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by zach 15y ago
There are generally three ways: beg, borrow or steal. Beg - stimulating demand, i.e. marketing to random people or actually paying people to use the site Borrow - grafting an existing community onto the site, i.e. finding a forum creaking u
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by zach 15y ago
"We needed a code name that captured the fact that either there was a great opportunity to sail to new horizons and new things, or that we were going to drown by this wave," Gundotra said last August. Or their approach boiled do
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by zach 15y ago
Wait until you hear about 2711 Centerville Road, Wilmington, Delaware. Such shady entities registered there include "Level 3 Communications", "California Pizza Kitchen", "The Walt Disney Company", "Dole Food" and "Qualcomm". Seriously, all
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by zach 15y ago
The results come via a rebranded Yahoo! search, which itself consists of rebranded Bing results.
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by zach 15y ago
I've used this larger (3' x 5') one for over a year, usually with shoes but more recently in socks, and it's been great. It looks like the one in first picture but gray and only slightly glossy. Recommended. http://www.amazon.com/gp/prod
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by zach 15y ago
Okay, I get it now -- I didn't follow your argument the first time I read it. Sorry about that. In any case, the image is gone from both places now.
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by zach 15y ago
This is a great study on this subject, although the data is getting a little old by now (1993 study with 1979 high school students). http://www.irs.princeton.edu/pubs/pdfs/311.pdf Quote of interest: "We generally continue to find positive
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by zach 15y ago
It's from the Jay Maisel Wikipedia article, which is a lot more notable than the Facebook page for him. It's there because it was uploaded from Andy Baio's article and described as his own CC-licensed work despite his assertion that it was
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by zach 15y ago
Worth pointing out that the Instagram launch was on October 6, right in the middle of that gap between Camera+'s banhammering over VolumeSnap and their December reinstatement. Talk about great timing.
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by zach 15y ago
Totally agree and that's the one thing I was scanning through the page looking for. Quora's fantastic native editor is a contentEditable div and so the iPhone version has to do things completely differently which annoys me as a user. It's t
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by zach 15y ago
Seems easy and has a simple call to action. However, I personally think AreYouWatchingThis cannot be beat. The founder has been working in this space for over four years now and is a model of dogged determination. RUWT? is a great example
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by zach 15y ago
So does anyone have an optimized path for getting their paper notebooks into a digital format? Is digital paper really the easiest? I suppose if you're a scrawler, this can be tough but I imagine a lot of HNers have plain but legible printi
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by zach 15y ago
Okay, I think "product guy" may have become a purely disparaging term. I have seen "product guy" as just a role that denoted a leadership of creators involved in new product development, whatever the field. I guess there needs to be some ot
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by zach 15y ago
The four attributes I've identified in the best "product guys" are these: * They "get it" - they are master analyzers in their field. This lets them critique quickly and effectively. People who don't "get it" are hard to take seriously an
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by zach 15y ago
Good point. I suppose the ubiquity of the sounds themselves helps to make them disconcerting. Then again, maybe using Windows isn't a terribly positive association for some to have either.
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by zach 15y ago
And yet they still use the Windows "ding" for everything, because of course there's no budget for sound design in an ATM project. I hear those weirdly-out-of-place Windows sounds everywhere. It grates on me the same way Comic Sans grates o
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by zach 15y ago
Very cool! A perfect choice for this year, I think -- I'm delighted to see that this year's freshman class was 52% female, very much like the world itself! HMC has come far from the early 90's when I was there -- it was still a male-domina
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by zach 15y ago
Oh yeah, Malkia! I'm sorry I didn't recognize you, big guy. Jeff Lander was so thankful you came in, he wanted to kidnap you to keep you at Luxo! You were great! Yeah, we had some crazy QA requirements for True Crime. It blows me away that
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by zach 15y ago
I worked on True Crime: Streets of LA which had similar streaming gameplay and also worked on Blizzard's upcoming next-gen MMO, so I know a bit about this as well. All those considerations you mention are true (and I remember them fondly),
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by zach 15y ago
Seems like a great topic for a NYTimes business-section infographic: Which underwriters price IPOs most accurately and which ones leave huge amounts of their clients' money on the table?
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by zach 15y ago
Great news for related sites too -- I'm thinking of Quora and Namesake. Quora has been able to thrive and create a truly compelling site in a short time, even with LinkedIn Answers having so many numbers in its favor. Namesake has been gett
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by zach 15y ago
That's a good perspective, thanks. It's looking really promising. I still wonder how I can inform a social search that I'm "me at work" -- i.e. I'm more interested in what's popular with Hacker News users, not the people I jibber-jabber wi
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by zach 15y ago
The idea of using social signals in search is strong and I've been looking with increasing interest at Blekko recently. Yet it seems pathological that your search quality can be dependent on the quality of your social graph. I know there a
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by zach 15y ago
Panera is run by the founder-in-effect of the Au Bon Pain chain well known to Cantabrigians. At one point he decided to leave behind Au Bon Pain and switch horses, kicking off Panera's nationwide expansion: http://www.businessweek.com/maga
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by zach 15y ago
I know, right? Now that everyone's excited about Bitcoin, the exciting part is over. Kind of a bummer. I see a unique opportunity here for a company with an existing virtual goods economy or something similar such as Listia. They create a
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by zach 15y ago
For the record, I realized something interesting about wheat consumption in the USA, which is that sugar follows wheat very often in the modern diet. It's very challenging to find packaged sandwich bread in a USA supermarket which doesn't c
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by zach 15y ago
"WSJ reporter?!" But this is Ogi Ogas! The BU neuroscience researcher who won $500K on Who Wants to Be a Millionaire and had a remarkable showdown with Ken Jennings that I highly recommend (search YouTube for "ogas jennings grand slam"). Se
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by zach 15y ago
I think it's troublesome to compare general disappearance data from so long ago. There can be long-term trends of things like waste and changing methodologies that mess things up. I think your point -- that overall carbs are not the issue
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by zach 15y ago
I'm glad my Ignite proposal didn't get accepted now, because the Google Ventures meetup (same time) sounds like fun. I'm in for that.
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by zach 15y ago
Hmm. Maybe Gary Taubes has changed his approach, because in a typically-logorrhetic blog post last year, he went on about why low-fat calorie-restricted diets work exactly because the "absolute amount of carbohydrates consumed goes down."

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