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Ask HN: What value do you get from tech meetups that are startup-founder-heavy?
1 points by sendos 16y ago|0 comments
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by sendos 16y ago
How is this different or better than other instant messaging apps for smartphones?
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Ask HN: How to validate an idea that involves both users and businesses?
9 points by sendos 16y ago|5 comments
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Ask HN: Any stats on success of single versus married founders?
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by sendos 16y ago
Matlab for all three parts. Quick and dirty solutions here: http://gist.github.com/618006
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by sendos 16y ago
1) Come up with an idea I think the OP is saying they are stuck at this step.
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by sendos 16y ago
Another dimension for compatibility: - religious beliefs (Emacs or Vim)
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by sendos 16y ago
If we go by the following definition of Strong AI (from Wikipedia) Strong AI is artificial intelligence that matches or exceeds human intelligence — the intelligence of a machine that can successfully perform any intellectual task that a h
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by sendos 16y ago
[edw519] What I really care about is how my software is used. And who uses it [heliodorj] The main motivator and source of satisfaction for software developers is the human aspect, not the technology itself. Is your product making a diff
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by sendos 16y ago
How can a company that makes gadgets be passing in market cap companies that produce oil, which is a necessity for our modern way of life? Sure, tech gadgets are great and super-useful when things are going well (and I have lots of them, an
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Ask HN: Tell us about your experiences of pitching to people who "got it"
4 points by sendos 16y ago|2 comments
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by sendos 16y ago
Cmd+delete is not the equivalent of shift+delete on Windows. On Windows, that key combination permanently deletes an item. In OS X, this key combination moves the item to the trash. Good point Based on the authors perspective, anything t
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by sendos 16y ago
enter to rename files, best keyboard shortcut ever If enter-to-rename is so great why does Apple violate it in iTunes? In iTunes, when a song is selected and you press Enter, it doesn't ask you to rename it, but "opens" it, i.e. starts pl
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by sendos 16y ago
Menu location: Having the menu at the top of the screen actually makes it easier/quicker to click (see Fitts' Law) While I see that this is true for smaller monitors, it becomes less true with today's large monitors. When I have a small w
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by sendos 16y ago
If you just map the CapsLock key to Control, that means that in regular Mac apps you need to type things like Command-C and Command-V, which is not as convenient as CapsLock-C and CapsLock-V. So, I have CapsLock mapped to Command (so that C
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Things about the Mac that annoy new users from PC-land(startuptrekking.com)
31 points by sendos 16y ago|63 comments
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Web startups are just attempts at social engineering(startuptrekking.com)
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by sendos 16y ago
What you are proposing, while great for the consumer, will not happen any time soon, due to the inertia of millions of merchants and their existing POS terminals, and also due to the fact that very few people have smartphones. Also, how wid
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by sendos 16y ago
This may be a stupid question, but if a startup has found a "repeatable, scalable customer acquisition process" why would they need to talk to angels? Presumably your repeatable, scalable customer acquisition process will be bringing in lot
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Ask HN: What is Quora doing right?
8 points by sendos 16y ago|4 comments
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Configuring Emacs for use on a Mac(startuptrekking.com)
2 points by sendos 16y ago|0 comments
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Ask HN: Is Perl dead?
54 points by sendos 16y ago|134 comments
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Ask HN: 1 star ratings with zero feedback in app store
2 points by sendos 16y ago|0 comments
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by sendos 16y ago
BTW, I didn't mean to imply that the Dutch are cheap. I just thought that their overwhelming interest in an app that provides a more fair split of the check (versus an even split) is indication that they do indeed like to "Go Dutch" (ie spl
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Apple App Store stats: The power of "Free" & The Dutch really do "Go Dutch"(startuptrekking.com)
3 points by sendos 16y ago|2 comments
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128 bits(startuptrekking.com)
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by sendos 16y ago
No matter how experienced he is, and no matter what arguments he makes, he is still one guy. You should worry only if multiple people tell you the same thing and if you can't get any traction.
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by sendos 16y ago
A couple months ago I did some back-of-the-envelope calculations to see the relative benefits of focusing on one idea versus doing many at once, and in most scenarios, focusing on one idea has the highest probability of success. See the ana
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by sendos 16y ago
Thanks for the feedback! We are currently working with a UX expert to help us re-design the look & feel and the functionality of the website, and the issues you bring up have been brought to our attention and will be addressed in the ne
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by sendos 16y ago
Would you rather come up with a great idea you are passionate about and see it through to completion, or build something that you know Google (or similiar) will snap up for $25 million? I prefer the former. But the latter is not a bad out

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