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by klochner 16y ago
Typically a good strategy is to solve a simplified version and generalize. In this case, assume only 1 card is face up. Take a single card from the deck: - if it was face up & you flip it, both have zero - if it was face down &
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by klochner 16y ago
Was I the only person that wondered when cooking stories became news for hackers?
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by klochner 16y ago
For my dev machine I have "user@host:path" in the titlebar of the window and just path as my user prompt. For remote servers I keep user@host in the prompt, so absence of user@host is an implicit me@mymachine
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by klochner 16y ago
I loved the book, but don't remember that being one of the points.
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by klochner 16y ago
several? Last I heard it was somewhere around 70.
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by klochner 16y ago
We're saying the same thing, just disagreeing on whether it constitutes similarity.
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by klochner 16y ago
It's easier to maintain those hours if you have a significant equity stake. The equation doesn't add up when your primary compensation is salary (later hires).
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by klochner 16y ago
I'm not saying it has no value, just that personally I've decided the daily deal isn't valuable enough to distract my attention every day.
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by klochner 16y ago
That's the wrong question to ask: Would I want a deal from my favorite restaurant? Yes. Do I want to evaluate the deal every day to figure out if it's worth buying? No
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by klochner 16y ago
My post was from February. I saw the other two posts at the top of HN and figured today had a receptive crowd for groupon-unfriendly posts :)
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by klochner 16y ago
Thanks - I put in an edit on the blog post.
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by klochner 16y ago
The business model is to offer one deal per day, getting eyeballs on the deal via a massive opt-in mailing list. They're only really different in that Woot is for tangible goods and Groupon is for local services.
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by klochner 16y ago
I tried to be fair in pointing out that Groupon issued a no-hassle refund. It was one of the easier refunds I've ever received. With respect to my own calculations, it's asking a lot (or at least asking something new) of the user to vet the
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My First (and last) Groupon Experience(kevinlochner.com)
33 points by klochner 16y ago|26 comments
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by klochner 16y ago
How much time do you spend preventing sniper attacks? (#2)
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Ask HN: Where to find Interaction Consultants in the Bay Area
1 points by klochner 16y ago|0 comments
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by klochner 16y ago
one of my pet peeves . . . http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1603891 http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1603799
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McClure's 500startups invests in zozi $3M series A(techcrunch.com)
1 points by klochner 16y ago|0 comments
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by klochner 16y ago
Actually, "face book" is the term used for a book containing photos/blurbs of all incoming freshmen, handed out to the Freshman class each year at many universities (including Harvard, naturally).
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by klochner 16y ago
that reminds me of the quote: "when all you have is a hammer, everything looks like a nail" you want your co-founder to choose the best language/tech stack for the job. A c++ developer is fine for a web-app if he's smart and is ope
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by klochner 16y ago
Their approach can work, it's just a matter of whether you can find product/market fit before the money runs out. If you contract out the development you're screwed when you can no longer pay them. We may be the exception, but I came on as
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by klochner 16y ago
At first glance this looks like a great bridge between engineering and marketing/ops/biz-dev: I can pull all these stats pretty easily from the console, but would much prefer if I weren't part of the process.
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by klochner 16y ago
It sounds like git-flow removes some hassle, can anyone answer the question about adding git-flow to an existing repo?
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by klochner 16y ago
I develop in master sometimes, but only check in small edits that are pushed immediately. If my edits grow to the point that I need to write tests or push to staging, I just checkout a feature branch before committing.
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by klochner 16y ago
touché
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by klochner 16y ago
formal logic isn't something you're supposed to get "hand-wavey" with, especially if you're trying to show off your geek-cred. and I found it happily ironic that he preceded the statement with "i think we can all agree"
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by klochner 16y ago
"we can all agree that . . . ???" ¬(¬MY_PEEPS ⇒ ¬SKILLZ) ∧ ¬(¬SKILLZ ⇒ ¬SOFTWARE) # original formula ¬(SKILLZ ⇒ MY_PEEPS ∨ SOFTWARE ⇒ SKILLZ) # De Morgan ¬(¬SKILLZ ∨ MY_PEEPS ∨ ¬SOFTWARE ∨ SKILLZ) # (a⇒b) ↔ (¬a∨b)
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by klochner 16y ago
The author is begging the question, rather than creating a false dilemma. Begging the question: the premise assumes the conclusion, e.g., "that's illegal because it's against the law". False dilemma: you present two possible options as t
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by klochner 16y ago
Then you should explain how you're drawing your conclusions. What I'd like to see in the post (and is missing): - what motivated this "mini-research" - how you verified that the problem exists - how you got to the cause of this prob
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by klochner 16y ago
Actually, you do need either hard data or some kind of logical argument to prove a point. The author of this post makes an assertion (smart people can't solve their own problems), but never proves that assertion, nor does he give any re

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