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by keven 18y ago
Similar to Aardvark, a Firefox extension
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by keven 18y ago
Was it worth it? For sure! No problem for few years except floating strings around my eyes (got used to it). Would I do it again? Probably not. I still have memory of the corneal suction ring coming slowing into my eye. At least the su
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HN: Brokerage for options trading?
1 points by keven 18y ago|3 comments
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by keven 18y ago
I agree. To join YC in summer '07, I moved with my wife and a set of two-year-old twins to Cambridge from Vancouver for four months. We had great memories of Cambridge and thought it was worth it.
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Merlin Mann on personal branding(twitter.com)
2 points by keven 18y ago|0 comments
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by keven 18y ago
Index fund is the way to go for many people. In fact, it is the suggestion William Sharpe gave to (pre-IPO) Google employees. http://www.sanfranmag.com/print/node/3368
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by keven 18y ago
Highly recommend Nassim Nicholas Taleb's Fooled by Randomness and The Black Swan. also http://www.gladwell.com/2002/2002_04_29_a_blowingup.htm
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by keven 18y ago
find a funny-sounding word from Dr. Seuss books and get back to the product.. worked for a few startups
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by keven 18y ago
Since I work on one laptop and can't turn wifi off (IM w/ distributed workmates), PG's trick doesn't apply to me. However I find simply separating work/fun applications has helped me work more efficiently and reduce distractions. For exampl
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[Mountain View/Vancouver] SocialPicks Looking for Developer who loves stock market
14 points by keven 19y ago
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by keven 19y ago
Most productive facebook app to get things done. Pass todos to friends and 'crack the whip' until they're done.
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by keven 19y ago
SocialPicks is incorporated in Delaware. To attend YC's SFP '07, I applied for a 4-month TN Visa at a port of entry (Vancouver airport) en route to Cambridge. More info can be found at http://travel.state.gov/visa/temp/types/types_1274.h
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by keven 19y ago
I wasn't aware of the search feature the Big Head Labs hacked together until recently. Unlike the work Jason has done, ycsearch.com has absolutely no technical achievements (on my part). I spent 30 minutes to put it together because I want
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by keven 19y ago
I put this together quickly to search yc sites with google cse and found it helpful after using it for a few weeks. In response to discussions at http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30912, I hope you will find it useful until pg implemen
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ycsearch.com(ycsearch.com)
14 points by keven 19y ago|11 comments
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Facebok apps are getting bought(venturebeat.com)
16 points by keven 19y ago|7 comments
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Damon Dash: After MySpace sold for $580 million, we said, damn, we gotta get us some of that.(blog.pmarca.com)
3 points by keven 19y ago|0 comments
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by keven 19y ago
Would you exchange 4 million new users in one month for decline in Alexa ranking? Hell yeah! iLike traffic actually shares the same exponential growth since all contents in their facebook app are served from their servers. Facebok does not
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by keven 19y ago
I'm gonna start selling some AAPL stocks
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Bill Gates Harvard Commencement Transcript(news.harvard.edu)
19 points by keven 19y ago|22 comments
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DHH: Scaling to multiple DBs with Rails(loudthinking.com)
9 points by keven 19y ago|10 comments
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Death of the desktop(almaer.com)
3 points by keven 19y ago|0 comments
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by keven 19y ago
From interview with Alexis: "Paul wanted to give Aaron Swartz, another YC founder, a birthday gift in November. More than anything else, Aaron wanted co-founder so Paul suggested the 'merger'. Merger is probably a bit hyperbolic for what ac
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Google TechTalk Showcase - Categorized collections of all tech talks(almaer.com)
2 points by keven 19y ago|0 comments
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by keven 19y ago
Thanks for the link. I have been enjoying working in a shared open-space work space in Vancouver http://abetterplacetowork.com and looking for something similar in Cambridge
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Coda: one-window web development for Mac(panic.com)
12 points by keven 19y ago|7 comments
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by keven 19y ago
The news came out after report that Microsoft sold only 244 copies of Vista in the whole of China in the first 2 weeks.
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Software by Microsoft Is Nearly Free for the Needy(nytimes.com)
1 points by keven 19y ago|1 comments
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by keven 19y ago
I think people that started newroo http://www.techcrunch.com/2006/02/03/newroos-real-time-news-aggregator/ are responsible of myspace news
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Lifehacker: Better Gmail (Firefox extension)(lifehacker.com)
1 points by keven 19y ago|0 comments

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