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by yankeeracer73 16y ago
The processor fan started up on my Macbook Pro 17" just like it does when I use Flash for more than 5 seconds. How ironical. :)
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by yankeeracer73 16y ago
Interesting - we're in the same space but I don't think I know a single paying client of ours that actually reads our blog. Most of our readership comes from Hacker News and friends - it's a little like living in two worlds.
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by yankeeracer73 16y ago
Pretty decent to use but may check out some of the other suggestions on here - bookmark organization leaves something to be desired, there's no auto complete of addresses, and given the keyboard centric navigation model, it would be nice to
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by yankeeracer73 17y ago
Thank you. Not sure why pivotaltracker is getting so much love here for UI design? It might be a powerful bug tracker tool but for UI it should not be getting mention among some of these other beautiful and functional apps like wufoo.
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by yankeeracer73 17y ago
Another resource here in the US is the Extension service: http://extension.org . This has been their goal online for awhile now - to provide peer reviewed material that is a "cut above" the stuff you'd find online. Kind of a cool transiti
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by yankeeracer73 17y ago
This is exactly right. Until they see real damage from the decisions they're making in the form of lost revenue and non-record quarterly performances, why not take the strongest "negotiating" position possible. You can always back down late
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by yankeeracer73 17y ago
Can you point to any research that says real money exchanges perform any better than the play money exchanges? Here's some saying just the opposite published by Wharton: http://bpp.wharton.upenn.edu/jwolfers/Papers/DoesMoneyMatter... - th
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by yankeeracer73 17y ago
Agreed, major weak sauce.
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by yankeeracer73 17y ago
A character counter for the title input box when submitting links since you're limited to less than 80 chars.
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The psychological need to gloat about your company(blog.inklingmarkets.com)
2 points by yankeeracer73 17y ago|0 comments
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by yankeeracer73 17y ago
Not to go off topic or anything but is this kind of an unfortunate name? "Whitey" has pretty negative connotations here in the US anyway.
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How to think about competitors in an immature market(blog.inklingmarkets.com)
4 points by yankeeracer73 17y ago|1 comments
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Interesting Review of "You Are Not a Gadget" by Jaron Lanier(transcapitalist.com)
1 points by yankeeracer73 17y ago|0 comments
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by yankeeracer73 17y ago
I don't care what you call it. Unless they have some sort of vision, they will continue to bleed good people and mind share until they are completely irrelevant. Cost cutting and efficiency gains are only going to get them so far. What will
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by yankeeracer73 17y ago
What is the focus of Yahoo? What does it do? It grew up as a search and catalog company. Then it got in to content. Then mail. Then 50 other things. What is the unifying theme to all this? "Connecting people to content" could be anything. A
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by yankeeracer73 17y ago
I think you might be right. Bootstrapping a start up is damn hard and damn stressful. And it takes a long time. As someone mentioned earlier, 37s is a 10 year old company that is now highly profitable, but it took a long time for them to ge
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Why are companies in such a rush to act big?(blog.inklingmarkets.com)
5 points by yankeeracer73 17y ago|0 comments
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by yankeeracer73 17y ago
Delegation does work when there is just too much to do, but I would also argue knowing at least a _little_ about programming would help you work with your team better. And that goes for anything in addition to programming. I don't really kn
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by yankeeracer73 17y ago
Yes, it uses Hanson's market scoring rule.
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by yankeeracer73 17y ago
Am i the only one who found this whole thing kind of depressing? this kid is 17, right? he's very impressive, but talking already about how he lives a 24/7 lifestyle and brings a laptop with him on vacation? he sounds like he's about 35. i
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by yankeeracer73 17y ago
ah, thanks for the clarification. was still a pretty good strategy on their part i thought...
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by yankeeracer73 17y ago
I'm no Microsoft apologist by any means but come on, they rule the business world; they had to do something right to get there. Any company in the world would kill to have their products have 90%+ market share.
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Ask HN: What should Microsoft do to get its mojo back?
16 points by yankeeracer73 17y ago|29 comments
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The iPad and a dwindling offline escape(blog.inklingmarkets.com)
7 points by yankeeracer73 17y ago|0 comments
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by yankeeracer73 17y ago
Agreed - I thought this was pretty damn impressive. I wonder how they're handling the file system behind the scenes. What will be the interface to save and open files? Some new file manager in itunes? A new hybrid interface pulling in eleme
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An online community that started 50 years ago: PLATO(itc.conversationsnetwork.org)
1 points by yankeeracer73 17y ago|0 comments
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by yankeeracer73 17y ago
It's advantageous to be in Silicon Valley if you're going the VC route. If you're going to bootstrap for awhile, SV is quite expensive to live and work in and other cities may actually be a better fit. Agreed though that most other cities o
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by yankeeracer73 17y ago
Couldn't I say the same about your facts? Do you have numbers to show that those companies who do take money are likely to be more successful than those who don't, or who pursue money via alternative means? Most VC deals fail and they don't
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by yankeeracer73 17y ago
should this automatically mean these are quality companies because they've gotten VC funding? i'm sure all of us can tell a story or two about their favorite VC funded burnout. why does this continue to be the barometer by which start-ups a
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by yankeeracer73 17y ago
I think the intent of the post was to have people review the post at an idea level, not to collaboratively write something.

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