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by jyu 12y ago
Could you please link the study you are citing from? I'd be curious how it'd look after being equity adjusted. This article looks at only founding teams which get the vast majority of equity. The study found that while less than
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by jyu 12y ago
Hackathon winners are dominated by polished design and clever presentations. Working code is often an afterthought let alone readable, maintainable, scalable code with proper test coverage. I highly doubt you'd find Linus Torvalds, DHH
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by jyu 12y ago
I'm a US citizen and I've had this issue in the past. There are banks that issue debit and credit cards that refund ATM and do not charge foreign exchange fees. IIRC Charles Schwab checking, USAA, Citibank, Chase, HSBC offer these
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by jyu 12y ago
If you've been doing digital marketing for 8 years and are pretty damn good at it, I'm surprised that you're having trouble paying for a coder. Digital marketing is typically closer to sales and revenues. The effect your work
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by jyu 12y ago
Make / Cancel reservation buttons for investment don't seem to do anything (Safari 7.0.3).
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by jyu 12y ago
Take my advice with a grain of salt as I play armchair analyst. Structurally, you're in a race for eyeballs and burning cash along the way. Sites like these can not be monetized easily until you have rapid growth and a large, active us
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by jyu 12y ago
I fed the custom hn.algolia.com search to something that made it into an RSS feed. So if I wanted to get an RSS feed of all of pg's comments, you could use this as the source link: http://hn.algolia.com/#!/story&#x
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by jyu 12y ago
I use RSS for nearly everything. RSS allows you to avoid the fear of missing great stories or content due to timing, groupthink flagging, etc. You can also follow individual user comments with RSS with some quick mods. An added bonus is tha
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by jyu 12y ago
That is a fairly surprising opportunity. I have experience monitoring/scraping thousands government websites for a different purpose. Considering some government sites have a round trip of well over 5 seconds, seems like it'd be a
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by jyu 12y ago
That's very interesting. Those are are walls of a cubicle right? Anecdotally cubes seem to be falling out of style. Did you get a chance to see the negotiation process for either buying or selling the cubes? Seems like negotiations wou
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Ask HN: What happens to Failed Startup furniture?
7 points by jyu 12y ago|5 comments
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by jyu 12y ago
Or it could end up being more like cereal. Yet, in other fields—like cereals, for example—almost all the big boys make out. If you're some kind of a medium grade cereal maker, you might make 15% on your capital. And if you're rea
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by jyu 12y ago
The numbers don't add up. To make $125,000 in a 12 day period, you're making $12,500 / day average. Assuming you're receiving average $1CPM that means 12.5 million pageviews / day. $1CPM seems pretty hard to do on s
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by jyu 12y ago
Alibaba buys Overstock
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by jyu 12y ago
He used to keep a blog on what it's like to work at Google from 2005-2007. In lieu of his response, it might suffice. The archive is available below: http://blog.rongarret.info/2009/12/xooglers-rises-from-
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Beautiful Illusions: The Economics of uberX(justin-singer.org)
1 points by jyu 12y ago|0 comments
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by jyu 12y ago
Now what happens when you are working with one other person using only local history support? What about ten people? What if someone is a bozo programmer and screws up your code accidentally?
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by jyu 12y ago
So is someone loudly hawking their wares to everyone on the street. However, Louis Vuitton's hands off approach gets much higher LTV from its clientele.
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by jyu 12y ago
Why would you not use something like modified OPLOP? https://github.com/brettcannon/oplop You generate lots of passwords from one secure password. This way you can replicate it across password managers, and have a back
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by jyu 12y ago
I too yearn for the 32-64GB Mac laptop. Usually I'm in front of an iMac, spinning up AWS instances for parallelizable and time insensitive tasks. What kind of setup do you typically use?
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by jyu 12y ago
Pyramid is a more likely candidate.
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(Dropbox) Web vulnerability affecting shared links(blog.dropbox.com)
2 points by jyu 12y ago|0 comments
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by jyu 12y ago
Focus on more sales.
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by jyu 13y ago
People with no idea of how to run ad campaigns should not be bad mouthing X ad platform. There are so many ways this post is wrong. First, a .4% CTR for a newsfeed ad sucks. That means either your demo targeting sucks, or your ad sucks, or
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by jyu 13y ago
Really wacky idea - Encrypt the message with another image. Why would anyone want this? To get a secret message without leaking as much metadata as email. Instead of sending a 1 on 1 message to a specific email address, you're publishi
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Ask HN: Feynman Video Collection?
4 points by jyu 13y ago|2 comments
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by jyu 13y ago
When the announcement to shut down HNSearch was made nearly 40 days ago, I thought Algolia would have ample time to catch up. It was lacking back then, and there was plenty of feedback for them to work with. With the hard cutoff date nearin
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Suggest HN: Please keep hnsearch.com up
20 points by jyu 13y ago|14 comments
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by jyu 13y ago
I'm a bit fuzzy on the details, but this is my recollection of Buttercoin's history. Please reply with corrections, and I'll edit. Mtgox crash about 1 year ago, when their trade engine could not keep up with the large number
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by jyu 13y ago
I use mint, personalcapital, and a spreadsheet. You may want to checkout the financial independence subreddit for a deeper dive on the topics of personal finance and budgets: http://www.reddit.com/r/financialindependenc

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