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by msort 16y ago
I still don't understand why Twitter has not lifted the 140-char limit. Posterous, Tumblr, Google Buzz, Facebook all allow unlimited status update, along with pictures, links, videos posting. I'd love to see when Twitter can change.
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by msort 16y ago
Because the direct route is not easy, or even possible for most people. We are human being living in a commercial society. Money is essential for us to survive. And for most people, a modest level of success is essential for happiness. I th
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by msort 16y ago
How about the 3rd universal factor: growing too big too soon?
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Ask HN: What is the future of Twitter?
1 points by msort 16y ago|0 comments
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by msort 16y ago
Focus on improving your engineering skills; Switch to a much more interesting day job; Make your life more interesting; Developing your product in moonlight (Reference: read book Ignore Everyone). Or just choose to give up the green card fo
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by msort 16y ago
Being smart doesn't necessarily mean cannot getting things done. The author never worked at Google. It seems not so reasonable to project her experience at one Microsoft group to Google.
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by msort 16y ago
Ease to build is important. Linkedin founder once said: software startup is about building the simplest thing which has a market. The power of organic ideas is that it is just less mental energy to start building it and ship it! Simplicity
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by msort 17y ago
A good read. Summary: Through failures, learn the ability to ship arts (work that matters) and ship them.
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by msort 17y ago
My take-away: 1) Goal: "Make a dent on the universe" 2) Don't take VC money, which is a "time-bomb" 3) Don't be a workaholic. "Greatness comes from well-rested minds". Constraints force you to do less and different things. 4) No overnight
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by msort 17y ago
Google will value your startup experience. As long as you can prove your problem-solving and programming skills in the job interview, you will get a job offer as a Google software engineer.
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by msort 17y ago
I think it'd be great if YC can go to China. The growing economy and market, the huge talent tool, super low cost of labors and office. It works very well with YC philosophy. One downside is Chinese government's tight control on internet.
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by msort 17y ago
Well, staying at a boring job is not very healthy to career too. The worst case is losing one's job when economy is down. Quitting job is not the solution. Finding interesting jobs (as an employee or founder) is perhaps the solution.
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by msort 17y ago
Many people have boring and ok jobs yet never have the courage to try something different. In this situation, it is perhaps healthy to actually quit the job and try it. In the worst case, your new startup fails, you learn something, you ret
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by msort 17y ago
Looks great. Do you use your own crawler?
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by msort 17y ago
Current waiting time for China and India-born employment-based Green Card application is likely to be 4-5 years. Many of those applicants are potential startup founders. Sadly they cannot pursue their ambitions due to the long immigration p
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by msort 17y ago
Data is critical. I have never built such a system as an individual. My friend told me he bought the data somewhere.
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by msort 17y ago
Yes, "Automatic trading" may be the more appropriate term in my post.
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by msort 17y ago
Chicago is another place for quantitative trading.
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by msort 17y ago
There is another route to become a Quant, similar to become a start-up founder in software/internet industry. You can just learn to trade by yourself with some simple trading strategy. One popular strategy is "High Frequency" automatic or s
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by msort 17y ago
I agree. But it shows me what a PHP and MySQL based web application may look like. It's a good glimpse of what web application looks like.
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Creating a Web App from Scratch(css-tricks.com)
11 points by msort 17y ago|3 comments
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by msort 17y ago
My take-away is that even a great company with great culture to foster creativity can have serious problem when it grows to a big organization. It seems creativity happens mostly in little start-ups.
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Ask HN: Learn Web design and frontend programming
5 points by msort 17y ago|2 comments
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My Interview With Zappos CEO, Tony Hsieh, On Happiness(huffingtonpost.com)
1 points by msort 17y ago|0 comments
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by msort 17y ago
Good read. When should founders start to incorporate a company? Can founders just release a Web application without worrying about things like incorporation?
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by msort 17y ago
Great post! I don't agree with "You can keep your Google Docs, Excel is superior in almost every way." Google Docs allows concurrent editing on the same doc by multiple users. One question to ponder: if Web Apps is so great, why everyone is
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by msort 17y ago
Interesting experiment... I'd love to see you put on some AdSense ads on it.
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by msort 17y ago
Google is hiring.
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by msort 17y ago
Hiring is not necessarily worse. In many countries (e.g. China), good engineers have a much lower market rate.
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by msort 17y ago
I really hope friendfeed can stay independent, and grow itself into something much bigger. On the other hand, this should create opportunities for other social aggregation startups.

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