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by sdh 17y ago
My strategy is to stay awake until I start to doze off. At that point, I go straight to bed and usually fall asleep within a few minutes. If I go to bed sooner than that, my mind races and I can't fall asleep.
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by sdh 17y ago
lol, basically ... we're too big to be responsible for our actions. brilliant!
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by sdh 17y ago
have you ever seen a burnout?
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by sdh 17y ago
"our ad inventory is being hammered by ad blockers" Why are you trying to monetize your audience through ads if they aren't interested? If you could disable all those ad blockers do you believe that same ad inventory would be of any value
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by sdh 17y ago
We shouldn't take the experience of publishers like Ars and techdirt as indicative of the whole industry. Both of those publishers have very tech savvy audiences who are not the best demographic for display ads. While the effectiveness of
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by sdh 17y ago
the people who block ads are never going to click on them anyway, so it's a moot point. it isn't ad blocking that is devastating sites, it's ineffective advertising.
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by sdh 17y ago
isn't this the purpose of patents? ... prepare for grotesque oversimplification ... NewCo creates some innovation and spends a bazillion dollars creating a new market for it (and fails because creating new markets is expensive). NewCo ultim
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by sdh 17y ago
Why does it matter if a variable name is longer than it should be? As long as the code is legible, who cares? I assume the author isn't saying that all variables should be named like "i" and "j" (and those examples are bad ones since they
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by sdh 17y ago
http://www.bea.gov/newsreleases/regional/gdp_state/2009/gsp0... The actual data doesn't seem to fit the author's assessment. California per capita GDP in 2008: 42,064 (ranked 7th) Texas per capita GDP in 2008: 38,044 (ranked 19th) U-Haul
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by sdh 17y ago
wow, worst advice ever! funding is not a guarantee of success. in fact, a funded team has a harder challenge than the non-funded team. as soon as you take funding, the window for liquidity shrinks dramatically. venture investors want the
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by sdh 17y ago
I just want a DRAWING tablet from Apple!!! The smallest Cintiq is a thousand bucks and I have to have a computer attached to it! Give me a drawing tablet that I can also read PDFs on (and wireless on a pricier model) and I'll be all set.
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by sdh 17y ago
Generation ADD I don't know what NJ is like, but come to SF. You won't see an eyeball for months ... unless you wear an iphone on your face.
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by sdh 17y ago
Look to history for the answer to why privacy is so critical to a functioning, free society. If you don't care about freedom, then privacy is indeed overrated. Basically, every law or power given to the government needs to be evaluated as i
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by sdh 17y ago
the real problem is not google or schmidt, but things like the patriot act and the ridiculous habit of our government of using "matter of national security" as a catchall for abuse. the more people who realize how little privacy they have l
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by sdh 17y ago
ridiculous as in technically absurd. I don't think he meant the design was ridiculous. at least that's my interpretation.
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by sdh 17y ago
I wish we could get back to using "Go" as a reference to the board game.
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by sdh 17y ago
is it still fast now that we've all heard of it? sorry, couldn't resist. blame the headline.
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by sdh 17y ago
"I feel like I'm just making other people rich." Then why are you working for other people? If you can create the kind of value you claim ($700k daily revenue), then your next choice seems obvious. start your own company. don't "do a start
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by sdh 17y ago
I think this is a big part of why so many VC funded "we'll figure out how to make money later" startups fail. The runway encourages a weakness in the DNA of their company. If primitive man had a refrigerator full of food back at the cave,
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by sdh 17y ago
I think the quote should be "lose your first 50 games as quickly and thoughtfully as possible." Ideally, you are losing to progressively better opponents. This gives you the opportunity to ask for help and learn better technique as you are
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by sdh 17y ago
use the peanut butter and jelly sandwich exercise. ask them as a group to give instructions one by one for building a peanut butter and jelly sandwich. you perform each instruction precisely as given. them: "put peanut butter on the bread"
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by sdh 17y ago
I'm surprised people aren't more up in arms about AT&T continuously tracking their location.