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by joshklein 15y ago
Lots of good pros/cons of New York mentioned in these comments, so just one thing to add I haven't seen mentioned: after 7 years living & working in Manhattan/Brooklyn, my network is saturated with people in a dozen different industries
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by joshklein 15y ago
To understand my comment you must refer to the section of the article I have cited.
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In reality, the problem ("what founders fail to do") is far more pernicious because it always seems like you already know the problem you're solving and what your target customers want. But then you go out and talk to people who are deepl
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Ask HN: Help, we need (real) NYC office space.
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by joshklein 15y ago
If you're a student and the cost is prohibitive, shoot me a message - I have a few free passes for HN'ers.
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by joshklein 15y ago
Yes - the class is being taught by wesm, and I'll be in the audience as well.
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by joshklein 15y ago
There were many great data-related Python presentations and discussions over the past few weeks at Strata, PyData 2012, and PyCon. There's a lot of momentum in the space - we were thrilled to be sponsors & participants. Everyone we met
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by joshklein 15y ago
I believe the title is right, but then the article goes in the wrong direction. "Email isn't the problem" was the first thing that popped into my head while sitting in the audience for the pg keynote at Pycon. It's a beautiful thing that th
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by joshklein 15y ago
You hit the nail on the head. Github Enterprise is too "expensive" in attention required. While we are security-minded about our proprietary code, we also recognize that we have a limited budget for "distraction overhead." We chose infrastr
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This is a vulnerability where an attacker would be able to add his SSH key to a private repository and pull proprietary source code he was not authorized to see. This is why we pay for Github, not use a free account. We don't want people to
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by joshklein 15y ago
Several comments below praise the Github team response to this vulnerability. I agree. But it should also be mentioned that the first email I sent to my company this morning read, "should [our product] source code be in the cloud?"
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The class itself won't be posted for a week or two, but it will be at http://generalassemb.ly/
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by joshklein 15y ago
Such a person might be interested in attending a class Wes McKinney ( http://pandas.pydata.org ) will be teaching on April 16 in NYC. Introduction to Python for Financial Data Analysis (90 minutes) This class will introduce Quantitative
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by joshklein 15y ago
This reminds me of a story Malcolm Gladwell referred to as a guest on an episode of "Radiolab". He narrated a hockey match, substituting birth dates for names. It sounded a lot like "January 12 passes to January 15th, who drops the puck bac
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by joshklein 15y ago
Contributors to several open source data science libraries for Python will be gathering to discuss how to do a better job of coordinating the community at PyCon next week. If you're interested, please leave your name on the open space and c
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by joshklein 15y ago
I've been a diehard Evernote user for a long time, but making it useful required developing my own complicated system "built on" Evernote. To me, Evernote is a platform, rather than a product or system. I don't find it very useful out of th
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by joshklein 15y ago
I'm sorry, but this sounds like telling someone with clinical depression to just cheer up. There's a real chemical difference between regular-lack-of-focus and ADD. It's not the fault of real sufferers that faux sufferers cloud the diagnosi
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by joshklein 15y ago
Former Madison Avenue ad executive here, limiting the scope of my comment to the Febreze story. This part accurately reflects the kind of thinking process the strategists went through: > What's most interesting is that instead of focusi
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by joshklein 15y ago
I know this is just a fun article, but to get more serious for a minute; the missing thing here (what most people seem to forget when they're attracting traffic) is that neither of these audiences are part of his target market. He mentions
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by joshklein 15y ago
This is apropos the story, albeit slightly tangential. I don't remember all the specifics, but during my time at university, I remember a student being sued by some outside party related to his academic work. My university mobilized every r
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by joshklein 15y ago
Congrats to our local HN'er kn0thing and everybody else at Reddit. 2B is quite an achievement. Regarding below questions about the business side of Reddit, see the previous conversation here: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2966628
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by joshklein 15y ago
The best I could come up with is: "It's like if you were a landlord renting one apartment in a large building to someone you thought was a guitar teacher giving private lessons, but he turned out to be selling stolen jewelry; your whole apa
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by joshklein 15y ago
Do not under any circumstance hire a social media expert. That's what top users are for! Hire someone who is already doing everything you want a community manager to do in your community. Just make them official, start paying them, and make
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by joshklein 15y ago
The two things he mentions as his biggest mistakes are both symptoms of the same thing: hiring outside your comparative advantage. He hired too many developers for a product that's comparative advantage is in what content is (and is not) sh
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by joshklein 15y ago
Although I'm happy to be mistaken for that Josh Klein (he's great!), we are two different people. We met once and the universe didn't explode, so I'm fairly certain about this.
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I still can't understand how this gets missed in every one of these posts; a great business cofounder can be someone with an insane level of domain expertise either selling something like the thing you're making, or selling to the exact sam
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by joshklein 15y ago
I think all these "learn to code" messages to MBAs get it wrong. It should be "learn to think like a developer". An MBA should be able to determine the screens his software might display (thereby specifying the functionality and, loosely, t
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by joshklein 15y ago
I saw the tiger and immediately wanted to send it to a friend. Assuming the front page changes, here's a UI recommendation: give me a permalink so I can save/share interesting ones. Fun site!
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I think the nugget of wisdom here is your point about technically deep startups being quite rare. I can't remember who said it - Steve Blank? - but the startup world is currently dominated by companies who have marketing challenges, not tec
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A lot of things we do here would make them question our mental health. Say, pretending like you really need more than that $40,000 job the English major can get that lets him live in a small but safe apartment in a fine neighborhood (that h

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