toufique

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by toufique 11y ago
Built-in distribution, period. No other platform gets you as many readers w/o doing any self-marketing. The design and functionality is nice, but I think it would still be similarly successful if it looked like Geocities. Thought expe
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by toufique 11y ago
In a theoretically ideal world, the solution would be to pay per room instead of per hour to account for the productivity difference.
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by toufique 11y ago
I think higher "education" is certainly being disrupted, but higher "accreditation" isn't yet. You're right on point.
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by toufique 11y ago
Higher education is starting to feel very hackable. Cost is substantially increasing. Benefit is stagnating or decreasing. Cost of substitutes is exponentially decreasing. It's ripe for disruption, hence my fascination.
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by toufique 11y ago
4. Quit the company. Find better co-founders. As a technical co-founder, you're the one in high demand. Why stay at a company that undervalues you? The opportunity cost is very high. Find better people working on something interest
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by toufique 11y ago
This is awesome, like life-changing awesome! I always felt an impedance mismatch between how my mind describes string patterns and how regexps are written. VerbalExpressions is the closest thing I've seen to how I naturally think.
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by toufique 11y ago
I finally have proof now that impulsively checking Hacker News while procrastinating err... working actually makes me more productive.
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by toufique 11y ago
Appropriate article for the first day of Ramadan.
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by toufique 12y ago
I'm hiring a technical Product Manager to work with the Unreal Engine. E-mail me if you're interested in the space, toufique at Google's e-mail service.com
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by toufique 13y ago
I just don't obsessively check or respond to e-mail anymore.* Peter Drucker had a great piece of wisdom: "There is surely nothing quite so useless as doing with great efficiency what should not be done at all." This implies t
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Is it just me or are Facebook ads pretty much like porn ads? (NSFW)(content.screencast.com)
9 points by toufique 13y ago|1 comments
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by toufique 14y ago
I third Simple Made Easy. Totally changed the way I think about complexity.
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by toufique 14y ago
Is this effectively a read-write inverted index?
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FactCheck.org : FactChecking the Hofstra Debate(factcheck.org)
2 points by toufique 14y ago|0 comments
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Disabled HTML form elements don’t get submitted with the form. I had no idea.(johnzeratsky.com)
3 points by toufique 14y ago|0 comments
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Washington Post's Fact Check of the VP Debate(washingtonpost.com)
5 points by toufique 14y ago|0 comments
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USA Today's Fact Check of the VP Debate(usatoday.com)
4 points by toufique 14y ago|0 comments
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Apache Wiki is Down. It's 2012. The World is Ending(wiki.apache.org)
2 points by toufique 14y ago|0 comments
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Ask HN: Any Hackers Attending TechCrunch Disrupt?
1 points by toufique 14y ago|0 comments
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by toufique 16y ago
Love it! Not sure if I'd remember to come to the site everyday, but I'd definitely follow a CaptainObvious twitter account if it tweeted newly submitted ideas.
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by toufique 16y ago
Beautiful. Something oddly fun about fluid draggable objects. Kept me occupied for a good 10 mins. Maybe useful as an idiot detector as well :P
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by toufique 16y ago
Love the Text implementation. Great work!
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by toufique 16y ago
"It's almost like I'm famous" - Patrick O'Leary, upon seeing his project on Hacker News.
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by toufique 16y ago
My all time favorite is "Find x": http://www.ximnet.com.my/thelab/images/upload/findX.jpg "Be Rational" and "Get Real" is pretty good too: http://media.photobucket.com/image/rational/CocaC0la99/be-ra...
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by toufique 17y ago
Dan was by far the greatest guy in our summer batch. He was truly one of the most generous people I've ever met. He went out of his way to help us out on so many occasions. He never asked for a favor in return, nor did he even expect one
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Man auctions off his life, sale price disappoints - Yahoo! News(news.yahoo.com)
2 points by toufique 18y ago|0 comments
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by toufique 18y ago
About as INTP as INTP gets. I'm going to claim that INTP is the optimal personality type ;P