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WolframAlpha is the web's most handy nutrition site(wolframalpha.com)
10 points by mpc 16y ago|2 comments
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How I Found a Co-Founder, Built a Prototype, and Raised $5M in Less Than 4 Weeks(brianbalfour.com)
101 points by mpc 16y ago|21 comments
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by mpc 16y ago
Perhaps. Although even the experts don't fully understand ADHD. Most people don't know where they fall on the ADHD spectrum. Maybe that's one of the reasons why there's such a mixed opinion on whether caffeine is good or bad when it comes t
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by mpc 16y ago
ADHD is often resolved paradoxically with stimulants. For me, caffeine is a natural alternative to ADHD medication. A small amount of coffee, twice a day, allows me to focus intensely. Folks with ADHD aside...optimizing caffeine intake seem
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by mpc 16y ago
"Draper wrote EasyWriter, the first word processor for the Apple II, in 1979. According to The Wall Street Journal, he hand-wrote the code while serving nights in the Alameda County Jail, then entered the code later into a computer." Amazin
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How should equity be allocated to employees in acquisition-oriented companies?(quora.com)
1 points by mpc 16y ago|0 comments
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by mpc 16y ago
re #2...where do you see the music being sourced from? Allowing listens on shared music via user uploads would be a legal nightmare and the major APIs only provide 30 second clips.
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by mpc 16y ago
What if your product is Foursquare or Twitter? There are obvious business models down the road but only until you achieve massive adoption. I think the question to potential users is "Would you use this everyday?". This is more important th
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Facebook ditches virtual gifting(techcrunch.com)
1 points by mpc 16y ago|0 comments
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by mpc 16y ago
You're not hurting with that salary and look to the right... 2% of a company for a hacker at the seed stage is amazing.
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by mpc 17y ago
really? what's wrong with it?
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by mpc 17y ago
Does this new rating system imply that you can sell the company once you hit Ruth's Chris profitable? :-)
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Spark Capital: Why We Think Education is Ripe for Innovation(startatspark.tumblr.com)
10 points by mpc 17y ago|2 comments
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by mpc 17y ago
Desperation? I can understand not applying because you're morally apposed to pron or something, but if you look past the video content it's actually a pretty interesting gig for web hackers. millions of page views, tons of data and metrics
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by mpc 17y ago
http://jobmigo.com I think this is a good idea (had something similar floating around in my head) and it looks like you guys have executed really well. - There is a number (most always 1) next to each post title, it's not totally obvious
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by mpc 18y ago
I'd love to learn more about how convertible debt (like this) works for early stage tech startups.
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Conduit Labs launches LoudCrowd...virtual world meets online music community(techcrunch.com)
1 points by mpc 18y ago|0 comments
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by mpc 18y ago
A summary of that would be great.... I know that Apple pushed WebObjects to the back burner when they acquired NeXT in the mid 90s but I'm not sure why it would be bad for them to buy 280 North today.
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by mpc 18y ago
How is it that they have a monopoly on Search and Cloud Computing exactly?
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by mpc 18y ago
I've never written a FB app but aside from getting some of facebook's canned ui components, why would one use FBML and FBJS? It seems better to just run your whole app in an iframe and just use html/css/jquery and have complete control whil
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by mpc 18y ago
jQuery. Rails.
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by mpc 18y ago
I need to speak up for my local restaurants in the areas you just mentioned....Great spots in Arlington where I live, not as many options as the squares in Cambridge but there's some great eats.
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by mpc 18y ago
Any idea why it's "so much cheaper"
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In A Down Economy, Startups Rise From Coworking (sedanofmammals.com)
1 points by mpc 18y ago|0 comments
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by mpc 18y ago
How about digital goods/gifts? Similar to what facebook and other gaming sites have done...virtual trophies, awards, etc. that users can display in a 'giftbox' within their profiles. If your site has enough traffic and is socially 'interact
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by mpc 18y ago
I can also confirm that
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by mpc 18y ago
Same here. I've had one...yes it's a good chair, but I don't understand the price difference between my chair and the aeron. Our chairs were 30 dollars each and we got them used, Saved 10s of thousands.
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by mpc 18y ago
A site like Facebook would be impossible with just 10-15 people. Designing, implementing, and managing something on that scale is an insane amount of work. It probably takes a dozen ops/monitoring people just to keep the thing running.
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by mpc 18y ago
I don't understand. I was actually writing server-side javascript before taking a break to read this site
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Ask Entrepreneurs: Obama and capital gains tax increases
1 points by mpc 18y ago|8 comments

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