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by shazow 16y ago
It's hard to tell since I don't have an equivalent control device, but I believe I do. It feels like with the limited screen real-estate, where my code takes up about 60% of the screen and a terminal for the rest, I can focus a lot better w
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by shazow 16y ago
My strategy is similar: For code-related tasks, I prefer the portability of my 13" laptop with multiple virtual desktops. When I find myself in a rut, I'll get up and relocate and regain productivity immediately. I'll usually start my day a
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by shazow 16y ago
http://padmapper.com/ and co are great for finding apartment rentals, but I suggest you consider something like http://airbnb.com/ too. It's very difficult finding a rental with less than a 12 month lease in SF. The best part of Airbnb
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by shazow 16y ago
What about storing Bitcoins in "the cloud" (effectively becoming a bank)? Or even something like Dropbox, especially if the drive becomes password-encrypted without internet and there's a remote-disconnect feature when online.
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by shazow 16y ago
Whenever I see "$ donated to University of Waterloo" I always think of 2002 when Microsoft donated $2mil to Waterloo under the condition that they switch their existing curriculum from teaching C++ to C#. http://arstechnica.com/old/content
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by shazow 16y ago
What an amazing overview of the legal proceedings. Clearly a lot of effort went into this, huge thanks!
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by shazow 16y ago
I benchmarked all the variations on Chrome, var foo = +new Date() was the fastest—not by a huge amount than the rest, but I remember there was one approach that was especially slow. I did this while optimizing performance of a fast-paced ga
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by shazow 16y ago
Very awesome! Suggestions: 1. Revamp the "Recently viewed" and "new" lists to show the domains instead of the slugs. 2. Add "Most popular CSS pivots" for global and for a specific domain, track the most popular domains for pivots. Possibly
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by shazow 16y ago
I would say that falls under "I have debt." Perhaps better phrased is "I can't afford to bootstrap." At the very least, it limits your options in terms of what kind of startup path you take. If you can't afford to bootstrap, then your only
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by shazow 16y ago
Lots of discussion on the matter here: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1884685 tl;dr: If you need Amazon's bandwidth/intranet, use EC2. Otherwise go with Linode.
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by shazow 16y ago
Have you looked at how your competitors make money? This reminds me of omg-facts.com which I follow on Twitter and greatly enjoy (@OMGFacts). Seems they're reasonably successful with 1.6mil followers and various subcategory accounts (OMGFac
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by shazow 16y ago
I bet the majority of requests go unanswered because the recipient simply doesn't understand what they need to do to participate. Beating around the bush is self-sabotage. Be specific, demanding, but polite. If you know how the person can h
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by shazow 16y ago
Perhaps an undervalued skill is determining the amount of accuracy necessary? When asked on the spot like that, you may be better off giving an education guess than shuffling through a giant binder. Sometimes I'll see somebody being asked a
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by shazow 16y ago
Another anecdote for you: I fall in the 50% who did not succeed. I stepped down from Contagion Health (imoveyou.com, S2010) at the end of our batch, but my co-founder Jen is still at it and looking for a new co-founder. Reasons for failure
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by shazow 16y ago
While a Trie is the "correct" datastructure with appropriate storage techniques, you have to be careful when your hands are tied regarding what datastructure you build it on top of. When I benchmarked a Trie implementation using dicts of di
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by shazow 16y ago
Congratulations!! I just started last month too, and my first batch of customers with recurring payments are about to recur tomorrow. I'm both incredibly excited and worried (no one unsubscribed yet).
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by shazow 16y ago
No, you can chat with people across servers, thus the federation. Somebody using jabber.org can talk to somebody using gmail.com. There are even bridge transports to let jabber users talk to ICQ users and Facebook users. It's quite extensib
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by shazow 16y ago
Great post, thank you Chad. I'm feeling the same disdain about committing to Twitter. I launched http://socialgrapple.com/ a few weeks ago--a social graph analytics product built on the Twitter API, and I'm pulling a bit of revenue alread
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by shazow 16y ago
Fair point. Yet another example of the original Twitter team being able to find value and capitalize on a constraint that today would probably be ignored or even frowned upon.
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by shazow 16y ago
Seems the signals are mixed about what is ok and what is not ok, and people are going back and forth on that. More importantly, what happens when something is not "ok", and for what level of ok-ness? 1. A client that spams people's Tw
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by shazow 16y ago
This article is a little older but offers an incredible perspective of the separation in class/race, the state of poverty vs tourism in Dubai. "The dark side of Dubai" http://www.independent.co.uk/opinion/commentators/johann-har...
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by shazow 16y ago
I was reading through the Twitter dev mailing list, and found this poignant observation from a poster: The most telling change in the Terms of Service occurred in sentence #2 or paragraph #1 under section Rules of the Road.
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by shazow 16y ago
More like when third-party apps get good enough, Twitter acquires one and boots the rest.
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by shazow 16y ago
Unfollowing is not as rare as you think. Out of all follows/unfollows SocialGrapple has tracked so far (for detailed accounts), 35% are unfollows of the subject account (63% unfollows from the subject account). I did check the API, Twitter
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by shazow 16y ago
Emphasis on "past 30 days". Your graph with context shows most activity before January, whereas mine only begins in February. I wish I had the foresight to start monitoring earlier.
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by shazow 16y ago
There's no specific point or statement, it's just "interesting data" that you can draw your own conclusions from. For one, it's a nice overview of which YC companies are active on Twitter and which are not so much. Which are recently growin
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by shazow 16y ago
The data is only being displayed for the past 30 days. Keep in mind, just because it's flat doesn't mean it's 0. It could be constant at a higher number of growth. My apologies for not showing that effectively.
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by shazow 16y ago
The charts are showing growth over time, as in delta change on any given day from the previous day. Imagine you had a normal chart where each point is the absolute number of followers, but you take the derivative of that function (or use th
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by shazow 16y ago
Ah thanks. I've been trying to weed out the ones with inactive accounts, so that's probably the main reason why some are missing.
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by shazow 16y ago
Fair point. I couldn't come up with a better way to display 57 charts on one page which give some kind of interesting information without it being a total mess. The information is actually tracked indefinitely from when I started monitoring

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