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by space-monkey 16y ago
I agree with Mz that the most likely long term users aren't necessarily success stories. I think it's reasonable to expect that you're going to have significant churn. When someone stops using the site regularly after achieving their goal,
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by space-monkey 16y ago
"Inconsistent Hiring Quality" I think that one of the prime sources of this mistake is the assumption that adding another person will necessarily increase output. The hiring criteria that is being applied at my current day-job employer seem
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by space-monkey 16y ago
"Rents hit a national average of $1,319 by December, up from $1,181 in January 2010, according to HotPads.com. The figures were calculated from a sample of one million active rental prices on the website." Someone generated a statistic base
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by space-monkey 16y ago
Two thoughts: For many consumer products, the value of the product is the experience created by the product in conjunction with the marketing. I think hackers tend to focus to exclusion on "core" or "objective" value. If the consumer mark
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by space-monkey 16y ago
Include the license: From http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0.html You may reproduce and distribute copies of the Work or Derivative Works ... in Source or Object form, provided that You meet the following conditions: 1. You must
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by space-monkey 16y ago
I currently design new products for an established company. When I finish a product, there's a trained staff of production, sales and support people that make the product successful. (Just speculating but) it's quite possible that the Her
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by space-monkey 16y ago
Well, if by "celebrate" you mean "eat a lot of food", then yes!
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by space-monkey 16y ago
A month ago I started getting up an hour earlier and exercising before work. Now that I'm getting exercise I'm sleeping better and thus need less sleep. YMMV
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by space-monkey 16y ago
Altera (and probably others) has been shipping ARM + FPGA SoCs for years: http://www.altera.com/products/devices/arm/arm-index.html Interestingly, Altera has basically end-of-lifed that approach in favor of their NIOS II soft CPU. Atom
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by space-monkey 16y ago
http://www.electroiq.com/index/Semiconductors/sst-blogs/chip... I doubt he was thinking flash memory at the time, but 3D storage is already in use. One of the bigger limitations with this is heat, so we have people writing papers like:
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by space-monkey 16y ago
Go wherever you're going to learn the most. And if you think you're going to be working at startups when you get out of school, go work for a big company for a summer. There are things to learn everywhere, even if they are "what not to do
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by space-monkey 16y ago
Show me the median.
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by space-monkey 16y ago
Centralizing on something like HN also lets you make a choice about which community you want to spend time discussing things with. Random commenter on random blog doesn't usually interest me.
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by space-monkey 16y ago
If you're just burning living expense, you could find some short term part-time consulting work. This would slow you down a bit, but if you believe you'll be either cash-flow positive or able to get a much higher valuation after another co
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by space-monkey 16y ago
Additionally, his turnover went to almost zero since a 40 hour workweek was close to a vacation for a lot of people at the time.
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by space-monkey 16y ago
This test wasn't the only metric they used, it was just the initial filter. A good developer needs to be able to come up with creative solutions, but also to just get down in the dirt and analytically solve a problem. Someone that is good
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by space-monkey 16y ago
Henry Ford found that his factory workers were more productive per week at 40 hours than 48 hours. It's not a big surprise that what worked in his factory isn't ideal for every job almost a century later.
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by space-monkey 16y ago
Work on optimizing my compile time.
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by space-monkey 16y ago
Google would be in a much worse position if Apple had mobile handset hegemony. iAds + native apps isn't something they can break into. Now developers targeting mobile have a much stronger incentive to just develop a web app and cover both
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by space-monkey 16y ago
The concept of avoiding products that are too low value to justify a price that covers their selling costs seems applicable to more than SaaS.
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by space-monkey 16y ago
This is the first time I've heard someone in Congress recognize that everything the TSA has been up to is pretty much useless next to the fact that the cockpit doors were reinforced and locked. He advocates for the opt out day as well.
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by space-monkey 16y ago
My wife had this experience a while back when interviewing at a mid-tier semiconductor company. She was asked to disclose her current salary and refused. They became very insistent that the process could not continue until she disclosed i
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by space-monkey 16y ago
Short story: they provide facilities and services to startups, but aren't targeting companies that are IPO or acquisition bound. Sounds more like bootstrapping+. Company web-site: http://bigwindowlabs.com/
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by space-monkey 16y ago
If you don't like it don't use it. If people are using it, it's addressing a need.
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by space-monkey 16y ago
Things may be a little crazy, but I don't see $10M ( http://news.cnet.com/8301-13577_3-20013223-36.html ) as just a signing bonus.
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by space-monkey 16y ago
I don't see much hope for the end of perpetual "temporary" copyright extension (in the US), just due to the realities of the legislative process. I also wonder if the fair use exemptions have the unintended side effect of making it seem li
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by space-monkey 16y ago
Hey! That was my startup idea...
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by space-monkey 16y ago
A high school student probably has much less to unlearn than some Art History and English majors. Not to say that there aren't great people that have come from those backgrounds, but some highly intelligent folks come out of there with a b
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by space-monkey 16y ago
A corollary to this is that in any complex field that is expanding at any material rate, demand for capable (experienced) people will be higher than supply. There are more jobs than yesterday, so there are more jobs than there were people
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by space-monkey 16y ago
Get a cheap tax-accountant. It seriously can take years to really come up to speed on our tax system. It's not so complex that a somewhat trained professional can't answer all of your questions, and ask you some good ones in a short ses

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