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by sanj 16y ago
You're joking right? PatientKeeper (full disclosure, I'm a cofounder) has been doing this since '01: http://www.nanzando.com/m-palm/figs/fig10-2.gif http://www.carrollsearch.com/newsletter/images/mcb0508_pkhh.... and more recently http
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by sanj 16y ago
I'm troubled by this line: * ARM processors are cheaper and worse [than Intel chips] * Beyond the fact that they have a very different profile and are optimized for mobile, I don't think of ARM chips as "worse" in any sense. Their instruct
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Predict Whether a Startup Will Succeed or Fail(xconomy.com)
38 points by sanj 16y ago|16 comments
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by sanj 16y ago
OpenID was DOA when they decided that URLs were identities rather than email addresses. You can argue all you want about the technical merits of that decision, but the reality is that email is identity for pretty much everyone that doesn'
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by sanj 16y ago
One problem is that only the wealthy can really pull this off. And I've found wealthy != hungry.
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by sanj 16y ago
Is there any code in the commit history? Scaffolding, prototypes, anything?
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by sanj 16y ago
Have you ever tried to keep a large group busy at a useful task? Now add to that the fact that you'd be taking work away from other folks who want to get paid to do it (cf: internships).
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Upserts through triggers(database-programmer.blogspot.com)
1 points by sanj 16y ago|0 comments
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by sanj 17y ago
I've always assumed that "Sophisticated" Investors are those that have more money to invest/lose.
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by sanj 17y ago
Ignore the scary banner -- it should work just fine.
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by sanj 17y ago
What's awesome is that my team has grown from one (me!) to four as these threads went out. Sadly, none directly from the HN. To correct that, drop me a line: sanj@tripadvisor.com We're looking for intern, junior and senior folks to work on
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by sanj 17y ago
I had exactly this interaction with YoungStartups and Alex N. We went back and forth a few times: I felt that "Over the years, I've learned that paying to present is perceived by investors as a very poor use of funds, especially early on."
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Book Review: Mastering the VC game.(boston.com)
3 points by sanj 17y ago|0 comments
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by sanj 17y ago
For years I've loved HP's printers but found the drivers to be a complete mess. I've been left with the sense that they have a incredibly solid hardware/firmware group, but the rest of their software was incredibly poorly designed: that
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by sanj 17y ago
Poweroff landings are part of all flight training, even for a simple flight license. Any commercial pilot can handle it adroitly.
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by sanj 17y ago
Actually, both of them could, but just in very limited ways. The Palm had 4 threads, only one of which was available to the developer. Another was used for comms and a third for graffiti processing. I don't think the last one was allocate
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by sanj 17y ago
"Personally, I took the pictures as a reminder that the men running Dubai’s gargantuan companies had been given an upbringing that could not prepare them corporate management" Am I the only one who finds this not-so-subtley racist?
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by sanj 17y ago
Brian forgot to mention that we're crazy-ass profitable. Find the filings for proof.
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by sanj 17y ago
Bubble cursor worries me far less than sticky icons. The mapping between mouse and pointer displacement is currently a well defined linear relationship that humans can internalize trivially. I've always felt that mouse "acceleration" under
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by sanj 17y ago
TripAdvisor is hiring in Newton (near Boston). We have interviews that make people either sad (because they're hard) or very, very happy (because it is fun to be challenged). My team is working on making money using social apps in a real, s
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by sanj 17y ago
Getting it completely right is surprisingly tricky while inhaling whiteboard marker fumes. I've found that it is a reasonable test of how much experience a candidate has: http://googleresearch.blogspot.com/2006/06/extra-extra-read-...
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Battelle's take on the DB of Intentions that is Google(battellemedia.com)
1 points by sanj 17y ago|0 comments
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by sanj 17y ago
Y'know, the more I think about this article, the more I think it's a complete load. My dad hopped on a steamer ship and found his way to England from India with one bag and 14 pounds in his pocket. He found a job, made a living, bought a c
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by sanj 17y ago
Really? No one's broken hardware with bad software? Kids these days. Back in the early 80s there was a series of POKEs that would fry the old PETs. If I remember, it'd blow out the CRT flyback transformer.
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by sanj 17y ago
I suspect that flooding the market with those metals would depress the price of those commodities significantly.
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by sanj 17y ago
FUIs (fake user interfaces) are bad business. Even magazines have the decency to print "Special Advertising Section" at the top of their faux articles.
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by sanj 17y ago
You'd be surprised at how many of the tasks are BS-y when changing the world.
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My Big Fat Geek Wedding(newscientist.com)
2 points by sanj 17y ago|0 comments
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by sanj 17y ago
I'm looking for members on my team here at TripAdvisor, near Boston. We're building apps: facebook, iphone, "and others.." Drop me a line and I'll fill you in with more info. Or you could come to a talk I'm giving at MIT on Monday and mee
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by sanj 17y ago
You mean all that stuff that makes sites successful?

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