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by jsackmann 19y ago
An awful lot of the stuff he describes outsourcing seems like it would be just as fast if he did it himself. Ordering food? Placing Amazon orders? I realize he's going for humor with some of the examples, but in each of these cases, onc
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by jsackmann 19y ago
I also recently wrote my own blogging platform (in Python). It's really simple -- no web UI for me (yet, anyway), and the whole thing is contained in a few hundred lines of code. That said, I already like it better than Wordpress. (Which
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by jsackmann 19y ago
This is such a wonderful article. Since I first found it on PG's site several months ago, I come back and read it about once a month. Not only is it a good motivator to stay after whatever I'm working on, it's also a great way to make sur
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by jsackmann 19y ago
Wow...I didn't expect to see 64 comments and then be the first one chiming in from New York City. But here I am.
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by jsackmann 19y ago
cool! this (almost exactly this!) was on my list of possible ideas to pursue a few months back. great to see that it's being done.
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by jsackmann 19y ago
More than anything, I think this is about all the money in the baby boom generation--gen y's parents. It isn't so much that most of our peers are deciding between a) startup b) 'real' job but that there's another obvious option: c) wait a
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by jsackmann 19y ago
Ditto the recommendation on "How to Think..." ...a few years ago, I had no programming knowledge whatsoever, read about 1/3 of the book, and was already building useful stuff (to me, anyway).
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by jsackmann 19y ago
I did, too. Until seeing your comment, it didn't occur to me there was another way. I did think it was kind of obscure, though :).
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by jsackmann 19y ago
first post, perhaps the first time I actually have something to contribute :). There are two startup-ish things I do that are not websites, but are largely disseminated via the web: a) my main job is represented at gmatdaily.wordpress.com.