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Watch Out Nokia: LG Sells 1M Cheap Androids in 40 Days(gigaom.com)
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USPS sees $8.5 billion loss, warns Congress it'll be broke by 2011(washingtonpost.com)
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Facebook to Open New $450 Million Data Center in North Carolina(smart-data-centers.tmcnet.com)
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Making money with mobile apps(computerworld.com)
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by percept 16y ago
"Crowdsell" (though not too different from affiliate marketing)
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by percept 16y ago
"Venture Capitalists are used to taking risks - the argument over java is extremely simple - "if you use the same technology as everybody else you will get the same result"" "Venture capitalists don't back technologies they back people - th
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by percept 16y ago
I think it depends on your goals. Some ideas: If you want to work for a startup then you'd probably need to learn open source tools (though startups use the MS stack, too). You might also find that a detour into OSS helps you bring fresh id
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by percept 16y ago
If you haven't already, check out Authentic Jobs--they appear to have a number of remote jobs listed with your skillset: http://www.authenticjobs.com/ Good luck with your search.
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by percept 16y ago
They say Google isn't "sticky" but that's a good counter-example (albeit a small sample size).
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SB Nation Raises $10.5 Million(kara.allthingsd.com)
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by percept 16y ago
Interesting idea. I wonder which businesses might be interested in the service (assuming higher profit margins there since you're paying human workers). Maybe attorneys, for discovered documents? Accounting? Or historical research? Some aut
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by percept 16y ago
There used to be a good list on Wikipedia but it's been "deletionated" over the past few years.
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by percept 16y ago
If the niche is too narrow, can you adapt the software to target the broader diet/nutrition market? I agree with silverlight that "pawn" doesn't have the greatest connotation in the U.S. (your company's "Ltd"; are you in the U.K.?). If that
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by percept 16y ago
This sounds like some good advice to help prevent ideas from being taken: "We get that question a lot. It was kind of concern. So what we usually do in our first bid, in our first description we’re kind of vague. We say, ‘We’re looking for
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by percept 16y ago
Wasn't there another YC company in the recruitment space that shut down a while back? Oh, it was SnapTalent (I think they wrote about their experiences, too). Is the recruitment industry just a tough nut to crack?
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by percept 16y ago
However: "Sharp will, for the time being, serve as a one-man office. There are no immediate plans, he said, to bring other employees to D."
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by percept 16y ago
"Who's Hiring" threads on HN: http://bit.ly/cPTz5Q http://craigslist.org/ http://indeed.com/ [aggregator] http://jobs.37signals.com/ http://careers.stackoverflow.com http://authenticjobs.com/ Tech-specific boards like: http://j
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Finding Competitive Advantage in Adversity(hbr.org)
7 points by percept 16y ago|0 comments
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by percept 16y ago
I just returned from an international trip a couple of weeks ago and am glad I missed this. However the snap on my pants (!) must have set off the metal detector so I was still patted down. In what other business is a normal, paying custome
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by percept 16y ago
I just view it as a sort of standard disclaimer to preempt the usual criticism that dissenters are somehow ignorant, unreasonable, or un-American. Basically: "I'm an otherwise reasonable person in full possession of my faculties."
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by percept 16y ago
Somebody get this guy some karma.
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by percept 16y ago
Codename: "ThighScorcher" [Or are they running cooler now?]
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by percept 16y ago
That was my initial impression too (what about SEO?). It's about balancing the text with the layout and clear calls to action.
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by percept 16y ago
I suggest keeping a clip file. Anytime you see something you like, take a screenshot and save it (locally, create a gallery on Picasa, etc.). Then figure out exactly what it is you like about the sample. Break it down, see the individual el
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by percept 16y ago
I'll be working on a beta release of ScheduleHQ, an employee scheduling app: http://schedulehq.com/
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by percept 16y ago
FYI, homepage without Yanone Kaffeesatz (had to look that one up): http://i.imgur.com/E9lee.png
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by percept 16y ago
Was just reading about it here: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1835288
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by percept 16y ago
It would be great to see "Ask HN" featured more prominently on the site--it gets to the heart of why many of us are here and most of the other stuff can be found elsewhere.
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News startup Ongo gets $12M from publishers(google.com)
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by percept 16y ago
Post it here! Or someplace we can access, if it's useful.

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