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by pclark 14y ago
You outlined the problem: > The system expects me to remember to tap, because they (the engineers) needed a way to check where and when I get off the train. That’s fantastic, but this step doesn’t fit in my normal behavior, it doesn’t f
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by pclark 14y ago
I really think if e-sports were to take off, it'd be in a dota genre game. It seems like the best balance of action, appreciating nuance and being able to understand at a very high level. I have always found competitive FPS like Quake Liv
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by pclark 14y ago
e-sports are akin to fencing or sailing. they are fantastic sports if you have participated or researched them, and if you do not, they are utterly baffling -- to solve this problem you have to invest very very heavily in the user experie
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by pclark 14y ago
just re-submit
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by pclark 14y ago
The problem with the H1b is two fold: * You have to pay yourself market rate, and thusly have to demonstrate capital in your business bank account. This is near impossible to do with YC and StartFund capital. Think: $100k per H1B employee.
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by pclark 14y ago
why are north korea and russia illustrated as being so well connected?
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How Facebook connections mirror old empires (economist.com)
8 points by pclark 14y ago|1 comments
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Asia and the West: Never the twain(economist.com)
5 points by pclark 14y ago|0 comments
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by pclark 14y ago
I think it is fair to say that YC doesn't care about your immigration status. YC has a great community to discuss this kind of question: do not let your immigration status prevent you from applying.
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by pclark 14y ago
"If you set your goals ridiculously high and it’s a failure, you will fail above everyone else’s success"
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by pclark 14y ago
with kickstarter raising capital is now a user acquisition strategy. way cooler than some old dude with money that distracts you for months, takes equity and doesn't bring you users nor added visibility.
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by pclark 14y ago
Writing that blog post just removed any time saved from wearing the same shirt every day.
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by pclark 14y ago
this is why you hire all your friends
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by pclark 14y ago
Chinos from ten years in the future: http://shop.outlier.cc/shop/retail/chino.html
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Epic Systems' Tough Billionaire(forbes.com)
6 points by pclark 14y ago|0 comments
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by pclark 14y ago
I think it's bullshit that Apple did this for money.
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by pclark 14y ago
None of the "things you can do" lend themselves to justify me having to host the micro-app - eg, they do not tell a story of needing to pull in additional application logic: was it a conscious decision not to build an IDE and hosting envi
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by pclark 14y ago
This really needs a showcase of internally built use cases for human.io that I can play with right now. I assume that: developers can create a micro-app with a dead simple API ... users run and discover these micro-apps from within the huma
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by pclark 14y ago
This description of design ("Design") is fantastically pretentious. You must be a designer! :)
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by pclark 14y ago
We (userfox.com) rely on mailgun.com for email delivery since it is a 'distraction' from our core: helping companies send interesting and relevant messages to their customers.
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by pclark 14y ago
No need to be an ass. Also, it's business 101 to focus on your core and outsource the rest: so yes, it absolutely is worth using stripe rather than building payment architecture yourself. You are probably the only person on Hacker News that
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by pclark 14y ago
it's really challenging to give any advice that i would follow without having walked the path to have came to that conclusion. thusly, it'd be things where time = output. such as taking up pilates, playing more golf, waking up earlier. my f
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by pclark 14y ago
you think customer loyalty is a niche? it applies to every business on the planet. it's one of the largest markets you could attack.
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by pclark 14y ago
if by coin flip you mean whoever executes the best, yep. "haven't we seen enough of these" sounds extraordinarily condescending.
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Social+Capital, the League of Extraordinarily Rich Gentlemen(businessweek.com)
7 points by pclark 14y ago|0 comments
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by pclark 14y ago
I think you'd touch a lot more lives if you worked on solving the photo sharing problem for 3 years than working on electric airplanes for 3 years. Also: your comment is rude.
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by pclark 14y ago
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t5i7JDNACtI
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by pclark 14y ago
the level of craftsmanship on Tweetbot delights me to no end. Also being able to see which of my tweets have been retweeted. But mainly it just feels like the most beautiful and polished piece of software ever.
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by pclark 14y ago
if that were to happen, I'd use a different client: because the content trumps the user experience.
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by pclark 14y ago
I cannot imagine anyone having any emotional buy in for your proposal until you've came up with explicit use cases that are today not possible with Twitter. I think Twitter as a product sucks, this is why I use TweetBot. I agree it is tedio

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