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by lincolnq 13y ago
Read The Motivation Hacker by Nick Winter. $2.99. I will personally guarantee you'll get a ton of value out of it. If you don't, I'll paypal you the cost of the book, just email me. http://www.amazon.com/The-M
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Interview with Brian Chesky (Airbnb) on mobile & sharing economy(theatlantic.com)
3 points by lincolnq 13y ago|0 comments
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by lincolnq 13y ago
Hey, I felt like an idiot for not finding it sooner when I discovered this. So maybe it helps you or someone : if you double tap the home button, then scroll the app dock left, there's a button to disable auto-rotation on your iPhone.
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by lincolnq 13y ago
This is false. The OS will auto close apps when it gets memory pressure from other apps. The "app tray" is an LRU & has nothing to do with whether the app is running. Our app (used once a day) gets restarted almost every day on old phon
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by lincolnq 13y ago
It's not clear to me that the more difficult-to-enforce laws are also the more tyrannical. Examples - tyrannical but easy to enforce: "private citizens must allow soldiers to stay in their houses and eat their food". Hard to enforce but not
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by lincolnq 14y ago
Julia is a huge step forward in practical programming languages. I was super impressed when I saw it at Strange Loop last year, and they've made strides since then.
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by lincolnq 14y ago
This is probably the wrong attitude towards founding startups. In general, you shouldn't unnecessarily risk the business -- but if people are throwing roadblocks in your way, lots of startups seem to generally do pretty well when they play
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by lincolnq 14y ago
I've wanted to actually try practicing mindfulness meditation for a long time. Maybe this will finally tip the balance.
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by lincolnq 14y ago
I think it's safe to keep bringing it up as long as issues keep existing. The culture IS changing, but slowly, and requires constant pressure.
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by lincolnq 14y ago
I love that the author was persistent enough to actually get to a solution -- any solution, no matter how ridiculous -- using nothing more than Google. I can't count how many times I've tried to help someone get started on the basics of the
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by lincolnq 14y ago
Watsi is doing great stuff. One related thing I would recommend, if you're interested in charity & philanthropy, is to check out GiveWell ( http://givewell.org ). They have very well-studied recommendations of charities, and they recomm
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by lincolnq 14y ago
It's obvious why they removed it. It was a weird feature that didn't belong in the browser. Users didn't understand what it was for. (I use RSS and I still didn't understand why I would ever click that button.)
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by lincolnq 14y ago
Convertible debt is the trendy way to finance seed-stage startups these days. It allows early investors to essentially "punt" on determining the true valuation of the company at an early stage, while still ensuring that they get a decent de
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by lincolnq 14y ago
Hope you got your $150 back. (You can probably get them to refund your money, or, failing that, issue a chargeback with your credit card)
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by lincolnq 14y ago
What about fresnel lenses? Maybe you could use a few to "straighten" the light from a nearby point source?
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by lincolnq 14y ago
God, Racket is awesome. If you have the energy (and it DOES take energy), go through them all and understand why they work. It's fun and it will teach you a surprising amount about programming languages. The thing I yearn for most day-to-da
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by lincolnq 14y ago
I don't love this refactor. I especially don't like how it generates names from other names -- e.g., given 'switch'/'submit', appends '_row', and then converts it to CamelCase so you get 'SwitchRow'/'SubmitRow', then instantiates the class
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by lincolnq 14y ago
Wow. This is shockingly good and easily actionable advice.
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by lincolnq 14y ago
OK, I'll bite. Your social error, leading to claims of sexism, was linking bad HR people and women. I believe you when you say that's what you've observed. But, whether you like it or not, it's not okay (in public, at least) to make stateme
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by lincolnq 14y ago
I had a friend who made $10,000 (off a $200k bankroll) in 2008 doing this exact form of arbitrage...
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by lincolnq 14y ago
Yes. Please come to NYC. I'll use it very often.
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by lincolnq 14y ago
If these guys got hacked, they could very easily harvest your bank and email passwords. I don't think so, because secure sites will use SSL, and your browser does certificate verification.
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by lincolnq 14y ago
Stamped was an awesome (and beautiful) product. Sad to see it go.
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by lincolnq 14y ago
Yay memory semantics! A classic case where this sort of problem bit Java in the ass: the "double-checked locking pattern" for initializing Singletons. http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/java/library/j-dcl/index.h... I'm not sure if this wa
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by lincolnq 14y ago
Just because you say it does not make it true. Social considerations are some of the most powerful forces. People considered me "weird" because I wasn't on Facebook for a long time. Eventually I re activated my account, because I was tired
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by lincolnq 14y ago
Great change. I'm glad Facebook is experimenting with features -- and I'm also glad that when the features turn out to be user-hostile, they have the power to remove them. I have always found the authenticated referrals, in particular, extr
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Zeo numbers for a week of polyphasic sleep (Everyman 3)(techhouse.org)
6 points by lincolnq 14y ago|0 comments
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by lincolnq 14y ago
Oh, interesting. I love the learning cycle. If I wasn't constantly learning new tools and tech then I would get really frustrated with my job.
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by lincolnq 14y ago
Way less awkwardness. You are in a relaxed environment with friends, and there's much less scrambling for things to talk about, because pretty much everyone can tell awesome stories about their friends. However, there is an increased level
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by lincolnq 14y ago
I've gone on several groupers in NYC and it's awesome. Much better way to meet people than any other dating site I've tried.

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