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by lquist 13y ago
Can someone explain what makes these different from "normal" ads?
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by lquist 13y ago
I wonder if this will temper the rise of the server-side JS frameworks?
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by lquist 13y ago
Most likely a result of the flaws of the Mercator projection ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mercator_projection#Mathematic... ).
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by lquist 13y ago
Surprised there wasn't greater discussion of the reservation quota, which it is widely agreed could single handedly fell the prestige/quality of the IITs.
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by lquist 13y ago
Looks great! Unfortunately after the RapGenius fiasco, I don't trust Heroku as a service provider.
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by lquist 13y ago
I have tentative plans at some point to make a product called something like Learn Enough Rails To Be Dangerous to fill this niche. The plan would be to cover just the basics of Rails, while largely omitting TDD. Awesome! I look forward t
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by lquist 13y ago
I find the Rails tutorial to be a terrible intro to Rails (unless if you're already a web dev, or a crack dev), but a fantastic intro to TDD with Rails . I recommend JumpStartLabs' Blogger tutorial as the best intro to Rails.
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by lquist 13y ago
2. Bill hourly. Bill weekly, or at the least daily.
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by lquist 13y ago
Um, doesn't thin margins mean generally mean the industry is mature and most things have been tried? No, it usually means it's a commodity business. Innovation can be a defensible competitive advantage. As mentioned in the artic
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by lquist 13y ago
Do they seek low-margin businesses? My take was that they looked for industries where they could comfortably price lower than anybody else. Case in point: tablets. Traditionally a fairly high margin business (on a unit basis), and Amazon co
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by lquist 13y ago
This quora answer seems particularly relevant here: http://qr.ae/pxLHv . tl;dr: The vast majority of "engineering" graduates in India are not worth the paper their degree is printed on.
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by lquist 13y ago
This thread is a great counterexample to the argument that HN always disses Show HNs. Constructive criticism: Overall, great work! A "new" way to listen to music on Youtube is not nearly descriptive enough. I don't want a new
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by lquist 13y ago
AFAIK this is how Stripe works as well. I don't care about not having to pay unemployment/benefits. The reason I like it (or rather, need it) is because our organization is little more than the employees we have, and I want to mak
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by lquist 13y ago
This should be the only way to hire. I've never hired anybody at my startup that I haven't worked closely with for at least a few months, and it seems sheer insanity to do otherwise.
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by lquist 13y ago
Maybe there's something wrong with me, but the video moves way too fast for me to process. Of course, making me feel stupid creates negative associations with the product.
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by lquist 13y ago
Perhaps this is a vote for design school? I've always found Exec's design to be terrifically underwhelming.
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by lquist 13y ago
This kind of argument is being made all across this thread so let me address it here. The Economist is advocating free public transportation ceteris paribus . They are not arguing that public transportation should be made free AND that the
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by lquist 13y ago
Hmm...interesting article. In SF, BART is pay-per-ride throughout the system, while MUNI is proof-of-payment in many locations. One thing that I've noticed is that there are significantly more homeless people on MUNI than on BART. As a
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by lquist 13y ago
Was on my ideas list as well! I think it's something that's just begging to be done. Good luck!
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by lquist 13y ago
Redbus is a fantastic company and a true example to Indian entrepreneurs. I remember being at a meeting with Phanindra Sama (the CEO) and when asked why he didn't ask bus operators to sign an exclusive agreement with him, he replied th
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by lquist 13y ago
Lidar (the technology mentioned in the article) is completely changing the field of archaeology. If you have access to the New Yorker, this article ( http://www.newyorker.com/reporting/2013/05/06/130506fa_
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by lquist 13y ago
America when will you be angelic? When will you take off your clothes? When will you look at yourself through the grave? When will you be worthy of your million Trotskyites? America why are your libraries full of tears?
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Robert W. Fogel dies at 86(nytimes.com)
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by lquist 13y ago
voluntary response data is flawed I agree, but I hesitate to call this worthless. I really don't mean to be rude, but that might just be because you don't understand statistics.
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by lquist 13y ago
Yeah, shame on the greedy realty vultures for charging what the market will bear. </sarcasm>
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by lquist 13y ago
My startup is by (most) accounts "succeeding", but it still is not something that I would eagerly do again. It's quite hard. That is to say, don't think it's all peaches and cream when you're making millions in profit and growing like a wee
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by lquist 13y ago
Simple: `git pull` = `git fetch` + `git merge` `git fetch` much more often used by those who use the rebase workflow (vs. the merge workflow).
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by lquist 13y ago
WF: What are your margins? FF: Approximately 50%. Gross, EBITDA or other? There's a world of difference.
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by lquist 13y ago
Blackmail. Pure and simple.
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by lquist 13y ago
How about the least-controversial and most common advice ever given: “Only hire A players.” Here’s when that doesn’t apply: When you can’t hire A players. Unless if your company is terrible, the problem will never be that you can't hire A

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