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by lquist 14y ago
Rap Genius seems decidedly social...
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by lquist 14y ago
The same criticism applies: attempts to solve the problems (e.g., medical) of poverty in non-scalable ways are futile at best.
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by lquist 14y ago
What's with all the hype around Watsi? A non profit oriented approach to poverty is doomed to forever be nothing more than a vanity exercise. The scale of resources needed to attack the problems of poverty can only come from two places: gov
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by lquist 14y ago
A 10x profit multiple on companies at the average growth stage that Shark Tank companies are at is insanely low. I've always felt that the entrepreneurs who take a deal are completely screwed. The smart ones take the huge publicity jump fro
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Ask HN: What happened to Chris Pine's "Learn to Program" site?
2 points by lquist 14y ago|0 comments
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by lquist 14y ago
Is it just me or does everyone involved in a twitter argument ever look like a moron?
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by lquist 14y ago
So now YC is literally funding coupon books? Why do people aim so low?
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by lquist 14y ago
What do you mean by "lightweight"?
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by lquist 14y ago
New products can only created by those who have the toolsets to create them.
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Why you and I suck at gay 'dating'(idsnews.com)
1 points by lquist 14y ago|0 comments
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by lquist 14y ago
Heroku implements this change in mid-2010, then sells to Salesforce six months later. Hmm...wondering how this impacted revenue numbers as customers had to scale up dynos following the change...
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by lquist 14y ago
How does this compare to EngineYard/AppFog/any other Heroku competitors?
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Ask HN: SF developer burden rate @ $100k?
13 points by lquist 14y ago|5 comments
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by lquist 14y ago
"java or c#...are also syntactically much easier [than Ruby] for newbies." Wait, what?
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by lquist 14y ago
The great thing about Rails (and Django) was that it was born in the wild. It was built in the process of solving a real world problem, and generalized/abstracted from there. Meteor lacks that type of genesis, and I wonder if that's importa
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by lquist 14y ago
'Since the web is viewed in a browser, we believe it should be built in one too.' Wait, why?
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Name your website(namethatthang.com)
1 points by lquist 14y ago|0 comments
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by lquist 14y ago
Technical recruiter here. Just talked to VMWare recruiters that were interested in hiring as of last week. Doesn't mean that the story isn't true; just thought that I'd share.
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Luddites: Rage Against the Machine(thesmartset.com)
28 points by lquist 14y ago|15 comments
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Petrichor(en.wikipedia.org)
5 points by lquist 14y ago|0 comments
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by lquist 14y ago
If there's a github repo attached to this, I'd love to contribute.
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Harvard's Hitler Club(thecrimson.com)
1 points by lquist 14y ago|0 comments
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by lquist 14y ago
Hmm... "You could quit now and run from savings for about 1 year (16 months)"
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Things not to say to a graduate student(jbdeaton.com)
47 points by lquist 14y ago|49 comments
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by lquist 14y ago
I heard that this tool was not well received at Google; anybody else hear this?
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by lquist 14y ago
Incidentally, even outside of the movie business, never take net points on anything , for exactly this reason.
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by lquist 14y ago
For those that are unaware, parent is referring to the "Double Irish" strategy ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Double_Irish_arrangement ).
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by lquist 14y ago
Exactly. It's kind of embarrassing how much of the profit pool Apple has. This article ( http://tech.fortune.cnn.com/2012/05/03/with-8-8-market-share... ), though a bit outdated, show how insanely lopsided this market is: Apple has 8.8% of
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by lquist 14y ago
Rails newbie here: Can someone explain how ActionController::Live compares to websockets and other similar technologies? Pros + Cons + if my comparison is even sensible?
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by lquist 14y ago
I notice that you don't have a client-side framework (e.g., backbone) listed under "The Program". Is this just an omission or something that you have consciously done? Good luck with your course!

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