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by portman 16y ago
I have 160GB of photos, 100GB of music, 120GB of video, and 2TB of recorded TV.
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by portman 16y ago
That's an understatement: Leo effectively discovered Kevin. I'd bet that Kevin asks Leo to be godfather to his first-born child. I remember listening to the TWIT episodes around the Digg V4 fracas, and I thought Leo made it very clear tha
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by portman 16y ago
Out of curiosity, where did you get the addresses? I didn't see them on the site.
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by portman 16y ago
It doesn't work for me. I successfully authorized and accepted, but do not see the new drop-down arrow. I've uninstalled all Chrome extensions (I had a few that interacted with GMail) and still no way to switch accounts. Hari Nidumolu, if y
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by portman 16y ago
11, and my best friend had spent the summer trying to make a video game based off "The Goonies" in QBASIC. (Graphics were done the only way we knew how, by using colored ASCII-art.)
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by portman 16y ago
Wait, the NFC implementation is receive-only ? Doesn't this preclude using your phone as an NFC payment device (which would be transmit, not receive)? Can someone confirm if I'm parsing this correctly: "An NFC Reader application lets the u
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by portman 16y ago
I suspect it's more like 10 operations a day, 3 days a week, 48 weeks per year since 1992 (when the clinical trials started).
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by portman 16y ago
> Do you use any hair products at all like gel or wax? I do not. I'm guessing that if you use gel or wax you pretty much HAVE to shampoo your hair. I've never thought about my hair very much, but now that I am thinking about it, the ent
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by portman 16y ago
I haven't used shampoo since I was maybe 10. No problems to report.
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by portman 16y ago
Yes, "Creativity" is very good, although for some reason it didn't 'wow' me as much as when I first read "Flow". Two quick and easy changes from WGICF: 1. The power of bad/wrong ideas. I used to approach a problem space by first eliminating
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by portman 16y ago
"Where Good Ideas Come From" by Steven Johnson I'm fairly stubborn, so it takes a lot for me to change my ways. This book has changed my daily work routine. Johnson outlines 7 environments that have historically produced the most innovative
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by portman 16y ago
I had LASIK in the summer of 2002. (Wow, hard to believe it's been more than 8 years!) No problems to report. I do experience the so-called "halos" while driving at night, but it's not a problem and hasn't impacted my night driving. Further
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by portman 16y ago
You're using "sales", "commission", and "revenue" imprecisely/incorrectly. The money they collect from customers is "revenue". A portion of those revenues are paid to the local merchant. That is the "Cost of Goods Sold". The revenue minus t
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by portman 16y ago
Average age = 72.25 Sheldon Adelson 77 Carl Berg 73 Stephen Bisciotti 50 Leon Charney 72 John Paul DeJoria 66 Larry Ellison 66 Alan Gerry 81 Alec Gores
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by portman 16y ago
"We are talking about maybe 2 or 3 years of your life, or maybe 4 at a stretch." I'm on startup #4 in 8 years. Every entrepreneur that I know is as hopelessly addicted to startups as I am. (Granted, there may be self-selection at work.)
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by portman 16y ago
A hearty congratulations to you and your family. And don't worry about the parent-haters here on HN. I had hoped that the anti-childrearing bias would disappear after Paul and Jessica's baby, but that hasn't seemed to have any effect. I hop
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by portman 16y ago
No. Most of the $2.5B is because of the phenomenal revenues that Groupon is currently generating. But Google isn't just interested in revenues, otherwise they would buy a small oil company - they are interested in Groupon because they are p
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by portman 16y ago
Groupon has over 500 highly trained inside sales reps working out of their Chicago headquarters. These reps have established relationships with probably 100,000 [1] local businesses who are willing to spend money on online advertising. Goog
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by portman 16y ago
The rumor has been swirling for about 10 days. http://news.google.com/news/story?pz=1&cf=all&ned=us... It's not a source, but enough outlets have been reporting this story for enough days that it seems a good bet the two are at le
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by portman 16y ago
I just read the 1998 Data Protection Act, and it is very similar to dozens of laws that govern data privacy in the US. There are 8 specific directives in the law. #1-6 are about consent, #7 is about security, and #8 is about correcting inac
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by portman 16y ago
Maybe this is overly pedantic, but you can do whatever you want with people's data, so long as you inform them of your policies and they agree to them.
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by portman 16y ago
Here's what we do. We have 120GB of photos from the last 4 years (when our first kid was born). They are in folders: - Year - Month (starting with #, ie "5. May" - Outing (ie "Air & Space Museum") Photos that are just around
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by portman 16y ago
I would give up equity, possibly as much as $100,000 worth. But I would not pay very much cash ($15k tops). Most importantly, I wouldn't spend more than 1-2 days on the negotiation, because "The Killer Domain" is one of the less important i
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by portman 16y ago
Here's something I only recently became aware of that may change your opinion on the estate tax. I have three children, ages 3, 2 and six months. If I were to die tomorrow, the cost of raising those kids and sending them to college would be
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by portman 16y ago
Over the last 5 years, I've used FolderShare, Live Sync, Live Mesh, and Dropbox. The first three were made by Microsoft, and they all had significant data corruption issues where from time to time files would simply disappear. I've never
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by portman 16y ago
This is not (yet) a blog post anywhere, but I think it should be. For a startup to catch a larger competitor with a 12-month and +$100M head start is, I think, a milestone worth noting.
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LivingSocial passes Groupon in global traffic(siteanalytics.compete.com)
2 points by portman 16y ago|1 comments
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by portman 16y ago
"First, if you are close to an employee’s anniversary and decide to move them out of the company, you should vest some of their equity even though you are not required to do so. If it took you a year to figure out it was a bad hire then th
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by portman 16y ago
Is there a reason why he intentionally mis-capitalizes "Facebook" to "FaceBook"? Scott Adams strikes me as a careful and fastidious writer; I'm wondering if there is an inside joke that I'm not getting.
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by portman 16y ago
YES, Google's CPCs were far lower in the past. NO, it is not possible to a purchase a meaningful number of $0.01 clicks on AdWords today. I can't view the blog post (HN effect?), but I can say that we used to routinely purchase consumer ele

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