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by raffi 17y ago
Try tracking how you use your time. Go make a grid with hours between 7am and 1am for Sunday - Saturday. Print this. Then write down what you do. I do this to hold myself accountable (I do not use it for planning). I find doing this ke
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by raffi 17y ago
This depends on the project. I'm a non-visual person myself. If it's open source or non-commercial then I recommend http://www.oswd.org -- I have to admit your site will look very Web 1.0 but I've had luck outfitting my open source proj
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Good copy editing can reduce this. An extra page doesn't hurt anything if you're only sending certain people to it. In a way a media kit is a targeted landing page for people you want coverage from. To me, you fall in the slightly hard to
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by raffi 17y ago
I launched Feedback Army on HN and it did really well. I did it during a slow news day which helped. And the whole idea came from an HN discussion which helped. But I did make the front page of delicious that week. So sometimes it can w
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With Feedback Army, I subscribed to "usability testing" blog keywords via Google alerts, and then occasionally taking some time to ping bloggers about my service. Ditto to giving away something to the bloggers. Make it as frictionless as
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I read the post as "what are the important problems? Go solve them!" for some value of important problems. I further read this as the value of important problems is defined by others. I filled in my own blanks there (most likely). Altho
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Yes.
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I get annoyed reading fluff like this. I used to work as a researcher and noticed a lemming like tendency for scientists to flock to the same stuff. It usually isn't until someone discovers something potentially disruptive (or the people
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by raffi 17y ago
Here, maybe this will help, and judging by the vocabulary aherm some folks are using to describe social situations here... they probably learned all this the same way I did: 1. If you're going to make conversation with someone, commit to
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Understanding algorithms and how to analyze them will make you a better programmer. Should you memorize every algorithm and clever trick that others have come up with? I haven't. However knowing that there are different approaches with v
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It looks like your marketing/PR guy did good work. I'm impressed by the amount of press you've garnered.
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I'm full-time on my startup. I'm in my second (or third?) sprinting phase where I'm spending most of my waking hours working. I can't say this is healthy but I'm having fun in some sick way. http://www.afterthedeadline.com is me.
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I have a special place in my heart for NeXT machines. I have a full cube setup in my dad's basement somewhere and I have a colorstation setup on my desk now. It's mainly geek decoration. I figure if I'm ever someone with an important loo
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by raffi 17y ago
It looks like you're competing with these guys. http://www.textwise.com/ I get the feeling your site may over promise on this a little, I get a lot of "the sky is the limit" but not much on what one would do with this. I tried using sema
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Judging by the results it looks like they are using Hunspell or Aspell to do the actual checking. I applaud their well executed effort. AtD is more of a complete writing improvement solution that someone like spellr.us could use to provid
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I wrote my own. I built on top of NanoHTTPD and added the stuff to properly support caching and other features I needed.
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I'm the author: There are two types of spelling errors, real word and non-real word errors. A non-real word error is what most spellcheckers look for. They check if a word is in a dictionary and if it isn't they generate a set of potentia
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Hah, ok score -1 me. It didn't. It came up with way (which was prefixed by a). I think you'll forgive me as that piece is something of a landmine.
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This is work in progress. I'm working on grammar rules now. Last night though I posted the spell checker poem in just to see how the system would respond to it and I was really surprised (sometimes we're our own harshest critics). I have
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Does a small startup have a chance on hard problems? AtD vs. The Spell Checker Poem(killall.dashnine.org)
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by raffi 17y ago
Don't lawyers (i.e. our friends with the J.D.) get to refer to themselves as esquire? i.e. Bob Jones, esq or something like that.
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Sleep 2.1-u4 (scripting language for Java apps)(sleep.dashnine.org)
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Back when I was interested in that whole "job" thing, I interviewed with White Oak Technologies. I don't say this lightly: They have the most programmer friendly HR team I've seen in a tech company. When I applied they responded quickly a
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Until I've gotten where I need to get to. I used to use this technique when I was an undergraduate to get through tough periods of the semester. Recently, I used it on my startup after I finished grad school. I had a goal of getting a bet
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You're probably more of a planner personality then. I think some may have missed my point. When I write down what I did--I don't say I sat at a terminal and count that as productive. I make an honest assessment as to whether I made progr
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I took a look at the page. I have to say, not interested. I think it could benefit those who want "mentorship" without giving up their day job. But these people pay to participate. Also, I'm not a fan of the whole anyone can be anywhere
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It depends. When I'm in the zone I work myself into the ground. When I'm out of the zone I'm very unproductive. I found a secret that helps me get into the zone though. Its a secret, for $9.95 you can order my e-book or just read the re
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The most memorable computer to me came from NeXT. I have a working colorstation sitting on my desk right now. I keep it around as a reminder that the best technology doesn't always win. Although here I am using MacOS X next to it, so wha
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by raffi 18y ago
I find it hard to escape my comfort zone when I'm comfortable. When I had a "job" I would set a goal each year of setting up a small internet business. I called it a cyber lemonade stand. I wanted something small that I could learn from
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This makes me feel better (or not): I wrote a prototype of a similar system for social media sites. The idea was to collect a database of content submitted to different sites and use Pearson's correlation coefficient to compare a submitte

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