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Join the Virtual Dogeparty(dogeparty.org)
2 points by jyu 13y ago|0 comments
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by jyu 13y ago
YMMV. The rails codebase I work on is over 5 years old, and is pretty ram intensive. Upgrading to 8 gb made everything ridiculously snappier.
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Ask HN: Google Groups Message Exporter?
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by jyu 13y ago
I haven't seen this idea anywhere, but it'd be great if Namecoin hindered domain squatters. One way you could hinder them is geometrically increasing cost of registering additional domains from existing accounts. Examples: - Adam
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by jyu 13y ago
If you had a blackbox, where for every $1 you put inserted, you got out $1.25, how much money would you try to put in? A tuned online advertising campaign does exactly that for advertisers. Google and Facebook harvest even more granular dat
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by jyu 13y ago
The Devil Take the Hindmost http://www.amazon.com/Devil-Take-Hindmost-Financial-Speculat...
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Ask HN: Where to work in Chicago tomorrow?
1 points by jyu 13y ago|1 comments
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by jyu 13y ago
Bubble talk and high valuations comes up every month or so. pud's comment sums it up nicely: Generally, being profitable precludes a company from getting "silly [high] valuations" & buzz in Silicon Valley. Unless they&#x2
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by jyu 13y ago
The ones whose benefits are backed up by large bodies of evidence. http://examine.com/supplements/Vitamin+D/ http://examine.com/supplements/Fish+Oil/
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by jyu 13y ago
Holy moly. Sending unsolicited marketing emails is the very reason CAN-SPAM came about. The fines for violations would crush most early stage startups. If you are going to continue further with email, please read up on CAN-SPAM, inboxing, S
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by jyu 13y ago
Momentum of arms swinging upward. To see correct jumping form, look at proper volleyball spiking technique.
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by jyu 13y ago
This post seems very relevant: http://www.paulgraham.com/selfindulgence.html Basically people with money don't become poor through extravagant spending. Most of the time it's through "investments" that t
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by jyu 13y ago
vim works on any Linux server you need to ssh into. It will probably work for any new upcoming languages unless the programming paradigm changes drastically.
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by jyu 13y ago
Have you tried the pry gem? It gets you 90% there and is a useful interactive repl for things outside of iterators.
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by jyu 13y ago
Obligatory mention of Elaine Wherry's recruiter posts: http://www.ewherry.com/2012/06/the-recruiter-honeypot/ http://www.ewherry.com/2012/08/the-best-recruiters-followup/
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by jyu 13y ago
Pick the right tools for the job. If you're doing an MVP web app, NodeJS, Rails, PHP, Django, ColdFusion (N other frameworks here) will all get it done. Yes, I said ColdFusion. That thing that was hot the 90's. This post reminds m
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by jyu 13y ago
Did I miss something? BitWall sits on top of Coinbase. Coinbase right now eats transaction fees (or if it is Coinbase 2 Coinbase, then it's just an "in the network" transaction that possibly does not need to hit the bitcoin n
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by jyu 13y ago
There's a lot of backstory that can not be adequately covered in a blog post. If you're interested in reading further, I highly suggest watching "The Untouchables," a PBS Frontline documentary following Wall Street execu
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This reminds me of the fake IQ quiz games, where if you take the test, you fail.
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Weather widget on android is really nice, and requires 0-clicks.
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When anyone makes unverifiable marketing claims in an area that you don't know much about, you're probably getting taken. There are so many ways to get taken advantage of by introducing an affiliate program too early. I think you
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by jyu 13y ago
Soylent is quickly becoming a great case study on marketing and human behavior. These guys have definitely hit on something people want. However, I do not have confidence that this team can deliver on Soylent's promises. There are many
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by jyu 13y ago
This snippet from that thread is particularly enlightening if true. When I told him months ago that his product was incredibly stupid and he didn't have enough stuff in there to be a healthy alternative to eating, he pretty much ignor
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by jyu 13y ago
If you aren't experienced / competent, and you try to outsource it, you're going to get taken. In this case it was marketing, but you could easily be talking about outsourced development, buying a car, seeing a new dentist, e
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by jyu 13y ago
I volunteered at a hotline, answering phones for a year. Due to the nature and potential consequences of the work, we were trained pretty thoroughly over the course of 3 months before talking to any real callers. During my conversations, I
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Is the Future of Food in Tokyo?(blogs.wsj.com)
13 points by jyu 13y ago|3 comments
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White House braced for Congress vote on amendment to limit NSA collection(guardian.co.uk)
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by jyu 13y ago
The point is, if you list your garage space, there's a good chance it will get leased. 4984 is one of your site's metrics that can help convince people to take action.
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It sounds like you need a programming mentor or peers. Someone that can help you think through the hard parts, and possibly lend some of their experience. If possible, go to programming meetups where you do not just meet other programmers,
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Thanks for the recommendations of Costco and fleet sales departments. Those are what I would use for my next car. I tried Carwoo for my parents buying a new car. Since it was an all cash deal, and they were shopping for a new car, the cars

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