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by parker 18y ago
Their 'additional scrutiny' concluded that I was a student even though I had massive amounts of documentation pointing to the exact opposite conclusion. It is their job to investigate extra-ordinary situations. Suggesting that I needed a
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by parker 18y ago
You are 100% right about the unpleasantness of the entire ordeal. They did do the fingerprint, mugshot deal... but until I realized that he was going to refuse entry, I was being optimistic for some reason. I did go easy on them in this ar
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by parker 18y ago
I wouldn't worry too much about it -- most every foreign-national other than me has had no problems getting in for the program. I think I just ran into a couple bad border officials. Perhaps I was even over-transparent the first time. By
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My Wild Journey into the United States, and a Few Tips for Future Canadian YC’ers(socialbias.com)
29 points by parker 18y ago|33 comments
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Why You Should Fear Entrepreneurship and Why You Shouldn’t Care(socialbias.com)
3 points by parker 18y ago|0 comments
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by parker 18y ago
"If you are a Web 2.0 company in today's Web you really need to ask yourselves, 'Are we solving a problem that everybody has or are we building a product for Robert Scoble?'" Couldn't have said that better. There is a market for niche prod
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Note to Web 2.0 Companies: Early Adopters are not the Mass Market(25hoursaday.com)
5 points by parker 18y ago|1 comments
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So, This Is How Entrepreneurship Starts…? My Life In One Suitcase.(socialbias.com)
2 points by parker 18y ago|0 comments
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Will reading and writing remain important?(economist.com)
1 points by parker 18y ago|1 comments
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Reflections on the demise of my former employer(socialbias.com)
3 points by parker 18y ago|0 comments
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by parker 18y ago
I guess this post could be summarized as: The Restaurant: your website is the final destination The Taxi: your website is the means of getting there There are thousands of restaurants, but not many taxi companies. The more lucrative busine
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Is Your Website ‘The Taxi’ or ‘The Restaurant’? Pick The Right Model.(socialbias.com)
9 points by parker 18y ago|4 comments
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If Brand Loyalty Didn’t Exist, Twitter Would Be Extinct(socialbias.com)
1 points by parker 18y ago|0 comments
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by parker 18y ago
Yeah, even though you can set up redirects, the dilution on the brand you've spent so much time building is quite substantial. I went through this on a site I was managing, and it wasn't only a huge distraction, it took the brand in a dire
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by parker 18y ago
I apologize in advance if anyone here owns eatbabies.com -- I didn't mean to insult you.
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How To Pick A Good Domain Name(socialbias.com)
22 points by parker 18y ago|11 comments
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Where does Google go next?(money.cnn.com)
1 points by parker 18y ago|0 comments
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by parker 18y ago
I think early adoption is a fairly immutable aspect of product marketing, especially in the technology industry. Courting these early adopters will never stop being an integral part of any product launch. Of course facebook is past the poi
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by parker 18y ago
Dude, for people outside the US about to test the immigration waters, this article was pure gold.
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by parker 18y ago
So then, if Bill Gates has ever complimented his dog for bringing him the morning paper...... is his dog the next Google? Hot. Scoop.
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by parker 18y ago
I know that you could make a decent argument that some of these companies make no revenues, but he's way off base on some of them. Betfair, for instance, had 2007 revenue of ~$300 Million. And Kayak has a great revenue stream. I'm an admi
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by parker 18y ago
> Subsistence farming - grow your own crops and eat them. So how did you buy your land again? Or is the Soviet Government still encouraging settlement in Siberia ... ? I think supposing that you need money to stay alive in our society
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by parker 18y ago
I remember in the Masters Tournament a few years ago when Mickelson won it all, he birdied the final hole to win. His approach shot on 18 landed in almost the exact same spot as his playing partner's. The guy he was playing with gamely too
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by parker 18y ago
Hey, it did actually catch in the database, it just didn't register your user number. I've put your user number on the entry now, so it's live. I think there was one page in the site that didn't carry over the session variables, but that
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by parker 18y ago
Thanks Matt, I'm glad you dig the concept. The simple comedy article is a lost art imo. A lot of sites buried themselves into one format or another, which is why I like the concept of leaving the format entirely up to the writer. In that
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by parker 18y ago
It was a bug. Thanks again for the head's up. You should now be able to vote for anything once even when you're not registered.
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by parker 18y ago
Yeah I noticed the non-member chomping seemed a bit weird, I'm going to double check this tonight, thanks for the feedback. Basically, it should allow one vote on each story for each unique IP, whether you're logged in or not. I hope it's
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by parker 18y ago
Hmmm, thanks for the head's up, I smell a bug. I'll double check my session flow after registration tonight.
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by parker 18y ago
Man, I wish I could say the design was intended to be like something that cool! Alas, it's just a case of 'don't bite off more than you can chew' of working within my abilities. But that army man looks really cool. The best comedy is spa
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by parker 18y ago
Good point -- changed my raw feed info to full text. Thanks for pointing this out...

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