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by yef 17y ago
The whole interview is worth reading. It's also worth pointing out that Will has created an environment where people aren't punished for asking each other whether they're wasting time. (For the impatient, search for "Ocean Quigley".)
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How Intuit managed to hold off Microsoft(news.cnet.com)
14 points by yef 17y ago|7 comments
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by yef 17y ago
How many 5yr. olds do you know that book flights online?
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by yef 17y ago
When it gets in the way of effective collaboration. The way Dustin wrote his letter, he portrays himself as someone who isn't interested in his client's input. AA might have valid reasons for designing its site that way, based on years of b
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by yef 17y ago
I am frequently in the market for web design services, but I would never hire an opinionated snot regardless of his talent. Be professional and save rants for beers with friends.
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by yef 17y ago
Delete the snotty letter, it's not your main point. Also, remove the use of their logo and trademarks or they're just going to have their lawyers send you a letter telling you to take your page down. Use placeholders of the same size. Focus
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by yef 17y ago
You missed my point entirely, so I'll spell it out. Some of the hacker types on this site like to complain about silly-sounding job postings, clueless MBA's, etc. It turns out, however, that writing a job posting, and being a good manager i
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by yef 17y ago
For as much as HN'ers like to complain about day jobs and their stupid managers, I'd just like to point out that this is one of the least professional job postings I've ever seen. Let the downvotes begin! :)
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by yef 17y ago
Good business is treating your colleagues with respect (even if you secretly want to crush them). You can be sure that Geoff Cook will never, ever, ever do business with Jeremy Goodrich after this display of unprofessionalism.
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by yef 17y ago
No, "How to Work the Room" is just very succinct.
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by yef 17y ago
Why is there so much drama in the Ruby community?
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by yef 17y ago
Yup. I think that reduces to "focus" as a core value, since it doesn't matter when you do your work, as long as you get it done fast.
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by yef 17y ago
I'd recommend it as a general life-skills sort of book, which can also be applied toward career success in sales or management. If you don't want to read it, just find the summary online, apply it, and see if your life changes. It's harder
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by yef 17y ago
I'm frustrated that the #2 link on Hacker News right now is a rambling rehash of How To Win Friends and Influence People, the first book listed here: http://ycombinator.com/lib.html
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by yef 17y ago
Working out in the morning seems to be a theme I'm noticing, as I read these little biographies about how people work. (Or people worth writing about, anyway. :)
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by yef 17y ago
So it took more than just a first rate university and rich people to create Silicon Valley.
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by yef 17y ago
Feynman got laid before he started drawing, if I recall his book correctly.
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Apple Posts Its Best Second Quarter Earnings Ever(techcrunch.com)
43 points by yef 17y ago|8 comments
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Spammers Solving Difficult AI Problems With An Underground X Prize(techdirt.com)
1 points by yef 17y ago|0 comments
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by yef 17y ago
Also worth reading is http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frederick_Terman , "the dean of engineering at Stanford, who as early as the 1930s sought to create an industry so his students wouldn’t have to leave the valley for electronics firms in t
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by yef 17y ago
Cool. Similar to http://www.poingo.com/Home.php (which I tried, but was flaky). Ultimately, though, I wanted an email interface to write to my Google calendar, so I hacked that up for myself.
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by yef 17y ago
That's like saying "Thomas Edison didn't go to college, so nobody should be excited about going to college". YC is in the business of creating entrepreneurs, which I'd expect most people here would agree is a noble (and profitable) cause. Y
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by yef 17y ago
How do you know who he follows?
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by yef 17y ago
You hate Twitter because you don't get it. That's fine. I just don't get why you got 7 points for this invective...
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by yef 18y ago
You are in the UK? Perhaps, after collecting some more feedback from other companies, you should add your perspective to the prevailing wisdom here. It sounds like the Silicon Valley software culture may be a bit more accepting of startup e
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by yef 18y ago
To me, "dead" means something like "checkmated". "X is dead" means that X is in a situation that it can't get out of. Can you please point me to your definition?
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by yef 18y ago
People misunderstood PG's essay because he misstated his thesis. "Dead", put simply, was the wrong word to use. Microsoft is not "dead" any more than Apple was dead in the mid to late nineties (and boy, was that a popular statement at the
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by yef 18y ago
Now I'm really curious. This was on the front page a few hours ago, now it's dead. What special powers does one need to kill a link? Is Hacker News being gamed already, the current solution being editorial oversight? To be fair, the humor p
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by yef 18y ago
This is hacker news?
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by yef 18y ago
Yup, ad networks and analytics are pretty straighforward platform plays. Facebook had them too. On the web, Google owns one of each.

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