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by vellum 14y ago
I came across this article on Longreads. The author had a more irreverent take on his 10 day course in India, but in the end, he said it helped him deal with stress better. http://www.mensjournal.com/magazine/print-view/the-quiet-hel...
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by vellum 14y ago
The winters are milder than say, Berlin, but at least Europe gets hot in the summer.
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by vellum 14y ago
When I go to your app’s page, these are the things I see (in order): 1.) smiling samurai on top, 2.) a bunch of menu pages in the screen shots + 1 sudoku puzzle, 3.) a description that’s more tell than show - “the most outstanding sudoku ap
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Wounded Warrior Pose(nytimes.com)
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by vellum 14y ago
You'll get better results if you spend more time introducing yourself at tech meetups, and less time browsing monster.com A lot of those job sites are black holes as far as resumes are concerned. I don't know all get-togethers in NY, but
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by vellum 14y ago
The 75% tax rate is for people making over $1 million euros[1]. If you make below that, you pay 45%. [1]: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Taxation_in_France#List_of_taxe...
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by vellum 14y ago
1.)Getting a server close to the exchange 2.)Finding a good predictor. Predicting up or down is easy on paper. Finding a predictor that a.)beats the spread, b.)factors in lag time to execution, and c.)factors in commission, is hard. 3.)Ma
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by vellum 14y ago
This. NDT's saying that leaders are a product of their base. If you want better leaders, do something to change the minds of the people who elect them.
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by vellum 14y ago
Pot smoking in Cali gets you a citation at best. It's not obvious where she was, and SF's not going track down alleged pot smokers. All the actions mentioned in the article were violent acts and felonies.
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by vellum 14y ago
If you want to (start to) cover a gap in employment, make an LLC and put that on your resume. And if you get questioned about it, just say, "Why, yes... I was bootstrapping my own business." It would also help if you had a small app or tw
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Notes on the acquisition process(cdixon.org)
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For popular Khan Academy, a critical voice amid the adulation(mercurynews.com)
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Apple AirPlay and the Window of Obsolescence(pogue.blogs.nytimes.com)
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Where Is Bourne? Not in an Electronic Version(pogue.blogs.nytimes.com)
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Dieting vs. Exercise for Weight Loss(well.blogs.nytimes.com)
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Tribes fear that legalizing online poker would hurt casinos(sacbee.com)
1 points by vellum 14y ago|1 comments
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by vellum 14y ago
Even if they aren't perfect, it's better to have them on the web as a starting point. From there, KA can iterate and make them better.
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by vellum 14y ago
They should look into adding an affiliate program. There are a lot of travel sites that could integrate that into their content.
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10 Paths to a More Fluent Vacation(travel.nytimes.com)
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More on Milk(opinionator.blogs.nytimes.com)
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by vellum 14y ago
>I expect him to have a bias towards Apple and developers because he makes his money off of Instapaper for iOS and he is a developer. He also has an Android app for Instapaper. http://www.marco.org/2012/06/06/instapaper-for-android
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Comcast Internet to hit 305Mbps, 5 megabits faster than Verizon FiOS(arstechnica.com)
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by vellum 14y ago
I think a "city library" model would work better. Patrons don't get get to borrow books until they've returned or paid for the old ones. So as a freelancer, you would stop working until they pay you.
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by vellum 14y ago
Craig Newmark now says (6/25/12): "folks, please remember, #craigslist community feedback massively against the use of their stuff for the profit of others." https://twitter.com/craignewmark/status/217323728260972544
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by vellum 14y ago
Berlin's cheap because it's located in the middle of former East Germany, which has cheaper rents than West Germany. Also, most of the business centers are located elsewhere in West Germany. Frankfurt is the finance capital. Cologne is th
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San Jose: 21 people treated for burns after firewalk at Tony Robbins appearance(mercurynews.com)
2 points by vellum 14y ago|0 comments
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by vellum 14y ago
The US still Silicon Valley centric, with a growing interest in New York. But there's still a segment that likes to travel abroad. It comes up a lot in the "Where should I bootstrap my business" threads. Cheap rents, broadband access, En
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Sparrow's acquisition highlights the dangers of closed source(osnews.com)
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by vellum 14y ago
I agree. I spent about a few weeks cobbling together a prototype, but most of it was spent trying to get it look and feel native. That plus debugging is a nightmare.
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by vellum 14y ago
http://orange.biolab.si/ is also good. It has a nice GUI.

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