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by mrchess 15y ago
If I were a business I would OPT OUT of this immediatley. The only thing I can parallel this too is Googling your date before the first date. Going in knowing too much can often ruin the fun or the mystery of discovery. Sure it might save y
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by mrchess 15y ago
#12 hands down. Simple and clean is the new in. The rest are way too loud or busy.
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by mrchess 15y ago
No need to rush through it. I read an essay a day so that I could fully digest and reflect the lesson over the course of the day before going to the next.
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by mrchess 15y ago
OP should look at this thread. Relevant and very interesting about CS/EE salaries. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3141716
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by mrchess 15y ago
This book will never get dated. There are fundamental lessons here to be learned through these stories that will affect all facets of life. I am a believer that startups don't have to be hard or life consuming, and that organization and und
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by mrchess 15y ago
Ugh, I hate these "X looks like Y" articles. What it comes down to is they are both trying to display the same data (picture, username, message, etc), and honestly, there are only a few ways to logically present this information. Eventually
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by mrchess 15y ago
I meant useful or lifechanging as two seperate questions -- no correlation.
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by mrchess 15y ago
This is gonna sound stupid but I'm serious. Did you learn anything worthwhile from your investment? Any new useful "skill" or all just top level knowledge? Do you consider materials learned from Khan life changing?
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by mrchess 15y ago
Crash course on web apps for people of all skill levels, partitioned into nice snack-size lectures. This is a great resource. Nice find. EDIT: Correction. It seems some of the shorter lectures are simply incomplete. =/
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by mrchess 15y ago
I think you guys are using your imaginations a bit too much. From every Siri video I've seen, it just seems like a typical text-to-speech recognition and doesn't work nearly as good as advertised. Just look how many times it flops in this d
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by mrchess 15y ago
Pinterest has existed for many years as a sub-product of a website called Lime Life called MySnaps ( http://www.limelife.com/bookmarklet.html ). It is essentially the exact same thing as Pinterest except that MySnaps but is not a standalone
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by mrchess 15y ago
Consumers are starting to lose themselves in unecessary features. Do you really need any of this to use the Kindle Fire for what it was meant for -- a cheap portable book/game/movie viewer? To each his own, but I bought the new Kindle for t
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by mrchess 15y ago
Spine has been out for a while, been 0.0.x for a long time, just 1.0.0 came out today, and was heavily inspired by Backbone. It is essentially a lighter Backbone (no dependencies on underscore, no collections). I've extensivley used Spine i
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Spine 1.0.0 is out (Backbone alternative)(spinejs.com)
12 points by mrchess 15y ago|2 comments
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by mrchess 15y ago
Don't forget that cost of living is different per state so while you may make six-figures in the Valley, you could live the same lifestyles with less in other states. Check out this calculator: http://cgi.money.cnn.com/tools/costofliving/c
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by mrchess 15y ago
I think the Kindle light is a great idea. I just scooped one myself. I rarely used the keyboard on my original Kindle, plus this one is much slimmer and compact -- awesome. Can't wait for the light to come in. Personally I think a touchpad
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Ask HN: Did you get into YC even though you had already raised a round?
1 points by mrchess 15y ago|1 comments
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by mrchess 15y ago
OK! Well, check this out: http://onstartups.com/tabid/3339/bid/63010/Raising-Money-On-... If you can get 1 key investor or endorser, you're pretty much in. How do you get that key? Usually from networking in person, or by having stellar m
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by mrchess 15y ago
I feel like you haven't even done any research on AL at all. Have even opened it up in a browser or read a little about it? You say you want to go the "old fashioned" way through networking... well AL is networking -- it is a social-network
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by mrchess 15y ago
I stopped using Groupon because businesses [in MA] were becoming mean. In most of the food deals I cashed in on, once I mentioned I was using a Groupon, their faces would go sour and it would make me feel cheap... something about the entire
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Hurricane Irene Tracking Map(nytimes.com)
7 points by mrchess 15y ago|1 comments
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by mrchess 15y ago
fonts aren't working in chrome 13.0.782.112. you only see partial names and some are missing names completely. screen: http://i.imgur.com/mbrfe.jpg
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by mrchess 15y ago
I think you linked to the wrong post ;)
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by mrchess 15y ago
Is it really necessary to upvote every single article about this EJ incident? I think we all know by now...
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by mrchess 15y ago
FYI Click the fixed button in the top right of the window for the demo. Took me a while to catch that one.
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by mrchess 15y ago
My experience with G+ is a lot like Google Wave. It was fun for 20 minutes, then the novelty wore off and I found it cumbersome. For example Circles... my father has 3 e-mail addresses, and I need to add them ALL to the Family circle, thus
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by mrchess 15y ago
Same experience for me -- twice in two settings. 1) I used a Groupon at a korean restaurant in Cambridge, MA. When I went with my friend the waitress was delighted, but once I mentioned the Groupon her enthusiasm completely faded and she be
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by mrchess 15y ago
Just follow your heart, seriously. You only have one life so live it. If you are really that critical I would give them a month notice which is more than enough time to find a replacement. That is the best you can do. If you give them plent
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by mrchess 15y ago
I don't know why so many of you are looking for an official response from pg. Just because he invested in the company doesn't mean he can or will make statements on their behalf. Honestly pg just probably invested, said good luck, and just
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Ask HN: When you are getting acquired does documentation/code really matter?
6 points by mrchess 15y ago|4 comments

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