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by timedoctor 13y ago
I've used a very similar method for myself in hiring remote workers, although my ratios are more extreme. In some cases we tested over 200 people and selected one person for the job. Have not used math questions at this stage as it se
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by timedoctor 13y ago
I have a completely contrarian view: They should stop trying to be a competitor to Google and Apple. Continue with Windows and Office, and continue to improve them. Get out of EVERYTHING else including all internet services and everything t
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by timedoctor 13y ago
All of the "problems" that he listed of to do lists are solved by using the "Getting things done" method from David Allen. I personally hate the method of blocking off tasks in a calendar because it is: a) Not agile (can
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by timedoctor 13y ago
The app doesn't work. When you scroll up and down through the images it stops showing you new faces. The faces are not all there, it's a trick, just has a few hundred facebook profiles in there, does not have all 1.2 billion.
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by timedoctor 13y ago
I travelled and worked for over 3 years with 1 month at a time. After working on my time management skills I found that it did not decrease my productivity that significantly (maybe 10% reduction?). This is mostly from things that you canno
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by timedoctor 13y ago
This is a lot more of a problem for teams that are not used to working remotely. Our entire team of 38 people are remote in 9 different countries and we have voice meetings on Skype every day. It's not an issue. However I do notice exa
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by timedoctor 13y ago
I think the ultimate test (and application) for artificial intelligence will be to tell the computer "Make me money" and then it figures out thousands of ways to do it and starts executing on these strategies. Potentially very dan
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by timedoctor 13y ago
This move of Mayer and Yahoo to buy a bunch of startups at difficult to justify valuations reeks of desperation. I think it's the continued downfall of Yahoo. If you compare with Google acquisitions each of them are strategic and the a
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by timedoctor 13y ago
Cool, so the difference with this and Jing project is that it has the video on the bottom right as well as the video of the screen? Definitely 3 minutes is a bit short for some applications
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by timedoctor 13y ago
It should be the law that they must provide the pricing online and via an API so that it can be easily collated and compared with every other hospital. Imagine the type of apps you could create with this information.
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by timedoctor 13y ago
I would also add that VC funds have a s..t load of money to invest. The valuations that they give in comparison with a bricks and mortar business are night and day different in most cases. For example a successful local business might sell
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by timedoctor 13y ago
It makes a mockery of the concept of the US being the bastion of freedom and being an example to other countries.
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by timedoctor 13y ago
I would want to get some feedback from Braintree on this. Requiring a NAB foreign currency account is a pretty big deal. I used to have a NAB foreign currency account and it was a bit hard to operated, might have improved in the last few ye
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by timedoctor 13y ago
This is just the beginning. I can see a future where top ranked universities offer online degrees at a small fraction of the current prices. In fact I think the pricing will be separated out so that the lectures are 100% free and you pay fo
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by timedoctor 13y ago
Microsoft has the luxury of failure also, but when they tried to compete with Google they failed. Microsoft are in the same markets that Google makes a huge amount of money from and yet they failed on most fronts. I think the safest way for
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by timedoctor 13y ago
I thought duplicated were automatically removed? Bug with hacker news?
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by timedoctor 13y ago
I think it's probably better for Google to stage it with a higher price at first (for early adopters), get a lot of feedback and spend a couple of years to improve the voice commands and then release it to the mass market. I know for me whe
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by timedoctor 13y ago
The idea of borrowing to buy a car is a ridiculously bad financial decision that most car buyers make. There are some exceptions (such as if you absolutely need the car for your business), however in most cases people would be way better of
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by timedoctor 13y ago
What's the difference between squatting and building your app? So you're doing to take my domain whilst I'm in startup phase?
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by timedoctor 13y ago
When I read the title I thought they were talking about abolishing patents altogether, which I think is not such a bad idea. At least for software patents I definitely think they should be eliminated. Eliminating this one patent is pretty u
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My 20 predictions for the future in 2030(staff.com)
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by timedoctor 14y ago
Alexa rank is not accurate when it's higher than 20,000. If higher than 100,000 it is not accurate at all and can be gamed easily. Just get a few friends with the alexa toolbar to visit your site and your alexa rank will magically get a who
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by timedoctor 14y ago
I think .io is a much better choice than .co, because .co is easily confused with .com. .io is so completely different that it is less easily confused with .com. Note that overstock totally rebranded their domain to o.co and found that a ve
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by timedoctor 14y ago
Do marketing teams need a different task management app than another task management app? Why not just use Asana for example or Basecamp?
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by timedoctor 14y ago
The longer quote from Warren Buffett is very interesting Today the world’s gold stock is about 170,000 metric tons. If all of this gold were melded together, it would form a cube of about 68 feet per side. (Picture it fitting comfortably wi
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by timedoctor 14y ago
I think a major problem with retention is that the course is not a recognised qualification. The next step for online education is get a real qualification that improves your job prospects through places like Coursera. Also I think there ar
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by timedoctor 14y ago
Why do you say that these are strong brand names? I think all of the names are difficult to remember and spell. I know that finding a name is difficult, but the names of these startups are probably the least impressive aspect. Wevorce - I d
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by timedoctor 14y ago
I'm not sure that this is the sort of board member you want? You do not want board members who are trying to sell to you?
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by timedoctor 14y ago
I'm a non technical co-founder and am building a combination of a serviced based business and technology business. I think this article is spot on for most people. A lot of very successful businesses can be started with a wordpress blog and
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by timedoctor 14y ago
I have to disagree with this. I've watched every episode of Shark Tank, and many of the businesses are in highly competitive markets and do not have any fundamental competitive advantage. 10 times profit is actually a really good valuation.

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