mishmax

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Ask HN: What happened to thefeelgood.com?
4 points by mishmax 18y ago|2 comments
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Extreme Makeover: Computer Science Edition(zunavision.stanford.edu)
36 points by mishmax 18y ago|6 comments
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by mishmax 18y ago
I use a combination of Stickies on OSX and sending emails to myself in GMail.
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Business: It's Not Really About the Money(personalmba.com)
1 points by mishmax 18y ago|0 comments
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by mishmax 18y ago
I don't get what's unique about this. splashup.com and picnik have similar services.
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Ask YC: Virtual Phone System for my Startup
1 points by mishmax 18y ago|3 comments
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by mishmax 18y ago
And that's why I bought Apple today!
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Islamic finance rides the storm(business.smh.com.au)
4 points by mishmax 18y ago|0 comments
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by mishmax 18y ago
Amazon is insanely paranoid about running A/B tests on its front page and optimizing it for the bottom line. And what do they find? This "cluttered" design makes people buy more stuff. It's hard to argue with $$ numbers.
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by mishmax 18y ago
Where is Saudi Arabia on this chart? SA is both wealthy and religious. It seems like another outlier. And where does Israel fall? Maybe there's some selection bias in the data shown.
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by mishmax 18y ago
"just duck duck it" sounds marketable to me. similar to "just google it"
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by mishmax 18y ago
I've been in this situation for six months or so and it worked well for me. My best advice is to surround yourself with people who are excited about your product and can give you feedback. In my case, I had a customer who was very excited a
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by mishmax 18y ago
Fez, Morocco -- I believe the UN marked it as the oldest intact and thriving medieval city in the world.
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by mishmax 18y ago
I hear ya. I don't drink either.
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by mishmax 18y ago
I have flashblock installed (Firefox 2), and when the site first loads up the flash box is offscreen on the right. I had to scroll to the right, press "play", and then the box went to the right location.
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by mishmax 18y ago
I had a similar experience at Amazon.com. I was at an internal conference brainstorming "the next big thing" at Amazon. Google's perks were brought up constantly as needed for retaining employees. Jeff Bezos responded that the reason Google
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by mishmax 18y ago
It seems like I'm a little slow today, because I don't get it. I can buy DRM-free music from Amazon and play it on my iPod, so what's the problem? How is the music industry stopping people from buying iPods and forcing them to buy devices w
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Hacking Fruit Flies: Flies get 'mind-control sex swap' (news.bbc.co.uk)
3 points by mishmax 18y ago|0 comments
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by mishmax 18y ago
"What do you look for in entrepreneurs? First and foremost, they need to be magnets. For talent. For money. For attention. And for much more." Do you guys think that hackers actually have this "magnet" quality?