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Google Instant Search(google.com)
22 points by percept 16y ago|2 comments
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by percept 16y ago
Old men used to bemoan the price of gas and the morning paper. Times have changed!
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by percept 16y ago
And I know B2C is harder, but to have to beat yourself up over an extra dollar or two just seems like a bad place to be as a businessperson (while enterprises dole out wheelbarrows of cash for unused products).
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by percept 16y ago
I prefer an office, but for those without I think there should at least be "quiet time" or consideration given to where different types of workers are located. This helps avoid the "talkers vs. typists" problem--don't mix the two. For examp
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by percept 16y ago
Is this B2B or B2C? The pricing just seems too low. I think a problem many of us face is knowing when to take off the techie hat and put on the CEO hat. Don't price like a techie. ;)
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by percept 16y ago
How about offering them free accounts for a fixed period, like 3/6/12 months? That way you could reward their support without having to carry a bunch of free users in perpetuity. If they like your product they probably wouldn't mind paying
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by percept 16y ago
Minimalism fans should check out the following (they're up to 7 galleries now): http://vandelaydesign.com/blog/design-inspiration/
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by percept 16y ago
Related to this subject, people might find _Tokyo Vice_ interesting/disturbing: http://www.amazon.com/Tokyo-Vice-American-Reporter-Police/dp... It's by a reporter who worked the vice beat in Japan for years.
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by percept 16y ago
I believe it does, but not enough to worry about if your domain name isn't perfect. Releasing a product and acquiring customers (or vice versa) is more important. At the same time, I recommend putting some thought into your domain name. You
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by percept 16y ago
Have you considered asking HN?
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by percept 16y ago
He seems sincere--maybe he'll be another Grigori Perelman. Check out his nudity policy: Naked twice, in the clear; naked thrice, outta here!
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by percept 16y ago
If that doesn't work out, I know Canonical/Ubuntu used to have a similar deal, and it looks like they still do: http://webapps.ubuntu.com/employment/canonical_ISDFWD/
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by percept 16y ago
Not so much for the story, which we all probably know by now, but there are links to PDFs of the complaints at the bottom of the article which describe some of the technical details behind the case.
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Spies Next Door(nbcwashington.com)
2 points by percept 16y ago|1 comments
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by percept 16y ago
How about talking to cats?
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by percept 16y ago
Especially given what you wrote above, the usability path sounds like it might be a good fit. Plus, consider all your newly-won usability insight, having worked with SharePoint. ;) Does your government position afford you some status that w
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by percept 16y ago
Not self-help, just a discussion of how we're influenced and made to "comply," citing numerous academic studies. See: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Influence_Science_and_Practice
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by percept 16y ago
And their story's here: http://mixergy.com/less-allan-branch/
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by percept 16y ago
You might try: http://www.clearancejobs.com/ [Advanced Search for countries]
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by percept 16y ago
The last one had some London jobs: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1438505
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by percept 16y ago
I think this will become Google's problem, too (though they seem to have the sort of culture described in the article).
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by percept 16y ago
Maybe you can build it up the way this guy did: http://mixergy.com/mailfinch-paul-singh-interview/
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by percept 16y ago
Have you checked Salesforce's third-party add-ons? [Though I'd rather see somebody on HN succeeding with this--we don't harness our collective power here as much as we could.]
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by percept 16y ago
Cool graphic. It's definitely worth studying, but I disagree with counting the value of abandoned carts as "lost" revenue. Instead I think this is a case of the online shopping cart being viewed too much like its real-world equivalent. Addi
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by percept 16y ago
I've also been seeing it regularly in technical search results, and it seems to have come from nowhere as I don't remember ever seeing it before (the domain's associated with a Chinese address, created 2006).
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by percept 16y ago
That would be cool. Is anybody doing that now? Initially "incentivize" people to submit year/make/model, then repair/parts/labor and build up a database of prices (later users would do the same thing with estimates). I believe labor rates a
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by percept 16y ago
There was a similar case last year (they settled): http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/04... "GSA contract guidelines require companies to provide the government with accurate information about the discounts they off
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by percept 16y ago
GMail too. And 37s, etc. [Of course I don't . . . ;)]
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by percept 16y ago
You're way ahead of the game. Don't worry so much and just keep going--life is long. Learn to use your self-awareness to your advantage. Did you see vonconrad's post? http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1438718
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by percept 16y ago
A few people said they had in the last post: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1410512 The spreadsheet seems location-oriented, so I wonder how people outside SV have fared (based on the assumption that the majority of work--especially

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