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by rosenjon 13y ago
As my dad is fond of saying, "He who takes what isn't hisn must give it back AND go to prison".
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by rosenjon 13y ago
How is this a quick sale? He built the company over 5 years, and then sold it for $19 billion. The sale price equates to an 11% stake in Facebook at its current market cap. That is a huge, world crushing exit. I hadn't ever used this a
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by rosenjon 13y ago
Yes. To talk about startup anxiety, but also balancing everything else in life. I think the desire to problem solve also extends to life issues, and sometimes this gets unhealthy if it all stays in my head.
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by rosenjon 13y ago
Ditto. I have benefited immensely from PHP and very much appreciate the contributions from people like Richard. Very sorry to hear this happened to him and hopefully donations help take some of the stress off his family in this very difficu
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by rosenjon 13y ago
How is that going to solve the problem? The procrastination comes from a fear of failure. Your suggestion is to go take a mindless, shitty job, thereby suggesting this is what's going to happen to him if he fails? First, that's pr
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by rosenjon 13y ago
nevermind, i see, it's DEAL. I didn't carry the mixup calls all the way down. I guess the "mixup" function call should be a hint.
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by rosenjon 13y ago
I was curious after reading this, so I Googled sample questions from the AP Computer Science exam. https://www.tracy.k12.ca.us/sites/clunetta/Java/practice/pra... The last question on the test is this: T
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by rosenjon 13y ago
This is going to sound a little crazy, but you need to take a break. Give yourself a one week vacation, and go do something fulfilling that doesn't involve working on this app. What do you like to do? It doesn't have to cost money
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Ask HN: Why do all shopping websites look the same?
1 points by rosenjon 13y ago|1 comments
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by rosenjon 13y ago
I predict this is the beginning of the end for these guys. After the emergency funding and layoffs, this suggests that they may be on their last legs. It's either bankruptcy or an emergency sale coming down the line...
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by rosenjon 13y ago
Aside from whether or not this method of linking data increases performance, there is a huge cost in relational databases to the complexity created by many-to-many relationships. Even if the performance were the same, the dispersion of data
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The War on Irrational Fear - Satirical response to war on terror(waronirrationalfear.com)
1 points by rosenjon 13y ago|0 comments
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by rosenjon 13y ago
I was thinking about this same thing recently when I had to do a change of address. It seems like there is a lot of room for innovation around postal mail. I think 80% of the mail I get should be send electronically. If there was a pointer,
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Intellectual Ventures ramps up lobbying in face of new legislation(usatoday.com)
48 points by rosenjon 13y ago|40 comments
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by rosenjon 13y ago
You could try this out. http://www.random.org/clients/http/ Of course, there is a trust issue with this service potentially. However, supposedly, they use a random noise technique that is "true random".
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by rosenjon 13y ago
The biggest problem with NDAs that I've come across is that often people want to slip non-compete type clauses into them. If it is a straight up non-disclosure agreement, it's going to cost the company more to sue you than it woul
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by rosenjon 13y ago
This looks awesome. I want one. How far can it fly on the battery it ships with?
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Biotech Hacker Space in Seattle(cosmiclog.nbcnews.com)
1 points by rosenjon 13y ago|0 comments
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by rosenjon 13y ago
It's a simple coding test that asks you to write s program that prints Fizz, Buzz or FizzBuzz, usually depending on the multiple of some number. I.e. multiple of 3 print fizz, multiple of 5 print buzz, multiples of both 5 and 3 print fizzbu
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by rosenjon 14y ago
Grubhub did raise $50M a couple years ago: http://techcrunch.com/2011/09/20/food-delivery-search-engine... While not a direct indicator of success, I assume this means they are posting some encouraging numbers. I think a lot of restaurant
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by rosenjon 14y ago
Was that actually Linus Torvalds? I just assumed it was someone trolling as him. For web scraping, PhantomJS is much better than Beautiful Soup or any xml parsing library. Lots of stuff happens in JS these days, so you need programmatic acc
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by rosenjon 14y ago
What might those be? The check cashing and bill pay mentioned are already offered for free by banks. Diversion of junk mail marketing $ into "effective methods" of marketing is pretty cryptic. I think creating some online equivalent of post
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by rosenjon 14y ago
I know some people who did it. If you want, I can connect you.
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by rosenjon 14y ago
I really like the part where he talks about how companies have forgotten that employees are human beings. So true in so many cases.
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by rosenjon 14y ago
Any business is about balancing cost structure with revenue potential. For an e-fax service, once you invest in the initial infrastructure (and these days, there might not even be much fixed cost investment.... link together Twilio and a we
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by rosenjon 14y ago
Got it. Makes sense now. I like that idea. I struggle with some of the same issues. Just get it out there and iterate...
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by rosenjon 14y ago
"It’s been one month since I decided to try launching a product with the goal of generating $5 in profit." I'm confused. Why is this a challenge?
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by rosenjon 14y ago
That's just to pay the pickup guy. You have to pay for gas. And the costs of operating a batch scanning facility for mail. And most mail is not of uniform size and does not have uniform contents, so you end up having to manually open and sc
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by rosenjon 14y ago
This idea just doesn't seem to want to die. I saw an investor presentation for Earth Class Mail back in the day. They would scan the front of your mail, and then you could choose which items to have them open. They would then have to manual
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by rosenjon 14y ago
I would find an open source project you find interesting and hack on that for a while. It will allow you to learn from code that others have written, while also creating your own. I ran a website a while back that ran on TikiWiki, and I lea

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