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by sstrudeau 16y ago
The US standard (if you get paid holidays at all) is 10 days in most workplaces. 15 is relatively generous. I did work at a University that gave some employees 24 days plus holidays, which was fantastic, and institutionally tolerable becaus
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by sstrudeau 16y ago
I think this is a reasonable strategy. It's easier to lower prices than to raise them. This is a relatively novel experiment in publishing and as far as I can tell it's totally boot strapped. I'm happy to pay for this essentially "at cost"
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by sstrudeau 16y ago
Re: their on-the-fly thumbnail system -- I just started building something eerily similar this week. Wondering if I should hit the breaks and build on top of Google's work...
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by sstrudeau 16y ago
Re: wanting to pay but not needing the "pro" version -- I feel the same way about Jing. I use it almost every day and I think TechSmith deserves my money, but I really don't need any of the features of Jing Pro.
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by sstrudeau 16y ago
I'm surprised this thread has gone on this long without reference to the DevOps movement that is looking to address this process problem. One good link: http://www.jedi.be/blog/2010/02/12/what-is-this-devops-thing...
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by sstrudeau 16y ago
This would seem to be a good place to start: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nestl%C3%A9_boycott
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by sstrudeau 16y ago
This may be one component of the success of Google advertising platform versus other online advertising options. If you want to make a significant spend on advertising with a large publisher (or set of publishers) you pretty much have to
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by sstrudeau 16y ago
automated != high frequency
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by sstrudeau 16y ago
Yes. One reply mentioned transloadit.com just launched. This is also in Drop.io's vision for where they're going in the future. Transloadit.com preprocesses the images, which are great for use cases where you expect you'll need all or most
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by sstrudeau 16y ago
This reminds me of one of my unexpected favorite reads: Jane Jacob's "Cities & the Wealth of Nations" http://www.amazon.com/Cities-Wealth-Nations-Jane-Jacobs/dp/0... She argues that cities (more specifically, city-regions) are the mos
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by sstrudeau 16y ago
And I do have a bunch of potentially interesting feature ideas: things like "mood" analysis (based on the text, does this person seem upset/angry/happy/etc); hooks into custom/proprietary systems (is this person a paying customer for produc
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by sstrudeau 16y ago
I've thought a lot about this and sketched out some ideas myself. I work at apartmenttherapy.com -- which is primarily a content/advertising oriented business, though we are building toward some more app & community-oriented features i
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China's Frustration-Venting Store(jezebel.com)
2 points by sstrudeau 16y ago|0 comments
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by sstrudeau 16y ago
I think the fact that only big players (Amazon, Google) have had any success at all in this area is illustrative. Regulatory barriers plus ability to deal with fraud at scale sets a very high hurdle. Not the kind of thing you can easily boo
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Content Syndication Council Forms to Thwart "Content Mills"(mediaweek.com)
1 points by sstrudeau 16y ago|0 comments
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by sstrudeau 16y ago
Finding a reliable contractor for homeowners is very difficult. Traditionally, you found them via word of mouth (your neighbor hired a plumber who did a good job; your cousin the carpenter recommended a roof guy; etc)... you don't need a la
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by sstrudeau 16y ago
To quote the article: "We live in a world where spammers are a real problem and must be addressed, but CAPTCHAs are not the answer. You simply can not afford the friction. By using a CAPTCHA you are making the internet a whole lot less fun
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by sstrudeau 16y ago
Actually, there are quite a few "underground supper clubs" in NYC. Typically, they're held in private apartments with a prix fixe menu. One article from March on this trend: http://www.theatlantic.com/food/archive/2010/03/going-rogue-...
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by sstrudeau 16y ago
No, I think apartments really are scarce. It's not like landlords are sitting on vast quantities of inventory to drive up rents. That said, rent regulation (mostly rent stabilization vs. rent control, these days) does skew the market, creat
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by sstrudeau 16y ago
Yeah, our neighbor pretty blatantly runs an illegal hotel out of her house in Brooklyn. Usually it's fine but she often has young, European guests who like to party in her backyard (about 10 feet from our bedroom window) until 6am. Luckily
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Copyright: The Elephant in the Middle of the Glee Club(balkin.blogspot.com)
100 points by sstrudeau 16y ago|35 comments
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by sstrudeau 16y ago
This is really cool! When I was in the roommate situation, we just posted buzzer codes composed of dots & dashes next to each name.
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by sstrudeau 16y ago
I think it's really important for the people building a product to spend at least some time doing tech support. Right now, my tech team of three (including me) all "see" every incoming tech support email and we rotate through who's responsi
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by sstrudeau 16y ago
Still, some rudimentary validation can prevent cases of someone entering the wrong value (e.g., just their username) or an incomplete value (e.g., scott.trudeau@gmail ) -- which I see with some regularity ~10k signups/month. If this lowers
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by sstrudeau 16y ago
I'm still holding off on the iPad, but this is probably the #1 reason I want one. Every other thing I'd imagine myself using the iPad for, I currently use either my laptop or phone. I like to cook and frequently adapt recipes I find online;
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by sstrudeau 16y ago
I had almost the exact same experience at about the same age (seeing Mosaic on a friends' machine, in high school) -- but came to the opposite conclusion; I knew this would be hot! Having had tinkered with gopher, irc, and a little bit of t
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by sstrudeau 16y ago
Another steaming pile of mediocrity to compete with IAC's about.com? yawn
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by sstrudeau 16y ago
tldr? Sewing patterns, boat hull designs, sheet music, and electronic embroidery files. I'd argue all of the above are just special cases of "software."
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Four things you wouldn't expect to be affected by piracy(arstechnica.com)
2 points by sstrudeau 16y ago|1 comments
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by sstrudeau 16y ago
This is anecdotal so grab the salt. My brother in MI is doing $10/hr landscape work because it's the only work to be had right now (for someone w/o an in-demand skill) and he had to call in a favor to get it.

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