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by maxklein 16y ago
Your country.
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by maxklein 16y ago
On my recent trip to Africa, I avoided giving bribes at 3 different spots in the airport by doing the following: When they asked me for "something to have lunch with", I'd lower my voice and say "it's not possible now" then quickly glance a
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by maxklein 16y ago
I bet 80% of people reading that list are thinking: This describes me perfectly.
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by maxklein 16y ago
My guess would be: - People understand or think they understand Amazons business - Amazon has a history of few failures - Amazon is establishing a physical and technological infrastructure that a lot of other companies will build up on. It'
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by maxklein 16y ago
Let me tell you this - Django is one of the worst frameworks to hire people for. Difficult to find devs to maintain it and expensive. If you are outsourcing, go with PHP. Just like me, you'll regret going with a niche like python/django whe
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by maxklein 16y ago
That's harsh, man. So that's what my 3 years on hacker news boils down to, ya?
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by maxklein 16y ago
I don't think anything I ever did was wasted, because I never let it fully consume me and take away all my life. If you're out there having fun and enjoying yourself, even if one part fails you'll remember the rest. If all you had was your
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by maxklein 16y ago
Am I the only one who actually thinks that searches should be more thorough? Airplanes are instruments that people like to target, and I'd not be comfortable flying unless people are properly screened. It's scary enough with the possibility
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by maxklein 16y ago
Yes, I am. Was inside till a few days ago, but now outside, but with an established office in china.
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by maxklein 16y ago
That's official strategy to save traffic, I read somewhere once.
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by maxklein 16y ago
I have been wanting this for a while too. Google used to be like that back in early 2000s - tech stuff dominated the rankng. Now it's very mainstream stuff.
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by maxklein 16y ago
Microsoft may have had a closed environment, but they never had a controlled environment
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Goodluck Jonathan of Nigeria: The Facebook president(edition.cnn.com)
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by maxklein 16y ago
There are many status cars, just because a Hilux is one of them does not mean an Escalade or Land Cruiser is not. And cameroun is not "West Africa" according to the normal definition - it's central Africa. And I doubt that those American ca
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by maxklein 16y ago
The real question you should have researched more is why there is a high-rate of black people not showing their faces on twitter icons or "hiding" as you describe it. Do some interviews, I believe that will be a more interesting topic.
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by maxklein 16y ago
The Hilux is also used by many oil companies in Africa, making it a status symbol, and so often purchased by people who have money/power and want to show off a bit. So it's not just practical reasons, the Hilux is a status car. It's also th
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by maxklein 16y ago
The U.S has a population density of 32/km^2 which is only slightly higher than the population density of Africa, which is 30/km^2. That's why both the U.S and Africa seem spacious, with lots of empty space between places.
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by maxklein 16y ago
I'm not THAT good. I'm not a salesman, I never made so many sales. All I know is what causes you to lose sales. The process is like this: 1. Approach your customer with a solution to a problem he has. Focus in the start ONLY to get him to r
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by maxklein 16y ago
It took me through many years of my student life with an enough-to-survive income (like $2000 a month). I never tried to expand hard beyond this, because that was enough for me. So I'm no whiz marketer, just aware of the different things I
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by maxklein 16y ago
You have a B2B product. Business rarely look for new stuff, you have to shove it down their throat. So just search for about 100 physiotherapy stations near to you and then email them a short email, asking them if you can actually email the
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by maxklein 16y ago
I recently spoke to devs who are in the microsoft program. They say Windows Mobile 7 launch is premature. The documentation is not complete and many things are not at all described and have to be asked to a marketing person, who asks a tech
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by maxklein 16y ago
The document is 3 years old and posted on scribd, maybe it's not a "social hack" but just something I felt at the time.
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by maxklein 16y ago
I wrote it, but back in 2007 (look at the timestamp on scribd). A long time ago, and I had other priorities. Post has already been discussed and dissected and emailed about back then.
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by maxklein 16y ago
Maybe you're just a bit lazy and somehow justifying it to yourself with some complicated theory. Spend time doing the mentally difficult tasks and stop being lazy.
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by maxklein 16y ago
I believe in the future it will seem ridiculous that people from many countries are prevented from traveling to some other richer countries, while the people from the rich countries can freely move about as they please.
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by maxklein 16y ago
What about combining the first and the last - wrap an idea in a discussion about people? Like in the book Sophies World: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sophie's_World
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by maxklein 16y ago
What's wrong with having a few cities like this? If you had clean, organized cities through the country, life would be boring and the visuals would be monotonous. Broken down buildings are history. A country should not be made up of suburba
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by maxklein 16y ago
I absolutely agree. Most people are not interested in developer tools or productivity tools, they just want TV quality stuff. Unfortunately, there is little software supplying this to them.
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by maxklein 16y ago
Yahoo is still the 3rd most popular site in the world. It's not failing by far. So I would not go in there thinking the company is failing: http://www.google.com/adplanner/static/top1000/
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by maxklein 16y ago
Don't write to get things off your chest, write to entertain the people you want reading your stuff. It's like a book - you write to entertain or educate others, not yourself.

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