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by yef 16y ago
Here's a related trick, more useful when you're starting your day than when you're already in the flow of things: Pick your task, preferably something small and easily defined like "refactor this duplicated code", estimate how long it will
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by yef 16y ago
It also doesn't work on AT&T.
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by yef 16y ago
I can cover the rent of a 2-bedroom apartment in Manhattan by renting out one of the bedrooms on Airbnb. I don't expect the situation to last forever, but for now it's great.
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by yef 16y ago
Facebook has to stay cool, which is very difficult. It also doesn't have a clear way to dominate Google's bread-and-butter business, organic search and paid search advertising. They are no doubt very innovative but I give Google the edge, e
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by yef 16y ago
I'm building a dating site. Contact me if you want in on the beta. NY for now, expanding later. The first thing to understand is the dating world is fraught with mishaps and frustration. This is often misinterpreted as specific shortcomings
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by yef 16y ago
I've met lots of sane, pretty and smart women. I wouldn't let a few exceptions tilt my perspective.
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by yef 16y ago
These are biz noobs. There are good ones too who understand talent and startups. We can make fun of the arrogant noobs, but we'd all benefit if they were just enlightened about the shortage of tech talent, and about the best way to sell the
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by yef 16y ago
What would someone relentlessly resourceful do?
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Microsoft vs. Apple, by the numbers(zdnet.com)
1 points by yef 16y ago|0 comments
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by yef 16y ago
Apple fanboys are by far the most annoying, in my experience.
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by yef 16y ago
Apple, despite its many hit products, is still open to criticism. Fred's prediction is not flamebait, it's just a prediction, and a totally fair prediction in my opinion. I'm glad the startup and early adopter community recognizes Apple fan
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WiMax coming to NYC in November, LA and SF in December(engadget.com)
1 points by yef 16y ago|0 comments
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by yef 16y ago
A "bad", or perhaps more accurately "marginal" or "nifty but unprofitable" can still help the creative process leading to "good" ideas. The marginal one may end up as a feature of the killer app you build later, or the unprofitable one may
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by yef 16y ago
I'm based out of NYC and rent out my spare bedroom to Airbnb'ers and work from home, myself. Which month are you thinking about? Feel free to contact me directly. Don't have a good answer for you on internet access but coworking and short t
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Amazon Opens Store Inside Facebook, Reveals Next Huge Business For Facebook(businessinsider.com)
2 points by yef 16y ago|4 comments
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by yef 16y ago
Great minds talk about remarkable people, actually. Or more accurately, great minds talk about people important to them, whether they be a role model, family member, etc.
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by yef 16y ago
I don't buy it, unless Facebook builds a search engine that incorporates social data AND the result is dramatically better than traditional search.
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The Big Interview with Eric Schmidt(online.wsj.com)
2 points by yef 16y ago|1 comments
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Microblogging Wars Escalate: Posterous Claims Tumblr Blocks Its Autopost Feature(techcrunch.com)
3 points by yef 16y ago|0 comments
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by yef 16y ago
Fine, I'll say it. Also why NYC rocks: tons of amazing women.
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by yef 16y ago
The rationale is that it makes searches faster, but turn it off if you don't like it. http://www.google.com/preferences?hl=en and search for "Google Instant". I haven't quite made up my mind yet. I don't mind it, but then again most of my
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by yef 16y ago
I wonder why the author didn't try to draw an analogy to cheap, high-quality Japanese imports. Oh, probably because there isn't one. Due to cultural differences, disruptions in higher education will most likely be homegrown and hopefully cr
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by yef 16y ago
How much money does procmail make?
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by yef 16y ago
Overture is the best example of a successful startup from LA. Acquired for $1.63 billion by Yahoo, and they invented the business model that Google improved upon and made Google what they are today.
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by yef 16y ago
Well, it already has a leaderboard and some other sorts of rankings, http://news.ycombinator.com/lists which I find very useful. Not sure why the link to it is buried at the bottom of the page.
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by yef 16y ago
Yup. Presumably the non-earner is contributing something else to the marriage and to the household (like child-rearing). And you'd think that if that person was a total slacker and bad spouse, the court would divide the stuff in favor of th
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by yef 16y ago
My understanding is that half of everything you earned and bought while married is on the table. Stuff you owned or earned before the marriage is not on the table unless you want it to be. Non-marital property vs. marital property. I'm not
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Zuck's Events (Facebook Privacy Hole Demo)(zesty.ca)
72 points by yef 16y ago|41 comments
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Facebook Graph API privacy hole shows events a user is planning to attend(guardian.co.uk)
1 points by yef 16y ago|0 comments
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by yef 17y ago
Build something you personally want and need...I guess that fits under passion, but there's something especially rewarding about building something that actually makes your own life better, after it's built.

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