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by portman 16y ago
>> leaving experienced and capable family people on the table Can you elaborate? I'm a family people; hopefully experienced and capable, but don't feel that I'm being biased against by the 10am-10pm work culture. If anything, I fi
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Please don't put 150KB of linebreaks in your HTML(kmart.com)
1 points by portman 16y ago|1 comments
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by portman 16y ago
We made Squeaker about 18 months ago. Must be exactly 14 characters! http://squeakertime.com
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by portman 16y ago
PSA: the "historical domain sales" are wildly inaccurate . I suspect there was a bug in the script/procedure he used to scrape, because they don't match up to the sources below. Edit: here's a decent list http://www.webcooltips.com/the-mo
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Android StackExchange error page(android.stackexchange.com)
23 points by portman 16y ago|3 comments
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by portman 16y ago
Yes. The easiest way to monetize is with banner ads from one of the 40+ authorized Facebook ad networks. http://developers.facebook.com/adproviders/ Believe it or not, people DO click on banner ads, and you should see about a $0.10 eCPM f
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by portman 16y ago
On my device (Motorola Droid), you need to first enable unsigned applications in the system menu. Amazon guides you through this process very well on their website, but still, I suspect that a lot of nontechnical folks will dropoff due to t
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by portman 16y ago
Anecdote: the first time I ever had a captain was about 10 years ago on a Thai Air flight. (Bangkok to Chiang Mai.) Since then, I've had a female captain on precisely 3 other flights (Laos Air, Thai Air, and United Express). This is out of
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by portman 16y ago
Yes, I realize that Japan is the third largest economy in the world. But living in a wealthy nation doesn't mean that your home is magically rebuilt. (Just ask the residents of New Orleans' Ninth Ward.) Thousands of residents of Minami Sanr
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by portman 16y ago
I have great respect for Patrick, and usually agree with him, but in this case I think his conclusion is far off-mark. Japanese citizens need our help , on a massive scale. The government may not need any assistance, but the families and c
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by portman 16y ago
In past years, the talks have gone up slowly during the year after the conference.
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by portman 16y ago
For me, the most interesting announcement was that $2 Billion had been paid out to App Store developers to date. That means Apple's 30% of App Store purchases is currently $857MM and change. I also find myself wondering what portion of th
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by portman 16y ago
The title on the post has been changed to "Building a Better Groupon" , which is much less linkbaity and more in-line with the story.
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by portman 16y ago
Also, a large percentage of that was secondary, meaning it went to existing shareholders. So the actual primary funding was much less. Edit: Hypothetical numbers for illustration purposes only: A invests $100M in company. B purcha
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by portman 16y ago
You should coin this as "Scott's Law". It's brilliant.
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by portman 16y ago
This is a very good question, and I don't have any answers. But one anecdote that might be relevant... My wife and I were on a date last month at Chima, a Brazilian Churrascaria. The waiter took our drink orders on an iPhone. Throughout the
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by portman 16y ago
I've lived in the UK, Italy, Uganda, and Cambodia, in addition to the US. All of them have tipping.
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by portman 16y ago
"If the founders leave then what are you left with?" By this logic, the maximum life of any company is about 40 years. Walmart and ExxonMobil are two examples of companies that became gargantuan long after their founders had left. In fac
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by portman 16y ago
You won't get many responses on HN because accounting is a regulated profession and you can't just post advice on a public forum. But here is what you need to Google: "IRS pass-through entity".
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by portman 16y ago
No, if anything they have declared war on a very specific tactic : protesting at funerals. There are well established limits on free speech, such as yelling "Fire!" in a crowded theater (Schenck v. US, 1919). Pretend for a moment that we l
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by portman 16y ago
You're right that there is no need to exaggerate. The raft of state legislation in 2007/2008 setting up perimeters (300 - 500 feet, depending on the state) was in direct response to the stepped-up funeral protests of 2006 which were in ext
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by portman 16y ago
At funerals? Screaming at small children, six inches from their faces, that God killed their father on purpose?
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by portman 16y ago
I recommend OnTrack. I first used them 15 years ago, so I can assert that they're not fishy. Their clean room is in Reston, Virginia. I've paid anywhere from $700 - $1800 per incident, and always had close to 100% data recovery. I'm sure th
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by portman 16y ago
Where are you from? You're absolutely correct that hiring and firing, like all management, is highly dependent on culture. In North America, the overwhelming majority of research has shown that organizations that "hire slow, fire fast" have
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by portman 16y ago
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Class_action#Criticisms_of_clas... Increasingly, class action lawsuits are being settled with "Coupon Settlements", whereby the attorneys get millions of dollars, and the plaintiffs get -- no joke -- coupons.
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by portman 16y ago
Correct. Also, small claims court is not based on tort law, it's quasi-contract [1]. So the judge (not a jury) uses the principle of equity. Even if Apple did send someone (unlikely), it's still a question of what is fair, not a question of
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by portman 16y ago
Personally, I wouldn't ever join a class-action lawsuit. But small claims court sounds perfect... If Amazon ends up removing the Kindle app over these new policies, I would sue Apple (via my local Apple Store to establish jurisdiction) in
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by portman 16y ago
If you liked this article and enjoy Andy Kessler's writing, you'll probably be happy to know that he wrote a novel called "Grumby": http://www.amazon.com/dp/098271632X It's about a hacker who reprograms a Furby, finds that he's created th
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by portman 16y ago
Yes, yes, a thousand times yes. "Hire slowly, fire quickly" is an oft-repeated maxim for a good reason. As for the most humane way to fire someone in a startup, I have a few thoughts (borne from several misfires earlier in life): 1. Sit dow
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by portman 16y ago
Ken Jennings is FUNNY . IBM: "There's a lot of you in Watson" Ken: "If it goes amuck and kills humanity and stuff so sorry lolz my bad!" Chat participant: "I read your first in practically a day, I loved it." Ken: "I'd l

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