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by timrosenblatt 12y ago
I take BART regularly. This is oddly haunting. :P
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by timrosenblatt 12y ago
I've always felt that term is neutral. It's used twice in the original article. I didn't get the sense that they really understood what they were talking about. Seems like a bit of a fluff piece that touched on a serious tren
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by timrosenblatt 12y ago
My company has a coding practical. It is designed to be done in about an hour or so. http://cloudspace.com/hiring/ (description at the bottom). Ultimately it's going to come down to a harsh reality: how bad do you
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by timrosenblatt 12y ago
It sort of depends on what you're asking for. If it's around the business model, the easy answer is to point them to a book like http://www.amazon.com/The-Lean-Startup-Entrepreneurs-Continu... There are great tech
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by timrosenblatt 12y ago
Anytime there's something that I like about a comment, I upvote it. It's a generic "thank you" or "yeah!" bit of karma to me. Let's see how much this comment gets upvoted ;)
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by timrosenblatt 12y ago
Couldn't tell you exact dollar amounts, but 10k in 1950 was equivalent to 100k today. That's enough to show 10-20% annual gains and establish credibility. He fairly quickly started investing other people's money once he showe
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by timrosenblatt 12y ago
How would a switchover actually be implemented? Wouldn't this require being built into every consumer OS device? I'm not a network engineer, so if you are, please fill me in. I don't get the sense that this could be just swap
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by timrosenblatt 12y ago
Very cool! I remember reading about this before. It seems like a weird concept and makes some people mad, but it's real. If you like reading and have ever spent more than an hour or two thinking about traffic and American car culture,
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by timrosenblatt 12y ago
The Minnesota DOT is phenomenally good. Years ago I started a company around road safety products in construction zones (those places are surprisingly dangerous, slow down!). There was a lot of great work and research being put out by MnDOT
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by timrosenblatt 12y ago
Seriously. HN is too good to stay desktop-only.
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by timrosenblatt 12y ago
Wow! Discover one weird reason to upvote clickbait on HN!
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by timrosenblatt 12y ago
I wouldn't, but that's because Cloudspace gives everyone a choice of Apple hardware, since that's generally the best choice for development work. If someone wants a ThinkPad that badly, I bet they could have one :D That being
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by timrosenblatt 12y ago
Not sure if you saw this go by on HN yesterday, but it's a great read, and I think it overlaps with your story: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8149104
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by timrosenblatt 12y ago
Thanks for sharing, Idan. It is very important to ask questions with an open mind. Seems like that person was making a lot of assumptions about what you're having to deal with. It's an easy trap to fall into, but it's an impo
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by timrosenblatt 12y ago
I don't like keyboard stickers, or stickers that go on the inside area where you rest your hand. It might look cool initially, but they quickly fall apart. Outside of the laptop seems fair game unless you're in an environment that
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by timrosenblatt 12y ago
This should be mandatory reading for everyone running a Kickstarter or similar. Great breakdown of costs.
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by timrosenblatt 12y ago
Linkbait/bad headline.
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by timrosenblatt 12y ago
I'm not sure if this a demonstration of the Socratic method or not. In either case, it's a good example of the importance of having friends who will tell you hard truths, and the importance of listening to them.
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by timrosenblatt 12y ago
That's a bit optimistic. Their sales team alone is bigger than that. Companies aren't just engineers.
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by timrosenblatt 12y ago
Well put. The more software you write, the more you need. http://www.timrosenblatt.com/blog/2013/04/24/the-more-softwa... disclaimer, that's my blog! ;)
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by timrosenblatt 12y ago
Great link. There are always going to be more things in the world that you don't know than you do know. It's a good idea to get better at handling those situations. If I could be exceptionally great at 3 things, "responding
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by timrosenblatt 12y ago
Run a view source. The code isn't what most of us consider to be best practices (table layouts and font tags all over). It could be difficult to add. But the site still works, which says something about the difference between great cod
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by timrosenblatt 12y ago
Can incrementalism get some love? Seems everyone is opposed to it, but the plain fact is that nearly all progress is incremental. Real "innovations" tend to be composed of a few component ideas that are themselves incremental. Inn
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by timrosenblatt 12y ago
I'm in San Francisco, happy to meet in the city on Thursday or Friday. Email me and we will sort times out -- tim at cloudspace dot com
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by timrosenblatt 12y ago
I did. Thanks for pointing that out. Here is the source http://online.wsj.com/news/articles/SB1000142405270230418120...
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by timrosenblatt 12y ago
| I've found asking "do you want some unsolicited advice" ++
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by timrosenblatt 12y ago
You know what you should do? You should always.... ( just kidding :P ) Why does it bother you? Is it so bad that it affects your ability to Get Shit Done? You're already aware that people enjoy giving advice. I'm sure many people
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by timrosenblatt 12y ago
Good stuff. I understand Christensen's complaints. Jill Lepore (the author of the "takedown") puts off a weird vibe in her writeup, as if she's personally frustrated, as opposed to just saying "hey here are some iss
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by timrosenblatt 12y ago
This is a really great writeup. It's amazing how such a tiny and easy change can have a big impact. I still remember hearing a story about a company that got a 900% increase in revenue (seriously!) with a single line of CSS putting a b
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by timrosenblatt 12y ago
Also if you'd rather read it: http://www.rbcpa.com/Mungerspeech_june_95.pdf

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