii In summary, I made a comment about Zuckerberg and the value of Facebook. Someone responded that
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by jonpaul 16y ago
It looks beautiful. But I must be missing something... what problem does it solve that forums or Twitter don't solve? Or how does it do it better? I just signed up and I'm not seeing the utility. I'm asking this sincerely.
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by jonpaul 16y ago
I wrote a popular article about this: http://techneur.com/post/3068783134/customers-demand-native-...
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by jonpaul 16y ago
I gathered it was Culture, Developer Platform, and Leverage/Impact
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by jonpaul 16y ago
I didn't think the video was all that informative. I was hoping it was three keys to the initial success of Facebook. Not, three keys that keeps Facebook successful which are: 1) Culture 2) Developer's platform. 3) Leverage with hiring. e.g
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by jonpaul 16y ago
I think he is selling himself short. He is saying that he wasted three years of his life and now he feels stupid. I think that's a normal reaction. I applaud this guy. Mark Cuban and Jeff Bezos have both made statements about living life
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by jonpaul 16y ago
Twitter is almost the same. Except that with Twitter you can receive useful information/links from those who tweet about a specific niche. I can't stand when some tweet about being drunk, getting a new haircut, etc. Fortunately there is an
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by jonpaul 16y ago
I completely agree. I made a comment yesterday about my observations on hiring at Google. I realized that there was some kind of bias on my side regarding my observations, I kept thinking about "survivor bias" but I knew that wasn't quite c

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