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by smwhreyebelong 16y ago
Can you provide more detail on where the NYC-startup scene is ? (Where could one meet people working in these startups ?)
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by smwhreyebelong 16y ago
I am new to the whole NYC startup scene. Which, according to you, are some of the cool startups in NYC ? Also, are there any NYC-startup specific news sources ?
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by smwhreyebelong 16y ago
+1 I have realized that having an overview of what's on the agenda aka the bullet points is the most helpful thing. Just talking about those bullet points instead of reading from a script makes the presentation more of an engaging/interacti
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by smwhreyebelong 16y ago
Humor is a great strategy. Once you have people laughing, you can get away with a few minor hiccups. It reminds me of a rafting trip I took. The buses being used to transport us from the office to the rafting location were really old and al
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by smwhreyebelong 16y ago
I second that. I have found that I learn things faster (and they 'stick' better) when I work on something that I find interesting/cool. The other benefit of working on it is that you really relate to the problem you are trying to solve (sin
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by smwhreyebelong 16y ago
I agree that it's all keyword based. I think it's because machines can only capture the objective factors of a job search. Things like : "will you get along with the team", do you like the people you'd be working with, etc are very subjecti
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by smwhreyebelong 16y ago
HN "Who's hiring", linkedin jobs, even craigslist. My personal experience with recruiters has not been as good as I would have liked. The recruiters I dealt with mostly did keyword searches on technologies and experience (e.g C++ dev with 3
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by smwhreyebelong 16y ago
I had thought about a variation of #2 at some point but I've been too busy to implement anything.
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by smwhreyebelong 16y ago
They used to. Yahoo! used to be a great company for an engineer to work for. Given what they have been doing lately, it seems the focus has changed from being a tech company to a media company. In fact, it all probably changed when Terry w
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by smwhreyebelong 16y ago
It depends. Ben horowitz wrote a blog post recently on why they prefer founding CEOs : http://bhorowitz.com/2010/04/28/why-we-prefer-founding-ceos/
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by smwhreyebelong 16y ago
I think it's a great idea. Are you sure you want to give up on it ? Why do you call it a failure ? I wouldn't call having 7000 users a failure. You have plenty of room to grow. Let me know if you want feedback. One reason a lot of people t
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by smwhreyebelong 16y ago
Well, of all the jobs I could like, I narrowed it down to two. And of those two, only one of them made the offer. So even though I liked the position at first, I wasn't so sure after I was done with the interviews. I think I'll give the tea
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JSConf 2010 report(sauria.com)
3 points by smwhreyebelong 16y ago|0 comments
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by smwhreyebelong 16y ago
Funny you say that. pg used an inverse-inverse title for his 2007 Startup School talk. It was titled :"Why to Not Not start a startup" http://www.paulgraham.com/notnot.html
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by smwhreyebelong 16y ago
I agree it's all about priorities. Once you live in the city and get used to the hustle-bustle and the fast paced life where most things are close-by and you can walk to most places or take public transit, it becomes part of your system. I'
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by smwhreyebelong 17y ago
I once worked for a well-oiled corporate team. It was actually a startup team acquired by the big company. That was the best work experience I have had so far. The team members got along really well and everyone worked really hard and was a
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by smwhreyebelong 17y ago
Can you elaborate ? I have been in similar situations before where the organization didn't have a purpose and the strictly top-down management didn't have that much experience to know that they were headed down the wrong path (even when the
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by smwhreyebelong 17y ago
This product could have had a lot of potential had Yahoo! realized what it was worth. For starters, an analytics package could have benefited a lot from this service. It seems to me that Yahoo!, in it's rush to figure out how to compete an
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by smwhreyebelong 17y ago
The google tech talk on CouchDB talks about this problem : http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ESDBM9-U804 54:14 in, someone asks a similar question
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Hadoop founder leaves Yahoo(theregister.co.uk)
1 points by smwhreyebelong 17y ago|0 comments
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by smwhreyebelong 17y ago
You can permute the capitalization of the words in the dictionary, and the random characters as well ..
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by smwhreyebelong 17y ago
A better approach might be to define overriding classes and include different stylesheets. I coul have a .sidebar class styled one way in one stylesheet (say base-stylesheet) and the same .sidebar class styled another way in another stylesh
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by smwhreyebelong 17y ago
I think the community will auto-correct and weed out the reviewers who are not sincere. For example, if a user buys something based on Amazon reviews (of a Vine member, say), and discovers that the review was insincere, he/she will most lik
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by smwhreyebelong 17y ago
I remember seeing the service and asking you why one wouldn't just go to Mechanical Turk. Another hidden lesson : Making something very simple to use (and adding a polished UI) can be a winning formula. Smart idea, I say.
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by smwhreyebelong 17y ago
The other thing was availability of good projects to work on for the languages. For objC, I can think of a few iPhone apps I could work on to learn the platform. For things like PHP, Rails, Scala (where you'll need a good amount of traffic
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by smwhreyebelong 17y ago
I wanna start my own thing in a couple of years. I am doing a bunch of Javascript/HTML/CSS at work.
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Ask HN: PHP vs Rails vs obj C vs scala
2 points by smwhreyebelong 17y ago|10 comments
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by smwhreyebelong 17y ago
Agreed that putting their own search results at the top might be considered non-democratic, but if one searches specifically for one of their most recent and supposedly awesome product they will promote and billions of people might end up u
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Searching for "install IE8" on MSFT vs GOOG
3 points by smwhreyebelong 17y ago|1 comments
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by smwhreyebelong 17y ago
I believe it depends on the situation. Most cases, a little bit of research beforehand almost always helps. When you go to the expert, you can talk about what you've found so far and how you think you should proceed. This tells the expert t

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