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The Con Artist Hall of Infamy(thehallofinfamy.org)
3 points by petewarden 17y ago|0 comments
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by petewarden 17y ago
My favo(u)?rite phrase from the article was "a bit like negotiating one's way up a badger's arse". I'll be looking for an excuse to use that in my next business meeting.
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by petewarden 17y ago
It's not just growth prospects, you're making a bet on the regulatory environment continuing to restrict the supply of homes. It may seem like California will never open up more land for housing, but it's not a law of nature.
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by petewarden 17y ago
In my experience, a good click-through rate is about 0.1%, which makes sense since they're essentially banner ads 2.0, there's no intent captured at all. That said, they were cheap enough that I was able to acquire new users for my Facebook
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Google ignore another spam content site, BigResource.com(google.com)
2 points by petewarden 17y ago|1 comments
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by petewarden 17y ago
> just go ahead and go to walmart for an hour to see what the average person is. I spent five years working in various discount supermarkets as a cashier. The average person there is struggling with challenges that make typical hacker p
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by petewarden 17y ago
Here's an article from Cuil's blog about the launch: http://www.cuil.com/info/blog/2010/04/08/introducing-cpedia-... "I was a stay at home dad, I dropped by Kleiner Perkins to try to get some money to write a search engine". This has to
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It's time for Entrepreneur University/Startup Ninja School(blog.nosnivelling.com)
10 points by petewarden 17y ago|5 comments
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Nick Denton's rules for blog headlines(blogs.villagevoice.com)
4 points by petewarden 17y ago|0 comments
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by petewarden 17y ago
The B52 program was driven by Colonel Pete Warden. He's no relation unfortunately, but its birth was an amazing engineering story: http://www.boeing.com/defense-space/military/b52-strat/b52_5...
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by petewarden 17y ago
They never asked me to keep quiet about it, and they've been willing to comment about it too, eg http://www.newscientist.com/article/dn18721-data-sifted-from... I'd imagine they want to deter people from following in my footsteps, so publ
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How I got sued by Facebook(petewarden.typepad.com)
336 points by petewarden 17y ago|80 comments
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by petewarden 17y ago
Early in my career a small recruiting firm for the UK game industry helped me get a job. Worked out great, they arranged multiple interviews at good firms for positions that fit my skills. I was lacking in 'hustle' back then, so having some
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by petewarden 17y ago
The 'innocent data compiler' is actually a HN semi-regular. waves hello I've got lots of thoughts on all this, obviously, but I'm trying to collect them all into a considered blog post. I'm happy to answer any questions I can though. And
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by petewarden 17y ago
You're assuming there's no existing hierarchical power relationship. The obvious example is child-labor: the parents decide whether the kid goes to work, not the kid. In general, there's all sorts of non-governmental power structures that p
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Foundry VCs now only want pitches via Twitter(foundrygroup.com)
10 points by petewarden 17y ago|7 comments
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by petewarden 17y ago
Sweet! I've just updated my PHP example to work with these specs: http://web.mailana.com/labs/handmadeimap/gmailoauthexample/i... http://github.com/petewarden/handmadeimap There's now also official code in several languages available at
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Inside a global cybercrime ring(news.yahoo.com)
16 points by petewarden 17y ago|3 comments
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by petewarden 17y ago
Business. I'm a programmer trying to learn how to build a company that makes money. 18 months ago I really sucked at it, now I just suck moderately. It's amazed me how much it's forced me to learn about myself and other people; selling, man
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The case against teaching math(ordinary-gentlemen.com)
65 points by petewarden 17y ago|48 comments
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by petewarden 17y ago
> If you know exactly what you are doing (i.e. you have a > deep understanding/knowledge of these models), there is > no reason for you to observe some unexpected failures. It's not bugs that doom projects, it's misunderstanding
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by petewarden 17y ago
The OP's complaints seem to be about process that doesn't add anything to the end quality of the product. Compulsory auto-generated change logs within source files? That sure sounds like clueless box-ticking bureaucracy, unless I'm missin
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by petewarden 17y ago
There's been some fascinating developments in this area in just the past few days. MySpace is now releasing similar data commercially through Infochimps: http://www.readwriteweb.com/archives/myspace_bulk_data.php NetFlix get slammed by th
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by petewarden 17y ago
The best part of leaving the UK was escaping the cycle of negativity. Sure this guy is warped by it and comes across really badly, but it's insanely helpful being able to say I'm working on a startup and have people be understanding and sup
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Homeless man lives off reward points from former life(ocregister.com)
16 points by petewarden 17y ago|20 comments
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by petewarden 17y ago
The main point is so you don't have to hand over your password to let programs access your email. Why would a service need your email messages? Maybe to do cool analytics like etacts, or do an improved contact import that prioritizes the co
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by petewarden 17y ago
Kevin Marks dug this out originally: http://groups.google.com/group/webfinger/browse_thread/threa... I'm guessing this is what etacts are using. I wonder why Google haven't made an official announcement?
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Experimental Gmail IMAP interface using oAuth(sites.google.com)
18 points by petewarden 17y ago|7 comments
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by petewarden 17y ago
I submitted this after a discerning friend was raving about Name of the Wind, and pointed me at his site. It's next on my Kindle queue, I figure after 14 years obsessing, it has to be at least interesting! The only comparable author I know
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Advice for new writers: Live somewhere cheap(patrickrothfuss.com)
43 points by petewarden 17y ago|23 comments

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