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by nudge 16y ago
Downvoted? I honestly don't understand - what was jules' observation supposed to mean? I wasn't being snarky - I was trying to make sense of it!
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by nudge 16y ago
Okay, then you've done the equivalent of 20 minutes of jogging better. You know what I mean.
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by nudge 16y ago
My best tip is to equate the foodstuff to exercise equivalent. Ask yourself: How much exercise would I have to do to not gain weight by eating this junk? A chocolate bar is roughly equivalent to, say, a 30 minute jog. If you think that what
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Ask HN: Site license problem
1 points by nudge 16y ago|1 comments
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by nudge 16y ago
I think exline's comment about todo lists is helpful - I find it psychologically satisfying to strike off the last item on a list. There's extrinsic rewards of the finish, like getting paid, having something to show on your portfolio (depe
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by nudge 16y ago
There is no easy fix for this. You need to be disciplined enough to keep working when you've done all the fun parts. The good news is that if you can get better at being disciplined just by practising it, and the rewards are very high, beca
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by nudge 16y ago
Text file. Write it down and move onto something useful. Don't waste time trying to find a better way to do this. GTD, in particular, is way too much for just this.
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by nudge 16y ago
This looks fantastic, congratulations! You might want to remove this weirdness at the bottom of the front page: "Start GOOGLE ANALYTICS<--> End GOOGLE ANALYTICS<--> Start CHARTBEAT<--> End CHARTBEAT<--> Start
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by nudge 16y ago
In my case I submitted my simple online timer to Lifehacker Australia, on a hunch that it would feed through to the US site. It worked, but I wouldn't know if it would work again, and I don't know if they write about iphone apps. I didn't s
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by nudge 16y ago
I confess this is advice I have gathered from others, rather than something that has worked for me (I haven't tried it for a paid product site like yours). It will always be a lottery emailing busy bloggers, but you could get lucky! Somethi
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by nudge 16y ago
Write to bloggers with audiences that are your potential customers. Tell them about your product and politely ask if they would like to feature you in a post. Offer some pre-written copy (not too much) for them to use or cut/paste from to m
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by nudge 16y ago
"It recovered $1,362,572, for a 2.3 percent return rate, according to Beta News. We’re not math majors, but that’s bad, right?" Well, I was a math major, and the answer is "Not necessarily." (Not that you need any math to understand why) Is
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by nudge 16y ago
I would read that. It would be really interesting to see a news source that focused on startups that are still, you know, starting up. Maybe you could have a rule where you only report on companies until they either fold or start bringing i
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Ask HN: How to get started contributing to open source?
14 points by nudge 16y ago|8 comments
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by nudge 16y ago
I meant colocation - the costs of which I assume to be too high for individuals - and flash orders - which I did not know were no longer operating. My general point was just that the playing field is not exactly level - the banks have resou
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by nudge 16y ago
It's not a dumb idea, but you certainly should give up. The high frequency game is one you will lose, because many of the large investment banks have relationships with the stock exchanges allowing them to get information faster - and respo
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by nudge 16y ago
Ruby is a good choice, but be aware that Ruby is the language and Rails is a web framework for Ruby (and by no means the only one, but probably the most popular and perhaps beginner-friendly). An alternative would be Python, which is a more
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by nudge 16y ago
This link works: http://thefastertimes.com/theweb/2010/07/14/why-i-use-facebo...
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by nudge 16y ago
I discovered a café near me that apparently does really good "smoked salmon and cream chess bagels". I would love that to be true.
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by nudge 16y ago
I just have to say, I really dislike what you've done here. You can't just take mashable's story, harvest it into your own site, and then post it back here as if your site has anything to do with it. It's just bad form. And the 'related rea
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by nudge 16y ago
Can someone with knowledge or experience of extremely large projects such as this please explain what exactly are the costs? I cannot even begin to understand how you could ever arrive at £13bn, even if you had an army of systems engineers
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by nudge 16y ago
Nobody's talking about which is the better average. I was merely suggesting that this is how you can interpret the quote in a way that escapes your attempt to show how it is incorrect.
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by nudge 16y ago
I think it's fair to assume that, in this context, people are using the 'median' sense of average rather than the 'mean' sense. When someone thinks "I am a better driver than average", this probably means "If you were to rank all drivers by
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by nudge 16y ago
If it were open source, Apple would lose control. As it stands, you can only transfer songs to Apple products (iPod, iPhone), and you can only access the iTunes music store. So Apple would probably lose money by open sourcing iTunes. Perhap
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by nudge 16y ago
Sounds like a decent idea to me. Virtual research assistants work in a lot of areas, and I don't see why this should be an exception. I could imagine myself finding your services useful in the future. Some thoughts: (1) If you're doing a lo
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by nudge 16y ago
What would an example project be? Be a little more specific on the services you would be providing. I don't see why there shouldn't be a market for such a thing, but you need to be quite clear about what you can provide (your idea is a litt
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by nudge 16y ago
I would be interested to know how much time you spend doing customer support; or, rather, whether you have tried to automate any of this using existing tools (like getsatisfaction, or even just a faq). Or since - as you have written in the
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by nudge 16y ago
Interesting, but not very convincing. The argument concerns historical periods when the costs of research were not nearly as high as they are now. As your own source rightly points out: "the total cost of bringing a new drug to market [is]
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by nudge 16y ago
Alright, if you don't know how it would work, but you do know how it does work, tell me how it does work. What countries are you talking about, what years, what drugs? How did the companies cover the cost of research? What was in it
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by nudge 16y ago
You're absolutely right, obviously. And I'm sure that if your children developed some terrible illness, you wouldn't want to use any pharmaceuticals to keep them alive longer, because - as you say - the disease might get them in the end any

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