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by mrduncan 17y ago
I'm not sure who is correct but Wikipedia lists the anniversary on November 10th (in a couple of places) - I wonder if Google is a little bit ahead on this one. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sesame_Street
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by mrduncan 17y ago
I've never personally used it, but I've heard really good things about ZenDesk ( http://www.zendesk.com/ ).
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by mrduncan 17y ago
Happy Birthday Trevor! Fun fact, you share a birthday with Matthew McConaughey and Puff Daddy - http://www.celebrity-link.com/birthday_day-4_month-11.html
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by mrduncan 17y ago
And, most of all, because it's persistent. Just a slight caution, since Redis stores it's data in memory and asynchronously writes out to disk it is possible to lose small amounts of data in a crash. In most cases this is an acceptable t
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Introducing Resque(github.com)
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Thinking negatively can boost your memory, study finds(news.yahoo.com)
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Crisis Compels Economists To Reach for New Paradigm (online.wsj.com)
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by mrduncan 17y ago
Just took a quick look at the plan selection page, I noticed the following: - The numbers for the basic and premium plans seem to fade into the background and are hard to read. - The "Serious" name for the plan was a little off-putting for
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by mrduncan 17y ago
Fun story regarding the UTC abbreviation: English speakers wanted it to be CUT (coordinated universal time), while French speakers wanted TUC (temps universel coordonné). They compromised on UTC. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coordinated_
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by mrduncan 17y ago
Maybe so. I agree with what you're saying, but even Buffet doesn't work alone, from what I understand Charlie Munger is pretty influential in most of the decisions as well.
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by mrduncan 17y ago
A pet peeve of mine but Buffett didn't purchase the railroad - his company Berkshire Hathaway did.
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TED Blog: Watch Day 1 of TEDIndia live, for free(blog.ted.com)
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by mrduncan 17y ago
If you were interviewing to be a juggler, would you find it odd if they asked you to juggle during the interview? The reason why plumbers and electricians aren't asked to perform on a small scale is that they are required to be licensed. U
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YUI Theater(developer.yahoo.com)
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by mrduncan 17y ago
I didn't see any links to videos - here is one from his Google tech talk in February: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hQVTIJBZook . He also has a number of videos on YUI Theater ( http://developer.yahoo.com/yui/theater/ ). I also recommend
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Remind HN: DST ended this morning
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by mrduncan 17y ago
Compared to Dustin's though, both of those hurt my eyes to look at. This reminds me of Posterous, blogging is a crowded market but they differentiated themselves by being beautiful and dead simple. Competitors are good, it just proves tha
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by mrduncan 17y ago
Ok, I'll bite. Why is staying at a company for 30 years so admirable? If you enjoy your job and continue to for that long, great. There are plenty of people who don't want to be doing the same thing day after day for the next 30 years. I
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by mrduncan 17y ago
Here is a link to the original Stanford podcast where this video is from: http://ecorner.stanford.edu/authorMaterialInfo.html?mid=2219 I really recommend the whole series also, they have had some excellent guests. http://ecorner.stanford
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by mrduncan 17y ago
Right you are. I should have used a different word than "riskier" there as it doesn't really fit my intention. More precisely, I would say that single founder startups are less likely to succeed (therefore riskier to fund if you are fundi
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by mrduncan 17y ago
Are single startups that bad? Not necessarily. Single founder startups are inherently riskier than startups with multiple founders. That isn't to say that risks can't be overcome though - there are plenty of of single founder startups do
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by mrduncan 17y ago
If you haven't seen it yet, here is a highlights video which has a brief portion of Paul's talk as well as links to the justin.tv archived stream. http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=910426
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by mrduncan 17y ago
Instead of "Don't tell the audience you aren't prepared", I'd say simply "Be Prepared". Paul Buchheit started his talk at Startup School by telling the audience that he was just going to wing it. I'd say he had one of the best talks of the
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by mrduncan 17y ago
Here are the archived justin.tv videos: http://www.justin.tv/startupschool . I believe I heard something about edited videos being available at some point as well (can anyone clarify that?).
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by mrduncan 17y ago
Slicehost has an excellent assortment of articles for Ubuntu (as well as plenty of other topics). It looks like they don't have any for Karmic yet though. http://articles.slicehost.com/
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by mrduncan 17y ago
half the applicants apply in the last two days If that doesn't scream out to everyone that applying early is important, I don't know what will.
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by mrduncan 17y ago
I'm curious about the reasoning for this. Is it purely due to not having the time to read through all of them as thoroughly as you'd like, or to help make sure apps don't fall through the cracks (or none of the above)?
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by mrduncan 17y ago
Congrats on the coverage! I met most of the AirBnB folks at Startup School (awesome party, by the way) and they were all really awesome and helpful.
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by mrduncan 17y ago
That makes a lot of sense. It would probably make a lot of sense to optimize your site for search-engines as I'd imagine that is where a majority of your users will go looking for you. Additionally, you may want to go around and post on s
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by mrduncan 17y ago
Instead of a press-release, you could try contacting some blogs individually which focus on your target audience (admittedly I'm not sure what your target audience is).

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