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by xfax 14y ago
It might be because people on HN are beacons of productivity who find that these atrocious projects take away from the reams of value that could be created otherwise by working on the product. This is why they don't read news sites during t
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by xfax 14y ago
Yes, it is. It says so on the second sentence in TFA.
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by xfax 14y ago
Kudos to you and the team for caring about the culture. People tend to forget that the company culture - shared interests and activities being a big part of it - plays a huge part in shaping the quality of the product/service. In addition,
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by xfax 14y ago
As someone who is currently reading SICP, this is a great complement. Thanks for putting it together.
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by xfax 14y ago
I recently posted a similar question to HN and just found this thread. Incredible suggestions. Here are mine: http://farhan.org/?p=22
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by xfax 14y ago
The Emperor of All Maladies was a great book. Even with all the weight it carried dealing with such a serious topic, I could hardly put it down.
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What's on your summer reading list?(farhan.org)
1 points by xfax 14y ago|0 comments
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by xfax 14y ago
If you don't mind me asking, what did you use to create the plugin? Just simply VS or did you use a framework?
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Ask HN: How do you learn a new programming language?
1 points by xfax 14y ago|0 comments
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by xfax 14y ago
Good to see the hacking culture alive and well!
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by xfax 14y ago
There's always friction between ambition and happiness. A lot of us are ambitious people, driven by the need to out-perform ourselves and build something better. It is then natural to think that you will be better off once you reach that
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by xfax 14y ago
Off-topic, but this really stuck out for me: I’d set this bar at 50-70% net profit margin. We can aim high because there is no additional cost for each new customer once we reach profitability. That's a common misconception. You are ind
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by xfax 14y ago
We tried this with https://twodeg.net . TwoDeg (for Two Degrees ) is a proof-of-concept (just for fun, not profit) social network that allows you to create ad-hoc channels (akin to circles ) to communicate and share within smaller grou
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by xfax 15y ago
Exactly. Kudos on building a fairly complex application over the weekend, but the journey has just begun. 'Build it and they will come' does not apply (usually) for revenue generating businesses with real customers.
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Why start up in Boston?(gigaom.com)
1 points by xfax 15y ago|0 comments
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Built in Boston: Why Great Entrepreneurs Are Choosing MA to Build Their Startups(bostinno.com)
103 points by xfax 15y ago|60 comments
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by xfax 15y ago
To your point about MBA curriculum not having a component on selling - not true. Here are a few courses at Chicago Booth that are all about selling (for entrepreneurs): Entrepreneurial Selling by Craig Wortmann Commercializing Innovation by
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by xfax 15y ago
Thanks for the insightful response. I certainly want to be in a position to bring more than just ideas to the table. I am hoping that with my background of doing things will help in that. But you're right, as a career switcher, I need to bu
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Ask HN: Would your startup hire an MBA?
1 points by xfax 15y ago|2 comments
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by xfax 15y ago
I am assuming you get a new static IP when you move datacenters?
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by xfax 15y ago
I'm seriously considering moving my instance to another data-center. The Fremont facility has seen some disproportionate down-time these past few months.
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by xfax 15y ago
Just to close the loop, I went with Munin. They have a good number of plugins and ones for MongoDB and Nginx are available as well. A little bit of finagling, but it all seems to be work reasonably well now.
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by xfax 15y ago
At this point, the project is nothing more than a proof of concept with no expectation of earning any revenue.
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by xfax 15y ago
Yeah, looks like exactly what I want. But the cheapest option is more expensive than all my infrastructure put together :(.
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Ask HN: What do you use for monitoring your servers?
12 points by xfax 15y ago|10 comments
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by xfax 15y ago
That gives me an idea. What if there was a paid service which would analyze such public information about you and tell you exactly what your "profile" looks like, or at least appears to others. Sometimes we don't realize how we project ours
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by xfax 15y ago
Yes, fountain pens. Stuff of legends. Which one do you prefer?
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by xfax 15y ago
Which fountain pen, pray tell.
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by xfax 15y ago
One of the goals of any school is (or should be) to teach the student 'how to think' rather than 'what to think'. A startup is not some mythical entity that works in mysterious ways. There is a lot of overlap with how larger businesses are
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by xfax 15y ago
come on, just 'man at' and use vlc and point to a mp3. been doing it since 2001.

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