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by thomaspaine 14y ago
If you're looking for a bespoke tailor in SF that does this, visit Spoon Tailor in Chinatown. Hong Kong tailors are some of the best in the world, and I believe suits start at $700+ depending on fabric.
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by thomaspaine 15y ago
This strategy doesn't work so great with things like dry cleaners, tailors, and dentists. Yelp has the potential to be incredibly valuable with these types of services but I've been finding that the recommendations and reviews are close to
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by thomaspaine 15y ago
I think you may have misread that part, she includes people who graduated in less than 6 years. > The chart below shows the percentage of beginning undergraduate students who, six years later, had accumulated more than the indicated le
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by thomaspaine 15y ago
I use unmanaged dedicated servers with Serverbeach, but I assume SoftLayer has similar tools. If I totally screw up my server there are tools to boot in rescue mode or just wipe the machine and do a clean OS install. For testing out puppet
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by thomaspaine 15y ago
I've never actually applied for a job at Google, but going to 7 interviews (or however many it is now) seems like a lot more work than what they're asking for. I'd rather spend 30 minutes writing code than 7 hours on interviews, and either
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by thomaspaine 15y ago
I liked Waiting for Superman a little better, but The Lottery is also good and touches on very similar themes. http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1515935/
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by thomaspaine 15y ago
King of Kong. Donkey Kong was a little before my time, but the characters are so amazing that it's almost hard to believe it's a documentary. Cosmos. Because it's Carl Sagan.
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by thomaspaine 16y ago
I think Sephr is referring to the fact that many fonts look absolutely terrible on versions of Windows that don't have font smoothing enabled, namely XP. We almost threw out using custom fonts after we saw what our website looked like in XP
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Graceful Degradation For Non-Standard Web Fonts(dev.codio.com)
1 points by thomaspaine 16y ago|0 comments
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by thomaspaine 16y ago
As long as font smoothing is enabled, which I believe vista and 7 do by default now, most of the Typekit fonts look ok. I wrote up a blog post not too long ago about dealing with users that don't support font smoothing: http://dev.codio.co
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by thomaspaine 16y ago
What's the best way to test out different pricing plans without pissing off your users? Seems hard to a/b test because if anyone is actually talking about your company, people are going to be confused that the landing page tells them $10 wh
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by thomaspaine 16y ago
Based on the analytics at a startup I used to work at, photos are a much better driver of user engagement than status updates. I'm guessing the same is true for facebook, and anecdotally, most of the facebook comments I receive are on photo
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by thomaspaine 16y ago
Easy to say when you're a guy. I think it'd be pretty weird if the default pronoun for my username was 'she' or 'her'.
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by thomaspaine 16y ago
I don't know why this is so surprising, 99% of the websites and apps I see don't use SSL for login, even HN doesn't. It's good that this issue is getting more attention, but to specifically call out Instagram for it makes it seem like what
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by thomaspaine 16y ago
It's easy to take Muay Thai classes or watch it and think it's not very technical, especially in the US because Americans are generally not very good at Muay Thai. But going to Thailand and getting your ass kicked and thrown all over the pl
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by thomaspaine 16y ago
I did taekwondo when I was little and I know some people who still do it. All martial arts are technical once you get into them, but grappling is different from striking in that what you do with your body is very similar to following a deci
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by thomaspaine 16y ago
I've been doing brazilian jiu-jitsu for about 5 years, and would highly recommend it to anyone. I know a wide range of people who practice it, from professional fighters to little kids to a guy in his 60s. I think it fits especially well fo
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by thomaspaine 16y ago
What does alphalab offer over any of the other seed programs/incubators to justify being locked into Pittsburgh for 5 years? I split my time between pittsburgh and the bay area, and while it's a nice town it definitely feels like you're giv
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by thomaspaine 16y ago
Some hypotheticals and criticisms I've heard from people outside of YC: 1) There are so many YC startups that the brand has become diluted and it doesn't get you as much PR/street cred as it used to. 2) The YC team is working with so many o
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by thomaspaine 16y ago
I keep waiting for an article describing a bad experience with Y Combinator. Not that I think there's anything wrong with YC, but I feel like I'm getting a one sided story when all I read are glowing reviews. Even if you wouldn't classify y
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by thomaspaine 16y ago
I never understood this argument. Client side javascript and server side javascript aren't really the same at all, it's not like you can re-use your client side javascript on the server. The only benefit I see is that you don't have to cont
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by thomaspaine 16y ago
This math is grossly oversimplified...you're assuming zero interest. I'm on a train and can't do the math right now, but compounding interest + other variables like employer 401k contributions, tax shelters, etc make a huge difference when
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by thomaspaine 16y ago
I'm moving from SF to Pittsburgh in about a month. What's the best way to get info on local meetups/resources/etc? I'm hoping to meet up with some like minded people and maybe even find a co-founder when I move out there.
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by thomaspaine 16y ago
I see humor is not your thing...
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by thomaspaine 16y ago
Palo Alto, CA Mingle Media is a well funded startup currently looking for backend python/django developers and a strong frontend developer. We're building a vertical ad network on top of some web properties, the first of which is mingle.com
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by thomaspaine 16y ago
I'd love to see some evidence for that quote. This assertion paints individualism as a social rather than biological construct, and it's not obvious to me that this is true.
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by thomaspaine 16y ago
I wish I was better at design. On the other hand there's this wonderful principle called division of labor, and while I might spend 10 hours designing a mediocre website, a good designer will design a great one in half the time. This has ac
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by thomaspaine 16y ago
A lot of libraries I've seen in universities have mechanized sliding shelves. They have sensors to ensure that if something is in between them, they won't close. Still though, it's easy to imagine someone getting crushed by their bed becaus
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Some Common Django ORM Pitfalls(blog.davidziegler.net)
2 points by thomaspaine 16y ago|0 comments
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by thomaspaine 16y ago
I was talking to a VC the other day about Groupon. According to him, every local business he's talked to that's used Groupon has universally had a bad experience with it. Groupon customers rarely turn into repeat customers, which is the mai

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