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by loumf 13y ago
BJ Fogg's Tiny Habits. Essentially: 1. Pick a trigger -- something you already will definitely do at the rate of the new habit. 2. Find a version of the habit that takes no cognitive load and can be done in less than a minute. 3. Cele
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very commonly used.
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The differences between Clojure and ClojureScript are mostly because of the underlying runtime (JS vs. JVM). There are projects like cljx that let you hide that difference. If "mobile" means "Android", then I think you
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I think it's "AND" not "INSTEAD OF" that he's targetting. There are many things where putting more time in productively will help you get better. Similarly, wide ranges of experience need time. At 22, the fact
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This is pretty dangerous. If you do it at scale, you get noticed by google and getting noticed isn't a good thing.
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The downside, for me, is that I very consciously enable tracking this way for mailings where I want my reads tracked. When you actually want to be marketed to, it makes it easier for the sender to tailor their content -- and I do for some m
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I'm pretty sure the strike has to be greater than or equal (out-of-the-money) or there are tax implications. So, they would need to tell you (I AM NOT AN ACCOUNTANT) Not that an at-the-money option has no value -- but I think for tax
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I guess it depends on whether we think the underlying ability is a skill with long-term, differentiated levels. If so, even after factoring out reversion, we could still find that there is a consistent ranking. For managed mutual funds, I
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Clickable: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/1VGgNA7lUKZl3Anl0AVqfMzG8R7n...
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Ask HN: Help with survey about programmer job switches ($5 to charity for each)
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The term is used for candidate generated interviews with whoever they can get them with (usually through their network). It's often used to generate a position or to be top-of-mind by a set of companies when they open a position. It&
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Of course I would -- it's hard to find people. Some companies give referral bonuses to incent their employees to recruit on their behalf. If the idea is to get "inside information", I think it will fail (or at least, hope it
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Starting off a relationship with a series of lies (even small ones) isn't a good idea. If you are actually trying to use the product, great -- if not, there are plenty of truthful openings.
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This is commonly called an "informational interview". I don't get how applying for a job makes you seem needy, though. If there's actually a job opening and you are qualified for it, then why not apply? I think of info
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by loumf 13y ago
Let's say you were a founder at a company that is "always hiring" the kind of person you might find on HN? How much would be enough?
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In 1995 it would have made no sense to develop a commercial desktop app for anything other than Windows. If you didn't make Windows apps at the time, it probably seemed really complicated. It really wasn't. Most of the issues we
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They pre-announce things that have no chance of cannabalizing things they care about. The Mac Pro announcement is probably meant to slow sales of Wintel pro boxes. The current Mac Pro line is already way out of date.
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Canada has 1/10th the population of the US. I'm not saying the country is on par with the US, but it's not crazy to think that there's a Canadian company with expertise in government healthcare software. I wouldn't
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OpenText is a web pioneer that went a different route to search engine monetization. We can nitpick on exactly how successful they are, but they are undoubtedly big and a website company http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ope
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by loumf 13y ago
I am a product development manager at an enterprise company. This is just an opinion based on what I see. I don't have this issue exactly, but maintenance schedules of non-saas software is much harder to manage, budget, purchase, etc.
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by loumf 13y ago
I run product development for a toolkit company that exited to a public company in 2011. Our .NET and Java toolkits sustain a 25 person division with healthy margins and decent growth. The keys have been: * make something valuable and charg
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The October 12, 2013 one is Cooper Union student activism to make it look like Peter Cooper. They added a confessor painting of the Cooper Union president in the next "window" http://studentactivism.net/2013/
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I don't have a problem that this solves. I don't consider tweets to be important data -- the value of a tweet goes to near 0 after 24-hours. Problems I do have 1. Noise to signal ratio in reading tweets 2. Having ideas for what
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by loumf 13y ago
Another -- also "never going to happen" solution is to just grow the House. It used to grow with population and then we stopped. If districts were smaller, it would be easier to make them less gerrymandered and pseudo-proportion
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Rather than just drawing lines, the areas should be built up from the census blocks (or some similar thing -- zipcodes, e.g.). It should also try to keep entire small towns together. This would tend to make areas that make more sense. The
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This is not an investment of $1.5 billion -- it's a stock purchase. The money goes to the sellers, not the company.
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If everyone of us decided to live like any one of us, it would be a disaster. The world works because we have diversity of jobs, lifestyles, etc. He is obviously an outlier case that we don't seriously need to worry will be emulated i
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Almost all of my donations goes to local non-profits that my wife or I are on the board of or where I intimately know the organization's board, staff, and mission. I also usually support money raising efforts of friends for small amou
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The difference between a company and a Ponzi scheme is that the company is actually creating some value. It is converting capital into resources, priorities and processes that generate more capital than it gets. At some point it can'
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"The Tumblr name and mark is fanciful" -- but, we use C&D letter templates we downloaded off of the internet. They did need to send some kind of request (or risk losing their trademark), but could have done much better.

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