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by nlh 13y ago
I think the worst part, actually, is that he tried to make the excuse that it was a "joke". That comes across as disingenuous. We all know it wasn't a joke (a joke = funny). But I don't think it was meant to be literal
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by nlh 13y ago
One of the most important lessons I've learned during the growing-up phase of my being an entrepreneur -- and one of the first things I'm doing with my next startup -- is putting together a list of "doomsday scenarios" r
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by nlh 13y ago
I'm going to give this a serious response even though I know you're referring to a well-known cliche for startup ideas. I was talking to a fairly smart VC recently and he made a good point -- while everyone likes to use "Face
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by nlh 13y ago
I'm surprised to hear this. Of course there's always more going on under the hood but I've had nothing but totally positive experiences using Exec Errands. Curious if anyone has some more insight into what happened. Not eno
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by nlh 13y ago
A wonderful, cute, and inspiring love story (that you can appreciate whether you're gay or straight). Yes, I know, not Hacker or Tech related, but that doesn't matter. Read it and enjoy.
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by nlh 13y ago
I switched from Unicorn to Puma for my relatively low-load Heroku-based Rails app and have seen nothing but improvements across the board. Less memory usage, lower response times, overall better performance. It's working very well. Not
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by nlh 13y ago
Thank you for the lead - looks good. I found this, which goes into a bit more details for the Rails folks (like me): http://big-elephants.com/2012-12/pdf-rendering-with-phantomj... Looks very promising. Open to sugge
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by nlh 13y ago
I hate to pile on, but perhaps the site creators are reading this and can get some constructive feedback on site improvement: At least on my iPad (Chrome), I viewed the site and simply scrolled down to the bottom. After that, I had to click
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by nlh 13y ago
Heh - I spotted the same thing and immediately assumed, perhaps naively, that he was pointing to an example of something that was a mistake ;)
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by nlh 13y ago
Other great answers here -- I'll add my $.02, well, just because. Ham here as well (K2KD). I had most of my experiences as a kid (6th - 8th grade), had an HF rig in my bedroom, and made my way through Extra class (which, I think, requ
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by nlh 13y ago
Let me add a slightly different perspective & pose some questions... First, fully agree with the sentiment of the other commenters. I think the article glorifies and glamorizes behavior that shouldn't be encouraged and is, as some
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by nlh 13y ago
100% agreed. I'm a very savvy Internet user (I thought?) and I still don't really understand what they do/offer. At one point I thought it was just an "open" version of Twitter, but that seems to have changed now
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by nlh 13y ago
They're providing updates through the twitters, though not terribly informative ones... @nytimes: Part 1/3: As you are undoubtedly aware, we are experiencing a server issue that has resulted in our e-mail and Web site being unavai
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by nlh 13y ago
I think it depends on your market. If you're aiming for mass-market consumers (i.e. not the people who are reading this comment ;), then .com is pretty important, since many folks don't even know there are other TLDs out there.
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by nlh 13y ago
...who would be able to breathe underwater for 30 minutes at a time without coming above for air. This seems like a loose interpretation of "breathe". But leads to a question I had -- assuming the injection described in the art
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by nlh 13y ago
My attitude is this: You're right. And this isn't really about what people look like now. This is about the first few steps in what I (and others, I assume) predict is going to be a fairly major change in the way people interac
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by nlh 13y ago
Awesome awesome awesome. I'm super psyched about this stuff. I'm going to pre-order a pair. Anyone (from Meta maybe?) have any details on the SDK? I see "write code in Unity3D on a Windows PC" from their Kickstarter,
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by nlh 13y ago
...Now 33, McFarland has a 3-year-old and a newborn and no longer has to think about his student loan: His company has US$17.75-million in venture capital investment. While he doesn’t consider himself retire-now rich, his piece of the comp
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by nlh 13y ago
I'm really surprised that there aren't more options on this front. I feel like every day I talk to a non-tech friend who, despite the sinking business ship that is RIM, _really_ loves (or loved & misses) their BlackBerry. And
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by nlh 13y ago
Quick aside: This is a really well-written article in and of itself. Joseph Volpe seems like an actually-great writer, and it was refreshing to see some tech journalism that feels like old-school journalism. It's not all bad out ther
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by nlh 13y ago
It's a great question. I asked a friend who works at Google the very same thing yesterday and sadly got a very non-answer answer - either because he didn't know, he didn't want to say, or because Google is having a case of t
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by nlh 13y ago
Looks cool! Congrats and good luck. One issue - site doesn't appear to be rendering properly on an iPad (using Chrome as browser): http://imgur.com/m6TvEt7 I suggest eschewing the whole responsive thing when it comes
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by nlh 13y ago
I'm sorry to sound pithy here, but it sounds like the lesson here isn't "be a solo founder", it's "build the right team." Either way, this is an interesting perspective - thank you for sharing your experie
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by nlh 13y ago
I love love love AirBNB. I host w/ my apartment in NYC and it's enabled me to travel around the world this year and still have a home base when I need it. I've used AirBNB a lot in those travels. BUT (there's always a
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by nlh 13y ago
Indeed. Also - that quote struck a nerve because it is -exactly- what mobsters say to shop owners when they're demanding (extorting) protection money. This is nothing more than legal (for now) extortion.
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by nlh 13y ago
Fair enough, and good point. I may have rushed to judgment on first read. Thank you for the perspective!
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by nlh 13y ago
Very good attitude and perspective. Thank you!
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by nlh 13y ago
Meta comment since the SO thread covers the discussion on the actual question: Does the tone of the asker bother anyone else? The "I don't want you to teach me, I want you to do it for me" attitude feels to me the antithesis
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by nlh 13y ago
This is so true. I've seen it with my own experience -- had I know what I know today about the industry I'm in, I probably wouldn't have started my business. But a decade ago, I knew nothing, and, well, ignorance was bliss (a
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by nlh 13y ago
I had thought I heard at some point that one of the big objections (by airlines and/or the FAA) wasn't really interference, but that takeoff and landing are the most "risky" points of a flight, and if there's anytim

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