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by rwhitman 14y ago
My theory is that they are there to prevent people from either A) plummeting to their death upon climbing out the window or B) being able to throw trash out their windows into the street There's no way they are useable as a balcony as you'd
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by rwhitman 14y ago
Exactly. In reality, guiding stranded bikers through the tenderloin might actually earn the guy more than working at a bike shop
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by rwhitman 14y ago
What this guy didn't say is that he figured out an alternative occupation - wandering the streets of san francisco saying intelligent things to young middle class people in the hopes that they will give him disproportionate handouts. I've e
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by rwhitman 14y ago
From a UX perspective I think you're at an innovation disadvantage if you launch today without a touch-focused UI. Its a somewhat trivial leap to go from mobile UX to desktop, but much harder the other way around. Desktop focused products h
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by rwhitman 14y ago
Exactly. Is it an Android app? A browser / mobile combo? Is there an iOS version? Where do I get it? If I can't try it now, when is it being released?
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by rwhitman 14y ago
Seems like a lot of moving parts
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Mars Rover Landing "7 Minutes of Terror"(news.cnet.com)
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by rwhitman 14y ago
Starting off a freelance career by pitching for gigs in a narrow niche market seems like a potentially challenging strategy for someone with no track record to back it up
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by rwhitman 14y ago
Quick tip - if you want clients with reliable, steady work and a way to hone your skills and build out a nice portfolio focus on design / interactive / marketing agencies and skip the local businesses. Mom and pop shops who would hire a web
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by rwhitman 14y ago
They were interns looking to fill out their resume and clips with writing samples. There wasn't much of a pitch, some of them started contributing before they even responded to the ad
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by rwhitman 14y ago
I have bought more than a few of them lunch / dinner when they're in town, some of the top writers I've written recommendations for and helped them find jobs. But it wasn't because of any substantial income, those nice lunches & dinners
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by rwhitman 14y ago
Nope. Everyone was an aspiring writer so the quality was significantly better than most user generated content
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by rwhitman 14y ago
I have a social travel product ( http://wherescool.com ) that I launched in 2009 with a team composed of 65+ "writer interns" I found off of the NYC Craigslist jobs section. We filled up the site with so much quality content it was written
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by rwhitman 14y ago
This is a rerun on HN. It's also untrue - analysts and PMs don't typically make more than engineers, this is a bit of programmer urban legend. I actually took a paycut for my stint as a PM
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by rwhitman 14y ago
Weirdly enough the thing I'm fixated on in this video is the fact that he's meeting with NASA at a press event dressed in a t-shirt.
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by rwhitman 14y ago
Suddenly this service became a lot more interesting to me
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by rwhitman 14y ago
Are there restrictions or requirements for owners of new TLDs to offer domains for sale at a reasonable price? Or if someone wants a website at myrecipes.food do they now have to pay a premium extortionate amount to the gTLD owner?
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by rwhitman 14y ago
Desalination plants are already operating in many coastal areas of CA. The problem is that, like the article mentions, seawater desalination is very expensive and much less efficient than bringing water down from the sierras, so its general
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by rwhitman 14y ago
Here are several reasons, from experience - 1) Consultants live off of short term payouts. Its a challenging business leap to go from getting paid lump sums now to building something essentially on spec and hoping for a payout later. 2) Whe
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by rwhitman 14y ago
Same here. I don't understand why anyone would use a video player other than youtube or vimeo for this type of thing
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by rwhitman 14y ago
There's a state of equilibrium between 'bad neighborhood' and bourgeois that needs to be achieved if gentrification is to sustainably hold a diverse base of residents. There's a tipping point that can easily take a neighborhood in one direc
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by rwhitman 14y ago
Rewinding a tape cassette. The sound of the tone arm retracting at the end of a record on an automatic turntable.
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by rwhitman 14y ago
I wonder what their financials look like. Curious to know what the profit margin is on a rocket launch...
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by rwhitman 14y ago
I'm thoroughly convinced that without hypercard my career path would have been very different.
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by rwhitman 14y ago
IIRC Android phones weren't selling particularly well a year and a half after the 1st release either
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by rwhitman 14y ago
I think whats unsaid here, and particularly telling about the Chromebox, is that Google is gunning to be a replacement for Windows in the workplace. The ISO certification of google apps, a cheap desktop replacement directly integrated into
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by rwhitman 14y ago
Does anyone know of any split test products on the market that do this?
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by rwhitman 14y ago
If you have an iPad I highly Moog's Animoog iPad app. Not a direct minimoog emulator, but it is excellent
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by rwhitman 14y ago
Weird, the glide was in the filter section. I was getting so confused as to where that was being set
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by rwhitman 14y ago
If someone asks you to trade a significant part of your salary for equity, you're effectively investing in their company. If someone asks you to invest in their company, approach it the same way as if they were asking you for cash - do your

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