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by ry0ohki 15y ago
Why would it be any more abused then the Facebook Like button?
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Google now shows you the outline of the Zipcode you search for(google.com)
6 points by ry0ohki 15y ago|0 comments
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by ry0ohki 15y ago
Usually the only time Americans can take long vacations is between jobs. I wonder how many actually change jobs just for this reason. I asked for 4 consecutive weeks off to travel Europe once at a previous employer (I had worked there 5 ye
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by ry0ohki 15y ago
I don't know the differences but here is the Patent http://patft.uspto.gov/netacgi/nph-Parser?Sect1=PTO1&Sec...
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by ry0ohki 15y ago
My vote would be "Yes, if the Patent office approved only real innovative things". For example if I come up with some revolutionary face recognition technology, that seems novel enough to be patented. But if I just make a form with a subm
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by ry0ohki 15y ago
I moved to Pittsburgh from DC and can confirm it is indeed a great place to start something for all the reasons you mentioned. There is a pretty active startup scene in Pittsburgh, as others have mentioned, the main negative is getting VC
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by ry0ohki 15y ago
I think this is a key point. Ballmer has been hogtied with the fallout of the anti-trust stuff. Microsoft can't use it's "installed base" advantage in the same way it once could. We'll see how great Google does once it inevitably faces t
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by ry0ohki 15y ago
You had to be one of the rare consumers who were purchasing a "smart phone". I remember writing software for the platform because it seemed like it was really going to take off, especially when things like the Dell Axim were starting to se
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by ry0ohki 15y ago
Visitors? Don't they only give out like 3000 visas a year?
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by ry0ohki 15y ago
I'm sure you guys have enough time to dedicate to the companies, but it does lose a little of the "exclusivity" for the companies themselves. It used to be I could name every company that came out of a YCombinator class, now it's likely a
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by ry0ohki 15y ago
From their FAQ ( http://oxygenaccelerator.com/accelerator/faqs/ ): When do I have to pay the pre-seed funding back? Don’t worry, we really don’t want you to hand over the keys to your house or car – this is a soft loan. Our interest is in y
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by ry0ohki 15y ago
Very cool, I've never heard of this before but really like the idea. Kind of a tech secret to find out who's behind a site.
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by ry0ohki 15y ago
A crucial part about "closing"... don't allow them to give you an open ended "thanks we'll run this by our boss" type response. People usually just want to end the sales process, but do not want to reject you outright. You should always g
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by ry0ohki 15y ago
I'm honestly surprised it took this long. Considering anyone can submit "Hello World" to the Android store in 1 minute by getting a $25 dev account, and the Apple approval process is an exercise in bureaucracy....
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by ry0ohki 16y ago
TweetDeck might make sense as some sort of "Business or Pro" edition of Twitter
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by ry0ohki 16y ago
It's true, I've known a couple of startups who went the mobile web route only to continually hit the "I can't find your app in the store" support question. Using Phone Gap or a wrapped mobile web app in a native app mitigates this though.
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by ry0ohki 16y ago
Fur Elise is cool, but playing "It's a small world" when you already have a hardware problem is just evil.
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by ry0ohki 16y ago
I describe it as "cult-like", because they are essentially taking the one independent choice you have during your work day (what, where and how to spend your lunch break) and making you conform to the "norm". I think it's probably a great t
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by ry0ohki 16y ago
Most of the reasons you mentioned are exactly why the "free lunch" perk at a former job began to show me there really is no such thing as "no free lunch". I think Joel has the right idea if you want to inspire a cult-like work environment w
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by ry0ohki 16y ago
I'm not sure how making your wireless network open is the "socially responsible" thing to do anymore then letting strangers come in and use your bathroom at will is. Sure, most people won't cause any harm, but it only takes one asshole (or
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by ry0ohki 16y ago
Sad, I wish they would make it an option to track this forever instead of removing all but 7 days.
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by ry0ohki 16y ago
The other option would of course to be old school and go "non-cloud" and buy their own hardware that they manage, but this is an old man talking.
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by ry0ohki 16y ago
That is an developer answer if I've ever heard one! ;)
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by ry0ohki 16y ago
They (at least DHH) often go on rants that acquisitions should not be a goal of a company, and that companies are always ruined when they get bought out (see their series of stories called: Exit Interview)
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SurveyMonkey buys Wufoo for $35m(kara.allthingsd.com)
7 points by ry0ohki 16y ago|0 comments
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The Ruins of Detroit(marchandmeffre.com)
1 points by ry0ohki 16y ago|0 comments
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by ry0ohki 16y ago
All the people saying this will "kill" Groupon in some way are missing the fact that couponing is very far from a zero sum game. Customers are not brand loyal to coupon sites, as it's essentially free money, if Google Offers took off, then
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AWS Outage - It's not a snow day(jamespanderson.tumblr.com)
2 points by ry0ohki 16y ago|0 comments
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by ry0ohki 16y ago
Maybe if it were Apple these would be the only two options. Unfortunately Google does a lot of "half ass" launches. By that I mean they release a product that is the "Google version" of something else that is out there. But they do no ma
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by ry0ohki 16y ago
Or the even older "Don't put all of your eggs in one basket"

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