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by shimon 18y ago
This article has little to do with Steve Jobs. It's about Apple's purported attempts to sell its professional media software businesses (Aperture, Final Cut, etc.) and, according to an existing Cringely theory, the use of this sale to enab
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by shimon 18y ago
Standing is great, but walking is even better. I've been using a treadmill desk for the past 7 months and have seen the same benefits Jamis noted - less fatigue, better concentration, improved posture. Walking at a slow pace (.7 to 1.2 mp
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Boston Startup Meetup: tomorrow (22 Apr) at 6:30pm(mypunchbowl.com)
1 points by shimon 19y ago|1 comments
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by shimon 19y ago
What does this mean? You're writing a game people can play over IM?
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by shimon 19y ago
I've been using a treadmill desk for about 8 months now: http://rura.org/blog/2007/11/14/the-treadmill-desk-exercise-... Once I knew I'd be using the treadmill long-term, I bought a Nordic Track A2350 treadmill online, along with a 4-year
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by shimon 19y ago
At current fuel prices, regional jets cannot be profitably operated at $40/seat. The spate of recent airline bankruptcies and mergers is partially fall-out from that fact. Virtually all air travel is less fuel-efficient per passenger than
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by shimon 19y ago
Consider practicing a discipline where you write down one new idea every day. Most of these ideas will suck, but tracking them over time might show you (1) some deeper ideas and (2) that even if 95% of your ideas suck, that 5% is still eno
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by shimon 19y ago
Let's consider a more extreme version of the question. Do startups work well when all development is outsourced? Assume you have a very capable outsourced team. You will naturally have more difficulty communicating with the external team,
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by shimon 19y ago
Get involved in organizing some geek events (dinners, hackathons, BarCamps, small conferences on specific technologies or industries) in your city. Figure out who you'd like to work with and make events that will interest them. Develop the
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by shimon 19y ago
WWW-II, also known as "Web 2.0", was a term coined in Q4 2005 by Tim O'Reilly to describe a new generation of participative internet applications. ;)
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by shimon 19y ago
Let me suggest we might call them "tool" or "service" businesses. I think this is a useful distinction, but it's also one that breaks down at a point. Reddit, for example, was a useful way to kill time even before it had a big user communi
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by shimon 19y ago
Let me suggest we might call them "tool" or "service" businesses. I think this is a useful distinction, but it's also one that breaks down at a point. Reddit, for example, was a useful way to kill time even before it had a big user communi
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Boston Startup Meetup: Tuesday 22 April, 6:30pm(mypunchbowl.com)
1 points by shimon 19y ago|0 comments
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by shimon 19y ago
We've been doing startup meetups in Boston off and on since the first Startup School in 2005. After a hiatus of a few months, we're having another meeting at 6:30pm on Tues, April 22 at Tommy Doyle's in Harvard Square. Email list: http://
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by shimon 19y ago
Don't forget to flip the steak to the other side halfway through.
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by shimon 19y ago
I do this all the time, either with screen or vnc. Even if you're not a believer in pair programming, it's a great option for debugging, code reviews, and training new people.
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by shimon 19y ago
The thing you can do to make sure you're not caught in a cycle of pointless work is to release the product. Stepping back a bit, another thing you can do is pick a market that (1) has a need and (2) is willing to pay for a solution. This w
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Workspace+Exercise Hack: The Treadmill Desk(rura.org)
2 points by shimon 19y ago|0 comments
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by shimon 19y ago
Unethical yes, criminal probably not. I'd be more sympathetic to the victim if they weren't themselves in the business of taking money from the helpless.
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by shimon 19y ago
The most important thing for your wrists is to keep the bones in your palm relatively straight with respect to your forearm. If you bend your wrists up, bad things can happen. I work about 8h per day while walking slowly on a treadmill: h
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by shimon 19y ago
My proudest hack combines computers and the public school system. In 1998, going into my senior year of high school, I really wanted to take Computer Science AP. That year, the AP board was switching the course curriculum from Pascal to C
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by shimon 19y ago
This is a pretty good explanation of the situation. At least as far as I can tell, being a coder who's recently tried to learn a lot about macroeconomics. One detail that could use correction: "The way the fed aim to control interest rates
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by shimon 19y ago
Nifty! These scripts work by going through the document's img elements, and turning any that are flagged with certain CSS classes into canvas elements. The image is then loaded into the canvas and manipulated with the proper effects using
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by shimon 19y ago
Working on Christmas is just another edge you can get over your competitors.
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by shimon 19y ago
Condensed version: - In the past year or two, email service providers have all gotten significantly more aggressive at filtering spam. - Even a legitimate company sending a lot of user-requested email risks being flagged as a spammer, for r
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by shimon 19y ago
It's useful sometimes, but probably not worth spending your own money on. Mainly useful for referencing something you already know is in a particular book. As others have noted, it's not good for reading a full book, and for looking up an
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by shimon 19y ago
A baseline, if you have predictable revenues, is the Net Present Value of those revenues. Basically you treat your business as a machine that produces money on a schedule, like an annuity. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Net_present_value O
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by shimon 19y ago
ed: you should give the Boston startup meetup a shot. We started it after YC's first Startup School (at Harvard in 2005) so initially it was entirely made up of this kind of crowd. The group has broadened quite a bit since then, and some