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by ssharp 14y ago
Is spending 60% of your take home pay on an apartment commonplace in New York? I realize the cost of housing in NYC is very high but I guess I assumed most of the people living in the city were making more than 90k.
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by ssharp 14y ago
This is correct. I believe the standard contracts around here are a 10 year option to drill. If a well is built within 10 years, the option is automatically extended to some longer period of time. Also, I'm not entirely sure exactly how the
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by ssharp 14y ago
I currently live in western Mahoning County. Lots of people around here either inherited or cheaply purchased large plots of current or old farmland. Some are getting very nice returns on those purchases considering some of the advance mone
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by ssharp 14y ago
I read a lease agreement a year or so ago and don't remember if it prohibited civil action if the water supply on the property is contaminated or destroyed. Even if it did, I'm not sure if such a clause would even hold up in court. The peop
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by ssharp 14y ago
>>> Decades ago, energy companies bought "mineral rights" to the land below those farms — so the companies can move in, create drilling pads where they please, move in trucks and workers, without the farmers' consent... Huh? Wit
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by ssharp 14y ago
The only time I've "needed" to do it is at places that limit their wifi connection times. For example, the Panera Breads in my area all limit their connection times to 30 minutes during lunchtime. If you spoof your MAC address every 30 minu
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by ssharp 14y ago
My own personal, small sample size experience has shown that if I start questioning things early on in the interview, I can predict fairly well whether or not the company will be a good fit or not. I try not to jump to conclusions but even
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by ssharp 14y ago
This is definitely the way I prefer to learn things. I've had a few of successes and one failures doing things this way. Things I learned this way: - PHP, CodeIgniter - Ruby, Rails - CSS - Javascript, jQuery I'm hoping to get into some of t
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by ssharp 14y ago
I'm not sure I'm entirely seeing the value here. You're presenting "the best" landing pages but there is no criteria for what makes the landing page "the best". I suppose as a source of inspiration, having lots of landing pages thrown in yo
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by ssharp 14y ago
I definitely wouldn't call someone paying $100 to send him a message a random Facebook user. A certain type of Facebook user yes, but the randomness is coming from a very small segment of Facebook's overall audience. Steve Jobs' one sente
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by ssharp 14y ago
Because it's Drupal.
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by ssharp 14y ago
Suppose I owned a shoe store and the only supplier I chose to work with was Nike. I built my store on top of Nike's product, became an expert at it, had lots of customers and knew the market well. One day, Nike sees how many orders I've bee
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by ssharp 14y ago
Regarding pots and pans, I'm curious how these things hold up over time. Is a high-quality 15 year old pan (appearances aside) function as well as it did when it was new? The reason I ask is because I see what I assume to be quality SS cook
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by ssharp 14y ago
"At this point, I'll take over and spend an additional $3000 to acquire enough users/customers for us to evaluate the project's likelihood of success. We split the resulting company 50-50, as equal co-founders." How does this scale. Presuma
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by ssharp 14y ago
I missed the original HN discussion but did look up your blog and read the post. I see your frustration, but as someone who has been exploring the digital marketing space (well outside of Silicon Valley in Cleveland, Ohio), I can say that y
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by ssharp 14y ago
A chocolate company in Cleveland ran a promotion where the company would pay you $150 per month for three years if you bought a specially wrapped and painted Volkswagon Beetle with their colors and logos plastered on it. http://www.clevela
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by ssharp 14y ago
I'm not sure if I'd consider Facebook's model to be two-sided, at least their startup model. I'd consider two-sided markets to be businesses like eBay or Airbnb. I remember reading something on Airbnb (it might have been a Mixergy interview
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by ssharp 14y ago
I'm totally new to Arduino and hardware (also gained interest over the holiday). There are some good docs on the Arduino website, but once you get into less common components, it's weird to see how little info is out there. Programmers are
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by ssharp 14y ago
Do HN folks who get into cooking all follow the same path? I read "Kitchen Confidential" for fun, then moved on to "The Making of A Chef" and Keller's cookbooks when I got more interested.
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by ssharp 14y ago
> Homemade stock is so much better than the stuff in cans. I think it took about three books (Kitchen Confidential and two cookbooks) telling me how much stock from scratch can effect your recipes before it sunk in enough for me to actu
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by ssharp 14y ago
What are the benefits of cooking stuff in a rice cooker versus a crock pot? Crock pots are also cheap and (I'm guessing) have a larger capacity, further "optimizing" your time. They usually have two heat settings as well and you can stick t
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by ssharp 14y ago
Two points: 1) The minute your food touches a deep fryer, I think all bets on accurate estimates are off. My guess is that people don't know how much worse fried chicken sandwiches are for you compared to grilled chicken. A big part of fast
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by ssharp 14y ago
The upside is maintaining a good and respectful relationship with your past employer and/or past boss. Just because you're leaving does not mean you don't want the company to succeed without you. If the person you're giving feedback to (ass
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by ssharp 14y ago
In your case, it was wasted effort to give honest feedback but that one case isn't enough evidence to say "never". There isn't a right and wrong answer here. Sometimes it's best to give honest feedback, sometimes it's best to lie or avoid t
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by ssharp 14y ago
Yay, more baseless attacks on MBAs!
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by ssharp 14y ago
I'm not sure how many people attending Stanford GSB are interested in creating minimal viable products. At a $185,000 price tag, you're buying yourself into a job in big three managerial consulting (McKinsey, Bain, Boston Consulting Group)
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by ssharp 14y ago
It may be semantics but I definitely wouldn't call these "hacks". "Tips" or "Advice" seems much more appropriate, although with less curb-appeal to this crowd.
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by ssharp 14y ago
Are there historical contexts for comparing 1) the failure rate of Apple laptops, particularly first gen and 2) the response to these hardware failures? I'm curious if this is something more widespread or if the author got unlucky and has s
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by ssharp 14y ago
Biggest thing in music? I think that's overstating him quite a bit. He might be the biggest thing in electronic music, which is a much smaller pond.
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by ssharp 14y ago
It's condescending for an authority on digital marketing consulting to think your portfolio and talent is enough warrant charging 10 to 100 times more? I think it came off more respectful than arrogant.

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